What follows are 10 shows, listed alphabetically, that left me breathless — and deeply grateful for the refuge that theater can provide. Immaculately staged by Kate Valk, and featuring the remarkable Eric Berryman as a sort of transcendental disc jockey, this was conceptual theater at its purest and most precise. ‘BURNING DOORS’ Subversion that matters, delivered with artfully channeled rage by the Belarus Free Theater, based (and banned) in Minsk. Photo‘COST OF LIVING’ Two disabled characters and two caretakers make up the cast of Martyna Majok’s gripping play, directed by Jo Bonney for Manhattan Theater Club. The title character, played with perfect composure by Carrie Coon in the New York Theater Workshop production, is so uncomplaining and willfully blasé that her refusal to surrender to distress seems almost pathological.

Source: New York Times December 05, 2017 16:47 UTC