By Samuel L. Leiter February 23, 2026: Mother Russia, Lauren Yee's satiric fantasia in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse, arrives at Signature Theatre with an ambition that is at once admirable and, in execution, deeply frustrating. American playwrights have occasionally found fertile ground in the chaotic moment when communism gave way"almost overnight"to an ill-fitting capitalism in 1991, a transition s…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PM on February 23, 2026