★☆☆☆☆ Ben Whishaw and Renee Fleming valiantly appear in a gloomy chamber opera
Off-Broadway
Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie: Focusing Upon a Slice of Late ’70s Life
★★★☆☆ The Mad Ones offers an awfully ultra-real look at a focus group
Sincerely, Oscar: Great Lyricist Hammerstein II Is Mistreated in a Revue
★☆☆☆☆ Soprano Doreen Taylor conceives and writes a below-par showcase for herself and Azudi Onyejekwe
The Cradle Will Rock: Legendary Agitprop Musical Gets the John Doyle Treatment
★★★★☆ Marc Blitzstein’s 80-year-old rabble-rousing musical retains its bite
The Cradle Will Rock: A Proletarian Musical Looks Kind of Labored
★★☆☆☆ Director John Doyle scarcely does justice by Marc Blitzstein’s legendary 1937 musical
I Carry Your Heart: A Play About a Transplant And What Else Is Planted
★★★★☆ Georgette Kelly keenly sees how many hearts are affected after one meaningful operation
Do You Feel Anger?: Nasty Boys, and the Women Who Endure Them
★★☆☆☆ Young playwright Mara Nelson-Greenberg offers an absurdist, simplistic look at sexism in the workplace
Do You Feel Anger?: A Mildly Absurd Look at Misogyny on the Job
★★★☆☆ A comedy about un-woke office jerks and the women who put up with them
The White Devil: Stylishly Wicked Fun for Everyone
★★★★☆ Red Bull Theater restores a circa 1612 thriller to lusty life in modern dress
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar: Director Shana Cooper’s Furious Take
★★★★☆ An unusually well-spoken, even well-declaimed treatment, choreographed by Erika Chong Shuch