★★★☆☆ Brenda Pressley coolly portrays a woman of quality in a life or death dilemma
Off-Broadway
The Pink Unicorn: A Modern Mother’s Quandary, Deep in the Heart of Texas
★★★☆☆ A one-woman play casts Alice Ripley as the mother of a gender-neutral teen
Curse of the Starving Class: How the West Was Lost
★★★★☆ Terry Kinney’s witty, wrenching new production reveals the Sam Shepard classic as a play for our times
Curse of the Starving Class: A Blessing of a Revival
★★★★☆ Director Terry Kinney finds the perfect brooding poetic despair in Sam Shepard’s late-’70s drama
Around the World in 80 Days: Whirlwind Entertainment and Laughter for All
★★★★★ An inventive version of Jules Verne’s classic visits the New Victory Theater
BLKS: A Madly Expressive Night Out With Some Messy Millennials
★★★★☆ Newcomer playwright Aziza Barnes delivers an audacious comedy at MCC Theater
High Button Shoes: Silvers Turned to Tarnish in Keystone Kops Musical
★★★☆☆ Jerome Robbins’ ‘Bathing Beauty Ballet’ sparks the uneven Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn musical at Encores!
Luzia: Cirque du Soleil Sweeps Viewers on a Glowing Journey Through Mexico
★★★★☆ Superb circus artists swing, spin, and soar amid surreal visuals and sonorous music
Passage: A Cool Experiment in the ABCs of Xenophobic Behavior
★★★☆☆ Soho Rep’s typically top-notch production fills in the blanks of an experimental endeavor
Paul Swan is Dead and Gone: Portrait of an Unusual Artist as an Old Man
★★☆☆☆ A new bio-drama is performed as a bizarre dance recital in a Chelsea townhouse