★☆☆☆☆ A British performer digs up Suzy Solidor, a bisexual, cross-dressing French cabaret legend who deserves better
Off-Broadway
Desperate Measures: The Bard’s Measure for Measure Tuned Up
★★★★☆ Bookwriter-lyricist Peter Kellogg and composer David Friedman go west for a fun and frolicsome take on Shakespeare’s “problem” play
Desperate Measures: A Fiddle-Dee-Dee Wild West Shakespeare Spoof
★★★☆☆ An old-fashioned, cowboy-country musical-comedy farce is neatly cultivated from Measure for Measure‘s plot
Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf: A Feminist Avenger, Lost in Allusions
★★☆☆☆ This Elevator Repair Service response to Edward Albee’s classic purports to stand up for strong women but fails
Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf: Everyone? Not So Fast
★☆☆☆☆ Elevator Repair Service goes at Edward Albee’s classic to embarrassing results
The Great Leap: Hoop Dreams, in Beijing and San Francisco
★★★★☆ Lauren Yee scores a three-pointer in her American-Chinese basketball play
Secret Life of Humans: Humankind’s Rise Debated on Human Level
★★★★★ David Byrne’s treatise involving culture hero Jacob Bronowski is dramatically ascendent
Secret Life Of Humans: Progress and Its Problems
★★★☆☆ David Byrne draws on an acclaimed book to ponder our animal nature and other big ideas in a theatrical context
Fruit Trilogy: A Woman Is Not a Piece of Fruit
★★★☆☆ Attention must be paid to Eve Ensler’s newest works, but your patience will be tested during this dissonant trio of shorts
Fruit Trilogy: Eve Ensler dishes out a talkative triptych
★★★☆☆ The maker of “The Vagina Monologues” goes experimental with body and soul issues