★★★★☆ Carl Andress directs Busch, Nancy Anderson, Howard McGillin, others in heart-felt spoof
Off-Broadway
The Confession of Lily Dare: What’s Wrong with This Picture?
★★☆☆☆ Charles Busch stars as a self-sacrificing mama in his send-up of Pre-Code Hollywood flicks
Paris: Black Invisibility in a White World
★★★☆☆ Eboni Booth sets her insightful working class drama in a big box store in 1995
Timon of Athens: From Riches to Rags, With a Twist
★★★★☆ Shakespeare’s rarely produced tale of a big-hearted spendthrift gets a powerful production with a first-rate female Timon
Timon of Athens: Re-gendered and Re-Engineered for Audiences Today
★★★☆☆ Kathryn Hunter plays the title figure in a relatively obscure play by Shakespeare (and Thomas Middleton)
Emojiland: Once You Get Restarted
★★★★☆ A delightful new musical takes us behind the screen—of our smartphones.
How to Load a Musket: Re-creating Your Own Personal American History
★★★★☆ A smart new docudrama studies history re-enactors whose pastime can be obsessive
Boom: Rick MIller’s Solo Show and Show-Off on Baby Boom History
★★★☆☆ The writer-director-performer uses footage, pop music, numerous wigs to make his point(s)
BOOM: Talkin’ ‘Bout His Mom’s Generation
★★★☆☆ Multi-tasking Canadian star and Gen Xer Rick Miller channels baby boomers and their icons, in words and music
Maz and Bricks: Boy Meets Girl, Annoys Girl, Gets Girl?
★★★☆☆ Eva O’Connor joins Ciaran O’Brien in her rom-com-plus Dublin two-hander