★★★☆☆ Playgoers with a taste for British humor may well enjoy what’s being served at 59E59 Theaters
Off-Broadway
The Plough and the Stars: Dubliners Come to Vivid Life in Irish Rep’s Revival
★★★★★ A superb company performs Sean O’Casey’s tragicomedy about the 1916 Easter Rising
The Plough and the Stars: O’Casey’s Tragicomedy In Superb Shape
★★★★★ The Irish Repertory Company ends O’Casey season with outstanding direction, cast
Grief is the Thing with Feathers: A Mad, Murky, Melancholy Journey
★★★☆☆ Cillian Murphy delivers a remarkable performance as a man possessed
Link Link Circus: Isabella Rossellini, Pan the Dog Explain It All
★★★★☆ The actress-model, seeking a Master’s degree in animal behavior, turns it delightful
Lady in the Dark: MasterVoices Lovingly Revives a Masterpiece Musical
★★★★★ Victoria Clark is the glowing central figure of a legendary musical
Lady in the Dark: Victoria Clark Shines As Lady in the Spotlight
★★★★☆ Kurt Weill-Ira Gershwin-Moss Hart musical in exciting form at City Center
The Pain of My Belligerence: Love Hurts
★★★☆☆ Halley Feiffer stars in her own play about a writer battling Lyme disease and an obsessive codependent relationship
The Pain of My Belligerence: When Good Discomfort Turns Bad
★★☆☆☆ Halley Feiffer’s latest explores toxic masculinity, and then gets overrun by it
Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain: Less Than Instructive
★★☆☆☆ A 1942 World War II pamphlet brought to the stage a bit on the late side