★★★★★ Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton, and Charlie Cox make a beguiling love triangle in Harold Pinter’s backward-spinning drama
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Betrayal: Pinter’s Web of Deception Returns to Broadway, Incisively
★★★★☆ Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox, and Zawe Ashton star in Jamie Lloyd’s London transfer
Sea Wall/A Life: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Sturridge in Great, Nervous Shape
★★★★☆ Carrie Cracknell forcibly directs tough-minded one-acts by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne
Sea Wall/A Life: Fathers and Sons, Grappling with Love and Loss
★★★★☆ Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal turn in stirring performances in monologues addressing parenthood and mortality
Manilow Broadway: He Writes the Songs That Makes the Audience Sing Right Along With Him
★★★★☆ The ever-exuberant entertainer delivers a dandy Broadway concert
Moulin Rouge! The Musical!: A Dazzling Exercise in Excess
★★★★★ Karen Olivo and Aaron Tveit belt out chart-topping hits in the lavish screen-to-stage salute to “truth, beauty, freedom, and love”
Moulin Rouge! The Musical!: All You Need Is Love (and Showmanship)
★★★★☆ Baz Luhrmann’s hit bohemian-Paris movie gets bigger and bolder for Broadway
Dying City: Lovers, Brothers and Other Strangers
★★★☆☆ Second Stage Theater revives Christopher Shinn’s intimate play tracing personal struggles in the Iraq War’s early stages
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