★★★☆☆ Jennifer Tilly and Daphne Rubin-Vega lead The New Group’s fresh staging of an expressionist drama
Off-Broadway
The Approach: Three Women Shoot the Charged Breeze
★★★★☆ Mark O’Rowe writes, Conor Bagley directs, O’Herlihy, MacCluggage and Ryan chat
The Approach: Polite, Poised, And Quietly Devastating
★★★☆☆ The Irish Rep’s American premiere of Mark O’Rowe’s three-hander is a subtle work with unspoken truths
Scorched Earth: A Dance-Theater Police Procedural
★★★☆☆ Luke Murphy directs and choreographs a modern Irish saga of murder, property and obsession
Titus Andronicus: Goths, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Spears
★★★☆☆ Shakespeare’s bloodiest play gets a fittingly messy off-Broadway revival starring the unimpeachable Patrick Page
Titus Andronicus: Bloody All Right
★★★☆☆ Patrick Page is formidable as a noble Roman driven mad in Red Bull’s staging of Shakespeare’s shocker
Public Charge: Mixed Grades Translating Textbook History To The Stage
★★★☆☆ The Public Theater’s true story revealing the political machinations behind a diplomatic effort that paid off
Jesa: Honoring the Ancestors, or Maybe Not
★★★☆☆ Ma-Yi Theater premieres Jeena Yi’s contemporary comedy-drama about Korean American sisters
Monte Cristo: Alexander Dumas Brought to the Musical Stage
★★★☆☆ Peter Kellogg, Stephen Weiner adapt The Count of Monte Cristo, Peter Flynn directs
Tru: Gossipy Truman Capote on the Uproarious Warpath
★★★★☆ Jesse Tyler Ferguson in Jay Presson Allen’s ingratiating script, Rob Ashford gleefully directing