★★★☆☆ Edie Falco, Blair Brown, and Marin Ireland star in Simon Stephens’ time-shifting drama about three generations of women.
Fairycakes: You’ll Be Desperate to Get Out of These Woods
★★☆☆☆ Douglas Carter Beane’s comedy, featuring a formidable cast, mashes up Shakespeare and fairy tales and does neither any favors.
American Utopia: The Joyous Theatrical Concert We Still Need
★★★★★ The former frontman of the Talking Heads returns with his Tony Award-winning show of music and dance.
The Lehman Trilogy: Sam Mendes’ landmark production makes a triumphant Broadway debut.
★★★★★ Adam Godley, Simon Russell Beale and Adrian Lester deliver stupendous performances in this brilliantly staged, decades-spanning theatrical saga.
Thoughts of a Colored Man: The Debut of an Important New Dramatic Voice
★★★★☆ Keenan Scott II’s poetic drama resonates with urgency and heart.
Chicken & Biscuits: Funeral Plus Family Dysfunction Adds Up to Familiar
★★☆☆☆ Theatrical comfort food delivering a few laughs but empty calories.
LACKAWANNA BLUES: RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON’S ACCLAIMED SOLO PLAY MAKES ITS BROADWAY DEBUT
★★★★☆ Previously adapted into an HBO film, the play returns to the form that suits it best, with its original writer/star.
Pass Over: A Play That Speaks to Our Times
★★★★☆ Beckett meets Black Lives Matter in Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s racially charged absurdist drama.
Enemy of the People: Ann Dowd in Reimagined, Interactive Ibsen
★★★☆☆ Ann Dowd plays the gender-altered lead role in Robert Icke’s interactive reimagining of Ibsen’s classic
SEVEN DEADLY SINS: LIVE THEATER BEHIND GLASS
★★★☆☆ Moisés Kaufman directs seven vice-inspired one-acts, cleverly staged on the streets of the Meatpacking District