★★★★★ The creators of Spring Awakening draw inspiration from Lewis Carroll, with luminous results
Off-Broadway
Boesman and Lena: Don’t Call Them Rubbish
★★★★☆ A troubling but worthwhile trip back to Athol Fugard’s apartheid-era South Africa
Marys Seacole: Studying Maternal Cares Then and Now
★★★☆☆ Jackie Sibblies Drury centers her latest ambitious drama around caregivers of color
Marys Seacole: An Everywoman Play That Hits and Misses Targets
★★★☆☆ Jackie Sibblies Drury’s work tributes a famous healer but doesn’t entirely heal itself
Hurricane Diane: Staging an Agro-Revolution, in the Jersey Suburbs
★★★★☆ Madeleine George’s funny, thought-provoking new play finds a Greek god returning as a gender-bending gardener
Hurricane Diane: A Seductive Deity Materializes in Suburban New Jersey
★★★☆☆ Madeleine George delivers a divine (in more ways than one) comedy about climate change
Fiddler on the Roof: A Tradition Goes Back to the Future
★★★★☆ This old-fashioned reinvention of the shtetl classic takes on new relevance in the mother tongue
Fiddler on the Roof: A New Tradition
★★★★☆ Nothing is lost in translation in the heart-wrenching Yiddish-language tale of Tevye, his daughters, and the tiny town of Anatevka
The Play That Goes Wrong: Rarely Does Anything Go So Right
★★★★★ The long-running British send-up moves to a new address, keeping its old hilarity
The Play That Goes Wrong: Murderous Merriment Moves to Hell(’s Kitchen)
★★★★☆ The long-running British comedy hit retains its lode of laughs as it transfers off-Broadway