★★☆☆☆ Director John Doyle scarcely does justice by Marc Blitzstein’s legendary 1937 musical
Off-Broadway
I Carry Your Heart: A Play About a Transplant And What Else Is Planted
★★★★☆ Georgette Kelly keenly sees how many hearts are affected after one meaningful operation
Do You Feel Anger?: Nasty Boys, and the Women Who Endure Them
★★☆☆☆ Young playwright Mara Nelson-Greenberg offers an absurdist, simplistic look at sexism in the workplace
Do You Feel Anger?: A Mildly Absurd Look at Misogyny on the Job
★★★☆☆ A comedy about un-woke office jerks and the women who put up with them
The White Devil: Stylishly Wicked Fun for Everyone
★★★★☆ Red Bull Theater restores a circa 1612 thriller to lusty life in modern dress
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar: Director Shana Cooper’s Furious Take
★★★★☆ An unusually well-spoken, even well-declaimed treatment, choreographed by Erika Chong Shuch
The Lehman Trilogy: Theatrical Magnificence from Sam Mendes, at the Armory
★★★★★ This compelling chronicle of the rise and fall of the American finance family is not to be missed
The Lehman Trilogy: An American Dream, and Tragedy, Majestically Recalled
★★★★★ Sam Mendes’s stunning production of Stefano Massini’s rise-and-fall epic arrives in New York
Ain’t No Mo’: A Sharply Satirical Study in Black Manners and Matters
★★★★☆ The Public Theater unleashes a wildly serio-comical show about race
Ain’t No Mo’: This In-Yo’-Face Revue Asks If Blacks Should Fly to Africa
★★★★☆ While examining USA racism playwright-actor Jordan E. Cooper reaps chills, laughs