★★★★☆ Lila Neugebauer directs a one-woman show on the hottest of the hot-button issues of the moment
Off-Broadway
Wedding Band: Alice Childress’ Play on Racist Themes Breathtakingly Revived
★★★★☆ Awoye Timpo directs a superb cast, featuring Brittany Bradford and Thomas Sadoski as a mixed-race couple
Into the Woods: Sondheim Leads Encores Out of Darkness
★★★★☆ Sarah Bareilles, Neil Patrick Harris, Gavin Creel, and more head the cast of Lear deBessonet’s delightful production
Wish You Were Here: Women Talk Freely as Friendships Threaten to Founder
★★★★☆ Sanaz Toossi writes perceptively, as Gaye Taylor Upchurch directs fa cast of five, Marjan Neshat among them
A Case for the Existence of God: Compellingly Good, from Samuel D. Hunter
★★★★★ David Cromer directs Kyle Beltran and Will Brill in dynamic new American play
A Case for the Existence of God: Intimate Drama Packing a Powerful Punch
★★★★☆ Two very different men form an unlikely bond in Samuel D. Hunter’s deeply humanistic new play.
Two By Synge: Playing a Legend for Laughs
★★★★☆ Irish Rep artistic director Charlotte Moore pairs and helms two of the playwright’s early efforts
American Buffalo: David Mamet’s Classic Retains Its Classic Status
★★★★☆ Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, Darren Criss, directed by Neill Pepe, as charismatic befuddled losers
Cyrano de Bergerac: James McAvoy As a Swoon-Worthy Swashbuckling Poet
★★★★★ The Jamie Lloyd Company reinvents Rostand’s nosey Frenchman for the 21st century
Harmony: Harmonious Tale of Berlin Singing Group in 1930s
★★★★★ Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman score–in two senses of the word–with this musical, Warren Carlyle helming