★★★☆☆ Kerry Washington and Steven Pasquale star in this all-too-timely drama from lawyer/playwright Christopher Demos-Brown
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: We Believe in Fairies
★★★★☆ Though it be but little, it is fierce. The Mobile Unit’s made-to-travel Midsummer doesn’t skimp on the laughs or the fairy dust.
Good Grief: A Middling Drama From Writer/Star Ngozi Anyanwu
★★☆☆☆ A Nigerian-American woman literally wrestles with grief in Ngozi Anyanwu’s disconnected drama
The Waverly Gallery: Real Talk With Kenneth Lonergan
★★★★☆ The inimitable Elaine May makes her long-awaited Broadway return in a revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s wonderfully unsentimental memory play
The Ferryman: An Intimate, Intense Irish Epic
★★★★★ Jez Butterworth’s London smash arrives in New York with a massive cast, enormous buzz, a goose, and a rabbit
The Lifespan of a Fact: Can You Handle the Truth?
★★★☆☆ Bobby Cannavale, Cherry Jones, and Daniel Radcliffe star in a surprisingly compelling drama about—wait for it—magazine fact-checking
Gloria: A Life: Around a Campfire With Gloria Steinem
★★★☆☆ Playwright Emily Mann, director Diane Paulus, and an all-female creative and production team join forces with journalist, author, and feminist icon Gloria Steinem
Apologia: Stockard Channing as Mother Inferior
★★☆☆☆ A birthday dinner takes a dark turn in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s English countryside–set drama
Sakina’s Restaurant: Aasif Mandvi Returns to His Roots
★★★☆☆ Aasif Mandvi plays six characters in this 20th-anniversary revival of his Obie-winning one-man show
Final Follies: Something Old, Something New From A.R. Gurney
★★★☆☆ Primary Stages’ triptych of Gurney shorts—which includes the late playwright’s newest, “Final Follies”—comes up a bit short