★★★☆☆ Samantha Barks and Andy Karl topline this Garry Marshall-J. F. Lawton-Bryan Adams-Jim Vallance transfer
Broadway
Gettin’ the Band Back Together: Down the Shore, Everything’s All Right
★★★☆☆ The stupid, feel-good Parkway-exit musical is Jersey in a nutshell: a messy good time
Gettin’ the Band Back Together: Déjà Vu All Over Again
★★☆☆☆ The groans drown out the laughs at this totally unoriginal original musical
The Band’s Visit: Still the Music of the Jasmine-Scented Night
★★★★★ Last season’s best new musical retains its magic with a new leading man
The Band’s Visit: Sasson Gabay Joins the Still-Excellent Tony Winner
★★★★★ Replacing Tony Shalhoub, the Isaeli star helps maintain the just-about-perfect chamber musical
Head Over Heels: The Beat Goes On
★★★★☆ Mad about the Go-Go’s? Get up and go to the Elizabethan-set musical packed with their hook-heavy hits.
Head Over Heels: A New Musical With Plenty of Surprises
★★★☆☆ A rollicking Elizabethan musical, with transgender themes and a score, so to speak, by The Go-Go’s.
Straight White Men: Nice Guys Get Framed in a Dramatic Diorama
★★★☆☆ Armie Hammer and others act nicely in an enigmatic Christmas story about privilege
Straight White Men: Check Their Privilege!
★★★☆☆ Young Jean Lee makes her Broadway debut with a Christmas-set family drama starring Josh Charles and Armie Hammer as backslapping bros
The Boys in the Band: 50 Shades of Gay
★★★★★ Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, and a charismatic ensemble leap out of a queer time capsule from 1968