Travesties Critic’s Pick Broadway This exuberant revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1974 comedy of the intellect, starring Tom Hollander, is one of the sweetest and strangest defenses of art. By BEN BRANTLEY
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical Broadway The late Queen of Disco and pioneer of electronic dance music gets the Broadway jukebox treatment. By JESSE GREEN
Transfers Off Broadway Lucy Thurber’s compassionate but clunky play follows the bids of two young men from the Bronx to win scholarships at a New England college. By BEN BRANTLEY
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Critic’s Pick Broadway J.K. Rowling’s ever-popular boy wizard is all grown up in this enthralling two-part play, directed with seamless magic by John Tiffany. By BEN BRANTLEY
The Metromaniacs Off Broadway A French verse craze inspired a 1738 farce and now a comedy in couplets by David Ives. By JESSE GREEN
Sancho: An Act of Remembrance Off Broadway In his solo show, Paterson Joseph plays an 18th-century gentleman said to have been the first black Briton to vote. By ALEXIS SOLOSKI
My Fair Lady Critic’s Pick Broadway Lauren Ambrose stars as a newly empowered flower girl in a gorgeous revival that transforms the classic musical into an ur-text for the #MeToo moment. By JESSE GREEN
The Seafarer Off Broadway In the Irish Repertory Theater’s solid revival of Conor McPherson’s Christmas classic, the Devil sits down for Yuletide wassail and a game of cards. By BEN BRANTLEY
We Live By The Sea Critic’s Pick Off Broadway Two teenage sisters share a life where the extraordinary can be ordinary in this play directed by Alex Howarth. By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI
Zurich Off Broadway Amelia Roper’s portrait of disparate — and desperate — lives in a Swiss hotel becomes an indictment of moral blight in the 21st century. By BEN BRANTLEY
SEAGULLMACHINE Off Off Broadway A razzle-dazzle mash-up of “The Seagull” and “Hamletmachine” at La MaMa has a ramshackle feel. By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI
Mlima's Tale Critic’s Pick Off Broadway Lynn Nottage’s beautiful, reverberating portrait of a murder and its consequences follows the global path of illicitly obtained ivory. By BEN BRANTLEY
One Thousand Nights and One Day Off Broadway Jason Grote and Marisa Michelson’s new musical, set in modern-day New York, deconstructs the Middle Eastern folk tales of “One Thousand and One Nights.” By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
Happy Birthday, Wanda June Critic’s Pick Off Off Broadway A conquering hero comes home in a ferociously funny, and surprisingly timely, revival of the novelist’s 1970 play. By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
Carousel Critic’s Pick Broadway Jack O’Brien and Justin Peck’s heartfelt, half-terrific revival of an American classic stars a wonderfully ambivalent Joshua Henry and Jessie Mueller. By BEN BRANTLEY
Children of a Lesser God Broadway The first Broadway revival of Mark Medoff’s 1980 play shows that it was ahead of its time about deafness, but not about gender. By JESSE GREEN
Miss You Like Hell Off Broadway A new musical at the Public Theater reinvents the family road trip narrative as a mother-daughter tale of immigration policy gone astray. By JESSE GREEN
This Flat Earth Off Broadway Lindsey Ferrentino’s ambitious but ungainly drama, at Playwrights Horizons, assesses the effect of a school shooting on one uncomprehending survivor. By BEN BRANTLEY
Mean Girls Broadway Tina Fey’s adaptation of her 2004 screenplay about high school cliques comes to Broadway with wit, fetch and a surplus of songs. By BEN BRANTLEY
King Lear Off Broadway A mighty king demanding declarations of love faces villains you understand, in this Royal Shakespeare production at BAM. By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI