★★★★☆ Signature Theatre smartly revives Will Eno’s significantly meandering monodrama
Eve’s Song: How Black Women’s Lives Don’t Always Matter in America
★★★☆☆ The Public Theater premieres the threnody of a blameless woman’s destruction
The Thanksgiving Play: Knocking the Stuffing Out of White Liberal Correctness
★★★☆☆ Playwrights Horizons premieres a satirical comedy that’s tasty but underdone
Waiting for Godot: Whiling Away a Few Fine Hours With an Irish Didi and Gogo
★★★★☆ The Druid company infuses Samuel Beckett’s bleak drama with a wonderful sense of life
Big Apple Circus: A Lean, Keen, Family Show (and More) to its Core
★★★★☆ Kids will get a kick out of the 41st edition while their elders will see some nice sights, too
Daniel’s Husband: A New Drama Cautions Same-Sex Couples to Tie the Knot
★★★☆☆ Good acting breathes life into a comedy that unexpectedly turns sorrowful
Come From Away: Get a Gander at Strangers Being Kind to Each Other
★★★★★ Long-Run Lookback: An expertly staged docu-musical remains a truly heartwarming experience
Midnight at the Never Get: A Moody Cabaret About the Man That Got Away
★★★☆☆ A gay romance from the 1960s glimmers within a little musical bubble
The Winning Side: What’s Love Got to Do With Wernher Von Braun?
★★☆☆☆ A mash-up of fact and fiction shows that writing plays can be harder than rocket science
The Bacchae: Euripides’ Classical Tragicomedy of Wine, Women, and Wrong
★★★☆☆ Anne Bogart stages a 2,400 year-old Greek drama with a few modern notes