★★☆☆☆ Second Stage Theater’s world premiere play about the bad and ugly side of motherhood.
Off-Broadway
The Reservoir: Comic Play About Addiction Doesn’t Go Deep Enough
★★★☆☆ Noah Galvin plays a young man struggling with alcoholism and the decline of his aging grandparents in Jake Brasch’s dramedy.
Mother Russia: Finding Comedy in a Country’s Dark History
★★★★☆ The collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of capitalism prove excellent fodder for Lauren Yee’s sharp new play
You Got Older: Quirkiness Masquerading as Cleverness
★★☆☆☆ Alia Shawkat and Peter Friedman star in Clare Barron’s dramedy about a woman taking care of her dying father.
The Dinosaurs: Time Passages
★★★☆☆ Kathleen Chalfant and Elizabeth Marvel lead the ensemble in a new play about a women’s sobriety group
The Tragedy of Coriolanus: Much Ado About Multimedia
★★☆☆☆ A potential concept for timely Shakespeare works better in theory than onstage at TFANA
The Unknown: A Solo Nail-Biter With a Memorable Cast of Characters
★★★★☆ Sean Hayes delivers a riveting performance in David Cale’s one-person thriller.
The Other Place: Ancient Greek Tragedy Meets Modern Family Drama
★★★★☆ Tobias Menzies and Emma D’Arcy star in Alexander Zeldin’s family drama inspired by Sophocles “Antigone”
Making a Show of Myself: Positively Personal
★★★☆☆ Mary Kate O Flanagan shares affirmative stories in a winning debut at Irish Rep
High Spirits: Death Becomes Them
★★★★☆ Sip and savor (but don’t think too hard about) this 1964 musicalization of Noël Coward’s famous 1941 farce