★★★★☆ Ciarán O’Reilly directs a worthy revival of a play about a raging pub owner bent on his own destruction
Off-Broadway
On Sugarland: An Ambitious, Epic Wartime Drama
★★★★☆ Aleshea Harris explores the aftermath of war and the shades of grief in a shattering new play
On Sugarland: Playwright Aleshea Harris Concentrates on Black Lives Mattering
★★★☆☆ Whitney White directs a smooth ensemble portraying people trying to persist in a far-flung Southern cul-de-sac
Out of Time: Five Monologues Masterfully Capturing Contemporary Anxiety
★★★★☆ Five BIPOC playwrights, five BIPOC actors, directed by Les Waters, hit involving high notes
sandblasted: The Place of Black Women Today Given a Fantastical Look-See
★★★☆☆ Playwright Charly Evon Simpson has a strong but compromised say, mightily helped by her director and cast
English: Playwright Sanaz Toossi Looks at Language in So Many Wise Words
★★★★☆ A smart cast, under Knud Adams’ smart direction, speak in two tongues but both English
English: Lost in Translation
★★★☆☆ Sanaz Toosi’s play concerns a group of adult Iranian students attempting to learn English.
The Daughter-in-Law: Early D.H. Lawrence Revived Again, in Mint Condition
★★★★☆ Martin Platt once again helms a bracing revival of the socially and emotionally charged play
The Daughter-in-Law: Sons and Lovers and Clinging Mums
★★★☆☆ The Mint returns with D.H. Lawrence’s posthumously unearthed “problem play”
Wolf Play: Surviving on Animal Instincts
★★★★★ In Hansol Jung’s heartbreaking play, an adopted boy assumes a lupine identity while trying to find a place to call home