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March 25, 2021 10:00 am

Feingold on Old Movies for Theater Lovers: Ealing Studios’ “Dead of Night”

The unclassifiable supernatural omnibus classic includes a neurotically unforgettable performance by Michael Redgrave, father of Vanessa and Lynn

March 24, 2021 3:43 pm

Yours Unfaithfully: Get to Know Your Friendly Drawing-Room Comedy

★★★★★ Miles Malleson’s forward-looking play well presented by director Jonathan Bank and cast

March 22, 2021 7:58 pm

Middletown: Those Were the Days? Really?

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

March 19, 2021 12:44 pm

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike: Outlandish Comedy Is as Funny as It Gets

★★★★★ David Hyde Pierce, Sigourney Weaver, and Kristine Nielsen in Christopher Durang’s convulsively neo-Chekhovian Disneyish idyll

March 15, 2021 8:17 pm

The Last Five Years: Jason Robert Brown’s Dissection of Marriage, in Song

★★★★☆ Dynamic two-character musical more than retains its power under the spell of Tony-winning director Jason Michael Webb

March 13, 2021 6:00 pm

The Car Man: Dance Master Matthew Bourne Takes on Bizet’s Carmen

★★★★★ A 19th-century opera classic as a 21st-century dance classic

March 2, 2021 2:46 pm

Julius Caesar: Patrick Page as Dictator Facing Ides of March

★★★★☆ Timely radio version resonates in today’s fractured politics

February 25, 2021 1:22 pm

Myths and Hymns Chapter 2, Work: A Minor Portion of Guettel’s Major Song Cycle

★★★☆☆ The second installment doesn’t have quite the power of the first, nor the likely power of the forthcoming final two chapters

February 25, 2021 1:20 pm

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.

February 16, 2021 12:00 pm

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

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