**½ / ***** (two and a half stars out of five) Lennox Mutual—a new experimental and immersive theater piece from “alternate reality theater” company Candle House Collective—invites its audience to inhabit its singular world, one member at a time. Experienced entirely via the medium of one-on-one customer service telephone calls,...

****/***** (four out of five stars) There is no place quite like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and no people who know it quite as intimately as the hundreds of security guards who pace its marble and wood floors—and who can tell you which material is easier on the feet...

***/***** (three out of five stars)  In Eric Bogosian’s dark play Humpty-Dumpty, now in its NYC premiere at the Chain Theatre, four city slickers attempt to get away from it all in a remote cabin in the woods, which works a little too well when a power outage knocks out...

3.5/5 stars “You’re a bulldozer who doesn’t know he’s a ballerina,” a character in Lisa Sanaye Dring’s SUMO, now playing at the Public Theater, tells an ambitious, up-and-coming rikishi (sumo wrestler). The phrase neatly encapsulates the play’s main concern: the eternally relevant question of what it means to be a man. “Women are...