★★★☆☆ Hansol Jung sets her social-media excoriation—with fairy-tale overtones—in South Korea without any Kim Jong-un threat
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: Bertolt Brecht’s Anti-Tyrant Allegory Doesn’t Rise High Enough
★★☆☆☆ Raul Esparza comes back to the New York Stage as the title figure in John Doyle’s Neo-Brechtian(?) production.
Eve’s Song: Patricia Ione Lloyd’s Tough Look at Racism Today
★★★★☆ A middle-class black family and interloping spirits hold out little hope for today’s race relations
I’m Not a Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce: The Soap-Mouth Comic Returns
★★★★☆ Ronnie Marmo writes and acts, Joe Mantegna directs a strong, sensitive tribute
Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett’s Masterpiece Masterfully Handled
★★★★★ Druid’s Garry Hynes directs Marty Rea and Aaron Monaghan in a brilliantly physical version
Torch Song: Harvey Fierstein’s View of Gay Life Not Always Gay
★★★★☆ Urie, Ruehl repeat their masterful performances in the strong Second Stage revival
Love, Linda: Stevie Holland Explains Why Mrs. Cole Porter Is So in Love
★★★★☆ Twenty of the great love song purveyor’s greatest hits recalled in a musical autobiography
Renascence: Edna St. Vincent Millay’s First Great Poem, Greatly Staged
★★★★☆ Carmel Dean, Jack Cumming III, Dick Scanlan, Scott celebrate the making of the poet’s prize-winning poem
India Pale Ale: Immigrant Punjabi Drama Makes for Pale Ale
★★★☆☆ Jaclyn Backhaus fights back at current domestic policies to mixed but hopeful results
Happy Birthday, Wanda June: Kurt Vonnegut’s First Play Not Happy-Making
★★☆☆☆ The revival takes advantage of the Donald J. Trump environment but not well