★★★★☆ Janet McTeer is divine in Theresa Rebeck’s metatheatrical ode to Sarah Bernhardt and Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane
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A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur: Life Is No Picnic
★★★☆☆ Kristine Nielsen and Annette O’Toole lock horns in a rare revival of an underappreciated Tennessee Williams drama
The True: The Dirty Business of Party Politics
★★★☆☆ Edie Falco stars as the rumor-besieged woman behind the man in Sharr White’s 1977-set political play
Beautiful: Some Kind of Wonderful Show
★★★★☆ Long-Run Lookback: Abby Mueller shows the world all the love in her heart as Broadway’s current Carole King in the long-running biomusical
Uncle Vanya: Richard Nelson Goes to Russia
★★★★☆ Richard Nelson brings his signature understated style to Chekhov’s tragicomedy in this debut from the Hunter Theater Project
Collective Rage: All Betties, All the Time
★★★☆☆ Jen Silverman’s characters are smart, sharp-tongued, and far from stereotypical. Try to keep up.
Private Peaceful: One Soldier’s Story, in Multiple Voices
★★★★☆ Another World War I–era novel from ‘War Horse’ author Michael Morpurgo gets the theatrical treatment
Days to Come: Less-Than-Mint-Condition Hellman
★★☆☆☆ The Mint Theater digs up Lillian Hellman’s long-forgotten, failed 1936 drama
Henry VI: Stop and Smell the War of the Roses
★★★★☆ The National Asian American Theatre Company condenses Shakespeare’s three Henry VI plays into a two-part, five-and-a-half-hour experience
Gettin’ the Band Back Together: Déjà Vu All Over Again
★★☆☆☆ The groans drown out the laughs at this totally unoriginal original musical