Coffee & Biscuit

Ibsen meets puppetry in writer-director Teresa Ann Virginia Bayer's take on A Doll’s House, a standout in the 2014 Fringe Festival. A talented cast (led by Zoe Farmingdale as Nora) imports the story to 1950s America for an exploration of postwar feminism; the use of puppets makes for a clever, thought-provoking critique of gender politics.—Shani R. Friedman