May is peak season on Broadway. All the shows that want to meet the cutoff for Tony Award eligibility have opened. Now the Tony nominations have been announced, and not every show that opened this season will survive the coming months. All to say, now is your chance to see the best of Broadway’s new shows — while they’re still around.‘Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman’ Two of the greatest theater actors of this generation: Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf. One of the finest theater directors of this era: Joe Mantello. Throw the trio together with one of American theater’s most studied texts, and the results are fireworks. Mantello’s production of “Death of a Salesman” plays fast and loose with the realism, as it should. This is the theater after all, where “real” is a construct, and the irreal tells us more about humanity than its inverse can. (through Aug. 9)‘August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’August Wilson, the playwright who documented Black life across every decade of the 20th century in 10 plays, is back on the boards with this lively revival of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” the installment that occurs during the 1910s. As always, verisimilitude and the supernatural exist side by side in this tale of the denizens of a boardinghouse in Pittsburgh. The marquee names are Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer as the owners of the boardinghouse, but Ruben Santiago-Hudson, an August Wilson stalwart, is the one to watch as the home’s resident conjure man. (through July 26)