Below is a guide to this year’s Tony-winning plays and musicals that are still playing – although several are closing soon; one next week.  The listings include a video of the Tony performance (if there was one) a link to the box office, discounts available, and a link to and excerpt of my review, which doesn’t necessarily align with the views of the majority of Tony voters.

CLOSING SOON

Organized by the date they’re closing.

An Enemy of the People
Circle in the Square
Closing June 23
Tony wins: 1. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Jeremy Strong)
My review if it’s safe to assume that the casting of Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli are the reason why “An Enemy of The People” has been selling out, one can find  other satisfactions as well.
Box Office
Discounts: $39 digital lottery

Appropriate
Belasco
Closing June 30
Tony wins: 3. Best Revival of a Play.  Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Sarah Paulson). Best lighting design of a play (Jane Cox)
My review: One of the best-acted productions of the year  tells the story of a dysfunctional family who reunite after the death of their patriarch to auction off all his possessions, during which we learn little by little how messed up each and every one of the characters is. But Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ resonant play also in its own wry and sly way tells a dark story of race in America.
Box Office
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 Merrily We Roll Along
Hudson Theater
Closing July 7
Tony wins: 4. Best Revival of a Musical. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Jonathan Groff), Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role (Daniel Radcliffe), Best Orchestrations (Jonathan Tunick)
My review Director Maria Friedman directs our attention to what’s best about Sondheim’s musical,  primarily by casting the main characters with three talented and appealing performers who, not incidentally, are already well-known and well-liked: Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe….Sondheim saw the primary themes of the musical as  “the souring of ideals and the erosion of friendship,” and he expresses these musically again and again in novel, clever and yes tuneful ways –
Box office
Discounts: $39 digital lottery. TodayTix.com

Illinoise
St. James Theater
Closing August 10
Tony wins: 1. Best Choreography (Justin Peck)
My review: Illinoise” is extraordinary, it’s queer, it’s often thrilling. But it could probably use a warning label.  This stage interpretation of Sufjan Stevens’ album “Illinois” could be mistakenly assumed to be a Broadway jukebox musical, given Stevens’ already popular score and the marquee names involved in adapting it for the stage…But “Illinoise” is not a conventional Broadway musical. It’s a dance theater piece, and unconventional even as that. 
Box Office
Discounts: $45 digital and general rush, $45 digital lottery. todaytix.com

Stereophonic
John Golden
Closing January 5
Tony wins: 5. Best Play. Best Featured Actor (Will Brill), Best Director (Daniel Aukin), Best Scenic Design (David Zinn). Best Sound Design (Ryan Rumery)
My review: chronicles a year of recording studio sessions by the members of a popular 1970s rock band (never named, fictional) as they put together their latest album and have their ups and downs with one another.  At more than three hours long (including intermission), “Stereophonic” feels as if it’s in Annie Baker territory – which is to say, long and slow but meticulously observed from real life, unfolding as if in real time, but also offering a subtle wit and the possibility of deeper meaning. But does that sound like the right approach for a play about ROCK N ROLL?! 
Box office
Discounts: $40 digital lottery, $35 rush. rush.telecharge.com

OPEN RUNS

organized by number and weight of Tony wins

The Outsiders
Bernard B Jacobs Theater
Tony wins: 4. Best musical. Best director (Danya Taymor) Best lighting design (Brian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim) Best sound design (Cody Spencer)
My review An exciting cast of gifted young performers, a lovely if little-varied folk and country score, and some thrillingly muscular, almost cinematic choreography are all employed to tell a story that’s been told many times before. Rival teenage gangs? Angsty adolescents? Kids who put grease in their hair?   It’s hard to avoid comparisons to, among others, “West Side Story” and “Grease.”: But of course the most unavoidable comparison – which is both boost and burden – is to the two landmark works on which “The Outsiders” is directly based, S.E. Hinton’s novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s movie.
Box Office
Discounts: $49 digital lottery, $45 in person rush. https://rush.telecharge.com/ 

Suffs
Music Box Theater
Tony wins: 2. Best book and best score (Shaina Taub)
My review:  Shaina Taub’s musical about the final seven-year push to win American women the right to vote is inspiring, instructive and entertaining
Box Office
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Hell’s Kitchen
Shubert Theater
Tony wins: 2. Best actress in a leading role (Maleah Joi Moon) Best actress in a feature role (Kecia Lewis)
My review: Hell’s Kitchen” is not a musical biography of Alicia Keys, nor, despite the title, is it about the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood where she grew up. It’s really a jukebox musical, which is to say, an efficient delivery system for Alicia Keys’ songs – two dozen of them, although three of them are newly composed for the show.  The songs are organized to tell a story loosely based on a moment in Alicia Keys’ life:  At the age of 17,  Ali (portrayed by Maleah Joi Moon, making an impressive professional debut)  pursues a boy and discovers the piano while rebelling against her strict mother…Kecia Lewis as her teacher, Shoshan Bean as her mother and Brandon Victor Dixon as her father Davis are the three veteran performers who give “Hell’s Kitchen” its juice –along with an ensemble that looks like New York, who execute Camille A. Brown’s energetic hip-hop flavored choreography.
Box office:
Discounts: $39 digital lottery, $39 rush. rush.telecharge.com

The Great Gatsby
Broadway Theater
Tony wins: 1. Best costume design (Linda Cho)
My review: The “Gatsby” on stage is not a reliable adaptation of the book. Too much has been changed, and something essential is missing. A story that one can read as…the dark side of the American dream  is here mostly reduced to a love story between two beautiful people with unfortunate timing.  It does have exceptional visual splendor, in particular Paul Tate de Poo III’s set and projection design, and Linda Cho’s sparkling flapper costumes. 
Box office
Discounts: $45 digital lottery, $40 rush rush.telecharge.com

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
August Wilson Theater
Tony win: 1. Best scenic design (Tom Scutt)
My review: If so much of it weren’t so out of balance, this fourth Broadway revival of “Cabaret” would be impressive in its complete transformation of  Kander and Ebb’s great musical – physically, visually, and, in one respect, morally. Much of the credit or blame  goes to Tom Scutt, who is the costume designer, scenic designer, and theater designer of the production, As costume designer, Scutt drapes Eddie Redmayne in a series of clownish outfits so ghoulish and eccentric that they dominate his performance. As theater designer, Scutt has turned the August Wilson into a  Berlin nightclub during the rise of Nazism.
Box office
Discounts: $25 digital lottery https://www.luckyseat.com/account/login?afterLoginUrl=%2Fdash%2Fshows%2Fcabaretatthekitkatclub-newyork-2023Oct

Other Broadway shows closing this month: Patriots (June 23), A Beautiful Noise and Mary Jane (June 30)