★★★☆☆ Post-9/11 satire may or may not be your cuppa joe in the current moment, but streaming staging is something to see
Coastal Elites: Red Meat for Blue Staters
★★★☆☆ Paul Rudnick’s five Trump era monologues on HBO interrupt laughs with rage, and vice versa
From Massachusetts: A Berkshire Godspell, Sharing and Caring Behind Masks
★★★★☆ A COVID-safe retelling of the musical Jesus story maintains its social, but not its emotional, distance
Intermission Talk: Buyer & Cellar Online—Sold!
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