★★★☆☆ Cary Gitter’s comedy centers on an Italian-American woman and an Orthodox Jewish knish maker in New York City
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Hamlet: The Star’s the Thing
★★★☆☆ Oscar nominee Ruth Negga makes a stellar New York stage debut in a somewhat tedious staging of Shakespeare’s soliloquy-heavy tragedy
Next to Normal: It’s Gonna Be Good
★★★★★ Director Michael Greif brings the musical to D.C. for a brief but intensely emotional run starring Rachel Bay Jones
Grand Horizons: The Kids Aren’t Alright
★★★★☆ Bess Wohl gets big laughs from a long-married couple, their potential divorce, and their flabbergasted adult children
Timon of Athens: From Riches to Rags, With a Twist
★★★★☆ Shakespeare’s rarely produced tale of a big-hearted spendthrift gets a powerful production with a first-rate female Timon
My Name Is Lucy Barton: Maternal Affairs
★★★★☆ Laura Linney shines in this Richard Eyre–directed one-woman show about the unbreakable, intricate mother-daughter bond
Sing Street: We’re With the Band
★★★★☆ If ’80s music is your jam, the nostalgia-soaked ‘Sing Street’ is right up your alley
Harry Connick Jr.: A Celebration of Cole Porter Where Anything Goes
★★★★☆ The actor, singer, and virtuoso pianist pays tribute to Cole Porter with a Broadway extravaganza
One November Yankee: Turbulence Ahead
★★☆☆☆ Harry Hamlin and Stefanie Powers play three pairs of siblings in this flight-themed earthbound drama
Anything Can Happen in the Theater: Yeston Time
★★★☆☆ Gerard Alessandrini’s valentine to composer-lyricist Maury Yeston mixes his best-known songs with a handful of obscurities