★★★★ Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal offer two monologues of love and death, immaculately performed if not quite honest
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Sea Wall / A Life: Meditations on Life and Death
★★★ 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
★★★★ Joanna Murray-Smith imagines how the thriller author might handle a non-Tom Ripley young man
Bonnie’s Last Flight: A Misguided Journey to Nowhere
★ 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
★★ Herman’s Hermit’s lead singer Peter Noone’s story, via Rick Elice, with nostalgic rock ditties
Freestyle Love Supreme: Where Hip Hop, Improv, and Comedy Meet
★★★★ 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
★★★★ A hip-hop improv group co-founded by Lin-Manuel Miranda makes an exuberant return
The Shadow of a Gunman: Sean O’Casey’s Seriocomic Saga of Dublin at War
★★★★ The Irish Rep launches its three-show cycle of the playwright’s works with a winning revival
Critics’ Picks
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
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
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
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