★★★★☆ Matt de Rogatis grabs the Tennessee Williams play, Joe Rosario directs
Off-Broadway
Love: This Is No Place Like Home
★★★★★ Alexander Zeldin’s “you-are-there” study of a London housing shelter delivers edge-of-the-seat impact
The Best We Could: A Dysfunctional Family Doing Its Best
★★☆☆☆ Emily Feldman’s new play, directed by Daniel Aukin, has its drawbacks
The Seagull: Not Your Great-Great-Great-Grandmother’s Chekhov
★★★☆☆ Hovering midway between parody and homage, this modernist rendering of a justifiable classic proves neither illuminating nor much fun.
The Seagull/Woodstock, NY: The Chekhov Updating You Didn’t Need
★★☆☆☆ Parker Posey heads the cast of Thomas Bradshaw’s cheaply vulgar modern-day adaptation of Chekhov’s classic.
Letters From Max, a ritual: A Playwright and Poet Open Their Hearts
★★★★☆ Sarah Ruhl’s newest work proves a deeply moving meditation on life and the afterlife
Letters From Max, a ritual: Intimate Teacher-Student Work
★★★☆☆ Sarah Ruth’s epistolary homage to late poet Max Ritvo, Kate Whoriskey directs
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window: Lorraine Hansberry’s Largely Forgotten Play Shows Signs of Life
★★★★☆ Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in Anne Kauffman’s revival of this long-neglected work by the author of “A Raisin in the Sun.”
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window: An Opaque Revival of an Obscure American Play
★★★☆☆ Lorraine Hansberry’s unheralded, untidy ode to 1960s NYC gets a high-wattage off-Broadway production
Fall River Fishing: Black Comedy With a Side of Bolognese
★★★☆☆ Lizzie Borden, Sharon Tate, and Ibsen (sort of) collide in Bedlam’s period-slash-contemporary piece