Here’s a happy surprise: The Mint Theater, an off-Broadway troupe that specializes in staging unjustly forgotten 20th-century plays to unfailingly pleasing effect, has been storing up broadcast-ready three-camera archival videos of its productions since 2013. Now it’s making three of the best ones—George Kelly’s “The Fatal Weakness,” Harold Chapin’s “The New Morality” and Hazel Ellis’s “Women Without Men”—available for free in a “Summer Stock Streaming Festival” package. Don’t be thrown if the authors’ names are unfamiliar:...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 09, 2020 20:15 UTC