★★★☆☆ A gay romance from the 1960s glimmers within a little musical bubble
The Winning Side: What’s Love Got to Do With Wernher Von Braun?
★★☆☆☆ A mash-up of fact and fiction shows that writing plays can be harder than rocket science
The Bacchae: Euripides’ Classical Tragicomedy of Wine, Women, and Wrong
★★★☆☆ Anne Bogart stages a 2,400 year-old Greek drama with a few modern notes
Final Follies: Primary Stages Trips Over a Trio of A.R. Gurney Comedies
★★☆☆☆ Able staging and acting can do only so much with a master author’s minor material
Girl From the North Country: A Visit to Desolation Row With Bob Dylan
★★★★☆ Bob Dylan songs are artfully molded into a new musical of melancholy distinction
I Was Most Alive with You: Craig Lucas Unleashes a Tsunami of Sorrows
★★☆☆☆ A woeful drama (in more ways than one) is performed simultaneously in two languages
Beautiful: That Carole King Bio-Show Stays Good to Go and See
★★★★☆ Long-Run Lookback: A smart jukebox musical remains a some kind of wonderful Broadway attraction
The Emperor: The Curious Decline and Fall of Haile Selassie
★★★☆☆ Kathryn Hunter conjures up the hothouse atmosphere of a vanished kingdom
Uncle Vanya: An Americanization of a Russian Classic
★★★★☆ Richard Nelson’s new version of Chekhov’s intimate classic is artfully understated
The Phantom of the Opera: Still Wonderfully Crazy After All These Years
★★★★★ Long-Run Lookback: That musical madman remains as romantic as ever in his Majestic home