★★☆☆☆ Sandra Oh leads a dozen women through miserable times
Off-Broadway
Titanic: A Tale of Doomed Dreams and Hubris Rises Anew
★★★★★ Director Anne Kauffman and a starry, supple cast breathe new life into the ’90s musical epic
Titanic: Smooth Sailing as the Band Plays On
★★★★☆ Maury Yeston’s remarkable score is given a ravishing hearing at Encores
Breaking the Story: War is Hell, and So is Remembering It
★★★☆☆ Maggie Siff plays a former war correspondent suffering from PTSD in Alexis Scheer’s play receiving its world premiere at Second Stage.
What Became of Us: More Than Just a Lifetime Drama
★★★☆☆ BD Wong and Rosalind Cho portray siblings in an uncommon new play
The Comedy of Errors: No Errors Made in This Free Shakespeare Revival
★★★★☆ Shakespeare in the Park’s free Mobile Unit clicks, due to Rebecca Martínez and Julián Mesri and jubilant cast
The Comedy of Errors: A Tuneful Bilingual Romp through the Parks
★★★☆☆ The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit brings Shakespeare’s comedy to a park near you
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