★★★★☆ Sean Hayes delivers a riveting performance in David Cale’s one-person thriller.
Off-Broadway
The Other Place: Ancient Greek Tragedy Meets Modern Family Drama
★★★★☆ Tobias Menzies and Emma D’Arcy star in Alexander Zeldin’s family drama inspired by Sophocles “Antigone”
Making a Show of Myself: Positively Personal
★★★☆☆ Mary Kate O Flanagan shares affirmative stories in a winning debut at Irish Rep
High Spirits: Death Becomes Them
★★★★☆ Sip and savor (but don’t think too hard about) this 1964 musicalization of Noël Coward’s famous 1941 farce
High Spirits: It Soars, It Scores
★★★★☆ Encores fulfills its mission by bringing an undeservedly forgotten musical triumphantly back from the dead
Blackout Songs: A Hazy Pas de Deux
★★★★☆ Abbey Lee and Owen Teague play alcoholics involved in a turbulent romance in Joe White’s Olivier Award–nominated play
Data: Hot Headlines-Focused Play With Scarifying Guarantees
★★★★★ Playwright Michael Libby, director Tyne Rafaeli, and four actors in tiptop form score heavily in this new and significant drama
Data: Scorching Play Pulls Back The Curtain on the Power of Big Tech
★★★★☆ Playwright Matthew Libby looks through a glass darkly to find we’re all pawns in a game of numbers, and tech titans control the board
From Under the Radar: Ulysses
★★★☆☆ Elevator Repair Service delivers a mad gallery of James Joyce’s Dubliners
From Under the Radar: ‘The Visitors’ and a Pair of No-Shows
The annual theater festival continues with a poignant Australian import, a cancellation, and an installation