★★★★☆ 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
From London: Renée Fleming on the Piazza and Trevor on the Roof
Excellent new productions of The Light in the Piazza, at Southbank Centre, and Fiddler on the Roof, at the Playhouse
From London: Rescued Ibsen Work Crackles; a National Revival Doesn’t, Quite
Ibsen’s long-overlooked Rosmersholm turns out to be terrific, while the century-old Rutherford and Son doesn’t catch fire