Theater Reviews from The Hollywood Reporter

Here is the latest Theater Review from The Hollywood Reporter.

‘Wild’: Theater Review

Edward Snowden inspired this timely British drama from Mike Bartlett (‘King Charles III’) about secrecy and surveillance, which combines absurdist comedy with dazzling special effects.

‘In & Of Itself’: Theater Review

Directed by Frank Oz, with music by Mark Mothersbaugh, Derek DelGaudio’s unorthodox magic show has been extended a third time at the Geffen Playhouse due to popular demand.

‘Out of the Mouths of Babes’: Theater Review

Oscar-winner Estelle Parsons and two-time Tony winner Judith Ivey star in Israel Horovitz’s new comedy about four women who gather for their former lover’s funeral.

‘Big Sky’: Theater Review

Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros’ new domestic comedy world-premieres at the Geffen Playhouse, starring Jennifer Westfeldt and Arnie Burton.

‘Richard III’: Theater Review

Ralph Fiennes gets the hump as Shakespeare’s nastiest villain, with support from Vanessa Redgrave as a queen driven mad by grief in this latest production from director Rupert Goold.

‘The Taming of the Shrew’: Theater Review

Janet McTeer and Cush Jumbo play combative newlyweds Petruchio and Katherina in Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Shakespeare in the Park staging.

‘The Go-Between’: Theater Review

London stage doyen Michael Crawford returns to the West End with a nearly sung-through musical adaptation of L. P. Hartley’s classic novel.

‘Shining City’: Theater Review

Matthew Broderick stars in this off-Broadway revival at the Irish Repertory Theatre of Conor McPherson’s 2004 drama about unmoored Dubliners.

‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City’: Theater Review

Beth Behrs of ‘2 Broke Girls’ stars in Halley Feiffer’s caustic comedy about two mismatched people who meet in their ailing mothers’ shared hospital room.

‘War’: Theater Review

Family tensions escalate after a matriarch suffers a stroke in the latest provocative drama by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, author of ‘An Octoroon’ and ‘Gloria.’

‘Sideways’: Theater Review

Rex Pickett combines elements of his original novel with Alexander Payne’s Oscar-winning buddy comedy for this new stage version of the boozy California bromance.

‘Threepenny Opera’: Theater Review

Rory Kinnear stars in this new adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s lusty lowlife musical at the National Theatre, the first London revival in over 20 years.

‘3Penny Opera’: Theater Review

Rory Kinnear stars in this new adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s lusty lowlife musical at the National Theatre, the first London revival in over 20 years.

‘Romeo and Juliet’: Theater Review

Richard Madden and Lily James are reunited on stage by their ‘Cinderella’ director Kenneth Branagh for this London production.

‘Paramour’: Theater Review

Cirque du Soleil’s first-ever show created especially for Broadway has been grossing north of $1 million a week in previews.

‘The Total Bent’: Theater Review

Stew and Heidi Rodewald, creators of the Tony Award-winning ‘Passing Strange,’ collaborate on their latest musical project at the Public Theater.

‘Incognito’: Theater Review

Charlie Cox of Netflix’s ‘Daredevil’ and Geneva Carr, a Tony nominee last year for ‘Hand to God,’ appear in this new brain-teasing play by Nick Payne, author of ‘Constellations.’

‘The City of Conversation’: Theater Review

Christine Lahti and Jason Ritter star in Anthony Giardina’s political family drama, which offers a compelling glimpse at the roots of hyper-partisanship in Washington.

‘Hadestown’: Theater Review

‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812’ director Rachel Chavkin delivers a similarly immersive staging of Anais Mitchell’s acclaimed concept album based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

‘Turn Me Loose’: Theater Review

‘Scandal’ regular Joe Morton plays legendary comedian Dick Gregory in this bio-play produced by singer John Legend.

‘The Ruins of Civilization’: Theater Review

A couple living in a futuristic society open their home to a stranger in this world premiere play by Penelope Skinner.

‘Indecent’: Theater Review

Paula Vogel’s new play with music tells the story behind Sholem Asch’s controversial 1907 Yiddish play ‘God of Vengeance.’

‘The Judas Kiss’: Theater Review

Rupert Everett stars in this new production from director Neil Armfield of David Hare’s 1998 play about Oscar Wilde.

‘Daphne’s Dive’: Theater Review

‘Hamilton’ director Thomas Kail stages this new drama from Pulitzer winner Quiara Alegria Hudes, tracking the patrons of a Philadelphia bar over nearly two decades.

‘Do I Hear a Waltz?’: Theater Review

Melissa Errico stars in the 1965 Richard Rodgers/Stephen Sondheim musical, based on the Arthur Laurents play that also inspired David Lean’s classic film ‘Summertime.’

‘Do I Hear a Waltz?’: Theater Review

Melissa Errico stars in the Encores! production of the 1965 Richard Rodgers/Stephen Sondheim musical based on the Arthur Laurents play that also inspired David Lean’s classic film “Summertime.”