★★★★☆ The George Gershwin-DuBose Heyward-Ira Gershwin folk musical in fine, full form
Sweet Smell of Success: Hamlisch Musical Returns, with Improvements
★★★☆☆ Concert version suggests a potential future for the all-but-forgotten Hamlisch-Carnelia-Guare musical
Rob Lake Magic: Shattered Illusions
★★☆☆☆ Even Miss Piggy can’t elevate this generic holiday-season magic show
The Baker’s Wife: Fabled Flop Charms in Amiable Revival
★★★☆☆ Scott Bakula, Adriana DeBose, and Judy Kuhn enhance Stephen Schwartz’s underbaked musical
Adam Gopnik’s New York: Gallery Talk, Par Excellence
★★★★☆ The New Yorker writer offers an enchanted evening of sparklingly witty discourse
This Is Government: Contemporary Comedy about Workplace Lockdown
★★★☆☆ Nina Kissinger mines comedy from a congressional bomb threat, but doesn’t quite pull it off
Twelfth Night: Moonlit Enchantment As Shakespeare Returns to the Park
★★★★☆ Lupito Nyong’o, Sandra Oh and Peter Dinklage spark director Saheem Ali’s contemporary take on the Bard’s comedy
Pride & Prejudice: Austen Sparkles in 3-Person Capsule Version
★★★★☆ A breezy romp with Lizzy Bennet, Mr. Darcy, et al.
Wonderful Town: Bernstein-Comden-Green Musical in Not So Wonderful Revival
★★☆☆☆ The durably entertaining musical comedy falls flat, this time, at Encores
Dead Outlaw: Rip-Roarin’ Musical Hits the Bull’s-Eye
★★★★★ David Yazbek’s brashly macabre tuner features Andrew Durand as a real-life desperado, wanted dead and alive