★★☆☆☆ Steamy sex scenes evaporate into hot air in newcomer Jeremy O. Harris’ debut drama
Sommers
The Cher Show: Truly Turning Back Time With a Singular Superstar
★★★★☆ It takes three performers to portray the one-and-only Cher in a wildly entertaining jukebox show
The Dead, 1904: Dubliner Sisters Invite You to an Immersive Christmas Dinner
★★★★☆ Melissa Gilbert is among the guests attending a holiday dinner drawn from a famous James Joyce story
Downstairs: Tyne Daly and Tim Daly Tackle Kin Beyond Their Typical Ken
★★★☆☆ Theresa Rebeck’s new semi-thriller digs some dark secrets from out of a cellar
All Is Calm: A Poignant Music-Theater Account of WWI’s Christmas Truce
★★★★☆ A handsomely sung musical documentary relates an inspiring wartime miracle
The Prom: Plenty of Showbiz Gagging Over Some Serious Issues
★★☆☆☆ Several Sardi’s caricatures confront serious issues in a slick but kinda crass new musical
The Other Josh Cohen: See a Loser Be a Winner By Doing the Right Thing
★★★★☆ A schlub loses everything but later gains true love in a little, New York-y musical
Thom Pain (based on nothing): Some Existential Rambles With Michael C. Hall
★★★★☆ Signature Theatre smartly revives Will Eno’s significantly meandering monodrama
Eve’s Song: How Black Women’s Lives Don’t Always Matter in America
★★★☆☆ The Public Theater premieres the threnody of a blameless woman’s destruction
The Thanksgiving Play: Knocking the Stuffing Out of White Liberal Correctness
★★★☆☆ Playwrights Horizons premieres a satirical comedy that’s tasty but underdone