★★★☆☆ The latest from Dear Evan Hansen playwright Steven Levenson follows young protesters in a divided nation
Off-Broadway
Days of Rage: Dropouts, Protests, and the SDS
★★☆☆☆ Steven Levenson, the Dear Evan Hansen librettist, returns with a sixties problem play
Good Grief: A Middling Drama From Writer/Star Ngozi Anyanwu
★★☆☆☆ A Nigerian-American woman literally wrestles with grief in Ngozi Anyanwu’s disconnected drama
Big Apple Circus: A Lean, Keen, Family Show (and More) to its Core
★★★★☆ Kids will get a kick out of the 41st edition while their elders will see some nice sights, too
Daniel’s Husband: A New Drama Cautions Same-Sex Couples to Tie the Knot
★★★☆☆ Good acting breathes life into a comedy that unexpectedly turns sorrowful
Love, Linda: Stevie Holland Explains Why Mrs. Cole Porter Is So in Love
★★★★☆ Twenty of the great love song purveyor’s greatest hits recalled in a musical autobiography
Renascence: Edna St. Vincent Millay’s First Great Poem, Greatly Staged
★★★★☆ Carmel Dean, Jack Cumming III, Dick Scanlan, Scott celebrate the making of the poet’s prize-winning poem
The Niceties: Inside Ivy Walls, No Room For Empathy
★★☆☆☆ Two women separated by age and race find no common humanity in Eleanor Burgess’s dispiriting new play
Lewiston/Clarkston: A Western Landscape, Majestic and Tragic
★★★★★ Samuel D. Hunter surveys the America we still don’t know well enough in his beautiful, haunting two-part play
Lewiston/Clarkston: Westward Ho! 200 Years Later
★★★★☆ Two separate but thematically related plays by Samuel D. Hunter make for a uniquely special dramatic event