★★★★☆ The second-generation star buoyantly celebrates Berlin, Herman, Hamlisch, her parents and others in a return to 54 Below
Beyond
From London: Football, The National Psyche, and Mark Rylance Too
Two history-based dramas from The National Theatre: One zings, the other doesn’t
From London: Immersive Guys & Dolls Comes Alive
“More I cannot wish you” than Nicholas Hytner’s take on the Loesser-Burrows classic
From London: Excellent Look at Motives and Cues of the Burton-Gielgud Hamlet
A backstage view of the legendary Burton-Gielgud Hamlet, from Jack Thorne and Sam Mendes
From London: Brokeback Mountain Takes the Stage and Breaks Your Heart
Lucas Hedges and Mike Faist inhabit Ashley Robinson’s gutsy adaptation of the Annie Proulx tale
From Stratford, Ontario: The Plays – and the People – Are the Thing
The Stratford Festival does Canada proud with a range of offerings, including wildly innovative approaches to Shakespeare
From Boston: Taylor Mac Displays a Soulful Change-of-Pace with Joy and Pandemic
★★★★☆ Taylor Mac surprises with an Ibsenesque take on a long-ago plague parallel to our own
Disney’s Hercules: Olympian Musical Takes the Stage, at Paper Mill
★★★☆☆ Lear deBessonet directs the Alan Menken-David Zippel musical featuring Bradley Gibson, James Monroe Iglehart, Shuler Hensley and Isabelle McCalla
From Connecticut: Christmas in Connecticut, With Tidings of Comfort
★★★☆☆ Musicalization of the 1945 holiday classic is easy to swallow, like a good eggnog
Remembering Michael Feingold
A link to the final columns of the esteemed critic and our beloved colleague