Liberation

Bess Wohl’s bittersweet comic memory play, an Off Broadway hit early last 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 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. After a decade-long interruption, the director Phyllida Lloyd’s production returned there in August for a six-month engagement. The plot is familiar from the movie adaptation: A young woman planning her Greek island wedding wants her father to attend but doesn’t know who he is, so she invites three likely candidates from her mother’s past. (Through Feb. 1 at the Winter Garden Theater.) Read the article.

Oedipus

Lesley Manville, who received a best actress Olivier Award for her performance as Jocasta, and Mark Strong, in the title role of her politician husband, headline this Olivier-winning Sophocles adaptation by the director Robert Icke, whose harrowing “Oresteia” at the Park Avenue Armory in 2022 demonstrated his razor-sharp skill with ancient Greek tragedy. (Through Feb. 8 at Studio 54.) Read the review.

Marjorie Prime

June Squibb stars as an old woman rewriting her memories with the help of a youthful hologram of her dead husband (Christopher Lowell) in Jordan Harrison’s tender, futuristic comedy, which was adapted into a 2017 film. Cynthia Nixon plays her daughter, and Danny Burstein her son-in-law. Anne Kauffman (“Mary Jane”), who staged the 2015 Off Broadway production, directs for Second Stage. (Through Feb. 15 at the Helen Hayes Theater.) Read the review.

Bug

Tracy Letts’s paranoia-fueled, nudity-filled motel-room thriller was one of those must-see downtown shows when Michael Shannon starred in it two decades ago. In this production by David Cromer, which first ran in 2020 at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, Namir Smallwood (“Pass Over”) stars as the conspiracy-minded Peter opposite Carrie Coon as Agnes, the solitary waitress who gets involved with him. During the performance, audience members will have to store their powered-down phones in locked pouches, which they will keep in their possession throughout. (Through Feb. 22 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.) Read the review.

Hell’s Kitchen

Alicia Keys’s own coming-of-age is the inspiration for this jukebox musical stocked with her songs. With numbers including “Girl on Fire,” “Fallin’” and “Empire State of Mind,” it’s the story of a 17-year-old (Amanda Reid) in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, growing into an artist. Directed by Michael Greif, the show has a book by Kristoffer Diaz and choreography by Camille A. Brown. (Through Feb. 22 at the Shubert Theater.) Read the review.

All Out: Comedy About Ambition

These aren’t plays, actually — they’re stories by the humor writer Simon Rich — and they’re read rather than fully staged. As it was last year with Rich’s Broadway debut, “All In: Comedy About Love,” the catnip here is the casting: a rotating crowd of boldface names, including Nicholas Braun, Heidi Gardner, Jason Mantzoukas, Ashley Park, Craig Robinson, Ray Romano, Sarah Silverman and Jenny Slate. Alex Timbers directs. (Through March 8 at the Nederlander Theater.)