★★☆☆☆ The Pulitzer winner returns to Manhattan Theatre Club with a disappointing new family drama
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune: Acting Brilliance in the Light of the Moon
★★★★☆ Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon shine in the Terrence McNally play
High Button Shoes: Silvers Turned to Tarnish in Keystone Kops Musical
★★★☆☆ Jerome Robbins’ ‘Bathing Beauty Ballet’ sparks the uneven Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn musical at Encores!
Lady in the Dark: Victoria Clark Shines As Lady in the Spotlight
★★★★☆ Kurt Weill-Ira Gershwin-Moss Hart musical in exciting form at City Center
Ink: Rupert Murdoch Against the World (and The Mirror)
★★★★★ Bertie Carvel and Jonny Lee Miller star in a thrilling, real-life newspaper yarn
Tootsie: A Man Playing a Man Playing a Woman Playing a…
★★★★☆ Santino Fontana shines in this new David Yazbek musical, well adapted from the 1982 film
Burn This: 1987 Dramatic Firecracker No Longer Pops
★★★☆☆ Lanford Wilson’s play, in a revival powered by Adam Driver and Keri Russell, is fitfully entertaining but not compelling
The Ferryman: Brilliant Play Still Blazingly Exciting with Replacements
★★★★★ Jez Butterworth’s play, now with Brian d’Arcy James and an accomplished American cast, is still not-to-be-missed
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy: Marilyn Dies Again, in Sparkling New Shed
★☆☆☆☆ Ben Whishaw and Renée Fleming star in incomprehensible new whatnot at exciting new venue
The Cradle Will Rock: Legendary Agitprop Musical Gets the John Doyle Treatment
★★★★☆ Marc Blitzstein’s 80-year-old rabble-rousing musical retains its bite