★★★★☆ Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal turn in stirring performances in monologues addressing parenthood and mortality
Broadway
Manilow Broadway: He Writes the Songs That Makes the Audience Sing Right Along With Him
★★★★☆ The ever-exuberant entertainer delivers a dandy Broadway concert
Moulin Rouge! The Musical!: A Dazzling Exercise in Excess
★★★★★ Karen Olivo and Aaron Tveit belt out chart-topping hits in the lavish screen-to-stage salute to “truth, beauty, freedom, and love”
Moulin Rouge! The Musical!: All You Need Is Love (and Showmanship)
★★★★☆ Baz Luhrmann’s hit bohemian-Paris movie gets bigger and bolder for Broadway
Dying City: Lovers, Brothers and Other Strangers
★★★☆☆ Second Stage Theater revives Christopher Shinn’s intimate play tracing personal struggles in the Iraq War’s early stages
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune: Acting Brilliance in the Light of the Moon
★★★★☆ Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon shine in the Terrence McNally play
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune: Love Among the (Glamorous) Downtrodden
★★★☆☆ Terrence McNally’s play, funny, wistful, and meticulously acted, doesn’t quite deliver in its second revival on Broadway
Morrissey: This Charming Man, A Broadway Baby
★★★☆☆ British rock veteran Morrissey is the latest pop star to invade Broadway, with a residency at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Beetlejuice: These Ghosts Are Gonna Live Forever
★★★★☆ The song-and-dance adaption of the Tim Burton film is built to please, and it does
Beetlejuice: Tim Burton’s 1988 Cult Film Kinda Musicalized
★★★☆☆ Alex Brightman is the major bright spot in Alex Timber’s stage transfer