★★★☆☆ Oscar Wilde’s tale is distilled as a succession of images reflecting a beauty with a beastly ego
Broadway
Othello: For This Revival, the Stars Are the Thing
★★★☆☆ Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Kenny Leon’s Broadway production of Shakespeare’s tragedy.
Othello: Gyllenhaal Slays in the Great Tragedy
★★★★☆ Kenny Leon helms a first rate company led by Jake Gyllenhaal and Denzel Washington in the title role.
Operation Mincemeat: Satirical Wartime Musical Successfully Invades Broadway
★★★★☆ London hit written and played by genius group SpitLip, directed by Robert Hastie, choreographed by Jenny Arnold
Operation Mincemeat: A Comical Slice of World War II Lore
★★★★☆ A screwball musical from London rolls onto Broadway
Buena Vista Social Club: ¡Qué Gran Fiesta!
★★★★★ A classic documentary on Afro-Cuban musical greats is transformed into a sparkling Broadway delight
Buena Vista Social Club: How to Make Beautiful Music in Havana
★★★★☆ Vintage Afro-Cuban songs pack a unique new jukebox musical
Purpose: The Painful Legacy of Dreams Deferred
★★★★☆ Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins explores a prominent family’s ethical drifts in the muscular Steppenwolf Theater tradition
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