★★★★☆ Carl Andress directs a grand cast investigating the deceased playwright’s familial entanglements
Off-Broadway
Ibsen’s Ghost: A Widow’s Revenge, or Beating Around the Busch
★★☆☆☆ A promising comedic idea leaves this viewer disenchantedly unengaged
The Effect: A Play About a Scientific Experiment That Feels Like One
★★★☆☆ Jamie Lloyd directs this London revival of Lucy Prebble’s drama about two test subjects in a drug experiment falling in love.
Corruption: Real-Life Events, Compellingly Dramatized
★★★★☆ This gripping new effort from J. T. Rogers, author of “Oslo,” concerns the News International phone hacking scandal that rocked Britain.
Corruption: J.T. Rogers Unleashes Sizzling Stage Documentary
★★★★☆ Bartlett Sher directs a 13-member cast exposing a 2010-2011 British hacking scandal
Dead Outlaw: Raucously Macabre Musical Hits the Rip-Roarin’ Bulls-Eye
★★★★☆ David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, Itamar Moses, and David Cromer create a ballad of a failed outlaw, dead and alive
Illinoise: An Explosion of Transporting Music and Dance
★★★★☆ Justin Peck’s dance-theater piece, featuring a story he devised with Jackie Sibblies Drury, is based on Sufjan Stevens’ acclaimed album.
Brooklyn Laundry: John Patrick Shanley Rinses and Repeats, to Mostly Charming Effect
★★★★☆ Cecily Strong and David Zayas star in this romantic dramedy from the author of “Moonstruck.”
Brooklyn Laundry: Management Not Responsible for Loss
★★★☆☆ Cecily Strong does her utmost as a spinster (yes, the dated epithet is apt) desperate to find a mate at all costs.
The Ally: A Play of Ideas. And Ideas. And Ideas…
★★★☆☆ Josh Radnor plays a university professor caught up in a maelstrom of conflicting ideologies in the talky new drama by Itamar Moses.