★★★☆☆ Songwriter Maury Yeston’s catalog romped through by director Gerard Alessandrini and deft cast
Off-Broadway
Harry Townsend’s Last Stand: Wheezy Geriatric Comedy, with Fart Jokes
★★☆☆☆ Len Cariou does his best to charm his way through George Eastman’s creaky comedy
MsTRIAL: Office Sexual Harassment Goes Strongly #MeToo
★★★☆☆ Former lawyer Dep Kirkland plays a nasty lawyer in his Weinstein-influenced drama
A Bright Room Called Day: The Fascist and the Furious
★★★★☆ Tony Kushner takes another look at his Hitler-through-the-Reagan-era play ‘A Bright Room Called Day’
A Bright Room Called Day: A Call to Action, Refreshed
★★★★☆ Tony Kushner’s first produced play gets an update, and a stellar cast, in a new Public Theater production
The Young Man From Atlanta: Horton Foote’s Pulitzer-Winner Fizzles in Revival
★★★☆☆ A solid, straightforward staging at the Signature delivers little emotion and no surprises
Fefu and Her Friends: Still Ahead of Its Time
★★★☆☆ An unorthodox 1977 drama on feminist themes is revived by Theatre for a New Audience
The Underlying Chris: The Circle of Life, Through a Rainbow of Lenses
★★★★☆ Playwright Will Eno and director Kenny Leon find meaning, and commonality, in life’s little moments
The Underlying Chris: What We Share in Our World
★★★★☆ Will Eno thoughtfully explores the human essentials in his latest play
The Crucible: Boils Over Again In a Hot and Timely Staging
★★★★☆ Bedlam removes the frame from Arthur Miller’s drama about another witch hunt