For his 2018 Best New American Play Obie winner, Rajiv Joseph connected the stories of seven lives over 90 years for an intriguing historical thriller. Blending truth and fiction, it starts in 1920s Poland with a war correspondent befriending a Russian Red Cavalry member and leads up to a plane crash in 2010. What happens in between? A timely, powerful story with “frank discussions of totalitarianism, paranoia, and violence in Soviet/Post-Soviet Russia,” presented by an all-star cast and crew directed by Ben Wolfe. – Kat McNevins
