Wendell Pierce and Sharon D. Clarke shine in the Arthur Miller classic at the Young Vic; the Almeida brings us a haunting new play
Beyond
From London: Mamet and Malkovich Reap Bitter Wheat from Harvey Weinstein
The controversial playwright takes on a ripped-from-the-headlines sex scandal, with intriguing but uneven results
From London: Renée Fleming on the Piazza and Trevor on the Roof
Excellent new productions of The Light in the Piazza, at Southbank Centre, and Fiddler on the Roof, at the Playhouse
From London: Rescued Ibsen Work Crackles; a National Revival Doesn’t, Quite
Ibsen’s long-overlooked Rosmersholm turns out to be terrific, while the century-old Rutherford and Son doesn’t catch fire
From London: Sweat with Martha Plimpton, and the Long-Running Woman in Black
Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer-winner thrives in this Donmar Warehouse production, while Stephen Mallatratt’s 1989 thriller runs on and on
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