This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, February 26
Gatsby A Musical concert adaptation, by Linnie Reedman & Joe Evans, directed by Reedman, featuring Jodie Steele (Daisy Buchanan), Liam Doyle (Tom Buchanan), Liam Doyle (Jay Gatsby), Joe Frost (George Wilson), Blake Patrick Anderson (Nick Carraway), Robert Grose (Theodore Woolfe), Lauren Chinery (Jordan Baker0), Oliver Mawdsley (Owl Eyes), Chanice Alexander-Burnett (Catherine), Tristan Pegg (Reporter), and Emma Williams (Myrtle Wilson), begins streaming here.
Digging in the Dark world premiere audio play, by Pearl Cleage, directed by Taylor Reynolds, featuring Rachel Christopher, Russell G. Jones, and Janelle McDermoth, begins FREE streaming at Off-Broadway’s Keen Company.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, by Richard Hough & Ben Morales Frost, directed by Charlotte Westenra, featuring Nicola Blackman, Dawn Hope, Mary Moore, Marc Pickering, Yazdan Qafouri, and David Thaxton, with Tom Bales, Ryan Pidgen, Vicki Lee Taylor, and Kayleigh Thadani, begins streaming here.
The Cherry Orchard: A New Media Workshop, directed by Igor Golyak, featuring Jessica Hecht (Ranevskaya), Anna Baryshnikov (Varya), Darya Denisova (Tramp), Jeffrey Hayenga (Fiers), Melanie Moore (Anya), Mark Nelson (Gaev), and Nael Nacer (Lopakhin), and Mikhail Baryshnikov (Anton Chekhov), begins streaming here.
Andre De Shields Is Frederick Douglass: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory event, streams for FREE at 7 PM ET here.
The Typists reading & discussion, by Murray Schisgal, directed by Austin Pendleton, featuring Michael McKean and Annette O’Toole, livestreams at 7 PM ET here.
Anne Kittredge’s Virtual Shorts concert, with special guest Steve Ross, streams for FREE at 5 PM ET here.
Talkin’ to this Chick Sippin’ Magic Potion, by James Anthony Tyler, directed by Awoye Timpo, featuring Mateo Ferro (Rubén Zorrilla, Jr), Miriam A. Hyman (Shelba Bathson), Sheria Irving (Jornay Nelson), Julies Latimer (Tiffany Nelson), and Darius McCall (Steve Nelson), concludes streaming at TheaterWorks Hartford.
Saturday, February 27
Upon These Shoulders benefit concert, featuring Whoopi Goldberg, André De Shields, Wynton Marsalis, George Faison, Ahmad Simmons, Aisha Jackson, Anastacia McCleskey, Ari Groover, Bebe Winans, Brandon Victor Dixon, Brittney Johnson, Bryonha Parham, Camille A. Brown, Carly Hughes, Charles Randolph-Wright, Christina Sajous, Daniel J. Watts, DJ Duggz, Harry Lennix, Khaila Wilcoxon, Kimberly Marable, Lilli Cooper, Malcolm Armwood, Marisha Wallace, Lori Lightfoot (Mayor of Chicago), Muriel Bowser (Mayor of Washington, DC), Marlies Yearby, Merle Dandridge, Michael R. Jackson, Nathan Lee Graham, Nick Rashad Burroughs, Norm Lewis, Paul Tazewell, Phillip Boykin, Raja Feather Kelly, Savion Glover, Shereen Pimentel, Stephanie Umoh, Tamika Lawrence, Titus Burgess, Tracee Beazer Barrett, Tramaine Gray, and Valisia LeKae, begins streaming at 8 PM ET here.
Broadway Proflies with Tamsen Fadal talk show, with special guests Annaleigh Ashford, Jeremy Jordan, Laura Bell Bundy, Sonya Tayeh, and Tom Kitt, begins streaming for FREE here.
Dreamgirls in concert, featuring Marisha Wallace, Raena White, Alex Newell, Jelani Remy, Nick Rashad Burroughs, Christina Raé, Tickwanya Jones, Angel White, Liyah Orielle, Gerald Caesar and many more, livestreams at 3 & 7 PM ET here.
Chicken and Biscuits benefit reading, by Douglas Lyons, directed by Zhailon Levingston, featuring Carly Hughes (Brianna), Michael Urie (Logan), Janet Hubert Devere Rogers (Kenny), Danny Johnson (Reginald), Alana Raquel Bowers (Simone), Ebony Marshall-Oliver (Beverly), and Aigner Mizzelle (La’trice), livestreams at 8 PM ET here (and available on demand through Mar. 3).
Come From Away: The Concert!, directed by Christopher Ashley, featuring Rachel Tucker (Annette/Beverly Bass), David Thaxton (Garth/Kevin Tuerff), Clive Carter (Claude Elliot), Nathanael Campbell (Bob), Emma Salvo (Janice Mosher), Jonthan Andrew Hume (Ali/Kevin Jung), Mary Doherty (Bonnie Harris), Robert Hands (Doug/Nick Marson), Harry Morrison (Oz Fudge), Helen Hobson (Diane Gray), Cat Simmons (Hannah O’Routke), and Jenn Boyd (Beulah Davis), closes at London’s Phoenix Theatre.
Sunday, February 28
Dreamgirls in concert, featuring Marisha Wallace, Raena White, Alex Newell, Jelani Remy, Nick Rashad Burroughs, Christina Raé, Tickwanya Jones, Angel White, Liyah Orielle, Gerald Caesar and many more, livestreams at 1 PM ET & 7 PM ET here.
Beirut benefit reading, by Alan Bowne, directed by Will Cantler, featuring Marisa Tomei, Oscar Isaac, and Patrick Breen, streams at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater.
Freedom Riders excerpts, by Richard Allen & Taran Gray, featuring Jennifer Bell, Kevin “Blax” Burroughs, Anthony Chatmon II, Tyla Collier, Meagan Fling, Deon’te Goodman, Payson Lewis, Eboni Muse, Michael William Nigro, Ebony Pollum, Leonard Patton, Scott Redmond, Nygel Robinson, Clayton Snyder, Erin Vanderhyde, Brynn Williams, and Davon Williams, livestreams for FREE at 7 PM ET at New York Theatre Barn.
Brian Stokes Mitchell in concert, livestreams at 3 & 8 PM here.
Les Misérables — The Staged Concert, featuring Michael Ball (Javert), Alfie Boe (Jean Valjean), Carrie Hope Fletcher (Fantine), and Matt Lucas (Thénardier), and John Owen-Jones (Jean Valjean at certain performances), closes at London’s socially distanced Sondheim Theatre.
Songs for a New World, by Jason Robert Brown, directed by Séimí Campbell, featuring Ramin Karimloo (Man 2), Rachel Tucker (Woman 2), Rachel John (Woman 1), and Cedric Neal (Man 1), concludes streaming on-demand here.
Gatsby A Musical concert adaptation, by Linnie Reedman & Joe Evans, directed by Reedman, featuring Jodie Steele (Daisy Buchanan), Liam Doyle (Tom Buchanan), Liam Doyle (Jay Gatsby), Joe Frost (George Wilson), Blake Patrick Anderson (Nick Carraway), Robert Grose (Theodore Woolfe), Lauren Chinery (Jordan Baker0), Oliver Mawdsley (Owl Eyes), Chanice Alexander-Burnett (Catherine), Tristan Pegg (Reporter), and Emma Williams (Myrtle Wilson), concludes streaming here.
The Things That Are Against Us reading, by Susan Soon He Stanton, directed by Ellie Heyman, featuring Emily Davis, Susannah Flood, Babak Tafti, and Danny Wolohan, concludes FREE streaming at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater.
Broadway Proflies with Tamsen Fadal talk show, with special guests Annaleigh Ashford, Jeremy Jordan, Laura Bell Bundy, Sonya Tayeh, and Tom Kitt, concludes streaming for FREE here.
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Keenan Scott II’s Thoughts of a Colored Man will open IN PERSON in the new season (dates TBA) at the Golden Theatre, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III.
Casting TBA
Over the course of a single day in the the pulsing heart of Brooklyn, the hopes, sorrows, fears and joys of seven men reverberate far beyond the barbershops and basketball courts of their community. Vulnerable and vibrant, raw and alive. The play uses spoken word, slam poetry, and rhythm.
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Video: Stars in the House, a Game Night with the cast of the podcast “As The Curtain Rises,” featuring Dori Berinstein, James Monroe Iglehart, Andrew Barth Feldman, Bonnie Milligan, Leslie Margherita, and Alex Brightman. (1:36:36)
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Jennifer Ashley Tepper’s “The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 4” will be released on Mar. 9. 
here.
This new addition includes the Imperial Theater, Studio 54, Minskoff Theater, Friedman Theater, and the Golden Theater, as well as the 5 Broadway theaters that were destroyed in 1982, changing the course of New York City history. As with the other books, Volume 4 illuminates Broadway through the eyes of the producers, actors, stage hands, writers, musicians, company managers, dressers, designers, directors, ushers, door people and more who bring the theater to life each night.
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Musical Theatre West has announced its 2021 Virtual Benefit Concerts:
Sarah Combs & Tom Lowe (Mar. 4-14)
Terron Brooks encore broadcast (Mar. 18-28)
Cynthia Ferrer & Randy Rogel (Apr. 1-11)
Jason Graae: Perfect Hermany (Apr. 15-25)
David Burnham encore broadcast (Apr. 29 – May 9)
Anna Mintzer (May 13-23)
Celebrate Asian & Pacific Heritage (May 27 – June 6)
Grasan Kingsberry (June 10-20)
David Engel, Larry Raben & Bets Malone encore broadcast (June 24 – July 4)
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Dixie’s Happy Hour will be streamed by 22 arts centers and theatres across the country. 
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here.
Right now, the world needs a drinking buddy – and there’s no one more qualified for the job than Alabama’s favorite daughter and America’s favorite bar hopper, Dixie Longate – a gal who’s never too far away from a cocktail. Audiences spend an evening with Dixie on an uproariously raucous joyride where she share stories that prove happiness isn’t only found at the bottom of a margarita glass. It’s an uplifting story that challenges the audience to search for their personal happy hours by looking for the good in even the most complicated situations.
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A filmed version of Missy Mazzoli & Royce Vavrek’s Breaking the Waves will stream Mar. 19 – Apr. 12 at LA Opera, directed by James Darrah.
Keira Duffy, John Moore, Patricia Schuman, Eve Gigliotti, David Potillo, Zachary James, and Marcus DeLaoch.
After a near-fatal accident leaves Bess’ new husband paralyzed, he implore her to take lovers. Torn between her husband’s wishes and the traditional values of her small community and her church, she determinedly follows her faith to a tragic end.
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Milwaukee Rep will re-open with its first in-person performances of Ella Fitzerald: First Lady of Song, to run Apr. 27 – May 23.
Alexis J Roston.
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The 2021 Broadway Backwards benefit, in support of BD/EFA, will stream for free Mar. 30 – Apr. 3 here, written & directed by Robert Bartley, with music direction by Ted Arthur.
Stephanie J. Block, Deborah Cox, Lea Salonga, Matt Bomer, Darren Criss, Ariana DeBose, Robin De Jesús, Cynthia Erivo, Joshua Henry, Cherry Jones, Kelli O’Hara, Jim Parson, and more TBA.
In this virtual production, Jay Armstrong Johnson will star as an isolated New Yorker who dreams a fantastical journey guided by a late-night television host, portrayed by Jenn Colella. New performances will be merged with full numbers from previous editions of Broadway Backwards to create a Broadway Backwards that feels distinctly of the moment.
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Seldes Annacone’s “Places, Please,” directed by Michael Cristofer, will begin production this summer.
Meryl Streep, with more TBA.
Broadway star Lillian Hall, who throughout her stage career, has never missed a performance. But as her latest show, a revival of The Cherry Orchard, approaches, her resilience is questioned, and she must confront the consequences of neglecting that which she gave up.
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A worldwide encore performance of Jagged Live In NYC: A Broadway Reunion will stream Sat. Mar. 6 at 7 PM ET here, in support of RAINN, Learn to Cope, GLAAD, and Color of Change. The concert will be followed by a live Q&A.
Elizabeth Stanley, Celia Rose Gooding, Sean Allan Krill, Derek Klena, Lauren Patten, Kathryn Gallagher, Antonio Cipriano, and more TBA.
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Love Letter to Liza, a tribute marking Liza Minnelli’s 75th birthday, will stream Mar. 12-14 at 8 PM ET on Stellar.
Joel Grey, Lily Tomlin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chita Rivera, Joan Collins, Harry Connick Jr., Ben Vereen (and dancers from the Verdon-fosse Legacy, Ute Lemper, Billy Stritch, Charles Busch, Kathie Lee Gifford, lea Delaria, Jim Caruso, Jonathan Groff, Sandra Bernhard, Andrew Rannells, Nathan Lane, Mario Cantone, Tony Hale, Coco Peru, John Cameron Mitchell, Michele Lee, Andrea Martin, Seth Sikes, Neil Meron, Lorna Luft, John Kander, Michael Feinstein, Julie Halston, Melissa Manchester, Jason Alexander, Parker Posey, Kathy Griffin, Nicholas King, Kathy Najimy, Hoda Kotb, Michael York, Craig Ferguson, and Haley Swindal.
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Video: Encores! Inside the Revival of Love Life discussion, with director Victoria Clark, Artistic Director Jack Viertel, and Music Director Rob Berman, with performances by Kate Baldwin and John Edwards. (15:37)