★★★☆☆ Theresa Rebeck’s new semi-thriller digs some dark secrets from out of a cellar
Off-Broadway
Downstairs: Tim and Tyne Daly Dig Up Family Secrets
★★★☆☆ In their first-ever shared New York stage appearance, the dynamic real-life siblings star as brother and sister in Theresa Rebeck’s family drama
All Is Calm: A Poignant Music-Theater Account of WWI’s Christmas Truce
★★★★☆ A handsomely sung musical documentary relates an inspiring wartime miracle
A Chorus Line: One Singular Sensation All Over Again
★★★★★ Michael Bennett’s masterwork is back, and as powerful as ever
Wild Goose Dreams: Broken Relationships, and the Internet
★★★☆☆ A moving story about the perils of separation gets distracted by the bells and whistles of social media
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