★★★★☆ Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Anthony Veneziale’s improv phenomenon conquers Broadway
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The Great Society: A Not So Great Play About LBJ
★★★☆☆ Troubled 1960s events overwhelm a President and dishearten a drama
The Height of the Storm: Provocative Play Offers Master Class in Acting
★★★★☆ Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins star in Florian Zeller’s newest Paris-to-London-to-New York offering
The Height of the Storm: Cloudy Skies Ahead
★★★☆☆ Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins are entrancing as husband and wife in Florian Zeller’s going-gently-into-that-good-night drama
Derren Brown, Secret: Legerdemain Unleashed at Cort
★★★★☆ UK illusionist offers evening of protean prestidigitation and purely astonishing fun
Derren Brown, Secret: International Man of Mystery and Mind Games
★★★★☆ The British TV and Netflix star brings his psychological intrigue to Broadway
Betrayal: Less Is More in This London-Born Revival
★★★★★ Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton, and Charlie Cox make a beguiling love triangle in Harold Pinter’s backward-spinning drama
Betrayal: Pinter’s Web of Deception Returns to Broadway, Incisively
★★★★☆ Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox, and Zawe Ashton star in Jamie Lloyd’s London transfer
Sea Wall/A Life: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Sturridge in Great, Nervous Shape
★★★★☆ Carrie Cracknell forcibly directs tough-minded one-acts by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne
Sea Wall/A Life: Fathers and Sons, Grappling with Love and Loss
★★★★☆ Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal turn in stirring performances in monologues addressing parenthood and mortality