★★★★☆ Celia Keenan-Bolger, Jessica Lange, and Jim Parsons star as Paula Vogel’s struggling family
Suffs: Shaina Taub Wins By a Landslide
★★★★★ Nikki M. James, Grace McLean, Jenn Colella, Emily Skinner, and an exceptional cast spark this new musical about the battle for equal voting rights in America, circa 1915
The Notebook: Just Another Love Story, with Kleenex
★★★☆☆ Six actors play the two leading characters in this atmospheric musical based on the popular Nicholas Sparks novel
Ibsen’s Ghost: A Widow’s Revenge, or Beating Around the Busch
★★☆☆☆ A promising comedic idea leaves this viewer disenchantedly unengaged
Dead Outlaw: Raucously Macabre Musical Hits the Rip-Roarin’ Bulls-Eye
★★★★☆ David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, Itamar Moses, and David Cromer create a ballad of a failed outlaw, dead and alive
The Hunt: The Darkness That Lurks in the Woods
★★★★☆ Tobias Menzies stars in Rupert Goold’s Almeida production of the psychological thriller at St. Ann’s Warehouse
Oh, Mary!: Cole Escola As The Ludicrously Marvelous Mrs. Lincoln
★★★★☆ Uproarious farce sheds new light on the War Between the States, or at least the War Between the Lincolns
Once Upon a Mattress: A Royal Success, at Encores
★★★★☆ Sutton Foster, Michael Urie, Harriet Harris and more lead the cast in a happy revival of the Mary Rodgers—Marshall Barer musical
Beverly Johnson In Vogue: Cover Girl, Breaking Barriers
★★★☆☆ Supermodel looks back, 50 (!) years later
How to Dance in Ohio: Talented Cast Overcomes Earnest-but-Ordinary Material
★★★☆☆ Good intentions alone, alas, do not a compelling musical make.