Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★☆☆ 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

★★★☆☆ Sharon Washington pens and performs her New York City fairy tale of “The Little Girl Who Lived in a Library.”

★★★★☆ ★★★★ Arin Arbus and Theatre for a New Audience embrace Shakespeare’s bear of a play