★★★★☆ The Irish Rep resurrects its heart-warming adaptation of the film classic.
Off-Broadway
A Christmas Carol: Rings the Bell Downtown
★★★☆☆ Michael Cerveris is Scrooge in a Holiday Return of the Matthew Warchus/Old Vic show
Gotta Dance!: Gotta Dance Better Than This!
★★☆☆☆ American Dance Machine lacks sufficient flair reviving favorite choreographed numbers
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions: Queer Doings at the Park Avenue Armory
★★★☆☆ A 15-member ensemble spins through the musical rise and fall of a patriarchal society
Gruesome Playground Injuries: Not All Wounds Are On the Outside
★★★★☆ Nicholas Braun and Kara Young play childhood friends reckoning with a lifetime of hurt
Sweet Smell of Success: Hamlisch Musical Returns, with Improvements
★★★☆☆ Concert version suggests a potential future for the all-but-forgotten Hamlisch-Carnelia-Guare musical
Initiative: Dungeons & Dragons And Sex, Oh My
★★★★☆ The travails of adolescence get a hard-hitting and sympathetic airing in a work of epic proportions
This World of Tomorrow: Time Travel Story Suffers from Déjà Vu
★★★☆☆ Tom Hanks and Kelli O’Hara star in this sci-fi romance co-written by Hanks and James Glossman
This World of Tomorrow: Go for Tom Hanks, Stay for Kelli O’Hara
★★★☆☆ Kenny Leon directs a 150-year-spanning sci-fi-tinged New York play
Practice: Theater Games and Mind Games
★★★☆☆ Nazareth Hassan’s new backstage dramedy studies process and power