Sommers

★★★★☆ A classical ballet reimagined as a bisexual psychodrama briefly revisits New York

★★★★☆ Playwright Zora Howard debuts Off-Broadway with a tasty kitchen sink-type drama

★★☆☆☆ Charles Busch stars as a self-sacrificing mama in his send-up of Pre-Code Hollywood flicks

★★★☆☆ Eboni Booth sets her insightful working class drama in a big box store in 1995

★★★☆☆ Kathryn Hunter plays the title figure in a relatively obscure play by Shakespeare (and Thomas Middleton)

★★★★☆ A smart new docudrama studies history re-enactors whose pastime can be obsessive

★★★☆☆ Japanese playwright Suguru Yamamoto collages dance, drama, text, and video in his study of urban existence

★★★★☆ Sharp circus skills and eccentric machinery deliver a beguiling time

★★★★☆ Aerialists and acrobats deliver Christmas cheer to Madison Square Garden