Theater Reviews from The Hollywood Reporter

‘Dear Evan Hansen’: Theater Review

This new contemporary musical stars Ben Platt of ‘Pitch Perfect’ fame as a depressed high-schooler caught up in a lie that acquires a life of its own in the social media bubble.

‘A Streetcar Named Desire’: Theater Review

Gillian Anderson stars as Blanche DuBois, fleeing from time and tawdry reality as she careens into insanity in Tennessee Williams’ classic, with Ben Foster as her adversary.

‘Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed’: Theater Review

Writer-director George C. Wolfe and choreographer Savion Glover reteam on another unique journey into black history, featuring a radiant Audra McDonald.

‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’: Theater Review

Jessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Shannon and John Gallagher Jr. play the tortured souls of the Tyrone family in Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical magnum opus.

‘Tuck Everlasting’: Theater Review

An 11-year-old-girl encounters a family who will live forever in this Broadway musical adapted from Natalie Babbitt’s classic children’s book.

‘Fully Committed’: Theater Review

‘Modern Family’ star Jesse Tyler Ferguson returns to Broadway in this one-person, multi-character play about a frazzled reservations clerk at the hottest restaurant in town.

‘Doctor Faustus’: Theater Review

‘Game of Thrones’ hearthtrob Kit Harington stars as the original man who sells his soul in Jamie Lloyd’s London revival of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th century drama.

‘Waitress’: Theater Review

Tony winner Jessie Mueller plays an unhappily married diner server pouring love into her pies in this musical based on the 2007 indie hit, featuring a score by Sara Bareilles.

‘American Psycho’: Theater Review

Benjamin Walker stars as Patrick Bateman, who has to return some videotapes and sing about it in this electro-pop musical adaptation of the era-defining Bret Easton Ellis novel.

‘Stage Kiss’: Theater Review

Glenne Headly leads the cast of Sarah Ruhl’s giddy backstage romantic comedy in its Los Angeles premiere at the Geffen Playhouse.

‘The Father’: Theater Review

Frank Langella takes a dark journey down the tragic one-way tunnel of dementia in French playwright Florian Zeller’s intense drama, adapted in English by Christopher Hampton.

‘The Caretaker’: Theater Review

Timothy Spall returns to the stage after two decades’ absence in Harold Pinter’s cryptic classic about three lost souls thrown together in a drab London attic.

‘Sunset Boulevard’: Theater Review

Glenn Close makes her belated West End stage debut, reviving her 1995 Tony-winning role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Hollywood noir musical based on the Billy Wilder film.

‘Antlia Pneumatica’: Theater Review

A group of old friends gather together to host a wake in Anne Washburn’s supernatural-tinged drama, which features Annie Parisse and Rob Campbell.

‘The Sessions’: Theater Review

This lightly dramatized new Beatles musical features 60 songs, 45 performers and a high-tech stage set that includes a full-scale replica of Abbey Road recording studio.

‘Henry IV Part I,’ ‘Henry IV Part II,’ ‘Henry V’: Theater Review

The Brooklyn Academy of Music hosts the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘King and Country: Shakespeare’s Great Cycle of Kings.’

‘Richard II’: Theater Review

David Tennant makes his U.S. stage debut as the doomed monarch in the opener of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘Henriad,’ presented under the banner ‘King and Country.’

‘Oh, Hello’: Theater Review

Following their sellout New York run, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney continue to hit comedy paydirt with their old-codger alter egos in a limited Hollywood engagement.

‘The Crucible’: Theater Review

Saoirse Ronan leads the accusers in this revival of Arthur Miller’s morality play about the Salem witch trials, with Ben Whishaw and Sophie Okonedo as John and Elizabeth Proctor.

‘1776’: Theater Review

Santino Fontana stars as John Adams in the Tony-winning 1969 musical about the Founding Fathers, which Lin-Manuel Miranda credits as his inspiration for ‘Hamilton.’

‘Head of Passes’: Theater Review

Phylicia Rashad stars as the matriarch of a family in southernmost Louisiana experiencing a crisis of faith in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s contemporary spin on the Book of Job.

‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder’: Theater Review

The 2014 Tony winner for best musical arrives in Los Angeles on its national tour, with wit and charm to spare and an all-new cast.

‘Bright Star’: Theater Review

Walter Bobbie directs this original bluegrass musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, about two Southerners in the 1940s whose lives are more intertwined than they know.

‘Dry Powder’: Theater Review

Hank Azaria, Claire Danes and John Krasinski play hardball with the American economy in Sarah Burgess’ drama at the Public Theater, staged by ‘Hamilton’ director Thomas Kail.

‘The Effect’: Theater Review

Directed by David Cromer, this U.S. premiere by ‘Enron’ playwright Lucy Prebble follows two volunteers in a clinical antidepressant drug trial who fall in love.

‘The Painkiller’: Theater Review

Kenneth Branagh returns to the West End stage in director Sean Foley’s adaptation of a 1969 French farce by Francis Veber, which also stars Rob Brydon.

‘The Painkiller’: Theater Review

Kenneth Branagh makes a rare return to the West End stage in this lively French farce.

‘She Loves Me’: Theater Review

Laura Benanti and Zachary Levi play quarreling co-workers unaware that they are amorous pen pals in this musical love letter, which also features Jane Krakowski.

‘Ironbound’: Theater Review

Marin Ireland plays a struggling Polish immigrant in Martyna Majok’s gritty, New Jersey-set drama, which also features Shiloh Fernandez.

‘Hold On to Me Darling’: Theater Review

Timothy Olyphant plays a crossover country star whose mother’s death throws his life into turmoil in Kenneth Lonergan’s comedy about celebrity self-importance.

‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit’: Theater Review

A different star performs weekly in this experimental solo play in which the actor is seeing the script for the first time when he or she steps onstage.

‘The Robber Bridegroom’: Theater Review

Steven Pasquale and Ahna O’Reilly hit the Natchez Trace in Alex Timbers’ high-energy staging of this backwoods bluegrass musical based on the Eudora Welty novella.

‘Southern Comfort’: Theater Review

Annette O’Toole plays the dying patriarch of a transgender family in this musical adaptation of the 2001 documentary, a Grand Jury Prize winner at Sundance.

‘Boy’: Theater Review

Bobby Steggert stars in Anna Ziegler’s play about a man struggling with transgender issues as a result of being raised as a girl after a childhood accident.

‘Blackbird’: Theater Review

Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams face off in David Harrower’s intimate drama about the fraught reunion of two people years after an illicit relationship that scarred them both.

‘Disaster!’: Theater Review

An ensemble of Broadway stalwarts gets nostalgic for 1970s big-screen calamities and cheesy Top 40 period pop in this gag-laden musical parody.

‘The Royale’: Theater Review

Marco Ramirez’s play presented by Lincoln Center Theater is loosely based on the life of boxer Jack Johnson, the first African-American world heavyweight champion.

‘Hungry’: Theater Review

Richard Nelson’s new trilogy follows the template of his ‘Apple Family Plays’ in tracking the lives of a Dutchess County, NY, family during a tumultuous election cycle.

‘Red Speedo’: Theater Review

A competitive swimmer does whatever it takes to get into the Olympics in Lucas Hnath’s drama at New York Theatre Workshop.

‘Familiar’: Theater Review

Taking a breather from her day job on ‘The Walking Dead,’ Danai Gurira bows this domestic comedy-drama about conflicted cultural identity, the same month she makes her Broadway debut with ‘Eclipsed.’