★★★☆☆ Brian Cox plays LBJ in Robert Schenkkan’s sequel to All The Way
Off-Broadway
Dublin Carol: Whiskey on the Rocks
★★★☆☆ Irish Rep stages a too-grim revival of one of Conor McPherson’s grimmest plays
Why?: That Big Question, On Stage and Off
★★★☆☆ Peter Brook and collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne reflect on theater, generally and in another troubled time
Antigone: Greek Tragedy Is Reflected Through Traditional Japanese Modes
★★★★☆ A Japanese company delivers an unusually immersive staging of a classical play
Caesar and Cleopatra: Shaw Redux, with Reverent Irreverence
★★★★☆ Director David Staller revisits Shaw’s power duo, delightfully
Our Dear Dead Drug Lord: A Schoolgirl Crush Goes Tragically Wrong
★★★☆☆ Teens idolize Pablo Escobar in newcomer writer Alexis Scheer’s offbeat dramedy
Sunday: Twentysomethings, Off the Grid and ISO Meaning
★★☆☆☆ Having tackled King Kong and Harry Potter, Jack Thorne takes on post-millennials
Sunday: Spending a Desultory Evening with Generation Z
★★☆☆☆ Meet some “wry and ironic and dull” characters at Atlantic Theater, or perhaps not
runboyrun & In Old Age: Ghosts Haunt a Nigerian-American Family Saga
★★★☆☆ New York Theatre Workshop stages two installments of Mfoniso Udofia’s epic nine-play cycle
Fern Hill: Trouble Down on the Farm
★★☆☆☆ Come for actors John Glover and Mark Linn-Baker; leave with playwright Michael Tucker’s recipe for spaghetti with clam sauce