★★☆☆☆ Science as a cogent subject for our time, handled with only mild success
Kinky Boots: The Lauper-Feinstein Tuner Kicks Up its Heels Off-Broadway
★★★★☆ The hit musical returns in full Broadway strength, under Jerry Mitchell’s guiding hand
Once Upon a (korean) Time: Marvelous Stories Told by Marvelous Tellers
★★★★☆ Bold new playwright Daniel K. Isaacs tells stories, with beauty
Two Jews, Talking: Exactly, Mildly What the Title Promises
★★★☆☆ Hal Linden and Bernie Kopell in a 60-minute-plus, two-part comedy
The Nosebleed: Cheerful Ritualistic Play About Grief, Of All Things
★★★★☆ Aya Ogawa writes, directs and performs in new play at LCT3’s rooftop theater
The Butcher Boy: Dark New Musical About Psychotic Young Man
★★★☆☆ Princeton senior Asher Muldoon adapts 1992 Patrick McCabe novel, Ciarán O’Reilly directs, Barry McNabb choreographs
Oresteia: The Aeschylus Classic Trilogy Modern -Dressed-Up for Today
★★★☆☆ Director Robert Icke has his semi-effective, semi-not adapted way with the Greeks, a strong cast helping things along
The Kite Runner: The Best-Selling Novel Soars Sky-High on Stage
★★★★☆ Matthew Spangler adapts the Khaled Hosseini work, with Giles Croft directing a taut 13-member cast
Seagull: Elevator Repair Service Takes Aim at Anton Chekhov’s Classic
★☆☆☆☆ John Collins directs a laboring 11-member cast in a revival (revisal?), to little avail
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: Western Stage Adaptation Hits Target
★★★★☆ An outstanding cast shines in this stage adaptation of the short story on which the John Wayne-Jimmy Stewart film was based