Turns out it’s not just the Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout who’s smitten with Boston theater productions.

New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley likes them too.

Songs to Sin By in a Smashing ‘Moulin Rouge!’

Its pieces zoom through the air like candy-colored shrapnel, whizzing by before the memory can tag them and making the blandly familiar sound enticingly exotic. I’m talking about the recycled pop hits, mostly of a romantic stripe, that make up the seemingly infinite song list of “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” at the Emerson Colonial Theater here.

By the end of this smart, shameless and extravagantly entertaining production, adapted from Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie, you’ll think you’ve heard fragments of every Top 40 song of lust and longing that has been whispered, screamed or crooned into your ear during the past several decades. You may even believe that once upon a time you loved them all.

The production (through August 19) even gets the coveted NYT Critic’s Pick checkmark.

So, we guess, check it out.