★★★★★ Depression-era Minnesotans find no shelter from their storms in Conor McPherson’s adaptation of Bob Dylan’s songs
Off-Broadway
Girl From the North Country: A Visit to Desolation Row With Bob Dylan
★★★★☆ Bob Dylan songs are artfully molded into a new musical of melancholy distinction
What the Constitution Means to Me: Trying to Figure That Out, Wonderfully
★★★★☆ Heidi Schreck’s entertaining, earnest exploration of our fundamental rights is a tonic for our challenging times
What the Constitution Means to Me: Lots, Declares Heidi Schreck
★★★★☆ Laughs abound in this sincere defense of the currently under-siege document
Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet: Bedlam’s Newest Jumbled Classic Doesn’t Quite Add Up
★★☆☆☆ Chekhov and Shakespeare make a mismatched pair
I Was Most Alive with You: Craig Lucas Unleashes a Tsunami of Sorrows
★★☆☆☆ A woeful drama (in more ways than one) is performed simultaneously in two languages
Wild Abandon: Leenya Rideout Plays, Sings, Talks Show-Biz/Mom Issues
★★★☆☆ The multi-talented performer works instruments and resentments to vigorous effect
A Lovely Sunday For Creve Coeur: Women Of A Certain Time, Alone Together
★★★☆☆ La Femme Theatre Productions offers a fittingly languid revival of a later, lesser-known Tennessee Williams play
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur: Life Is No Picnic
★★★☆☆ Kristine Nielsen and Annette O’Toole lock horns in a rare revival of an underappreciated Tennessee Williams drama
The True: Behind Every Man, Resilience and Pain
★★★★☆ Edie Falco plays a political survivor, decades before #MeToo, in Sharr White’s moving play.