★★☆☆☆ The durably entertaining musical comedy falls flat, this time, at Encores
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Dead Outlaw: Rip-Roarin’ Musical Hits the Bull’s-Eye
★★★★★ David Yazbek’s brashly macabre tuner features Andrew Durand as a real-life desperado, wanted dead and alive
Sondheim’s Old Friends: Musical Cornucopia Makes an Overstuffed Banquet
★★★☆☆ Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga headline Cameron Mackintosh’s memorial salute to the songwriter
The Last Five Years: Stuck on the Seesaw
★★★☆☆ Ineffective choices weigh down Jason Robert Brown’s charming chamber musical
Love Life: Lost Lerner/Weill Musical Demonstrates Why It Was Lost
★★★☆☆ Kate Baldwin and Brian Stokes Mitchell star in the latest from Encores
We Had a World: ‘Virginia Woolf, Part 2,’ With Jokes
★★★★★ Playwright Joshua Harmon explores and explodes his roots, with Andrew Barth Feldman and Joanna Gleason
Deep Blue Sound: A Quiet, Gentle, Whale of a Play
★★★★☆ Maryann Plunkett and an excellent cast spark a return engagement of Abe Koogler’s play
Grangeville: Art, Anguish, and Wonder from Samuel D. Hunter
★★★★★ An exceptional play with fine work from director Jack Serio and actors Brian J. Smith and Paul Sparks
Pecking Order: Fowl Play Is Foul Play
★☆☆☆☆ Hawkish comedy is strictly for the birds
Dear Jack, Dear Louise: WWII Love Letters, with Wit and Charm
★★★★☆ Playwright Ken Ludwig finds literary delight in the family attic