★★★☆☆ Sarah Einspanier’s new play follows young searchers in the digital age
Off-Broadway
House Plant: Wilts Quickly Before Your Aching Eyes and Ears
★★☆☆☆ Sarah Einspanier’s elusive play with three (over)actors and a fourth on violin
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice: They’re All Talk and No Action
★☆☆☆☆ A dull new musical regards a not-so-fab foursome of the Swinging ’60s
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice: Mazursky’s Movie Musically Mangled
★☆☆☆☆ Creators Jonathan Marc Sherman, Duncan Sheik, and Amanda Green do no one any adapting favors
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake: Masterpiece Returns Triumphantly
★★★★★ A male swan king and male companions turn Ivanov/Petipa into masculine pride
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake: Spooky and Sexy Romance in Dance
★★★★☆ A classical ballet reimagined as a bisexual psychodrama briefly revisits New York
Beyond Babel: “Romeo and Juliet” is “West Side Story”-ized, Very Well
★★★★☆ Keone and Mari Madrid lead highly-energized 12-member dance troupe with inspiration
STEW: A Mothers and Daughters Dish
★★★★☆ Playwright Zora Howard debuts Off-Broadway with a tasty kitchen sink-type drama
Medea: Another Woman on the Verge, and Past It
★★★★☆ Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale star in Simon Stone’s harrowing tragedy, “after” the Euripides classic
Medea: Simon Stone’s Not Too Searching Euripides Update
★★★☆☆ Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale menace each other well as star-crossed former lovers