★★☆☆☆ A disappointingly preachy revue from HERE and LaMaMa overstates its case for “the people’s plant”
Chains: Worries and Wanderlust in Early 20th Century England
★★★★☆ Mint Theater Company mines the enduring relevance of Elizabeth Baker’s problem play
Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom: James Joyce’s Complicated Heroine Takes a Bow
★★★★☆ Actress Aedín Moloney and author Colum McCann’s adaptation of “Ulysses”‘s final chapter returns to the stage
Belfast Girls: The Pluck of the Irish
★★★☆☆ Jacki McCarrick revisits an underexplored chapter in Irish, and women’s, history
Exception to the Rule: Porch Kid Meets Street Kids
★★★☆☆ Dave Harris’s follow-up to ‘Tango & Bones’ is entertaining, sobering and ultimately frustrating
Two By Synge: Playing a Legend for Laughs
★★★★☆ Irish Rep artistic director Charlotte Moore pairs and helms two of the playwright’s early efforts
How I Learned to Drive: Costly Lessons in Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Winner
★★★★☆ In the play’s long overdue Broadway premiere, original stars Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse and director Mark Brokaw mine its wry humor and horror
Paradise Square: Allies and Rivals, in Song and Dance
★★★★☆ Choreographer Bill T. Jones and a vibrant cast led by Joaquina Kalukango make a Civil War musical fly
The Life: Seldom-Revived Cy Coleman Musical Gets a Shot in the Arm from Billy Porter
★★★★☆ The stage and screen star and his collaborators pump fresh blood into this ode to New York’s mean streets
This Space Between Us: Making Room For Change
★★★★☆ A fine ensemble cast serves Peter Gil-Sheridan’s study of a successful man trying, against all odds, to make a difference