★★★★☆ Hope Davis and Josh Hamilton brighten a sorrowful new Wallace Shawn drama staged by Andre Gregory
Off-Broadway
Night Side Songs: Illness Musicalized, Showing Worrisome Symptoms
★★★☆☆ Daniel and Patrick Lazour examine a tough subject through song
Bigfoot!: Fuzzy and Facetious
★★☆☆☆ A new musical satirizes the gullibility of flyover America
Chinese Republicans: Clever, Venom-Tipped Arrows, Ineffectively Aimed
★★★☆☆ Alex Lin’s barbed comedy at the Roundabout doesn’t quite hit its target
Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood: An Overcooked Satire
★★☆☆☆ Second Stage Theater’s world premiere play about the bad and ugly side of motherhood.
The Reservoir: Comic Play About Addiction Doesn’t Go Deep Enough
★★★☆☆ Noah Galvin plays a young man struggling with alcoholism and the decline of his aging grandparents in Jake Brasch’s dramedy.
Mother Russia: Finding Comedy in a Country’s Dark History
★★★★☆ The collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of capitalism prove excellent fodder for Lauren Yee’s sharp new play
You Got Older: Quirkiness Masquerading as Cleverness
★★☆☆☆ Alia Shawkat and Peter Friedman star in Clare Barron’s dramedy about a woman taking care of her dying father.
The Dinosaurs: Time Passages
★★★☆☆ Kathleen Chalfant and Elizabeth Marvel lead the ensemble in a new play about a women’s sobriety group
The Tragedy of Coriolanus: Much Ado About Multimedia
★★☆☆☆ A potential concept for timely Shakespeare works better in theory than onstage at TFANA