This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, June 11
An Octoroon, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Judith Moreland, featuring Leea Ayers, Matthew Hancock, Mara Klein, Hazel Lozano, Rob Nagle, Kacie Rogers, Vanessa Claire Stewart, and Pam Trotter, begins previews in person at LA’s Fountain Theatre.
Broadway Stories & Songs with Ted Sperling & Friends, with special guests Meghan Picerno & John Riddle, streams at 8PM ET here.
Stars in the House, a reunion of Broadway’s 2015 production of The Light in the Piazza, featuring Victoria Clark, Kelli O’Hara, and Michael Morrison, streams for FREE at 8 PM ET here.
“In the Heights” film, directed by Jon M. Chu, featuring Anthony Ramos (Usvani), Corey Hawkings (Benny), Melissa Barrera (Vanessa), Leslie Grace (Nina), Olga Merediz (Abuela Claudia), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Daniela), Jimmy Smiths (Keven Rosario), and Lin Manuel Miranda ( Guy), released on HBO Max and in movie theaters.
Saturday, June 12
Do Not Go, My Love virtual one-act staged reading, by Enid Graham, directed by Robert Sella, featuring Maryann Plunkett and Hansel Tan, streams for FREE at 8 PM ET at NY’s Hudson Stage.
Porchlight Music Theatre‘s New Faces Sing Broadway 1979 live concert, directed by Brianna Borger, featuring Lexie Bailey, Nicole Barth, Marcus Canada, Chloe Howard, Izzie Jones, Clare Kennedy, Maurice Rex Randle, Abraham Shaw, and Tommy Thurston, at 8 PM CT at Skokie’s North Shore CPA.
“Broadway Profiles with Tamsen Fadal,” with special guests Ali Stroker (on her new book, “The Chance to Fly”), Krysta Rodriguez (about playing Liza Minnelli in Netflix’s “Halston”), David Pittu (about his role in “Halston”), airs nationally here.
NY Philharmonic FREE in person concert, closes at 7 PM ET at NYC’s Bryant Park.
Walden, by Amy Berryman, directed by Ian Rickson, featuring Gemma Arterton (Stella), Fehinti Balogun (Bryan), and Lydia Wilson (Cassie), closes at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre.
What If If Only, by Caryl Churchill, realized by Les Waters & Jared Mezzocchi, featuring Paul Juhn, Mia Katigbak, Kylie Kuioka, Jon Norman Schneider, and Bernard White, concludes streaming at 7 PM ET at NAATCO.
Sunday, June 13
American Theatre Wing’s 2017 Centennial Concert and Gala, featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell, Heather Headley, Santino Fontana, Norm Lewis, Beth Malone, Rebecca Luker, Laura Osnes, and more, begins FREE streaming on Broadway HD (
the pay wall will be removed starting today).
Sunset Boulevard in concert, conducted by Alex Parker, featuring Mazz Murray (Norma Desmond), Ramin Karimloo (Joe Gillis), Zizi Strallen (Betty Schaefer), Sharif Afifi (Artie Green), Christopher Howell (Manfred/Sheldrake), and David Shawparker (Cecil B. DeMille), with Jack Harrison-Cooper, Jordan Lee Davies, Momar Diagne, Chloe Hart, Aimee Hodnett, Sefal Keshwala, Anelisa Lamola, Evie Rose Lane, Cameron Sharp, and Bleu Woodward, streams at 3 & 7 PM GMT at London’s Alexandra Palace Theatre.
Show of Titles benefit concert, directed by Lonny Price, featuring Annaleigh Ashford, Glenn Close, Len Cariou, Darren Criss, Santino Fontana, Kelsey Grammar, Stephanie J. Block, Kerry Butler, Dame Edna, David Alan Grier, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joshua Henry, Isabelle Huppert, Norm Lewis, Patti LuPone, Rob McClure, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Melba Moore, Jessie Mueller, Eva Noblezada, Kelli O’Hara, Laura Osnes, Steven Pasqual, Michael Rupert, Ernie Sabella, Lea Salonga, Phillipa Soo, Will Swenson, Aaron Tv eit, Leslie Uggams, Vanessa Williams, and Patrick Wilson, streams at 7 PM ET here. 
Trailer.
West End Musical Celebration – Live at the Palace, with music direction by Richard Beadle, featuring Sophie Evans, Alice Fearn, Ben Forster, Rachel John, Shanay Holmes, Trevor Dion Nicholas, and Layton Williams, closes at London’s Palace Theatre.
The Niceties filmed production, by Eleanor Burgess, directed by Kimberly Senior, featuring Lisa Banes and Jordan Boatman, concludes FREE streaming at Manhattan Theatre Club.
Theater Breaking Through Barriers, offering 14 short new plays, concludes FREE streaming here.
Yours Unfaithfully world premiere on-demand production, by Miles Malleson, directed by Jonathan Bank., featuring Todd Cerveris, Mikaela Izquierdo, Elisabeth Gray, Stephen Schnetzer, and Max von Essen, concludes FREE streaming at Off-Broadway’s Mint Theatre.
Reykjavík streamed production, by Steve Yockey, directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky, featuring Stephen Tyler Howell, Alaska Jackson, Carlos Lacamara, Brian Ibsen, Danny Lee Gomez, and Jacqueline Misaye, concludes on-demand viewing at North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company.
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Video: Stars in the House, offering Kristin Chenoweth’s Broadway Bootcamp: Live from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, with Kristin and the kids from KCBBC. (47:56)
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Atlanta Alliance Theatre has announced its 2021-22 season:
Darlin’ Cory (Sept. 8 – Oct. 3), world premiere by Phillip DePoy & Kristian Bush, directed by Susan V. Booth. 
In a tiny mountain town with no road in – and no road out – in 1930s Appalachia, a community carries secrets of all sizes. But when a young woman with ambition and intelligence collides with a pastor deeply committed to preserving the status quo, cracks begin to form in the town’s well-constructed façade. And when a stranger appears with a mysterious backstory and the best moonshine anyone’s every tasted – some of those secrets threaten to spill.
The New Black Fest’s Hand Up: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments (Oct. 8-31), by Nathan James, Nathan Yungerberg, Idris Goodwin, Nambi E. Kelley, Nsangou Nkikam, Eric Holmes, and Dennis Allen II, directed by Keith Arthur Bolden & Alexis Woodard.
A Christmas Carol (Nov. 12 – Dec. 24), newly adapted by David H. Bell, directed by Leora Morris.
Club Hertz Live (Dec. 8-24) concert series featuring local musicians.
Toni Stone (Feb. 10-27, 2022), by Lydia R. Diamond, directed by Tinashe Kajese.
Bina’s Six Apples (Mar. 11-27), world premiere by Lloyd Suh, directed by Eric Ting. Bina’s family grows the finest apples in all of Korea. But when war forces her to flee her home, Bina is alone in the world with just 6 precious apples to her name. Can these meager possessions help her find her family? Encountering new challenges at every turn, Bina is forced to rely on her apples and their important legacy as she begins to discover the power of her own resilience.
World premiere musical TBA (May 25 – June 26), directed by Kenny Leon.
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Video: Trailer for “Tick, Tick…Boom” film, directed by Lin Manuel Miranda, starring Andrew Garfield.
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NY’s Bard SummerScape has announced its Most Happy in Concert, featuring Frank Loesser’s songs from The Most Happy Fella, to run Aug. 5-7 (all at 7:30 PM ET), conceived & directed by Daniel Fish.
Mikaela Bennett, Tina Fabrique, Jules Latimer, April Matthis, Erin Markey, Mallory Portnoy, and Mary Testa.
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The world premiere of Danny Robins’ 2:22 – A Ghost Story will begin previews Aug. 3 and open Aug. 11 at the Noël Coward Theatre, directed by Matthew Dunster.
Lily Allen (Jenny), Hadley Fraser (Sam), Julia Chan (Lauren), and Jake Wood (Ben).
In the supernatural thriller, Jenny believes her new home is haunted, but her husband Sam isn’t having any of it. They argue with their first dinner guests, old friend Lauren and new partner Ben. Belief and skepticism clash, but something feels strange and frightening, and that something is getting closer, so they’re going to stay up… until 2:22… and then they’ll know.
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Blindness, the immersive audiovisual experience from London’s Donmar Warehouse, will close July 25 at the Daryl Roth Theatre.
Performances were scheduled to continue through Sept. 5.
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Athol Fugard’s Master Harold . . . and the Boys will stream on demand June 16 – July 4 at Syracuse Stage, directed by Gilbert McCauley.
Nick Apostolina (Hally), L. Peter Callender (Sam), and Phumzile Sojola (Willie).
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The Gingold Theatrical Group presents it Speakers’ Corner new play development lab:
Untitled Conspiracy Play (June 12 at 7 PM ET), by Seth McNeill, directed by Lico Whitfield. 
here.
Vigil Aunties (June 15 at 7 PM ET), by Divya Manwani, directed by Aneesha Kudtarkar. here.
There Goes the Neighborhood (June 17 at 7 PM ET), by Marcus Scott, directed by Christopher Scott. here.
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Boston’s Speakeasy Stage Company present The Boston Project: Project Resilience, which will stream June 18-30 at locations throughout Boston.
Fabiola R. Decius, Hortense Gerardo, Paige Monopoli, Nico Pang, Adriana RoCale, and Magda Romanska.
The project consists of 6 world-premiere, site-specific, 10-minute plays written by Boston-area playwrights that celebrate the unique and enduring spirit of Boston and its residents. The play were set and then filmed live throughout the city, in such locations as the East Boston waterfront, outside the Hyde Park branch of the Boston Public Library, and at the Ether Statue in the Boston Public Garden.
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Dan Collins & Julianne Wick Davis’ Trevor will return in previews Oct. 25, with an opening set for Nov. 10 at Stage 42, directed by Marc Bruni, with choreography by Josh Prince.
Casting TBA.
130-year-old Trevor is a force of nature with a vivid imagination. As he deals with becoming a teenager, Trevor struggles to navigate his own identity and determine how he fits in a challenging world.
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CT’s Goodspeed Musicals will celebrate the re-opening of its theatre with the revue, A Grand Night for Singing: A Celebration of Rodgers & Hammerstein, to open Sept. 24, directed by Rob Ruggiero.
Casting, closing date, and link TBA.
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Off-Broadway’s Irish Rep has announced its 2021 summer season:
The Indomitable Irishry: 2021 Gala online celebration here (June 14 at 7:30 PM ET), honoring Bill Irwin and Marylou & Joe Quinlan, directed by Charlotte Moore, with music direction by John Bell, featuring Michael Cerveris, Len Cariou, Kerry Conte, Jay Aubrey Jones, Melissa Errico, Donna Kane, Kylie Kuioka, Ciaran Sheen, and Max Von Essen.
Ghosting (June 22 – July 4), by Anne O’Riordan & Jamie Beamish, directed by Beamish, featuring O’Riordan and Andrew Macklin. A woman wakes up in the middle of the night to discover a man who ghosted her six years ago standing at the foot of her bed.
The Cordelia Dream (July 27 – Aug. 8), by Marina Carr, directed by Joe O’Byrne, featuring Danielle Ryan and Stephen Brennan. A woman is haunted by a dream about King Lear and Cordelia, which has implications for her mysterious relationship with a man.
George M. Cohan Tonight! (Aug. 17-29), created by & starring Chip Deffaa, directed by Jon Peterson.
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Lillias White‘s first solo album, “Get Yourself Some Happy!” will be released July 23. 
the album here.
Listen to “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy”
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The Shubert Foundation has awarded grants totaling $32.1 million to 575 non-profit theatres, dance companies, professional theatre training programs, and performing arts organizations in America. The grants range from $10,000 to $325, 000.
Amon the recipients are major New York outlets — BAM, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, MCC, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, and The Public Theater.
In addition, smaller NYC companies like Ars Nova, National Black Theatre, Pan Asian Rep, and Transport Group were also given grants.
Large-scale regional theatres receiving grants include La Jolla Playhouse, the Guthrie Theatre, Arena Stage, American Repertory Theatre, and Steppenwolf.
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Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater has announced its 2021-22 season:
What the Constitution Means to Me (Sept. 30 – Oct. 24) national tour, starring Cassie Beck.
A Christmas Carol (Nov. 6 – Dec. 27, adapted by Lavina Jadhwani, directed by Joseph Haj.
A Raisin in the Sun (Jan. 8 – Feb. 13, 2022), by Lorraine Hansberry, directed by Austene Van.
The Tempest (Feb. 26 – Apr. 16), directed by Joe Dowling.
Emma (June 18 – Aug. 21), world premiere adaptation by Kate Hamill, directed by Meredith McDonough.
Sweat (July 16 – Aug. 21), director TBA.
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Winners have been announced for the 3rd annual Write Out Loud songwriting contest. the album will be released June 18 on Spotify, Apple Music, and many other digital platforms.
“Coffee in the Morning,” by Matt Copley, performed by Jeremy Jordan
“Samson,” by Ethan Carlson, performed by Ariana DeBose
“Sang Along,” by Alexander Sage Oyen, performed by Lilli Cooper.
This Fall, a concert of the winning songs will take place at NYC’s 54 Below (date TBA)
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The world premiere of Danny Robins’ 2:22 – A Ghost Story will run Aug. 3 – Oct. 16 (opening Aug. 11) at the Noël Coward Theatre, directed by Matthew Dunster.
Lily Allen (Jenny), Hadley Fraser (Sam), Julia Chan (Lauren), and Jake Wood (Ben).
In this supernatural thriller, Jenny believes her new home is haunted, but her husband Sam isn’t having any of it. They argue with their first dinner guests, old friend Lauren and new partner Ben. Belief and skepticism clash, but something feels strange and frightening, and that something is getting closer, so they’re going to stay up… until 2:22… and then they’ll know.