★★★★★ Conor McPherson writes, directs a first-rate production about the Depression with large, strong ensemble
Who Killed My Father: A Gregarious Gay Son Faces His Macho Dad and the World
★★★☆☆ Edouard Louis adapts his tough memoir about a troubled boyhood, Thomas Ostermeier directing
Belfast Girls: Five Irish Orphans Brave the 1850 High Seas
★★★★☆ Taki McGarrick’s eye-opening historical play, directed by Nicola Murphy, with a quintet of superlative actors
A Walk on the Moon: An Inviting Musical About an Illicit Summer Romance
★★★★☆ Screenwriter Pamela Gray adapts her 1999 movie, with songs by Paul Scott Goodman and AnnMarie Milazzo
The Vagrant Trilogy: Vivid Lives of a Conflicted Palestinian Poetry Scholar
★★★★☆ Mona Mansour’s three-acter, directed by Mark Wing-Davey, with a vibrantly versatile six-member cast
Wedding Band: Alice Childress’ Play on Racist Themes Breathtakingly Revived
★★★★☆ Awoye Timpo directs a superb cast, featuring Brittany Bradford and Thomas Sadoski as a mixed-race couple
Wish You Were Here: Women Talk Freely as Friendships Threaten to Founder
★★★★☆ Sanaz Toossi writes perceptively, as Gaye Taylor Upchurch directs fa cast of five, Marjan Neshat among them
Macbeth: Loud Sound, Intermittent Fury, Signifying Nothing
★☆☆☆☆ Daniel Craig, Ruth Negga and director Sam Gold try Shakespeare
Mr. Saturday Night: Billy Crystal Musicalized Vehicle Runs Smoothly Enough
★★★☆☆ The comedian adapts his flick hit with co-writers Ganz and Mandel, Brown and Green songs added, and Rando direction
POTUS: Foul-Mouthed Women on Comedy Rampage
★★★☆☆ Selina Fillinger writes a laugh-getter, Susan Stroman directs, Julie White, Lea DeLaria, Rachel Dratch et al amuse