David Finkle

Yaël Farber’s Mies Julie ★★★★ smartly transforms Strindberg, while The Dance of Death revival ★★ merely smarts

★★★★☆ Carmen Cusack goes for broke and nicely gets there in the satirical Ethel Merman showcase

★★★★★ Every word of Fitzgerald’s masterwork faithfully read and acted with loving urgency

★★★☆☆ A musical spoof that amuses for a while before becoming a typical rock-band demise tale

★★☆☆☆ Playwright John Neary presents a Northeastern family in as much distress as the proceedings are

★★★★☆ How a surgeon in the South uses slave women to solve complicated labor developments

★★★★☆ Eve Wolf’s newest look at a supernal artist, with six musicians added to lend their proficient all

★★★★ A Nigerian all-female troupe proclaim their independence
★★ The Manual Cinema group takes on Shelley

★★★☆☆ Director/choreographer Chase Brock and scenarist/composer Eric Dietz ponder robots robotically

★★★★★ The top-drawer cabaret entertainer stretches the Christmas/Chanukah song boundaries