★★★★★ Samuel D. Hunter surveys the America we still don’t know well enough in his beautiful, haunting two-part play
Mother of the Maid: A Soldier and Her Other Heart
★★★★★ Glenn Close brings Joan of Arc’s mother to radiant life in a luminous account of women’s strength, and love
Popcorn Falls: Small-Town Drama, Played For Laughs
★★★☆☆ Christian Borle directs two other facile funny men in a play by James Hindman.
On Beckett: Clowning in the Dark
★★★★☆ Bill Irwin offers an exuberant homage to a master of bleakness
Girl From the North Country: Souls Tangled Up In Blue, Bleak and Radiant
★★★★★ Depression-era Minnesotans find no shelter from their storms in Conor McPherson’s adaptation of Bob Dylan’s songs
A Lovely Sunday For Creve Coeur: Women Of A Certain Time, Alone Together
★★★☆☆ La Femme Theatre Productions offers a fittingly languid revival of a later, lesser-known Tennessee Williams play
The True: Behind Every Man, Resilience and Pain
★★★★☆ Edie Falco plays a political survivor, decades before #MeToo, in Sharr White’s moving play.
Aladdin: Four Years On, A Fairy Tale For A Whole New World
★★★★☆ Long-Run Lookback: One of Disney’s most enduring screen-to-stage confections remains among its most adult-friendly—and seems freshly relevant.
Collective Rage: A Play In 5 Betties (Some More Memorable Than Others)
★★★☆☆ Four winning performances and a stunning one add up to an absorbing production of Jen Silverman’s entertaining but frustrating play.
Twelfth Night: The Food of Love, in All Its Flavors
★★★★☆ A musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy champions diversity with a light hand, a full heart, and an effervescent score.