The Modern R. & B. of Olivia Dean and Baby Rose

“I indispensable admit, a changeable astatine 30 wasn’t successful my five-year plan . . . oregon my ten-year program oregon fifty-year plan,” the eponymous prima of “Cat Cohen: Broad Strokes” deadpans successful her caller one-woman philharmonic comedy, directed by Alex Timbers. The stroke, caused by a spread successful her heart, is conscionable 1 introduction successful the sprawling hypochondriacal catalogue raisonné that powers the show. Dressed, similar a Renaissance duchess, successful a sparkly lavender corset with puffy taffeta sleeves, the “young for my grade” raconteuse pinballs from taxable to topic: her archetypal migraine with a ocular aura astatine twelve, the “stroke of unluck” that upended a summertime travel to Europe, a parade of clinicians. Cohen’s songs, co-written by David Dabbon, often play similar impressions of impressions, but her carnal drama shines.—Rhoda Feng (Lucille Lortel; done Sept. 25.)

Dance

In its forty-fifth iteration, the Battery Dance Festival holds connected to its signature virtues: determination (outdoors, with a backdrop of New York Harbor astatine sunset) and assortment (a drawback container of section and planetary companies). It’s similar a vicinity recital, with guests from astir the satellite and the Statue of Liberty presiding. The varied programs, each free, see U.S. premières of enactment from Brazil, Romania, Spain, and Taiwan, and, per tradition, 1 evening is devoted to Indian dance. The big company, Battery Dance, turning 50 this year, presents caller pieces by Sidra Bell and the erstwhile New York City Ballet prima Jock Soto.—Brian Seibert (Robert F. Wagner, Jr., Park; Aug. 10-16.)

Off Broadway

Benedict Lombe’s two-hander romanticist play “Shifters” begins—if a amusement this gleefully indifferent to chronology tin beryllium said to statesman anywhere—at the aftermath for the beloved grandma of Dre (Daniel Ezra), wherever helium is blindsided by the accomplishment of Des (Heather Agyepong), a adjacent person who vanished from his beingness years earlier. Lombe past shuffles the chronology similar a platform of tarot cards: astatine sixteen, the brace timepiece each different arsenic the lone Black students successful their doctrine class; immoderate clip later, Des frantically searches for a missing coating she’d made; successful their thirties, aft the wake, they sift done Nana’s belongings portion circling the beingness they failed to physique together. Not each philosophical detour lands, but Agyepong and Ezra negociate the play’s hairpin turns with the effortless accord of a brace of fig skaters.—R.F. (Cherry Lane; done Sept. 13.)