★★★☆☆ Anne Bogart stages a 2,400 year-old Greek drama with a few modern notes
Off-Broadway
On Beckett: Clowning in the Dark
★★★★☆ Bill Irwin offers an exuberant homage to a master of bleakness
Final Follies: Something Old, Something New From A.R. Gurney
★★★☆☆ Primary Stages’ triptych of Gurney shorts—which includes the late playwright’s newest, “Final Follies”—comes up a bit short
Final Follies: Primary Stages Trips Over a Trio of A.R. Gurney Comedies
★★☆☆☆ Able staging and acting can do only so much with a master author’s minor material
Girl From the North Country: Souls Tangled Up In Blue, Bleak and Radiant
★★★★★ Depression-era Minnesotans find no shelter from their storms in Conor McPherson’s adaptation of Bob Dylan’s songs
Girl From the North Country: A Visit to Desolation Row With Bob Dylan
★★★★☆ Bob Dylan songs are artfully molded into a new musical of melancholy distinction
What the Constitution Means to Me: Trying to Figure That Out, Wonderfully
★★★★☆ Heidi Schreck’s entertaining, earnest exploration of our fundamental rights is a tonic for our challenging times
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