★★★☆☆ A new musical examines decades of injustice, and hope, through the eyes of a father and daughter
Tina: Trying, Too Hard, to Catch Fire
★★☆☆☆ Broadway’s latest jukebox tribute honors the queen of rock and soul
A Woman of the World: Promoting a Poet, and Herself
★★★☆☆ Kathleen Chalfant turns in a luminous performance as Emily Dickinson’s editor in a new play by Rebecca Gilman
Imagining Madoff: Crimes and Consequences, Through a Philosophical Lens
★★★★☆ Deb Margolin’s beautifully crafted, powerfully acted reflection on greed and guilt and the crime of the 21st century returns
Bella Bella: Tribute to a Champion, of Feminism and More
★★★★☆ Harvey Fierstein remembers, and plays, “Battling Bella” Abzug
Only Human: Giving the Devil His Due, and Then Some
★★☆☆☆ In a new musical, an aspiring rocker takes us to Heaven and Hell—and tries to upstage Gary Busey
The Lightning Thief: Half-Gods and Monsters, at Summer Camp
★★★☆☆ Young readers’ hero Percy Jackson and his fellow misfits arrive on the musical stage
Georgia Mertching Is Dead: Three Amigas Who’ve Been to Hell and Back
★★★★☆ Millennial survivors take a road trip in Catya McCullen’s new play
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Wasted Youth Among the 99 Per Cent
★★★★☆ The opioid epidemic upends two families in a stirring new play by Chad Beckim
The Great Society: A Leader in Shades of Gray, in Another Troubled Time
★★★☆☆ Brian Cox plays LBJ in Robert Schenkkan’s sequel to All The Way