★★☆☆☆ American Dance Machine lacks sufficient flair reviving favorite choreographed numbers
Off-Broadway
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions: Queer Doings at the Park Avenue Armory
★★★☆☆ A 15-member ensemble spins through the musical rise and fall of a patriarchal society
Gruesome Playground Injuries: Not All Wounds Are On the Outside
★★★★☆ Nicholas Braun and Kara Young play childhood friends reckoning with a lifetime of hurt
Sweet Smell of Success: Hamlisch Musical Returns, with Improvements
★★★☆☆ Concert version suggests a potential future for the all-but-forgotten Hamlisch-Carnelia-Guare musical
Initiative: Dungeons & Dragons And Sex, Oh My
★★★★☆ The travails of adolescence get a hard-hitting and sympathetic airing in a work of epic proportions
This World of Tomorrow: Time Travel Story Suffers from Déjà Vu
★★★☆☆ Tom Hanks and Kelli O’Hara star in this sci-fi romance co-written by Hanks and James Glossman
This World of Tomorrow: Go for Tom Hanks, Stay for Kelli O’Hara
★★★☆☆ Kenny Leon directs a 150-year-spanning sci-fi-tinged New York play
Practice: Theater Games and Mind Games
★★★☆☆ Nazareth Hassan’s new backstage dramedy studies process and power
Meet the Cartozians: Armenians in America, Then and Now
★★★★☆ Andrea Martin sparks David Cromer’s Second Stage premiere of a meaningful comedy of racial identity
Meet the Cartozians: A People Proud, A History Melancholy
★★★☆☆ A skillful cast explores the Armenian American experience across two eras, a century apart