★★★☆☆ Peter Kellogg, Stephen Weiner adapt The Count of Monte Cristo, Peter Flynn directs
Tru: Gossipy Truman Capote on the Uproarious Warpath
★★★★☆ Jesse Tyler Ferguson in Jay Presson Allen’s ingratiating script, Rob Ashford gleefully directing
Cold War Choir Practice: Choir’s Under-Rehearsed, Over-Rehearsed
★★☆☆☆ Ro Reddick’s Susan Smith Blackburn prize play with music, directed by Knud Adams
Night Side Songs: Illness Musicalized, Showing Worrisome Symptoms
★★★☆☆ Daniel and Patrick Lazour examine a tough subject through song
Data: Hot Headlines-Focused Play With Scarifying Guarantees
★★★★★ Playwright Michael Libby, director Tyne Rafaeli, and four actors in tiptop form score heavily in this new and significant drama
Going Bacharach: Mishandling an Icon’s Songs
★★☆☆☆ Revue supposedly honoring Burt Bacharach songs, mostly with Hal David lyrics ,comes a cropper
Picnic at Hanging Rock: Tasty Picnic, Some Ants Intruding
★★★☆☆ Hilary Bell, Greta Gertler Gold musicalize scary novel and movie, Portia Kreigler directs
Tartuffe: Lucas Hnath Runs Out of Rhymes on Molière’s Classic
★★☆☆☆ Sarah Benson’s lively direction can’t overcome adaptor Hnath’s careless Molière treatment
Gotta Dance!: Gotta Dance Better Than This!
★★☆☆☆ American Dance Machine lacks sufficient flair reviving favorite choreographed numbers
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York): A Tasty Slice of Cake
★★★★☆ Musical import tells sweet-bitter tale of Brit and American finding each other and themselves