★★★★☆ Hugh Jackman plays a professor entangled with a student in Hannah Moscovitch’s 90-minute drama
Off-Broadway
Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes: Star Power Up Close
★★★★☆ Hugh Jackman and Ella Beatty co-star in this intimate drama about a university professor who has an affair with one of his students.
The Black Wolfe Tone: Kwaku Fortune’s Forceful Semi-Autographical Solo Click
★★★★☆ The actor, new to the Manhattan Stage, makes himself known, as does director Nicola Murphy Dubey
Five Models in Ruins, 1981: Dressed for Excess
★★☆☆☆ Elizabeth Marvel shoots a gallery of swans in lovely circumstances
Wonderful Town: Not As Good As it Sounds
★★★☆☆ The latest revival of the Leonard Bernstein musical misses the beat in a rushed Encores! production starring Anika Noni Rose
Wonderful Town: Bernstein-Comden-Green Musical in Not So Wonderful Revival
★★☆☆☆ The durably entertaining musical comedy falls flat, this time, at Encores
Hold Me in the Water: An Intimate Boy-Meets-Boy Story
★★★★☆ Ryan J. Haddad shares a tale of summer love in his autobiographical 70-minute one-man show
Grief Camp: Loss at an Emotional Remove
★★☆☆☆ Eliya Smith’s amorphous drama revolves around young campers working through bereavement issues.
Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp: Caryl Churchill Vaudeville
★★★★☆ Deirdre O’Connell and John Ellison Conlee head a bill of diverse acts at the Public Theater
Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.: What If Caryl Churchill Returns at Her Near Best
★★★☆☆ The often enigmatic playwright unfurls four one-acts, James MacDonald directing, Deirdre O’Connoll, others acting nicely