★★★★☆ Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen, and Julie White make art from horror, with help from Taylor Mac
Broadway
Hillary and Clinton: Couples Therapy, for the Audience
★★★★☆ Laurie Metcalf, John Lithgow, and what we’d like to think the power pair say behind closed doors
Hillary and Clinton: Peering Inside the Private Lives of a Power Couple
★★★★☆ Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow superbly depict a dynamic duo
Hadestown: Anaïs Mitchell’s Myths and Hymns, from Way Downtown
★★★★☆ Internationally acclaimed folk opera arrives on Broadway, under Rachel Chavkin’s direction
Hadestown: Red, Hot, and Bluesy Score Fuels a Trip to Hell and Back
★★★★☆ Songwriter Anaïs Mitchell makes an impressive Broadway bow with an infernal musical
Burn This: Keri Russell and Adam Driver Lack Sizzle
★★★☆☆ Keri Russell and Adam Driver play unlikely lovers in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s play
Burn This: 1987 Dramatic Firecracker No Longer Pops
★★★☆☆ Lanford Wilson’s play, in a revival powered by Adam Driver and Keri Russell, is fitfully entertaining but not compelling
The Ferryman: Brilliant Play Still Blazingly Exciting with Replacements
★★★★★ Jez Butterworth’s play, now with Brian d’Arcy James and an accomplished American cast, is still not-to-be-missed
Oklahoma!: Back on the Farm, but Without the Bright Golden Haze
★★★☆☆ Daniel Fish’s acclaimed new take on the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic offers plenty of ambition but not enough joy
Oklahoma!: It May Not Be Necessary to 21st-Century-Update a Classic
★★★☆☆ Daniel Fish directs the Oscar Hammerstein II-Richard Rodgers musical with and without aplomp