★★★★☆ Richard Jones directs a Park Avenue Armory extravaganza of Christopher Shinn’s adaptation
Off-Broadway
one in two: Donja R. Love Turns HIV Statistics Into Stage Warning
★★★☆☆ Edward Mawere, Leland Fowler, Jamyl Dobson act the reality of the black HIV-positive gay man
one in two: An Absurdist Look at a Serious Issue
★★★☆☆ The sadly familiar story of a black man living with HIV gets an absurdist twist
Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven: Stephen Adly Guirgis Strikes Again
★★★★★ An overstuffed, engrossing, masterful new play from Pulitzer winner Guirgis
Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven: A Purgatory Where Women Lead, and Suffer
★★★★☆ The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright finds humor, despair and survival in a halfway house
Greater Clements: Things Fall Apart, Over and Over Again
★★★★☆ Samuel D. Hunter crafts an excellent play, starring Judith Ivey and Edmund Donovan, from sad realities
Greater Clements: Haunted By History
★★★☆☆ Samuel D. Hunter delivers a significant though flawed American drama
One November Yankee: Harry Hamlin, Stephanie Powers Take Flight
★★★☆☆ Joshua Ravetch sketches brother-sister relationships for 80 generally amusing minutes
One November Yankee: Turbulence Ahead
★★☆☆☆ Harry Hamlin and Stefanie Powers play three pairs of siblings in this flight-themed earthbound drama
Anything Can Happen in the Theater: Yeston Time
★★★☆☆ Gerard Alessandrini’s valentine to composer-lyricist Maury Yeston mixes his best-known songs with a handful of obscurities