Performing Jonathan Tolins’s Streisand-centric fable live and online, Michael Urie hits it out of the park
Intermission Talk: An Actors Fund Benefit, And Everything’s Coming Up Rosie
The jolly tone and theater-centric focus of the old Rosie O’Donnell Show is charmingly recaptured on line for an awfully good cause
From Massachusetts: Moby-Dick, A Nantucket Sleigh Ride Of An Adventure
★★★★☆ It has to be said: Dave Malloy’s Melville adaptation is a whale of a show
From Boston: Quixote Nuevo, Modern-Day Man of La Plancha
★★★☆☆ Octavio Solis’s modern-day take on Don Quixote taps into the current crisis along the U.S./Mexico border
A Christmas Carol: God Blast Ye, Merry Gentlemen
★★★★☆ Jack Thorne, Matthew Warchus, and Charles Dickens insist that we Scrooges mend our selfish ways, with joyful stagecraft to pull us along
From Providence: Its Prince Proves a Pretender
★★☆☆☆ A city celebrates its legendary political rascal, leaving open why he should matter to the rest of us
From Boston: The Purists (and Director Billy Porter) Keep It Real
★★★★☆ A Sunnyside, Queens stoop is the unlikely setting for a thrilling affirmation of how we can learn to get along
From Massachusetts: The Joy of Six
★★★★★ The “Divorced, Beheaded, Live” tryout tour of Henry VIII’s wives makes a turbocharged Cambridge stop
From Massachusetts: Fall Springs, A Fracking Good Time
★★★☆☆ Stale environmental satire is offset by sprightly songs and a swell cast at Barrington Stage
From Williamstown: Ghosts and Before the Meeting
At Williamstown, an O.K. revival and a superior modern premiere explore humanity at lowest ebb.