★★☆☆☆ T.R. Knight stars in the Arlekin Players Theatre’s adaptation of the Shakespeare classic played as a cable TV access program.
Off-Broadway
We Are Your Robots: “What do you want, my human friends?”
★★★☆☆ Ethan Lipton and cohorts musically ponder artificial intelligence and other smart matters
The Blood Quilt: Piecing Together a Black Family’s History
★★★☆☆ Lincoln Center Theater produces Katori Hall’s tasty though overstuffed drama
The Blood Quilt: Katori Hall’s Beautifully Stitched Sisters Play
★★★★☆ Lileana Blain-Cruz directs a highly proficient cast hardly upstaged by a series of awesome quilts
Babe: Sex, Rock and Gen Z in a Tik-Tok Workplace
★★★★☆ Marisa Tomei heads The New Group’s smart staging of Jessica Goldberg’s drama
Babe: #MeToo in the Music Biz
★★★☆☆ Marisa Tomei and Arliss Howard star in Jessica Goldberg’s play about a cultural reckoning.
Shit. Meet. Fan.: Satire and Secrets on the Rocks
★★★☆☆ Seven disagreeable friends offend and overshare in Robert O’Hara’s New York–set satire
Shit. Meet. Fan.: Play. Meet. Speed Bumps.
★★★☆☆ Neil Patrick Harris, Jane Krakowski, Debra Messing, Constance Wu and Garret Dillahunt appear in Robert O’Hara’s new dark comedy
The Light and the Dark: Scandal in Chiaroscuro, For Today
★★★★☆ Playwright Kate Hamill offers a vibrant picture of the turbulent life and times of painter Aremisia Gentileschi
Burnout Paradise: Joy In Watching Others Sweat
★★★★☆ Four masochistic actors from Australia knock themselves out so we don’t have to.