★★☆☆☆ An ambitious but unfocused musical gives a great, underappreciated 20th century female artist too much of a brush-off
Beyond
The Closet: A Gay Deceiver for a New Century
★★★☆☆ Matthew Broderick shines in Douglas Carter Beane’s uneven comic vision of a post-bigotry, Freak Flags Flying modern America
From London: Imperium I: Conspirator, II: Dictator
★★★★☆ Mike Poulton adapts Robert Harris’ Cicero novels for Gregory Doran’s surging two parts
From London: Translations, An Ideal Husband, Consent
Gains and loses from Brian Friel, Oscar Wilde and Nina Raine on three crackling stages
The Royal Family of Broadway: Aiming for Times Square, Stalled in Pittsfield
★★★☆☆ William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s take on the Ferber-Kaufman warhorse sharpens the 1920s satire, but not enough
From London: Strictly Ballroom, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Julie
Baz Luhrman’s dance flick, Muriel Spark’s novel take the stage, Strindberg’s Miss Julie doesn’t take
Half Time: Music, Mirror, and a Chance to Dance So-So Senior Hip-Hop
★★★☆☆ Jerry Mitchell directs-choreographs Donna McKechnie, Georgia Engel, André De Shields in a not-great Chorus Line take on aging dancers
Turning Off the Morning News: New Durang Satirical Sketch Sketchy
★☆☆☆☆ Emily Mann directs favorite Durang actor Kristine Nielsen, others to skimpy payoff
The Sting: The Irresistible 1973 Oscar Flick as Irresistible Tuner
★★★★★ Harry Connick Jr. leads a cast directed by John Rando and choreographed by Warren Carlyle.