★★★☆☆ A moving story about the perils of separation gets distracted by the bells and whistles of social media
Off-Broadway
Wild Goose Dreams: Romance Gone Wrong? Why Not Blame the Internet?
★★★☆☆ Hansol Jung sets her social-media excoriation—with fairy-tale overtones—in South Korea without any Kim Jong-un threat
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: Bertolt Brecht’s Anti-Tyrant Allegory Doesn’t Rise High Enough
★★☆☆☆ Raul Esparza comes back to the New York Stage as the title figure in John Doyle’s Neo-Brechtian(?) production.
The Other Josh Cohen: A Lovable Loser’s Valentine
★★★★☆ David Rossmer and Steve Rosen’s musical is as sweet as a bag of half-price Kit Kats
The Other Josh Cohen: See a Loser Be a Winner By Doing the Right Thing
★★★★☆ A schlub loses everything but later gains true love in a little, New York-y musical
Thom Pain (based on nothing): Life, the Art of the Possible
★★★★☆ Will Eno’s early one-man play is revived, its brutality and beauty intact
Thom Pain (based on nothing): Some Existential Rambles With Michael C. Hall
★★★★☆ Signature Theatre smartly revives Will Eno’s significantly meandering monodrama
Eve’s Song: Patricia Ione Lloyd’s Tough Look at Racism Today
★★★★☆ A middle-class black family and interloping spirits hold out little hope for today’s race relations
Eve’s Song: How Black Women’s Lives Don’t Always Matter in America
★★★☆☆ The Public Theater premieres the threnody of a blameless woman’s destruction
The Thanksgiving Play: Knocking the Stuffing Out of White Liberal Correctness
★★★☆☆ Playwrights Horizons premieres a satirical comedy that’s tasty but underdone