★★★☆☆ Jackie Sibblies Drury centers her latest ambitious drama around caregivers of color
Off-Broadway
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
The Price of Thomas Scott: A Forgotten Dramatist Depicts a Tempting Offer
★★★☆☆ The Mint unearths the first of several works by a neglected British playwright
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark: She’s Quite a Character
★★★☆☆ Part screwball comedy, part post-doctoral thesis, Lynn Nottage’s 8-year-old play still hasn’t solved its identity crisis