★★★★☆ Jocelyn Bioh’s smart Harlem-set spin on Shakespeare is the joyous kick we all need right now
Off-Broadway
Fruma-Sarah (Waiting in the Wings): Jackie Hoffman Happily Soars
★★★★☆ E. Dale Smith’s clever dramedy spin on “Fiddler on the Roof,” also with Kelly Kinsella
Enemy of the People: Ann Dowd in Reimagined, Interactive Ibsen
★★★☆☆ Ann Dowd plays the gender-altered lead role in Robert Icke’s interactive reimagining of Ibsen’s classic
The Watering Hole: Timely Immersive Theater (if Flawed)
★★★☆☆ Lynn Nottage, Miranda Haymon, and others look at adjusting to life’s contemporary basics
Seven Deadly Sins: There’s No Harm In Watching
★★★★☆ That former den of iniquity, the Meatpacking District, plays host to a sin-inspired evening
SEVEN DEADLY SINS: LIVE THEATER BEHIND GLASS
★★★☆☆ Moisés Kaufman directs seven vice-inspired one-acts, cleverly staged on the streets of the Meatpacking District
SOCIAL!: It’s Time to Dance
★★★☆☆ Is it theater? Is it disco? Either way, it’s a safety-conscious, socially distant 55-minute experience.
Blindness: Chilling Dystopian Drama Marks Return of Off-Broadway
★★★★☆ Harrowing story theater featuring high tech sound system simulating a pandemic of a different sort
Blindness: Light, Flickering, at the End of a Tunnel
★★★★☆ Simon Stephens’s stark, lyrical adaptation of the novel arrives in New York, for socially distanced audiences
Betty Buckley: Cabaret Artistry at Its Peak
★★★★★ Back in a small room, the Broadway diva is in new voice, adventurous, relaxed