★★★★★ Thornton Wilder’s epic, and epically funny, American classic is reborn in a brilliant new staging
Broadway
The Skin of Our Teeth: It’s So Extra
★★★★☆ Thornton Wilder’s epic receives a suitably over-the-top production at Lincoln Center Theater
Funny Girl: Beanie Feldstein Easy-Peasy Proves She’s a Funny Girl
★★★★☆ Michael Mayer directs the revived Styne-Merrill-Isobel Lennart tuner with Ramin Karimloo, Jane Lynch, Jared Grimes
Funny Girl: Fanny Is Funny But ‘Funny’ Is Flat
★★☆☆☆ Beanie Feldstein gives us a different take on the long-ago legend, but the rest is the same old fast shuffle
Hangmen: Martin McDonagh’s Slick Comedy Finally Arrives on Broadway
★★★★☆ A new staging of the dark comedy from a playwright once dubbed theater’s Quentin Tarantino goes for laughs over gore
Hangmen: Gallows Humor, Literally
★★★★☆ David Threlfall and Alfie Allen appear in the Broadway premiere of Martin McDonagh’s darkly funny, Olivier Award-winning play
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf: Enuf, and More
★★★★★ Ntozake Shange’s gloriously mad poems, directed by Camille A. Brown with a colorful seven-women cast
How I Learned to Drive: Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer-Prize-Winner Returns in Highest Gear
★★★★★ Original stars Mary Louise Parker and David Morse, and director Mark Brokaw resume their assignments
How I Learned to Drive: Costly Lessons in Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Winner
★★★★☆ In the play’s long overdue Broadway premiere, original stars Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse and director Mark Brokaw mine its wry humor and horror
The Minutes: Daring in Both Style and Substance
★★★★☆ Tracy Letts’ imperfect but provocative new play uses a small town city council meeting to explore big ideas.