★★★★★ Clubbed Thumb’s production of the poignant Abe Koogler play returns for a much-deserved encore run at the Public Theater
Critics' Picks
Grangeville: Art, Anguish, and Wonder from Samuel D. Hunter
★★★★★ An exceptional play with fine work from director Jack Serio and actors Brian J. Smith and Paul Sparks
Liberation: We’ve Come So Far…Or Have We?
★★★★☆ Whitney White directs a sensational group of women in Bess Wohl’s time-traveling memory play
English: Speaking a Universal Language, in a Broadway Premiere
★★★★☆ Sanaz Toosi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play feels newly richer in this Roundabout production
Gypsy: Everything’s Coming Up Audra
★★★★☆ New production of fabled masterwork lights the lights and hits the heights
Maybe Happy Ending: A Futuristic Love Story With Old-Fashioned Heart
★★★★☆ This sweet but never saccharine robot romcom is the musical boost we all need
Oh, Mary!: Lincoln, Drinkin’ and Todd
★★★★☆ Cole Escola writes and stars in a Bizarro World version of Honest Abe’s spouse as cabaret diva
Six: Long Live the Queens
★★★★★ Henry VIII’s wives get the royal treatment in this 80-minute musical celebration of girl power
Moulin Rouge! The Musical!: A Dazzling Exercise in Excess
★★★★★ Karen Olivo and Aaron Tveit belt out chart-topping hits in the lavish screen-to-stage salute to “truth, beauty, freedom, and love”
Aladdin: Four Years On, A Fairy Tale For A Whole New World
★★★★☆ Long-Run Lookback: One of Disney’s most enduring screen-to-stage confections remains among its most adult-friendly—and seems freshly relevant.