★★★★☆ Celine Song’s powerful NYTW debut looks legacy, obligation, pride, and a dying ancient tradition
Girl From the North Country: Bob Dylan, American Poet
★★★★☆ Irish playwright Conor McPherson constructs a moving, mythical American story inside the singer-songwriter’s world
The Headlands: An Unsuspenseful Mystery, Amid Bay Area Hikes
★★★☆☆ Unpacking complicated family history, but with unengaging characters and performances
Anatomy of a Suicide: Three Generations, Weighing on Each Other
★★☆☆☆ An award-winning play about women, trauma, and legacy, collapsing in on itself
A Soldier’s Play: A Stodgy Whodunit, and a Thoughtful Meditation on Racism
★★★☆☆ This probing but flawed Pulitzer winner gets a gorgeous revival staged by Kenny Leon with David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood
The Thin Place: Crossing Over, Or At Least Trying To
★★★☆☆ Lucas Hnath’s latest weighs belief and skepticism, whimsy and seriousness
Greater Clements: Things Fall Apart, Over and Over Again
★★★★☆ Samuel D. Hunter crafts an excellent play, starring Judith Ivey and Edmund Donovan, from sad realities
Jagged Little Pill: Everything’s Gonna Be Fine, Fine, Fine
★★★★☆ The Alanis Morissette jukebox musical brings down the house, unironically
The Young Man From Atlanta: Horton Foote’s Pulitzer-Winner Fizzles in Revival
★★★☆☆ A solid, straightforward staging at the Signature delivers little emotion and no surprises
The Half-Life of Marie Curie: Girl Power, Irradiated
★★☆☆☆ Lauren Gunderson, “America’s favorite playwright,” comes to New York with a historical-feminist melodrama