★★★★☆ The bittersweet Rodgers & Hammerstein classic sounds far lovelier than it looks
Broadway
Carousel: A Timeless Ride, Still Bold and Beautiful
★★★★★ Director Jack O’Brien, choreographer Justin Peck and an excellent cast revive this most harrowing and rapturous of musicals.
Children of a Lesser God: The Great White Nope
★★☆☆☆ Lauren Ridloff is terrific in the role Marlee Matlin made famous, but that doesn’t save this horribly dated play
Mean Girls: Tina Fey’s Little Foxes Slay Broadway
★★★★☆ The 2004 movie becomes a crowd-pleasing musical, with help from the wizardly Casey Nicholaw
Mean Girls: Fey’s Film Is Very Fetch on Broadway
★★★★☆ Director-choreography Casey Nicholaw has fun playing with the Plastics — but why’s it all so white and straight?
Three Tall Women: Towering Performances Drive Albee Revival
★★★★★ Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf, and Alison Pill shine and pierce in a new production of the Pulitzer-winning play.
Three Tall Women: Glenda Jackson on a Ripping Albee Ride
★★★★★ Glenda Jackson and Edward Albee combine for a scorching Mother’s Day
Rocktopia: Rock and Classical Fight to the Death, Both Lose
★☆☆☆☆ Classic rock warhorses meet classical warhorses, but the singers, orchestra, and choir reach no agreement
Rocktopia: It’s So… Heavy
★★☆☆☆ An homage to rock gods and their classical forebears offers all the subtlety of Spinal Tap’s tribute to Stonehenge.
Lobby Hero: Lonergan’s Law and Disorder Looks Timely
★★★★☆ Chris Evans and Michael Cera face off in a provocative study of shady behavior at the newly redone Hayes Theater