★★★★☆ Josefina López’s decades-old play turned movie turned musical resonates with audiences anew
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Just in Time: Hello, Bobby! Darin Gets a Splashy Broadway Tribute
★★★★☆ Jonathan Groff gives a once-in-a-lifetime performance as the Grammy-winning “Beyond the Sea” singer
Just in Time: A Bio-Musical Blast
★★★★☆ Jonathan Groff gloriously pays tribute to Bobby Darin in this electric, cabaret-style showcase for his talents
Pirates! The Penzance Musical: Bright and Breezy in the Big Easy
★★★★☆ David Hyde Pierce, Jinkx Monsoon and Ramin Karimloo sail away in a Gilbert & Sullivan showboat
Pirates! The Penzance Musical: Not for Purists, but Fun for Everyone Else
★★★★☆ Rupert Holmes delivers an entertaining, New Orleans-flavored adaptation of the classic Gilbert & Sullivan operetta
Stranger Things–The First Shadow: We Will Control The Horizontal
★★★★☆ The origin story for a fan-fave Netflix TV series uses every conceivable means to knock our socks off – and does
Stranger Things—The First Shadow: Stage Version of Series Maybe Not Strange Enough
★★★☆☆ The Duffer Brothers go Broadway, Kate Trefry scripts, Stephen Daldry directs, Louis McCartney leads hard-working cast
Floyd Collins: Jeremy Jordan goes deep as a forgotten headliner from 1925
★★★★☆ Taylor Trensch, Jason Gotay, and Lizzie McAlpine are notable in LCT’s revival of a sorrowful musical drama
Floyd Collins: Waist-Deep in the Big Muddy
★★☆☆☆ Overproduction cripples the Broadway debut of a much-admired intimate art musical
John Proctor Is the Villain: A Fearless Gen Z Look at ‘The Crucible’
★★★★★ Director Danya Taymor and a dynamite cast bring Kimberly Belflower’s marvelous new play to Broadway