★★★★☆ The National Asian American Theatre Company condenses Shakespeare’s three Henry VI plays into a two-part, five-and-a-half-hour experience
Gettin’ the Band Back Together: Déjà Vu All Over Again
★★☆☆☆ The groans drown out the laughs at this totally unoriginal original musical
Head Over Heels: The Beat Goes On
★★★★☆ Mad about the Go-Go’s? Get up and go to the Elizabethan-set musical packed with their hook-heavy hits.
Straight White Men: Check Their Privilege!
★★★☆☆ Young Jean Lee makes her Broadway debut with a Christmas-set family drama starring Josh Charles and Armie Hammer as backslapping bros
Mary Page Marlowe: Six Actresses, One Amazing Woman
★★★★★ Tracy Letts returns to the Midwest with a subdued but stunning play about someone “unexceptional”
Gone Missing: Requiem for a Composer
★★★★☆ The late Michael Friedman receives a fitting tribute at Encores! Off-Center with The Civilians’ melancholy Gone Missing.
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: A Fine Romance
★★★☆☆ Melissa Errico and Stephen Bogardus star in Irish Rep’s stripped-down, chamber-style revival of the 1960s musical.
Songs for a New World: Reach for the ‘Stars’
★★★☆☆ Jason Robert Brown fans rejoice! The Tony-winning composer’s first work is getting the Encores! treatment.
Girls & Boys: You Just Can’t Look Away
★★★★☆ Oscar and Tony nominee Carey Mulligan captivates in a gritty one-woman drama from Matilda scribe Dennis Kelly.
Cyprus Avenue: Where Pride & Prejudice Meet
★★☆☆☆ Did you hear the one about the baby who looked like Gerry Adams? Cyprus Avenue is a black comedy in search of a weighty punch line.