★★★★☆ David Threlfall and Alfie Allen appear in the Broadway premiere of Martin McDonagh’s darkly funny, Olivier Award-winning play
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for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf: Enuf, and More
★★★★★ Ntozake Shange’s gloriously mad poems, directed by Camille A. Brown with a colorful seven-women cast
How I Learned to Drive: Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer-Prize-Winner Returns in Highest Gear
★★★★★ Original stars Mary Louise Parker and David Morse, and director Mark Brokaw resume their assignments
How I Learned to Drive: Costly Lessons in Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Winner
★★★★☆ In the play’s long overdue Broadway premiere, original stars Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse and director Mark Brokaw mine its wry humor and horror
The Minutes: Daring in Both Style and Substance
★★★★☆ Tracy Letts’ imperfect but provocative new play uses a small town city council meeting to explore big ideas.
The Minutes: So Much Promise, So Little Payoff
★★☆☆☆ Tracy Letts’ new play is part satire, part black comedy, and all head-scratcher
American Buffalo: Mamet’s Classic is in Mint Condition
★★★★☆ Sam Rockwell, Laurence Fishburne and Darren star in this superbly acted Broadway revival of Mamet’s 1975 drama.
Cyrano de Bergerac: James McAvoy As a Swoon-Worthy Swashbuckling Poet
★★★★★ The Jamie Lloyd Company reinvents Rostand’s nosey Frenchman for the 21st century
The Little Prince: Gallic Whimsy Doesn’t Translate
★★☆☆☆ This dance and acrobatics-filled adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s classic novella arrives on Broadway for a limited engagement.
Birthday Candles: A Quirky Time-Hopping Rom-Com
★★★☆☆ Debra Messing ages 90 years—playing a daughter, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother—in a 90-minute play