★★☆☆☆ At City Center, this allegedly true story, musicalized a nearly decade ago, tells a too-dull tale
Off-Broadway
Beau the Musical: Queer as Folk Music
★★★☆☆ Jeb Brown and Matt Rodin head a sweet show done in honky-tonk environs
Endgame: Urgent Samuel Beckett Thoughts on Death, Gamely Played
★★★★☆ The master playwright has his abandoned figures facing their usual hypnotic concerns in this Druid production at the Irish Arts Center
Did You Eat?: Meet Zoë Kim, Storyteller Extraordinaire
★★★★☆ One woman travels through two continents and multiple decades in this autobiographical solo show
Playing Shylock: A Meta Exploration of Cancel Culture
★★★★☆ Saul Rubinek plays himself in Mark Leiren-Young’s one-person play about a shut-down production of “The Merchant of Venice.”
Adam Gopnik’s New York: Gallery Talk, Par Excellence
★★★★☆ The New Yorker writer offers an enchanted evening of sparklingly witty discourse
Oratorio for Living Things: Musically Captivating, Text Effect Not So
★★★☆☆ Heather Christian’s acclaimed piece, directed by Lee Sunday Evens, in blurred delivery
Let’s Love!: Sex, American Style
★★★☆☆ A top-flight ensemble including Aubrey Plaza and Nellie McKay appears in Ethan Coen’s trio of raunchy one-act comedies.
Let’s Love!: Women Through a Guy’s Eyes
★★★☆☆ A scathing Aubrey Plaza and sharp others, plus Nellie McKay, light up Ethan Coen’s new comedies
Oh Happy Day!: Too Much Mo’
★★☆☆☆ Jordan E. Cooper delivers a multifarious father and son drama, with songs