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A child-loathing Whoopi Goldberg.ImageIsabella De Souza Moore, Whoopi Goldberg and Rhett Guter in “Annie.”Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times‘Annie’

Jenn Thompson, who played the orphan Pepper in the original 1977 Broadway production, directs this touring version of Thomas Meehan, Martin Charnin and Charles Strouse’s classic orphan tale. It’s a thoughtful interpretation starring Hazel Vogel as the Depression-era redhead darling and Whoopi Goldberg as a tipsy Miss Hannigan.

From Laura Collins-Hughes’s review:

Glad tidings from the holiday run of “Annie” at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, where Whoopi Goldberg is giving a rib-ticklingly funny, extremely smart performance as the tipsy, terrorizing Miss Hannigan, bane of all the orphans in her care. If Goldberg the TV talk-show presence has eclipsed in your mind Goldberg the savvy comic actor, her Miss Hannigan will jog your memory.

Through Jan. 5 at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. Read the full review.

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An updated American classic.ImageDanny Burstein, Audra McDonald and Joy Woods in “Gypsy.”Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times‘Gypsy’

George C. Wolfe directs Audra McDonald as the first Black woman on Broadway to play Rose, a bulldozer mother who pushes one daughter into vaudeville and the other into burlesque, in a revival of the 1959 classic written by three theater greats: Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents.

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From Jesse Green’s review:

McDonald, as will be no surprise if you’ve seen her in full dramatic mode, makes a meal of Rose’s ambition and, with a slight southern drawl, a dessert of her guile. … “Gypsy,” like other great works of midcentury American drama, rewards a layering of lifetime impressions. Wolfe offers a rich new layer, sufficient in itself, and more so as part of history. Most important, he has given us a way of seeing a star who had to be seen in this role.

At the Majestic Theater. Read the full review.

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Holding space for the righteous.ImageBill Irwin, Jessica Hecht and Thomas Middleditch in “Eureka Day.”Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times‘Eureka Day’

Mansplaining, virtue signaling and new-age parlance set the lexicon for Jonathan Spector’s hilarious play about a progressive preschool rocked by a vaccination debate. The showdown, directed by Anna D. Shapiro, stars Amber Gray, Jessica Hecht, Bill Irwin, Thomas Middleditch and a thumbs-up emoji.

From Jesse Green’s review:

Just in time, laughter is making a big comeback on Broadway. … But the funniest character now on Broadway isn’t even a human being — or not exactly. Getting the biggest belly laughs in Jonathan Spector’s “Eureka Day” is a yellow thumbs-up emoji. The emoji appears — chipper then aggravating then weirdly insidious — in a livestream meeting of parents and executive board members at Eureka Day, an upscale private school in Berkeley, Calif.

Through Jan. 19 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. Read the full review.

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Home for the holidays, with grudges for all.Image“Cult of Love” starts as a warm holiday reunion and ends in meltdown.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

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