★★★★☆ Singer-songwriter Shaina Taub shines in this midsummer’s night delight
Head Over Heels: A New Musical With Plenty of Surprises
★★★☆☆ A rollicking Elizabethan musical, with transgender themes and a score, so to speak, by The Go-Go’s.
Fiddler on the Roof: ‘If I Were a Rothschild,’ in Yiddish
★★★★☆ Fiddler retains full enchantment in Joel Grey’s Yiddish-language production
The Damned: Arms and the Man in the Third Reich
★★★★☆ Ivo van Hove returns to town with a stunning, tour-de-force version of the Visconti film classic
Mary Page Marlowe: The Six Ages of Woman
★★★☆☆ Tracy Letts returns with an intriguing notion for a play, perhaps too streamlined for coherence
Carmen Jones: Dat’s Love, Dynamite on 13th Street
★★★★★ 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