★★★★★ Director Danya Taymor and a dynamite cast bring Kimberly Belflower’s marvelous new play to Broadway
Vanya: One Man, Nine Characters, Considerable Tragicomedy
★★★★☆ Andrew Scott takes on every role in Simon Stephens’ freewheeling adaptation of Chekhov’s much-produced play
A Streetcar Named Desire: A Healthy Shot of Southern Discomfort
★★★★☆ You want realism? You want magic? Rebecca Frecknall’s production, starring Paul Mescal, has both.
Deep Blue Sound: A Whale of a Tale
★★★★★ Clubbed Thumb’s production of the poignant Abe Koogler play returns for a much-deserved encore run at the Public Theater
Dakar 2000: International Intrigue, Y2K Style
★★★★☆ We’re already eagerly awaiting the sequel to Rajiv Joseph’s world premiere play
Liberation: We’ve Come So Far…Or Have We?
★★★★☆ Whitney White directs a sensational group of women in Bess Wohl’s time-traveling memory play
Redwood: She Talks to the Trees! (No, Really)
★★☆☆☆ IMAX meets Broadway in a technologically impressive but dramatically wooden new musical
My First Ex-Husband: Divorce Comedian Style
★★☆☆☆ Joy Behar, Susie Essman, Tovah Feldshuh, and Adrienne C. Moore break down broken-down marriages in 90 lackluster minutes
Pecking Order: Fowl Play Indeed
★☆☆☆☆ Two infamous New York–dwelling red-tailed hawks serve as the ostensible inspiration for a flighty new comedy
Blind Runner: Race for Your Life
★★★★☆ Iranian playwright Amir Reza Koohestani goes behind prison walls with his evocative two-hander