★★★★☆ Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins explores a prominent family’s ethical drifts in the muscular Steppenwolf Theater tradition
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Purpose: Tough New Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Tragicomedy Loses Sight of Purpose
★★★☆☆ Phylicia Rashad keenly directs a first-rate six member-cast featuring LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young
Redwood: Idina Menzel Defies Gravity Again, in New Musical
★★★☆☆ The star of Wicked and Frozen returns to Broadway with this musical about a woman trying to escape her grief in a California forest
Redwood: She Talks to the Trees! (No, Really)
★★☆☆☆ IMAX meets Broadway in a technologically impressive but dramatically wooden new musical
Pecking Order: Fowl Play Indeed
★☆☆☆☆ Two infamous New York–dwelling red-tailed hawks serve as the ostensible inspiration for a flighty new comedy
English: Speaking a Universal Language, in a Broadway Premiere
★★★★☆ Sanaz Toosi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play feels newly richer in this Roundabout production
English: Pulitzer-Winning Play Translates Well on Broadway
★★★★☆ Playwright Sanaz Toossi schools us on what it means to be a stranger in a strange language
All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich — Story Hour with Broadway Prices
★★★☆☆ A changing quartet of notable performers including John Mulaney and Lin-Manuel Miranda read comic pieces by humorist Simon Rich in this Broadway show staged by Alex Timbers.
All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich — Hit & Miss Revue
★★★☆☆ John Mulaney, Fred Armisen, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Richard Kind in an amusing evening
Gypsy: Hold Your Hats and Hallelujah
★★★★☆ Stephen Sondheim said “there’s not a moment” in this quintessential American musical “that isn’t entertaining.” We have to agree.