In Performance: Alice Ripley of \'A Civil War Christmas\'

“A Civil War Christmas,” Paula Vogel's play with music, is set during the grim holiday season of 1864. Alice Ripley, who plays Mary Todd Lincoln and other characters, sings a medley of “Yellow Rose of Texas” and “Ain't That a Rockin' All Night.” The show runs through Dec. 30 at New York Theater Workshop.

Recent videos include Tracee Chimo in “Bad Jews” and Jackie Hoffman in her holiday show “A Chanukah Charol.”

Coming soon: videos from Baba Brinkman (“Ingenious Nature”), Will Chase (“The Mystery of Edwin Drood”) and others.