★★★☆☆ Gracie Gardner’s play about skin cancer patients in a surgical waiting room is engaging if unbelievable
Off-Broadway
Baldwin & Buckley at Cambridge: The Contentious, Significant 1965 Debate Unleashed
★★★☆☆ Elevator Repair Service takes a look at sword’s-point eloquence in action
Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge: Verbatim but disembodied
★★☆☆☆ Why flatten the affect of two powerful orators? Baldwin’s points bear repeating; Buckley’s condescension rankles as ever.
american (tele)visions: ‘80s Nostalgia Adorns a Standard Family Saga
★★☆☆☆ An immigrant tale packed with tragedy forfeits urgency when too artfully pixelated.
Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical: Multi-Dimensional Fun, and Not For Fans Only
★★★★☆ A savvy creator and vibrant, youthful cast bring the creepy Netlfix series to the stage, buoyantly
Burn: Alan Cumming Goes Into His Dance
★★★☆☆ The Tony-winning actor intrigues as Scottish poet Robert Burns in a solo dance show
Four Saints in Three Acts: Gertrude Stein’s Prose-Poem Brilliantly Played
★★★★★ David Greenspan delivers the magnetic, quizzical piece in 90 masterful minutes
This Beautiful Future: Not So Beautiful Future for World War II Love Story
★★☆☆☆ German Soldier-French Woman lovers, with Austin Pendleton, Angelina Fiordellisi back-up singing
Remember This: A Vital Message Goes Unheeded
★★★★☆ David Strathairn stirringly embodies a hero who tried to alert the Allies to Hitler’s ultimate goal
Remember This: A Highly Memorable Holocaust Message
★★★★☆ A Polish World War II hero tells his painful story, David Strathairn does the fine acting