★★★☆☆ The Almeida Theatre production, directed by Robert Icke, with Alex Lawther as Hamlet, Jennifer Ehle as Gertrude
Off-Broadway
Epiphany: You Won’t Have One
★★★☆☆ Joyce meets Godot in Brian Watkins’ play about a dinner party on a snowy wintry evening.
Chains: Brit Playwright Elizabeth Baker, in Mint Condition
★★★★☆ A 113-year-old British drama proves to be an ideal pandemic-era production
Chains: Worries and Wanderlust in Early 20th Century England
★★★★☆ Mint Theater Company mines the enduring relevance of Elizabeth Baker’s problem play
Corsicana: Will Arbery in a Lone Star State of Mind
★★★☆☆ Everything’s bigger in Texas, including this protracted four-character play
Corsicana: Heartache and Yearning in Texas
★★★☆☆ Four troubled lives intersect in the new drama by Will Arbery, author of “Heroes of the Fourth Turning.”
The Orchard: Anton Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard Spectacularly Reimagined
★★★★☆ Director Igor Golyak and outstanding creative team at strong work, with Jessica Hecht, Mikhail Barishnikov featured
Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom: James Joyce’s Complicated Heroine Takes a Bow
★★★★☆ Actress Aedín Moloney and author Colum McCann’s adaptation of “Ulysses”‘s final chapter returns to the stage
Lessons in Survival: 1971: James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni Eloquently Talk Race
★★★☆☆ The Commissary puts an enthralling 1971 interview onstage, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Crystal Dickinson featured
Snow in Midsummer: Updated Chinese Ghost Tale of Injustices Hits Drifts
★★★☆☆ Playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig takes on a 13th-century dramatist, with Zi Alikhan directing a hard-working cast