★★★★★ To quote one of the songs from the much-maligned, but very beloved, musical: It’s a hit!
A Beautiful Noise: Reaching Out, Touching Neil Diamond, Touching You
★★★☆☆ Will Swenson shines in flashy bio-musical salute to the singer-songwriter with a voice like “gravel wrapped in velvet”
Becky Nurse of Salem: Do You Believe in Magic?
★★★★☆ Deirdre O’Connell plays a descendant of an accused Salem witch in Sarah Ruhl’s newest play
Remembering Michael Feingold
A link to the final columns of the esteemed critic and our beloved colleague
& Juliet: Candy-Colored Glitter-Bomb Musical Romp
★★★★☆ The hit London musical arrives on Broadway with cannons of confetti and a catalog full of chart-toppers
The Old Man & the Pool: Mike Birbiglia Dives Into Middle Age
★★★★☆ The popular comic brings his own brand of gregarious, low-level neuroticism back to Broadway
Walking With Ghosts: Gabriel Byrne’s Book Makes a Hazy Memory Play
★★★☆☆ The actor’s recent page-turner loses some of its power in its journey to the stage
Topdog/Underdog: Watch It Close, Watch It Close Now
★★★★☆ Suzan-Lori Parks’ tight two-hander gets an intense Kenny Leon–directed Broadway revival
The Piano Lesson: A Starry, but Off-Key, Rendition
★★★☆☆ August Wilson’s drama—the 1930s entry in his decade-by-decade chronicle of the 20th-century Black American experience—gets its first Broadway revival
Guys and Dolls: Frank Loesser’s Musical Fable Is No Gamble
★★★★★ It’s a probable 12 to 7 that you’ll leave this Kennedy Center production on a musical-theater high