Theater has faced many battles in the past year, and
one of them has been the hurdles in streaming archived productions online. Now,
two major American institutions have joined the fray, and are sharing some of
their stash.
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The first offering in Lincoln Center Theater’s Private Reels
series is the off-Broadway production of Christopher Durang’s comedy “Vanya and
Sonia and Masha and Spike,” which went on to win a Tony Award for its Broadway
run. Led by David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen and Sigourney Weaver, the cast
is firing on all cylinders and makes the most of Durang’s riff on Chekhov
transplanted to Bucks County, Pennsylvania. March 18-April 11; lct.org
In Chicago, the Goodman Theater’s archival streaming program,
called Encore, kicks off with Christina Anderson’s “How to Catch Creation,”
which toggles between decades as it looks at the elusive, fraught and, in this
case, broadly defined creative process (through March 28). That will be
followed by a stage adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s magical-realist novel
“Pedro Páramo” by playwright Raquel Carrió and director Flora Lauten, of the
Cuban company Teatro Buendía. March 29-April 11; goodmantheatre.org
American Musicals Across the Atlantic
Some of us remember the olden days of 2004, when Mark
Schoenfeld and Barri McPherson’s “BKLYN the Musical” was known as “Brooklyn the
Musical” during its Broadway run. Does everything need a cool abbreviation?
NVM. Still, it’s hard not to root for a show that ends in a sing-off pitting
someone named Brooklyn (Emma Kingston) against someone named Paradice (Marisha
Wallace). This new production was recorded in London. March 22-April 4;
stream.theatre
‘Protec/Attac’
A few years ago, Julia Mounsey and Peter Mills Weiss created
waves with their brilliant and deeply unsettling “[50/50] old school
animation.” So expectations are high for the duo’s new piece, “Protec/Attac,”
which is getting a developmental stream as part of a minifestival of four new
works presented on consecutive evenings by the experiment-happy Brick Theater
in Brooklyn. From March 26; bricktheater.com
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
This beloved company in Ashland, Oregon, has kept busy
during the past year with streams that currently include its 2017 production of
“Julius Caesar” (through March 27). But it is also a longtime champion of new
American plays, such as Mary Kathryn Nagle’s “Manahatta,” a drama that
juxtaposes the cutthroat world of New York City finance in the 21st century
with the Dutch acquisition (to put it politely) of Manhattan from the Lenape
nation 400 years earlier. March 29-April 24; osfashland.org
Women’s Solo Turns
The tone is lighter in two solo comedies from Latinas,
courtesy of the IAMA Theater Company in Los Angeles. Sheila Carrasco portrays a
gallery of characters in “Anyone But Me,” while Anna LaMadrid’s “The Oxy
Complex” checks in on a certain Viviana during a pandemic that just keeps going
and going. (The title refers to oxytocin, a hormone released during childbirth,
so there might be hope.) March 21-April 18; iamatheatre.com
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