★★★☆☆ A heated discussion about almost all of today’s turbulent real and fake news issues
Off-Broadway
The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes: Becomes Luminescent
★★★★★ Scott Price, Sarah Mainwaring, Michael Chan, Simon Laherty brilliantly discuss human limitations
The Unknown Dancer in the Neighborhood: Big City Blues
★★★☆☆ Japanese playwright Suguru Yamamoto collages dance, drama, text, and video in his study of urban existence
42FT—A Menagerie of Mechanical Marvels: An Old-School Charmer
★★★★☆ Sharp circus skills and eccentric machinery deliver a beguiling time
Sing Street: We’re With the Band
★★★★☆ If ’80s music is your jam, the nostalgia-soaked ‘Sing Street’ is right up your alley
Sing Street: The Magic of ‘Once’ Is Not Replicated, Alas
★★★☆☆ John Carney, Enda Walsh, and NYTW’s new Dublin-based musical is hampered by uninspired plotting
London Assurance: High Jinks Among the High-Born
★★★☆☆ Irish Repertory Theatre, under Charlotte Moore’s direction, revives the early-Victorian Era comedy by Dion Boucicault
‘Twas the Night Before: Cirque du Soleil’s Bright New Holiday Gift
★★★★☆ Aerialists and acrobats deliver Christmas cheer to Madison Square Garden
The Thin Place: Crossing Over, Or At Least Trying To
★★★☆☆ Lucas Hnath’s latest weighs belief and skepticism, whimsy and seriousness
The Thin Place: Lucas Hnath Unspools a Minimalist Ghost Story
★★★☆☆ Not much happens in this slight play by the author of ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’