New York Times - Theater

Expect wins for the musical “Schmigadoon!” and the play “Liberation,” and for the “Ragtime” stars Joshua Henry and Caissie Levy.

While the 1999 movie went for melodrama, this stage adaptation with songs by Aimee Mann honors the memoir’s coolly clinical prose.The cast of “Girl, Interrupted” at the Public Theater in Manhattan, from left: Mia Pak, Sally Shaw, Juliana Canfield, Katherine Reis, Ta’Rea Campbell and King Princess.

The stars Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf talk with the show’s director, Joe Mantello, about the exhilaration of collaborating and the trap of sentimentality.From left, Nathan Lane, Joe Mantello and Laurie Metcalf in Lane’s dressing room at the Winter Garden Theater in Manhattan after a recent performance of “Death of a Salesman.”

The nonprofit Second Stage Theater said it would present a reimagined version of “The Fantasticks” and the Pulitzer finalist “Gloria” at the Helen Hayes Theater.The 2015 production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play “Gloria” at the Vineyard Theater.

Caissie Levy was Broadway’s first Elsa. She starred in “Hair” and “Ghost.” And now, for “Ragtime,” she is an odds-on favorite to win a Tony Award.