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.
Beyond
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
Incidental Moments of the Day: Trouble on Zoom with the Apple Family
★★★★★ Yet another engrossing and perceptive visit with Richard Nelson and the Apple family
Incidental Moments of the Day: Richard Nelson’s Latest Socially Distant Drama
★★★☆☆ The latest Zoom saga of the Apple family’s doings in the pandemic remains thoughtfully everyday
Feingold on Old Movies for Theater Lovers: Ernst Lubitsch’s ‘To Be or Not to Be’
Death, marital infidelity, egomaniacal actors, and inept totalitarian armies all conspire to produce a glorious absurd comedy.
From Massachusetts: A Berkshire Godspell, Sharing and Caring Behind Masks
★★★★☆ A COVID-safe retelling of the musical Jesus story maintains its social, but not its emotional, distance
Feingold on Old Movies for Theater Lovers: Rouben Mamoulian’s ‘Love Me Tonight’
Though full of witty barbs and sharp bits of reality, the Rouben Mamoulian–directed, Rodgers and Hart–scored musical seems lighter than air—and “Isn’t It Romantic”!
The Weir: Conor McPherson’s Tense Bar Play in Viral Circumstances
★★★★☆ Ciarán O’Reilly’s Irish Rep stage version, rethought for home screens, with a first-rate cast