★★★☆☆ Second Stage Theater revives Christopher Shinn’s intimate play tracing personal struggles in the Iraq War’s early stages
Broadway
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune: Acting Brilliance in the Light of the Moon
★★★★☆ Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon shine in the Terrence McNally play
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune: Love Among the (Glamorous) Downtrodden
★★★☆☆ Terrence McNally’s play, funny, wistful, and meticulously acted, doesn’t quite deliver in its second revival on Broadway
Morrissey: This Charming Man, A Broadway Baby
★★★☆☆ British rock veteran Morrissey is the latest pop star to invade Broadway, with a residency at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Beetlejuice: These Ghosts Are Gonna Live Forever
★★★★☆ The song-and-dance adaption of the Tim Burton film is built to please, and it does
Beetlejuice: Tim Burton’s 1988 Cult Film Kinda Musicalized
★★★☆☆ Alex Brightman is the major bright spot in Alex Timber’s stage transfer
Ink: Rupert Murdoch Against the World (and The Mirror)
★★★★★ Bertie Carvel and Jonny Lee Miller star in a thrilling, real-life newspaper yarn
Ink: Springtime for Murdoch
★★★★☆ James Graham’s new play traces the rise of the British tabloid that helped launch a global media empire
Tootsie: A Man Playing a Man Playing a Woman Playing a…
★★★★☆ Santino Fontana shines in this new David Yazbek musical, well adapted from the 1982 film
Tootsie: They’ve Got Big Heels to Fill
★★★★☆ The Sydney Pollack–directed ’80s movie gets a Broadway makeover courtesy of screen-to-stage musical specialist David Yazbek