★★★★☆ The Broadway vets cleverly relive their related on-stage and off-stage lives
Off-Broadway
Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!: Experimental Identities
★★★☆☆ Soho Rep exits its longtime home with an antic tribute to a downtown icon
Gatz: Great Scott!
★★★★★ Elevator Repair Service’s remarkable word-for-word Fitzgerald staging returns to the Public
Gatz: Fitzgerald Classic Word-for-Word from Elevator Repair Service
★★★★☆ John Collins directs, Scott Shepherd narrates, with some past and some new cast members
Walden: Zoë Winters and Emmy Rossum Navigate American Dystopia
★★★★☆ Amy Berryman’s post-apocalyptic drama centers on twin sisters and their space-travel dreams
Walden: Sibling Rivalry as the World Burns
★★★☆☆ Emmy Rossum and Zoë Winters play sisters torn apart by their life choices in Amy Berryman’s climate change-themed drama set in the “not-so-distant” future.
The Devil’s Disciple: An All-Female Cast Takes On Shaw’s American Revolution Story
★★★☆☆ Gingold Theatrical Group offers clever production of early Shavian comedy
Ragtime: Simple and Somehow Sublime
★★★★★ For her farewell as Encores! artistic director, future Lincoln Center AD Lear deBessonet goes out on a high note
Ragtime: E. L. Doctorow’s Musicalized Masterpiece Masterfully Revived
★★★★★ The Terrence McNally-Stephen Flaherty-Lynn Ahrens flawless work, directed by Lear deBessonet, choreographed by Ellenore Scott
Another Shot: When Harry Met Rehab
★★★☆☆ Dan Butler plays a nice guy who insists “I don’t need to quit drinking”