More summertime adventures working with playwrights and new plays at the O’Neill Conference.
Broadway
Harry Connick Jr.: Celebrating Cole Porter With Brass and Multimedia
★★★★☆ The crooner smoothly guides us through the Porter songbook, sparking the evening with theatrical surprises
Harry Connick Jr.: A Celebration of Cole Porter Where Anything Goes
★★★★☆ The actor, singer, and virtuoso pianist pays tribute to Cole Porter with a Broadway extravaganza
one in two: An Absurdist Look at a Serious Issue
★★★☆☆ The sadly familiar story of a black man living with HIV gets an absurdist twist
The Illusionists: They’ve Got Magic to Do
★★★☆☆ Six magicians conjure up tricks for the family crowd
Jagged Little Pill: Everything’s Gonna Be Fine, Fine, Fine
★★★★☆ The Alanis Morissette jukebox musical brings down the house, unironically
Jagged Little Pill: Alanis Morissette Lavishly Broadway-ized
★★★★☆ The Top of the Charts release embedded in a family-dysfunction story, from Diane Paulus and Diablo Cody
A Christmas Carol: God Blast Ye, Merry Gentlemen
★★★★☆ Jack Thorne, Matthew Warchus, and Charles Dickens insist that we Scrooges mend our selfish ways, with joyful stagecraft to pull us along
A Christmas Carol: Spooked By the Past
★★★☆☆ A chilly Campbell Scott plays Scrooge in a grim rendition of the holiday classic
The Inheritance: A Magnificent Look at the Post-‘Angels in America’ World
★★★★★ Matthew Lopez’s two-part play, with Stephen Daldry at the helm, is not to be missed