Don Aucoin

“This musical is young, scrappy, hungry — and exhilarating.”

“Scarlett Johansson, who plays Maggie in the patchy Broadway revival that opened Thursday night at the Theatre, proves unable to meet [the challenge].”

“The plodding pace, greatest-hits superficiality, and hagiographic tone of 'Magic/Bird' feels jarringly dated.”

“Now that the far-from-happy dust has settled from Stephen Sondheim’s preemptive broadside, now that the Theater production of “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess’’ has finally arrived on Broadway, it can be seen, and gloriously heard, for what it is: a fully realized work that pays homage to a classic while infusing it with new, thrilling life.”

“A passionate heart beats inside 'The Visit,' for all its formal innovation and chilly beauty.”