*****/***** (5 stars out of 5) Laughter is the best medicine, as the saying goes—especially in these troubled times. But how that medicine is prescribed and administered can vary from culture to culture. That’s the surprise and delight of Operation Mincemeat, now playing on Broadway at the Golden Theatre. It’s an exuberant...

They are so good, you should keep your fingers crossed that they come to New York

***/***** (three stars out of five) Have you ever longed to reconnect with a lost parent? It’s a regret many of us share— the conversation we never had with a now-deceased mother or father, to understand them better, to learn things about them we never knew, to obtain answers to...

****/***** (four out of five stars “English only!” That’s the rule in the classroom, Marjan declares, where she is teaching the language to five eager Iranian students in the city of Karaj, Iran, in 2008. But English (now playing on Broadway at the Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre)—Sanaz Toossi’s revelatory, multi-layered journey through a...