★★★☆☆ Armie Hammer and others act nicely in an enigmatic Christmas story about privilege
Broadway
Straight White Men: Check Their Privilege!
★★★☆☆ Young Jean Lee makes her Broadway debut with a Christmas-set family drama starring Josh Charles and Armie Hammer as backslapping bros
The Boys in the Band: 50 Shades of Gay
★★★★★ Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, and a charismatic ensemble leap out of a queer time capsule from 1968
The Boys in the Band: Turning, Turning, Turning
★★★☆☆ Mart Crowley’s 1968 classic, now in a starry revival that shows how far we’ve come, is as indelible as ever—and as confounding
The Iceman Cometh: Monumental O’Neill, with Monumental Denzel
★★★★★ George C. Wolfe and a sterling cast illuminate long night’s journey of pipe dreams lost
The Iceman Cometh: Denzel Washington Swims Above O’Neill’s Lower Depths
★★★☆☆ Living portraits of riffraff gleam amid an arty Broadway revival of a classic
Saint Joan: Manhattan Theatre Club’s Revival Doesn’t Ring the Bell
★★☆☆☆ A cheerful Condola Rashad confidently portrays Shaw’s saintly warrior as a pleasant peasant
Saint Joan: Shaw’s Other Fair Lady, Grounded and Soaring
★★★★☆ Condola Rashad shows us the humanity and humility of Shaw’s historical heroine in Daniel Sullivan’s excellent new production.
Travesties: A Good Great War, Over Art and Revolution
★★★★☆ Tom Stoppard’s early masterwork is a shell-shocked delight in revival at the Roundabout
Travesties: Tom Stoppard’s Brilliant Comedy Brilliantly Revived
★★★★★ Tom Hollander heads a just about perfect cast, directed just about perfectly by Patrick Marber