Theater

Our reviewers were not enthusiastic about two award-winning plays.

Heidi Schreck’s new play puts the narrative of her own life in contention with the history of our nation’s founding document.

“His story is so triumphal in the sense of what he was eventually able to do,” responding to persecution and oppression with an outpouring of love.

The director Jack Cummings III has reimagined the play as a kind of found text, recited and enacted by three Asian American actors.

All owe a debt to “Rent,” and I for one am happy to pay it.

Two starry new Broadway productions have no qualms about speaking their mind.