★★★★☆ Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail successfully bring a new-style event to Broadway
The Height of the Storm: Provocative Play Offers Master Class in Acting
★★★★☆ Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins star in Florian Zeller’s newest Paris-to-London-to-New York offering
Derren Brown, Secret: Legerdemain Unleashed at Cort
★★★★☆ UK illusionist offers evening of protean prestidigitation and purely astonishing fun
Eureka Day: Jonathan Spector’s Cyclonically Funny Outrageous New Comedy
★★★★★ The invasion of the anti-vaxxers, from—where else?—Berkeley
Betrayal: Pinter’s Web of Deception Returns to Broadway, Incisively
★★★★☆ Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox, and Zawe Ashton star in Jamie Lloyd’s London transfer
I Happen to Like New York: Michael Feinstein’s Effervescent Musical Salute to the City
★★★★☆ A charming summer divertissement for American Songbook lovers at the singer’s 54th Street home base
Road Show: Sondheim’s Road Trip Musical Finally Lands
★★★★☆ The Sondheim-Weidman musical demonstrates new life at Encores! with Raúl Esparza and Brandon Uranowitz leading the way
Promenade: Musical Whatnot Charms After 50 Years, Intermittently
★★★☆☆ Encores! Off-Center spotlights composer Al Carmines in this fascinatingly absurdist musical
From London: An Exceptional Death of a Salesman and a Haunting Hunt
Wendell Pierce and Sharon D. Clarke shine in the Arthur Miller classic at the Young Vic; the Almeida brings us a haunting new play
From London: Mamet and Malkovich Reap Bitter Wheat from Harvey Weinstein
The controversial playwright takes on a ripped-from-the-headlines sex scandal, with intriguing but uneven results