★★☆☆☆ 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
A Christmas Carol: Rings the Bell Downtown
★★★☆☆ Michael Cerveris is Scrooge in a Holiday Return of the Matthew Warchus/Old Vic show
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions: Queer Doings at the Park Avenue Armory
★★★☆☆ A 15-member ensemble spins through the musical rise and fall of a patriarchal society
Practice: Theater Games and Mind Games
★★★☆☆ Nazareth Hassan’s new backstage dramedy studies process and power
Meet the Cartozians: Armenians in America, Then and Now
★★★★☆ Andrea Martin sparks David Cromer’s Second Stage premiere of a meaningful comedy of racial identity