★★☆☆☆ Playwright JC Lee tries and fails to create a compelling portrait of 30-something gay male friendship today
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Take Me Out: Two Decades Later, and Still Swinging
★★★★☆ Richard Greenberg’s gay-ballplayer comic tragedy fares well in revival, despite mixed performances
Plaza Suite: Feels Like (Very) Old Times
★★★☆☆ Sarah Jessica Parker shines, at least, in this dated, disappointing Neil Simon revival
The Chinese Lady: Exoticized, Mistreated, and Still a Cipher
★★★☆☆ The story of the first Chinese woman in America is horrifying, and all these years later we’re still telling it
The Music Man: The Wells Fargo Wagon Delivers the Con Artist We Need
★★★★★ Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster headline a blockbuster Music Man revival that puts the grin in grift
MJ: Michael Jackson Jukebox Musical Is Very Smooth, Somewhat Criminal
★★★☆☆ The Lynn Nottage-Christopher Wheeldon bioplay is a song-and-dance delight that asks you to forget the biography
Mrs. Doubtfire: Dad-Turns-Nanny Comes to Broadway, Manic Charm Intact
★★★★☆ The Robin Williams vehicle makes a successful transfer, scripted and scored by the ‘Something Rotten!’ team
Diana: The People’s Princess, Surrounded by the Wrong People
★★☆☆☆ Like Charles and Elizabeth before them, a creative team of (minor) Broadway royalty does Lady Spencer no favors
Assassins: Not Throwing Away Their Shots
★★★★☆ The Sondheim-Weidman musical feels newly fresh in the Classic Stage Company revival
Pass Over: Waiting for the Po-Po, Hoping for the Promised Land
★★★★☆ The first new Broadway production in 17 months is an extraordinary Black-lives-matter take on Godot and the Exodus