Elysa Gardner

★★★☆☆ Joshua Harmon and Idina Menzel look at the search for eternal youth and the bad behavior it can encourage

★★★☆☆ Antoinette Nwandu’s account of doomed black men is powerful and vexing, on different levels.

★★★☆☆ David Byrne draws on an acclaimed book to ponder our animal nature and other big ideas in a theatrical context

★★★☆☆ A radiant Lois Smith leads a supple cast in a not-always-fresh look at family dysfunction and mortality.

★★★★★ Director Phylicia Rashad mines the spiritual curiosity under Stephen Adly Guirgis’s exquisitely crushing dialogue in a stirring revival.

★★★☆☆ The second play in a trilogy by Dominique Morisseau looks at jazz and change in a gentrifying city.

★★★☆☆ Maria Aitken’s new staging of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy lacks consistency but offers lovely touches, and all ends well.

★★★★☆ Christian Borle leads an excellent cast in a buoyant concert staging of the British trifle-turned-Broadway hit.

★★★☆☆ Alan Ayckbourn’s latest play follows a man’s life and times through his relationships with women