★★★☆☆ Teens idolize Pablo Escobar in newcomer writer Alexis Scheer’s offbeat dramedy
Sunday: Spending a Desultory Evening with Generation Z
★★☆☆☆ Meet some “wry and ironic and dull” characters at Atlantic Theater, or perhaps not
runboyrun & In Old Age: Ghosts Haunt a Nigerian-American Family Saga
★★★☆☆ New York Theatre Workshop stages two installments of Mfoniso Udofia’s epic nine-play cycle
Wives: Life With Papa and Three Other Feminist Truths
★★★☆☆ An episode involving Ernest Hemingway’s several widows is a highlight of a new satirical comedy
Felix Starro: Not Entirely a Magical New Musical
★★★☆☆ A sorrowful story about a faith healer does not entirely satisfy
Eureka Day: A Comical Clash from the Current Culture Wars
★★★★★ 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