★★★★☆ Audience participation is welcomed in a comical endurance contest
What We Did Before Our Moth Days: Four People Live, Love and Die
★★★★☆ Hope Davis and Josh Hamilton brighten a sorrowful new Wallace Shawn drama staged by Andre Gregory
Bigfoot!: Fuzzy and Facetious
★★☆☆☆ A new musical satirizes the gullibility of flyover America
The Dinosaurs: Time Passages
★★★☆☆ Kathleen Chalfant and Elizabeth Marvel lead the ensemble in a new play about a women’s sobriety group
The Tragedy of Coriolanus: Much Ado About Multimedia
★★☆☆☆ A potential concept for timely Shakespeare works better in theory than onstage at TFANA
Making a Show of Myself: Positively Personal
★★★☆☆ Mary Kate O Flanagan shares affirmative stories in a winning debut at Irish Rep
From Under the Radar: Ulysses
★★★☆☆ Elevator Repair Service delivers a mad gallery of James Joyce’s Dubliners
From Under the Radar: ‘The Visitors’ and a Pair of No-Shows
The annual theater festival continues with a poignant Australian import, a cancellation, and an installation
From Under the Radar: Bellow and Kanjincho
Fresh works from Ireland and Japan arrive in the opening week of the annual festival of innovative theater
Amahl and the Night Visitors: Kid’s Stuff or What?
★★★☆☆ Kenny Leon strategically stages Gian Carlo Menotti’s 45-minute chamber opera