★★★★☆ The song-and-dance adaption of the Tim Burton film is built to please, and it does
The Pain of My Belligerence: When Good Discomfort Turns Bad
★★☆☆☆ Halley Feiffer’s latest explores toxic masculinity, and then gets overrun by it
Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus: Cleaning Up and Moving On, After Disaster
★★★★☆ Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen, and Julie White make art from horror, with help from Taylor Mac
Hillary and Clinton: Couples Therapy, for the Audience
★★★★☆ Laurie Metcalf, John Lithgow, and what we’d like to think the power pair say behind closed doors
From London: Company, Upended and Presumably New York-Bound
★★★★★ A new take on Sondheim’s 1970 single-man classic is wonderfully different, if not necessarily in the most obvious way
From London: Follies, Back at the National for an Encore Performance
★★★★☆ Revived anew, the 2017 production of Sondheim’s aged-showgirls musical retains its power, mostly
Chick Flick the Musical: Watching Women Bond Over Watching Women Bond
★★☆☆☆ This cliched celebration of cliched movies is exactly what you think it, which might make it perfect for its venue
The Cake: When the Antigay Baker Meets a Same-Sex Couple
★★★★☆ Debra Jo Rupp is the key ingredient in Bekah Brunstetter’s sympathetic portrait of cultures colliding
Alice By Heart: Lost Down a Hole
★☆☆☆☆ MCC Theater opens its new home with an indecipherable take on Alice in Wonderland
Fiddler on the Roof: A Tradition Goes Back to the Future
★★★★☆ This old-fashioned reinvention of the shtetl classic takes on new relevance in the mother tongue