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Theater critic Robert Hofler picks the best on the boards, Kelli OHara opposite Brian DArcy James to Stephen Sondheims last musical.

These plays and musicals topped our list of shows from theaters around New York City.

Stereophonic is a work of sepia-tinged realism—set inside the wood-paneled walls of a 1970s recording studio, the new play with music (written by David Adjmi, directed by Daniel Aukin, and composed by Arcade Fire alum Will Butler) depicts an incestuous rock quintet who wend their way from tedium to epiphany as they labor on a forthcoming make-or-break LP.

I Can Get It for You Wholesale Off Broadway review: Santino Fontana, Rebecca Naomi Jones and Julia Lester star in rousing revival.

Theater Review: ‘Stereophonic,’ by David Adjmi, with music by Will Butler, at Playwrights Horizons in New York City, is a superb immersion in the art of collaborative creation.

Stereophonic Off Broadway Review: Part Robert Altman, part Fleetwood Mac jukebox musical, David Adjmis play brings back the 1970s.

Playwrights Horizons premieres this new drama, which has songs by Arcade Fire’s Will Butler.

Theater review, 'Stereophonic': This excellent portrait of a Fleetwood Mac-like band slaving over an album is full of novelistic detail.

Chelcie ParryYou know a piece of theater has done something right when, many days later, it is still provoking pin-pricks of intrigue, revelation, and mystery in one’s mind. And so it is with Stereophonic (Playwrights Horizons, to Nov. 26)—one of the most original, stunningly designed, and technically dazzling plays in New York right now. Stereophonic is a must-experience, rather than simply a must-see.This isn’t to say Daniel Adjmi’s play will be for everyone. It is ...

Read our review of *Stereophonic*, a new 1970s rock-inspired play with music, currently playing off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons through November 26. Read all our theatre reviews at NewYorkTheatreGuide.com.