★★★☆☆ Paul David Young’s drama eventually waxes metatheatrical to no heavy benefit
Off-Broadway
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
(A)loft Modulation: Obsessive Behavior and All That Jazz
★★☆☆☆ A bluesy atmosphere and musical performances enhance an awfully talky new drama
The Great Society: A Leader in Shades of Gray, in Another Troubled Time
★★★☆☆ Brian Cox plays LBJ in Robert Schenkkan’s sequel to All The Way
Dublin Carol: Whiskey on the Rocks
★★★☆☆ Irish Rep stages a too-grim revival of one of Conor McPherson’s grimmest plays
Why?: That Big Question, On Stage and Off
★★★☆☆ Peter Brook and collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne reflect on theater, generally and in another troubled time