★★☆☆☆ Rob McClure plays the title figure with all engines running, Jerry Zaks directs with all engines revving.
Broadway
Clyde’s: Zestfully Tasty New Play from Lynn Nottage, with Cilantro and Dill
★★★★☆ Tasty new play features strong cast conjuring fantastically metaphoric sandwiches
Clyde’s: Lynn Nottage Cooks Up A Sharp Kitchen-Set Comedy
★★★★☆ The fast-paced, intermission-free new play from Lynn Nottage fires off one-liners in a Midwest sandwich shop
Trouble in Mind: A Delayed Debut, Still Fresh and Troubling
★★★★☆ Alice Childress’s biting play-within-a-play finally arrives on Broadway, more than sixty years after its premiere
Trouble in Mind: Better as Theatrical History Lesson Than Drama
★★★☆☆ Alice Childress’ groundbreaking play about racism makes its Broadway debut 66 years after its premiere.
Diana, the Musical: The Princess and the Peepers
★★☆☆☆ A new musical offers a peek at the late Princess of Wales, and a lot of costume changes
Diana: The People’s Princess, Surrounded by the Wrong People
★★☆☆☆ Like Charles and Elizabeth before them, a creative team of (minor) Broadway royalty does Lady Spencer no favors
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