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Stuff Happens purports to tell us how Iraq went down—but a little more intellectual rigor would’ve helped.

Lisa Kron’s Well is a moving play about her mother that wonders, “If I got better, why couldn’t she?”

Timing, tone, Alec Baldwin: Everything’s wrong with this Entertaining Mr. Sloane.

Ring of Fire lacks spark; Grey Gardens does too, but it’s saved by one fantastic star.

John Patrick Shanley and Martin McDonagh go head-to-head again, with a new outcome.

After winning everything in sight last year, John Patrick Shanley’s pedophilia thriller-drama-parable has turned to new actors to keep running, and the transplant hasn’t entirely come off.

In The Pajama Game, Harry Connick Jr. is a stiff (with great pecs). But he sure can work that piano.

The frequently profane, occasionally graphic play about two old friends and their shared hooker has rich characters, finely tuned writing, and laughs.

It probably wasn’t in director Scott Elliott’s power to wrest a really transcendent night from this material, but he does make it a diverting one.

A quarter century on, hip-hop has barely cracked the theater. But it could be its salvation.