★★★★☆ Will Eno’s early one-man play is revived, its brutality and beauty intact
Off-Broadway
Thom Pain (based on nothing): Some Existential Rambles With Michael C. Hall
★★★★☆ Signature Theatre smartly revives Will Eno’s significantly meandering monodrama
Eve’s Song: Patricia Ione Lloyd’s Tough Look at Racism Today
★★★★☆ A middle-class black family and interloping spirits hold out little hope for today’s race relations
Eve’s Song: How Black Women’s Lives Don’t Always Matter in America
★★★☆☆ The Public Theater premieres the threnody of a blameless woman’s destruction
The Thanksgiving Play: Knocking the Stuffing Out of White Liberal Correctness
★★★☆☆ Playwrights Horizons premieres a satirical comedy that’s tasty but underdone
The Thanksgiving Play: Maybe It Wasn’t All Fun and Maize
★★☆☆☆ This Playwrights Horizons satire amusingly skewers already well-skewered American patriotic pieties
Usual Girls: Aching Just Like A Woman, and Breaking Too
★★★★☆ Ming Peiffer charts the fraught, funny, frightful journey from female adolescence to womanhood in a stirring new play
I’m Not a Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce: The Soap-Mouth Comic Returns
★★★★☆ Ronnie Marmo writes and acts, Joe Mantegna directs a strong, sensitive tribute
Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett’s Masterpiece Masterfully Handled
★★★★★ Druid’s Garry Hynes directs Marty Rea and Aaron Monaghan in a brilliantly physical version
Waiting for Godot: Whiling Away a Few Fine Hours With an Irish Didi and Gogo
★★★★☆ The Druid company infuses Samuel Beckett’s bleak drama with a wonderful sense of life