★★★★☆ Kenny Leon helms a first rate company led by Jake Gyllenhaal and Denzel Washington in the title role.
Broadway
Operation Mincemeat: Satirical Wartime Musical Successfully Invades Broadway
★★★★☆ London hit written and played by genius group SpitLip, directed by Robert Hastie, choreographed by Jenny Arnold
Operation Mincemeat: A Comical Slice of World War II Lore
★★★★☆ A screwball musical from London rolls onto Broadway
Buena Vista Social Club: ¡Qué Gran Fiesta!
★★★★★ A classic documentary on Afro-Cuban musical greats is transformed into a sparkling Broadway delight
Buena Vista Social Club: How to Make Beautiful Music in Havana
★★★★☆ Vintage Afro-Cuban songs pack a unique new jukebox musical
Purpose: The Painful Legacy of Dreams Deferred
★★★★☆ Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins explores a prominent family’s ethical drifts in the muscular Steppenwolf Theater tradition
Purpose: Tough New Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Tragicomedy Loses Sight of Purpose
★★★☆☆ Phylicia Rashad keenly directs a first-rate six member-cast featuring LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young
Redwood: Idina Menzel Defies Gravity Again, in New Musical
★★★☆☆ The star of Wicked and Frozen returns to Broadway with this musical about a woman trying to escape her grief in a California forest
Redwood: She Talks to the Trees! (No, Really)
★★☆☆☆ IMAX meets Broadway in a technologically impressive but dramatically wooden new musical
Pecking Order: Fowl Play Indeed
★☆☆☆☆ Two infamous New York–dwelling red-tailed hawks serve as the ostensible inspiration for a flighty new comedy