★★★★☆ Eight singer-actors, under Annie Tippe’s flawless direction, sing out 12-Step woes
Off-Broadway
Mac Beth: Something Wicked Cool This Way Comes
★★★★☆ Director Erica Schmidt and an all-female cast update Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy for the Instagram age
Mac Beth: Light Not Only Thickens But Goes Out on Will’s Classic
★★☆☆☆ Director Erica Schmidt wrongly thinks that a girls-school spin is how to treat the Bard
Happy Talk: Matchmaking and Mystery in the Suburbs
★★★★☆ Jesse Eisenberg’s new play, starring Susan Sarandon and Marin Ireland, puts funny, vexing twists on suburban cliches
Happy Talk: A Misleading Lady Enjoys Her Role of a Lifetime
★★★☆☆ Susan Sarandon depicts a matchmaker whose intentions may not be so kosher
Enter Laughing The Musical: Let’s Hope You Like Corn
★★★☆☆ The York revives its old-fashioned theater-themed hit in honor of the company’s 50th anniversary
Proof of Love: A Classy Lady Speaks to Classism in African-American Life
★★★☆☆ Brenda Pressley coolly portrays a woman of quality in a life or death dilemma
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