★★★★☆ Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas’ operatic musical soars with Ruthie Ann Miles and Anna Zavelson
Off-Broadway
Rock & Roll Man: Cruise Ship Entertainment, Minus the Seasickness
★★★☆☆ Constantine Maroulis plays legendary disc jockey Alan Freed in this jukebox musical, also featuring Joe Pantoliano.
Rock & Roll Man: Alan Freed Celebrated in Newie-But-Goodie Tuner
★★★★☆ R & R lovers-bookwriters Kupper, Marshak, Caiola recall Little Richard et al in a retrospect rouser
One Woman Show: Liz Kingsman Makes the Most of Her Meta Moment
★★★★★ The convulsively funny confessional comes from the West End to NYC
Good Vibrations: Belfast Calling
★★★☆☆ Plunge into the 1970s Irish punk scene with this indie movie turned amiable musical
Eisenhower, This Piece of Ground: Doing Justice to the 34th President
★★★★☆ John Rubinstein delivers a compelling turn in this solo biographical drama.
Cassie and the Lights: A Family at Risk, Reconfigured
★★★★☆ Family dynamics get a tragicomic treatment in this tale of three virtual orphans surviving precariously in contemporary London.
The Doctor: From London, a Scathing Societal Diagnosis, and a Meditation on Faith
★★★★☆ Director Robert Icke and a cast led by Juliet Stevenson offer strong medicine in this adaptation of an Arthur Schnitzler play
The Doctor: Great Theatrical Medicine, Doesn’t Always Go Down Easy
★★★★☆ Juliet Stevenson plays the title role in Robert Ickes’ freewheeling adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s 1912 play “Professor Bernhardi.”
A Simulacrum: Not So Magical
★★★☆☆ Illusionist Steve Cuiffo collaborates with playwright Lucas Hnath for this one-man show deconstructing magic.