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August 28, 2018 10:00 am

From London: Rylance vs. Othello, plus World War II Weather

Mark Rylance’s Iago electrifies Othello, while D-Day forecasts bring suspenseful chills in Pressure

August 20, 2018 9:01 am

Petrified Forest, Sister Mary Ignatius: Revivals Under the Berkshire Elms

The Petrified Forest at Berkshire Theatre Group. Photo: Wilson Chin.

Harriet Harris shines as Chris Durang’s nutty nun, while Robert E. Sherwood’s vintage melodrama just shines, period.

August 11, 2018 8:02 pm

West Side Story: Reproducing a Classic With Sincerity, and Safety

Danny Bevins, Sean Ewing, and Julio Catano-Yee in West Side Story. Photo: Daniel Rader

★★★★☆ 100th birthday tributes to Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins yield a familiar but affecting take on timeless material.

August 11, 2018 8:00 pm

Fern Hill: Three Couples Get Around to Clean Sex on a Farm Weekend

★★★☆☆ Michael Tucker writes a smart script for six top actors that starts out less than smart

July 27, 2018 11:30 am

Lempicka: Art for Art’s Ache in the 20th Century

★★☆☆☆ An ambitious but unfocused musical gives a great, underappreciated 20th century female artist too much of a brush-off

July 4, 2018 8:31 pm

The Closet: A Gay Deceiver for a New Century

★★★☆☆ Matthew Broderick shines in Douglas Carter Beane’s uneven comic vision of a post-bigotry, Freak Flags Flying modern America

July 2, 2018 9:00 pm

From London: Imperium I: Conspirator, II: Dictator

★★★★☆ Mike Poulton adapts Robert Harris’ Cicero novels for Gregory Doran’s surging two parts

June 29, 2018 11:29 pm

From London: Translations, An Ideal Husband, Consent

Gains and loses from Brian Friel, Oscar Wilde and Nina Raine on three crackling stages

June 26, 2018 10:01 am

The Royal Family of Broadway: Aiming for Times Square, Stalled in Pittsfield

Harriet Harris, at center, and the company of The Royal Family of Broadway. Photo: Daniel Rader

★★★☆☆ William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s take on the Ferber-Kaufman warhorse sharpens the 1920s satire, but not enough

June 26, 2018 10:00 am

From London: Strictly Ballroom, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Julie

Baz Luhrman’s dance flick, Muriel Spark’s novel take the stage, Strindberg’s Miss Julie doesn’t take

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Creditors: Strindberg Updated, For Better and Worse

By Frank Scheck

★★★★☆ Liev Schreiber, Maggie Siff, and Justice Smith star in Jen Silverman's adaptation of Strindberg's classic drama.

Creditors: Love, Marriage, and Maddening Mind Games

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★☆☆ Ian Rickson directs the rarely performed Strindberg work, with a refresh from playwright Jen Silverman

Goddess: A Myth-Making, Magical New Musical

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★☆ A luminous Amber Iman casts a spell in an ambitious Kenya-set show at the Public Theater

Lights Out, Nat King Cole: Smile When Your Heart Is Breaking

By Frank Scheck

★★★☆☆ Dule Hill plays the title role in Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor's play with music, exploring Nat King Cole's troubled psyche.

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★★★★★ David Yazbek’s brashly macabre tuner features Andrew Durand as a real-life desperado, wanted dead and alive

Just in Time Christine Jonathan Julia

Just in Time: Hello, Bobby! Darin Gets a Splashy Broadway Tribute

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John Proctor Is the Villain: A Fearless Gen Z Look at ‘The Crucible’

★★★★★ Director Danya Taymor and a dynamite cast bring Kimberly Belflower’s marvelous new play to Broadway

Good Night, and Good Luck: George Clooney Makes Startling Broadway Bow

★★★★★ Clooney and Grant Heslov adapt their 2005 film to reflect not only the Joe McCarthy era but today

The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Masterpiece from Page to Stage

★★★★★ Succession’s Sarah Snook is brilliant as everyone in a wild adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s prophetic novel

Operation Mincemeat: A Comical Slice of World War II Lore

★★★★☆ A screwball musical from London rolls onto Broadway

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