★★★★☆ Dexter Flanders takes on a deserving human problem, James Hillier directing a first-rate cast
Off-Broadway
The Whitney Album: Impassioned Icon Ritual Gets Immersive
★★★☆☆ Jillian Walker lectures on the meaning of life, with an emphasis on Black women through the ages
Wet Brain: Another Welcome Dysfunctional Family High
★★★★☆ John J. Caswell Jr. writes and Dustin Will directs an excellent ensemble on familial distress and reconciliation
Days of Wine and Roses: D’Arcy James and O’Hara Share a Stirring Drink
★★★★☆ Light in the Piazza’s Guettel and Lucas reteam for an operatic tragedy, directed by Michael Greif
Days of Wine and Roses: More Sober Than Intoxicating
★★★☆☆ Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James star in Adam Guettel’s musical based on the classic 1962 film.
The Comeuppance: A High-School Reunion Prompts Some Startling Revisionism
★★★★★ With surgical precision and abundant sympathy, Branden Jacob-Jenkins dissects the Class of 2002.
The Comeuppance: Could Be the Audience Receives It
★★★☆☆ Branden Jacobs-Jenkins writes and Eric Ting directs a play about five high school reunioning discontents
Love Letters: A. R. Gurney’s Moving Portrait of Two Almost Lovers
★★★★☆ Matthew Broderick, Laura Benanti, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly, read well for two shortish acts
Being Mr Wickham: Jane Austen’s Famous Cad Proves Jolly Good Fun
★★★★☆ Adrian Lukis plays George Wickham, co-writes with Catherine Cursor, and is directed by Guy Unsworth
The Rebecca Luker Songbook: A Benefit Concert, with Moving High Notes
The Broadway star’s favorite poems set to music by many composers, sung by 12 sopranos, make an enchanting memorial