★★★★★ David Cromer directs Kyle Beltran and Will Brill in dynamic new American play
Off-Broadway
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
To My Girls: ‘Boys in the Band,’ Unsuccessfully Updated in Palm Springs
★★☆☆☆ Playwright JC Lee tries and fails to create a compelling portrait of 30-something gay male friendship today
The Patsy: Theater-Devoted David Greenspan Jovially Takes on All Six Roles
★★★★☆ Jack Cummings III directs this compact revival of the charming 1925 Barry Connors drawing-room comedy
Suffs: New Musical Wins by a Landslide
★★★★★ Shaina Taub writes and stars in an exciting new musical saluting a band of forgotten but exceptional American heroes
Suffs: The Suffragist Movement in High-Tone Song and Dance, Believe it or Not
★★★★☆ Shaina Taub cements her name as composer, lyricist, bookwriter, and performer, along with impassioned others