★★★★★ Journey into the Forest of Arden with this bright and breezy Public Works production
Off-Broadway
Two Jews, Talking: Two TV Stars, Two One-Act Plays, Too Few Laughs
★★★☆☆ 1970s TV fans will relish the chance to see Hal Linden and Bernie Kopell together, even in a clichéd comedy
Two Jews, Talking: Exactly, Mildly What the Title Promises
★★★☆☆ Hal Linden and Bernie Kopell in a 60-minute-plus, two-part comedy
On That Day in Amsterdam: Strangers Find Romance, and Guilt, Far From Home
★★★☆☆ A college boy meets a less fortunate traveler in Clarence Coo’s play
The Nosebleed: Cheerful Ritualistic Play About Grief, Of All Things
★★★★☆ Aya Ogawa writes, directs and performs in new play at LCT3’s rooftop theater
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”