★★★★★ Broadway veterans demonstrate stardom’s power to make a Sondheim gem glitter ever more brightly
Beyond
From Maine: The Nutty Professor, Transformed From Wild To Mild
★★★☆☆ Jerry Lewis’s classic 1963 farce, pleasantly musicalized, has its (buck) teeth pulled
From Massachusetts: Most Happy In Concert, Most Dispiriting In Execution
★☆☆☆☆ A glum expressionistic concert does a classic Frank Loesser score, and the audience, no favors
Brian Stokes Mitchell: Songs and Stories for Today
“What a Wonderful World” sings the masterful Tony-winner, still seeking “The Impossible Dream”
From Massachusetts: Barrington Bounces Back with Warhol & Waller
A provocative new play, and a grand musical revival, prove that the Pittsfield-based Barrington Stage is alive and well
Songbook Sundays: Got Gershwin at Dizzy’s Club
New Lincoln Center songbook series, Karen Ziemba & Sydney James Harcourt sing George & Ira
A Walk on the Moon: An Inviting Musical About an Illicit Summer Romance
★★★★☆ Screenwriter Pamela Gray adapts her 1999 movie, with songs by Paul Scott Goodman and AnnMarie Milazzo
For Good: A Celebration of Stephen Schwartz
Something WICKED this way comes!
Candace Bushnell Live at the Carlyle: A Diva with a Difference
The Sex in the City author “returns” to the House that Bobby Short built
From Boston: The Inheritance Hands Gay History Over to Regional Theater, Triumphantly
★★★★★ The first U.S. regional production reframes Matthew López’s Olivier & Tony-winner as an intimate epic