★★☆☆☆ Emma Horwitz writes, Josiah Davis directs, and five-member cast strives, to little avail
Off-Broadway
Dig: Theresa Rebeck’s Flavorful Plant-Based Comedy, at 59e59
★★★★☆ Jeffrey Bean, Andrea Syglowski, and a fine cast nurture this well-potted tale of transplanted roots
Dig: Theresa Rebeck could delve a bit deeper
★★★☆☆ Each recovery story is unique, but this one proves overly schematic.
Prometheus Firebringer: AI Questions Not So Easily Answered
★★★☆☆ Annie Dorsen reads a lecture on a current fire-hot topic along with imagined Aeschylus tragedy
Job: Therapist-Patient-in-Trouble Play Requires Patience
★★★☆☆ Peter Friedman, Sydney Lemmon impressive in Max Wolf Friedlich work, Michael Herwitz directing
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors Tickles Ingeniously
★★★★☆ A clever script and a versatile cast transform a horror classic into pure fun and games
Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors: He’s Out for Blood, and Laughs
★★★☆☆ History’s most famous vampire is back from the undead in a kooky 90-minute comedy
Swing State: A Slice-of-Midwestern-Life Drama
★★★★☆ Outgoing Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls helms an affecting mid-pandemic drama
Swing State: Angst in the Heartland
★★★☆☆ Rebecca Gilman’s new play, imported from Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, concerns the troubling chain of events that occur after a toolbox and gun are stolen from a woman’s barn.
Death, Let Me Do My Show: Rachel Bloom picks up the pieces post-Covid
★★★★☆ Bloom is back, spilling and spewing her neuroses and obsessions – wittily.