Today’s Highlights:
Ohio State Murders filmed production, by Adrienne Kennedy, directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene, featuring Destina Huston (Iris Ann), Robert Hampshire (Shane Kenyon), Jacqueline William (Present Suzanne), Eunice Woods (Young Suzanne), Ernest Bentley (David/Val), and Dee Dee Battesast (Aunt Louise/Mrs. Tyler/Miss Dawson), begins streaming at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.
Two Player Game, starring Joe Iconis and George Salazar, opens at 54 Below.
“Hot White Heist” podcast, directed by Alan Cumming, featuring Bowen Yang, Cynthis Nixon, Jonathan Bailey, Mj Rodriguez, John Cameron Mitchel, Cheyenne Jackson, Jane Lynch, and Peppermint, with Abbi Jacobson, Margaret Cho, Bianca Del Rio, Shannon Woodward, Stephanie Beatriz, and Brian McCook. begins its first of 6 episodes on Audible.
Carol Channing online personal memorabilia auction begins at 10 AM PT here.
Romeo and Juliet, directed by Kimberly Sykes, featuring Isabel Adomakoh Yount (Juliet), Joel MacCormack (Romeo), Cavan Clarke (Mercutio), Emma Cunniffe (Nurse), Peter Hamilton Dyer (Friar Lawrence), Michelle Fox (Tybalt), Aretha Ayeh (Benvolio), Ellie Beavan (Lady Capulet), Tom Claxton (Peter), Ryan Ellsworth (Gregora/Apothacary), Irvine Iqbal (Prince Escalus), Richard Leeming (Paris), Priyank Morjaria (Sampson), Louise Mai Newberry (Lady Montague), Shadee Yaghoubi (Abraham), and Marc Zayat (Balthasar), begins previews (in person) at London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
There Goes the Neighborhood reading, by Marcus Scott, directed by Christopher Burris, featuring Phillip Gregory Burke, Oneké Cummings, Brandon Gill, Olivia Kinter, Monique Robinson, Ashley Scott, Donovan Session, and Donnell E. Smith, streams for FREE at 7 PM ET here.
Glimmer of Light live concert, in celebration of Pride 2021, featuring Alex Newell, Ariana DeBose, Jo Ellen Pellman, Marti Allen-Cummings, Max Crum, Blaine Alden Krauss, Brian Sim, DeMarius R. Copes, Ezra Menas, Legacy BQPC (Ashton Muñiz, Basit Shittu, Garret Allen &Kyle Carerrero Lopez), Jan Spot, Sis, Felicia Fitzpatrick, L. Morgan Lee, Pepperming, and Shkina Nayfack, takes place (in socially distanced pods), at 7 PM ET at Queens, NY’s Radial Park.
Dear Elizabeth virtual production, by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Kate Whoriskey, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, concludes streaming on TDF.
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Video: Stars in the House, a Guys and Dolls reunion (from the 1992 Broadway production), with special guests Nathan Lane (Nathan Detroit), Peter Gallagher (Sky Masterson), Faith Prince (Adelaide), Josie de Guzman (Sarah), Walter Bobbie (Nicely-Nicely Johnson), Ruth Williamson (General Cartwright), and director Jerry Zaks. (1:56:36).
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Freestyle Love Supreme will return to Broadway Oct. 7 – Jan. 2, 2022 at the Booth Theatre, directed by Thomas Kail.
Casting and special guests TBA.
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Torrey Townsend’s Off Broadway will stream June 24-27, directed by Robert O’Hara. The stream is free to watch, but advance email signup is requested here.
Dylan Baker, Becky Ann Baker, Jessica Frances Dukes, Jason Butler Harner, Hal Linden, Jillian Mercado, Richard Kind, and Kara Wang.
The satire is set during the pandemic theater shutdown, and follows the staff of a non-profit theater as they come together on Zoom and scramble to stave off extinction. “A scathing critique of an industry desperately trying to reinvent itself in the midst of a pandemic.”
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“Josh Swallows’ Broadway Season 2, Episode 49,” featuring Craig Carnelia, Sutton Foster, Annaleigh Ashford, and more, is now available here.
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Stephen MacDonald’s Not About Heroes, filmed in 2014) will stream June 25 at 8 PM ET here, and available for 25 hours, directed by Eliot Giuralarocca, with original music by Tom Neill.
James Howaland (Siegfried Sassoon) and Ben Ashton (Wilfred Owen).
The play chronicles the unique friendship that developed between First World War poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, from their first meeting in 1917 at Craiglockhart War Hospital, where both were being treated for “war Neurosis,” to their final meeting in August 1918, shortly before Owen’s return to active duty. The play interweaves extracts from diaries, letters, and poems to paint a vivid and moving picture of the friendship.
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Video: James Corden, Ariana Grande, and Marissa Jaret Winokur perform “No Lockdowns Anymore.” a parody of “Good Morning Baltimore (from Hairspray).
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Syracuse Stage has announced its 2021-22 season:
Eureka Day (Oct. 13-31), by Jonathan Spector, directed by Robert Hupp. An hysterical and ultimately thoughtful new comedy.
Matilda The Musical (Nov. 19 – Jan. 2, 2022), directed by Donna Drake, with choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith, and music direction by Brian Cimmet.
Yoga Play (Jan. 19 – Feb. 6), by Dipika Guha, directed by Melissa Crespo. The play ponders such questions as: is there room for authenticity in a $10 billion industry, or can lavender scented yoga pants enhance spiritual well-being?
Somewhere Over the Border (Feb. 23 – Mar. 13), by Brian Quijada. 
A recounting of the journey the playwright made from El Salvador to the U.S. in the the 1970s.
Cold Read Festival of New Plays (Mar. 14-20)
The Play That Goes Wrong (Apr. 13 – May 1)
salt/city/blues (June 8-26), world premiere by Kyle Bass, directed by Tazewell Tazewell Thompson. The heart of the play beats with the character, spirit, challenges, history and hope of the city which has inspired the playwright.
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The Book of Mormon has announced return dates for both the Broadway and London. Casting for both productions is TBA.
Broadway: Nov. 5 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre.
London: Nov. 15 at the Prince of Wales Theatre.
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“Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It” will be released June 18 in theatres, directed by Mariem Paréz Riera.
George Chakiris, Héctor Elizondo, Gloria Estefan, Tom Fontana, Morgan Freeman, Mitzi Gaynor, Whoopi Goldberg, Norman Lear, Eva Longoria, Justina Machado, Terrence McNally, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Karen Olivo.
The film chronicles Moreno from her early years in Puerto Rico through her childhood as an immigrant in New York City and the racial bias she faced in the studio system, while breaking down barriers and overcoming sexism and identity discrimination with integrity.
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Complete casting has been announced for Carousel, to run July 31 – Sept. 25 at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, directed by Joanna Bowman, with choreography by Drew McOnie, and music supervision by Tom Deering.
Carly Bawden (Julie Jordan), Declan Bennett (Billy Bigelow), Christina Modestou (Carrie Pipperidge), John Pfumojena (Enoch Snow), Joanna Riding (Nettie Fowler), Natasha May Thomas (Louise Bigelow), Brendan Charleson (Mr. Bascombe), Joe Eaton-Kent (Mrs. Mullin), Sam Mackay (Jigger Craigin), and Ediz Mahmut (Young Enoch), with Chanelle Anthony Craig Armstrong, William Atkinson, Shay Barclay, Sarah Benbelaid, Madeline Charlemagne, Freya Field, Sebastian Goffin, Amie Hibbert, Tim Hodges, Lukas Hunt, Tessa Kadler, Lindsay McAllister, Matthew McKenna, Jack Mitchell, Charlotte Riby, Lisa Ritchie, and Daisy West.
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MCC Theater has announced its 2021-22 season (dates TBA)
Nollywood Dreams (October), by Jocelyn Bioh, directed by Saheem Ali. It’s the 1990s, and in Lagos, Nigeria, the Nollywood film industry is exploding and taking the world by storm. Ayamma dreams of stardom while working at her parents’ travel agency alongside her love and celebrity-obsessed sister Dede. When Ayamma lands an audition for a new film by Gbenga Ezie, Nigeria’s hottest director, she comes head-to-head with Gbenga’s former leading lady, Fayola.
Space Dogs (Jan. 2022), by Van Hughes and Nick Blaemire. The heartbreaking, mind-blowing true story of Laika and the Chief Designer – a stray dog and the top secret Russian scientist who sent her to space during the Cold War.
Here She Is, Boys (April 2022), by Ana Nogueira, directed by Mike Donahue. The year is 2015 and Jeff and Judy are right where they’re supposed to be: waiting outside the stage door of If/Then to get an autograph from the star. But the conversation they have while waiting will change the course of their decades-long friendship forever. Warning: Beware of Tourists.
Soft (May 2022), by Donja R. Love, directed by Whitney White. Flowers are in full bloom – in Mr. Isaiah’s classroom, in the halls of the correctional boarding school where he teaches, and in the depts of his students’ imaginations. After one boy dies by suicide, Mr. Isaiah struggles to figure out how to save the Black and Brown boys he teaches from a world that tries to crush their softness.
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Video: The Avett Brothers perform “Swept Away,” the title song from their new musical.