★★★☆☆ Juan Castano, Ryan Spahn and Julia Chan comprise a troubled throuple
Off-Broadway
The Cherry Orchard: Anton Chekhov Gets an Unforgiving Axe
★☆☆☆☆ Adapter-director Benedict Andrews offers a questionable new take on the classic
Love Life: Lost Lerner/Weill Musical Demonstrates Why It Was Lost
★★★☆☆ Kate Baldwin and Brian Stokes Mitchell star in the latest from Encores
Wine in the Wilderness: Alice Childress Reads the Black Bougie Gaze
★★★☆☆ LaChanze stages a sharp vintage study of sex and class in mid-1960s Harlem
We Had a World: ‘Virginia Woolf, Part 2,’ With Jokes
★★★★★ Playwright Joshua Harmon explores and explodes his roots, with Andrew Barth Feldman and Joanna Gleason
We Had a World: A Too Fractured Memory Play
★★★☆☆ Andrew Barth Feldman, Joanna Gleason, and Jeanine Serralles star in Joshua Harmon’s autobiographical family drama.
Vanya: One Man, Nine Characters, Considerable Tragicomedy
★★★★☆ Andrew Scott takes on every role in Simon Stephens’ freewheeling adaptation of Chekhov’s much-produced play
Vanya: Andrew Scott Goes Virtuoso in a Solo Show
★★★★☆ Expect no Russian dressing but plenty of Irish accents in this Chekhov adaptation
Amerikin: Chisa Hutchison’s Play Blasting Racism Is Needed This Very Minute
★★★★☆ Jade King Carroll sharply directs an exceptional cast, led by Daniel Abeles and Molly Carden
A Streetcar Named Desire: A Healthy Shot of Southern Discomfort
★★★★☆ You want realism? You want magic? Rebecca Frecknall’s production, starring Paul Mescal, has both.