A promising young playwright plumbs the vicissitudes of recovery.

Emily Mann’s play paints a vivid portrait of the pioneering journalist and feminist Gloria Steinem.

This is an opera so beautifully played, sung and designed that one can forgive any hollowness in the story.

The Moonlight writer offers a big-hearted portrait of young African Americans navigating class and sexual differences in private school.

While the orchestra performance and set design are amazing, Bartlett Sher’s staging has a few kinks to work out. 

Director Trip Cullman conjures a gorgeous conspiracy of elements with Tarell Alvin McCraney’s memory play.

Each of the many characters in Jez Butterworth's remarkable drama is drawn with distinct detail.

Jeremy O. Harris' experimental play is sure to make many people uncomfortable, as intended.

Jeff Daniels puts in a great performance, but there's an element missing here that was essential to the book and film.

Cherise Boothe gives an excellent performance in this story of a woman breaking apart and trying to put it all back together again.

Aaron Sorkin has left his fingerprints all over this stage adaptation, to mixed results.

Heidi Schreck’s engaging play may stick with you long after you've left the theater.

Despite great acting, this techno-savvy adaptation is strangely out of step with some of the more searing themes in the original film.

Cher fans will be singing the praises of Stephanie J. Block, who leads three great actresses in this spectacular musical.

Bryan Cranston gives a towering performance in Ivo van Hove's stage adaptation of the 1976 film.

The giant state-of-the-art animatronics are undercut by how bad this musical is on all other fronts. 

After the dazzle of the special effects wears off, this behemoth musical feels pretty small.

At age 86, Elaine May turns in an electrifying performance as a woman whose mind is slipping away.

Set in a in a post-apocalyptic speakeasy, Anais Mitchell's folk opera is quirky, fiery and invigorating.

The latest presentation of Pinter’s overlooked works is remarkably relevant to today's Britain.

Not all of Pinter's early works need to be dug up, but these two are worth it.

London playhouses looked to American voices to fill the gaps in a year where good new writing was a little sparse.

Paul Ready is excellent in this spooky, shadowy production.

By not fully explaining his characters' motivations, Mark Ravenhill leaves audience members scratching their heads.

Anthony Neilson has stretched a short story into a mish-mashed mess of a theater dramatisation.

Joanna Murray-Smith’s engaging play features an imaginary encounter with a real-life crime writer.

Marianne Elliott has triumphantly reinvented and reframed this 1970 musical into a 21st-century fable of female singledom.

An updated version brings this musical into the 21st century, where being single in your 30s is a woman's choice.

David Hare's play asks a lot of questions about the Labour Party without providing substantive answers or connecting the story to today.