★★★★☆ Aya Ogawa writes, directs and performs in new play at LCT3’s rooftop theater
Off-Broadway
The Butcher Boy: Dark New Musical About Psychotic Young Man
★★★☆☆ Princeton senior Asher Muldoon adapts 1992 Patrick McCabe novel, Ciarán O’Reilly directs, Barry McNabb choreographs
Oresteia: The Aeschylus Classic Trilogy Modern -Dressed-Up for Today
★★★☆☆ Director Robert Icke has his semi-effective, semi-not adapted way with the Greeks, a strong cast helping things along
Seagull: Elevator Repair Service Takes Aim at Anton Chekhov’s Classic
★☆☆☆☆ John Collins directs a laboring 11-member cast in a revival (revisal?), to little avail
Seagull: Did You Hear the One About the Writer?
★★★☆☆ Chekhov’s tale of avian metaphors and unrequited loves gets the experimental Elevator Repair Service treatment
Cannabis! A Viper Vaudeville: Several Tokes Over the Line
★★☆☆☆ A disappointingly preachy revue from HERE and LaMaMa overstates its case for “the people’s plant”
Notre Dame de Paris: French Import Is Less Than Monumental
★★☆☆☆ This ‘musical spectacle’ take on the Hunchback’s tale is both over-the-top and underwhelming
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: Western Stage Adaptation Hits Target
★★★★☆ An outstanding cast shines in this stage adaptation of the short story on which the John Wayne-Jimmy Stewart film was based
Between the Lines: Targeting That “Wicked” Audience
★★★☆☆ A troubled teenage girl finds love with a fairy tale prince come to life in this musical based on the YA novel by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer.
Richard III: Shakespeare’s Crooked in Several Ways Villain as Court Fashion Plate
★★★☆☆ Director Robert O’Hara has his own thoughts about the tragedy, with Danai Gurira as the last York monarch