★★☆☆☆ Director Robert O’Hara squanders the formidable talents of his lead performers in this grotesquely updated, heavily cut revival.
Off-Broadway
Long Day’s Journey Into Night: Eugene O’Neill’s Classic Drastically Declassified
★★☆☆☆ Director Robert O’Hara needlessly updates the master as Elizabeth Marvel, Bill Camp, Jason Bowen, and Ato Blankson-Wood toil
The Hang: Prepare Ye the Way of Socrates
★★★★☆ Taylor Mac’s latest work is a jazz-infused opera tracing the trial and death of philosophy’s founding father
Whisper House: Not-So-Blithe Spirits
★★★☆☆ Duncan Sheik and Kyle Jarrow’s ghost story finally arrives in New York
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe: One Woman Speaks Volumes
★★★★☆ Cecily Strong headlines Jane Wagner’s multicharacter meditation on humanity, interconnectedness, soup, and art
Kimberly Akimbo: A Musical As Skewed As Its Title Character
★★★★☆ Victoria Clark plays a teenager afflicted with an illness that makes her grow old prematurely in the new musical by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori.
Kimberly Akimbo: David Lindsay-Abaire’s Akimbo Play Now Sings Out
★★★★☆ Ubiquitous composer Jeanine Tesori supplies music to tunes Victoria Clark, Bonnie Milligan and cast have good times with
Is There Still Sex in the City?: Candace Bushnell Tells All
★★★☆☆ The OG Carrie Bradshaw dishes on her life, career, and the real Mr. Big
Selling Kabul: Worthy Drama About Afghanis in Torn-From-Headlines Distress
★★★★☆ Playwright Sylvia Khoury, director Tyne Rafaeli, four-member cast distinguish themselves on scarifying subject
Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin Hollywood Revue Reaching for the Highest Peak
★★★★☆ Randy Skinner conceives, directs and choreographs six deft singer-dancers, with sharp Barry Kleinbort book