Sommers

★★★★☆ The Druid company infuses Samuel Beckett’s bleak drama with a wonderful sense of life

★★★★☆ Kids will get a kick out of the 41st edition while their elders will see some nice sights, too

★★★☆☆ Good acting breathes life into a comedy that unexpectedly turns sorrowful

★★★☆☆ A gay romance from the 1960s glimmers within a little musical bubble

★★☆☆☆ A mash-up of fact and fiction shows that writing plays can be harder than rocket science

★★★☆☆ Anne Bogart stages a 2,400 year-old Greek drama with a few modern notes

★★☆☆☆ Able staging and acting can do only so much with a master author’s minor material

★★★★☆ Bob Dylan songs are artfully molded into a new musical of melancholy distinction

★★☆☆☆ A woeful drama (in more ways than one) is performed simultaneously in two languages