★★★☆☆ Madeleine George delivers a divine (in more ways than one) comedy about climate change
Off-Broadway
Fiddler on the Roof: A Tradition Goes Back to the Future
★★★★☆ This old-fashioned reinvention of the shtetl classic takes on new relevance in the mother tongue
Fiddler on the Roof: A New Tradition
★★★★☆ Nothing is lost in translation in the heart-wrenching Yiddish-language tale of Tevye, his daughters, and the tiny town of Anatevka
The Play That Goes Wrong: Rarely Does Anything Go So Right
★★★★★ The long-running British send-up moves to a new address, keeping its old hilarity
The Play That Goes Wrong: Murderous Merriment Moves to Hell(’s Kitchen)
★★★★☆ The long-running British comedy hit retains its lode of laughs as it transfers off-Broadway
The Price of Thomas Scott: A Forgotten Dramatist Depicts a Tempting Offer
★★★☆☆ The Mint unearths the first of several works by a neglected British playwright
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark: She’s Quite a Character
★★★☆☆ Part screwball comedy, part post-doctoral thesis, Lynn Nottage’s 8-year-old play still hasn’t solved its identity crisis
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark: Black and White in Hollywood’s Golden Age
★★★☆☆ Lynn Nottage’s inter-Pulitzer satire is well revived at the Signature, but still only hits some of its marks
Merrily We Roll Along: A Glittering Jewel Revealed
★★★★★ Fiasco Theater rethinks Sondheim and Furth’s backward-through-time musical, with dazzling results
Merrily We Roll Along: Opening Doors, Again
★★★★☆ Fiasco Theater and Roundabout Theatre Company offer another compelling take on a challenging Sondheim musical