The script’s full of navel-gazing; the production drags. Yet Hair still exerts a joyous pull.

Shepard’s politics get the better of him.

When self-reference is not enough.

Inning after inning, Damn Yankees swings and misses.

Is Michael Stuhlbarg a great Hamlet, or only pretending to be one?

Would half as much Neil LaBute be twice as good?

Conor McPherson’s ode to frustration.

The puzzling masterpiece that is Top Girls.

Boeing-Boeing comes out of storage, and the great Mark Rylance nearly gets it airborne.

Both The Country Girl and Les Liaisons Dangereuses give virtuoso actors a chance to triumph.