★★★☆☆ Debbie Allen directs a decidedly earthbound revival of August Wilson’s most mystical play
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The Rocky Horror Show: Roundabout Rolls Out a Not So Hot Patootie
★★☆☆☆ Luke Evans, Juliette Lewis and Rachel Dratch appear amid a conventional revival of an unconventional musical
The Rocky Horror Show: Let’s Not (Do The Time Warp Again), And Say We Did
★★☆☆☆ Overproduced, underconceived, superfluous revival of a property long past its sell-by date
Beaches: Much Loved Novel-and-Movie Bursts Into So-So-Songs
★★☆☆☆ Iris Rainer Dart hits sandy shores with Mike Stoller music, Lonny Price, Matt Cowart directing
Beaches: Maudlin and Middling
★★☆☆☆ A beloved (in some quarters) movie weepie, set to music, can’t get past its threadbare plot
The Balusters: Love Thy Rule-Following, Historically Appropriate Neighbor
★★★★☆ Kenny Leon directs David Lindsay-Abaire’s new comedy about a neighborhood association gone wrong
The Balusters: There Goes the Neighborhood
★★★★☆ A series of neighborhood association meetings turns contentious in David Lindsay-Abaire’s hilarious comedy
Schmigadoon!: Talent’s Bustin’ Out All Over
★★★★☆ A townful of creatives, working in easy harmony, fuels a warm homage to musicals and those who love them
Schmigadoon!: Doin’ Nicely Nicely By the Classics
★★★★☆ Alex Brightman leads a dandy company through a salute to musicals like they don’t make them anymore
Fallen Angels: Here’s to Women Behaving Badly
★★★★☆ Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara are riotously funny in Noël Coward’s 101-year-old buddy comedy