★★★★☆ Irish Rep artistic director Charlotte Moore pairs and helms two of the playwright’s early efforts
How I Learned to Drive: Costly Lessons in Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Winner
★★★★☆ In the play’s long overdue Broadway premiere, original stars Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse and director Mark Brokaw mine its wry humor and horror
Paradise Square: Allies and Rivals, in Song and Dance
★★★★☆ Choreographer Bill T. Jones and a vibrant cast led by Joaquina Kalukango make a Civil War musical fly
The Life: Seldom-Revived Cy Coleman Musical Gets a Shot in the Arm from Billy Porter
★★★★☆ The stage and screen star and his collaborators pump fresh blood into this ode to New York’s mean streets
This Space Between Us: Making Room For Change
★★★★☆ A fine ensemble cast serves Peter Gil-Sheridan’s study of a successful man trying, against all odds, to make a difference
The Daughter-in-Law: Early D.H. Lawrence Revived Again, in Mint Condition
★★★★☆ Martin Platt once again helms a bracing revival of the socially and emotionally charged play
Wolf Play: Surviving on Animal Instincts
★★★★★ In Hansol Jung’s heartbreaking play, an adopted boy assumes a lupine identity while trying to find a place to call home
MJ: The Man in the Mire
★★★☆☆ Lynn Nottage and Christopher Wheeldon tackle Michael Jackson’s troubling life and transcendent art
Prayer for the French Republic: Old Hatred and Enduring Hope
★★★★★ Joshua Harmon’s latest play movingly, fearlessly explores anti-Semitism, past and present
The Hang: Prepare Ye the Way of Socrates
★★★★☆ Taylor Mac’s latest work is a jazz-infused opera tracing the trial and death of philosophy’s founding father