★★★☆☆ Hal Linden and Bernie Kopell in a 60-minute-plus, two-part comedy
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The Nosebleed: Cheerful Ritualistic Play About Grief, Of All Things
★★★★☆ Aya Ogawa writes, directs and performs in new play at LCT3’s rooftop theater
The Butcher Boy: Dark New Musical About Psychotic Young Man
★★★☆☆ Princeton senior Asher Muldoon adapts 1992 Patrick McCabe novel, Ciarán O’Reilly directs, Barry McNabb choreographs
Oresteia: The Aeschylus Classic Trilogy Modern -Dressed-Up for Today
★★★☆☆ Director Robert Icke has his semi-effective, semi-not adapted way with the Greeks, a strong cast helping things along
The Kite Runner: The Best-Selling Novel Soars Sky-High on Stage
★★★★☆ Matthew Spangler adapts the Khaled Hosseini work, with Giles Croft directing a taut 13-member cast
Seagull: Elevator Repair Service Takes Aim at Anton Chekhov’s Classic
★☆☆☆☆ John Collins directs a laboring 11-member cast in a revival (revisal?), to little avail
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: Western Stage Adaptation Hits Target
★★★★☆ An outstanding cast shines in this stage adaptation of the short story on which the John Wayne-Jimmy Stewart film was based
Richard III: Shakespeare’s Crooked in Several Ways Villain as Court Fashion Plate
★★★☆☆ Director Robert O’Hara has his own thoughts about the tragedy, with Danai Gurira as the last York monarch
Into the Woods: The Beloved Sondheim-Lapine Musical in Full Bloom
★★★★☆ Lear deBessonet directs, Lorin Latarro choreographs the fairytale show, with hugely skilled ensemble
Hamlet: The William Shakespeare Classic Declassified, and the Rest Is Silence
★★★☆☆ The Almeida Theatre production, directed by Robert Icke, with Alex Lawther as Hamlet, Jennifer Ehle as Gertrude