★★★☆☆ This probing but flawed Pulitzer winner gets a gorgeous revival staged by Kenny Leon with David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood
Broadway
My Name Is Lucy Barton: Maternal Affairs
★★★★☆ Laura Linney shines in this Richard Eyre–directed one-woman show about the unbreakable, intricate mother-daughter bond
My Name Is Lucy Barton: Her Name Is Laura Linney, in an Illuminating Performance
★★★★☆ Elizabeth Strout’s best-seller is convincingly brought to the stage in Rona Munro’s adaptation, directed by Richard Eyre
The Feingold Column: Recollections of the O’Neill Playwrights Conference – Part 2
More summertime adventures working with playwrights and new plays at the O’Neill Conference.
Harry Connick Jr.: Celebrating Cole Porter With Brass and Multimedia
★★★★☆ The crooner smoothly guides us through the Porter songbook, sparking the evening with theatrical surprises
Harry Connick Jr.: A Celebration of Cole Porter Where Anything Goes
★★★★☆ The actor, singer, and virtuoso pianist pays tribute to Cole Porter with a Broadway extravaganza
one in two: An Absurdist Look at a Serious Issue
★★★☆☆ The sadly familiar story of a black man living with HIV gets an absurdist twist
The Illusionists: They’ve Got Magic to Do
★★★☆☆ Six magicians conjure up tricks for the family crowd
Jagged Little Pill: Everything’s Gonna Be Fine, Fine, Fine
★★★★☆ The Alanis Morissette jukebox musical brings down the house, unironically
Jagged Little Pill: Alanis Morissette Lavishly Broadway-ized
★★★★☆ The Top of the Charts release embedded in a family-dysfunction story, from Diane Paulus and Diablo Cody