Julius Caesar: Patrick Page as Dictator Facing Ides of March
★★★★☆ Timely radio version resonates in today's fractured politics The post Julius Caesar: Patrick Page as Dictator Facing Ides of March appeared first on New Y…
★★★★☆ Timely radio version resonates in today's fractured politics The post Julius Caesar: Patrick Page as Dictator Facing Ides of March appeared first on New Y…
The second installment doesn't have quite the power of the first, nor the likely power of the forthcoming final two chapters The post Myths and Hymns Chapter 2, Work: A Minor Portion of Guet…
★★★☆☆ The second installment of Ted Sperling's "Saturn Returns"revise offers some first-rate ingredients. The post Myths and Hymns Chapter 2, Work: Adam Guettel…
★★★★☆ A foremost 20th-century playwright gets his due in this impeccably streamed presentation The post All On Her Own: Janie Dee Lays Bare Terence Rattigan's F…
Feingold continues his close examination of the 1936 motion picture version of Kern and Hammerstein's "Show Boat" The post Feingold on Old Movies for Theater Lovers: James Whale's 'Show Boat…
★★★★★ A tour de force in which the acclaimed actor provides fascinating insights while enacting the Bard's villains, even Lady Macbeth The post All The Devils A…
★★★★☆ Arlington's Signature Theatre brings us a worthy (if unfocused) evening of Sondheim, headlined by Norm Lewis, Emily Skinner, and Conrad Ricamora The post …
★★★★☆ Playwright Steven Carl McCasland confronts Lillian Hellman with Gertrude Stein and other gossips The post Little Wars: Women Writers Talk Bitingly During …
★★★★★ The astonishing song cycle from the "The Light in the Piazza" composer is reconceived for streaming, with exciting results The post Myths and Hymns Chapt…
(This is the first part of a two-part column. The second part will appear next month.) Warning to my fellow voyagers: This boat ride may take our rickety vessel through some deep and turbule…
★★★★☆ The Tik Tok generation cooks up a streaming tribute to a Pixar classic of their youth The post Ratatouille: The Rat In The Hat Strikes Back appeared first…
★★★★★ Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman star, George C. Wolfe directs from Ruben Santiago-Hudson's adaptation The post Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: August Wilson Hi…
★★★★★ Wilson's Chicago-set 1920s play gets a magnificent, melodic Netflix transfer The post Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Perfect August in December appeared firs…
★★★★☆ A father and son prepare a real dish, while they really dish and heal The post This Is Who I Am: A Cup of Flour, a Pinch of Pain appeared first on New Yor…
★★★★☆ A self-described "holiday public access show on LSD" is more sentimental than subversive The post Taylor Mac's Holiday Sauce…Pandemic!: 'Tis The Season…
★★★★☆ The restless multihyphenate revisits the season, virtually The post Taylor Mac's Holiday Sauce…Pandemic!: Silver Bells and Sequins, Tidings of Dysfuncti…
★★★☆☆ The Irish Repertory Theatre's Charlotte Moore directs, with Shereen Ahmed as The Girl Next Door The post Meet Me in St. Louis: The Classic Film Crammed In…
★★★★★ The exceptional entertainer brings her superb concert act onto your screen The post An Evening With Audra McDonald: Online Gala Reveals Star in Top Form …
★★★★☆ The prolific playwright directs Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan in this film adaptation of his 2014 play "Outside Mullingar" The post Wild Mountain Thyme: Jo…
★★★★☆ Ryan Murphy brings the Broadway musical to the screen, with sparkling glitz and plenty of heart The post The Prom: Streep and Corden Conquer All, with Seq…
★★★★✩ As the song says: "Go big or you've blown it!" Director Ryan Murphy takes the lyric to heart in this sparkle-, shimmer-, and sequin-heavy adaptation. The p…
The ill-fated early musical by Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents is extravagantly celebrated, with Julia McKenzie and Maria Friedman in the spotlight The post Anyone Can Whistle: New (Old…
★★★★★ Theatrical magic works its wonders in this marvelous telling of the time-tested tale of the triumph of humanity over humbug The post Charles Dickens' A Ch…
Producer Val Lewton's two "Cat People" movies, from World War II, are like nothing you've ever seen. The post Feingold on Old Movies for Theater Lovers: Val Lewton's 'Cat People' (1942) &…
★★★★★ Director-choreographer Gary Clarke leads strong cast through each sin with hectic ease The post The Seven Deadly Sins: The Weill-Brecht 40-Minute Opera in…