★★☆☆☆ Too bad the show looks cheesier than the state of Wisconsin
Off-Broadway
Coriolanus: Private Feelings Versus Public Perceptions in a Raggedy Rome
★★★☆☆ Jonathan Cake has a sneer for every occasion as Shakespeare’s most prideful Roman of them all
Coriolanus: A Poor Case for a Rarely Produced Play
★★☆☆☆ The second open-air Central Park offering of the summer is a rare miss from usually on-point Shakespearean director Daniel Sullivan
Summer Shorts Series B: Neil LaBute Delivers a Typically Toxic Comedy
★★★☆☆ A smart topical comedy outshines lesser works in an annual off-Broadway festival
Love, Noël: Steve Ross, KT Sullivan Honor the Great Coward
★★★★★ Charlotte Moore directs the praise-worthy Barry Day-devised-and-written compilation
Love, Noël: Letters, and Songs, from a Master
★★★★☆ Cabaret luminaries Steve Ross and KT Sullivan honor a legendary Coward
Rinse, Repeat: The Vicious Circle of Eating Disorders
★★★☆☆ Domenica Feraud’s ambitious drama ultimately crumbles under the weight of its good intentions
Rinse, Repeat: Regarding a Family’s Cycle of Eating Disorders
★★★☆☆ A new play about dangerous eating habits scarcely satisfies as a family drama
#DateMe An OKCupid Experiment: Comic Robyn Lynne Norris Has Only OK Dating Flings
★★☆☆☆ Audience members get to participate in the six-actor send-up, directed and choreographed by Lorin Latarro
The Black Clown: Black Existence in a White World
★★★★★ An obscure Langston Hughes poem is brilliantly transfigured into epic musical theater