★★★★☆ The refugee family from Vietgone returns to Manhattan Theatre Club with new adventures, more rap music and their kick-ass puppet son
Emergence: A Mind-Blowing Feast for the Senses
★★★★☆ Science geek and composer Patrick Olson takes us on a musical journey through space and time
The Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald’s Classic, Impressively Staged, Once Again Defies Translation
★★★☆☆ Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada star in Paper Mill Playhouse’s Broadway-aimed musical
Partnership: A Century-Old Play for Our Time
★★★★☆ The Mint Theater unearths another winner by a forgotten writer, Elizabeth Baker
Gutenberg! The Musical!: Revisionist History of the Hysterical Kind
★★★★★ “Book of Mormon’s” Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells reunite for a gay old time
New York, New York: The New Musical Can’t Quite Make It Here
★★☆☆☆ Despite its A-list creative team, the splashy stage version of the 1977 film disappointingly falls flat.
Good Night, Oscar: Sean Hayes Displays Dual Talents in Masterful Performance
★★★★★ The Will & Grace star portrays real life comedian and musical virtuoso Oscar Levant, in a role Hayes was born to play.
Fat Ham: Pulitzer Prize Winner Makes for a Savory Dish on Broadway
★★★★★ An inspired adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as seen through a modern lens.
Life of Pi: Play Delivers Stunning Stagecraft to Die For
★★★★☆ A terrific stage adaptation of the best selling novel ingeniously fleshes out humans and animals alike.
Disney’s Hercules: Olympian Musical Takes the Stage, at Paper Mill
★★★☆☆ Lear deBessonet directs the Alan Menken-David Zippel musical featuring Bradley Gibson, James Monroe Iglehart, Shuler Hensley and Isabelle McCalla