★★☆☆☆ Matthew Broderick and David Cross in Lucas Hnath’s Adaptation of Molière
Off-Broadway
Tartuffe: Lucas Hnath Runs Out of Rhymes on Molière’s Classic
★★☆☆☆ Sarah Benson’s lively direction can’t overcome adaptor Hnath’s careless Molière treatment
Anna Christie: The Sea-Themed Drama Docks at the Brooklyn Waterfront
★★★☆☆ Michelle Williams plays a hooker with a heart of coal in Eugene O’Neill’s 1921 drama
Anna Christie: That ‘Ole Devil Play
★★★☆☆ Michelle Williams, Tom Sturridge, and Brian d’Arcy James star in Thomas Kail’s revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama
It’s A Wonderful Life: Live And Life-Affirming On Stage
★★★★☆ The Irish Rep resurrects its heart-warming adaptation of the film classic.
A Christmas Carol: Rings the Bell Downtown
★★★☆☆ Michael Cerveris is Scrooge in a Holiday Return of the Matthew Warchus/Old Vic show
Gotta Dance!: Gotta Dance Better Than This!
★★☆☆☆ American Dance Machine lacks sufficient flair reviving favorite choreographed numbers
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