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Freestyle Love Supreme: Hip-Hop Improv, With a Blockbuster Connection

Lin-Manuel Miranda's pre-Hamilton performance group reunites, with the billion-dollar founding father sometimes in the cast

Melissa Rose Bernardo
★★★★
Elysa Gardner
★★★★

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Sea Wall / A Life: Personal Storytelling, Carefully and Impersonally Constructed

By Jesse Oxfeld
February 14, 2019

★★★★ Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal offer two monologues of love and death, immaculately performed if not quite honest

Jake Gyllenhaal in A Life

Sea Wall / A Life: Meditations on Life and Death

By Melissa Rose Bernardo
February 14, 2019

★★★ Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal star in a pair of somber, sometimes rewarding monologues by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne

Switzerland: Patricia Highsmith in Person Niftily Fictionalized

By David Finkle
February 14, 2019

★★★★ Joanna Murray-Smith imagines how the thriller author might handle a non-Tom Ripley young man

Barbara Walsh (center) leads the company of Bonnie's Last Flight. Photo: Shun Takino

Bonnie’s Last Flight: A Misguided Journey to Nowhere

By Michael Sommers
February 13, 2019

★ A cool concept for a comedy about a plane trip proves to be a tedious time

My Very Own British Invasion: A Warped Brit-Based Jukebox Tuner

By David Finkle
February 13, 2019

★★ Herman’s Hermit’s lead singer Peter Noone’s story, via Rick Elice, with nostalgic rock ditties

Freestyle Love Supreme

Freestyle Love Supreme: Where Hip Hop, Improv, and Comedy Meet

By Melissa Rose Bernardo
February 12, 2019

★★★★ The hip hop improv troupe cofounded by Lin-Manuel Miranda reunites for an off-Broadway run (with a few special guests)

Freestyle Love Supreme: Going with the Flow

By Elysa Gardner
February 12, 2019

★★★★ A hip-hop improv group co-founded by Lin-Manuel Miranda makes an exuberant return

Una Clancy, Robert Langdon Lloyd, Ed Malone, James Russell, and Meg Hennessy in The Shadow of a Gunman. Photo: Carol Rosegg

The Shadow of a Gunman: Sean O’Casey’s Seriocomic Saga of Dublin at War

By Michael Sommers
February 12, 2019

★★★★ The Irish Rep launches its three-show cycle of the playwright’s works with a winning revival

Critics’ Picks

Mandi Madsen and McKinley Belcher III in The Light. Photo: Joan Marcus

The Light: Black #MeToo Arguments Blaze Away In a Timely New Drama

★★★★ Playwright Loy A. Webb, director Logan Vaughn, and two fine actors deliver a hot he said/she said story

Laura Benanti, center, with Allan Corduner (left) and Christian Dante White (right) in My Fair Lady. Photo: Joan Marcus.

My Fair Lady: A Loverly, and Fierce, New Eliza

★★★★★ Laura Benanti and other new recruits bring fresh joy and fire to Bartlett Sher’s ravishing revival

Paul Dano, left and below, and Ethan Hawke in Roundabout Theatre Company's new production of True West. Photo: Joan Marcus.

True West: Shepard’s Raging Brothers Return

★★★★ Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano make their own mark in the first Broadway revival of this modern classic

Choir Boy: Tarell Alvin McCraney Reaches Broadway, Finally

★★★★★ McCraney’s prep school play is rousing and intensely spiritual entertainment

To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee’s Classic Makes Magnificent Theater

★★★★★ Atticus, Scout, Jem and the rest exquisitely reimagined by Aaron Sorkin and Bartlett Sher

michael feingold

The Feingold Column: How Can Theater Confront Its Past?

Recent revivals of problematic classics such as Carousel and My Fair Lady recognize a problem but don’t solve it

The Ferryman: A Modern Masterwork from Jez Butterworth

★★★★★ This sprawling family story set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles is a contemporary classic

Oklahoma!: The Great Musical in 2018 Whipping-Down-the-Plain Take

★★★★ Daniel Fish and fine 12-member cast, 7-musician band revitalize the Rodgers-Hammerstein classic

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