★★★★★ Anna Deavere Smith’s one-person show still burns bright with star Michael Benjamin Washington and a timely-as-ever theme
Kristin Chenoweth For the Girls: It’s Good to See Her, Isn’t It?
★★★★☆ The ever-popular Kristin Chenoweth returns to Broadway with a too-brief concert run
Seared: Theresa Rebeck’s Kitchen-Set Comedy Needs More Fire
★★★☆☆ Theresa Rebeck centers her newest comedy on a crash-and-burn–style pretentious New York chef
Macbeth: A Slimmed-Down Version of the Scottish Play
★★★★☆ The couple who slays together stays together? Real-life spouses Corey Stoll and Nadia Bowers star as Shakespeare’s murderous Scots.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide: Raise Your Voices and Dance
★★★★☆ Ntozake Shange’s 1976 choreopoem receives an inspired revival at the Public Theater, where its poetry first flowed
Bella Bella: Hats Off to Harvey Fierstein’s Abzug Homage
★★★★☆ Four-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein channels Battling Bella Abzug in his history-packed new one-person show
Little Shop of Horrors: A Bloody Good Time
★★★★☆ The beloved 1982 musical returns to its off-Broadway roots. Just don’t feed the plants!
The Rose Tattoo: Love Ain’t Sweeter the Second Time Around
★★☆☆☆ The new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ ode to amore is a bottle of Asti Spumante that’s lost its fizz
Linda Vista: A View From the Bottom
★★★☆☆ Tracy Letts pens a startlingly accurate, if tough to swallow, portrait of “middle-aged desperation”
Slave Play: Provocative, Poetic, and Disquieting
★★★★☆ Jeremy O. Harris’ phenomenally daring, disruptive drama is the polar opposite of theatrical comfort food