Here’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wall Street Journal when they opened. For more information, click on the title.
BROADWAY:
• Annie (musical, G, most performances sold out last week, reviewed here)
• Dead Accounts (serious comedy, PG-13, closes Feb. 24, most performances sold out last week, reviewed here)
• Evita (musical, PG-13, closes Jan. 26, reviewed here)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (drama, R, closes Jan. 20, all performances sold out last week, reviewed here)
• Golden Boy (drama, PG-13, closes Jan. 20, reviewed here)
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood (musical, PG-13, most performances sold out last week, closes Mar. 10, reviewed here)
• Once (musical, G/PG-13, all performances sold out last week, reviewed here)
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (drama, PG-13/R, reviewed here)
OFF BROADWAY:
• Avenue Q (musical, R, adult subject matter and one show-stopping scene of puppet-on-puppet sex, reviewed here)
• The Fantasticks (musical, G, suitable for children capable of enjoying a love story, reviewed here)
• Golden Age (comedy, PG-13, extended through Jan. 13, reviewed here)
• The Piano Lesson (drama, PG-13, extended through Jan. 13, reviewed here)
• Tribes (drama, PG-13, closes Jan. 20, reviewed here)
• Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (comedy, PG-13, closes Jan. 13, reviewed here)
IN BOSTON:
• Our Town (drama, G, remounting of off-Broadway production, extended through Jan. 25, original production reviewed here)
CLOSING NEXT WEEK IN MADISON, N.J.:
• Trelawny of the “Wells” (comedy, G, not well suited to young children, closes Dec. 30, reviewed here)
CLOSING NEXT WEEK ON BROADWAY:
• Bring It On (musical, G, closes Dec. 30, reviewed here)
• A Christmas Story (musical, G, closes Dec. 30, nearly all performances sold out last week, reviewed here)