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April 25, 2021 7:01 pm

The Royale: Marco Ramirez Looks Closely at Systemic Racism

★★★★★ Rachel Chavkin’s hot 2016 Lincoln Center production streamed with five actors at their best

April 8, 2021 8:00 pm

John Cullum, An Accidental Star: 76 Minutes of Broadway Joy

★★★★☆ At 91, the determined headliner sings and talks through his two Tony-winning career

April 2, 2021 10:01 am

Amour: Love Has Creative Musical Trouble Conquering All

★★★☆☆ Blithe Montmartre short story by Marcel Aymé tuned by Michel Legrand and Jeremy Sams

March 27, 2021 12:12 pm

Romeo & Juliet: Matthew Bourne Has His Way With Shakespeare

★★★★☆ The famous young lovers now meet and die in a Veronese crazy house for hyperkinetic teenagers

March 24, 2021 3:43 pm

Yours Unfaithfully: Get to Know Your Friendly Drawing-Room Comedy

★★★★★ Miles Malleson’s forward-looking play well presented by director Jonathan Bank and cast

March 13, 2021 6:00 pm

The Car Man: Dance Master Matthew Bourne Takes on Bizet’s Carmen

★★★★★ A 19th-century opera classic as a 21st-century dance classic

February 25, 2021 1:20 pm

Myths and Hymns Chapter 2, Work: Adam Guettel’s Work Section Sorta Works

★★★☆☆ The second installment of Ted Sperling’s “Saturn Returns”revise offers some first-rate ingredients.

February 16, 2021 12:00 pm

All On Her Own: Janie Dee Lays Bare Terence Rattigan’s Fierce Monologue

★★★★☆ A foremost 20th-century playwright gets his due in this impeccably streamed presentation

February 2, 2021 5:15 pm

Little Wars: Women Writers Talk Bitingly During World War II

★★★★☆ Playwright Steven Carl McCasland confronts Lillian Hellman with Gertrude Stein and other gossips

December 18, 2020 7:02 pm

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: August Wilson Hits the Screen Singing

★★★★★ Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman star, George C. Wolfe directs from Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s adaptation

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★★★★☆ Sarna Lapine directs the six-time Emmy winner soloing as a talented but oppressed trailer-park housewife

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★☆☆☆☆ Darko Tresnjak directs the misguided satire, with Mac as Artist and Jason O'Connell and Sierra Boggess as other targets

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