★★★☆☆ The writer-director-performer uses footage, pop music, numerous wigs to make his point(s)
Off-Broadway
BOOM: Talkin’ ‘Bout His Mom’s Generation
★★★☆☆ Multi-tasking Canadian star and Gen Xer Rick Miller channels baby boomers and their icons, in words and music
Maz and Bricks: Boy Meets Girl, Annoys Girl, Gets Girl?
★★★☆☆ Eva O’Connor joins Ciaran O’Brien in her rom-com-plus Dublin two-hander
The Truth Has Changed: Josh Fox Writes (Well) and Performs (So-So)
★★★☆☆ A heated discussion about almost all of today’s turbulent real and fake news issues
The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes: Becomes Luminescent
★★★★★ Scott Price, Sarah Mainwaring, Michael Chan, Simon Laherty brilliantly discuss human limitations
The Unknown Dancer in the Neighborhood: Big City Blues
★★★☆☆ Japanese playwright Suguru Yamamoto collages dance, drama, text, and video in his study of urban existence
42FT—A Menagerie of Mechanical Marvels: An Old-School Charmer
★★★★☆ Sharp circus skills and eccentric machinery deliver a beguiling time
Sing Street: We’re With the Band
★★★★☆ If ’80s music is your jam, the nostalgia-soaked ‘Sing Street’ is right up your alley
Sing Street: The Magic of ‘Once’ Is Not Replicated, Alas
★★★☆☆ John Carney, Enda Walsh, and NYTW’s new Dublin-based musical is hampered by uninspired plotting
London Assurance: High Jinks Among the High-Born
★★★☆☆ Irish Repertory Theatre, under Charlotte Moore’s direction, revives the early-Victorian Era comedy by Dion Boucicault