★★★★★ Director Phylicia Rashad mines the spiritual curiosity under Stephen Adly Guirgis’s exquisitely crushing dialogue in a stirring revival.
Off-Broadway
Our Lady of 121st Street: The Case of the Nun’s Missing Corpse
★★★★☆ Pulitzer-winner Stephen Adly Guirgis takes us on a wild ride with rhapsodic crests
Paradise Blue: Striving for That Perfect Note
★★★★☆ Dominique Morisseau wraps up her Detroit trilogy with a jazzy ode to the city’s once-thriving entertainment district
Paradise Blue: Race, Music, and Madness In Detroit
★★★☆☆ The second play in a trilogy by Dominique Morisseau looks at jazz and change in a gentrifying city.
Twelfth Night: An Uneven Feast of Love
★★★☆☆ Maria Aitken’s new staging of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy lacks consistency but offers lovely touches, and all ends well.
Long Day’s Journey Into Night: Drunk Family History
★★★★☆ Lesley Manville’s performance in Eugene O’Neill’s wrenching family drama will leave you on a morphine-like high
Twelfth Night: The Quality of Shakespeare’s Comedy Woefully Strained
★☆☆☆☆ The usually exceptional Maria Aitken runs into trouble directing a cast working overtime to no avail.
Long Day’s Journey into Night: O’Neill’s at Breakneck, Breakheart Pace
★★★★★ Richard Eyre brilliantly directs Jeremy Irons, Lesley Manville, Rory Keenan and Matthew Beard
The Gentleman Caller: Tennessee Williams, William Inge Oddly Coupled
★★☆☆☆ Playwright Philip Dawkins roams freely through the famous playwrights’ related lives
Me And My Girl: Class Warfare As Breezy Musical Comedy
★★★★☆ Christian Borle leads an excellent cast in a buoyant concert staging of the British trifle-turned-Broadway hit.