★★★☆☆ Three actors make a cautionary saga of excessive drinking go down easily
Heroes of the Fourth Turning: Millennials Argue About Our Civil Wars
★★★★☆ Younger conservatives drunkenly debate fundamental issues at Playwrights Horizons
(A)loft Modulation: Obsessive Behavior and All That Jazz
★★☆☆☆ A bluesy atmosphere and musical performances enhance an awfully talky new drama
The Great Society: A Not So Great Play About LBJ
★★★☆☆ Troubled 1960s events overwhelm a President and dishearten a drama
Antigone: Greek Tragedy Is Reflected Through Traditional Japanese Modes
★★★★☆ A Japanese company delivers an unusually immersive staging of a classical play
Our Dear Dead Drug Lord: A Schoolgirl Crush Goes Tragically Wrong
★★★☆☆ Teens idolize Pablo Escobar in newcomer writer Alexis Scheer’s offbeat dramedy
Sunday: Spending a Desultory Evening with Generation Z
★★☆☆☆ Meet some “wry and ironic and dull” characters at Atlantic Theater, or perhaps not
runboyrun & In Old Age: Ghosts Haunt a Nigerian-American Family Saga
★★★☆☆ New York Theatre Workshop stages two installments of Mfoniso Udofia’s epic nine-play cycle
Wives: Life With Papa and Three Other Feminist Truths
★★★☆☆ An episode involving Ernest Hemingway’s several widows is a highlight of a new satirical comedy
Felix Starro: Not Entirely a Magical New Musical
★★★☆☆ A sorrowful story about a faith healer does not entirely satisfy