★★★★☆ Superb circus artists swing, spin, and soar amid surreal visuals and sonorous music
Passage: A Cool Experiment in the ABCs of Xenophobic Behavior
★★★☆☆ Soho Rep’s typically top-notch production fills in the blanks of an experimental endeavor
Paul Swan is Dead and Gone: Portrait of an Unusual Artist as an Old Man
★★☆☆☆ A new bio-drama is performed as a bizarre dance recital in a Chelsea townhouse
Caroline’s Kitchen: Neatly Dishing Out a British Menu of Rueful Humor
★★★☆☆ Playgoers with a taste for British humor may well enjoy what’s being served at 59E59 Theaters
The Plough and the Stars: Dubliners Come to Vivid Life in Irish Rep’s Revival
★★★★★ A superb company performs Sean O’Casey’s tragicomedy about the 1916 Easter Rising
Grief is the Thing with Feathers: A Mad, Murky, Melancholy Journey
★★★☆☆ Cillian Murphy delivers a remarkable performance as a man possessed
Lady in the Dark: MasterVoices Lovingly Revives a Masterpiece Musical
★★★★★ Victoria Clark is the glowing central figure of a legendary musical
Hillary and Clinton: Peering Inside the Private Lives of a Power Couple
★★★★☆ Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow superbly depict a dynamic duo
Hadestown: Red, Hot, and Bluesy Score Fuels a Trip to Hell and Back
★★★★☆ Songwriter Anaïs Mitchell makes an impressive Broadway bow with an infernal musical
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy: The Shed Opens With a Mystifying Melologue
★☆☆☆☆ Ben Whishaw and Renee Fleming valiantly appear in a gloomy chamber opera