★★★☆☆ This 1925 politics-and-romance play by a screenwriter and character actor is well revived, if unimportant
Off-Broadway
Conflict: A Passionate Clash Amid the Politics of 1920s England
★★★☆☆ Mint Theater Company discovers a worthy 1925 drama from England about the haves and have-nots
Teenage Dick: Discontent, Made Glorious
★★★★☆ A Richard III update that takes on high school, disabilities, and lot of excellent wordplay
Teenage Dick: Duplicitous Doings at Roseland High School
★★★☆☆ Shakespeare’s Richard III gets reshaped mostly for laughs
Sugar in Our Wounds: Salt Effectively Poured in Civil War Wounds
★★★★☆ Donja R. Love looks unflinchingly at lynchings and their aftermaths in the deep South
Pass Over: A Bruised, Broken Tale of Black Life
★★★★☆ Antoinette Nwandu’s modern-day mash-up of Godot and Exodus pulls no punches when it comes to police violence.
Pass Over: A Tragic Quest, in Black and White
★★★☆☆ Antoinette Nwandu’s account of doomed black men is powerful and vexing, on different levels.
Othello: Moor Than Meets the Eye
★★★★☆ Chukwudi Iwuji and Corey Stoll wrestle with the green-eyed monster in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Othello.
Othello: Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Version Done Wisely and Well
★★★★☆ Chukwudi Iwuji, Corey Stoll, Heather Lind, Alison Wright gorgeous in the Bard’s jealousy screed
Fairview: Reality and Metatheatricality with an African-American Family
★★★☆☆ Jackie Sibblies Drury unleashes a daring play about race, identity and expectations that gets awkward