★★★★☆ A singing sextet in pre-WWII Berlin wows the cabaret crowd — but proves powerless against the Gestapo
Broadway
I Need That: Danny DeVito’s Got the Goods
★★★☆☆ Theresa Rebeck’s new play delves into the concept of trash, treasure, and throwing it all away
I Need That: A Play About Hoarding Not Cluttered by Nuance
★★★☆☆ Danny DeVito stars in Theresa Rebeck’s play about a compulsive hoarder, also featuring his daughter Lucy DeVito and Ray Anthony Thomas.
Partnership: The Perils of Mixing Business and Pleasure
★★★☆☆ The Mint Theater continues its salute to British playwright Elizabeth Baker with a 1917 marriage-minded comedy
Gutenberg! The Musical!: Revisionist History of the Hysterical Kind
★★★★★ “Book of Mormon’s” Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells reunite for a gay old time
Gutenberg! The Musical!: A Meta-Musical Satire That Doesn’t Deserve Exclamation Points
★★★☆☆ Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells reunite for the first Broadway production of this musical spoof by Scott Brown and Anthony King, creators of “Beetlejuice.”
Now You Know; or, How to Make ‘Merrily’ Roll Along
★★★★★ Led by Daniel Radcliffe, Lindsay Mendez, and Jonathan Groff, the onetime Sondheim failure is now—finally—a palpable Broadway hit
Merrily We Roll Along: Feel the Flow, Hear What’s Happening
★★★★★ More than 40 years after its debut, the infamous Sondheim-Furth flop gets Broadway redemption
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding: Tressed to Impress
★★★★☆ Jocelyn Bioh makes her Broadway debut with a celebration of an unsung art and its exceptional artists
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding: Harlem Braids May Not Be Tight Enough
★★★☆☆ Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy with belated pathos is well played and well directed by Whitney White