‘Fallen Angels’
Stream it on BroadwayHD.
Here comes a golden opportunity to experience Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara live — in performances for which they both have been nominated for Tony Awards this year. On June 5, two days before it closes, their Broadway show, Noël Coward’s “Fallen Angels,” will livestream on BroadwayHD. Reviewing this Roundabout Theater Company revival in The New York Times, Jason Zinoman had high praise for the two stars. “Comedically, they’re intrepid, landing every joke, but also unearthing many new ones between lines,” he wrote. “They play off each other with superb chemistry and deliver bon mots with the same snap.”
‘Miscast 2026’
Every year, MCC Theater runs “Miscast,” a concert gala in which Broadway stars perform numbers for roles they don’t fit (at least in a traditional rendering of the show). It’s always a hoot, and has become a beloved tradition. The latest edition, which took place on April 27, is streaming for free until May 26. The 2026 lineup includes Darren Criss rocking out “Maybe” from “Annie”; Lea Michele belting “Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote)” from “Man of La Mancha”; the “Schmigadoon!” stars Alex Brightman and Sara Chase putting on British accents for “Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer” from “Cats”; and LJ Benet and Ali Louis Bourzgui, from “The Lost Boys,” honoring “Dance of the Vampires” with “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
‘The Last Five Years’
Stream it on Apple Music or Spotify.
The Jason Robert Brown musical “The Last Five Years” is a perennial favorite; the two-hander keeps attracting marquee names because it compresses a wide range of emotions into a compact amount of time, as it tracks a relationship’s evolution in crisscrossing timelines. The most recent iteration was a 25th-anniversary production at the London Palladium starring Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler, and directed and conducted by Brown himself. The show then traveled to the Hollywood Bowl and Radio City Music Hall, and now those of us who missed out can enjoy an album recorded live at the Palladium — perfectly timed for singalongs to “A Summer in Ohio.”
‘Suffs’
“We demand to be heard / We demand to be seen / We demand equality and nothing in between”: In the comfort of home, you can sing along as much as you want to the anthems in this Shaina Taub musical, whose terrific capture just started airing on the PBS series “Great Performances.” The show, which won Tony Awards for best book and original score in 2024, follows activists like Alice Paul (Taub), Carrie Chapman Catt (Jenn Colella), Ida B. Wells (Nikki M. James) and Inez Milholland (Hannah Cruz) as they fight for women’s suffrage in the early 20th century.
May is actually a great month for musicals on PBS. After “Suffs,” Great Performances will introduce a capture of Kathleen Marshall’s recent staging of the 1935 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie “Top Hat” (May 15); a Nicole Scherzinger concert mixing show tunes and pop hits (May 22); and the documentary “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy,” narrated by Joel Grey (May 29).
‘Othello’
If you want to pair the Bedlam company’s new “Othello” with a different take, Marquee TV is now streaming a recent London production in which David Harewood took on the role of the Venetian general at Theater Royal Haymarket. Harewood was the first Black actor to play Othello at the National Theater, in 1997. This time around he is paired with Toby Jones as the treacherous Iago and Caitlin FitzGerald (Libby Masters in “Masters of Sex”) as Desdemona. Adding to the appeal, PJ Harvey wrote an original score.
‘Scarlet’
Rent or buy it on most major platforms.
New Yorkers can see Robert Hastie’s National Theater production of “Hamlet” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through May 17, or get the recent movie starring Riz Ahmed on VOD. A wilder version comes from the great Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda (“Mirai,” “Belle”), whose very alternative take on the story reimagines Hamlet as Princess Scarlet, out to avenge the murder of her father by his own brother, the malevolent Claudius. So far, so Shakespeare-ish, even with the gender-swapping. But then Hosoda takes Scarlet to a liminal world where the dead and the living coexist. Oh, and there is time travel involved as well. It’s a stretch only if you ever thought of Shakespeare’s tale of revenge and ghosts as realistic.
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