★★★★☆ The beloved 1982 musical returns to its off-Broadway roots. Just don’t feed the plants!
The Rose Tattoo: Love Ain’t Sweeter the Second Time Around
★★☆☆☆ The new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ ode to amore is a bottle of Asti Spumante that’s lost its fizz
Linda Vista: A View From the Bottom
★★★☆☆ Tracy Letts pens a startlingly accurate, if tough to swallow, portrait of “middle-aged desperation”
Slave Play: Provocative, Poetic, and Disquieting
★★★★☆ Jeremy O. Harris’ phenomenally daring, disruptive drama is the polar opposite of theatrical comfort food
Freestyle Love Supreme: Hip-Hop Don’t Stop
★★★★☆ Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Anthony Veneziale’s improv phenomenon conquers Broadway
Dublin Carol: Whiskey on the Rocks
★★★☆☆ Irish Rep stages a too-grim revival of one of Conor McPherson’s grimmest plays
The Height of the Storm: Cloudy Skies Ahead
★★★☆☆ Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins are entrancing as husband and wife in Florian Zeller’s going-gently-into-that-good-night drama
Fern Hill: Trouble Down on the Farm
★★☆☆☆ Come for actors John Glover and Mark Linn-Baker; leave with playwright Michael Tucker’s recipe for spaghetti with clam sauce
Betrayal: Less Is More in This London-Born Revival
★★★★★ Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton, and Charlie Cox make a beguiling love triangle in Harold Pinter’s backward-spinning drama
Hercules: A Heroic New Musical, and That’s the Gospel Truth!
★★★★☆ A 200-person cast goes the distance with the Public Works adaptation of the beloved Disney movie