★★★★★ The long-running British send-up moves to a new address, keeping its old hilarity
Off-Broadway
The Play That Goes Wrong: Murderous Merriment Moves to Hell(’s Kitchen)
★★★★☆ The long-running British comedy hit retains its lode of laughs as it transfers off-Broadway
The Price of Thomas Scott: A Forgotten Dramatist Depicts a Tempting Offer
★★★☆☆ The Mint unearths the first of several works by a neglected British playwright
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark: She’s Quite a Character
★★★☆☆ Part screwball comedy, part post-doctoral thesis, Lynn Nottage’s 8-year-old play still hasn’t solved its identity crisis
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark: Black and White in Hollywood’s Golden Age
★★★☆☆ Lynn Nottage’s inter-Pulitzer satire is well revived at the Signature, but still only hits some of its marks
Merrily We Roll Along: A Glittering Jewel Revealed
★★★★★ Fiasco Theater rethinks Sondheim and Furth’s backward-through-time musical, with dazzling results
Merrily We Roll Along: Opening Doors, Again
★★★★☆ Fiasco Theater and Roundabout Theatre Company offer another compelling take on a challenging Sondheim musical
Sea Wall / A Life: Personal Storytelling, Carefully and Impersonally Constructed
★★★★☆ Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal offer two monologues of love and death, immaculately performed if not quite honest
Sea Wall / A Life: Meditations on Life and Death
★★★☆☆ Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal star in a pair of somber, sometimes rewarding monologues by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne
Switzerland: Patricia Highsmith in Person Niftily Fictionalized
★★★★☆ Joanna Murray-Smith imagines how the thriller author might handle a non-Tom Ripley young man