★★★★☆ Jason Robert Brown and company connect with a timely tale exploring fact and fancy in American journalism
Off-Broadway
The Connector: Journalism Scandal Musical Feels Too Little, Too Late
★★★☆☆ Daisy Prince directs this new musical by Jason Robert Brown and Jonathan Marc Sherman, based on a real-life story and featuring Scott Bakula, Ben Levi Ross, and Hannah Cruz.
Jonah: Three Ages of Woman, Intriguingly Interspliced
★★★★☆ Gabby Beans portrays a writer-in-training at three distinct junctures in her life, slightly jumbled to fascinating effect.
The White Chip: Recovering Alcoholic’s Tough Tale Boldly Told
★★★☆☆ Sean Daniels is autobiographical about his drinking past, with Joe Tapper as the fictional stand-in
Once Upon a Mattress: Sutton Foster Distinguishes a So-So Revival
★★★☆☆ Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer musical features Michael Urie, J. Harrison Ghee, Harriet Harris, and Cheyenne Jackson
Once Upon a Mattress: A Royal Success, at Encores
★★★★☆ Sutton Foster, Michael Urie, Harriet Harris and more lead the cast in a happy revival of the Mary Rodgers—Marshall Barer musical
Public Obscenities: What’s Obscene and What Isn’t, Probed at Length
★★★☆☆ Shayok Misha Chowdhury writes and directs, with a hard-working and skilled cast
Aristocrats: The Death of the Ruling Class in an Irish Brogue
★★★☆☆ Brian Friel’s Chekhovian drama gets a first class production from the Irish Rep
Aristocrats: Brian Friel’s Chekhovian Homage Treated Rather Shabbily
★★☆☆☆ Brian Friel’s Ballybeg aristos face reduced circumstances, with varying degrees of grace (and varying degrees of acting skill).
Our Class: Harrowing History Lessons From the Polish Front
★★★☆☆ BAM hosts a chilling drama based on the tragic story of a town in Poland that turned on its Jewish neighbors