★★★★☆ David Yazbek and Itamar Moses craft a rowdy tuner about a surprisingly lively corpse
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Pirates! The Penzance Musical: Bright and Breezy in the Big Easy
★★★★☆ David Hyde Pierce, Jinkx Monsoon and Ramin Karimloo sail away in a Gilbert & Sullivan showboat
Floyd Collins: Jeremy Jordan goes deep as a forgotten headliner from 1925
★★★★☆ Taylor Trensch, Jason Gotay, and Lizzie McAlpine are notable in LCT’s revival of a sorrowful musical drama
Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp: Caryl Churchill Vaudeville
★★★★☆ Deirdre O’Connell and John Ellison Conlee head a bill of diverse acts at the Public Theater
minor.ity: Talking ident.ity, creativ.ity, authentic.ity, commun.ity
★★★☆☆ Colt Coeur and WP Theater premiere a study of Black artists exploiting their cultural identity
Smash: Marilyn, We Hardly Knew Ye
★★☆☆☆ Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman recycle their TV score for the stage
I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan: Singular Theater Talk
★★★★☆ Mona Pirnot composes an Escher-like solo comedy about the very artist who is performing it
Danger and Opportunity: Up Close and Personal with a Polyamorous Trio
★★★☆☆ Juan Castano, Ryan Spahn and Julia Chan comprise a troubled throuple
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Sarah Snook Slays with Multiple Selfies and Multimedia Screens
★★★☆☆ Oscar Wilde’s tale is distilled as a succession of images reflecting a beauty with a beastly ego
Wine in the Wilderness: Alice Childress Reads the Black Bougie Gaze
★★★☆☆ LaChanze stages a sharp vintage study of sex and class in mid-1960s Harlem