Americas Off Broadway Festival

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59E59 creates a spin-off from its popular annual Brits Off Broadway festival, this one devoted to theater from our side of the pond. •FUBAR or Interesting, Incredible, Amazing, Fantastic Larissa Kokernot directs the local premiere of a play by Karl Gajdusek, in which four characters struggle for self-definition in indefinite times. Through Sun 28. u•#9 At their best, the Waterwell writer-performers have combined intellectual and stylistic reach with a personal, playful touch. But although their latest endeavor, a wide-ranging musical look at self-construction in the Information Age, has its moments—many of them courtesy of the divine Hanna Cheek—the company often seems to be treading water. Through Sun 28.—AF P•Pure Confidence The extraordinary Gavin Lawrence plays an antebellum slave who is also a superb jockey and horse trainer in Carlyle Brown’s historical drama, directed by Marion McClinton. Behind some imperfections—including slick plotting and heavy symbolism—lies a moving and complex piece about the relationship between slaves and masters.Through Fri 3.—Raven Snook