★★★★☆ Simon Stone’s Korean-language production updates the time and place, but keeps the heart and soul of the 1904 play
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The Ford/Hill Project: Provocative, Totally True, and Way Too Timely
★★★★☆ Two men and two women re-create, verbatim, two memorable and distressingly similar Senate judiciary committee hearings 27 years apart
Disruption: A Play That’s Less Disruptive Than It Thinks
★★★☆☆ Andrew Stein’s tech-propelled drama comes at a most opportune moment
Les Misérables The Arena Concert Spectacular: Still Breaking Hearts and Triggering Tears
★★★★☆ The Cameron Mackintosh–produced show arrives at Radio City with 41 actors, 26 musicians, and a built-in fan base
The Saviors: You Gotta Have Faith
★★★★☆ Up-and-coming playwright Bubba Weiler revisits his Midwestern Catholic parish in a thoughtful new drama
The Whoopi Monologues: Goldberg’s Characters Still Charm and Disarm
★★★★☆ Whoopi Goldberg’s speeches get the multi-actor treatment in Whitney White’s sharp production
Birthright: Six Characters in Search of a Common Ground
★★★★☆ Politics underscore but don’t overpower the character-driven epic from Jonathan Spector
The Loved Ones: Four Women Loosely Linked by Heartache and Happenstance
★★★★☆ Nicola Murphy Dubey directs a cast of four, led by the irreproachable Maryann Plunkett, in Erica Murray’s countryside drama
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone: In Search of the Shiny Man
★★★☆☆ Debbie Allen directs a decidedly earthbound revival of August Wilson’s most mystical play
The Balusters: Love Thy Rule-Following, Historically Appropriate Neighbor
★★★★☆ Kenny Leon directs David Lindsay-Abaire’s new comedy about a neighborhood association gone wrong