★★★★☆ Director Gregory Doran runs mostly hot and sometimes cold on the Shakespeare masterpiece
Off-Broadway
King Lear: Antony Sher’s Crowning Achievement
★★★★★ In his last dance with the Bard, Antony Sher tackles (and conquers) the mad king with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Miss You Like Hell: Hudes and McKeown View Mothers and Daughters
★★★☆☆ Rubin-Vega and Jiménez as an estranged mother and daughter renewing their love to songs
Miss You Like Hell: Can a Latina Mom Fight Deportation?
★★★☆☆ An incandescent Daphne Rubin-Vega blazes through a topical new musical at The Public
This Flat Earth: A School Shooting Raises Sad Questions
★★☆☆☆ A sorrowful teen survivor wonders: “So why don’t the grown-ups just fix it?”
The Winter’s Tale: Arin Arbus’ Austere–Too Austere?–Revival
★★★☆☆ The stage direction that goes “Exit, pursued by bear” gets it best showing ever
Feeding the Dragon: A Childhood Sometimes Charmed, Often Not
★★★☆☆ Writer-performer Sharon Washington remembers being the girl who lived in the library
Feeding the Dragon: Sharon Washington Hits the Books
★★★☆☆ Sharon Washington pens and performs her New York City fairy tale of “The Little Girl Who Lived in a Library.”
Bobbie Clearly: Chasing Redemption In A Broken Heartland
★★★★☆ Alex Lubsicher’s account of a small-town tragedy poses powerful, timely questions about our capacity for forgiveness.
Bobbie Clearly: A Portrait of a Crime, Not so Clearly
★★★☆☆ Something terrible has happened in corn country, but the young author of this spiky play doesn’t quite unpack it