★★★☆☆ 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
The Rebecca Luker Songbook: A Benefit Concert, with Moving High Notes
The Broadway star’s favorite poems set to music by many composers, sung by 12 sopranos, make an enchanting memorial
Bernarda’s Daughters: Five Haitian-Brooklyn Sisters Soar Poetically
★★★★☆ Diane Exavier’s top-drawer drama, with Dominique Rider directing a skillful cast
shadow/land: Two Women, Hurricane Katrina Partly Water-Logged
★★★☆☆ Ericka Dickerson-Despenza’s cullud wattah follow-up, well directed by Candis C. Jones