A new crop of musicals and plays will be hitting the road in the coming months, as Tony winners and other recent hits from earlier this year plan their tours. In the meantime, the coming months are a great time to catch up on old favorites — or to make some new ones.

‘& Juliet’

Jukebox musicals, in which familiar popular tunes are crammed into a shoehorned narrative, are controversial. The conceit of “ & Juliet ,” though, is clever, as you might expect from David West Read, a writer on “Schitt’s Creek”: What would happen if Juliet didn’t die at the end of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”? In the show’s favor, rather than featuring songs from a lone artist as most jukebox musicals do, “& Juliet” features songs from many artists, but all written or cowritten by hitmaker Max Martin. “Oo

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