★★★☆☆ Director/choreographer Chase Brock and scenarist/composer Eric Dietz ponder robots robotically
Off-Broadway
Swingin’ With the Season: Michael Feinstein’s Wide Holiday Greetings
★★★★★ The top-drawer cabaret entertainer stretches the Christmas/Chanukah song boundaries
Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: Family Fun in Whoville
★★★☆☆ The holiday favorite returns to Madison Square Garden, with Gavin Lee as the titular grouch
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: Typically Tutu Funny to Describe
★★★★☆ The Trocks spin back for the holidays as en pointe entertaining as ever
Clueless: As If… It Were Still the ’90s
★★★☆☆ Amy Heckerling brings unapologetic nostalgia and joy to a musical adaptation of her ’90s film, featuring Disney star Dove Cameron
Clueless, the Musical: Cher Horowitz Takes Manhattan, Awkwardly
★★★☆☆ Writer-director Amy Heckerling tries turning her classic movie about a ’90 Beverly Hills ‘Emma’ into a musical
Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine: Lynn Nottage on a Comic Escapade
★★★★☆ This early play by the two-time Pulitzer-winner is a comedy lark
Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine: Facing Your Not-So-Fab Origins
★★★★☆ Playwright Lynn Nottage’s lighter side is nicely served by Signature Theatre’s revival
Noura: On Marriage, Motherhood, Refugees, and Family
★★★★☆ Versatile playwright-performer Heather Raffo continues to explore her Middle Eastern heritage with a Christmas-set family drama
The Jungle: Masterful, Timely, and Devastating Living Theater
★★★★★ This latest excellent UK import brings the European Refugee Crisis to our shores