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★★☆☆☆ Rita Rudner’s innumerable comic gifts are squandered in this musical misfire

★★★★☆ Halley Feiffer writes a love letter to Chekhov’s classic

★★★☆☆ A decade after its first air guitar riff, the hair-metal jukebox musical is back—and it’s still nothin’ but a good time

★★★★☆ The writer-performer flies solo in this musical memoir about his coming of age in Luton, England

★★★★☆ The 1978 musical gets a City Center–centered update for the five-performance concert-style revival

★★★★☆ Lydia R. Diamond hits one right up the middle with her play about the first female Negro League ballplayer

★★★★☆ Sarah-Louise Young’s musical tribute to Julie Andrews is full of heart, enthusiasm, and a totally voluntary singalong

★★★☆☆ We do spy some marks of love in this Shakespeare in the Park production starring Danielle Brooks

★★★★☆ Director Erica Schmidt and an all-female cast update Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy for the Instagram age

★★★☆☆ The York revives its old-fashioned theater-themed hit in honor of the company’s 50th anniversary