★★★★☆ The prolific playwright directs Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan in this film adaptation of his 2014 play “Outside Mullingar”
Beyond
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.
The Seven Deadly Sins: The Weill-Brecht 40-Minute Opera in Top Form
★★★★★ Director-choreographer Gary Clarke leads strong cast through each sin with hectic ease
A Touch of the Poet: Cuccioli Stuns in Strong O’Neill Revival
★★★★☆ Ciarán O’Reilly directs able cast in a work from the playwright’s intended 11-play cycle
Feingold on Old Movies for Theater Lovers: William Wyler’s ‘Counsellor-at-Law’
Manic and hectic, New York is full of stories that can drive people to, and sometimes over, the edge. William Wyler’s ‘Counsellor-at-Law’ captures that excess in all its glory.
The School for Wives: An All-Women Cast Goes #MeToo on Molière
★★★★☆ Tonya Pinkins has a high time under Lucie Tiberghien’s direction