★★★☆☆ Playwright Alice Birch looks at one of our closest, most fraught relationships, with a cast led by a haunting Carla Gugino
Off-Broadway
Dracula/Frankenstein: Stoker, Shelley Classics on Lowered Stakes
★★☆☆☆ Adaptations by Kate Hamill and Tristan Bernays are playing in rep, directed by Sarna Lapine and Timothy Douglas
Dracula/Frankenstein: Smart New Stagings of Gothic Literature
★★★★☆ Classic Stage delivers very different but very smart new versions of the classic horror stories, in rep
The Sabbath Girl: A Cute but Clichéd Cross-Cultural Rom-Com
★★★☆☆ Cary Gitter’s comedy centers on an Italian-American woman and an Orthodox Jewish knish maker in New York City
The Sabbath Girl: Bagels and Knishes, With Spicy Mustard
★★☆☆☆ Orthodox Boy meets Italian girl, loses girl, gets girl…
The Commons: Hell Is Other People
★★☆☆☆ In Lily Akerman’s new play, three’s a crowd and four is insufferable
Riddle of the Trilobites: An Earnest New Musical Packs Multiple Messages
★★★☆☆ Prehistoric characters deal with global warming and learn that change is their friend
Chekhov/Tolstoy Love Stories: From Russia with Languor
★★☆☆☆ From Mint Theater, a strangely soporific pairing of plays based on stories by creative giants
Chekhov/Tolstoy Love Stories: Russian Masters Sparsely Served
★★☆☆☆ Chekhov’s “An Artist’s Story” and Tolstoy’s “Michael,” adapted by Miles Malleson
Where We Stand: Donnetta Lavinia Grays’ Elusive Town Meeting
★★☆☆☆ Audience participation with a perhaps misguided purpose, directed by Tamilla Woodard