★★★★☆ Deb Margolin’s beautifully crafted, powerfully acted reflection on greed and guilt and the crime of the 21st century returns
Off-Broadway
Scotland, PA: A Mostly Fair-to-Middling Musical Dishes Out Murders Most Foul
★★★☆☆ Smart staging and good performers make the most of a so-so new musical
Scotland, PA: Shakespeare’s Scottish Play as an Updated So-So Tuner
★★☆☆☆ The McBeths, as they’re now called, in a Lonny Price-directed Macbeth musical with an Adam Gwon score
Molly Sweeney: Brian Friel’s Drama About Sight Has Vision
★★★★★ Jonathan Silverstein directs the deceptively quiet three-hander with surgical care
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide: Much More Than Enuf
★★★★★ Ntosake Shange’s 1976 success revived with highest standards benevolently applied
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide: Raise Your Voices and Dance
★★★★☆ Ntozake Shange’s 1976 choreopoem receives an inspired revival at the Public Theater, where its poetry first flowed
Bella Bella: Hats Off to Harvey Fierstein’s Abzug Homage
★★★★☆ Four-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein channels Battling Bella Abzug in his history-packed new one-person show
Bella Bella: Tribute to a Champion, of Feminism and More
★★★★☆ Harvey Fierstein remembers, and plays, “Battling Bella” Abzug
Only Human: Giving the Devil His Due, and Then Some
★★☆☆☆ In a new musical, an aspiring rocker takes us to Heaven and Hell—and tries to upstage Gary Busey
Is This A Room: Real Life Whistleblower Gets Busted, in Real Time
★★★★☆ A word-for-word FBI transcript is starkly staged as a documentary drama