★★★★☆ Outgoing Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls helms an affecting mid-pandemic drama
Off-Broadway
Swing State: Angst in the Heartland
★★★☆☆ Rebecca Gilman’s new play, imported from Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, concerns the troubling chain of events that occur after a toolbox and gun are stolen from a woman’s barn.
Death, Let Me Do My Show: Rachel Bloom picks up the pieces post-Covid
★★★★☆ Bloom is back, spilling and spewing her neuroses and obsessions – wittily.
Death, Let Me Do My Show: A So-So Battle With the Grim Reaper
★★☆☆☆ Writer-performer Rachel Bloom aggressively talks and sings through a nearly one-person outing
Infinite Life: Illness as Undeveloped Metaphor
★★★☆☆ Annie Baker’s new play concerns six patients suffering from serious ailments who are undergoing treatment at an alternative medicine facility.
Infinite Life: Annie Baker Sets Healing Sights on Pain
★★★☆☆ James MacDonald directs a fine cast, featuring Marylouise Burke and Kristine Nielsen
The Tempest: Conjuring and Singing Under the Stars
★★★☆☆ For its last show until summer 2025 at the soon-to-be-renovated Delacorte, the Public returns to an old favorite
Small: The Heightened Story of a Growing Jockey Hopeful
★★★★☆ Robert Montano, directed by Jessi D. Hill, graphically recalls his adolescence at Belmont Park
A Eulogy for Roman: A Delightfully Unique Memorial Service
★★★★☆ Relative newcomers Brendan George and Peter Charney are behind this unexpectedly entertaining enterprise
Let’s Call Her Patty: A Choppy New Dramedy
★★★☆☆ Rhea Perlman plays a Pilates-loving liberal Upper West Sider in this shallow new play