★★★★☆ Marie Mullen is superb in Deirdre Kinahan’s two-hander, with Louise Lowe directing
Rock & Roll Man: Alan Freed Celebrated in Newie-But-Goodie Tuner
★★★★☆ R & R lovers-bookwriters Kupper, Marshak, Caiola recall Little Richard et al in a retrospect rouser
Foxes: Foxy Play on Being Heard or Not Is Worth Hearing Out
★★★★☆ Dexter Flanders takes on a deserving human problem, James Hillier directing a first-rate cast
The Whitney Album: Impassioned Icon Ritual Gets Immersive
★★★☆☆ Jillian Walker lectures on the meaning of life, with an emphasis on Black women through the ages
Wet Brain: Another Welcome Dysfunctional Family High
★★★★☆ John J. Caswell Jr. writes and Dustin Will directs an excellent ensemble on familial distress and reconciliation
Days of Wine and Roses: D’Arcy James and O’Hara Share a Stirring Drink
★★★★☆ Light in the Piazza’s Guettel and Lucas reteam for an operatic tragedy, directed by Michael Greif
The Comeuppance: Could Be the Audience Receives It
★★★☆☆ Branden Jacobs-Jenkins writes and Eric Ting directs a play about five high school reunioning discontents
Grey House: Goose-Bumpy Thrills, Chills Galore Plus Some Gore
★★★☆☆ Joe Mantello directs Levi Holloway’s probe into man’s inhumanity to human kind and maybe vice versa
Love Letters: A. R. Gurney’s Moving Portrait of Two Almost Lovers
★★★★☆ Matthew Broderick, Laura Benanti, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly, read well for two shortish acts
Being Mr Wickham: Jane Austen’s Famous Cad Proves Jolly Good Fun
★★★★☆ Adrian Lukis plays George Wickham, co-writes with Catherine Cursor, and is directed by Guy Unsworth