★★★☆☆ Michael Tucker’s play considers marriage and friendship in our golden years
Off-Broadway
Wives: Life With Papa and Three Other Feminist Truths
★★★☆☆ An episode involving Ernest Hemingway’s several widows is a highlight of a new satirical comedy
Margaret Trudeau: Certain Woman of an Age: Former First Lady Tells All
★★★☆☆ How the onetime headline grabber deals with bipolar disorder and other exigencies
Only Yesterday: A Day (and Night) in the Life of Lennon and McCartney
★★★☆☆ A new play imagines the young Beatles, out of the spotlight
Only Yesterday: John Lennon and Paul McCartney Caught in the Rain
★★★★☆ Fans will love what Bob Stevens imagines two Beatles get up to on a documented day off
Eureka Day: Jonathan Spector’s Cyclonically Funny Outrageous New Comedy
★★★★★ The invasion of the anti-vaxxers, from—where else?—Berkeley
L.O.V.E.R.: From Boy Crazy to Womanly and Wily
★★☆☆☆ Lois Robbins wrote and stars in a mostly autobiographical look at a woman’s relationships through life
American Moor: Keith Hamilton Cobb Turns an Othello Audition Red Hot
★★★☆☆ The playwright/actor questions how effective any understanding between the races can be
Lear, That Old Man I Used to Know: Not the Tragedy You Used to Know
★★★☆☆ Writer-director Beth Ann Hopkins fools with Shakespeare’s King Lear for intriguing changes
Dust: Milly Thomas Wrote, Performs an Ashen but Lively Monologue
★★★★☆ A raw look, directed by Sara Joyce, at what happens after a death that isn’t exactly final