★★★★☆ Playwright Zora Howard debuts Off-Broadway with a tasty kitchen sink-type drama
Off-Broadway
Medea: Another Woman on the Verge, and Past It
★★★★☆ Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale star in Simon Stone’s harrowing tragedy, “after” the Euripides classic
Medea: Simon Stone’s Not Too Searching Euripides Update
★★★☆☆ Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale menace each other well as star-crossed former lovers
The Confession of Lily Dare: Charles Busch at His Best, As Always
★★★★☆ Carl Andress directs Busch, Nancy Anderson, Howard McGillin, others in heart-felt spoof
The Confession of Lily Dare: What’s Wrong with This Picture?
★★☆☆☆ Charles Busch stars as a self-sacrificing mama in his send-up of Pre-Code Hollywood flicks
Paris: Black Invisibility in a White World
★★★☆☆ Eboni Booth sets her insightful working class drama in a big box store in 1995
Timon of Athens: From Riches to Rags, With a Twist
★★★★☆ Shakespeare’s rarely produced tale of a big-hearted spendthrift gets a powerful production with a first-rate female Timon
Timon of Athens: Re-gendered and Re-Engineered for Audiences Today
★★★☆☆ Kathryn Hunter plays the title figure in a relatively obscure play by Shakespeare (and Thomas Middleton)
Emojiland: Once You Get Restarted
★★★★☆ A delightful new musical takes us behind the screen—of our smartphones.
How to Load a Musket: Re-creating Your Own Personal American History
★★★★☆ A smart new docudrama studies history re-enactors whose pastime can be obsessive