★★★★☆ Wickedly funny new musical about a sharp-tongued pre-teen with issues demonstrates growing pains
Into the Woods: Sondheim Leads Encores Out of Darkness
★★★★☆ Sarah Bareilles, Neil Patrick Harris, Gavin Creel, and more head the cast of Lear deBessonet’s delightful production
A Case for the Existence of God: Compellingly Good, from Samuel D. Hunter
★★★★★ David Cromer directs Kyle Beltran and Will Brill in dynamic new American play
From Paris: Tartuffe Stripped Bare (Literally) by Ivo van Hove
The Comédie-Française presents a stunningly vibrant new/old version of the classic comedy
John Pizzarelli: Songs of Stage and Screen, at the Carlyle
The jazz great and his guitar make a most welcome return to New York’s most celebrated nightclub
Suffs: New Musical Wins by a Landslide
★★★★★ Shaina Taub writes and stars in an exciting new musical saluting a band of forgotten but exceptional American heroes
To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim
A personal salute to the Master, exceptionally performed
At the Wedding: Of Canapés and Cannibals
★★★★☆ Nuptials upended by hilarity in Bryn Turner play at Lincoln Center Theater
Anyone Can Whistle: Famously Troubled Musical, Flaws Magnified
★★★☆☆ Santino Fontana and Elizabeth Stanley shine in an under-rehearsed semi-staging of the Sondheim-Laurents not-quite-masterwork
The Daughter-in-Law: Sons and Lovers and Clinging Mums
★★★☆☆ The Mint returns with D.H. Lawrence’s posthumously unearthed “problem play”