★★★☆☆ Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga headline Cameron Mackintosh’s memorial salute to the songwriter
About Steven Suskin
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
Gypsy: Everything’s Coming Up Audra
★★★★☆ New production of fabled masterwork lights the lights and hits the heights
The Dead, 1904: James Joyce and The Living, 2024
★★★★☆ A Dubliner’s midwinter’s night dream, on upper Fifth Avenue