★★☆☆☆ Broadway’s latest jukebox tribute honors the queen of rock and soul
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American Utopia: David Byrne Headlines an Extremely Stylish Concert
★★★★☆ A charismatic star and an expert troupe deliver a classy event
The Sound Inside: Mary Louise Parker Spins an Intriguing Literary Yarn
★★★★★ Adam Rapp makes his Broadway debut with a riveting discourse between two novelists
The Sound Inside: Adam Rapp’s Potent Nod to Great Literature
★★★★☆ Mary-Louise Parker is strong as a creative-writing teacher with a talented, troubled student
The Lightning Thief: Half-Gods and Monsters, at Summer Camp
★★★☆☆ Young readers’ hero Percy Jackson and his fellow misfits arrive on the musical stage
The Lightning Thief: Scarcely a Striking Attraction for the Whole Darn Family
★★☆☆☆ Rick Riordan’s modern mythological yarn is a yawn as a musical
The Rose Tattoo: Love Ain’t Sweeter the Second Time Around
★★☆☆☆ The new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ ode to amore is a bottle of Asti Spumante that’s lost its fizz
The Rose Tattoo: Tennessee Williams’ Rose Isn’t a Rose Isn’t a Rose
★★★☆☆ Director Trip Cullman takes the work, starring Marisa Tomei, to be only a comedy, but it’s more than that
Linda Vista: Unadulterated Comedy Back on Broadway, from Tracy Letts
★★★★★ The ‘August: Osage County’ playwright returns with an explosively funny comedy of crotchety manners
Linda Vista: A View From the Bottom
★★★☆☆ Tracy Letts pens a startlingly accurate, if tough to swallow, portrait of “middle-aged desperation”