★★★☆☆ Post-9/11 satire may or may not be your cuppa joe in the current moment, but streaming staging is something to see
Beyond
Death of a Salesman: Brian Dennehy Sells It With a Smile and a Shoeshine
★★★★★ Don’t miss this chance to see a revelatory revival of Arthur Miller’s iconic American tragedy
Death of a Salesman: Brian Dennehy is the Unforgettable Forgotten Man
★★★★★ Robert Falls directs Dennehy, Elizabeth Franz, and other stalwarts in Arthur Miller’s magnificent work
Show Boat: Francesca Zambello’s Revival Goes Upstream and Down
★★★☆☆ The seminal Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical as inevitable as ol’ man river
Shipwreck: On Trump, Race, Privilege, Friendship and Other Vexing Matters
★★★★☆ Anne Washburn and direct Saheem Ali mix the fantastical with the naturalistic in an audio version of this “History Play About 2017”
What the Constitution Means to Me: Heidi Schreck Tells Us What We Need to Hear
★★★★★ The award-winning play is even more relevant today, dangerously so
Feingold on Old Movies for Theater Lovers: Marcel Carné’s ‘Children of Paradise’
If you care about the theater and you’ve never seen ‘Children of Paradise,’ you don’t really know yet what it is you care about.
Jack Was Kind: A Confused Wife on Her Husband’s Public Indiscretion
★★★☆☆ Tracy Thorne writes and performs a potent monologue with one serious drawback
Coastal Elites: Paul Rudnick Rages Against the Right-Wing Machine
★★★☆☆ Bette Midler and Sarah Paulson star in a motley collection of made-for-liberal monologues
Coastal Elites: Red Meat for Blue Staters
★★★☆☆ Paul Rudnick’s five Trump era monologues on HBO interrupt laughs with rage, and vice versa