★★☆☆☆ Theatrical comfort food delivering a few laughs but empty calories.
Broadway
Lackawanna Blues: Ruben Santiago-Hudson Brillliantly Tour de Forcing
★★★★★ The actor-director lovingly revives a one-man work about his childhood and the woman who influenced it most
LACKAWANNA BLUES: RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON’S ACCLAIMED SOLO PLAY MAKES ITS BROADWAY DEBUT
★★★★☆ Previously adapted into an HBO film, the play returns to the form that suits it best, with its original writer/star.
Six: Hold on to Your Heads, with Cheers and Huzzahs!
★★★★★ The musical juggernaut about displaced royals delivers, with flair, exuberance, and high style
Six: Long Live the Queens
★★★★★ Henry VIII’s wives get the royal treatment in this 80-minute musical celebration of girl power
Pass Over: Waiting for the Po-Po, Hoping for the Promised Land
★★★★☆ The first new Broadway production in 17 months is an extraordinary Black-lives-matter take on Godot and the Exodus
Pass Over: A Play That Speaks to Our Times
★★★★☆ Beckett meets Black Lives Matter in Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s racially charged absurdist drama.
Girl From the North Country: Depression Musical Elates
★★★★★ Bob Dylan songs enhance grand Conor McPherson musical
Girl From the North Country: Bob Dylan, American Poet
★★★★☆ Irish playwright Conor McPherson constructs a moving, mythical American story inside the singer-songwriter’s world
Madison Square Mockingbird: Atticus & Company on the Big, Big Stage
Public school students—18,000 of them—spend an afternoon at the hit Broadway production based on Harper Lee’s novel