★★★★☆ John Strand pits conservatism against liberalism in a play as timely as they come
The Damned: Ivo van Hove Goes About Theatricalizing Visconti
★★★☆☆ The challenging story of a steel manufacturing family in 1933 Germany struggling to survive
Fire in Dreamland: Rinne Groff’s New Drama Has Trouble Igniting
★★★☆☆ A woman hoping to make something of her life latches on to an ambivalent moviemaker
The Saintliness of Margery Kempe: Saint or Sinner? Not Worth Deciding
★☆☆☆☆ John Wulp stage-adapts a medieval mystic’s life at great length to small avail
From London: Imperium I: Conspirator, II: Dictator
★★★★☆ Mike Poulton adapts Robert Harris’ Cicero novels for Gregory Doran’s surging two parts
From London: Translations, An Ideal Husband, Consent
Gains and loses from Brian Friel, Oscar Wilde and Nina Raine on three crackling stages
From London: Strictly Ballroom, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Julie
Baz Luhrman’s dance flick, Muriel Spark’s novel take the stage, Strindberg’s Miss Julie doesn’t take
Sugar in Our Wounds: Salt Effectively Poured in Civil War Wounds
★★★★☆ Donja R. Love looks unflinchingly at lynchings and their aftermaths in the deep South
Othello: Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Version Done Wisely and Well
★★★★☆ Chukwudi Iwuji, Corey Stoll, Heather Lind, Alison Wright gorgeous in the Bard’s jealousy screed
Half Time: Music, Mirror, and a Chance to Dance So-So Senior Hip-Hop
★★★☆☆ Jerry Mitchell directs-choreographs Donna McKechnie, Georgia Engel, André De Shields in a not-great Chorus Line take on aging dancers