★★★☆☆ Lynn Nottage’s inter-Pulitzer satire is well revived at the Signature, but still only hits some of its marks
Off-Broadway
Merrily We Roll Along: A Glittering Jewel Revealed
★★★★★ Fiasco Theater rethinks Sondheim and Furth’s backward-through-time musical, with dazzling results
Merrily We Roll Along: Opening Doors, Again
★★★★☆ Fiasco Theater and Roundabout Theatre Company offer another compelling take on a challenging Sondheim musical
Sea Wall / A Life: Personal Storytelling, Carefully and Impersonally Constructed
★★★★☆ Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal offer two monologues of love and death, immaculately performed if not quite honest
Sea Wall / A Life: Meditations on Life and Death
★★★☆☆ Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal star in a pair of somber, sometimes rewarding monologues by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne
Switzerland: Patricia Highsmith in Person Niftily Fictionalized
★★★★☆ Joanna Murray-Smith imagines how the thriller author might handle a non-Tom Ripley young man
Bonnie’s Last Flight: A Misguided Journey to Nowhere
★☆☆☆☆ A cool concept for a comedy about a plane trip proves to be a tedious time
Freestyle Love Supreme: Where Hip Hop, Improv, and Comedy Meet
★★★★☆ The hip hop improv troupe cofounded by Lin-Manuel Miranda reunites for an off-Broadway run (with a few special guests)
Freestyle Love Supreme: Going with the Flow
★★★★☆ A hip-hop improv group co-founded by Lin-Manuel Miranda makes an exuberant return
The Shadow of a Gunman: Sean O’Casey’s Seriocomic Saga of Dublin at War
★★★★☆ The Irish Rep launches its three-show cycle of the playwright’s works with a winning revival