★★★☆☆ A new play imagines the young Beatles, out of the spotlight
Off-Broadway
Only Yesterday: John Lennon and Paul McCartney Caught in the Rain
★★★★☆ Fans will love what Bob Stevens imagines two Beatles get up to on a documented day off
Eureka Day: Jonathan Spector’s Cyclonically Funny Outrageous New Comedy
★★★★★ The invasion of the anti-vaxxers, from—where else?—Berkeley
L.O.V.E.R.: From Boy Crazy to Womanly and Wily
★★☆☆☆ Lois Robbins wrote and stars in a mostly autobiographical look at a woman’s relationships through life
American Moor: Keith Hamilton Cobb Turns an Othello Audition Red Hot
★★★☆☆ The playwright/actor questions how effective any understanding between the races can be
Lear, That Old Man I Used to Know: Not the Tragedy You Used to Know
★★★☆☆ Writer-director Beth Ann Hopkins fools with Shakespeare’s King Lear for intriguing changes
Dust: Milly Thomas Wrote, Performs an Ashen but Lively Monologue
★★★★☆ A raw look, directed by Sara Joyce, at what happens after a death that isn’t exactly final
Felix Starro: Not Entirely a Magical New Musical
★★★☆☆ A sorrowful story about a faith healer does not entirely satisfy
Felix Starro: Musical on Philippines Psychic Surgery Needs Gurney
★★☆☆☆ Playwright Jessica Hagedorn, composer Juan Obispo take on questionable healing clumsily
Hercules: A Heroic New Musical, and That’s the Gospel Truth!
★★★★☆ A 200-person cast goes the distance with the Public Works adaptation of the beloved Disney movie