★★★☆☆ Blithe Montmartre short story by Marcel Aymé tuned by Michel Legrand and Jeremy Sams
Romeo & Juliet: Matthew Bourne Has His Way With Shakespeare
★★★★☆ The famous young lovers now meet and die in a Veronese crazy house for hyperkinetic teenagers
Yours Unfaithfully: Get to Know Your Friendly Drawing-Room Comedy
★★★★★ Miles Malleson’s forward-looking play well presented by director Jonathan Bank and cast
The Car Man: Dance Master Matthew Bourne Takes on Bizet’s Carmen
★★★★★ A 19th-century opera classic as a 21st-century dance classic
Myths and Hymns Chapter 2, Work: Adam Guettel’s Work Section Sorta Works
★★★☆☆ The second installment of Ted Sperling’s “Saturn Returns”revise offers some first-rate ingredients.
All On Her Own: Janie Dee Lays Bare Terence Rattigan’s Fierce Monologue
★★★★☆ A foremost 20th-century playwright gets his due in this impeccably streamed presentation
Little Wars: Women Writers Talk Bitingly During World War II
★★★★☆ Playwright Steven Carl McCasland confronts Lillian Hellman with Gertrude Stein and other gossips
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: August Wilson Hits the Screen Singing
★★★★★ Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman star, George C. Wolfe directs from Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s adaptation
Meet Me in St. Louis: The Classic Film Crammed Into the Small Screen
★★★☆☆ The Irish Repertory Theatre’s Charlotte Moore directs, with Shereen Ahmed as The Girl Next Door
Wild Mountain Thyme: John Patrick Shanley’s Entrancing Play Transfer
★★★★☆ The prolific playwright directs Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan in this film adaptation of his 2014 play “Outside Mullingar”