★★★☆☆ The Duffer Brothers go Broadway, Kate Trefry scripts, Stephen Daldry directs, Louis McCartney leads hard-working cast
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Floyd Collins: Jeremy Jordan goes deep as a forgotten headliner from 1925
★★★★☆ Taylor Trensch, Jason Gotay, and Lizzie McAlpine are notable in LCT’s revival of a sorrowful musical drama
Floyd Collins: Waist-Deep in the Big Muddy
★★☆☆☆ Overproduction cripples the Broadway debut of a much-admired intimate art musical
John Proctor Is the Villain: A Fearless Gen Z Look at ‘The Crucible’
★★★★★ Director Danya Taymor and a dynamite cast bring Kimberly Belflower’s marvelous new play to Broadway
John Proctor Is the Villain: A #MeToo Conversation with ‘The Crucible’
★★★☆☆ Sadie Sink stars in Kimberly Belflower’s play about a high school class wrestling with the themes of Miller’s play.
Smash: Marilyn Musical Neither Smash Nor Bomb
★★★☆☆ The popular TV series about the making of a Broadway musical finally makes it to the Great White Way.
Smash: Marilyn, We Hardly Knew Ye
★★☆☆☆ Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman recycle their TV score for the stage
Sondheim’s Old Friends: Something Great Has Come, No Maybe About It
★★★★★ Stephen Sondheim’s brilliance celebrated by Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga, Matthew Bourne, other swells
Sondheim’s Old Friends: Musical Cornucopia Makes an Overstuffed Banquet
★★★☆☆ Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga headline Cameron Mackintosh’s memorial salute to the songwriter
Boop!: Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
★★★★☆ Jasmine Amy Rogers adorably brings the venerable cartoon character to life in this Broadway musical directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell.