★★★★☆ Lucas Hnath’s 75-minute docudrama uses his mother’s experience—and her voice—to tell her terrifying story
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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
Thoughts of a Colored Man: The Debut of an Important New Dramatic Voice
★★★★☆ Keenan Scott II’s poetic drama resonates with urgency and heart.
Is This A Room: Reality Winner Speaks Her Truth
★★★★☆ The FBI interrogation of an unlikely whistleblower yields a powerful docudrama
Is This A Room: Chilling Verbatim FBI Investigation Into Government Whistleblower
★★★★☆ Conceiver-director Tina Satter’s careful replication of shocking case, with Emily Davis as suspect Reality Winner
Chicken & Biscuits: Dysfunctional Family Becomes Beautifully Functional
★★★★☆ Douglas Lyons’s dramedy brought to pulsing life by director Zhailon Levingston and top-notch cast
Chicken & Biscuits: Funeral Plus Family Dysfunction Adds Up to Familiar
★★☆☆☆ Theatrical comfort food delivering a few laughs but empty calories.