Harriet Harris shines as Chris Durang’s nutty nun, while Robert E. Sherwood’s vintage melodrama just shines, period.
West Side Story: Reproducing a Classic With Sincerity, and Safety
★★★★☆ 100th birthday tributes to Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins yield a familiar but affecting take on timeless material.
Lempicka: Art for Art’s Ache in the 20th Century
★★☆☆☆ An ambitious but unfocused musical gives a great, underappreciated 20th century female artist too much of a brush-off
The Closet: A Gay Deceiver for a New Century
★★★☆☆ Matthew Broderick shines in Douglas Carter Beane’s uneven comic vision of a post-bigotry, Freak Flags Flying modern America