PTP/NYC

The politically minded PTP/NYC proffers a rep season that includes a lovely—but extraordinarily short—evening of two Howard Barker poems (Gary the Thief and Alex Draper's superb rendition of Plevna: Meditations on Hatred), as well as David Rabe's A Question of Mercy and Snoo Wilson's Lovesong of the Electric Bear, a wildly overstuffed bioplay about mathematician Alan Turing. Draper (again) is the best thing about Bear, in which he plays Turing as befuddled but charismatic, delighted by the complexities his calculations can uncover.—Helen Shaw