★★★☆☆ The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit brings Shakespeare’s comedy to a park near you
Off-Broadway
Molly Sweeney: Brian Friel’s Play About Sight and Shortsidedness Insightfully Revived
★★★★☆ Charlotte Moore directs Sarah Street, John Keating, Rufus Collins with beautifully staggering results
Molly Sweeney: An Ideal Cast Adds Insight and Intensity to Friel’s 1994 Chamber Drama
★★★★☆ When a master playwright takes on the mystery of sight (in its many senses), it pays to listen.
The Fires: A Not So Hot Study of Black Men in Love
★★☆☆☆ Raja Feather Kelly writes and directs a sorrowful new drama for Soho Rep
Three Houses: Dave Malloy’s New, Sometimes Haunting Musical
★★★☆☆ Annie Tippe directs Margo Seibert, Mia Pak, J. D. Mollison, Scott Stangland, Henry Stram, and Ching Valdes-Aran
The Lonely Few: A Promising and Predictable Rock Musical
★★★☆☆ Directed by Trip Cullman and Ellenore Scott, the show puts two female singers, and their love story, in the spotlight
Syncing Ink: A Crack Ensemble Revives a Hip-Hop Legend
★★★☆☆ Playwright/performer NSangou Njikam, accompanied by some gifted colleagues, gets to the heart of hip-hop culture.
All of Me: A Technologically Assisted Rom-Com
★★★★☆ Laura Winters’ play depicts the charming courtship between two disabled characters who use text-to-speech technology to communicate.
All of Me: A Rom-Com Powered by Text-to-Speech Technology
★★★★☆ Disabled actors Madison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez make beautiful music in Laura Winters’ delightful play
Laura Benanti, Nobody Cares: Let Me Entertain You, and How!
★★★★☆ The beloved Tony-winner celebrates adulthood, motherhood, and stepping out of the ingenue shell