★★★★★ Fiasco Theater rethinks Sondheim and Furth’s backward-through-time musical, with dazzling results
The Day Before Spring: Early Lerner and Loewe, on Their Way
★★★☆☆ The York’s exhumation of an all-but-lost musical exhibits songwriters on the verge of greatness
Call Me Madam: Political Satire 70 Years Later, Without Ethel Merman
★★★★☆ Encores’ latest is a thorough charmer, though not quite the blockbuster it could be
My Fair Lady: Benanti and Burstein Enhance the Enchantment of Lerner and Loewe Classic
★★★★★ Stellar cast replacements make this excellent production even better
Choir Boy: Tarell Alvin McCraney Reaches Broadway, Finally
★★★★★ McCraney’s prep school play is rousing and intensely spiritual entertainment
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee’s Classic Makes Magnificent Theater
★★★★★ Atticus, Scout, Jem and the rest exquisitely reimagined by Aaron Sorkin and Bartlett Sher
Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine: Lynn Nottage on a Comic Escapade
★★★★☆ This early play by the two-time Pulitzer-winner is a comedy lark
The Jungle: Masterful, Timely, and Devastating Living Theater
★★★★★ This latest excellent UK import brings the European Refugee Crisis to our shores
A Chorus Line: One Singular Sensation All Over Again
★★★★★ Michael Bennett’s masterwork is back, and as powerful as ever
Audra McDonald: In Performance and Conversation at Town Hall
★★★★☆ The six-time Tony winner is her usual exceptional self in a one-night-only visit to Town Hall