★★☆☆☆ Playwright Philip Dawkins roams freely through the famous playwrights’ related lives
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire: Caryl Churchill’s History Lecture
★★★☆☆ Rachel Chavkin directs a talk-heavy look back at Oliver Cromwell’s civil war
Summer and Smoke: Ireland, Darrow Set Fire to Williams’ Hot Drama
★★★★★ Jack Cummings III stunningly directs the play that established the very idea of off-Broadway
Unexpected Joy: Mothers, Daughters Vie, Singing Joyful Tunes
★★★★☆ Bill Russell writes the book and lyrics, Janet Hood the music for a maybe likely story of tolerance
Travesties: Tom Stoppard’s Brilliant Comedy Brilliantly Revived
★★★★★ Tom Hollander heads a just about perfect cast, directed just about perfectly by Patrick Marber
The Metromaniacs: David Ives Tickles a Rhyming French Mini-Classic
★★★☆☆ Alexis Prion is the now-all-but-forgotten comic writer whose spoof is reworked
My Fair Lady: Shaw Goes Ibsen in Sher’s Appealing Revival
★★★★☆ Bartlett Sher directs Lauren Ambrose, Harry Hadden-Paton and an impeccable cast
The Seafarer: Conor McPherson’s Tense Drinking, Soul-Searching Tale
★★★★☆ Matthew Broderick heads an expert ensemble is this realistic-surrealistic drama
Children of a Lesser God: Mark Medoff Prize Winner Back Forthrightly
★★★☆☆ Joshua Jackson as speech teacher to the deaf and Sarah Ridloff as unwilling student
The Sting: The Irresistible 1973 Oscar Flick as Irresistible Tuner
★★★★★ Harry Connick Jr. leads a cast directed by John Rando and choreographed by Warren Carlyle.