★★★★☆ Playwright Steven Carl McCasland confronts Lillian Hellman with Gertrude Stein and other gossips
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: August Wilson Hits the Screen Singing
★★★★★ Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman star, George C. Wolfe directs from Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s adaptation
Meet Me in St. Louis: The Classic Film Crammed Into the Small Screen
★★★☆☆ The Irish Repertory Theatre’s Charlotte Moore directs, with Shereen Ahmed as The Girl Next Door
Wild Mountain Thyme: John Patrick Shanley’s Entrancing Play Transfer
★★★★☆ The prolific playwright directs Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan in this film adaptation of his 2014 play “Outside Mullingar”
The Seven Deadly Sins: The Weill-Brecht 40-Minute Opera in Top Form
★★★★★ Director-choreographer Gary Clarke leads strong cast through each sin with hectic ease
A Touch of the Poet: Cuccioli Stuns in Strong O’Neill Revival
★★★★☆ Ciarán O’Reilly directs able cast in a work from the playwright’s intended 11-play cycle
The School for Wives: An All-Women Cast Goes #MeToo on Molière
★★★★☆ Tonya Pinkins has a high time under Lucie Tiberghien’s direction
Death of a Salesman: Brian Dennehy is the Unforgettable Forgotten Man
★★★★★ Robert Falls directs Dennehy, Elizabeth Franz, and other stalwarts in Arthur Miller’s magnificent work
Show Boat: Francesca Zambello’s Revival Goes Upstream and Down
★★★☆☆ The seminal Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical as inevitable as ol’ man river
Jack Was Kind: A Confused Wife on Her Husband’s Public Indiscretion
★★★☆☆ Tracy Thorne writes and performs a potent monologue with one serious drawback