★★★★☆ Stephanie J. Block, Teal Wicks and Micaela Diamond play Sonny’s erstwhile partner with the absolutely right style
The Hello Girls: Perky, Pertinent World War I Musical Is Welcome
★★★★☆ Songwriter Peter Mills and Prospect Theater Company celebrate pioneering Great War telephone operators
The Hard Problem: Tom Stoppard Presents and Cleverly Solves His Latest Theater Problem
★★★★☆ Consciousness is on the playwright’s mind, whether and where that mind might be located, as one young, smart woman sees it
Wild Goose Dreams: Romance Gone Wrong? Why Not Blame the Internet?
★★★☆☆ Hansol Jung sets her social-media excoriation—with fairy-tale overtones—in South Korea without any Kim Jong-un threat
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: Bertolt Brecht’s Anti-Tyrant Allegory Doesn’t Rise High Enough
★★☆☆☆ Raul Esparza comes back to the New York Stage as the title figure in John Doyle’s Neo-Brechtian(?) production.
Eve’s Song: Patricia Ione Lloyd’s Tough Look at Racism Today
★★★★☆ A middle-class black family and interloping spirits hold out little hope for today’s race relations
I’m Not a Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce: The Soap-Mouth Comic Returns
★★★★☆ Ronnie Marmo writes and acts, Joe Mantegna directs a strong, sensitive tribute
Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett’s Masterpiece Masterfully Handled
★★★★★ Druid’s Garry Hynes directs Marty Rea and Aaron Monaghan in a brilliantly physical version
Torch Song: Harvey Fierstein’s View of Gay Life Not Always Gay
★★★★☆ Urie, Ruehl repeat their masterful performances in the strong Second Stage revival
Love, Linda: Stevie Holland Explains Why Mrs. Cole Porter Is So in Love
★★★★☆ Twenty of the great love song purveyor’s greatest hits recalled in a musical autobiography