★★★☆☆ The popular TV series about the making of a Broadway musical finally makes it to the Great White Way.
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Smash: Marilyn, We Hardly Knew Ye
★★☆☆☆ Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman recycle their TV score for the stage
Sondheim’s Old Friends: Something Great Has Come, No Maybe About It
★★★★★ Stephen Sondheim’s brilliance celebrated by Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga, Matthew Bourne, other swells
Sondheim’s Old Friends: Musical Cornucopia Makes an Overstuffed Banquet
★★★☆☆ Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga headline Cameron Mackintosh’s memorial salute to the songwriter
Boop!: Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
★★★★☆ Jasmine Amy Rogers adorably brings the venerable cartoon character to life in this Broadway musical directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell.
Boop!: Betty Brightens Broadway, But….
★★★☆☆ Betty Boop flies out of B&W cartoons into today’s living color, with glittery star quality but a saggy story
The Last Five Years: Stuck on the Seesaw
★★★☆☆ Ineffective choices weigh down Jason Robert Brown’s charming chamber musical
The Last Five Years: A Romance Told Up and Down
★★★☆☆ A much-loved musical love story, featuring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren, makes a stylish but uneven Broadway debut
Good Night, and Good Luck: George Clooney Makes Startling Broadway Bow
★★★★★ Clooney and Grant Heslov adapt their 2005 film to reflect not only the Joe McCarthy era but today
Good Night, and Good Luck: Movie-to-Stage-to-Video
★★★☆☆ George Clooney makes his Broadway debut in this stage adaptation of the 2005 film which he directed, co-wrote and appeared in.