★★★☆☆ The comedian adapts his flick hit with co-writers Ganz and Mandel, Brown and Green songs added, and Rando direction
POTUS: Foul-Mouthed Women on Comedy Rampage
★★★☆☆ Selina Fillinger writes a laugh-getter, Susan Stroman directs, Julie White, Lea DeLaria, Rachel Dratch et al amuse
Funny Girl: Beanie Feldstein Easy-Peasy Proves She’s a Funny Girl
★★★★☆ Michael Mayer directs the revived Styne-Merrill-Isobel Lennart tuner with Ramin Karimloo, Jane Lynch, Jared Grimes
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf: Enuf, and More
★★★★★ Ntozake Shange’s gloriously mad poems, directed by Camille A. Brown with a colorful seven-women cast
How I Learned to Drive: Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer-Prize-Winner Returns in Highest Gear
★★★★★ Original stars Mary Louise Parker and David Morse, and director Mark Brokaw resume their assignments
American Buffalo: David Mamet’s Classic Retains Its Classic Status
★★★★☆ Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, Darren Criss, directed by Neill Pepe, as charismatic befuddled losers
Harmony: Harmonious Tale of Berlin Singing Group in 1930s
★★★★★ Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman score–in two senses of the word–with this musical, Warren Carlyle helming
The Patsy: Theater-Devoted David Greenspan Jovially Takes on All Six Roles
★★★★☆ Jack Cummings III directs this compact revival of the charming 1925 Barry Connors drawing-room comedy
Suffs: The Suffragist Movement in High-Tone Song and Dance, Believe it or Not
★★★★☆ Shaina Taub cements her name as composer, lyricist, bookwriter, and performer, along with impassioned others
Confederates: Black Women Keenly Observed in the Ketanji Brown Jackson Era
★★★★☆ The reliable Dominique Morisseau scores again, with Stori Ayers firmly directing an extremely versatile cast