★★★☆☆ Alex Brightman is the major bright spot in Alex Timber’s stage transfer
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Ink: Rupert Murdoch Against the World (and The Mirror)
★★★★★ Bertie Carvel and Jonny Lee Miller star in a thrilling, real-life newspaper yarn
Ink: Springtime for Murdoch
★★★★☆ James Graham’s new play traces the rise of the British tabloid that helped launch a global media empire
Tootsie: A Man Playing a Man Playing a Woman Playing a…
★★★★☆ Santino Fontana shines in this new David Yazbek musical, well adapted from the 1982 film
Tootsie: They’ve Got Big Heels to Fill
★★★★☆ The Sydney Pollack–directed ’80s movie gets a Broadway makeover courtesy of screen-to-stage musical specialist David Yazbek
All My Sons: Arthur Miller’s Family-Secrets Tragedy in A-Plus Revival
★★★★★ Annette Bening, Tracy Letts, Benjamin Walker outstanding under Jack O’Brien’s direction
All My Sons: Arthur Miller’s Still-Shattering Backyard Tragedy
★★★★☆ More than 70 years after its premiere, Arthur Miller’s breakthrough drama proves as powerful (and timely) as ever
Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus: Bloody Brilliant
★★★★★ The profane and the sublime meet—with Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen and Julie White—in Taylor Mac’s brilliant Broadway debut
Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus: Cleaning Up and Moving On, After Disaster
★★★★☆ Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen, and Julie White make art from horror, with help from Taylor Mac
Hillary and Clinton: Couples Therapy, for the Audience
★★★★☆ Laurie Metcalf, John Lithgow, and what we’d like to think the power pair say behind closed doors