★★☆☆☆ Peter Dinklage plays the iconic swordsman in director Erica Schmidt’s adaptation
One Discordant Violin: The Lasting Effect of Potent New Music
★★★★☆ Actor-adapter Anthony Black brings a right-smart Yann Martel short story to the stage
A Woman of the World: Emily Dickinson Well Remembered, Almost
★★★★☆ Kathleen Chalfant radiant as poet Dickinson’s friend(?) Mabel Loomis Todd
Panama Hattie: Klea Blackhurst Swell as Cole Porter’s 1940 Heroine
★★★☆☆ The plot is nothing to rave to friends about, but the songs have the rich Yalie’s gossamer sound
Macbeth: Do Too Many Witches Spoil the Theatrical Brew?
★★★☆☆ John Doyle directs Corey Stoll’s title warrior as too full of the milk of human kindness
Scotland, PA: Shakespeare’s Scottish Play as an Updated So-So Tuner
★★☆☆☆ The McBeths, as they’re now called, in a Lonny Price-directed Macbeth musical with an Adam Gwon score
Molly Sweeney: Brian Friel’s Drama About Sight Has Vision
★★★★★ Jonathan Silverstein directs the deceptively quiet three-hander with surgical care
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide: Much More Than Enuf
★★★★★ Ntosake Shange’s 1976 success revived with highest standards benevolently applied
Power Strip: Sylvia Khoury’s Mostly Cogent Look at Syrian Refugees
★★★☆☆ Dina Shihabi give a strong performance as a woman forced from Damascus, attempting to survive by any means
The Sound Inside: Adam Rapp’s Potent Nod to Great Literature
★★★★☆ Mary-Louise Parker is strong as a creative-writing teacher with a talented, troubled student