★★★★☆ Brits Off Broadway at 59E59 Theaters dazzles with a new musical about a true event in UK history.
Off-Broadway
Kenrex: A True Crime Thriller Boasting Rollercoaster Thrills
★★★★★ Actor Jack Holden and writer/director Ed Stambolloulian hit the bull’s eye with Kenrex
Kenrex: True Crime Time in Flyover Country
★★★☆☆ An English import showcases Jack Holden’s Olivier Award-winning performance as an ugly American
Innocence: Operatic Wrestling with Demons Past and Present
★★★★★ Joyce DiDonato appears in Finnish composer Kaijja Saariaho’s harrowing opera about a school shooting
The Adding Machine: A 1920s Flashback Zeroes into Fears of a Mechanical World
★★★☆☆ Jennifer Tilly and Daphne Rubin-Vega lead The New Group’s fresh staging of an expressionist drama
The Approach: Three Women Shoot the Charged Breeze
★★★★☆ Mark O’Rowe writes, Conor Bagley directs, O’Herlihy, MacCluggage and Ryan chat
The Approach: Polite, Poised, And Quietly Devastating
★★★☆☆ The Irish Rep’s American premiere of Mark O’Rowe’s three-hander is a subtle work with unspoken truths
Scorched Earth: A Dance-Theater Police Procedural
★★★☆☆ Luke Murphy directs and choreographs a modern Irish saga of murder, property and obsession
Titus Andronicus: Goths, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Spears
★★★☆☆ Shakespeare’s bloodiest play gets a fittingly messy off-Broadway revival starring the unimpeachable Patrick Page
Titus Andronicus: Bloody All Right
★★★☆☆ Patrick Page is formidable as a noble Roman driven mad in Red Bull’s staging of Shakespeare’s shocker