★★★★☆ Jordan Harrison explores the challenges of moving forward in a provocative new play.
Off-Broadway
Log Cabin: The ‘Gay Takeover’ Is Complete, So Now What?
★★★☆☆ Jordan Harrison’s latest, starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson, considers just about every issue in modern gay life, with some success
Cyprus Avenue: Stephen Rea Meets a Dead Ringer for Gerry Adams
★★★☆☆ A harrowing dark comedy regards a Belfast man driven mad by a lifetime spent amid violent social conflict
Cyprus Avenue: Where Pride & Prejudice Meet
★★☆☆☆ Did you hear the one about the baby who looked like Gerry Adams? Cyprus Avenue is a black comedy in search of a weighty punch line.
Skintight: Beauty Is Fleeting, with Belly Laughs
★★★★☆ Playwright Joshua Harmon returns with his fourth consecutive rewarding comedy
Skintight: Chasing Beauty, Ruthlessly
★★★☆☆ Joshua Harmon and Idina Menzel look at the search for eternal youth and the bad behavior it can encourage
Conflict: Another Impeccable Lost-but-Worthy Play at the Mint
★★★☆☆ This 1925 politics-and-romance play by a screenwriter and character actor is well revived, if unimportant
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