★★★★☆ An expert, energetic company makes the musical most of several dozen old-school rock ‘n’ roll tunes
The Saintliness of Margery Kempe: Holy Rolling Amid Medieval Times
★★☆☆☆ A so-what comedy about a would-be saint is buoyed up by some enjoyable performances
Gone Missing: Songs and Stories From the Lost & Found Department
★★★★☆ A whimsical little musical about wayward items is expertly rediscovered as a concert
Carmen Jones: An Irresistible Musical Charmer Returns to New York
★★★★☆ Forget Rodgers, Kern and Romberg—let’s hear it for the team of Bizet and Hammerstein!
Cyprus Avenue: Stephen Rea Meets a Dead Ringer for Gerry Adams
★★★☆☆ A harrowing dark comedy regards a Belfast man driven mad by a lifetime spent amid violent social conflict
Conflict: A Passionate Clash Amid the Politics of 1920s England
★★★☆☆ Mint Theater Company discovers a worthy 1925 drama from England about the haves and have-nots
Teenage Dick: Duplicitous Doings at Roseland High School
★★★☆☆ Shakespeare’s Richard III gets reshaped mostly for laughs
Fairview: Reality and Metatheatricality with an African-American Family
★★★☆☆ Jackie Sibblies Drury unleashes a daring play about race, identity and expectations that gets awkward
All I Want Is One Night: And That’s One Night Too Many
★☆☆☆☆ A British performer digs up Suzy Solidor, a bisexual, cross-dressing French cabaret legend who deserves better
Desperate Measures: A Fiddle-Dee-Dee Wild West Shakespeare Spoof
★★★☆☆ An old-fashioned, cowboy-country musical-comedy farce is neatly cultivated from Measure for Measure‘s plot