★★★★☆ Cole Porter and Kelli O’Hara make beautiful music together in a snappy revival
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Be More Chill: A Sci-Fi Musical for Generation Z
★★★★☆ Joe Iconis’ internet sensation, a musical for the iGeneration, finally makes its way to Broadway
Be More Chill: Desperately (and Delightfully) Striving to Be Cool
★★★★☆ A new cartoon musical delivers a story as timeless as “Faust” and twice as funny
My Fair Lady: Benanti and Burstein Enhance the Enchantment of Lerner and Loewe Classic
★★★★★ Stellar cast replacements make this excellent production even better
My Fair Lady: A Loverly, and Fierce, New Eliza
★★★★★ Laura Benanti and other new recruits bring fresh joy and fire to Bartlett Sher’s ravishing revival
True West: Shepard’s Raging Brothers Return
★★★★☆ Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano make their own mark in the first Broadway revival of this modern classic
True West: Sam Shepard’s Brotherhood of Man
★★★★☆ Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano are excellent in a revival that’s still shadowed by its previous staging
Choir Boy: Tarell Alvin McCraney Reaches Broadway, Finally
★★★★★ McCraney’s prep school play is rousing and intensely spiritual entertainment
Choir Boy: Make a Joyful Noise
★★★★☆ Oscar-winner Tarell Alvin McCraney makes his long-awaited Broadway debut with this 2013 coming-of-age drama
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee’s Classic Makes Magnificent Theater
★★★★★ Atticus, Scout, Jem and the rest exquisitely reimagined by Aaron Sorkin and Bartlett Sher