★★★★☆ The travails of adolescence get a hard-hitting and sympathetic airing in a work of epic proportions
Off-Broadway
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
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee: Revival Spells S-U-C-C-E-S-S
★★★★☆ A new production of the Tony-nominated musical comedy goes to the head of the class
The Seat of Our Pants: Too Mild Wilder
★★☆☆☆ Ruthie Ann Miles shines amid Ethan Lipton’s respectful musical version of a mad Thornton Wilder classic
Archduke: Murder, He Says
★★★☆☆ Patrick Page blazes as a Balkans terrorist in Rajiv Joseph’s what-if World War I history play
The Baker’s Wife: Redemption for a Musical With a Big Heart
★★★★☆ A flawless cast and thoughtful direction turn a famously problematic tuner into a darling, healing event