Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer-winner thrives in this Donmar Warehouse production, while Stephen Mallatratt’s 1989 thriller runs on and on
Beyond
From Massachusetts: Into a Sondheim Woods and a Fascist America
Two concurrent plays in the Berkshires examine the effect of fairy tales, whether on the body human or the body politic
Yerma: Simmering When It Ought to Boil
★★☆☆☆ Garcia Lorca’s folk tragedy invokes earth, fire, and water, but gets mostly infused with air
The Flamingo Kid: Follow the Pink-and-Blue Road
★★★☆☆ A sprightly, nostalgic musical of the 1960s sacrifices some of the stronger qualities of its cinematic source
From London: Miller Vibrant, Strindberg Strong, Sweet Charity Less Sweet
More reactions to a diverse, generally rewarding current London season–and like-able Sally Field
We Live in Cairo: An Arab-Spring Awakening
★★★★☆ Two gifted first-timers, the Brothers Lazour, find melody and hope in recent historical events marked as much by defeat as by triumph
From London: Betrayal, Three Sisters, Top Girls Tops to Middling
Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill receive smart revivals, Anton Chekhov not so much
From London: Henrik Ibsen, Andrea Levy, Rod Serling Honored Variously
Rosmersholm strongly revived, while Andrea Levy’s thick novel, Serling’s series adapted well enough
From London: Maggie Smith Astonishes in A German Life
★★★★★ The 2016 documentary, indelibly directed on the stage by Jonathan Kent
From London: Company, Upended and Presumably New York-Bound
★★★★★ A new take on Sondheim’s 1970 single-man classic is wonderfully different, if not necessarily in the most obvious way