★★★★☆ McKinley Belcher III and Mandi Masden give their impressive all under director Logan Vaughn
Off-Broadway
Mies Julie and The Dance of Death: Strindberg Strengthened, Weakened
Yaël Farber’s Mies Julie ★★★★ smartly transforms Strindberg, while The Dance of Death revival ★★ merely smarts
Mies Julie and The Dance of Death: The First Is Hot, the Second Is Not
Classic Stage offers two Strindberg plays in separate productions, one more august than the other
Call Me Madam: Political Satire 70 Years Later, Without Ethel Merman
★★★★☆ Encores’ latest is a thorough charmer, though not quite the blockbuster it could be
Call Me Madam: Irving Berlin’s Tuneful Laugh at 1950s Politics
★★★★☆ Carmen Cusack goes for broke and nicely gets there in the satirical Ethel Merman showcase
God Said This: A Kentucky Family Being Unhappy in Its Own Way
★★★☆☆ A gentle new comedy-drama explores mother-daughter-sister relationships
Gatz: Elevator Repair Service’s Penthouse-High Great Gatsby Transfer
★★★★★ Every word of Fitzgerald’s masterwork faithfully read and acted with loving urgency
Joan: Dealing Out a Disorderly Deck of Triste and Trite Snapshots
★★☆☆☆ Stephen Belber’s latest drama shuffles through a tiresome heap of cliches
The Convent: Modern-Day Women Go Soul Searching in a Medieval Milieu
★★☆☆☆ Jessica Dickey’s latest play scarcely achieves its intriguing possibilities
Eddie and Dave: Running with the Devil, in Drag
★★★★☆ A storied rock & roll rivalry is revisited hilariously, with a gender twist (and tenderness), in Amy Staats’s new play