★★★☆☆ Playgoers with a taste for British humor may well enjoy what’s being served at 59E59 Theaters
Sommers
The Plough and the Stars: Dubliners Come to Vivid Life in Irish Rep’s Revival
★★★★★ A superb company performs Sean O’Casey’s tragicomedy about the 1916 Easter Rising
Grief is the Thing with Feathers: A Mad, Murky, Melancholy Journey
★★★☆☆ Cillian Murphy delivers a remarkable performance as a man possessed
Lady in the Dark: MasterVoices Lovingly Revives a Masterpiece Musical
★★★★★ Victoria Clark is the glowing central figure of a legendary musical
Hillary and Clinton: Peering Inside the Private Lives of a Power Couple
★★★★☆ Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow superbly depict a dynamic duo
Hadestown: Red, Hot, and Bluesy Score Fuels a Trip to Hell and Back
★★★★☆ Songwriter Anaïs Mitchell makes an impressive Broadway bow with an infernal musical
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy: The Shed Opens With a Mystifying Melologue
★☆☆☆☆ Ben Whishaw and Renee Fleming valiantly appear in a gloomy chamber opera
Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie: Focusing Upon a Slice of Late ’70s Life
★★★☆☆ The Mad Ones offers an awfully ultra-real look at a focus group
The Cradle Will Rock: A Proletarian Musical Looks Kind of Labored
★★☆☆☆ Director John Doyle scarcely does justice by Marc Blitzstein’s legendary 1937 musical
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