★★★☆☆ New York City Center’s Encores! series brings the 2001 musical back with a cast of Broadway and TV vets
Off-Broadway
Urinetown: The Once-Startling Musical Handily Revived
★★★☆☆ Composer-lyricist Mark Hollman, book writer-lyricist Greg Kotis, director Teddy Bergman revitalize the unforgettable classic
The Antiquities: The Future’s Not Looking Too Bright
★★★★☆ The new play by Jordan Harrison, author of “Marjorie Prime,” imagines a future where humans have been replaced by artificial beings.
The Antiquities: We Are the Dinosaurs Now
★★★★☆ Jordan Harrison spins an intriguingly haunting tale about the human experiment gone awry.
Pecking Order: Fowl Play Is Foul Play
★☆☆☆☆ Hawkish comedy is strictly for the birds
Pecking Order: Fowl Play Indeed
★☆☆☆☆ Two infamous New York–dwelling red-tailed hawks serve as the ostensible inspiration for a flighty new comedy
Kowalski: How Brando Became the Brute
★★★★☆ Fascinating look behind the curtain of Tennessee Williams masterpiece when Brando almost didn’t get the role.
A Knock on the Roof: Everyday life and death in Gaza
★★★☆☆ Khawla Ibraheem depicts a mom in desperate straits
Dear Jack, Dear Louise: WWII Love Letters, with Wit and Charm
★★★★☆ Playwright Ken Ludwig finds literary delight in the family attic
Beckett Briefs: The 20th-Century Master Served Masterfully
★★★★☆ Krapp’s Last Tape, Not I, Play, with F. Murray Abraham, Roger Dominic Casey, Kate Forbes, Sarah Street, Ciarán O’Reilly directing