The World Is Round

Ripe Time's Rachel Dickstein adapts Gertrude Stein's 1938 children's book—whose ambitious young heroine likes to carve "Rose is a Rose is a Rose" on trees—into an adventuresome musical, scored by Heather Christian. The cast comprises Kristen Sieh, Hannah Heller, and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 alums Grace McClean and Blake DeLong.