Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

Robin Williams is the titular jungle cat in Rajiv Joseph's surreal morality tale set during the early days of the Iraq War. The aforementioned feline is shot by a jittery American soldier, then prowls the bombed-out streets of Baghdad trying to find meaning in God's creation. Grandly staged by Moisés Kaufman, this brutal yet humane drama cunningly mixes action-movie shocks, metaphysical outrage and gallows humor.—David Cote