★★★☆☆ Three new one-act plays by Neil LaBute find men and women grappling with contemporary and historical issues
On Blueberry Hill: Unlikely Bedfellows, in Crime and Forgiveness
★★★★☆ From Ireland, a tale of two (very different) tortured souls, and towering performances
Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: Family Fun in Whoville
★★★☆☆ The holiday favorite returns to Madison Square Garden, with Gavin Lee as the titular grouch
To Kill A Mockingbird: A Timeless Favorite, Revered and Reborn
★★★★★ Aaron Sorkin and director Bartlett Sher reintroduce Harper Lee’s beloved work as a play for our times, or any other
Clueless: As If… It Were Still the ’90s
★★★☆☆ Amy Heckerling brings unapologetic nostalgia and joy to a musical adaptation of her ’90s film, featuring Disney star Dove Cameron
Two By Friel: Love Stories, Fleeting and Bittersweet
★★★★☆ Director Conor Bagley pairs lovely, haunting accounts of innocence and experience by Brian Friel
The Hard Problem: Puzzling Over Beautiful Enigmas, the Mind and Heart
★★★★★ In Tom Stoppard’s brilliant, moving new play, very smart people grapple with very big questions
What to Send Up When It Goes Down: Making Black Lives Matter Through Art
★★★★☆ Aleshea Harris’s new play and “ritual” commemorates violence and a celebrates a community’s resilience
The Prom: Bringing Red and Blue Together with Song and Dance
★★★☆☆ Broadway actors invade a Midwestern town to help a teenage lesbian, and themselves, in a new musical comedy helmed by Casey Nicholaw
Thom Pain (based on nothing): Life, the Art of the Possible
★★★★☆ Will Eno’s early one-man play is revived, its brutality and beauty intact