★☆☆☆☆ Director/adaptor David Herskovits misses the mark with Kern/Hammerstein/Ferber classic
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All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich — Hit & Miss Revue
★★★☆☆ John Mulaney, Fred Armisen, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Richard Kind in an amusing evening
A Guide for the Homesick: 2 Actors, 4 Characters, 1 Misguided Script
★★☆☆☆ Actors McKinley Belcher III, Uly Schlesinger, director Shira Milikowsky distinguish Ken Urban’s confusing drama
Death Becomes Her: 1992 Streep-Hawn Film Musicalized, Unbecomingly
★★☆☆☆ Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard are the contentious bffs, with Christopher Gattelli directing-choreographing
The Blood Quilt: Katori Hall’s Beautifully Stitched Sisters Play
★★★★☆ Lileana Blain-Cruz directs a highly proficient cast hardly upstaged by a series of awesome quilts
King Lear: Kenneth Branagh Brings a Revival For Our Time, Sorta
★★★☆☆ Trimmed to two hours, the classic is directed by Branagh, Rob Ashford and Lucy Skilbeck with a young cast
Mama I’m a Big Girl Now!: Bundy, Butler & Winokur Celebrate with Love
★★★★☆ The Broadway vets cleverly relive their related on-stage and off-stage lives
A Wonderful World: Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful Noteworthy World
★★★★☆ James Monroe Iglehart stars in a tribute to one of the true 20th-century jazz greats
Gatz: Fitzgerald Classic Word-for-Word from Elevator Repair Service
★★★★☆ John Collins directs, Scott Shepherd narrates, with some past and some new cast members
Ragtime: E. L. Doctorow’s Musicalized Masterpiece Masterfully Revived
★★★★★ The Terrence McNally-Stephen Flaherty-Lynn Ahrens flawless work, directed by Lear deBessonet, choreographed by Ellenore Scott