★★★★☆ Songwriters Daniel and Patrick Lazour and hard-working cast triumph, under Taibi Magar’s direction
Romeo + Juliet: Star-Cross’d Lovers in Star-Cross’d “For Our Time” Production
★★☆☆☆ Kit Connor’s Romeo is notable in Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy, under director Sam Gold’s faulty hand
Sunset Blvd.: Nicole Scherzinger Is Norma Desmond in Glorious Black-and-White
★★★☆☆ Director Jamie Lloyd applies his distillation formula to musical adaptation of the classic 1950 film
Hold on to Me Darling: Adam Driver As Country Star in Emotional Traffic Jam
★★★☆☆ Kenneth Lonergan’s 2016 play, revived and directed again by Neil Pepe, with peppery supporting cast
Our Town: Kenny Leon Smartly Repopulates Thornton Wilder for 2024
★★★★☆ Parsons, Thomas, Holmes, Jones, Wilson, Deutch, Sykes head stand-out 28-member cast
Good Bones: James Ijames’ Sophisticated Fat Ham Successor
★★★★☆ Saheem Ali directs a wise, well-acted four-hander about marriage, gentrification, more
Yellow Face: Playwright David Henry Hwang Has Fun Unmasking Himself
★★★★☆ Daniel Dae Kim, as Hwang, leads the revival featuring a comic cast under Leigh Silverman’s direction
Medea Re-Versed: Euripides’ Classic Raptly Updated as Rap
★★★★☆ Luis Quintero updates 431 B. C. with strong actors, musicians, Nathan Winkelstein directing
The Hills of California: Jez Butterworth’s Piercing Gaze on Four Sisters
★★★★★ Sam Mendes intensely directs a dark Blackpool dramedy with an unbeatable cast
Forbidden Broadway, Merrily We Stole a Song: A New, B- Edition
★★★☆☆ Gerard Alessandrini hits, misses, while Stern, Collins-Pisano, Hayward, Ortiz cast never misses