This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, April 9
The Office! A Musical Parody, by Bob & Tobly McSmith, Assaf Gleizner, & Assaf Gleizner, directed & choreographed by Donald Garverick, featuring Emma Brock (Michael Scott), Laura Mehl (Pam), Danny Adam (Jim), Devina Sabnis (Kelly), Nathan David Smith (Dwight), Emily Qualmann (Phyllis), Gabrielle Filloux (Angela), Bob McSmith (Creed), and Kevin Bruce Harris (Stanley), with Marissa Hecker and Andy Martinez, re-opens live performances at Off-Broadway’s Jerry Orbach Theatre.
Mother’s Day reading, by Bekah Brunstetter, directed by Jennifer Chambers, featuring Debra Jo Rupp, Andy Lucien, Virginia Kull, and Edward Astor Chin, begins streaming at MA’s Barrington Stage Company.
Disenchanted!, by Dennis T. Giacino, directed by Tom Jackson Greaves, featuring Jodie Steele (Snow White), Sophie Isaacs (Cinderella), Grace Mouat (Pocahontas), Millie O’Connell (The Little Mermaid), and Shanay Holmes (The Princess Who Kissed The Frog), with Courtney Bowman, Natalie Chua, Allie Daniel, Aisha Jawando, and Jenny O’Leary, begins streaming here.
Lena Hall in concert streams on Zoom at 7 PM ET here.
A Song for You: An Evening with Darius de Haas concert streams at 8 PM ET at Bucks County Playhouse (also Apr. 10).
Saturday, April 10
Perfect Hermany: A Musical Tribute to Jerry Herman concert, starring Jason Graae, with special guests Jackie DeMuro, Kelley Dorney, Katrina Lauren McGraw, and Lauren Louise, begins streaming at San Francisco’s 42nd Street Moon.
Babette in Retreat virtual benefit production, by Justin Sayre, featuring Becca Blackwell, Nathan Lee Graham, Randy Harrison, Justin Sayre, Mary Testa, Auden Thornton, and Jack Wetherall, streams at 7 PM ET here.
A Song for You: An Evening with Darius de Haas concert streams at 8 PM ET at Bucks County Playhouse
Ute Lemper: Rendezvous With Marlene filmed production concludes streaming at Off-Broadway’s York Theatre.
Sunday, April 11
The Sound Inside, by Adam Rapp, directed by Rob Ruggiero & Pedro Bermúdez, featuring Maggie Bofill and Ephraim Birney, begins streaming on demand at TheaterWorks Hartford.
Audition Master Class (for singers & auditors), with Michael Orland and Dan Micciche, streams on Zoom at 3 PM ET here (also Apr. 18).
Tails From the Stage with Bill Berloni conversation, streams at 3 PM ET here (also Apr. 25).
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2012 Lincoln Center Theater production), by Christopher Durang, directed by Nicholas Martin, featuring David Hyde Pierce, Sigourney Weaver, Kristine Nielsen, Billy Magnussen, Shalita Grant, and Genevieve Angelson, concludes FREE on-demand streaming at Lincoln Center Theater.
Fully Committed, by Becky Mode, directed by David Saint, and starring Maulik Pancholy, concludes streaming on demand at NJ’s George Street Playhouse.
Disenchanted!, by Dennis T. Giacino, directed by Tom Jackson Greaves, featuring Jodie Steele (Snow White), Sophie Isaacs (Cinderella), Grace Mouat (Pocahontas), Millie O’Connell (The Little Mermaid), and Shanay Holmes (The Princess Who Kissed The Frog), with Courtney Bowman, Natalie Chua, Allie Daniel, Aisha Jawando, and Jenny O’Leary, concludes streaming here.
Mother’s Day reading, by Bekah Brunstetter, directed by Jennifer Chambers, featuring Debra Jo Rupp, Andy Lucien, Virginia Kull, and Edward Astor Chin, concludes streaming at MA’s Barrington Stage Company.
Scaramouche Jones or the Seven White Masks, by Justin Butcher, directed by Ian Talbot, starring Shane Richie, concludes streaming here.
Camelot concert, directed by Celine Rosenthal, featuring Britney Coleman (Guenevere), Nick Duckart (Arthur), Alex Joseph Grayson (Lancelot), John Rapson (Mordred/Sagramore), Joseph Torello (Dinadin), and Levin Valayil (Lionel/Dap/Tom), concludes streaming at FL’s Asolo Rep.
Cynthia Ferrer & Randy Rogel benefit concert, concludes streaming at Musical Theatre West.
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Video: Stars in the House, with a celebration of Nancy Rudetsky’s birthday, featuring Mandy Gonzalez, Judy Kuhn, Jack Plotnick, Randy Rainbow, Marc Shaiman and Miranda Sings. (1:40:35)
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ATC Healthcare Services has announced that vaccine pop-up site targeted at getting Broadway theater workers back on stage is set to launch next week at a new site on 47th & 7th (the former location of NFL Experience). Not only will the location help to get the industry back onstage, but it will employ 80-100 Broadway workers who have been laid off to handle administrative support tasks while clinical nurses give out the shots.
CEO Jordan Savitsky reported, “The site is officially opening on Mon. Apr. 12 with limited capacity and it will be fully up and running on Tuesday morning at 7:30 AM. We’re jumping right into it! Once we get to our peek in the next couple of weeks, we hope to be doing 1500+ doses a day. We hope to really effectively vaccinate a lot of the [theatre community] very quickly.”
How will this location compare to others? replied: “This is the Broadway show of vaccination sites. It’s a huge, beautiful space and we’re going to be able to do a tremendous about of vaccines for the community.”
How exactly will the site operate? “We’re trying to get the word out through the unions and the Actors’ Fund- the city has been working with them to try to distribute appointments to their members. That’s how we are trying to make it work initially. I don’t want to say that this site is 100% reserved for Broadway, but the focus is really to get the community up and running.”
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MA’s Barrington Stage Company has announced its 2021 season:
INDOORS:
Chester Bailey (June 18 – July 3), by Joseph Dougherty, directed by Ron Lagomarsino, featuring Reed Birney and his son Ephraim Birney. 
In a stateside hospital at the close of World War II, a young man recovers from catastrophic injuries. Or so the doctors have told him.
Eleanor (July 16 – Aug. 1), by Mark St. Germain, directed by Henry Stram, starring Harriet Harris. From her “Ugly Duckling” upbringing to her unorthodox marriage to Benjamin Franklin, Eleanor puts her controversial life, loves and passions on the stage.
Sister Sorry (Aug. 12-29), by Alec Wilkinson, directed by Richard Hamberger. Casting TBA. The play is based on the playwright’s encounters with conceptual artist in New York who maintained an answering machine on which the artist encouraged callers to confess their crimes.
A Crossing (Sept. 23 – Oct. 17), by Zoe Sarnak & Joshua Bergasse, directed & choreographed by Bergasse. This new dance musical tell the story about a group of migrants crossing the southern border.
OUTDOORS:
Who Could Ask for Anything More? The Songs of George Gershwin (June 10 – Aug. 22), directed by Julianne Boyd. Casting TBA.
Boca (July 30 – Aug. 22), world premiere by Jessica Provenz, directed by Julianne Boyd. Casting TBA. A group of retirees who, between rounds of golf, bridge, and Botox, can be found bickering, gossiping, and living it up like they’re teenagers all over again.
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The world premiere of Thoms Sutherland & Shaun McKenna’s She Loves You, based on the beloved Lennon & McCartney song catalogue, will premiere in March 2022 at Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens, directed by Thom Southerland, and featuring more than 40 of John Lennon & Paul McCartney’s songs.
Maria Lucia, and a cast of 24 TBA.
The musical revolves around a modern family and their complex and contemporary journey with love: the naïve, young, infatuating love, the long-term established love compelled by children and careers and the lifelong, enduring and ultimate love, flourishing in later life.
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Video: The Signature Show, featuring Judy Kuhn, a clip from Daniel J. Watts’ The Jam: Only Child, a performance of “I Know him so Well” with Eleasha Gamble and Jill Paice, with Jimmy Mavrikes, James Miller, Robbie Schaefer, and much more. (28:34)
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A reading of Kavin Panmeechao’s Public Heroes Commission will stream Sat. Apr. 17 at 8 PM ET at Hudson Stage Company, directed by Mark Shanahan.
Joan Almadilla and Patrick Halley, with Denise Bessette and Olivia Sklar.
Dan hasn’t had the best of luck. He’s in a dead-end job, newly divorced, and living out of cardboard boxes in a new apartment that he’s apathetic to furnish. So imagine his surprise when he is recruited by the Public Heroics Commission, the government’s top-secret superhero organization.
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Subverted, written & performed by Dominique Fishback, will be adapted into a new special by Jamie Foxx. Timeline and additional information TBA.
The play is centered around Eden, an 18-year-old girl living in the inner city, and depicts “the destruction of Black identity” as seen through her eyes.
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The 2021 Yale Drama Series Prize will be awarded to Rachel Lynett for her play Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson).
Set in the fictional world of a post-second Civil War, Bronx Bay, an all-Black state (and neighborhood) is established in order to protect “Blackness.” As Jules’ new partner, Yael, moves into town, community members argue over if Yael, who is Dominican, can stay. Questions of safety and protection surround both Jules and Yael as the utopia of Bronx Bay confronts within itself where the line is when it comes to defining who is Black and who gets left out in the process.
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BroadwayCon 2021 will livestream Apr. 17 & 18 here, in support of theatre professionals affective by the current closures.
Join some of Broadway’s favorite performers & creators as we gather online to perform, discuss, debate, and celebrate theatre. The event will feature panels, performances, interviews, met and greets, and more, all packed into an epic two-day weekend.
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Nick Payne’s Constellations will run June 18 – Sept. 12 at the Vaudeville Theatre, directed by Michael Longhurst.
In an innovative producing model, four brand new casts will take turns to journey through the multiverse exploring the infinite possibilities of a relationship, each examining the play afresh.
Sheil Atim and Ivanno Jeremiah (June 18 – Aug. 1)….. Peter Capaldi and Zoë Wanamaker (June 23 – July 24)….. Omari Douglas and Russell Tovey (July 30 – Sept. 11)….. and Anna Maxwell Martin and Chris O’Dowd Aug. – Sept. 12).
A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit if off, or perhaps they don’t. They go home together, or maybe they go their separate ways. In the multiverse, with every possible future ahead of them, a love of honey could make all the difference.