★★★★☆ Dynamic two-character musical more than retains its power under the spell of Tony-winning director Jason Michael Webb
Beyond
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
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
Feingold on Old Movies for Theater Lovers: James Whale’s ‘Show Boat,’ Part 2
Feingold continues his close examination of the 1936 motion picture version of Kern and Hammerstein’s “Show Boat”
All The Devils Are Here: Patrick Page Takes On Shakespeare’s Villains
★★★★★ A tour de force in which the acclaimed actor provides fascinating insights while enacting the Bard’s villains, even Lady Macbeth
Simply Sondheim: The Master in Revue, Yet Again
★★★★☆ Arlington’s Signature Theatre brings us a worthy (if unfocused) evening of Sondheim, headlined by Norm Lewis, Emily Skinner, and Conrad Ricamora
Little Wars: Women Writers Talk Bitingly During World War II
★★★★☆ Playwright Steven Carl McCasland confronts Lillian Hellman with Gertrude Stein and other gossips