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Art Deco painter, and her amours, to life
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Suffs: Shaina Taub Wins By a Landslide
★★★★★ Nikki M. James, Grace McLean, Jenn Colella, Emily Skinner, and an exceptional cast spark this new musical about the battle for equal voting rights in America, circa 1915
Suffs: The Brilliant New Musical That Demands to be Heard
★★★★★ Shaina Taub’s suffs are young, scrappy and hungry in their heroic battle to win the vote.
Still: Love in the Age of Polarization
★★★★☆ Tim Daly and Jayne Atkinson play former lovers whose reunion after many years soon turns fraught in Lia Romeo's intimate comedy-drama.
The Wiz: Revival Doesn’t Ease Down the Road Easily
★★★☆☆ Nichelle Lewis is Dorothy in Amber Ruffin's revamping of the audience favorite
The Wiz: Not an Oz-Picious Revival
★★☆☆☆ A revival's choices elicit more head-scratching than cheering
Sally & Tom: The Oddest, Most Emblematic Couple in U.S. History
★★★★★ There’s no way to sugarcoat Thomas Jefferson’s abuse of Sally Hemings, but Suzan-Lori Parks whips up an entertaining gloss.
Sally & Tom: Follies of a Founding Father
★★★★☆ Suzan-Lori Parks melds the Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemings mystery with the struggle for freedom in our own day
Lempicka: Admired Artist Tamara de Lempicka Musicalized, With Limited Artistry
★★★☆☆ Eden Espinosa stars in Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould's tuner, directed by Rachel Chavkin
Critics’ Picks
An Enemy of the People: Ibsen’s Cautionary Tale As Timely As Ever, 142 Years On
★★★★☆ Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli square off in a battle of right vs. wrong, science vs. politics, and brother vs. brother
Dead Outlaw: Raucously Macabre Musical Hits the Rip-Roarin’ Bulls-Eye
★★★★☆ David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, Itamar Moses, and David Cromer create a ballad of a failed outlaw, dead and alive
Doubt: The Debate Rages On
★★★★☆ Two decades later, John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play inspires as much conversation as ever
Illinoise: An Explosion of Transporting Music and Dance
★★★★☆ Justin Peck's dance-theater piece, featuring a story he devised with Jackie Sibblies Drury, is based on Sufjan Stevens' acclaimed album.
The Hunt: The Darkness That Lurks in the Woods
★★★★☆ Tobias Menzies stars in Rupert Goold's Almeida production of the psychological thriller at St. Ann's Warehouse
Oh, Mary!: Cole Escola As The Ludicrously Marvelous Mrs. Lincoln
★★★★☆ Uproarious farce sheds new light on the War Between the States, or at least the War Between the Lincolns
Appropriate: Check Your Expectations at the Door for This Brilliantly Subversive Family Drama
★★★★★ Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's acclaimed play makes its Broadway debut in a revelatory staging.
Now You Know; or, How to Make ‘Merrily’ Roll Along
★★★★★ Led by Daniel Radcliffe, Lindsay Mendez, and Jonathan Groff, the onetime Sondheim failure is now—finally—a palpable Broadway hit