Theater

The punishing toll extracted by alcoholism is central to “The Long Red Road,” Brett C. Leonard’s intoxicating and unsettling drama making its world premiere at Goodman Theatre, where it is directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.

GLENCOE – “The Old Settler,” by the late John Henry Redwood, offers theater audiences an absorbing, if occasionally predictable, look at the lives of two middle-aged sisters living in a spacious Harlem apartment in 1943.

The principal character in “Blue Door,” Tanya Barfield’s sweeping drama that covers four generations of black history in a single night, has lost his way.