★★★ A gay romance from the 1960s glimmers within a little musical bubble
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Midnight at the Never Get: A Musical That Never Quite Gets There
★★ Mark Sonnenblick is the composer-;lyricist-bookwriter of a sorry tale of 1960s gay romance
Anastasia: Journey to the Musical Past
★★★★ Long-Run Lookback: McNally, Ahrens and Flaherty ransack the operetta playbook, with pleasing results
The Winning Side: What’s Love Got to Do With Wernher Von Braun?
★★ A mash-up of fact and fiction shows that writing plays can be harder than rocket science
Popcorn Falls: Small-Town Drama, Played For Laughs
★★★ Christian Borle directs two other facile funny men in a play by James Hindman.
Oklahoma!: Bright Golden Haze (and Darkest Night) on the Meadow
★★★★ A brave and mostly successful rethinking of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic
Oklahoma!: The Great Musical in 2018 Whipping-Down-the-Plain Take
★★★★ Daniel Fish and fine 12-member cast, 7-musician band revitalize the Rodgers-Hammerstein classic
The Bacchae: Euripides’ Classical Tragicomedy of Wine, Women, and Wrong
★★★ Anne Bogart stages a 2,400 year-old Greek drama with a few modern notes
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Girl From the North Country: Souls Tangled Up In Blue, Bleak and Radiant
★★★★★ Depression-era Minnesotans find no shelter from their storms in Conor McPherson’s adaptation of Bob Dylan’s songs
THE FEINGOLD COLUMN: Doing Without Theater
In his debut column for New York Stage Review, the longtime Village Voice critic reflects on a season of no playgoing
The True: Behind Every Man, Resilience and Pain
★★★★ Edie Falco plays a political survivor, decades before #MeToo, in Sharr White’s moving play.
Beautiful: Some Kind of Wonderful Show
★★★★ Long-Run Lookback: Abby Mueller shows the world all the love in her heart as Broadway’s current Carole King in the long-running biomusical
Uncle Vanya: Richard Nelson Goes to Russia
★★★★ Richard Nelson brings his signature understated style to Chekhov’s tragicomedy in this debut from the Hunter Theater Project
The Band’s Visit: Still the Music of the Jasmine-Scented Night
★★★★★ Last season’s best new musical retains its magic with a new leading man
The Boys in the Band: 50 Shades of Gay
★★★★★ Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, and a charismatic ensemble leap out of a queer time capsule from 1968
My Fair Lady: Sher’s New Production, Warm and Tender As It Can Be
★★★★★ Lerner and Loewe’s masterwork shines in a masterful new production