Beyond

May 16, 2018 8:05 am

Turning Off the Morning News: New Durang Satirical Sketch Sketchy

★☆☆☆☆ Emily Mann directs favorite Durang actor Kristine Nielsen, others to skimpy payoff

April 13, 2018 6:00 pm

★★★★★ Harry Connick Jr. leads a cast directed by John Rando and choreographed by Warren Carlyle.

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

★★★☆☆ Oscar Wilde’s tale is distilled as a succession of images reflecting a beauty with a beastly ego

★★★☆☆ Kate Baldwin and Brian Stokes-Mitchell star in the latest from Encores

★★★☆☆ LaChanze stages a sharp vintage study of sex and class in mid-1960s Harlem

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

★★★★★ A classic documentary on Afro-Cuban musical greats is transformed into a sparkling Broadway delight

★★★★★ Playwright Joshua Harmon explores and explodes his roots, with Andrew Barth Feldman and Joanna Gleason

★★★★☆ Expect no Russian dressing but plenty of Irish accents in this Chekhov adaptation

★★★★★ Clubbed Thumb’s production of the poignant Abe Koogler play returns for a much-deserved encore run at the Public Theater

★★★★★ An exceptional play with fine work from director Jack Serio and actors Brian J. Smith and Paul Sparks