★★★★☆ Australian playwright Emmanuelle Mattana puts the patriarchy through its paces in a 70-minute play
Off-Broadway
Duke & Roya: Finding Love in a Hopeless Place
★★★☆☆ Jay Ellis and Stephanie Nur are perfectly cast in Charles Randolph-Wright’s romantic drama
Prince Faggot: A royal fairy tale unravels
★★★☆☆ A meta-theatrical drama conjures a queer romance for the House of Windsor
Beau: Country-Western-Rock Musical Sneaks Into Town an Instant Marvel
★★★★☆ Writer-lyricist-composer Douglas Lyons, composer Ethan D. Pakchar, director-choreographer Josh Rhodes succeed brightly
Passengers: A Classy Party of Tip-Top Cirque-Style Artists Take the Train Downtown
★★★★☆ Montreal’s 7 Fingers physical theater troupe visits PAC NYC in lower Manhattan
Kafka: The Beloved, Truly Awesome Writer, Brilliantly Conjured
★★★★☆ Writer-Performer Jack Klaff pays profound, tireless homage to the Prague master, Colin Watkeys, directing
Call Me Izzy: Jean Smart Extremely Smart in Smart Jamie Wax Character Study
★★★★☆ Sarna Lapine directs the six-time Emmy winner soloing as a talented but oppressed trailer-park housewife
Prosperous Fools: Taylor Mac Attacks, Unpersuasively
★★☆☆☆ A grant-winning genius bites the philanthropic hands that feed him
Prosperous Fools: Taylor Mac Takes on Molière But Not Prosperously, Foolishly
★☆☆☆☆ Darko Tresnjak directs the misguided satire, with Mac as Artist and Jason O’Connell and Sierra Boggess as other targets
Angry Alan: A Brilliant Skewering of Male Toxicity
★★★★☆ John Krasinski plays a depressed middle-aged man who goes down an internet rabbit hole in Penelope Skinner’s sharp-edged drama.