★★★★☆ A self-described “holiday public access show on LSD” is more sentimental than subversive
Beyond
Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce…Pandemic!: Silver Bells and Sequins, Tidings of Dysfunction and Joy
★★★★☆ The restless multihyphenate revisits the season, virtually
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
An Evening With Audra McDonald: Online Gala Reveals Star in Top Form
★★★★★ The exceptional entertainer brings her superb concert act onto your screen
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”
The Prom: Streep and Corden Conquer All, with Sequins
★★★★☆ Ryan Murphy brings the Broadway musical to the screen, with sparkling glitz and plenty of heart
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.
Anyone Can Whistle: New (Old) Complete Recording of Iconoclastic Sondheim Masterwork
The ill-fated early musical by Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents is extravagantly celebrated, with Julia McKenzie and Maria Friedman in the spotlight
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: Jefferson Mays Spellbinding as a One-Man Cast of Fifty
★★★★★ Theatrical magic works its wonders in this marvelous telling of the time-tested tale of the triumph of humanity over humbug
Feingold on Old Movies for Theater Lovers: Val Lewton’s ‘Cat People’ (1942) & ‘The Curse of the Cat People’ (1944)
Producer Val Lewton’s two “Cat People” movies, from World War II, are like nothing you’ve ever seen.