★★★☆☆ The sadly familiar story of a black man living with HIV gets an absurdist twist
Broadway
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
The Inheritance: Gay Times in America, Then and Now
★★★★☆ Some fine acting and a sterling staging lend credence to a classy gay soap opera by Matthew Lopez
Slava’s Snowshow: Clowns Gaily on the Loose in a Winter Wonderland
★★★☆☆ Slava Polunin and a clown troupe immerse kids and parents in a colorful holiday snowfall
The Radio City Christmas Spectacular: A Perennial That Lives Up to Its Name
★★★★☆ The Rockettes dance through the 87th annual edition of a New York City classic