The couple are gearing up for the Broadway opening of “Bug,” about a descent into paranoia and psychosis in a squalid motel room.

Some had wondered how the show about Abraham Lincoln’s wife would fare after its creator left the Broadway cast. But mirth is abundant as it opens on the West End.Mason Alexander Park brings physical brio to the role of Mary Todd Lincoln.

Audiences are falling in love with the title character in “Paddington: The Musical.” Bringing such a beloved bear to the stage was “a huge responsibility,” the show’s director said.

Catch Kristin Chenoweth basking in the excess, and Bill and Ted having a Beckettian adventure, before the curtain comes down on their productions and others.Alex Winter as Vladimir, Keanu Reeves as Estragon and Brandon J. Dirden, lying on ground, as Pozzo in “Waiting for Godot” at the Hudson Theater in Manhattan.

Matthew Broderick plays Tartuffe and David Cross his naïve prey in this Lucas Hnath adaptation of a 17th-century French comedy classic.Matthew Broderick, left, as the title character and David Cross as Orgon in “Tartuffe” at New York Theater Workshop.