★★★☆☆ Young Jean Lee makes her Broadway debut with a Christmas-set family drama starring Josh Charles and Armie Hammer as backslapping bros
Mary Page Marlowe: Six Actresses, One Amazing Woman
★★★★★ Tracy Letts returns to the Midwest with a subdued but stunning play about someone “unexceptional”
Gone Missing: Requiem for a Composer
★★★★☆ The late Michael Friedman receives a fitting tribute at Encores! Off-Center with The Civilians’ melancholy Gone Missing.
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: A Fine Romance
★★★☆☆ Melissa Errico and Stephen Bogardus star in Irish Rep’s stripped-down, chamber-style revival of the 1960s musical.
Songs for a New World: Reach for the ‘Stars’
★★★☆☆ Jason Robert Brown fans rejoice! The Tony-winning composer’s first work is getting the Encores! treatment.
Girls & Boys: You Just Can’t Look Away
★★★★☆ Oscar and Tony nominee Carey Mulligan captivates in a gritty one-woman drama from Matilda scribe Dennis Kelly.
Cyprus Avenue: Where Pride & Prejudice Meet
★★☆☆☆ Did you hear the one about the baby who looked like Gerry Adams? Cyprus Avenue is a black comedy in search of a weighty punch line.
Pass Over: A Bruised, Broken Tale of Black Life
★★★★☆ Antoinette Nwandu’s modern-day mash-up of Godot and Exodus pulls no punches when it comes to police violence.
Othello: Moor Than Meets the Eye
★★★★☆ Chukwudi Iwuji and Corey Stoll wrestle with the green-eyed monster in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Othello.
Fruit Trilogy: A Woman Is Not a Piece of Fruit
★★★☆☆ Attention must be paid to Eve Ensler’s newest works, but your patience will be tested during this dissonant trio of shorts