★★★★☆ Kathryn Erbe is radiant as a middle-aged matron seeking a fresh start after crushing trauma
Happy Talk: Matchmaking and Mystery in the Suburbs
★★★★☆ Jesse Eisenberg’s new play, starring Susan Sarandon and Marin Ireland, puts funny, vexing twists on suburban cliches
The Pink Unicorn: A Modern Mother’s Quandary, Deep in the Heart of Texas
★★★☆☆ A one-woman play casts Alice Ripley as the mother of a gender-neutral teen
Curse of the Starving Class: How the West Was Lost
★★★★☆ Terry Kinney’s witty, wrenching new production reveals the Sam Shepard classic as a play for our times
Morrissey: This Charming Man, A Broadway Baby
★★★☆☆ British rock veteran Morrissey is the latest pop star to invade Broadway, with a residency at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Ink: Springtime for Murdoch
★★★★☆ James Graham’s new play traces the rise of the British tabloid that helped launch a global media empire
Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus: Bloody Brilliant
★★★★★ The profane and the sublime meet—with Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen and Julie White—in Taylor Mac’s brilliant Broadway debut
Hadestown: Anaïs Mitchell’s Myths and Hymns, from Way Downtown
★★★★☆ Internationally acclaimed folk opera arrives on Broadway, under Rachel Chavkin’s direction
Socrates: The Power and Danger of Critical Thinking, in Another Fragile Democracy
★★★★☆ Michael Stuhlbarg makes a triumphant return to the Public Theater in Tim Blake Nelson’s bracing, probing new play
Oklahoma!: Back on the Farm, but Without the Bright Golden Haze
★★★☆☆ Daniel Fish’s acclaimed new take on the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic offers plenty of ambition but not enough joy