★★★★☆ Dick Scanlan and Kathleen Marshall overhaul the Meredith Willson musical, with delightful results
All the Natalie Portmans: A Troubled Girl and Her Movie Star Muse
★★★☆☆ C.A. Johnson’s tender new play is illuminated by a vibrant young character, and actress
West Side Story: A New Time For Us
★★★★☆ Ivo van Hove shoots sparks into space with a fresh take on a musical masterwork
Anatomy of a Suicide: Mothers and Daughters, in Agonizing Triplicate
★★★☆☆ Playwright Alice Birch looks at one of our closest, most fraught relationships, with a cast led by a haunting Carla Gugino
The Commons: Hell Is Other People
★★☆☆☆ In Lily Akerman’s new play, three’s a crowd and four is insufferable
Chekhov/Tolstoy Love Stories: From Russia with Languor
★★☆☆☆ From Mint Theater, a strangely soporific pairing of plays based on stories by creative giants
House Plant: Humans Seeking Nourishment and Connection
★★★☆☆ Sarah Einspanier’s new play follows young searchers in the digital age
Medea: Another Woman on the Verge, and Past It
★★★★☆ Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale star in Simon Stone’s harrowing tragedy, “after” the Euripides classic
Emojiland: Once You Get Restarted
★★★★☆ A delightful new musical takes us behind the screen—of our smartphones.
BOOM: Talkin’ ‘Bout His Mom’s Generation
★★★☆☆ Multi-tasking Canadian star and Gen Xer Rick Miller channels baby boomers and their icons, in words and music