★★☆☆☆ This Playwrights Horizons satire amusingly skewers already well-skewered American patriotic pieties
Off-Broadway
Usual Girls: Aching Just Like A Woman, and Breaking Too
★★★★☆ Ming Peiffer charts the fraught, funny, frightful journey from female adolescence to womanhood in a stirring new play
I’m Not a Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce: The Soap-Mouth Comic Returns
★★★★☆ Ronnie Marmo writes and acts, Joe Mantegna directs a strong, sensitive tribute
Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett’s Masterpiece Masterfully Handled
★★★★★ Druid’s Garry Hynes directs Marty Rea and Aaron Monaghan in a brilliantly physical version
Waiting for Godot: Whiling Away a Few Fine Hours With an Irish Didi and Gogo
★★★★☆ The Druid company infuses Samuel Beckett’s bleak drama with a wonderful sense of life
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: We Believe in Fairies
★★★★☆ Though it be but little, it is fierce. The Mobile Unit’s made-to-travel Midsummer doesn’t skimp on the laughs or the fairy dust.
Days of Rage: Talking About a Revolution, 50 Years Back
★★★☆☆ The latest from Dear Evan Hansen playwright Steven Levenson follows young protesters in a divided nation
Days of Rage: Dropouts, Protests, and the SDS
★★☆☆☆ Steven Levenson, the Dear Evan Hansen librettist, returns with a sixties problem play
Good Grief: A Middling Drama From Writer/Star Ngozi Anyanwu
★★☆☆☆ A Nigerian-American woman literally wrestles with grief in Ngozi Anyanwu’s disconnected drama
Big Apple Circus: A Lean, Keen, Family Show (and More) to its Core
★★★★☆ Kids will get a kick out of the 41st edition while their elders will see some nice sights, too