★★★☆☆ The highly praised fantasy musical from 1938 looks earthbound 80 years later
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The Mother: Family Affairs Française, Outside Buffalo
★★☆☆☆ Florian Zeller follows up his sterling The Father with a less-intriguing The Mother
The Cake: Marriage, Bigotry, and Pink Lemonade Buttercream
★★★☆☆ Debra Jo Rupp scores as a bigoted baker in Bekah Brunstetter’s new play at Manhattan Theatre Club
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
Merrily We Roll Along: A Glittering Jewel Revealed
★★★★★ Fiasco Theater rethinks Sondheim and Furth’s backward-through-time musical, with dazzling results
The Day Before Spring: Early Lerner and Loewe, on Their Way
★★★☆☆ The York’s exhumation of an all-but-lost musical exhibits songwriters on the verge of greatness
Call Me Madam: Political Satire 70 Years Later, Without Ethel Merman
★★★★☆ Encores’ latest is a thorough charmer, though not quite the blockbuster it could be
My Fair Lady: Benanti and Burstein Enhance the Enchantment of Lerner and Loewe Classic
★★★★★ Stellar cast replacements make this excellent production even better
Choir Boy: Tarell Alvin McCraney Reaches Broadway, Finally
★★★★★ McCraney’s prep school play is rousing and intensely spiritual entertainment
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee’s Classic Makes Magnificent Theater
★★★★★ Atticus, Scout, Jem and the rest exquisitely reimagined by Aaron Sorkin and Bartlett Sher