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This genteel comedy by the French playwright Yasmina Reza (“God of Carnage”) has always been a magnet for boldface-name casts, and this revival is no exception. Neil Patrick Harris plays Serge, a dermatologist whose purchase of an exorbitantly expensive white-on-white painting becomes a point of conflict among him and his old friends, the easily nettled engineer Marc (Bobby Cannavale) and the conciliatory salesman Yvan (James Corden). Using Christopher Hampton’s translation, Scott Ellis directs the first Broadway staging since the original 1998 production’s hit run. (Through Dec. 21 at the Music Box Theater.) Read the review.
Little Bear Ridge Road
Laurie Metcalf returns to Broadway, and so does the producer Scott Rudin, with this addition to the playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s Idaho oeuvre, set amid the world’s pandemic shutdown and its aftermath. As she did in the drama’s 2024 premiere at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, Metcalf plays a crotchety nurse reunited with her estranged nephew (Micah Stock), who has come back to his old hometown after his father’s death. Joe Mantello directs. (Through Dec. 21 at the Booth Theater.) Read the review.
The Queen of Versailles
Not everyone with money would spend it building a 90,000-square-foot family home inspired by the Palace of Versailles, but Jackie Siegel is emphatically not everyone. Kristin Chenoweth plays her in Stephen Schwartz and Lindsey Ferrentino’s new musical, opposite F. Murray Abraham as Jackie’s husband, David. Directed by Michael Arden, and based in part on the documentary of the same name. (Through Dec. 21 at the St. James Theater.) Read the review.
Beetlejuice
The third Broadway outing for Alex Timbers’s staging of this poltergeist musical has an unusual wrinkle: It is performed by the national touring company, fresh off the road. David Korins’s set and William Ivey Long’s costumes, though, are eye-popping old familiars. (Through Jan. 3 at the Palace Theater.)
Waiting for Godot
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, paired for all eternity in the “Bill & Ted” cinematic universe, team up anew as Estragon and Vladimir in Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Samuel Beckett’s existential tragicomedy. With Michael Patrick Thornton, a standout in Lloyd’s “A Doll’s House,” as Lucky, and Brandon J. Dirden as Pozzo. (Through Jan. 4 at the Hudson Theater.) Read the review.
Liberation
Bess Wohl’s bittersweet comic memory play, an Off Broadway hit earlier this year, slips between the present and 1970, when, in the basement of an Ohio recreation center, the playwright’s mother meets with her feminist consciousness-raising group to try to change the world. Whitney White directs the original cast, led by Susannah Flood. Because of nudity in the play, audience members will have to keep their phones in Yondr pouches during the performance. (Through Feb. 1 at the James Earl Jones Theater.) Read the review.
Mamma Mia!
This earworm-filled Abba jukebox musical spent nearly 14 years on Broadway the first time around, and about a dozen of those years were at the Winter Garden Theater. Now the director Phyllida Lloyd’s production returns, briefly, after a decade-long interruption. The plot is familiar from the movie adaptation: A young woman planning her Greek island wedding wants her father there but doesn’t know who he is, so she invites three likely candidates from her mother’s past to winnow it down. (Through Feb. 1 at the Winter Garden Theater.) Read this article about the production.
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