★★★☆☆ Blithe Montmartre short story by Marcel Aymé tuned by Michel Legrand and Jeremy Sams
Beyond
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
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
Yours Unfaithfully: Get to Know Your Friendly Drawing-Room Comedy
★★★★★ Miles Malleson’s forward-looking play well presented by director Jonathan Bank and cast
Middletown: Those Were the Days? Really?
★★★☆☆ Dan Clancy’s salute to post-WWII Americana is sweet, sentimental, safe—and shallow
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
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
The Car Man: Dance Master Matthew Bourne Takes on Bizet’s Carmen
★★★★★ A 19th-century opera classic as a 21st-century dance classic
Julius Caesar: Patrick Page as Dictator Facing Ides of March
★★★★☆ Timely radio version resonates in today’s fractured politics
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