This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, July 10
* Turn Up! benefit concert, featuring Norm Lewis, Sharon D. Clarke, and Noma Dumezweni, with Clive Rowe, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Johnnie Fiore, Brenda Edwards, Zaris-Angel Hator, Aisha Jawando, Brittney Johnson, Brandi Chavonne Massey, Joe Aaron Reid, Jeannette Bayardelle, Layton Williams, Alexia Khadime, Kelly Agbowu, Melanie La Barrie, Ryan Carter, Marcus Collins, Chloë Davies, Nicole Raquel Dennis, Alexandra Grey, Cameron Bernard Jones, Claudia Kariuki, Natalie Kassanga, Vula Malinga, Sandra Marvin, Cedric Neal, Trevor Dion Nicholas, Jay Perry, Sharon Rose, Jordan Shaw, Danielle Steers, and Vinegar Strokes, streamed through July 12. 
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* Bernadette Peters: A Special Concert (filmed in 2009 at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre), a benefit for BC/EFA, streamed for FREE at 8 PM ET here.
* Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat FREE stream, featuring Donny Osmond (Joseph), Maria Friedman (Narrator), Richard Attenborough (Jacob), and Joan Collins (Mrs. Potiphar), with Ian McNeice, Robert Torti, Christopher Biggins, Alex Jennings, Nicolas Colicos, Jeff Blumenkrantz, David J. Higgins, Shaun Henson, Patrick Clancy, Martin Callaghan, Sebastien Torkia, Michael Small, Peter Challis, Nick Holmes, Gerry McIntyre, and Amanda Courtney Davies, at 2 PM ET here. (Available for 48 hrs)
* “Hamilton: History Has Its Eyes On You” discussion, with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Leslie Odom Jr., Renée Elise Goldsberry, Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson, Phillipa Soo, and Okieriete Onaodowan, who examine the musical’s impact, streams starting today on Disney+.
* “Carol Channing: True to the Red, White & Blue” (2011) released digitally here.
* “Carol Channing: For Heaven’s Sake” (2009) released on CD here.
Saturday, July 11
None.
Sunday, July 12
* Same Time, Next Year virtual benefit staged reading, by Bernard Slade, directed by Bob Balaban, featuring Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin, streamed at 7:30 PM ET at South Hampton’s Guild Hall.
* Kritzerland’s Influencers FREE online benefit concert, in support of North Hollywood’s NoHo Theatres, featuring Daniel Thomas Bellusci, Jason Graae, Norm Lewis, Kerry O’Malley, Hartley Powers, Emily Skinner, Sami Staitman, Adrienne Stiefel, and Robert Yacko, streamed at 5 PM PT here.
* “No One Called Ahead,” a new musical film by Paul Gordon, directed by Tim Kahani, featuring Justin Matthew Sargent, Lora Lee Gayer, Ann Harada, Storm Lever, Morgan Weed, and Pamela Winslow Kashani, premieres at 6 PM ET here.
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Video: “Stars in the House,” with special guest Rosie Perez. (1:08:38)
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Audio: Melissa Erico performs “You Must Believe in Spring”
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Video: Trailer for “Red Pill,“ a horror film written & directed by Tonya Pinkins. The release date is TBA.
Tony Pinkins, Luba Mason, Kathryn Erbe, Catherine Curtin, Colby Minifie, Adesola Osakalumi, Ruben Blades, and Jake O’Flaherty.
The film follows a group of liberal activists as they move to a Red state to infiltrate the lives of anti-racists and save the 2020 election, only to find themselves facing horrors they never imagined.
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Today Tix’s Tomorrow Tix is now offering online performances, concerts, and more:
* The True performance from The New Group (July 16-19 ), by Sharr White, directed by Scott Elliott, featuring Austin Cauldwell, Edie Falco, Glenn Fitzgerald, Michael McKean, John Pankow, Peter Scolari, and Tracy Shayne (Chicago). here.
* Good as New performance from MCC Theater (July 16), featuring Julianne Moore and Kaitlyn Deever. here
* The Spoils performance from The New Group (July 30), by Jesse Eisenberg, featuring (original 2015 cast) Erin Darke, Jesse Eisenberg, and Kunal Nayyar. here.
* Stephen Schwartz in concert (now through July 31), here.
* You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Zoom performance (July 23-29). here.
Click here to view all available performances.
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Video: Randy Redd’s “Absolute Brightness,” with George Abud, Jamie Barton, Donna Lynne Champlin, Jeffrey Cornelius, Barrett Foa, Zach Infante, Rachel Bay Jones, LOLO, Justin Gregory Lopez, Javier Muñoz and more.
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North Hollywood’s Road Theatre has announced its Summer Playwrights Festival 11, to run July 30 – Aug. 16 on Zoom, offering readings of 26 new plays by playwrights across the U.S.
Click here for the complete schedule.
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Video: The cast of London’s Six performs “Haus of Holbein” (song starts at 11:57)
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TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents an online reading of Suzanne Bradbeer’s Shakespeare in Vegas from Thurs. July 23 at 4 PM PT — Mon. July 27 at 6 PM PT, directed by Giovanna Sardelli.
Karen Ziemba and Patrick Page, with more TBA.
A wise guy producer with a dream and a despondent New York actor join forces in their attempt to bring the Bard of Avon to Sin City.
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Cinderella, originally scheduled to begin in Sept. 2020, will now begin previews Mar. 19, 2021 and open Apr. 7 at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, directed by Laurence Connor.
Carrie Hope Fletcher (Cinderella) and Victoria Hamilton-Barritt (Stepmother), with more TBA.
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Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater presents it Short New Play Festival 2020: Private Lives on Mon. July 20 at 8 PM ET, directed by Vivienne Benesch and Em Weinstein.
Ali Ahn, Frankie J. Alverez, Kathleen Chalfant, Lilli Cooper, Edmund Donovan, William Jackson Harper, Peter Francis James, and Charlayne Woodard.
* The Panel, by Theresa Rebeck. At a theater panel on Private Lives, things go very quickly off the rails.
* Fear and Misery of the Master Race (of the Brecht), by Jeremy O. Harris.
* Outside Time, Without Extension, by Ben Beckley. Over the course of 10 minutes, we witness a couple’s entire private lifetime of joy, anxiety, pain, hope, love, and literature.
* Old Beggar Woman, by Avery Deutsch. Amanda and Sibyl from Private Lives reunite years later on another pair of balconies, and bond over an unlikely talent they both share.
* Love-adjacent, or Balcony Plays, by Leah Maddrie. Middle-aged African-American former high school sweethearts reunite unexpectedly on adjoining hotel balconies — in rhyming couplets!
* In the Attic, by Jessica Moss. Edmond has been keeping a terrible secret from his wife — in the attic.
* Plague Year, by Matthew Park. It’s Medieval England and the bubonic plague rages as young Mabel quarantines inside her London home with her newborn daughter and her boorish husband Thomas.
* Evermore Unrest, by Mallory Jane Weiss. On her honeymoon and confined to her hotel room, Penny writes to her ex-boyfriend with questions about love, choice, health, and safety during times of unrest.
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The 2020 Obie Awards will now be presented virtually on Tues. July 14 at 8 PM ET here, hosted by Cole Escola.
Shaina Taub… a Merrily We Roll along reunion (from various productions)… an encore presentation from Fela!… Michael R. Jackson performs “Memory Song” from A Strange Loop… and a digital singalong with N’Kenge, Saycon Sengbloh, LaChanze, and Celia Rose Gooding.
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Video: “All I Need is the Cure,” with Diane Vincent and Sam Kriger.
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The Kennedy Center has announced ongoing and long-term initiatives that leverage the arts for socially aware non-arts outcomes.
An 8-channel framework has been established that will be woven throughout the institution to ensure a commitment to Black lives, Black artists, and Black culture.
Click here to learn more.
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Video: Andre De Shields, Jessie Mueller, E. Faye Butler, and more, sing “Sweet Home Chicago”
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Chicago’s Porchlight Theatre has announced its Porchlight Festival, featuring performances, special events, raffles, and more, to run Aug. 21-23.
Fri. Aug. 21 (7 PM CT): Celebrating Porchlight’s 25th anniversary with a concert of songs throughout the years.
Sat. Aug. 22 (7 PM CT): PorchlightPalooza, showcasing emerging artists.
Sun. Aug. 23 (7 PM CT): An intimate conversation with Joe Grey.
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Off-Broadway’s Public Theater has announced its radio play presentation of Richard II, which will run July 13-16 at 8 PM ET here, directed by Saheem Ali.
Lupita Nyong’o (The Narrator), André Holland (Richard II), Phylicia Rashad (Duchess of Gloucester) and Estelle Parsons (Duchess of York), with Barzin Akhavan (Salisbury/Marshall), Sean Carvajal (Gardener’s Man/Surrey), Michael Bradley Cohen (Bushy), Sanjit De Silva (Mowbray/Exton), Biko Eisen-Martin (Fitzwater), Michael Gaston (Northumberland), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Gardener), Miriam A. Hyman (Bolingbroke), Merritt Janson (Scroop), Elijah Jones (Hotspur), Dakin Matthews (Gaunt), Jacob Ming-Trent (Carlisle), Maria Mukuka (Queen’s Lady/Servant), Okwui Okpokwasili (Willoughby/Abbot), Tom Pecinka (Aumerle), Reza Salazar (Welsh Guard), Thom Sesma (Ross/Keeper), Sathya Sridharan (Bagot), John Douglas Thompson (York), Claire van der Boom (Queen), Natalie Woolams-Torres (Green), and Ja’Siah Young (Groom).
Additionally, the series will be available as a podcast download for on-demand listening following its airing.