★☆☆☆☆ Daniel Craig, Ruth Negga and director Sam Gold try Shakespeare
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Mr. Saturday Night: Broadway Musical, Borscht Belt Style
★★★☆☆ Billy Crystal co-wrote and stars in the new musical adaptation of his 1992 film, featuring a score by Jason Robert Brown and Amanda Green
Mr. Saturday Night: Billy Crystal Musicalized Vehicle Runs Smoothly Enough
★★★☆☆ The comedian adapts his flick hit with co-writers Ganz and Mandel, Brown and Green songs added, and Rando direction
POTUS: Foul-Mouthed Women on Comedy Rampage
★★★☆☆ Selina Fillinger writes a laugh-getter, Susan Stroman directs, Julie White, Lea DeLaria, Rachel Dratch et al amuse
A Strange Loop: The I’s Have It in a Remarkable Musical Achievement
★★★★☆ A one-of-a-kind musical creator unravels the very strands of human identity
The Skin of Our Teeth: We Will Survive
★★★★★ Thornton Wilder’s epic, and epically funny, American classic is reborn in a brilliant new staging
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