★★★★☆ Bess Wohl raises our consciousness with her engrossing play about the Liberation movement and the women who started it.
Off-Broadway
Garside’s Career: Hobson’s Choice Playwright Careering Downward
★★★☆☆ Harold Brighouse peers at North England politics, with the cast led by Daniel Marconi
Garside’s Career: The Rise and Fall of a Silver-Tongued Speaker
★★★☆☆ An antique British drama about class struggle gets freshly Minted
Henry IV: Fathers and Sons and Falstaff in the Round
★★★☆☆ Jay O. Sanders and Dakin Matthews head TFANA’s versatile ensemble
How Is It That We Live or Shakey Jake + Alice: Len Jenkin Conjures a Love Story
★★★☆☆ Fred Weller and Kate Arrington portray soul mates in a poetic romance
My First Ex-Husband: Divorce Comedian Style
★★☆☆☆ Joy Behar, Susie Essman, Tovah Feldshuh, and Adrienne C. Moore break down broken-down marriages in 90 lackluster minutes
Urinetown: Encores Musical Minds Its Pees (& Cues)
★★★☆☆ New York City Center’s Encores! series brings the 2001 musical back with a cast of Broadway and TV vets
Urinetown: The Once-Startling Musical Handily Revived
★★★☆☆ Composer-lyricist Mark Hollman, book writer-lyricist Greg Kotis, director Teddy Bergman revitalize the unforgettable classic
The Antiquities: The Future’s Not Looking Too Bright
★★★★☆ The new play by Jordan Harrison, author of “Marjorie Prime,” imagines a future where humans have been replaced by artificial beings.
The Antiquities: We Are the Dinosaurs Now
★★★★☆ Jordan Harrison spins an intriguingly haunting tale about the human experiment gone awry.