★★★☆☆ The multi-talented performer works instruments and resentments to vigorous effect
Off-Broadway
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
Uncle Vanya: Richard Nelson Goes to Russia
★★★★☆ Richard Nelson brings his signature understated style to Chekhov’s tragicomedy in this debut from the Hunter Theater Project
Uncle Vanya: An Americanization of a Russian Classic
★★★★☆ Richard Nelson’s new version of Chekhov’s intimate classic is artfully understated
The Emperor: Up-Close-and-Personal/Generic Look at the Powerful
★★★★☆ Shape-shifting Kathryn Hunter skillfully plays many men in Haile Selassie’s Ethiopian court
Collective Rage: A Play In 5 Betties (Some More Memorable Than Others)
★★★☆☆ Four winning performances and a stunning one add up to an absorbing production of Jen Silverman’s entertaining but frustrating play.