‘Prima Facie’ and Other Theater Productions to Stream Now

[ad_1] ‘Prima Facie’ Stream it on Nationwide Theater.

On this one-woman tour-de-force, Jodie Comer stars as a hard-line lawyer who defends males accused of sexual assault, solely to later confront the constraints of the regulation after being assaulted herself. Comer, who performs all the characters and all sides of conversations — generally involving a number of folks — was lauded for her engrossing efficiency, which earned her Tony and Olivier Awards. This streaming model, captured stay in 2022 on the Harold Pinter Theater in London’s West Finish, places you proper into the world of blurry morals and towering cabinets of case information.

From Jesse Inexperienced’s evaluation:

The play, by Suzie Miller, gained all kinds of awards in Australia and Britain. It’s simple to see why. Its star, Jodie Comer, late of “Killing Eve,” provides a efficiency of great talent and inconceivable stamina … The manufacturing, directed by Justin Martin, is stylish and accessible, with design prospers, by now de rigueur, to underline the concept it's a Large Occasion. And the reform of sexual assault jurisprudence that the play advocates may hardly be extra convincingly argued or worthy of our consideration.

Accessible via March 5. Learn the complete evaluation.

‘The seventh Voyage of Egon Tichy’ Streaming on YouTube.

Jonathan Levin, Josh Luxenberg and Joshua William Gelb’s slapstick science-fiction journey, wherein Gelb performs an area traveler whose ship will get hit by interstellar detritus, caught our critic’s consideration when it was streamed in 2020 from a closet.

Now, an up to date and longer model — with “[Redux]” added to the top of the title — is working in individual at New York Theater Workshop as a part of Below the Radar, making it a superb time to revisit the unique manufacturing. The play’s simultaneous video enhancing (to create the impact of a number of characters) and artful digicam turns (for a way of weightlessness) transcend artistic, pandemic-era hacks into one thing otherworldly.

From Jesse Inexperienced’s evaluation:

The virtuosic Gelb, taking part in all of the Egons, is usually to be discovered wriggling via his ship’s trapdoors or bopping himself on the top with a skillet. As an alternative of Intergalactic Groundhog Day the result's extra just like the Three Stooges in House, besides there are as many as 26 stooges concerned they usually’re all as bossy and testy as Moe. … Utilizing customary telephones, cameras and computer systems working software program repurposed for digital manufacturing, the director Jonathan Levin has devised a classy mise en scène.

Accessible indefinitely. Learn the Below the Radar critic’s pocket book. Learn the 2020 evaluation.

‘Taking part in on Air’ Stream it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible or playingonair.org.

“Taking part in on Air,” a podcast that gives on-demand audio theater, has a brand new season of seven quick performs by the playwrights Patricia Cotter, Kirsten Greenidge, David Ives, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, John Patrick Shanley, Ken City and Lloyd Suh.

If the phrases “audio play” provide you with pause, consider it as a extra suave podcast episode to hearken to whereas getting ready dinner — an sudden journey to the theater. Suh’s “Disney/Fujikawa,” for instance, a couple of assembly between Walt Disney and a Japanese American illustrator whose members of the family are detained in internment camps in rural Arkansas, made for an eerily intimate dialog skilled via headphones.

The performs — free, quick, polished and accessible from anyplace — are lower than half-hour lengthy, and several other include a bonus Q&A with the manufacturing’s solid and inventive workforce.

Accessible indefinitely. Learn extra concerning the collection.

‘The Fireplace This Time Pageant’ Every January the Fireplace This Time Pageant (a nod to James Baldwin’s “The Fireplace Subsequent Time”) premieres a collection of 10-minute performs by rising Black playwrights. This 12 months’s competition, on the Wild Challenge in Manhattan, runs Jan. 23 to Feb. 2. However you may absorb final 12 months’s lineup, with performs by Joël René Scoville, Kamilah Bush, Leelee Jackson, Monique Pappas-Williams, Nia Akilah Robinson and Taylor A. Blackman — all directed by Cezar Williams — from house. Previous seasons are additionally accessible.