★★★★★ Adam Godley, Simon Russell Beale and Adrian Lester deliver stupendous performances in this brilliantly staged, decades-spanning theatrical saga.
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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.
Lackawanna Blues: Ruben Santiago-Hudson Brillliantly Tour de Forcing
★★★★★ The actor-director lovingly revives a one-man work about his childhood and the woman who influenced it most
LACKAWANNA BLUES: RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON’S ACCLAIMED SOLO PLAY MAKES ITS BROADWAY DEBUT
★★★★☆ Previously adapted into an HBO film, the play returns to the form that suits it best, with its original writer/star.
Six: Hold on to Your Heads, with Cheers and Huzzahs!
★★★★★ The musical juggernaut about displaced royals delivers, with flair, exuberance, and high style