★★★☆☆ Selina Fillinger writes a laugh-getter, Susan Stroman directs, Julie White, Lea DeLaria, Rachel Dratch et al amuse
Broadway
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
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