★★★☆☆ 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
What the Constitution Means to Me: Heidi Schreck Explains It All for You
★★★★☆ What is devised as a re-creation of a small-town debate turns out to be invigorating entertainment
The Lehman Trilogy: Theatrical Magnificence from Sam Mendes, at the Armory
★★★★★ This compelling chronicle of the rise and fall of the American finance family is not to be missed