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Whether on a constant treadmill, turning trauma into laughs or venturing into children’s entertainment, these acts are winning over viewers and critics.

Other streaming picks include a deft “Winter’s Tale,” a reimagining of a solo show about sex work and a ’70s production of Chekhov by tweens.Isabelle McCalla, center, in the musical “Schmigadoon!”

Our chief theater critic, Helen Shaw, is in Scotland for the Edinburgh International Festival. For her, Christiane Jatahy’s modern reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People” was a difficult but valuable theater experience.

The playwright’s drama about a woman’s troubled nomination for surgeon general arrives Off Broadway. It’s all very ’90s and still very now.From left: Dakin Matthews, Jean Lichty and Robert Sean Leonard in “An American Daughter” at the Pershing Square Signature Center in Manhattan.

The International Puppet Fringe Festival, by its nature accessible and diverse, brings dozens of shows, films, exhibits and workshops to the Lower East Side.Theodora Skipitares with a creation featured at the International Puppet Fringe Festival. The giant head is one of several she created for the 2020 production of “The Transfiguration of Benjamin Banneker.”