★★☆☆☆ This Elevator Repair Service response to Edward Albee’s classic purports to stand up for strong women but fails
The Boys in the Band: Turning, Turning, Turning
★★★☆☆ Mart Crowley’s 1968 classic, now in a starry revival that shows how far we’ve come, is as indelible as ever—and as confounding
The Beast in the Jungle: Lovely Poetry, Lousy Prose
★★★☆☆ John Kander’s score and Susan Stroman’s choreography soar; the play does not
Travesties: A Good Great War, Over Art and Revolution
★★★★☆ Tom Stoppard’s early masterwork is a shell-shocked delight in revival at the Roundabout
Summer: She Works Hard for the Money, Less Hard for the Story
★★★☆☆ Des McAnuff and Sergio Trujillo, with three Donnas and an all-woman chorus, put on an entertaining, confounding biomusical
Transfers: Who Gets In, and Who Belongs?
★★★☆☆ In Lucy Thurber’s look at college admissions and social class, the hard-working students don’t get what they deserve
Children of a Lesser God: The Great White Nope
★★☆☆☆ Lauren Ridloff is terrific in the role Marlee Matlin made famous, but that doesn’t save this horribly dated play
Mean Girls: Fey’s Film Is Very Fetch on Broadway
★★★★☆ Director-choreography Casey Nicholaw has fun playing with the Plastics — but why’s it all so white and straight?
Bobbie Clearly: A Portrait of a Crime, Not so Clearly
★★★☆☆ Something terrible has happened in corn country, but the young author of this spiky play doesn’t quite unpack it
Frozen: That Old Disney Magic, This Time on Ice
★★★☆☆ A solid Frozen delivers the key moments and some strong performances, but it never truly lets go.