★★★★☆ Tony Kushner takes another look at his Hitler-through-the-Reagan-era play ‘A Bright Room Called Day’
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The Half-Life of Marie Curie: Fun With Science (Really!)
★★★★☆ America’s most popular living playwright, Lauren Gunderson, shines a spotlight on two history-making female scientists
Evita: Star Quality to Spare
★★★★☆ Thanks to star Solea Pfeiffer, the City Center Encores! production will leave you on a rainbow high
Brian Stokes Mitchell: The Man We Love
★★★★☆ The Tony-winning Broadway baritone is as swoon-worthy as ever in a show packed with his holiday and showtune favorites
Fires in the Mirror: A Hot-Button Show Whose Glow Hasn’t Dimmed
★★★★★ Anna Deavere Smith’s one-person show still burns bright with star Michael Benjamin Washington and a timely-as-ever theme
Kristin Chenoweth For the Girls: It’s Good to See Her, Isn’t It?
★★★★☆ The ever-popular Kristin Chenoweth returns to Broadway with a too-brief concert run
Seared: Theresa Rebeck’s Kitchen-Set Comedy Needs More Fire
★★★☆☆ Theresa Rebeck centers her newest comedy on a crash-and-burn–style pretentious New York chef
Macbeth: A Slimmed-Down Version of the Scottish Play
★★★★☆ The couple who slays together stays together? Real-life spouses Corey Stoll and Nadia Bowers star as Shakespeare’s murderous Scots.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide: Raise Your Voices and Dance
★★★★☆ Ntozake Shange’s 1976 choreopoem receives an inspired revival at the Public Theater, where its poetry first flowed
Bella Bella: Hats Off to Harvey Fierstein’s Abzug Homage
★★★★☆ Four-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein channels Battling Bella Abzug in his history-packed new one-person show