Daniel Radcliffe received five-star reviews from U.S. critics for his “warm, sensitive” performance as a disabled orphan in “The Cripple of Inishmaan.”

    Originally staged in London last year, the play is the actor’s third Broadway outing, after “Equus” and “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”

    Writing in The New York Times, Ben Brantley called it “his most satisfying stage work to date.”

    Other reviews praised his “sympathetic” and “convincing” take on the lead role.

    Set in 1934, the story follows disabled teenager Billy Claven, who lives with his “aunties” on the isle of Inishmaan off the west coast of Ireland.

    Constantly mocked* by the islanders, who call him Cripple Billy, he survives the tedium* of daily life by reading books and staring at cows.

    But the arrival of a Hollywood filmmaker on a neighboring island offers him a chance of escape to a glamorous new life.

    Writing in the Chicago Tribune, Chris Jones also noted the 24-year-old’s sympathetic portrayal of physical disability.

    He “delivers a Billy with one heck of a limp, a body-twisting contortion that, when in motion, is quite the theatrical thing to behold,” he wrote.

    Written by Martin McDonagh in 1996, “The Cripple of Inishmaan” had never been staged on Broadway before now.

    Directed by former “Donmar Warehouse” director Michael Grandage, it retains the cast from last year’s production at London’s Noel Coward theater.(SD-Agencies)