★★★☆☆ Is it theater? Is it disco? Either way, it’s a safety-conscious, socially distant 55-minute experience.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: A Perfect August in December
★★★★★ Wilson’s Chicago-set 1920s play gets a magnificent, melodic Netflix transfer
The Prom: The Big-Hearted Broadway Musical Gets a Lavish, Loving Film
★★★★☆ ✩ 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.
Death of a Salesman: Brian Dennehy Sells It With a Smile and a Shoeshine
★★★★★ Don’t miss this chance to see a revelatory revival of Arthur Miller’s iconic American tragedy
Coastal Elites: Paul Rudnick Rages Against the Right-Wing Machine
★★★☆☆ Bette Midler and Sarah Paulson star in a motley collection of made-for-liberal monologues
Hamilton: $7 Gets You Front-Row Access to $10 Founding Father
★★★★★ The smash-hit Broadway musical and pop-culture phenomenon gets a wide release
Intermission Talk: Sondheim’s Starry Online 90th Birthday Concert
After a few technical difficulties, ‘Take Me to the World’ was the Sondheim celebration that theater-starved Broadway babies were waiting for
Unknown Soldier: Unraveling a Century-Spanning Family Drama
★★★☆☆ A new musical by Daniel Goldstein and the late Michael Friedman gets a handsome production at Playwrights Horizons
The Hot Wing King: Katori Hall Serves Up Love and Laughs
★★★★☆ The author of ‘Hurt Village’ and ‘The Mountaintop’ spreads her wings with a serious relationship- and family-focused drama
We’re Gonna Die: But First Let’s Sing
★★★★☆ Young Jean Lee’s show about death will send you off with a smile on your face