★★★★☆ Anne Washburn and direct Saheem Ali mix the fantastical with the naturalistic in an audio version of this “History Play About 2017”
Beyond
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
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