★★☆☆☆ Rick Riordan’s modern mythological yarn is a yawn as a musical
Broadway
The Rose Tattoo: Love Ain’t Sweeter the Second Time Around
★★☆☆☆ The new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ ode to amore is a bottle of Asti Spumante that’s lost its fizz
The Rose Tattoo: Tennessee Williams’ Rose Isn’t a Rose Isn’t a Rose
★★★☆☆ Director Trip Cullman takes the work, starring Marisa Tomei, to be only a comedy, but it’s more than that
Linda Vista: Unadulterated Comedy Back on Broadway, from Tracy Letts
★★★★★ The ‘August: Osage County’ playwright returns with an explosively funny comedy of crotchety manners
Linda Vista: A View From the Bottom
★★★☆☆ Tracy Letts pens a startlingly accurate, if tough to swallow, portrait of “middle-aged desperation”
Slave Play: Provocative, Poetic, and Disquieting
★★★★☆ Jeremy O. Harris’ phenomenally daring, disruptive drama is the polar opposite of theatrical comfort food
Freestyle Love Supreme: High-Flying Improv at the Booth
★★★★☆ Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail successfully bring a new-style event to Broadway
Freestyle Love Supreme: Hip-Hop Don’t Stop
★★★★☆ Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Anthony Veneziale’s improv phenomenon conquers Broadway
The Great Society: A Not So Great Play About LBJ
★★★☆☆ Troubled 1960s events overwhelm a President and dishearten a drama
The Height of the Storm: Provocative Play Offers Master Class in Acting
★★★★☆ Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins star in Florian Zeller’s newest Paris-to-London-to-New York offering