While theaters are opening back up, there are still ample opportunities to watch plays and musicals virtually. Here is a list of such opportunities, as well as live, in-person productions with COVID safety measures in place.

• The Irish Repertory Theatre in New York City will virtually present George M. Cohan Tonight! …An Abridged Version from Aug. 17-29. George M. Cohan Tonight! is a 2006 musical. This one-man show depicts the life and music of Cohan utilizing his songs, dance routines, memoris, and the stories of those who knew him. Jon Peterson adapted the show for the screen, while Chip Deffaa originally directed it for the stage. George M. Cohan Tonight! had its Off-Broadway premiere at Irish Repertory Theatre in 2006. The production earned a Drama League Nomination for Jon Peterson and a Drama Desk Nomination for “Solo Performance.” This is an abridged version of that production, filmed specifically for digital distribution in December 2020.  While reservations are free, they are required to access this digital events. The Irish Repertory Theatre suggests a $25 donation for those who can afford to give. To reserve, go to https://irishrep.org/show/irish-rep-online-2021/george-m-cohan-tonight-2.
• Irish Repertory Theatre presents The Pat Moylan production of Angela’s Ashes The Musical. This special streaming event will run from Sept. 9-22. The show is based on the memoir by Frank McCourt. The show features anecdotes and stories of McCourt’s childhood. Specifically, it details his very early childhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. However, it focuses primarily on his life in Limerick, Ireland. Also, the story includes his struggles with poverty and his father’s alcoholism. The book’s publication came in 1996. It won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. A sequel, ‘Tis, was published in 1999, followed by Teacher Man in 2005. Ticket purchasers will be able to access their on-demand performance from September 9, 2021. Audience members can also reserve a digital ticket for opening night, Sept. 9, for a stream of the production, and then receive on demand access for 48-hours for $30 (if you purchase after September 20, you will not have the full 48 hours to watch). To make reservations, go to https://irishrep.org/show/2021-2022-season/angelas-ashes-the-musical.
• Skirts, mini. Hair, maxi. Boots, go-go-y. Shout! The Mod musical is a swingin’ gal pal romp through the jukebox hits of the ‘60s. The show follows five colorful characters through the trials and tribulations of love in dawn-of-women’s-lib London. The production features new arrangements of such chart-topping hits as “To Sir With Love,” “Downtown,” “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me,” “Son of A Preacher Man,” and “Goldfinger.” Shout! The Mod Musical will run from Aug. 17-Sept. 19. The Jaeb Theater is located within Tampa’s David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N. Macinnes Pl. For tickets, go to https://www.strazcenter.org/Events/Straz/Shows/2021_Theater/Shout!-The-Mod-Musical?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Shout!+The+Mod+Musical+opens+next+week&utm_campaign=P2-2021-08-12+Shout+to+engaged&vgo_ee=CRyXT6kSRpOp0UUDfZAAzg%3D%3D.
• M Ensemble Company, the longest running African American professional theater company in Florida, will hold auditions for Layon Gray’s The Dahomey Warriors from 6 to 9 p.m. ET on Dec. 7 and 8, with callbacks from 6 to 9 p.m. ET on Dec. 9. For M Ensemble’s -production, the company is seeking African American females, ages 18-40 who can speak with an African Dialect. Equity and non-equity actors are invited to audition. Auditionees should bring a headshot with a prepared 1-2 minute monologue. Email your resume and/or headshots to TGCooper@aol.com. In the subject line, write DAHOMEY WARRIORS AUDITION 2021. M Ensemble’s performance space is located in the Sandrell Rivers Theater at The Audrey M. Edmonson Transit Village, 6103 N.W. 7th Ave. in Miami. To reach the company by phone, call (786) 320-5986, or (3o5) 200-5043.
• Biaggi Naughty and nuts is an hour-long politically incorrect, sexually explicit show about the life and life style of a Porn star. Therefore, entry is restricted to people 21 and older. The show is set for 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET on Friday, Aug. 13 at Island City Stage, 2304 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors, near Ft. Lauderdale. Ticket prices range from $40 to $48. Purchase tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biaggi-naughty-and-nuts-tickets-149974013311?fbclid=IwAR2ZMvh6f4guhNCyqwUxFkfGcU-X_wC5p4KZ_sC-VrGoQS7u0Mcvi0uRwjk.
• In Schmigadoon, a couple on a backpacking trip designed to reinvigorate their relationship discovers the magical town of Schmigadoon. There, everyone acts as if they’re in a studio musical from the 1940s. The couple then discover that they can’t leave until they find “true love.” Watch Schmigadoon on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and other Streaming services. For a behind-the-scenes look at the show, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzfRyQC8pIY&t=3s.
• Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables will reopen its Mainstage series this summer with ¡FUÁCATA! or A Latina’s Guide to Surviving the Universe. The show is a humorous, one-woman tour de force starring Elena María García. The production will run from Aug. 18 – Sept. 12. The play brings more than 20 Latina women to life by weaving together tales of love, marriage, immigration, and identity through eccentric stories and whimsical song. “Elena María García is one of the funniest actors that I’ve ever seen on stage, and I couldn’t have asked for a more resonant and hilarious show to reopen our Mainstage with,” said Actors’ Playhouse Artistic Director David Arisco. “We absolutely can’t wait to welcome guests back to the Miracle Theatre for our Mainstage productions after being shut down for more than a year due to the pandemic.” Ticket prices range from $30 to $75. Patrons can purchase tickets by calling (305) 444-9293, visiting www.ActorsPlayhouse.org, or at the Actors’ Playhouse Box Office 280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables,. The theater company offers 10 percent off all weekday performances for seniors and $15 student rush tickets to any performance 15 minutes before curtain with identification. Group discounted rates are offered for 10 patrons or more through the group sales department at (305) 444-9293 ext. 1 or on www.ActorsPlayhouse.org. The show will open at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, Aug. 20, and the final performance will take place on Sept.12. Evening performances will be held at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday through Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday.
• Relive some of your favorite Broadway show tunes by attending a live, in-person concert titled My Broadway: The Roles I Could Play. The show will take place at 8 p.m. ET on Aug. 20 and 21 at Island City Stage, 2304 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors, a Ft. Lauderdale suburb. Performer Michael Scott Ross will take the stage to share the ups and downs and “outs” of life as an actor. In short, he will take you on a musical journey through story and song. Expect show-stopping numbers from Sunset Boulevard, The Producers, Cabaret, Hamilton, and more. For tickets, go to https://boxoffice.islandcitystage.org/Home/Shows/MYBROADWAY.
• From casting, and composing to staging and design, take a backstage look at how Dreamwork’s iconic animation composed by Stephen Schwartz, became a stage musical, The Prince of Egypt, on London’s West End. To watch, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrr5RKvhtg.
• BKLYN – The Musical begins with a group of street singers, busking underneath the Brooklyn Bridge. They decide to put on a play within a play – a story of a young girl who comes to the United States to find the father she never knew. This musical originated on Broadway in 2004, and is streaming on BroadwayHD. To watch, go to https://www.broadwayhd.com/movies/bklyn-the-musical.
• Irish Repertory Theatre presents The Theatre Royal Waterford and Throwin Shapes Production of Ghosting, a performance on screen from June 22-July 4. Mark, Síle’s ex-boyfriend, who ghosted her six years ago, is standing at the end of her bed… in London. Now, Síle must face her demons and go back to the last place on Earth she wants to be. Waterford. Home. To make reservations, visit https://irishrep.org/shows/ghosting/?dm_i=6U07,2GJS,1QBSR9,BFCK,1.
• Matilda the Musical is an international phenomenon. Fresh from its hit Broadway run, Northwest Arkansas-based TheatreSquared reimagines the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to take a stand and change her own destiny. The musical’s basis is Roald Dahl’s novel. This production features live, in-person performances only. TheatreSquared is located at 477 W. Spring St. in Fayetteville, Ark. For tickets, visit https://www.theatre2.org/matilda. The company’s phone number is (479) 445-6333..
• Lileana Blain-Cruz directs The Baltimore Waltz, Paula Vogel’s comic and dramatic fantasia based on the love and adventures of a brother and sister, one of whom has a fatal disease. The piece won the 1992 Obie Award for Best New American Play. For tickets, visit https://www.stellartickets.com/o/spotlight-on-plays/events/the-baltimore-waltz/occurrences/8e02e006-b54d-4d4c-a6a5-47228b14179c.
• Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles is the first in-depth documentary that chronicles the story of Fiddler On The Roof, exploring the unexpected richness of its themes as well as its long reach across time and cultures. Danny Burstein, Sheldon Harnick, and Lin Manuel-Miranda will make appearances in this documentary. To watch, visit https://www.broadwayhd.com/movies/AXiKlumOUBt2HP4hZcYw.
• Performer Derek Klena offers a contemporary twist on “Younger Than Springtime” from the musical South Pacific. Watch his performance at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYy1KXJ7mBk.
• Watch Hugh Jackman sing “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'” from Oklahoma! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNEUtN21cuU.
• Classic Stage Company presents Tell The Story: Celebrating Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins at 8 p.m. April 15. This free virtual event will feature cast members of the original Off-Broadway company, the Broadway revival, and director John Doyle’s upcoming production, the first show that Classic Stage Company will stage when New York City theaters can reopen. Assassins explores the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States. Advanced registration is required at ClassicStage.org.   The event will be available for viewing until 8 p.m. ET on April 19. Links to view the event will be sent to registrants closer to the premiere.
• The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful is a quick change marathon in which two actors play all the parts. A sympathetic werewolf, a vampire, and an Egyptian princess brought to life when her tomb is opened make this a comedy that has everything. The play will be available to stream on Friday and Saturday, April 16-18. Show times are 8 p.m. ET Friday and Saturday, as well as 2:30 p.m. ET on Sunday. This a Toledo Repertoire Theatre production. For tickets, visit https://www.showtix4u.com/event-details/43010.
• The comedy Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous will premiere at 8 p.m. ET on Thursday, April 8 and be available to stream on demand through 6 p.m. ET on Monday, April 12. Pearl Cleage’s comedy is about aging gracefully and gorgeously. In the play, Anna Campbell, 65, sparked controversy when she bared it all on stage years ago. When a theater festival asks to re-stage the work with a younger actress in her role, dramatic and comic fireworks ensue. For tickets, visit https://www.stellartickets.com/o/spotlight-on-plays/events/angry-raucous-and-shamelessly-gorgeous/occurrences/0d62f2a2-7de5-40e7-86b3-396e741b4142.
• Keen Company presents All We Need Is Us, a radio play by James Anthony Tyler. It’s Summer 2020, and the pandemic is raging through New York City. Eviction is looming for Lymere and Halen and their first baby is on its way. All We Need Is Us is an intimate look at unprecedented times, and a hopeful reminder that at the end of the day we can at least rely on each other. To listen to the radio play, visit http://www.keencompany.org/hearnow/2021/01/12/episode-allweneed-69na2-j7pl7-gnrek?mc_cid=5fbdde3099&mc_eid=96a88512a0.
• M Ensemble Company in Miami will hold auditions for Cowboy, written and directed by Layon Gray. M Ensemble, the longest running African American professional theater company in  Florida, is looking for African-American males, ages 20-45. Equity and non-equity actors are invited to audition. Submit a resume and/or headshot. Email one or both to tgcooper@aol.com, and put “Cowboy Audition 2021” in the subject line. Auditions will take place from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. April 9, as well as 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. April 10. Callbacks will take place from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on April 11. The theater is located at 6103 N.W. 7th Ave. in Miami. Cowboy tells the story of Black U.S. Marshall Bass Reeves.
• Red Bull Theater will host a benefit reading of John Milton’s Paradise Lost presented in two parts. The readings will happen at 7:30 p.m. EDT on Mondays, April 12 and 26. With its exquisite language and Shakespearean scale, John Milton’s epic poem explores the fundamental questions of the human experience: What is evil? If God is all-powerful, why did he allow evil to exist? Do humans have free will? Is our life predestined? For tickets, visit https://ci.ovationtix.com/2722/production/1042643?performanceId,=.
• Broadway Backwards will take a hopeful, musical look toward life post-pandemic in its first virtual edition set to stream with a bevy of Broadway’s best at 8 pm EST on Tuesday, March 30. This virtual edition of Broadway Backwards will explore how the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic has specifically affected the LGBTQ community. The show will feature Jay Armstrong Johnson as an isolated New Yorker who dreams a fantastical journey guided by a late night television host, portrayed by Jenn Colella.  Event organizers will merge new performances with full numbers from previous editions of Broadway Backwards to create a Broadway Backwards that feels distinctly of the moment. Broadway Backwards is produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and benefits Broadway Cares and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City. You can view this free online event, where gender doesn’t matter but love does, on the Broadway Cares YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/bcefaTV. It will be available on demand through 11:59 p.m. EST on Saturday, April 3.
• Several years after tragedy impacted their lives, a family comes together once again for Thanksgiving dinner in the play Jericho. While family members struggle to come to terms with residual anger, grief, and guilt, Jack Canfora’s play explores how people cope with personal and collective catastrophe. A production of Jericho runs through April 4 as the debut production of New Normal Rep. For tickets, visit https://www.onthestage.com/show/new-normal-rep/jericho-14245/tickets/60198e7e651b160003e5041f.
• The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans will stream The Felt Menagerie from Friday, March 26 to Monday, April 5. The theater company’s website describes the show as “a Tennessee-style puppet digital comedy.” For tickets, visit https://ci.ovationtix.com/35398. The company describes itself as “the only professional theatre company in the U.S. committed solely to producing plays with a major focus on the works of America’s greatest playwright” Tennessee Williams. For more information, visit https://www.twtheatrenola.com.
• A musical about the true story of the Japanese American internment is streaming on BroadwayHD. The inspiration behind Allegiance is George Takei’s childhood. The show follows the Kimura family in the weeks and years following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Authorities relocate the family from their farm in Salinas, Calif. to the Heart Mountain internment camp in the rural plains of Wyoming. To watch, visit https://www.broadwayhd.com/movies/AXgdULxAZfTYlur_DkqX.
• Goodspeed on Demand will stream the musical Passing Through until April 4. A crew recorded the full production live with an audience during 2019. The musical tells the true tale of a young man who journeys on foot from Pennsylvania to California, collecting stories as he goes. But when his trek begins to light an unresolved family crisis, he must use the lessons he’s gathered to finally confront his past. Tickets are $25 per household. You will be able to stream the performance on demand anytime through April 4. You will receive, by e-mail, a link. Once you click it, you will have 72 hours to view the video. You can watch the entire show or watch part and return later. Tickets are available at goodspeed.org, or by calling (860) 873-8668.
• The Ukulele Kids Club will hold a cabaret benefit to benefit the club at 7 p.m. EST on April 8. Your donation (it’s pay what you can) will help gift music to medically fragile children. In fact, every $50 helps gift a uke to a child. Once you complete your donation, you will receive an e-mail with information on how to access the event. You can also purchase raffle tickets for your chance to win the ukulele signed by the Mean Girls on Broadway cast. The club will announce the winner (selected randomly) at their event. The cabaret will feature Broadway performers from some of your favorite shows. To make a donation, visit https://theukc.org/broadway.
• Registration begins on March 22 for “Next Stop Broadway,” dubbed “the premier training  center for young performers in South Florida.” The camp splits youngsters into age appropriate PODS. The campers remain safely in their classrooms while instructors rotate in bringing activities in singing, dancing, acting, and more. Each session culminates in a fully designed production, in which every camper participates. Spaces are limited. For more information, visit http://www.thecentercs.com/events-tickets/education/next-stop-broadway/summer-2021. You can also call (954) 344-5991.
• The theater community reunited in Times Square exactly one year to the day since Broadway shut-down for “We Will Be Back,” a special live pop-up experience and commemoration of Broadway’s “lost year.” The socially-distanced, Covid-mindful event aimed to provide a sense of hope as the industry and city move forward from the challenges brought on by the past year. To watch, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URehqDcjr3I
• You can watch the 35^th installment of Virtual Mock Trial on demand. Enjoy the comical case presented in A Winter’s Tale of Marital Woe: Who’s to Blame? through April 11. Watch a trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5IJNE2kRcI. To order tickets, visit https://www.shakespearetheatre.org/events/virtual-winter-mock-trial-2021/?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=eNews3.16.21(FRC)&utm_content=version_A&sourceNumber=
• A new film version of Romeo & Juliet will air on PBS’s Great Performances series at 9 p.m. EST on Friday, April 23. Golden Globe Award winner Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley play Romeo and Juliet, respectively. The film is by the National Theatre of London. In defiance of their feuding families, Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together, chasing a future of joy and passion as violence erupts around them. To watch a trailer, visit https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/romeo-juliet-extended-preview-op1svi/12397/?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=eNews3.16.21(FRC)&utm_content=version_A&sourceNumber=
• To listen to director’s night pre-show discussion audio from some of Great Lakes Theatre’s musical productions, visit https://www.greatlakestheater.org/shows-events/great-lakes-theater-home/great-lakes-theaters-great-genres?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Click%20Here%21&utm_campaign=Genre%20content%20series%20-%20Broadway%20Musical#directorsnightbroadway. Great Lakes Theatre is located in Cleveland. Its mission, through its mainstage productions and education programs, is to ‘bring the pleasure, power and relevance of classic theater to the widest possible audience,” according to its website, https://www.greatlakestheater.org.
• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City has announced the Restart Stages initiative. Specifically, it will create 10 outdoor performance and rehearsal spaces — essentially an entire outdoor performing arts center — throughout its campus. Restart Stages’ design has taken into account advice from medical and public health professionals; all offerings include safety protocols in place for artists, staff, and audience members. The project will include a cabaret-style stage on Hearts Plaza; dedicated family and children’s areas with arts activities for young people; an outdoor reading room created together with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and space for public school graduations.
• Middletown, a new play by Dan Clancy, is streaming through April 4.  The piece tells the story of two couples, Peg and Tom, and Dotty and Don, as they “endure the roller coaster of life together in this exhilarating and universal depiction of love, life, and friendship.” For tickets, visit https://overture.plus/Home/CheckOut?pid=0f26a73f-ed37-4f82-b7e6-b4a9c9fd2e9a&ref=TheaterMania.
• Programming on the YouTube channel, “The Shows Must Go On,” will continue on Monday, March 8 with Letters Live, a special to celebrate International Women’s Day 2021. A diverse array of outstanding luminaries will read letters. Among those who will perform are Olivia Colman, Gillian Anderson, Daisy Ridley, Caitlin Moran, Rose McGowan, Adwoa Aboah, and Louise Brealey. Letters Live celebrates the art of correspondence through live events. The show will be available for seven days from Monday, March 8. To watch, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TU0_MJQajA.
• At Actors Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, Spring Break camp offers students five days of theater study including warm-up and audition techniques, theater games, improvisation, music, and dance. The experience culminates onstage at the Miracle Theatre with the chance to perform at the end of the week for family and friends. Camp will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET from March 29-April 2. The fee is $400. Enroll at www.actorsplayhouse.org.
• Tony winner Andre De Shields will play the title role in King Lear for the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival this summer, with the production running from June 2-27. Performances will be free and open to the public, but will adhere strictly to St. Louis health guidelines. Also, audiences will be limited in size to ensure the health and safety of staff, artists, and fellow audience members. Performances will take place in Forest Park,  5595 Grand Drive in St. Louis. For more information, visit https://stlshakes.org.
• Welcome to the Christian Puppet Ministry where meek and mild Jason takes solace after the death of his father. When his originally soft-spoken puppet Tyrone takes on a shocking personality then possesses his arm, Jason unwittingly throws the town of Cypress, Texas into a tizzy. This is what happens in the play Hand to God. This live, in-person Jobsite Theater production is taking place in The Straz Center for the Performing Arts’ Jaeb Theater in Tampa. For tickets, visit https://www.strazcenter.org/Events/Straz/Shows/2021_Jobsite/Hand-to-God?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=The+Show+Must+Go+On+-+Your+Straz+News+of+March+1&utm_campaign=P2-2021-03-01+The+Show+Must+Go+On&vgo_ee=CRyXT6kSRpOp0UUDfZAAzg%3D%3D.
• Become a True-Crime Detective on a walking search for a criminal mastermind in the interactive theater show Art Heist. Based on a true story of the world’s biggest art caper, Art Heist is a true crime walking show. During it, socially-distanced groups move through five walkable locations around the Broward Center in downtown Fort Lauderdale to gather clues. You will interact with a wild group of wily career criminals, slimy con men, rumpled art recovery specialists, a possible inside man, a gentle psychopath, and the larger-than-life but definitely real self-proclaimed “Greatest Art Thief of All Time.” Art Heist runs from March 16-April 4. For tickets, visit https://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/2768429?venueId=107579&brand=broward&camefrom=cfc_broward_web&spMailingID=6648795&spUserID=MjAyMDY0OTE5NTE0S0&spJobID=1220058626&spReportId=MTIyMDA1ODYyNgS2. And to view a trailer, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB4D4NsciD8.
• Miami New Drama invites teens to participate in a free debut theater workshop. If you are interested in acting, dancing, writing, and developing your creativity to the fullest, this program might be for you. To apply, send a 60-second video telling a little about yourself and what you’re passionate about to education@miaminewdrama.org. The submission deadline is noon EST on Monday, March 8. E-mail the video or share through google drive to education@miaminewdrama.org. The video must be titled with your first and last name. If you have questions, send them to education@miaminewdrama.org. For more information, visit https://www.miaminewdrama.org/mindtheatreworkshop.
• The true story of a young man who journeys on foot from Pennsylvania to California, collecting stories as he goes is the plot of a musical titled Passing Through. Goodspeed Musicals recorded their summer 2019 production. And soon, it will be available to stream on demand. Specifically, the show will stream from March 15-April 4. When you purchase a ticket, you’ll receive an e-mail with your viewing link. Once you click the link to watch, you will have 72 hours to view the video. You can watch the entire show, or watch part of it and come back later. But once you click the link, it will become inactive after 72 hours. The cost is $25 per household. For tickets, visit https://www.goodspeed.org/shows/on-demand-passing-through?utm_source=Goodspeed+Musicals&utm_campaign=4681c4cf89-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_28_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_16b00892f8-4681c4cf89-561554617. Or, call (860) 873-8668 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. EST Monday through Thursday. Meanwhile, you can sign up for a free seminar in which the showw’s writers, Brett Ryback and Eric Ulloa, director Igor Goldin, and choreographer Marcos Santana will talk about the show’s development, its Goodspeed production, and find out what has happened since closing night. Also, the creatives will answer your questions. To register for the free seminar, visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ITGRW-Brett-Eric.
• The original cast members and creatives of the 1991 Off-Broadway debut of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Tony Award-winning Assassins will reunite virtually at 8 p.m. EST on Monday, March 8 in honor of the musical’s 30th anniversary. The artists will talk about how the show was created and provide behind-the-scenes stories of the first production, as well as rarely-seen clips and photos. Assassins depicts nine misfit men and women who attempted (four of them successfully) to assassinate American Presidents. The show premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on Dec. 18, 1990, and closed Feb. 16, 1991, after 73 performances. The Broadway production received the 2004 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. To watch the reunion, visit www.studioTennTalks.com.
• A Contemporary Theatre of Connecticut presents a brand-new streaming production of Stephen Schwartz’s Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook. This original musical incorporates more than two dozen of Schwartz’s songs, including those from Wicked, Pippin, Godspell, The Baker’s Wife, Rags, Working, Children of Eden, and Enchanted. The musical is streaming through Sunday, Feb. 28. You can watch the video any time during the period in which it is available. For tickets, visit https://www.stellartickets.com/o/act-of-ct/events/stephen-schwartzs-snapshots-a-musical-scrapbook?aff=att&sourceNumber=38705&utm_source=Mail2&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=ATTPAC-+Snapshots+022421.
• Irish Repertory Theatre’s next “Performance on Screen” is The Aran Islands. The play is a compelling adaptation by Joe O’Byrne of John Millington Synge’s classic work. In 1898, upon the advice of W.B. Yeats, Synge went to live among the islanders to “express a life that has never found expression.’’ In this grey, sea-battered landscape, full of mist and wild rain, hearth is home and storytellers regale with tales by the fire; here, Synge found inspiration for many later works, including The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea. This play has been re-imagined for digital presentation, transporting audiences to a distant world. A crew filmed this all-new production in Ireland in early 2021 during the COVID-19 lockdown. To reserve tickets, visit https://irishrep.org/show/irish-rep-online-2021/the-aran-islands-2.
• This year’s annual Camp Broadway Miami, for youth age 10-17, will run virtually from March 29-April 2. And this year, the campers’ final virtual production will feature highlights from Guys & Dolls. Camp Broadway’s mantra is “Develop Your Character.” Character isn’t just a role one plays onstage. By their final bow, a mainstage camper has gained confidence, honed their craft, and learned that teamwork, respect for others, and personal responsibility builds good character and a great performer in life. The camp features interactive classes in singing, dancing, acting, and related activities delivered online to aspiring performers in the comfort of their own homes. Tuition is $500. Enroll your child(ren) at https://campscui.active.com/orgs/AdrienneArshtCenter?orglink=camps-registration&_ga=2.6591858.1374751471.1612828377-198931553.1612356763#/selectSessions/2946744. And for more information, visit https://www.arshtcenter.org/Tickets/Calendar/2020-2021-Season/Camp-Broadway/Camp-Broadway-Miami.
• A recording of a production of the famous Yiddish play The Dybbuk is available to watch. The play premiered on Dec. 9, 1920 by the Vilna Troupe at the Eizeum theater in Warsaw. Since then, the piece has been translated into 27 languages and performed worldwide. Late last year, New Yiddish Rep celebrated the play’s 100th birthday with a live performance streamed from Theater For The New City. A recording of the production is available to watch at https://vimeo.com/495352677. The production is in English with a liberal peppering of Yiddish. Subtitles will appear when appropriate. The play depicts the possession of a young woman by the malicious spirit – known as dybbuk in Jewish folklore – of her dead beloved.
• Miami’s City Theatre presents Shorts Outside the Box. These are live, in-person, and socially-distanced evenings of new short plays. “It’s casual theater for those who want to hear exciting, hilarious and provocative short plays in intimate readings performed by South Florida’s finest actors,” reads an advertisement. “Talented sound artists will enhance the storytelling experience, as will insider talk-back conversations with the artists. City Theatre’s Shorts Outside the Box is the cool thing to do on a hot night!” Shorts Outside the Box performances will take place at 7:30 p.m. EST on March 11, April 8, and May 13. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. with light bites and beverage service. Seating is reserved in socially distanced tables of up to four and is assigned based on the order of purchase. To buy tickets, visit https://www.arshtcenter.org/en/Tickets/Calendar/2020-2021-Season/Live-on-the-Plaza/Live-on-the-Plaza-City-Theatres-Shorts-Outside-the-Box.
• The New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) will honor the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent during an annual gala. The event will celebrate the 25th anniversary since the hit musical premiered at NYTW. The premiere is set for 8 p.m. EST on March 2. It will remain available to stream through March 6. Tickets for the gala are available by visiting https://www.nytw.org/show/25-years-of-rent-measured-in-love/tickets/0. Rent is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson.  It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan’s East Village in the thriving days of bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
• The Stratford Festival of Canada’s next live viewing party will feature two new episodes of Undiscovered Sonnets. In this spontaneous series, everyday couples share their true-life love stories with Rebecca Northan. Meanwhile, members of the Undiscovered Shakespeare ensemble race against the clock to scribble original sonnets that capture, exalt, and immortalize the guest couple’s story. Three sonneteers will pen, perspire, and perform. However, only one will be crowned victorious in this riotous, rhythmic, rhyming rivalry. Episode 4: Brian and Brad; Episode 5: Arakua and Ryan. The YouTube premiere will take place at 7 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 18. After that, streaming will be free for 36 hours. For $10 a month, STRATFEST@HOME features a growing list of Shakespeare and legacy films, interviews and discussions, as well as exclusive new original content from Stratford Festival artists. Festival officials continually add new titles  to the STRATFEST@HOME library. Subscribe at https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/AtHome.
• Follow the Yellow Brick Road all the way to Actors Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre for a Musical Theatre for Young Audiences production of The Wizard Of Oz. The beloved show will be live onstage, and audiences will be permitted inside the theater. The production will run from Feb. 20 to March 14. Showtimes are 2 p.m. EST Saturdays and 3 p.m. EST Sundays. Seating is limited.  The company’s ticketing system connects to a new Social Distance Map that will automatically block off the seats that surround your family. To purchase tickets, visit https://tickets.actorsplayhouse.org/TheatreManager/1/online?event=0. Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre is located at 280 Miracle Mile in Coral Gables. The phone number is (305) 444-9293.
• Young Talent Big Dreams (YTBD) – the largest countywide, free youth talent competition in Miami-Dade County – is open for auditions. Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, together with presenting sponsor The Children’s Trust, has just launched its 11th season. Due to COVID-19, this will be the second year the competition goes virtual. The first deadline for videotaped submissions is Feb. 21.Children and youth aged 8-17 are invited to submit one-minute preliminary-round audition videos that showcase their talents. Participants may compete in one individual and one group category, only. Two-minutes are allotted for the semifinal and final rounds. Prizes include performing arts scholarships, cash awards, performance opportunities and more. The grand prize winner will receive four tickets to Universal Orlando and a hotel stay for two nights, courtesy of WSVN 7News, along with $500 in cash. The talent competition features a total of six individual categories, including pop/rock/rap vocals, musical theatre/jazz standards/classical vocals, dance, musical instrument, original spoken word, and original vocal and/or instrumental composition. Categories for groups of six or fewer members include dance, musical instrument/bands and vocal groups. Contestants must follow all current government guidelines and restrictions related to the pandemic when preparing any audition materials for submission. Participation in the competition is free of charge and limited to residents of Miami-Dade County. Parental consent is required. There will be a maximum of nine winners and one grand prize winner chosen during the virtual finals presentation, scheduled for Saturday, June 5, 2021. For detailed information about competition rules, mandatory preregistration and audition upload instructions, visit ActorsPlayhouse.org.
• Real-life couple Michael McKean and Annette O’Toole, both stage and screen stars, will headline a live reading of Murray Schisgal’s The Typists. In the play, a married law student named Paul takes a job as a typist for an ad agency, where he works f0r his lonely supervisor, Sylvia. Through flashbacks and flash-forwards, the playwright depicts the story of their relationship and the potential for romance. Following the reading, there will be a discussion with McKean, O’Toole, and director Austin Pendleton. The Typists, which will benefit Williamstown Theatre Festival, will be available to view through March 2. For tickets, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/play-perview-the-typists-tickets-140413826535.
• The musical revue Simply Sondheim is streaming as a Signature Theatre production. In fact, the show’s creators wrote it specifically for Arlington, Va.-based Signature Theatre. The play features more than 30 songs from the composer’s canon. You may know some numbers better than others. All are fused with new orchestrations by longtime Sondheim collaborator Jonathan Tunick. Also, a 16-piece orchestra accompanies 12 singers. The show runs through March 26. For on-demand access, visit https://tickets.sigtheatre.org/booking/production/bestavailable/10719. And for more information about Signature Theatre, visit https://www.sigtheatre.org.
• The Tony Award-winning revival of Tony Kushner’s epic play, Angels in America is part of National Theatre at Home, the official streaming service of London’s National Theatre. A crew filmed the production during its 2017 run at the National, before its Broadway engagement the next year. The filmed production has nearly the same cast as the New York run. Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield lead the cast. These performers would eventually win Tony Awards for their work in the piece. The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in 1980’s America. To subscribe to National Theatre at Home, visit https://www.ntathome.com/checkout/subscribe/purchase?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fntathome.vhx.tv%2Fangels-in-america-part-one-millenium-approaches. To purchase the production as an audio drama, visit https://www.amazon.com/Angels-in-America-Andrew-Garfield-Nathan-Lane/dp/B07PWYCKX7?dchild=1&keywords=angels+in+america&qid=1612797904&sr=8-2&linkCode=sl1&tag=theatermani02-20&linkId=24ca0da654115e9447ba8d4b392515c9&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl.
• Mitch Albom’s book Tuesdays with Morrie is alive on the Indiana Repertory Theatre digital stage. The virtual production runs through Feb. 21. The play celebrates mentorship and friendship as a single visit between Mitch and Morrie turns into a life-changing weekly pilgrimage. To buy tickets, visit https://tickets.irtlive.com/4711. Also, you can stream the company’s season. A three-play virtual ticket package is $75. For more information, visit irtlive.com/packages.
• Classical theater actor Patrick Page explores how Shakespeare created the treacherous characters we all love to hate in All The Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented The Villain. The production is available to watch online through Sunday, Feb. 7.  Purchase tickets at ShakespeareTheatre.org.
• American Stage Theatre Company in St. Petersburg, Fla. will present on its virtual stage Satchmo at the Waldorf. The play, by “Wall Street Journal” theater critic Terry Teachout, offers a unique look at Louis Armstrong, arguably the greatest of all jazz trumpeters. The play will run from Feb. 19-28. For more information, visit http://americanstage.org.
• The Play With Rocky Bleier depicts the title character’s life as a Super Bowl champion with the Pittsburgh Steelers, wounded warrior, family man, and community activist. The show provides a poignant introspective glimpse of a living legend. On-Demand access to the play is available through Feb. 7. Pre-order at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/JDjT5GIY0VmK-the-play-with-rocky-bleier.
• The Mint Theater Company production of Katie Roche, Teresa Deevy’s play about a servant girl dreaming of finding something great to do, will stream from Feb. 1 to March 28. For more information, visit mintTheater.org.
• Join Thinking Cap Theatre (TCT) for an evening of brand new short plays that riff on the theme of love. People wrote the plays during TCT’s recent playwriting workshop.  Writers explored the open question: “Will you be my — ?” as a prompt.  The reading will take place at 7:30 p.m. EST on Monday, Feb. 15. Virtual doors will open at 7:15 p.m. EST.
• The Town Hall (www.TheTownHall.org) will present a special streaming concert event with music icon Judy Collins. She will recreate her legendary 1964 New York City concert hall debut. Collins filmed the show onstage at The Town Hall. The streaming event will take place at 8 p.m. EST on Feb. 12. Tickets are $40 and are available at www.TheTownHall.org.
• Broadways Best Shows and The Actors Fund will present Raquel Britton’s acclaimed musical event PIAF… Her Story… her Songs beginning at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 15. The concert will be available for four days through Thursday, Feb. 18. View a trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_MzQugPym0&feature=youtu.be. The show is a look at French chanteuse Edith Piaf as she tells her story through a theatrical presentation by singer Raquel Bitton.
• Abba Mania will take over the Coral Springs Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 23. This live, in-person Abba tribute concert will have a limited socially-distanced, 400-seat capacity. In an exhilarating two-hour recreation of ABBA’s last ever concert, ABBA MANIA brings to life the flamboyance of the 70s and all the uplifting, dance-inducing, and sometimes heart-breaking songs from the Swedish “Supergroup,” fully live and complete with costumes, staging, lighting and effects. Buy tickets at https://thecenter.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventList?groupCode=ABBA&linkID=pfm-coralsprings&shopperContext=&caller=&appCode.
• Zoetic Schmoetic is billed as a “hysterically safe and socially distanced improv comedy experience.” Six of South Florida’s funniest improv performers will bring a taste of live comedy back to Miami’s Arsht Center through various games and stories. With a little help from the socially distanced audience, the performers will seek to thrill and delight with brave, contemporary, and Miami-based humor. Tickets are $15 and are on sale at https://www.arshtcenter.org/en/Tickets/Calendar/2020-2021-Season/Live-on-the-Plaza/Live-on-the-Plaza-Zoetic-Schmoetic. Performance times and dates are 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. EST Feb. 27, March 27, and April 24. 
• Which Shakespeare character doesn’t belong?  Take a quiz to see if you can identify the odd one out in each set of characters for a specific Shakespeare play. Access the quiz at https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2021/01/12/quiz-which-shakespeare-character-doesnt-belong/?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ShakespearePlus20Jan2021&utm_content=version_A&promo=14796.
• In Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the members of the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society are back on stage. This time, they are battling technical hitches, flying mishaps, and cast disputes. Their goal?  To present J.M. Barrie’s much-loved tale. But will they ever make it to Neverland? Watch at https://www.broadwayhd.com/movies/AXaMfIWTZfTYlur_Dbn5?display=poster
• Broadway HD is starting 2021 off, in their words, “with a bang.” Jersey Boys is available for viewing. In the 1960s, four scrappy young men from New Jersey — Frankie Valli (TOny Award winner John Lloyd Young), Bob Gaudio (Erich Bergen), Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda) and Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza) — have the magic sound that propels them from singing under streetlights to singing in spotlights. With songs like “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and “Walk Like a Man,” the quartet finds itself at the top of the charts. However, personal and professional problems threaten to tear the group apart. Watch at https://www.broadwayhd.com/movies/AXYmTE7_ZfTYlur_DZHm.
• This past fall, Broadway fans gathered on TikTok in an unprecedented collaboration to create a new musical based on the Disney movie Ratatouille. Now, you can stream the show. It premieres at 7 p.m. EST on Friday, Jan. 1. A promotion reads, “Join Broadway’s biggest and brightest talents along with some of the most celebrated TikTok creators for a singular special event benefiting The Actors Fund. Stay tuned, it’s going to be delicious!” All ticket prices for Ratatouille will provide the same access to the final production. Following the premiere, the show will be available to purchase and view on demand for 72 hours. For tickets, visit https://www.todaytix.com/x/nyc/shows/22803-ratatouille-the-tiktok-musical.
• The YouTube channel “The Shows Must Go On” will present Dick Whittington: A Tale of Wags to Riches. The show tells the tale of a young man on an exciting quest for fame and fortune. But, will the evil King Gat thwart those plans? The show will premiere at 9 a.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 1 and will be available for 48 hours following the ending.  To watch, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CROqu2KiSUw.
• Estella Scrooge, a new musical take on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, stars Betsy Wolfe as the title character. She’s a Wall Street tycoon and descendant of Ebenezer who enjoys foreclosing on people’s homes. During a Christmas Eve snowstorm in her Ohio home, three ghosts visit Estella. To purchase tickets to stream the full show, visit https://www.universe.com/events/estella-scrooge-a-christmas-carol-with-a-twist-tickets-SLKTZ4?ref=Website&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Arsht%40Home%3A+Twisted+Christmas+songs%2C+free+opera+and+a+new+Scrooge&utm_campaign=2020-12-24+Arsht%40Home+37.
• Days to Come, Lillian Hellman’s play set against the backdrop of labor strife in a small Ohio town, will stream from Jan. 4-Feb. 21 as a Mint Theater production. For more information, visit https://minttheater.org.
• You may not have seen all nine hours of The Coast of Utopia, playwright Tom Stoppard’s trilogy on 19th century Russian intellectuals and revolutionaries. However, you can learn more about the piece as part of Lincoln Center Theater’s “Spotlight Series.” Stoppard, and director Jack O’Brien reunited with actors Billy Crudup, Jennifer Ehle, Ethan Hawke, and Martha Plimpton. In a roundtable discussion, they talk about their experiences working on LCT’s groundbreaking, landmark production of Stoppard’s trilogy. TO watch, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_PgUnuY6XY.
• Learn about the woman behind Little Women by watching Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women. The documentary is available as part of PBS’ “American Masters” series. To watch, visit https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/louisa-may-alcott-woman-behind-little-women-full-film/10243
• The filmed West End production of Lazarus will stream from Jan. 8-10 to mark David Bowie’s birthday and the fifth anniversary of his passing. Walter Tevis’ novel The Man Who Fell to Ear inspired Lazarus. The show focuses on Thomas Newton, as he remains still on Earth. He is a ‘man’ unable to die, his head soaked in cheap gin and haunted by a past love. We follow Newton during the course of a few days where the arrival of another lost soul  might set him finally free. For tickets, visit https://dice.fm/artist/david-bowie-y8xr?_branch_match_id=773234551536669159.
• Forever Plaid is streaming on BroadwayHD. In the show, a quartet of high-school friends, and their earnest dreams of recording an album, ended with their deaths. Specifically, their cherry red ’54 Mercury collided with a bus filled with Catholic schoolgirls on their way to see the Beatles’ American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. The girls were fine. The play begins with the wondrous and wondering Plaids returning from the afterlife for one final chance at musical glory. To watch, visit https://www.broadwayhd.com/movies/AXYmUUsWUBt2HP4hZO3j.
• MNM Theatre Company’s cutting-edge production of Maltby and Shire’s Closer Than Ever will now be available for streaming on demand through Jan. 10. Closer Than Ever features self-contained songs which deal with such diverse topics as security, aging, mid-life crisis, second marriages, working couples, and unrequited love. Maltby and Shire based many of the songs on real-life experiences of their friends, or stories told to them. Through his work on the show, director Jonathan Van Dyke, came up with a creative and innovative way to make live theatre during the pandemic, using video, audio, and projections. The show is available On Demand through Jan. 10, on Music Theatre International’s (MTI) streaming platform www.ShowTix4U.com via MNM Theatre Company’s website, www.mnmtheatre.org. Once you purchase tickets, you will receive a link to view the production.  The link will be active for 48 hours from the first click.  Tickets are $20. To read a review of the production, visit https://theatricalmusings.com/reviews-by-theater/mnms-closer-than-ever-is-creative-heartfelt.
• Island City Stage, near Ft. Lauderdale, celebrates the holiday season with an ode to the old TV variety specials. Carbonell award-winning playwright and actor Michael McKeever hosts the program. It features songs of the season, which past Island City Stage actors will perform. The program is available through Thursday, Dec. 24. Tickets are $35. To purchase them, visit https://online.islandcitystage.org.
• The Hip Hop Nutcracker is a holiday mash-up for the entire family. Directed and choreographed by Olivier nominee Jennifer Weber, this unique and joyful event is performed by a supercharged cast of all-star dancers and MC Kurtis Blow, who opens the show with a short set. This re-mixed and re-imagined version of the classic takes audiences on a journey that celebrates love, community, and the magic of the holiday season. Order at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/mEenUqriTdab-hip-hop-nutcracker.
• See Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker from the best seat in the house: your living room. Order at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/8NlRXsGWpLfX-moscow-ballets-great-russian-nutcracker-christmas-stream.
• This holiday season, stream the first virtual presentation of music from The Night Before Christmas: In Concert by Minnesota’s three-time Grammy Award-winning international music sensation “Sounds of Blackness.” It is available to watch until Dec. 31. Order at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/HtwKL78j8lVW-the-night-before-christmas-in-concert–the-ordway,
• For the first time in its 44-year history, the Bay Area’s favorite holiday tradition, A Christmas Carol, will come to life as A Christmas Carol: On Air, an enthralling radio play that the whole family can enjoy from the comfort of their home. Order this American Conservatory Theatre production at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/b62HCBjyo21M-a-christmas-carol-on-air–american-conservatory-theatre.
• The Guthrie Theater presents A Christmas Carol, a special virtual event featuring a cast of four beloved A Christmas Carol veterans who will reimagine Dickens’ hand-curated chapters for a global audience to enjoy. Order this Guthrie Theatre production at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/LgKkLQBfb9PL-dickens-holiday-classic–guthrie-theater?channel=professional-theatre-productions.
• The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus presents (At) Home For The Holidays. It is available on demand from Thursday, Dec. 24 through Sunday, Dec. 27. Pre-order at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/ywaraNEs68xf-at-home-for-the-holidays–san-francisco-gay-mens-chorus.
• The Santa Hat is a new script by an award-winning writing team eager to give back in the holiday spirit. This virtual reading, available through Sunday, Dec. 27, is performed by nationally-known and local talent, came together in support of The Actors Fund, The Ed Asner Family Center, Grand Rapids Combined Theatre Scholarship & Gilda’s Club Grand Rapids. Additional contributions can be made through TheSantaHat.com. In The Santa Hat, an unemployed and desperate man receives a gift that takes him back in time where he must choose between financial prosperity to save his home and the things of life or forgiveness to save himself.  Order at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/f8ZI81Xmh7k6-the-santa-hat?channel=holiday-hits.
• Barrington Stage Company’s Holiday Getaway is streaming through 7:30 p.m. EST Wednesday, Dec. 23. “The trio of Alan H. Green, Alysha Umphress, and Joel Waggoner display ample skill and talent as they present viewers with a selection of 18 musical numbers…that are fun, often campy, poignant, tender, notably well-balanced, and entertaining,” BroadwayWorld enthuses. Donate to view at https://ci.ovationtix.com/34860/store/donations/35892.
• Barrington Stage Company presents a virtual reading of  Ty Allan Jackson’s new book, “The Supadupa Kid 2: Move,” starring members from the Berkshire community and beyond. The reading lasts one hour and 45 minutes. To watch, visit https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvLAonqgEg7fS_FLe244pcnRiYU4qEj4Q,
• TheatreSquared’s all-new adaptation of A Christmas Carol stars two multi-talented actors in more than 35 roles. It is streaming through Dec. 27. To watch, click on https://tix.theatre2.org/overview/20013?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FY21CarolEblast2&utm_content=version_A.
• Diaspora Arts Coalition and M Ensemble Company will present Kwanzaa 2020: A Virtual Experience at 4 p.m. EST on Sunday, Dec. 27.  The broadcast will include live entertainment, cultural performances, and information about the origin and history of Kwanzaa. You can only access the event via Facebook Live, Zoom, and Live Stream. To access the live stream, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LH1e1sotL8&feature=youtu.be. For more information, call (786) 237-5079.
• Hop on board E. Nesbit’s The Railway Children, which the YouTube channel “The Show’s Must Go On” will stream starting at 9 a.m. EST on Monday, Dec. 21.  The stream will be available for 48 hours after the premiere showing ends. Nesbit’s children’s classic follows the fortunes of a group of Edwardian children whose father is wrongly jailed in connection with a treason charge. To watch, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6JS1RfMf4w.
• Steppenwolf NOW is a new virtual programming stream featuring breakthrough stories written by America’s most talented voices. Become a virtual member for $75, and stream content wherever you are, whenever you want. With a virtual membership purchase, you can stream all  Steppenwolf NOW content through Aug. 31, 2021. For a list of upcoming plays and to join, visit https://www.steppenwolf.org/now?utm_source=Theatremania&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=SteppenwolfNOW.
• Netflix will release George C. Wolfe’s film adaptation of August Wilson’s play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom on Friday, Dec. 18. Tensions and temperatures rise at a Chicago music studio in 1927 when fiery, fearless blues singer Ma Rainey joins her band for a recording session. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is part of Wilson’s “Century Cycle.” Wilson wrote one play for each decade of the 20th century. Each piece centers on the African American experience of the corresponding decade. For instance, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom represents the 1920’s. All Century Cycle plays, except Ma Rainey, take place in the neighborhood in which Wilson grew up — Pittsburgh’s Hill District.
• Chicago Shakespeare Theater will stream on demand Peter Pan A Musical Adventure beginning on Saturday, Dec. 19 and continuing through Jan. 1. This is a production of a new version of the familiar story. Elliot Davis wrote the script, based on a book by Willis Hall. Access to the stream is free. The stream will be available starting at 1 a.m. EST on Saturday, Dec. 19 and last through 12:59 a.m. EST on Saturday, Jan. 2. A crew captured this live production with multiple cameras in front of a live audience. For tickets and more information, visit https://www.chicagoshakes.com/plays_and_events/explore_season/peterpan.
• The YouTube channel, “The Shows Must Go On” will air the West End production of the musical Kinky Boots beginning at 2 p.m. EST on Friday, Dec. 17. The show is the winner of six 2013 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The musical’s basis is the 2005 film. In Kinky Boots, Charlie is a factory owner struggling to save his family business. Meanwhile, Lola is a fabulous entertainer with a wildly exciting idea. With a little compassion and a lot of understanding, this unexpected pair learns to embrace their differences and create a line of sturdy stilettos unlike any the world has ever seen. To watch, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hExrHHLTMf8. The video will be available to watch up to 48 hours after it airs.
• Oh, What Fun! is a singing and tap dancing revue which will take place in person at The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton. The theater will enforce a socially-distanced seating chart, and seating is limited for this meal/show package. The theater will serve a holiday gourmet dinner at 6 p.m. EST, with the show starting at 8 p.m. EST on Dec. 18, 19, and 23. Or, if you prefer, the theater will serve a holiday gourmet lunch at 2 p.m. EST with the show starting at 4 p.m. EST on the following dates: Dec. 20 and 24. The show will feature holiday hits such as “White Christmas,” “Sleigh Ride,” “Light One Candle,” and “Hannukah Waltz.” Tickets are $68. To book a meal-show package, call the box office at (561) 995-2333 or buy tickets at https://tickets.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?t=tix&e=5671e11606cb8a154e77a584f5177def&vqitq=ae9a9f3d-ae42-4265-8291-9e84c007d1f1&vqitp=4ee9b7c9-9695-41ab-a9f1-539a26985e9d&vqitts=1608020986&vqitc=vendini&vqite=itl&vqitrt=Safetynet&vqith=7a0cfdc70551e0474d6c12d38b41eb7f,
• Anyone is welcome to participate or spectate at New City Players’ next virtual gathering at 7 p.m. EST on Monday, Dec. 21. NCPLab is an open gathering for theater artists and community members seeking to create and connect. At the Dec. 21 gathering, the agenda includes writing and workshopping 1 to 10-minute plays. Anybody can submit a play. If you wish to, e-mail a .pdf to krystal@newcityplayers.org by 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, Dec. 18. New City Players will select them on a first-submitted, first read basis. There is a five-page limit, and the theme is “Let’s Get in the Holiday Spirit!” In addition, plays must include at least one sung line from a holiday song. Also, the play must include the line, “you sit on a throne of lies.” To participate or attend, fill out the form at https://www.newcityplayers.org/lab.
• This holiday season, stream the first virtual presentation of music from The Night Before Christmas: In Concert by Minnesota’s three-time Grammy Award-winning international music sensation Sounds of Blackness. Pre-order at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/HtwKL78j8lVW-the-night-before-christmas-in-concert–the-ordway. On-demand access is available from Dec. 19-31.
• Join Doris Dear and friends for a night full of stories and songs from the holidays past and present. This special stars Doris Dear, “America’s Perfect Housewife!” Pre-order at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/not-live/sBMmGPWEBCbr-the-doris-dear-christmas-special?channel=current-live-schedule.
• Three of today’s most versatile and powerful singers will seek to wow you starting on Friday, Dec. 18. Sopranos Nova Y. Payton and Jamet Pittman and mezzo-soprano Laurice Lanier are all classically trained. However, there’s nothing that they can’t sing – from soaring opera to show tunes, jubilant gospel, jazz, blues, and more. Pre-order at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/AIzDG5EK8I1K-3-mo-divas.
• Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and their merry band of royal renegades bring their hilarious princess vaudeville to your living room. Forget the princesses you think you know – the original storybook heroines have come to life to set the record straight. At 7 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 17, watch at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/not-live/hUSSnGvbtmgd-disenchanted–art-lab–november-15?channel=live-productions.
• In a series of six short plays commissioned by Out of the Box Theatrics, New Yorkers of all walks of life navigate their way through the ups and downs of living in the city during the holidays. From cynical Christmas elves to awkward family gatherings to heartwarming holiday magic, New York City during the holidays offers a fresh start unlike anywhere else.Order them at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/nI7MUJPJPIRT-a-new-york-holiday-minute.
• Seven powerful short plays which teens wrote and performed confront gun violence through the lenses of race, police brutality, community violence, school shootings, and American mythology. A group of award-winning playwrights chose these pieces for production. They are streaming through Sunday, Dec. 20.  Order them at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/Ttt9GNPaeYtW-enough-plays-to-end-gun-violence?channel=all-shows.
• Join New Orleans’ Southern Rep Theatre for digital performances at “The POP-UP,” a new monthly online play reading series. It features new and original work featuring New Orleans  artists for these times. The show will stream at 8:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Dec. 23. Tickets are $8. For tickets, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-pop-up-tickets-131368856787.
• Manhattan Theatre Club invites you to revisit some of its greatest hits and rare gems with the next installment of the new monthly series, The Show Goes On. In 2016, MTC co-produced the world premiere of Vietgone by Qui Nguyen. Cast members Jon Hoche and Paco Tolson recently gathered virtually to watch footage from the production. Join them as they relive the show and reminisce about the production. To watch, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xOBAyFzRlQ&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FY21MKTEngagementEmail12.14F%26F&utm_content=version_A at Noon EST on Thursday, Dec. 17.
• Manhattan Theatre Club is streaming Friendly Monsters thru 2 p.m. EST Saturday, Dec. 19. In the play, Zoe has just moved in with her older boyfriend, Simon. He is everything she could dream: charismatic and successful, a supportive partner, a doting father to his young daughter. But when Zoe becomes curious about Simon’s history with his next-door neighbor, the solid ground beneath her begins to shift. Set against the backdrop of current events, this is a gripping and affecting play about what – and whom – we believe. To watch, visit https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/Mtjv705Loo6Z-ted-snowdon-reading-series–manhattan-theatre-club? utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FY21MKTEngagementEmail12.14F%26F&utm_content=version_A. You can also watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eHFSckr8dk&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FY20ReadingSeriesReminder%3AFRIENDLYMONSTERS&utm_content=version_A.
• A 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama is streaming courtesy of Philadelphia Theatre Company. In The Wolves, meet nine young women from a competitive high school soccer team.  It’s just a few weeks until nationals and the pressure is on.  Relatable and resilient, this pack of adolescent warriors will push and train for their games, while also navigating a growing understanding of their complicated world. From Harry Potter to the Khmer Rouge, from ambition to abortion, The Wolves is about life, love, and loss on and off the Astroturf. The production is available to watch for 48 hours from the time of rental. The Wolves is streaming through Dec. 20. For a video tutorial on how to watch the show, visit  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoP5TW0tXqE.
• The Dybbuk, arguably the most well-known play in the Yiddish theater lexicon, premiered 100 years ago in Warsaw, Poland. In celebration of that milestone, New Yiddish Rep will offer a live performance streamed from Theater for The New City in New York. David Mandelbaum, New Yiddish Rep’s, artistic director, wrote, “A play about possession seems particularly suited to the times. The country has been possessed by the evil spirits of strife and division and could use a good exorcism to bring it back to its senses. Apropos, the play is at its core a love story exploring the metaphysical aspect of love; the fusion of two souls. Kept apart in our world of illusion, they choose to ascend as one to the true world. Audiences will be able to pay what they can for tickets – ranging from $5-$36. You can buy tickets at  https://theaterforthenewcity.net, https://www.newyiddishrep.org or https://tinyurl.com/y67eofqs. Actors will perform the play in English with a “liberal peppering of Yiddish. Subtitles will appear when appropriate. The running time is 75 minutes.
• For audiences in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, the YouTube channel “The Shows Must Go On” will stream Ruthless! The Musical this weekend. The camp cult classic from Joel Paley with music by Marvin Laird is filmed from London’s West End following critical acclaim off-Broadway. Ruthless! The Musical famously spoofs Broadway musicals from Gypsy to Mame as well as iconic films including The Bad Seed and All About Eve. Talented eight year old Tina Denmark will do anything to play the lead in her school musical…Anything! As Tina discovers where her talent comes from, she shows us just what it takes to succeed. Premiering in 1992, the show is responsible for discovering young performers Britney Spears and Natalie Portman. This production features Jason Gardiner (Dancing on Ice UK) as overbearing agent Sylvia St Croix who encourages Tina (Anya Evans) to pursue her dreams of a career in showbiz. Kim Maresca is Judy Denmark, ‘Tina’s Mother’, the bland housewife who has ‘absolutely no talent whatsoever’, or does she…? Tracie Bennett (Follies) is Tina’s grandmother, the famously spiky theatre critic Lita Encore, and Harriet Thorpe (Great Britain) is Tina’s teacher and ex-actress Myrna Thorne. The show will premiere at 2 p.m. ET on Friday, Dec. 11, and will be available to stream for 48 hours at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfeRpYTWpVY.
• Bedlam Theater Company will host a benefit reading of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters at 7 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 8. In the play, the Prozorov sisters dream of a new life. But the dreams are seriously threatened when their brother marries a woman whom they consider ill-bred and mortgages the house. Register to watch at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LlUs3L41SeGUWbeEOJKD0g. Every two weeks for the rest of the calendar year, BEDLAM will be presenting live virtual play readings in an effort to raise funds and awareness for the #BlackLivesMatter movement and associated organizations working toward eliminating race-based discrimination.
• Beginning on Dec. 11, you can stream Folger Shakespeare Library’s virtual holiday concert on demand thru Jan. 5. This year’s concert features German holiday favorites, paired with English, and American Yuletide traditional songs such as Greensleeves, from the early music period. Recognizable melodies from Bach’s Cantata BWV140, Wachet auf (Sleepers Wake) are heard alongside festive pieces by Praetorius, Thomas Ravenscroft, and William Billings. Rarely performed and rarely recorded, Billings remains a hidden treasure among American composers, with music dating back to the same era as Mozart. This is the first time Folger Consort is performing his holiday carols since 2003.  Access to this concert starts at $25. Tickets are available through the Folger Box Office at (202) 544-7077 or via https://www.folger.edu/events/christmas-with-the-folger-consort?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CNXmasEmail2toFullList%2C12-7&utm_content=version_A&promo.
• National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene presents a “Folksbiene Chanukah Spectacular,” featuring an international array of more than 50 stars – from Broadway to the Yiddish stage. The curtain rises at 7 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 8, kicking off with an international opening number celebrating Yiddish theatre and much more. This gala is a benefit for the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene through permission from Theatre Authority, Inc. The event will be free to the public, with registration required, and opportunities to donate throughout. Afterwards, the celebration will be available for 96 hours. Adam B. Shapiro, one of the stars of the celebrated, award-winning Fiddler on the Roof, is producing and directing the show. In order to tune in, register at https://nytf.org/spectacular/.  Now entering its 106^th season, Tony Award-nominated and Drama Desk Award-winning National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF)is the longest consecutively producing theatre in the U.S. It is also theworld’s oldest continuously operating Yiddish theatre company.

• Enjoy an intimate livestreamed evening of music and conversation with TOny nominee and Emmy winner Liz Callaway. She will perform a mix of holiday favorites and Broadway showtunes, shared stories about the holidays and her career, and offer a preview of music from her upcoming holiday album, Comfort and Joy — An Acoustic Christmas. For tickets, visit https://watch.eventive.org/bedfordplayhousepresentslizcallaway/play/5fc817231d8f680030f7cbfa?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=The+Show+Must+Go+On+-+Visit+virtually%3A+Edition+37&utm_campaign=2020-12-07+The+Show+Must+Go+On.
• Ex Cathedra Choir’s Christmas By Candlelight is the next show on the YouTube channel “The Shows Must Go On.” The show will premiere at 2 p.m. EST on Monday, Dec. 7. It will be available worldwide until New Year’s Eve. In the deep, still darkness, only candles pierce the winter gloom. And then, upon the silence, comes the luminous sound of a choir in harmony. With a sequence of Christmas music old and new, this concert is a uniquely magical way to begin your festive season. For information on Ex Cathedra Singing Medicine, visit www.singingmedicine.co.uk. Access “The Shows Must Go On” at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdmPjhKMaXNNeCr1FjuMvag..
• Goodspeed Musicals will revisit its 2014 world premiere production of Holiday Inn, The New Irving Berlin Musical at 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Dec. 8. The stage musical is based on the 1942 film of the same name. The film and musical tell the story of Jim, who leaves the bright lights of show business behind to settle down on his Connecticut farmhouse. However, he quickly discovers that life isn’t the same without a bit of song and dance. While Goodspeed’s episode revisiting the world premiere production will air at 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Dec. 8, it will be available anytime after at https://www.youtube.com/user/livefromthemainstage.
• Put on your sparkles, your reindeer Christmas jumper, switch on the Christmas tree lights, and settle down for an evening of festive fun and music. Featuring a cast of 80 and a 17-piece orchestra, St. Paul’s Church in London’s Covent Garden transformed into a world of magic and joy for A West End Christmas 2020 – A Magical Christmas. For the last 17 years, A West End Christmas has been the highlight of the Christmas calendar for the theatre community and its loyal audiences. This year, the show will indeed go on, with stars and companies of the West End joining together once more for a recorded show. Pre-order on Broadway On Demand at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/not-live/KGRg341igQh6-a-west-end-christmas-in-aid-of-mad-trust?channel=current-live-schedule.The show is streaming live three performances — Friday, Dec. 11-Sunday, Dec. 13.
• The Nutcracker at Wethersfield (www.NutcrackerAtWethersfield.com), a Covid-19 compliant Nutcracker, will stream on demand, free of charge, directly following its run at the Wethersfield Estate. The live show will run from Dec. 4-23 at the Wethersfield Estate in Amenia, N.Y. (a two hour drive north of Times Square).
  The free stream of will be available to watch on demand at www.NutcrackerAtWethersfield.com from 5 p.m. EST on Dec. 23 to midnight EST on Dec. 26. The Nutcracker, based on the E.T.A. Hoffmann fantasy story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, is about a girl who befriends a nutcracker that comes to life on Christmas Eve and wages a battle against the evil Mouse King. Performers tell the story solely through instrumental music and dance.

  * Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.-based Thinking Cap Theatre invites the public to flex their creative muscles by participating in a holiday-themed playwriting workshop series. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a seasoned script writer or have never considered dramatic writing. This series is designed to help you rekindle memories. Channel them into new, original monologues and short plays. Workshops will take place via Zoom. The theater company will send you links once you have registered. Workshop dates are 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST on Sunday, Dec. 6; 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Dec. 9, as well as 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST on Sunday, Dec. 13. The fee is $10 per individual and $15 per couple. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/thinking-cap-theatre-17664553327?aff=odeimcmailchimp&mc_eid=d64f5da8aa&mc_cid=ee158fee61.
• Canada’s Stratford Festival will host a live viewing party at 6:30 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 3 to kick off the company’s streaming of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Christopher Plummer stars as the sorcerer Prospero in this 2010 production, directed by Des McAnuff. As a prelude to the film, Stratford has reunited director Des McAnuff and Plummer for a special pre-show chat. The Tempest is also available on STRATFEST@HOME: the Stratford Festival’s brand new streaming service. For $10 a month, STRATFEST@HOME features 12 Shakespeare films, a growing list of legacy films, interviews and discussions, as well as exclusive new original content from Stratford Festival artists. The festival continually adds new titles. Subscribe at https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/AtHome.
• Irish Repertory Theatre presents a reading of Plaguey Hill, a new work by Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon, read by Tony Award winner Liev Schreiber. Written over the first two weeks of April 2020, Plaguey Hill is an impressionistic account of day-to-day life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Though the poem is set in Sharon Springs, N.Y., it harkens back to memories of the burial mound of Plaguey Hill, in Friars Bush graveyard, Belfast, where victims of the 1830s cholera epidemic were laid to rest. The poem takes the form of an intricately locked series of 15 sonnets known as a crown, or corona. Watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqcxoQbmPlg.
• Join The New York Times at 7 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 8, for Offstage: Stage to Screen. Times theater and culture reporters will sit down with Viola Davis, her Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom colleagues and the creative team behind the feel-good musical The Prom. The group will take an inside look at two of the most hotly anticipated films of the season and their theatrical roots. This event is exclusively for Times subscribers. To  RSVP, visit https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/admin/live-events.html?utm_source=All+Email+Addresses+Individuals&utm_campaign=5f882527f6-December+2020+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f5ff2da8e4-5f882527f6-60091192#event-QnQzr.
• “Plays to Progress” is a new monthly community engagement series. Hear from playwrights, local community leaders, and national activists as they explore social issues through art. Each evening will feature a brief performance, followed by a conversation about the resonance of a work launched at the O’Neill within its local communities. At 4:30 p.m. EST on Dec. 9, watch Kirsten Childs talk about The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin.RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdtZLw8FG-2buifz7Q2ctXfSvBclUCr7h4Rwag8FJ_PpHvGJg/viewform.
• Tina Fey will host One Night Only: The Best of Broadway, a night of music celebrating the resilient Broadway community and featuring songs from Broadway’s top productions. The two-hour special, which will offer sneak peaks at Broadway shows coming in 2021, will air at 8 p.m. ET on Thursday, Dec. 10. The two-hour show will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Watch the show at https://broadwaycares.org. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS helps men, women and children across the country and across the street receive lifesaving medications, health care, nutritious meals, counseling and emergency financial assistance. To donate, visit https://donate.broadwaycares.org/campaign/covid-19-emergency-assistance-fund/c276873.
• A Season of Hope and Inspiration: A Virtual Holiday Concert will stream at 7 p.m. ET on Sunday, Dec. 13. In this moment of stasis and necessary separation, BIV’s holiday concert presents a chance for us to come together. Through the music, which centers who we are and what we do, we offer an evening of Hope & Inspiration. Songs from holidays past will blend alongside new music created especially for this concert. On-demand access will be available from Dec. 14-Jan. 5. Visit https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/baXQ9K2HwvhY-a-season-of-hope-and-inspiration-a-virtual-holiday-celebration. Performances featuring Shoshana Bean, Crystal Monee Hall, Marcus Paul James, Patti LuPone, Leslie Odom Jr., Billy Porter, Daniel J. Watts, & hundreds of guest artists.
• #Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence will stream on demand from Monday, Dec. 14-Sunday, Dec. 20. Selected by award-winning playwrights Lauren Gunderson, David Henry Hwang, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Robert Schenkkan, and Karen Zacarías, seven short plays written and performed by teens nationwide confront gun violence through the lenses of race, police brutality, community violence, school shootings, and American mythology. Visit https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/Ttt9GNPaeYtW-enough-plays-to-end-gun-violence?channel=all-shows.
• Absolute power corrupts absolutely in A King and No King, a Jacobean tragicomedy. Arbaces, the King of Iberia, conquers Tigranes, King of Armenia, and offers him noble treatment – and his sister for a wife. But it’s been awhile since Arbaces has seen his sister. When he does, an incestuous passion seizes him. Arbaces resists this forbidden love with all his might – until she professes she loves him too. But now, what to do about Tigranes? Alongside the natural pleasures of a surprisingly funny tragedy, A King and No King also offers some particularly piquant allegory for this time of transition from one administration to the next. New York’s Red Bull Theater will present a livestream benefit reading of A King And No King at 7:30 p.m. EST on Monday, Dec. 14. A recording of the livestream will be available until 7 p.m. EDT on Friday, Dec. 18 – then it disappears. For tickets, visit https://www.redbulltheater.com/a-king-and-no-king.
• Performances of Mandatory Merriment: This Time It’s Virtual will begin on Dec. 11. Southern Repertory Theatre in New Orleans invites you to “join us for a raucous season of song, comedy, and holiday fun!” Buy tickets at http://www.southernrep.com/mandatory-merriment. The show runs through Dec. 26. A virtual ticket is good for 24-hour access.
• Island City Stage is celebrating the holiday season with an ode to the old TV variety specials hosted by stars like Andy Williams, Bob Hope and Cher. Carbonell award-winning playwright and actor Michael McKeever will host Island City Stage’s Holiday Spectacular. This online-only show will feature songs of the season. The roughly 75-minute show will run from Dec. 10-18. Tickets are $35 plus a $3 processing fee. Once you purchase your ticket, you will receive an email, along with a text, with your link to watch at the scheduled time. Tickets are non-refundable. You can purchase them at https://online.islandcitystage.org.
• New York City Center will present its 2020 gala, An Evening With Audra McDonald at 7:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Dec. 9. McDonald will sing popular standards from the Great American Songbook and classics from the golden age of Broadway. The broadcast, featuring the award-winning Broadway performer, will remain available to view on demand thru Dec. 16. Tickets are $35 and are available at https://www.nycitycenter.org/pdps/2020-2021/audra/?utm_source=Telecharge&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FY21AudraGala%20&utm_source=delivra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Audra%20McDonald%20in%20Concert&utm_id=40534969&dlv-emuid=5bc2aa78-f3bf-4707-af84-c6ca808c490d&dlv-mlid=40534969.
• Favorite performers will welcome you into their homes and hearts during Home for the Holidays at 8 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Dec. 15. “From the welcoming warmth of Come From Away‘s Gander, Newfoundland, to the rich culture of South Africa through cast members from The Lion King, you’ll escape into a world where Broadway can help make the season merry and bright despite today’s challenges,” promises an advertisement. You can watch the free stream at www.broadwaycares.org
• The Magic Flute is a holiday staple. In one clip, Christopher Maltman sings Papageno’s “A cuddly wife or sweetheart” in the 2016 final dress rehearsal. Watch the video at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmXCHJ5EAvs.
• More than 40 people and puppets from productions of the Tony-winning musical Avenue Q from around the world recently united virtually for a music video of the show’s finale, “Only For Now.” The music video is a benefit for The Actors Fund, helmed by Avenue Q director Jason Moore. Avenue Q, developed at the 2002 National Music Theater Conference, has music and lyrics by Tony winners Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, a book by Tony winner Jeff Whitty, and musical supervision/arrangements/orchestrations by Stephen Oremus.
• The film Giving Voice follows students in the annual August Wilson Monologue Competition inspired by the late playwright. Watch Giving Voice on Dec. 11 on Netflix at https://www.netflix.com/GivingVoice. Subscribe at http://bit.ly/29qBUt7
• Let The Doo Wop Project get you into the holiday spirit. The Doo Wop Project: Live In Your Home For The Holidays is a virtual live theatrical concert that will take place at 8 p.m. EST on Saturday, Dec. 12. The event  traces the evolution of Doo Wop from the classic sound of five guys singing tight harmonies on a street corner to songs of today. Audience members will hear old-school holiday classics such as The Drifters’ “White Christmas,” The Temptations’ “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,” Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons’ version of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” along with “Doowopified” contemporary hits like “This Christmas” and “Last Christmas. Audiences throughout the country have seen The Doo Wop Project. It features Tony-nominated members of Broadway’s smash hits such as Jersey Boys, Motown: The Musical, and A Bronx Tale. Tickets range from $25-$85. Purchase them by visiting www.TheDooWopProject.com. For $25 tickets, audience members can enjoy the Doo Wop holiday show from the comfort of your living room. For $55 tickets, audience members can enjoy the virtual holiday concert, receive a personalized holiday card from The Doo Wop Project, and be one of the few who step inside the sound check on Dec. 12. For $85 tickets, audience members can enjoy the virtual holiday concert, receive their personalized holiday card, get a sneak peek at the sound check on Dec. 12, and meet and greet with the guys post-show.
• Black Street Art + Black Lives Matter will focus on street art as a whole and how, by using different media, artists have been able to draw attention to imbalances within the social construct. This conversation will feature muralists, social artists and curators as they discuss the art form, its relationship with Black Lives Matter, and how street art has been an important tool used to shed light on the gross number of Black lives lost at the hands of the police. The conversation will begin at 5:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Dec. 16. Closed captioning will be provided. RSVP at https://app.mobilecause.com/e/DD19Lg?vid=ex0q2.
• This fall, with all the political upheaval and anxiety, we could think of no better way to face our country’s own creeping fascism than with the work of Wally Shawn.” Those are words from The New Group’s artistic director, Scott Elliott. Specifically, he’s referring to Evening at the Talk House and Aunt Dan and Lemon. “These two plays we revisited both investigate our complicity with political violence and repression. Our original productions of them were at very politically volatile moments (in 2003 and early 2017), and Wally’s incisive articulation of the dangers shocked and thrilled their audiences.” You can purchase $25 tickets to either reading or purchase both for $45 and save. Evening at the Talk House and Aunt Dan and Lemon will only be available with the Off Stage Access Pass beginning Monday, Nov. 30. To purchase the access pass, visit https://thenewgroup.org/access-pass/?dm_i=55PQ,CLFO,5O8ON6,1B7WG,1. Meanwhile, the link for tickets is located at https://thenewgroup.org/two-by-wallace-shawn/?dm_i=55PQ,CLFO,5O8ON6,1B7WG,1.
• A new folk-rock musical, The Ballad of Janis Matthews & The Dodo Scouts, is a love letter to the 1960s and the American family. Visionary theater artist Giancarlo Rodaz’s story follows Janis Matthews. She is a young girl who runs away to escape her broken home. On her journey, she finds herself at the center of a mystery. It forces her to question her idea of responsibility, friendship, and family. With an exciting new score from Rachel Dean, and an original book and story by Rodaz, this first of its kind scout musical challenges us to reassess our responsibilities within our families and communities. Rodaz has divided the musical into episodes. The first one premieres at 7 p.m. EDT on Saturday, Nov. 28. Watch it at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0hLRkXjIamK6miNiW_34w.
• Barrington Stage Company will present a free virtual reading of The Supadupa Kid 2: Move, the action/superhero book by Pittsfield, Mass. author Ty Allan Jackson. The reading will feature a cast of local youth and parents from the Berkshires and New York State Capital Region. The reading will begin streaming for free on Dec. 3. In Jackson’s new book, The Supadupa Kid 2: Move, The Supadupa Kid tries to take down his most wicked nemesis yet. Watch the reading at https://www.youtube.com/user/BarringtonStage.
• Join the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis for Dickens’ Holiday Classic — a special event streaming from Dec. 19-31 that draws inspiration from Charles Dickens’ own holiday custom of reading A Christmas Carol out loud for audiences from London to New  York. Tickets are $10 and are on sale. For tickets, visit https://www.guthrietheater.org/shows-and-tickets/2020-2021-season/dickens-holiday-classic.
• Actor Giles Davis portrays Frankenstein in a one-person tour-de-force performance. A video is available until Dec. 3. Stream now for $9.99 by visiting https://vimeo.com/ondemand/strazcenterfrankenstein?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Frankenstein+Streaming+Now+-+Watch+Straz+%40+Home&utm_campaign=P2-2020-11-19+Straz+at+Home+Frankenstein.
• The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival will take place online in 2021. “Due to uncertainty about the pandemic and an abundance of caution for our attendees, speakers, and volunteers, the TWFest will be held online,” the New Orleans festival announced in an e-mail. A Writer’s Retreat weekend, March 19-21, will include online writing workshops, author events, and a writing marathon. THe following weekend, March 24-28, will include festival traditions such as the Tennessee Williams tribute reading, Books and Beignets, Drummer & Smoke music events, interviews, panel discussions, culinary events, and cocktail vents. To stay up to date on all TWFestival programming announcements, visit tennesseewilliams.net. The festival’s history dates back to 1986. On that year, the first festival, a two-day event, drew about 500 attendees. However, the event quickly grew. Today, it attracts more than 10,000 attendees every year.
• If you missed the Tony award-winning performance by James Corden in One Man, Two Guvnors, you can stream the farce on all PBS-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and the PBS video app. In the comedy, Francis Henshall, a musician-turned-bodyguard, must do everything he can to keep his two guvnors apart. It’s a tricky predicament, resulting in comic mayhem. You can stream the show through Dec. 6.
• Actors will perform all 154 of Shakespeare’s Sonnets in a virtual production on the YouTube channel, “The Shows Must Go On!” The production will premiere at 2 p.m. EDT on Monday, Nov. 23 and will remain available to watch for a week. Actors featured are: Bruce Alexander, Sam Alexander, Nonzo Anosie, Annette Badland, Edward Bennett, Cicely Berry, Tilly Blackwood, David Calder, Simon Callow, Kim Cattrall, Ben Crystal, Noma Dumezweni, Katherine Ducan-Jones, Make Ebulue, Adetomiwa Edun, Kate Fleetwood, Oliver Ford Davies, Polly Frame, Stephen Fry, John Heffernan, Tunji Kasim, Simon Manyonda, Niamh McGrady, Andrew Motion, Ruth Negga, Don Paterson, Sian Phillips, Emily Plumtree, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Diana Quick, Jemma Redgrave, Simon Russell Beale, Kerry Shale, James Shapiro, Fiona Shaw, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Patrick Stewart, Jo Stone-Fewings, David Tennant, Harriet Walter, Dominic West, and Henry Wouduysen. To watch, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIBJFtJPA0.
• In the next episode of “Greatspeed” featuring Goodspeed Musicals’ greatest moments, the focus is on how the company brought Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas to life on stage. The program will include video clips from the 2009 production. The program will premiere at 7 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Nov. 25. Then, it will be available to watch anytime you want. Visit https://www.goodspeed.org/greatspeed on Nov. 25 to find the direct link to the program.
•  Broadway On Demand will stream Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, recorded live at the Southwark Playhouse, for five performances only this Thanksgiving weekend, November 26-29. The cast features Molly Lynch (Cathy) and Oli Higginson (Jamie) with musicians Elaine Ambridge, Ryan Webber, and Andy Crick. To watch, visit https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/TetlTDcAiDnh-the-last-five-years.
• Learn about My Fair Lady’s complex history and consider whether the show is a romance, or sexist — or both. Hosts will discuss this and more on a podcast, which you can access at https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e1329e4b-36ea-478d-b639-be544db23de1/episodes/d90ed49e-037d-4bb8-8143-4a5cd15cd745/audio/cfe6e223-0cc0-4c98-a1eb-6fa4f0c4fe33/default_tc.mp3.
• To celebrate the release of the original concept recording of Anne of Green Gables, Goodspeed Musicals is hosting an album launch on its website, www.goodspeed.org. The event will take place at 7 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Nov. 24. Playbill’s Felicia Fitzpatrick will lead a conversation with the show’s authors, Matte O’Brien and Matt Vinson, as well as orchestrator Justin Goldner. This is a chance to hear songs from the world premiere before it hits Goodspeed’s stage in the fall of 2021. Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L.M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children’s novel since the mid-twentieth century. Set in the late 19th century, the novel recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl, who is mistakenly sent to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way through life with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town.
• Mercury Theatre Company will present Middletown by Will Eno in a virtual production streaming on-demand from Nov. 26-29. This modern take on Thornton Wilder’s classic comedy-drama Our Town sets out on a journey — to somewhere in the middle — in search of the meaning of life. This wry, bittersweet 2010 play zooms in on the everyday existences of the citizens of Middletown. The play holds a microscope to small-town American living. At the heart of this sweet and disturbing exploration, Eno highlights our tender struggle for human connection and how we’re all looking for a little meaning in this mystery we call life, revealing universal themes of love, birth, death, loneliness, elation, forgiveness, disappointment and redemption. Audiences can purchase tickets through Mercury Theatre Company’s website portal. Prices are per household. You do not need to purchase additional tickets for family members for the show as long as everyone is sitting around the same device. You’ll receive an email from the South Euclid, Ohio-based Mercury Theatre Company with your viewing youtube.com link. Beginning at 8 a.m. EDT Nov. 26, when you’re ready, you’ll have until Nov. 29 (midnight) to watch the production after activating your link. To purchase tickets, visit https://www.mercurytheatrecompany.org/middletown-tickets.html.
• Miami-based City Theatre and Broadway Virtual will present the South Florida Virtual Streaming Premiere of Jenna and the Whale by Vanessa Garcia and Jake Cline. Following a surfing accident off the coast of Dunes Beach, Fla., Jenna awakens to find herself in the company of a young man named Jonah. He tells her that they are inside a whale’s belly, that he has been there for three years, and there is no chance of escape. However, Jenna refuses to accept this and becomes determined to free them both. Meanwhile, as members of  Jenna’s hometown worry about her fate, an unexpected visitor challenges the bonds and beliefs of this already-fractured community. The play is about life, death, and who we are in a community and as individuals. Also, it’s about things we can and cannot see, the things we know and the things we grapple to understand. City Theatre is an award-winning professional theater company founded in Miami in 1996.  It is the nation’s only theater company producing 10-minute plays and musicals year round and for all ages. Audiences will be able view the pre-recorded production between noon EST on Friday, Nov. 27 and midnight on Sunday, Nov. 29. Tickets are $10, and are available through https://eventbrite.com/e/jenna-and-the-whale-by-vanessa-garcia-and-jake-cline-tickets-129727980883.
• Playwrights Horizons commissionee David Adjmi has released Lot Six, his bracing new memoir full of insights into the creative process of building a self. Playwrights Horizons Artistic Director Adam Greenfield will lead a virtual conversation with David, including readings by Obie winner Marin Ireland, at 6:30 p.m. EDT on Dec. 10. To register for free, visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJNCs-Tpz5TXeoB3eZCfWKHPsYUCxPl3tkbV7UAax8V9trDw/viewform.
• American Conservatory Theater Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon will host “Virtually Speaking,” a new series of in-depth conversations with prominent icons of the industry. First up, MacKinnon chats with four-time Academy Award nominee and A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts alum, Annette Bening at 9 p.m. EST on Nov. 20, and another acclaimed artist to be announced (April 16, 2021). Additional conversations will be announced at a later date. The conversation with Bening will be captured live on Nov. 20, and remain available on- demand from Dec. 4 through June 30, 2021. Tickets are $10 and you can purchase them at https://secure.act-sf.org/virtuallyspeaking/annettebening.
• WAM Theatre in the Berkshires will stream The Thanksgiving Play from Nov. 19-22. In this fast-paced, 90-minute satire by MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation), good intentions collide with absurd assumptions. Specifically, a troupe of white Liberal teaching artists scramble to devise a grade school theatre performance that somehow manages to celebrate Turkey Day, while also honoring Native American Heritage Month. WAM Theatre is connected with The Mohican Tribe, traditional stewards of the land on which the company resides. Tribe members will provide an introduction and cultural context to the play. As part of WAM’s ongoing anti-racism and reparations work and using  art as activism, WAM will donate to the Mohican tribe. If you wish to make a donation, visit https://secure.transaxgateway.com/HostedPaymentForm/HostedPaymentPage2.aspx?hash=rDcMs2%2BVA2HvD2t4bFBwTkSoSzvBTMP5eU0Cs4K74zE%3D. The Thanksgiving Play will stream from 7:30 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 19 through 7:29 p.m. EST Sunday, Nov. 22. Tickets range from $15 to $100. To buy tickets, visit https://www.wamtheatre.com/buy-tickets-to-ttp or call (413) 274-8122. “As with all WAM productions, the higher ticket price you are able to select the more tickets we will be able to subsidize, the more artists we can hire, and the more impact we can have with our mission into the future,” company officials wrote on its website. “If more than one person is going to watch this stream, we hope you will consider one of the higher ticket choices.”
• The Hip Hop Nutcracker is a holiday mash-up for the whole family. It’s a joyful, contemporary dance spectacle set to Tchaikovsky’s timeless music. You can enjoy this family holiday favorite streamed to you in the comfort of your home. Tickets are $20 and $50. To purchase tickets, visit https://www.stellartickets.com/events/hhn-and-adrienne-arsht-center/the-hip-hop-nutcracker-miami/occurrences/584986e8-d297-4667-b6da-38c7504650ff.
• Audiences worldwide have less than a week remaining to stream Utopia, a wildly-inventive premiere from Obie Award-winning playwright Charles L. Mee, presented by San Francisco’s Cutting Ball Theater. The show incorporates vivid contemporary dance and animated artworks. And the piece explores the question “how do you make a life?” from the perspective of a 9-year-old girl in a café, observing the divergent paths of fellow diners and passers-by while wrestling with the promise of her future. A cast of nine diverse and multi-talented actors, plus a bevy of dancers, performs in the show. It celebrates the power of community and a commitment to promoting hope and positivity in an environment of scarcity. The show is streaming on demand now through Nov. 15 at CuttingBall.com. Tickets are $30 per household, with a low-income discount available. For information, or to order tickets, visit cuttingball.com or call (415) 525-1205. With the purchase of digital access, audience members receive a seven-day window to experience Utopia. To provide greater access, versions are available with captions, ASL interpretation, and audio descriptions.
• Cirque du Soleil, a Montreal-based entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world, is offering the “O Show” for free. The link to watch is https://arteconcert-a.akamaihd.net/am/concert/076000/076600/076634-000-A_SQ_0_VOA-STA_03416125_MP4-2200_AMM-CONCERT-NEXT_syEh1Kq24F.mp4.
• Through Nov. 15, watch Lessons in Survival. More than 40 theatre artists have come together to investigate the words of trailblazing artists and activists who survived and created in times of revolution in the U.S. Actors channel these historic conversations, interviews and speeches by listening to original broadcasts on an in-ear feed and speaking exactly what they hear. Book Your tickets now to eight episodes and four open rehearsals at https://www.vineyardtheatre.org/lessons-in-survival.
• The New York City-based Irish Repertory Theatre is hosting a two-part series titled A Beggar Upon Horseback/A Beggar on Foot. Part one will start at 7 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 9. It will feature a dramatic reading of Frederick Douglass’s “Letter From Belfast,” followed by a panel discussion. The conversation will explore the complexity of Black and Irish interactions in the American experience. While the live event will take place at 7 p.m. ET, it will remain available to watch afterward on demand on Irish Repertory Theatre’s YouTube channel. Tune in again at 2 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Nov. 10 for A Beggar on Foot: Creating Change in Irish Arts. The second day of discussion will center on the role of Irish cultural institutions in the push for racial equity. Each event will end with a Q&A. Ask your question in the live chat during the event. To watch Monday’s event, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyfRt1JrkNQ&feature=youtu.be. To watch Tuesday’s stream, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNlODDO6ihY&feature=youtu.be. While the events are free, the theater suggests a donation of $10 per viewer. To donate to the Equal Justice Initiative, visit https://support.eji.org/give/153413/#!/donation/checkout.
• Actress Tina Fey, who received a Tony nomination for her work in Mean Girls, will host One Night Only: The Best of Broadway. It will air at 8 p.m. EDT on Dec. 10 on NBC. The program’s purpose is to celebrate the resilient Broadway community.  The two-hour special will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity FIghts AIDS. Cast members from several Broadway productions will take over the streets of Manhattan with special performances. The cast members represent shows such as Ain’t Too Proud -The Life and Times of The Temptations, Chicago, Jagged Little Pill, Diana: The Musical, Jersey Boys, Mean Girls, and Rent. In addition, the cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will make an appearance. Further, audiences will get a sneak peek at shows scheduled to arrive next year. Donations during the telecast will benefit Broadway Cares to provide groceries, medicine, health care, and emergency financial help to those in the Broadway community struggling through the pandemic. NBCUniversal is also donating to Broadway Cares. If you wish to donate, visit BroadwayCares.org.
• Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will kick of the holidays with a benefit stream of Matthew Lombardo’s play Who’s Holiday! The production will run free online from Dec. 11-15. The show focuses on a middle-aged woman who lives in a trailer. As she prepares to host a Christmas Eve party, she recounts the fateful night that she met the Grinch, and the turn of events that her life has taken over the past 40 years. Watch the free one-hour stream beginning at 8 p.m. EST on Friday, Dec. 11 at https://broadwaycares.org/pre-event/whosholiday.The performance will be available through Dec. 15.
• Chicago Shakespeare Theatre will offer a free stream of Peter Pan – A Musical Adventure, filmed live in 2018. The on-demand video will be available worldwide from Dec. 19-Jan. 1. Peter Pan — A Musical Adventure features a score by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, with a script by Elliot Davis, based on the original book by Willis Hall. For more information, visit https://www.chicagoshakes.com/plays_and_events/explore_season/peterpan.
• For the first time in nearly 10 months, the Broadway cast of the 15-time Tony Award-Nominated Jagged Little Pill is reuniting for a live concert in New York City, directed by Tony winner Diane Paulus. Watch on your Smart TV, computer, or streaming device at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday, Dec. 13. For tickets, visit https://www.stellartickets.com/events/jagged-little-pill-on-broadway/jagged-live-in-nyc-a-broadway-reunion-concert?aff=theatermania.
• Felicia Curry reprises her role in Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical in a specially recorded version of the song “My House.” Watch the video by visiting https://www.olneytheatre.org/about-us/blog/olney-revisited-felicia-curry?utm_source=email&utm_medium=House&utm_campaign=VOTW&utm_content=banner.
• Rockers On Broadway: Band Together is a benefit concert honoring performer Billy Porter. It will take place at 7:30 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 9 (Red Carpet starts at 7 p.m.). Pre-order at https://livestream.broadwayondemand.com/rockers.
• Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage will participate in a 45-minute virtual conversation with Palm Beach Dramaworks at 7:30 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 9. If you’d like to ask Nottage a question via Zoom, email your question to info@palmbeachdramaworks.org no later than 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Nov. 5. A staff member will call you between noon on Friday, Nov. 6 and Monday, Nov. 9 to inform you if your question has been selected and provide you with instructions. Also, to reserve your free ticket to the conversation, visit palmbeachdramaworks.org, or call the box office at (561) 514-4042, ext. 2.
• Shakespeare is coming to “The Shows Must Go On!” YouTube channel. It will showcase classic Shakespeare plays – and shows inspired by the legend – on Mondays throughout November, available for 7 days. The first offering, Being Shakespeare, is available through Monday, Nov. 9. Featuring a tour de force performance from Simon Callow, Being Shakespeare is a one-man show about the life and work of the world’s greatest playwright. Next up is Richard II.  This history play is based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377-1399). The production will premiere at 2 p.m. ET Monday, and will be available to watch for a week. “Deborah Warner’s staging of Richard II with Fiona Shaw as the king stirred up a significant critical controversy when it was presented in 1995 at the National Theatre, and then later in Salzburg and Paris,” reads an introduction on the channel. “Among those who recognised its originality and strengths was the critic Paul Taylor who praised the ‘gripping, lucidly felt production’ and Fiona Shaw’s ‘dazzlingly disconcerting… deliberately uncomfortable, compelling performance.’” For the screen version, Deborah Warner and production designer Hildegard Bechtler re-imagined Richard II as an innovative drama that was shot over a fortnight using film techniques. Playing alongside Fiona Shaw is a distinguished cast including Donald Sinden (Duke of York), Richard Bremmer (Henry Bolingbroke), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Duke of Aumerle), Kevin McKidd (Harry Percy) and Paola Dionisotti (Duchess of York).
• Goodspeed Musicals will feature its 2016 production of Anything Goes for the upcoming episode of “Greatspeed.” Two de-lovely divas, Rashidra Scott (Reno Sweeney) and choreographer Kelli Barclay, will chat about Anything Goes and share some favorite video clips from Goodspeed’s production. You’ll be able to watch this replay between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Nov. 10
• In The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs, playwright Ana Caro presents a witty critique of society through the story of Leonor. She’s a woman who sets out to find her one-time lover (Don Juan, naturally) and bring him to justice. Red Bull Theater Company will rpresent a benefit reading at 7:30 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 16. Tickets are available by visiting www.redbulltheater.com. While the play will premiere on Nov. 16, a recording will be available until 7 p.m EST on Friday, Nov. 20.
• Be among the very first to learn about Signature Theatre’s next season, and hear from writers about some new, exciting SigSpace programming. The announcement about the next season will take place at 6 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Nov. 17. This one-time-only event will not be recorded or available afterward. To RSVP, visit https://signaturetheatre.org/shows-and-events/Featured-Events/Signature-Connect.aspx?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MKTG%3A11052020SignatureNewsletter&utm_content=version_A&sourceNumber=11806.
• While the Black experienced helped to shape American theater, audiences have not heard the Black voice equally on Broadway. Black Perspectives on the Great White Way will capture the spirit of a Harlem Renaissance salon. Specifically, Black leaders, intellectuals, activists, artists, educators, and business owners will come together to discuss matters impacting the Black community. Watch the program at 5:30 p.m. EDT on Nov. 18 on Zoom. RSVP at app.mobilecause.com.
• A new concert featuring jazz luminaries, a talks series, dance, and more begins at 1 p.m. ET on Nov. 22 with a screening of James ERskine’s new documentary film, Billie. A conversation with the director will follow. The event is free to “Insider” readers. Register at https://www.92y.org/event/billie-holiday?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=Email_92YInsider_110820&utm_campaign=92YInsider_110820&mcSID=356244.
• An intimate musical which follows two New Yorkers and their five year relationship using a unique form of storytelling will stream from Thursday, Nov. 26 through Sunday, Nov. 29. The musical is The Last Five Years, which Jason Robert Brown wrote and composed.  Pre-order at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/TetlTDcAiDnh-the-last-five-years  for On Demand access available from 7 p.m. ET on Thursday, Nov. 26 through Sunday, Nov. 29.
• Celebrate the 17th anniversary of Wicked’s opening on Broadway with Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Award winner Stephen Schwartz as he chats with esteemed Broadway musical director and host of “The Hook,” Andy Einhorn. To subscribe to Broadway on Demand to watch the program, visit www.broadwayondemand.com.
• Time Stands Still is Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies’ play about a photojournalist and a foreign correspondent trying to find happiness in a world that seems to have gone crazy. Laura Linney, Alicia Silverstone, Eric Bogosian, and Brian d’Arcy James return to the roles they originated on Broadway. Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan will return to direct them. Purchasers will receive a streaming link four hours before the performance on Dec. 3. The play will premiere at 8 p.m. EST on Dec. 3. Then, it will become available to watch on demand for a 72-hour window. Get tickets at  https://www.todaytix.com/x/nyc/shows/22428-time-stands-still.
• RemarkaBULL Podversations are informal, livestreamed conversations that investigate approaches to essential passages from the Shakespearean and Jacobean canon―and beyond. At 7:30 p.m. EST on Monday, Dec. 7, Tony Award-winning (and seven-time nominated) director Daniel Sullivan will join host Nathan Winkelstein, Red Bull Theatre’s Associate Artistic Director, for a conversation focused on the ‘Tent Scene’ from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. They’ll read passages from the scene and discuss subtext, character, and friendship in Shakespeare. Get free tickets at https://www.redbulltheater.com/daniel-sullivan-podversation.
• Innocent Dreams is a one act radio play available on all podcast platforms. The show tells the true story of Davontae Sanford. He was arrested at 14 and wrongfully convicted for a quadruple homicide. Innocent Dreams is named after Davontae’s non-profit organization and tells his story of exoneration through interviews, found texts and poetry. Listen and donate, if you wish, at https://linktr.ee/InnocentDreams.
• The new cast recording of the Olivier-nominated West End revival of Mary Poppins is available to stream. Pre-order at https://marypoppins.lnk.to/2020LiveCastRecording.
• This holiday season, stream the first virtual presentation of music from The Night Before Christmas: In Concert by Minnesota’s three-time Grammy Award-winning international music sensation Sounds of Blackness. Songs from this family-friendly holiday favorite will be performed in a concert-style format, with music in styles ranging from R&B & hip hop, to jazz, blues, and gospel, in a contemporary adaptation of the beloved holiday classic poem A Visit from St. Nicholas. Sounds of Blackness holiday favorite hits “Joy of Christmas” & “Soul Holidays” are featured, along with arrangements of classic carols like “Silent Night” & “O Come, All Ye Faithful.” Pre-order for On-Demand access available from Dec. 19-31 at https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/HtwKL78j8lVW-the-night-before-christmas-in-concert–the-ordway.
• Kristin Chenoweth, Emma Roberts, Andrew Bachelor, and Luke Bracey star in Holidate, a festive rom-com. In the play, two strangers pledge to be each other’s “holidate” for every festive occasion in the year ahead to evade judgment from their meddling families. Watch Holidate on Netflix.
• Heidi Schreck’s Tony-nominated play, What the Constitution Means to Me, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video. The author, when she was 15, earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In the play, Heidi resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives. To watch, visit https://www.amazon.com/What-Constitution-Means-Me-Official/dp/B08KRNSLB6/ref=as_li_ss_tl?crid=3MZDZ4ED3J45I&dchild=1&keywords=what+the+constitution+means+to+me+video&qid=1603382362&sprefix=what+the+con,aps,140&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=theatermani02-20&linkId=000a47e878f6d165040fe021eef98010&language=en_US
• The original cast recording of the new musical In The Green is available to download or stream. The show tells the tale of two women and the journey that leads one to embrace death, and the other to celebrate the beauty and blemishes of a fully-lived life. More specifically, the musical tells the origin story of one of Medieval history’s most powerful and creative women: Hildegard von Bingen. Before she became a healer, a composer, an exorcist, and finally a saint, she was a little girl locked in a cell with her mentor, Jutta.
  The Original Cast Recording is available digitally through Ghostlight Records. Download or stream on your favorite platform now. You can also listen at https://ghostlightrecords.lnk.to/inthegreen?utm_source=delivra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=IN%20THE%20GREEN%20-%20album%20release%20to%20public&utm_id=40319575&utm_term=Listen+Now.
• Experience a special Ain’t Too Proud event featuring musical performances and a conversation moderated by Whoopi Goldberg, and featuring The Temptations founder Otis Williams, Tony-nominated book writer Dominique Morisseau, and members of the Broadway cast of Ain’t Too Proud. To watch, visit  https://www.ainttooproudmusical.com/amex/?utm_source=telecharge&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blast2&dlv-emuid=5bc2aa78-f3bf-4707-af84-c6ca808c490d&dlv-mlid=40318821. The musical tells The Temptations’ story.
• The secret behind history’s most famous monster comes alive in Mother of Frankenstein: An Immersive Theatre Experience for your Home. It is a story-driven gaming experience for 1-6 adventurous players, ages 13+. Combining the riveting fantasies found in the Frankenstein classic, Mother of Frankenstein takes a collaborative puzzle approach to help you unlock the secret of the Shelley family legacy.  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hatchescapes/mother-of-frankenstein?ref=9pqlop.
• Jay Records is planning to release a studio cast album of the Stephen Sondheim-Arthur Laurents musical Anyone Can Whistle on Dec. 4. The show tells the tale of a town in an economic depression and the fake miracle the town’s corrupt mayor makes up in order to draw tourists. Pre-release orders for the album opened recently. All pre-orders will shop before the Dec. 4. release. To pre-order, visit https://www.jayrecords.com/recording/anyone-can-whistle/
• Broward Center for the Performing Arts’ virtual Broadway concert is available online to watch. The link is https://vimeo.com/465919576/12a4144b55?spMailingID=6168717&spUserID=MjAyMDY0OTE5NTE0S0&spJobID=1120608993&spReportId=MTEyMDYwODk5MwS2.
• Great Lakes Theatre in Cleveland is spotlighting offstage artists who are integral to productions — directors and designers. Online, you can see examples of their work, and listen to streaming audio from recent Director’s Night pre-show discussions. For instance, you can pick up some insider info about the original design process for Great Lakes Theatre’s annual production of A Christmas Carol. Also, you can download family-friendly coloring pages from designers’ renderings. Check it all out at https://www.greatlakestheater.org/your-visit/intermission/intermission–our-designers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=https%3A//d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20201012/60/61/56/de/f48662768d9486543eb60515_1236x184.gif&utm_campaign=Intermission%3A%20Designers%20-%20Week%204.
• Netflix has announced the premiere date for its starry screen adaptation of August Wilson’s play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. The cast includes Tony Award winner Viola Davis in the title role, alongside Tony nominee Colman Domingo, Michael Potts, Emmy Award-winner Glynn Turman and the late Chadwick Boseman. Among other works, the late playwright Wilson wrote a series of 10 plays, one for each decade of the 20th century. Each play chronicles the African American experience during its respective decade. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is set in the 1920’s in Chicago. The play deals with issues of race, art, religion and the historic exploitation of black recording artists by white producers. The play’s title comes from Ma Rainey’s song of the same name, which refers to the Black Bottom dance. Rainey, whose life as a well-known blues singer of the 1920s is an inspiration for the play, is also the titular character. To see some of the shots Netflix just released ahead of the film’s premiere on Dec. 18, visit https://www.broadway.com/buzz/199966/heres-a-first-look-at-viola-davis-chadwick-boseman-more-in-ma-raineys-black-bottom/?utm_campaign=BAA%20NAT%20Intermission%20Newsletter-%2010%2F04%2F20&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elqTrackId=AF056EDEE7F34B66FDA8B6C224C89F20&elq=a02a912439b749338c06f71d8b619818&elqaid=14767&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=13080. To watch the official trailer, visit https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/watch-a-trailer-for-ma-raineys-black-bottom-starri_91554.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=22oct2020.
• This past Yom Kippur, Central Synagogue in New York City hosted Jewish Women’s Theater for a performance of True Colors, a theatrical reading featuring stories by Jews of Color that explores questions of Jewish identity and community today. You can watch the reading at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv3vxHhz3gY.
• Roundabout Theatre Company will join more than 100 theaters across the country to present Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s new audio adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here. The piece is a semi-satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling against the fascist regime of President Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip. He resembles Gerald B. Winrod, the Kansas evangelist whose far-right views earned him the nickname “The Jayhawk Nazi.” The story serves as a warning that political movements akin to Nazism can come to power in countries such as the United States when people blindly support their leaders. Join the national listening party at 8 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Oct. 13. Oscar nominee David Strathairn leads the cast as a journalist fighting to save the America he knows from a monomaniacal leader. A live Q&A session with the creative team will take place following the broadcast. The production will be available on demand through Nov. 8. To watch the show, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-mWMBUNy-0&feature=emb_title. Visit Roundabout’s toolkit to get ready to listen. You can check out the production program, watch a TheatreTalk, and find more in the Study Guide about the novel and play. The toolkit is available at https://www.roundabouttheatre.org/get-tickets/2020/it-cant-happen-here?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ERE-mktg-ICHH-Blast-10%2F13&utm_content=version_A&cluid=1837691%3D59458. Also, you can interact with  theatre fans across America as Roundabout hosts two national community conversations.  One will take place at 2 p.m. ET Sunday, Oct. 25 and the other at 5 p.m. the same day. Register and learn more at https://www.roundabouttheatre.org/get-tickets/2020/it-cant-happen-here?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ERE-mktg-ICHH-Blast-10%2F13&utm_content=version_A&cluid=1837691%3D59458.
• Join The Musical Theater Project at 7 p.m. ET Thursday, Oct. 29 on Zoom for a Live streamed post-film discussion of Road to Morocco. First, watch artistic director Bill Rudman’s introduction at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8GwVCspITk&feature=youtu.be. Then, watch the film. The link for the discussion is https://zoom.us/j/98060526330?pwd=eFBjVTBvZnVMT0pmUisyT0M4bHBXUT09. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope star as two carefree castaways on a desert shore.They find an Arabian Nights city where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar (Dorothy Lamour) and must contend with a villain played by Anthony Quinn.
• At the Global Brain Health Institute, Josh Kornbluth immersed himself in the study of brain disease and wondered if society was suffering from political dementia. The discovery of the “empathy circuit” in the brain might be the cure. Can a neurotic storyteller, who flunked every science class, spark a science-based revolution of empathy? This is the question posed by the play Citizen Brain, which California-based theater company Shotgun Players is about to perform. The production kicks off at 10 p.m. ET Friday, Oct. 16 and runs through 8 p.m. ET Sunday, Nov. 8. For tickets, visit https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=citizen-brain&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=
• The Public Theater continues an election night tradition with Public Forum: WE THE PEOPLE. It’s a pre-election night celebration of community, solidarity and hope, directed by Will Davis and featuring Tony Award nominee Adrienne Warren. Through testimony, video postcards, music, and poetry, Public Forum: WE THE PEOPLE will connect the hearts and minds of communities across the country in the spirit of resilience and resistance. RSVP at https://publictheater.org/productions/season/fall-2020/a-pre-election-night-public-forum-we-the-people/?src=99374.
• Perspectives on Playwrighting introduces participants to the processes and purposes of creating theater, as told by the artists themselves. Join Playwrights Horizons for three new classes. They are free, on YouTube on the following Mondays at 7 p.m. ET. Oct. 26 will feature choreographer Raja Feather Kelly. Then, Nov. 8 will feature playwright Jaclyn Backhaus, and Nov. 16 will feature author Heather Christian. Sign up for one, two, or all three of these master classes at https://www.playwrightshorizons.org/about/programs/perspectives/?utm_source=Playwrights+Horizons+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=40a6b01182-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_10_08_05_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_14340f4761-40a6b01182-83135101.
• Atlantic Theater Company is reuniting the original casts and creative teams of its award-winning productions of Skeleton Crew and Guards at the Taj for an exclusive virtual remounting. The dates for Skeleton Crew are Oct. 22-24, while Guards at the Taj is slated for Nov. 5-7. Book tickets for Skeleton Crew at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/34237?utm_source=ATLANTIC+THEATER+COMPANY+E-LIST&utm_campaign=d581fc57cb-This+Girl+Laughs+Extends%21_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_30f274d727-d581fc57cb-72911997. For Guards at the Taj, tickets are available at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/34237/1604203200000?utm_source=ATLANTIC+THEATER+COMPANY+E-LIST&utm_campaign=d581fc57cb-This+Girl+Laughs+Extends%21_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_30f274d727-d581fc57cb-72911997. Skeleton Crew takes place at the start of the Great Recession. One of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky ground. Each worker needs to make choices on how to move forward if their plant goes under. Meanwhile, in Guards at the Taj, the time period is 1648 in India. The dawn will reveal for the first time the extraordinary beauty of the Taj Mahal, built as a tribute to the ruler’s wife, who demanded its construction. But for two hapless imperial guards, the morning light brings with it an impossible task that will shake their faith in God, the empire and their lifelong friendship.
• Ft. Lauderdale-based Slow Burn Theatre Company will host a virtual Fireside Gala as a fundraising event. Participants will “gather around the fire’ to share stories, songs, and s’mores to rekindle the flame so it can continue to burn bright. The event will take place at 7 p.m. EST on Saturday, Nov. 14. The event will include an online silent auction from Friday, Nov. 6 through Sunday, Nov. 15. Shortly before the auction opens, you will receive a link to bid on getaways, restaurant packages, and more. Register for free at https://slowburntheatre.z2systems.com/np/clients/slowburntheatre/event.jsp?event=16&mc_cid=19c4a808f6&mc_eid=b80daa2ba2.
• When justice fails us, we all do time. From his childhood friend to a dude he’s never met, Curtis’ life sentence has been placed on us all. Who gets exonerated? Whose appeal is heard? And who chooses solitary confinement? Inspired by a true story, Retreat’s concrete walls and barbed wire fencing infest the prison of our minds, of our reactive life choices, and our inability to live free. The National Black Theatre will present Retreat virtually from Nov. 19-22. For ticket information, visit https://www.nationalblacktheatre.org/retreat?utm_source=General+Subscribers&utm_campaign=bc1409adb8-CD_E_blast_1_16_2018_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1ff8f6eaa6-bc1409adb8-66497532&ct=t(Y_COPY_01)
• A music video and program about how the pandemic has impacted the theater community is available to view. The Theatre Will Survive features interviews with Broadway notables. They present poignant, funny, and illuminating insights about this pivotal time and theater’s importance. The video features appearances by  Christine Andreas, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Christina Bianco, Chuck Cooper, Robert Cuccioli, Marc delaCruz, George Dvorsky, Anita Gillette, Jason Graae, Ann Harada, Leah Hocking, Richard Jay-Alexander, Judy Kaye, Jeff Keller, Eddie Korbich, Michael McCormick, N’Kenge, Barry Pearl, Gabriella Pizzolo, Stephanie Pope, Faith Prince, Courtney Reed, T. Oliver Reid, Steve Rosen, Jennifer Sanchez, Analise Scarpaci, Tony Sheldon, Ryan Silverman, and Paulo Szot. Log onto https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theatrewillsurvive. On that website, for $20, you can purchase the right to stream and download the program anytime. Proceeds will go to The Actors Fund. Its aim is to fosters stability and resiliency, as well as to provide a safety net for performing arts and entertainment professionals over their lifespan.
• If you think you’re an expert when it comes to presidential references in theater, here is your chance to prove it. A quiz, along with some helpful dates in connection with this year’s election, is all available at https://www.attpac.org/news/2020/09/presidential-drama/?sourceNumber=38705&utm_source=Mail2&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=DEBUT+%e2%80%93+September+2020. Once you arrive on that page, though, don’t scroll too far down! The answers are immediately below the questions. No peeking, please!
• Do you want to take a private singing lesson from Broadway star Idina Menzel? To have that chance, support one of her favorite organizations, Roundabout Theatre Company, and you’ll enter into a drawing for that lesson. Menzel will share some of her best tips and secrets. If stage fright is a concern, “we can just out, and I’ll share some of my favorite Broadway moments,” she wrote in a letter introducing the contest. “I can’t wait to meet you!” To enter the contest, visit https://www.prizeo.com/campaigns/labeled/Idina-Menzel/Vocal-Lessons-with-Idina-Menzel?utm_source=Prizeo&utm_campaign=58e8ca5dd0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_09_23_05_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_44c1a7a79d-58e8ca5dd0-128130785&mc_cid=58e8ca5dd0&mc_eid=ba61f610e7. Roundabout Theatre Company’s mission is to celebrate “the power of theatre by spotlighting classics from the past, cultivating new works of the present and educating minds for the future,” according to its website at https://www.roundabouttheatre.org.
•  St. Ann’s Warehouse will stream Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Shakespeare trilogy. Julius Caesar will run Oct. 9-15, Henry IV will air Oct. 16-22, and The Tempest will run Oct. 23-29′. You can also see the trilogy over the course of one marathon weekend, Oct. 30-Nov. 1. For tickets and more information, visit https://stannswarehouse.org/show/donmar-trilogy.
• Great Lakes Theater’s first virtual cabaret will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24. The Cleveland theater company’s artists will sing Broadway showstoppers and more. Purchase tickets at https://www.greatlakestheater.org/calendar/2020/10/24/ghost-light?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Purchase%20Tickets%20Online&utm_campaign=Ghost%20Light%20Cabaret_initial%20email_Take%202.
• Barrington Stage Company’s Playwright Mentoring Project (PMP) is a virtual theater program for youngsters ages 13–19 who have stories to share and things to say. Groups will meet virtually once a week from October–April. No prior theater experience is required. Your group will create and perform an original play based on stories and experiences from your own lives. A stipend will be paid to those who participate.
  The theater company is recruiting participants for PMP for the 2020–2021 school year. PMP will be held once a week from Oct. 19, 2020 – April 16, 2021. The groups will not meet on school holidays. To sign up as a participant, visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2SloeA1LLrajbW1kSOQq4b1MID9rQW5m8W3FpxLtM8fjKPg/viewform. The theater is also recruiting mentors. To sign up for a mentor information session from 6-7 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 16, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcud-mgrz4rE9ezpPkmQn8sagjxyKXIkuFO. Barrington Stage Company is a regional theater company in The Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.
• For the 56th year, the Henry Hewes Foundation for the Arts has named recipients in recognition of outstanding design work on Broadway, off Broadway and off-off Broadway. This year the categories Sound Design and Media Design have been added to the Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Notable Effects categories. The 2020 Honorees include Paul Steinberg (Scenic Design), Anita Yavich (Costumes), Isabella Byrd (Lighting) and Nikiya Mathis (Hair and Wigs). In the new categories, the winners are Justin Ellington (Sound) and Hannah Wasileski (Media). ATCA’s Jeffrey Eric Jenkins, who chairs the Hewes Award Committee, made the announcement.
• While Ft. Lauderdale-based New City Players has cancelled live productions through the end of 2020, the company has posted a series of virtual plays online. To view them, visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCefgiOMkWUkRUHLw7b9Xh4w/videos.
• Virtually meet Whoopi Goldberg. Virtually meet Tony Award-winning Broadway actor Nathan Lane. Take a voice lesson from Broadway superstar Kelli O’Hara. These scenarios might seem like wishful dreams, but they can come true if you out-bid others on Roundabout Theatre Company’s virtual auction. Read about the opportunities and their current bids online at https://www.charitybuzz.com/theme/RoundaboutTheatre/lots?sort_direction=asc&sort_by=close_date&exclude_filter_if_no_result=true.
• Due to the pandemic, the Miami Lakes-based Main Street Players board has decided not to produce any plays until 2021. “We look forward to welcoming our beloved audiences back to the playhouse when things are safer,” reads a staetment on the company’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/MSPlayers.
• Are you missing the prom this year? Have no fear! You will be able to view the award-winning Broadway musical comedy, The Prom on Netflix starting on Dec. 11. That is ahead of a National Tour in 2021. The musical follows four Broadway actors lamenting their days of fame, as they travel to the conservative town of Edgewater, Ind. to help a lesbian student banned from bringing her girlfriend to her high school prom. The musical made its world premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlana in  2016, and premiered on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre in October 2018. The show won a Drama Desk award for Outstanding musical, and received a Tony nomination for Best Musical.
• The National Black Theatre’s 52nd season is comprised of a series of original commissioned and digitally devised theatrical works that builds upon company’s founder and CEO Barbara Ann Teer’s “A Letter to the Future.” The upcoming season’s productions and partnerships examine how we want the future to look, how we can create it now, and who and what we’ll find there.  Primary partnerships for the fall include the voting non-profit When We All Vote and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.  Additionally, NBT is creating an open call for members of its community to submit their own Letter to the Future and participate in a time capsule to help inspire the future. To submit your response, visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnDjKmJ53hPlI-PRlWXVrRjmnUvX8d7diMTBaseYRD4bQBPQ/viewform?ct=t(Y_COPY_01). Submissions close on Dec. 31. For more information about the upcoming season’s offerings, visit https://www.nationalblacktheatre.org.
• Watch The Musical Theater Project teaching artists Mariah Burks and Bridie Srsen perform selections from the musical Ragtime. The medley’s purpose is to inspire people to raise their voices and take action in the face of racial prejudice, violence, and injustice. The link to the video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O0PNO-mM1E&feature=youtu.be. Ragtime, based on the 1975 novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow, follows three diverse families pursuing the American dream during a rapidly changing American in turn-of-the-century New York. The musical mixes real-life people with fictional characters whose lives intertwine in sometimes unexpected ways. You can also watch a discussion about working on the material from Ragtime and what it means during this moment of history. Find that video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?