★★★★☆ Heidi Schreck’s entertaining, earnest exploration of our fundamental rights is a tonic for our challenging times
Off-Broadway
What the Constitution Means to Me: Lots, Declares Heidi Schreck
★★★★☆ Laughs abound in this sincere defense of the currently under-siege document
Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet: Bedlam’s Newest Jumbled Classic Doesn’t Quite Add Up
★★☆☆☆ Chekhov and Shakespeare make a mismatched pair
I Was Most Alive with You: Craig Lucas Unleashes a Tsunami of Sorrows
★★☆☆☆ A woeful drama (in more ways than one) is performed simultaneously in two languages
Wild Abandon: Leenya Rideout Plays, Sings, Talks Show-Biz/Mom Issues
★★★☆☆ The multi-talented performer works instruments and resentments to vigorous effect
A Lovely Sunday For Creve Coeur: Women Of A Certain Time, Alone Together
★★★☆☆ La Femme Theatre Productions offers a fittingly languid revival of a later, lesser-known Tennessee Williams play
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur: Life Is No Picnic
★★★☆☆ Kristine Nielsen and Annette O’Toole lock horns in a rare revival of an underappreciated Tennessee Williams drama
The True: Behind Every Man, Resilience and Pain
★★★★☆ Edie Falco plays a political survivor, decades before #MeToo, in Sharr White’s moving play.
The True: The Dirty Business of Party Politics
★★★☆☆ Edie Falco stars as the rumor-besieged woman behind the man in Sharr White’s 1977-set political play
The Emperor: The Curious Decline and Fall of Haile Selassie
★★★☆☆ Kathryn Hunter conjures up the hothouse atmosphere of a vanished kingdom