★★★★★ A rip-roaring reimagining of Hammerstein’s reimagining of Bizet’s Carmen
Girls & Boys: Carey Mulligan Astounds in Searing One-Person Play
★★★★☆ Dennis Kelly’s new play exceeds expectations, bolstered by a bravura performance by Carey Mulligan
Skintight: Beauty Is Fleeting, with Belly Laughs
★★★★☆ Playwright Joshua Harmon returns with his fourth consecutive rewarding comedy
Conflict: Another Impeccable Lost-but-Worthy Play at the Mint
★★★☆☆ This 1925 politics-and-romance play by a screenwriter and character actor is well revived, if unimportant
The Great Leap: Hoop Dreams, in Beijing and San Francisco
★★★★☆ Lauren Yee scores a three-pointer in her American-Chinese basketball play
Dan Cody’s Yacht: Early Admissions, Good Intentions
★★★☆☆ Opportunity and privilege collide in Anthony Giardina’s likably intelligent but not quite convincing play
Our Lady of 121st Street: The Case of the Nun’s Missing Corpse
★★★★☆ Pulitzer-winner Stephen Adly Guirgis takes us on a wild ride with rhapsodic crests
Me and My Girl: Christian Borle Will Have You Doin’ the Lambeth Walk, Oi!
★★★★☆ Borle Sings & Dances & Clowns as the Boy from Down Lambeth Way
Dance Nation: Preteens on A Chorus Line
★★★★☆ Clare Barron forges new ground with her clear-eyed account of twelve-year-old girls on the cusp
The Iceman Cometh: Monumental O’Neill, with Monumental Denzel
★★★★★ George C. Wolfe and a sterling cast illuminate long night’s journey of pipe dreams lost