Review: Flashy and Fake ‘Great Gatsby’ Caps a Weak Season The jazz-based score ventures into funk, Disney princess ballad, and a touch of Britpop. But none of the songs stick, and the staging is busy yet unfocused. By David Cote
Will the Real Rabbi Carlebach Please Stand Up? Reb Shlomo’s music shines in Soul Doctor, but this story is thin on truth Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, the folk-singing rock-star rabbi of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, was born in Berlin in 1925, fled By Jesse Oxfeld
Original, Curious, Appealing: Adventure Cunningly Diagrammed Chuck Dugan Is AWOL: A Novel with Maps, by Eric Chase Anderson. Chronicle Books, 223 pages, $19.95. If you’re nostalgic By Natalie Danford