★★★★★ A smart new comedy takes a satirical shot at the antivax issue
Make Believe: The Games That Kids Play
★★★☆☆ Fine acting brings Bess Wohl’s tender new drama to realistic life at Second Stage Theater
Bat Out of Hell—The Musical: Driving Through the Jim Steinman Songbook
★★☆☆☆ Too bad the show looks cheesier than the state of Wisconsin
Coriolanus: Private Feelings Versus Public Perceptions in a Raggedy Rome
★★★☆☆ Jonathan Cake has a sneer for every occasion as Shakespeare’s most prideful Roman of them all
Manilow Broadway: He Writes the Songs That Makes the Audience Sing Right Along With Him
★★★★☆ The ever-exuberant entertainer delivers a dandy Broadway concert
Summer Shorts Series B: Neil LaBute Delivers a Typically Toxic Comedy
★★★☆☆ A smart topical comedy outshines lesser works in an annual off-Broadway festival
Rinse, Repeat: Regarding a Family’s Cycle of Eating Disorders
★★★☆☆ A new play about dangerous eating habits scarcely satisfies as a family drama
The Black Clown: Black Existence in a White World
★★★★★ An obscure Langston Hughes poem is brilliantly transfigured into epic musical theater
Little Gem: Mothers and Daughters Tell Their Stories at Irish Rep
★★★★☆ Marsha Mason anchors an intimate Irish drama that lives up to its title
Broadway Bounty Hunter: Exploiting a Darling Character in Pursuit of Laughs
★★★★☆ A beloved showbiz veteran was born to be adorable in a goofy musical gloss on exploitation flicks