★★★★★ Bob Dylan songs enhance grand Conor McPherson musical
The Perplexed: Richard Greenberg Play Perplexes
★★★☆☆ Lynne Meadows directs 10 committed actors with little payoff
Coal Country: 2010 Mining Disaster Stunningly Mined
★★★★☆ Theater documentarians Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen are in top form
Bundle of Sticks: Women as Unhappy Gay Men!!
★★★☆☆ J. Julian Christopher’s play about dreaded conversion therapy
From London: Kushner Visits Dürrenmatt’s The Visit
★★★☆☆ Lesley Manville is the vengeful Claire Zachanassian in director Jeremy Herrin’s production at the National
From London: Death of England, A Number, and Endgame
Intellectual exercises with Rafe Spall, Roger Allam, Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe in worthy productions
From London: Stoppard Potently Examines His Elusive Background in Leopoldstadt
★★★★★ For his supposedly last work, the revered playwright looks at vanished Viennese Jews
Blues for an Alabama Sky: 1930s Harlem Dreaming
★★★★☆ Pearl Cleage looks at five figures running for their natural lives
Dracula/Frankenstein: Stoker, Shelley Classics on Lowered Stakes
★★☆☆☆ Adaptations by Kate Hamill and Tristan Bernays are playing in rep, directed by Sarna Lapine and Timothy Douglas
Chekhov/Tolstoy Love Stories: Russian Masters Sparsely Served
★★☆☆☆ Chekhov’s “An Artist’s Story” and Tolstoy’s “Michael,” adapted by Miles Malleson