★★★☆☆ Three actors make a cautionary saga of excessive drinking go down easily
Off-Broadway
Georgia Mertching Is Dead: Three Amigas Who’ve Been to Hell and Back
★★★★☆ Millennial survivors take a road trip in Catya McCullen’s new play
Terra Firma: Sally Hammond’s Comedy(?) Not on Firm Ground
★★☆☆☆ The Coop’s introductory production lacks substance, wastes the marvelous Andrus Nichols
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Wasted Youth Among the 99 Per Cent
★★★★☆ The opioid epidemic upends two families in a stirring new play by Chad Beckim
All My Fathers: Sometimes You Can Go Home But Maybe Shouldn’t
★★★☆☆ Paul David Young’s drama eventually waxes metatheatrical to no heavy benefit
The Wrong Man: Joshua Henry Shows Conviction as Man Wrongly Accused
★★★☆☆ Pop songwriter Ross Golan tries his hand at a sung-through musical, directed by Thomas Kail
The Wrong Man: How Wrong a Wrong Man Can Go in Song and Dance
★★★☆☆ Ross Golan’s original musical looks at injustice but not with sufficient insight
Heroes of the Fourth Turning: Millennials Argue About Our Civil Wars
★★★★☆ Younger conservatives drunkenly debate fundamental issues at Playwrights Horizons
Round Table: King Arthur Sort of Remembered Then and Now
★★★☆☆ Liba Vaynberg’s (autobiographical?) play views troubled romance during two disparate eras
The New Englanders: Mixed-Race Gay Couple with Daughter Clash
★★★☆☆ Jeff Augustin’s play doesn’t quite get to the bottom of a family’s incipient dysfunction