★★★★☆ A world premiere from the Irish Rep that’s filled with lots of laughter…for a change.
Off-Broadway
The Swamp Dwellers: Wole Soyinka’s Significant Early Play
★★★★☆ The 1986 Nobel Prize-winner looks closely at Nigeria’s swamp area, with Awoye Timpo directing
Becoming Eve: Transcendent Trans Father-Son, Father-Daughter Play
★★★★☆ Tommy Dorfman is the transitioning Chava in Emil Weinstein’s adaptation of Abby Chava Stein’s memoir
I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan: Singular Theater Talk
★★★★☆ Mona Pirnot composes an Escher-like solo comedy about the very artist who is performing it
Danger and Opportunity: Up Close and Personal with a Polyamorous Trio
★★★☆☆ Juan Castano, Ryan Spahn and Julia Chan comprise a troubled throuple
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.