Michael Sommers

★★★★☆ Forget Rodgers, Kern and Romberg—let’s hear it for the team of Bizet and Hammerstein!

★★★☆☆ A harrowing dark comedy regards a Belfast man driven mad by a lifetime spent amid violent social conflict

★★★☆☆ Mint Theater Company discovers a worthy 1925 drama from England about the haves and have-nots

★★★☆☆ Shakespeare’s Richard III gets reshaped mostly for laughs

★★★☆☆ Jackie Sibblies Drury unleashes a daring play about race, identity and expectations that gets awkward

★☆☆☆☆ A British performer digs up Suzy Solidor, a bisexual, cross-dressing French cabaret legend who deserves better

★★★☆☆ An old-fashioned, cowboy-country musical-comedy farce is neatly cultivated from Measure for Measure‘s plot

★★★☆☆ The maker of “The Vagina Monologues” goes experimental with body and soul issues

★★★☆☆ Anthony Giardina’s ambitious new play studies money, privilege, and higher education