★★★☆☆ Ryan J. Haddad spins his latest show around his gay uncle and other mentors
Off-Broadway
Kramer/Fauci: Friendly Adversaries Tangle Over AIDS Progress
★★★★☆ Highly resourceful conceiver-director Daniel Fish gets theatrical again
Slam Frank: An Equal Opportunity Offender
★★★☆☆ The Jewish teen author/Holocaust victim gets an audacious 21st-century musical glow-up
The Hairy Ape: The First Zoo Story
★★★☆☆ Jon Beavers depicts a primitive man lost in the civilized world in Irish Rep’s revival of an early O’Neill classic
The Hairy Ape: Hairier Would Be Scarier
★★★☆☆ Ciarán O’Reilly directs the revival, Jon Beavers is the supposedly gorilla-like protagonist
creation stories and all the important importants: A Magical Drama About a Wanna-Be Mama
★★★☆☆ LCT3 produces Mfoniso Udofia’s maximalist study of an exceptional woman in crisis
Degenerates: All the Lonely People
★★★☆☆ Else Went’s new drama at Playwrights Horizons studies incel subculture today
How Shakespeare Saved My Life: Theater as Testimony
★★★☆☆ Jacob Ming-Trent’s one-man show relates how his love of the Bard rescued him from his troubled beginnings.
The Invention of Love: David Greenspan Illuminates Tom Stoppard
★★★★☆ Zachary Elkind directs the witty, wordy play, outstanding cast accents the action smartly
The Cherry Orchard: Not Your Father’s Chekhov
★★★★☆ Simon Stone’s Korean-language production updates the time and place, but keeps the heart and soul of the 1904 play