★★★★★ Annette Bening, Tracy Letts, Benjamin Walker outstanding under Jack O’Brien’s direction
Broadway
All My Sons: Arthur Miller’s Still-Shattering Backyard Tragedy
★★★★☆ More than 70 years after its premiere, Arthur Miller’s breakthrough drama proves as powerful (and timely) as ever
Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus: Bloody Brilliant
★★★★★ The profane and the sublime meet—with Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen and Julie White—in Taylor Mac’s brilliant Broadway debut
Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus: Cleaning Up and Moving On, After Disaster
★★★★☆ Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen, and Julie White make art from horror, with help from Taylor Mac
Hillary and Clinton: Couples Therapy, for the Audience
★★★★☆ Laurie Metcalf, John Lithgow, and what we’d like to think the power pair say behind closed doors
Hillary and Clinton: Peering Inside the Private Lives of a Power Couple
★★★★☆ Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow superbly depict a dynamic duo
Hadestown: Anaïs Mitchell’s Myths and Hymns, from Way Downtown
★★★★☆ Internationally acclaimed folk opera arrives on Broadway, under Rachel Chavkin’s direction
Hadestown: Red, Hot, and Bluesy Score Fuels a Trip to Hell and Back
★★★★☆ Songwriter Anaïs Mitchell makes an impressive Broadway bow with an infernal musical
Burn This: Keri Russell and Adam Driver Lack Sizzle
★★★☆☆ Keri Russell and Adam Driver play unlikely lovers in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s play
Burn This: 1987 Dramatic Firecracker No Longer Pops
★★★☆☆ Lanford Wilson’s play, in a revival powered by Adam Driver and Keri Russell, is fitfully entertaining but not compelling