“Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski” recounts the findings of a heroic Polish diplomat during the Holocaust; “Marie It’s Time” riffs on Georg Büchner’s “Woyzeck.”
At the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the director, whose radically reimagined “Oklahoma!” was an emphatic Broadway hit, turns to Frank Loesser’s 1956 musical.
In both Will Arbery’s “Corsicana” and Brian Watkins’s “Epiphany,” the terror of love and the agonies of belief are illuminated by the sensitive lighting design of Isabella Byrd.
James Ijames’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Fat Ham,” at the Public, and Édouard Louis’s “Who Killed My Father,” at St. Ann’s Warehouse, both feature queer, questioning, father-haunted protagonists.
Danai Gurira plays Richard III at Shakespeare in the Park, “The Kite Runner” opens on Broadway, Elevator Repair Service adapts Chekhov for “Seagull,” and more.
In Lileana Blain-Cruz’s new production of Thornton Wilder’s 1942 play, civilizational conflict contrasts with speech used to counsel collaboration and togetherness.