Bob Verini

★★☆☆☆ Sorry to say, an intriguing true story is fictionalized into something less than intriguing

★★★★★ Shakespeare’s all-powerful sorcerer Prospero, driven near-mad, learns the power of redemption on Boston Common

★★★★☆ Legendary veteran of Broadway’s Golden Age shares his career highs, though not the lows

★★★☆☆ Dan Clancy’s salute to post-WWII Americana is sweet, sentimental, safe—and shallow

★★★★☆ The Tik Tok generation cooks up a streaming tribute to a Pixar classic of their youth

★★★★☆ A father and son prepare a real dish, while they really dish and heal

★★★★☆ A self-described “holiday public access show on LSD” is more sentimental than subversive

★★★☆☆ Post-9/11 satire may or may not be your cuppa joe in the current moment, but streaming staging is something to see

★★★☆☆ Paul Rudnick’s five Trump era monologues on HBO interrupt laughs with rage, and vice versa

★★★★☆ A COVID-safe retelling of the musical Jesus story maintains its social, but not its emotional, distance