★★★★☆ Director Conor Bagley pairs lovely, haunting accounts of innocence and experience by Brian Friel
Off-Broadway
The Hard Problem: Puzzling Over Beautiful Enigmas, the Mind and Heart
★★★★★ In Tom Stoppard’s brilliant, moving new play, very smart people grapple with very big questions
The Hard Problem: Tom Stoppard Presents and Cleverly Solves His Latest Theater Problem
★★★★☆ Consciousness is on the playwright’s mind, whether and where that mind might be located, as one young, smart woman sees it
What to Send Up When It Goes Down: Making Black Lives Matter Through Art
★★★★☆ Aleshea Harris’s new play and “ritual” commemorates violence and a celebrates a community’s resilience
Downstairs: Tyne Daly and Tim Daly Tackle Kin Beyond Their Typical Ken
★★★☆☆ Theresa Rebeck’s new semi-thriller digs some dark secrets from out of a cellar
Downstairs: Tim and Tyne Daly Dig Up Family Secrets
★★★☆☆ In their first-ever shared New York stage appearance, the dynamic real-life siblings star as brother and sister in Theresa Rebeck’s family drama
All Is Calm: A Poignant Music-Theater Account of WWI’s Christmas Truce
★★★★☆ A handsomely sung musical documentary relates an inspiring wartime miracle
A Chorus Line: One Singular Sensation All Over Again
★★★★★ Michael Bennett’s masterwork is back, and as powerful as ever
Wild Goose Dreams: Broken Relationships, and the Internet
★★★☆☆ A moving story about the perils of separation gets distracted by the bells and whistles of social media
Wild Goose Dreams: Romance Gone Wrong? Why Not Blame the Internet?
★★★☆☆ Hansol Jung sets her social-media excoriation—with fairy-tale overtones—in South Korea without any Kim Jong-un threat