★★★★★ Danielle Brooks as Beatrice and Grantham Coleman as Benedick lead the superb revival
Little Women: Playwright/Actor Kate Hamill Has Her Way with Alcott
★★☆☆☆ The classic American novel updated according to current gender-shifting attitudes
Nomad Motel: Carla Ching’s Play Pits Parents vs. Children, Sorta
★★★☆☆ Playwright Ching is close to getting her California-based drama on the right contemporary path
Chita Rivera: The Cabaret Act of This Year and Other Years? You Bet
★★★★★ She’s 86 but hardly 86ed in a jubilant celebration of an on-stage life
From London: Miller Vibrant, Strindberg Strong, Sweet Charity Less Sweet
More reactions to a diverse, generally rewarding current London season–and like-able Sally Field
Octet: Dave Malloy’s Musical 12-Step Program is Tarot-iffic
★★★★☆ Eight singer-actors, under Annie Tippe’s flawless direction, sing out 12-Step woes
Mac Beth: Light Not Only Thickens But Goes Out on Will’s Classic
★★☆☆☆ Director Erica Schmidt wrongly thinks that a girls-school spin is how to treat the Bard
From London: Betrayal, Three Sisters, Top Girls Tops to Middling
Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill receive smart revivals, Anton Chekhov not so much
From London: Henrik Ibsen, Andrea Levy, Rod Serling Honored Variously
Rosmersholm strongly revived, while Andrea Levy’s thick novel, Serling’s series adapted well enough
From London: Maggie Smith Astonishes in A German Life
★★★★★ The 2016 documentary, indelibly directed on the stage by Jonathan Kent