★★★★☆ Director Terry Kinney finds the perfect brooding poetic despair in Sam Shepard’s late-’70s drama
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Tootsie: They’ve Got Big Heels to Fill
★★★★☆ The Sydney Pollack–directed ’80s movie gets a Broadway makeover courtesy of screen-to-stage musical specialist David Yazbek
The Pain of My Belligerence: Love Hurts
★★★☆☆ Halley Feiffer stars in her own play about a writer battling Lyme disease and an obsessive codependent relationship
All My Sons: Arthur Miller’s Still-Shattering Backyard Tragedy
★★★★☆ More than 70 years after its premiere, Arthur Miller’s breakthrough drama proves as powerful (and timely) as ever
Burn This: Keri Russell and Adam Driver Lack Sizzle
★★★☆☆ Keri Russell and Adam Driver play unlikely lovers in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s play
King Lear: Glenda Jackson Rants, Raves, and Rules
★★★☆☆ Sam Gold’s production isn’t sharper than a serpent’s tooth, but Glenda Jackson wears the crown well
What the Constitution Means to Me: Heidi Schreck Gets Political, and Personal
★★★★★ Playwright-actress Heidi Schreck is really excited about the Constitution—and soon you will be, too
Ain’t Too Proud: A Ball of Confusion
★★☆☆☆ The music of Detroit’s legendary Temptations gets the generic Broadway jukebox treatment
White Noise: Suzan-Lori Parks’ Bold and Brilliant New Drama
★★★★★ Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks teams with the Public’s Oskar Eustis on an audacious new epic
Kiss Me, Kate: It’s All Right With Me
★★★★☆ Even 71 years after its Broadway premiere, the backstage musical hasn’t lost its charm