★★☆☆☆ Like Charles and Elizabeth before them, a creative team of (minor) Broadway royalty does Lady Spencer no favors
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Caroline, or Change: Of Despair and Hope, and Singing Washing Machines
★★★★☆ A London-based revival showcases the emotional range of the Tony Kushner/Jeanine Tesori musical
Caroline, or Change: Sharon D Clarke Offers a Bracing Performance in Tesori-Kushner Musical
★★★★☆ UK-originated revival demonstrates the power and scope of 2004 chamber musical
American Utopia: David Byrne and His Merry Band Lift Us Back to Our Feet
★★★★★ Byrne, choreographer Annie-B Parsons, and musicians set St. James rocking
American Utopia: The Joyous Theatrical Concert We Still Need
★★★★★ The former frontman of the Talking Heads returns with his Tony Award-winning show of music and dance.
Dana H.: Deirdre O’Connell Triumphs in a Survivor Story
★★★★☆ Lucas Hnath’s 75-minute docudrama uses his mother’s experience—and her voice—to tell her terrifying story
Dana H.: Deirdre O’Connell Brilliant in Lucas Hnath’s Portrait of His Mother
★★★★☆ A lip-synched verbatim account on the five-month-long kidnapping of the playwright’s mother.
The Lehman Trilogy: Astonishing Sam Mendes Production Finally Reaches Broadway
★★★★★ Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley, and Adrian Lester altogether triumphant as the Brothers Lehman
The Lehman Trilogy: Sam Mendes’ landmark production makes a triumphant Broadway debut.
★★★★★ Adam Godley, Simon Russell Beale and Adrian Lester deliver stupendous performances in this brilliantly staged, decades-spanning theatrical saga.
Thoughts of a Colored Man: Seven Men Splendidly Declare Who/Why They Are
★★★★★ Keenan Scott II’s new play delves into the complex and cogent subject of Black men’s lives mattering