Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★☆☆☆ 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.  

★★★★☆ Antoinette Nwandu’s modern-day mash-up of Godot and Exodus pulls no punches when it comes to police violence.

★★★★☆ Chukwudi Iwuji and Corey Stoll wrestle with the green-eyed monster in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Othello.

★★★☆☆ Attention must be paid to Eve Ensler’s newest works, but your patience will be tested during this dissonant trio of shorts

★★★★☆ Dominique Morisseau wraps up her Detroit trilogy with a jazzy ode to the city’s once-thriving entertainment district

★★★★☆ Lesley Manville’s performance in Eugene O’Neill’s wrenching family drama will leave you on a morphine-like high

★★☆☆☆ A four-character, all-female musical at the York Theatre is an Unexpected disappointment

★★★☆☆ Alan Ayckbourn’s 81st is short on substance and long on style, but nevertheless a treat for his fans

★★★★☆ The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit strips down the band-of-brothers play to a slick 105 minutes

★★★★★ In his last dance with the Bard, Antony Sher tackles (and conquers) the mad king with the Royal Shakespeare Company