★★★★☆ Elizabeth Strout’s best-seller is convincingly brought to the stage in Rona Munro’s adaptation, directed by Richard Eyre
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Sing Street: The Magic of ‘Once’ Is Not Replicated, Alas
★★★☆☆ John Carney, Enda Walsh, and NYTW’s new Dublin-based musical is hampered by uninspired plotting
The Thin Place: Lucas Hnath Unspools a Minimalist Ghost Story
★★★☆☆ Not much happens in this slight play by the author of ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’
Harry Connick Jr.: Celebrating Cole Porter With Brass and Multimedia
★★★★☆ The crooner smoothly guides us through the Porter songbook, sparking the evening with theatrical surprises
Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven: Stephen Adly Guirgis Strikes Again
★★★★★ An overstuffed, engrossing, masterful new play from Pulitzer winner Guirgis
Harry Townsend’s Last Stand: Wheezy Geriatric Comedy, with Fart Jokes
★★☆☆☆ Len Cariou does his best to charm his way through George Eastman’s creaky comedy
The Inheritance: A Magnificent Look at the Post-‘Angels in America’ World
★★★★★ Matthew Lopez’s two-part play, with Stephen Daldry at the helm, is not to be missed
The Michaels: Richard Nelson Extends the Excellence of His Apple and Gabriel Cycles
★★★★★ Maryann Plunkett, Jay O. Sanders, and Brenda Wehle take us back to another kitchen in Nelson’s Rhinebeck
The Sound Inside: Mary Louise Parker Spins an Intriguing Literary Yarn
★★★★★ Adam Rapp makes his Broadway debut with a riveting discourse between two novelists
Soft Power: Hillary Get Your Gun?
★★★☆☆ A sharp East-West political satire from David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori doesn’t quite deliver