This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, March 12
Love Letter to Liza: a 75th Birthday Tribute Celebration, with special guests Joel Grey, Lily Tomlin, Chita Rivera, Joan Collings, Ben Vereen, 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, begins streaming at 8 PM ET here (or half price on TDF for $15).
First Date filmed production, by Austin Winsberg, Alan Zachary & Michael Weiner, directed by Dean Johnson, featuring Samantha Barks (Casey) and Simon Lipkin (Aaron), with Nicholas McLean (Man #1), Oscar Conlon-Morrey (Man #2), Rufus Kampa (Young Aaron), and Danielle Steers (Woman #1), begins streaming on BroadwayHD.
Treason in concert, by Ricky Allan & Kieran Lynn, directed by Hannah Chissick, featuring Lucie Jones, Oliver Tompsett, Daniel Boys, Waylon Jacobs, Bradley Jaden, Emmanuel Kojo, Rebecca LaChance, Cedric Neal, and Sharon Rose, begins livestreaming here.
Saturday, March 13
The Year of Magical Thinking, starring Kathleen Chalfant, begins streaming at Off-Broadway’s Keen Company.
Sharon D. Clarke in concert streams at 7 PM ET here.
Tonite’s The Night concert presentation, written & directed by Bruce Kimmel, featuring Eric Peterson and Hartley Powers, streams FOR FREE at 5 PM PT here.
Smithtown virtual production, by Drew Larimore, directed by Stephen Kistsakos, featuring Michael Urie, Ann Harada, Colby Lewis, and Constance Shulman, concludes streaming here.
Sunday, March 14
Hershey Felder, PUCCINI world premiere, directed by Stefano D. Caril, starring Hershy Felder, with special guests Nathan Gunn, Gianna Corbisiero, and Charles Castronovo, begins streaming at Beverly Hills’ The Wallis.
Hershey Felder PUCCINI, world premiere, directed by Stefano D. Caril, starring Hershy Felder, with special guests Nathan Gunn, Gianna Corbisiero, and Charles Castronovo, begins streaming at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre.
Emily Skinner in concert livestreams at 3 & 8 PM ET here.
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, concludes streaming at London’s Southwark Playhouse.
Treason in concert, by Ricky Allan & Kieran Lynn, directed by Hannah Chissick, featuring Lucie Jones, Oliver Tompsett, Daniel Boys, Waylon Jacobs, Bradley Jaden, Emmanuel Kojo, Rebecca LaChance, Cedric Neal, and Sharon Rose, concludes livestreaming here.
Bad Dates filmed production, by Theresa Rebeck, directed by Peter Flynn, starring Andréa Burns, concludes streaming at NJ’s George Street Playhouse.
Love Letter to Liza: a 75th Birthday Tribute Celebration, featuring Joel Grey, Lily Tomlin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chita Rivera, Joan Collins, Harry Connick Jr., Ben Vereen and the 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, Meil 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, concludes streaming here.
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Video: Stars in the House offers “She Loves Them: Conversations with Laura Benanti,” with special guests Brandon Michael Nase, Cindy Tsai, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Jeffre Omura. (1:02:36)
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Rock of Ages alumni will re-unite for a one-night-only concert, to stream Sat. Apr. 24 at 8 PM ET here, written by Chris D’Arienzo and directed by D’Arienzo & Kristin Hanggi.
Performers TBA.
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Video: Trailer for “Tina,” which premieres Mar. 27 on HBO Max.
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NY’s Gingold Theatrical Group has announced that, instead of its 2021 Golden Shamrock Gala, it will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with an Irish Poetry Slam, to stream Wed. Mar. 17 at 6 PM ET here or on the GTG Facebook page here. 
You must register here by Mar. 15.
Robert Cuccioli, Tyne Daly, Melissa Errico, Jessica Hecht, Daniel Jenkins, Andrea Marcovicci, Tonya Pinkins, Thom Sesma, Renee Taylor, Sally Wilfert, Karen Ziemba, and more.
The event will also offer a virtual open mic: come as you are and share what you’d like – a poem, an excerpt, a monologue, a saying, a song, or a toast! Shaw, Yeats, Wilde, Joyce, Friel, Beckett, Keane, O’Brien, Johnston, Edgeworth, Heanèy, Lady Gregory, Goldsmith, Moore, etc. Any Irish Writer!
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New Faces Sing Broadway 1961 will stream Apr. 16 – May 16 at Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre, directed by Brianna Borger, with music direction & arrangements by Tom Vendafreddo.
Lexie Bailey, Nicole Barth, Marcus Canada, Chloe Howard, Izzie Jones, Clare Kennedy, Maurice Rex Randle, Abraham Shaw, and Tommy Thurston.
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Emily Skinner sings…
Video: “Could I Leave You” (Follies)
Video: “Poor Unfortunate Souls” (The Little Mermaid)
Video: “I Don’t Need a Roof,” by Andrew Lippa
Video: Songs from elegies, with Andrew Keenan Bolger
Video: “Leave Me Alone,” with Alice Ripley
Video: “Becoming Georgia Holt” (The Cher Show)
Video: Sideshow Tony Awards performance
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Steppenwolf Theatre is currently streaming the world premiere production of Vivian J.O. Barnes’ Duchess! Duchess! Duchess!, directed by Weyni Mengesha
Sydney Charles and Celeste M. Cooper
The piece is loosely inspired by the struggles of Meghan Markle and the British royal family, and uses the monarchy to investigate how society’s institutions of power affect Black women. The play is set on the eve of a royal wedding and imagines a meeting between a Duchess who has just given birth to an heir, and a Soon-to-Be-Duchess, whom she is coaching on the rules required to join the family.
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Patti LuPone and Erinn Hayes will star in the HBO Max comedy “OK Boomer.” Timeline and additional information TBA.
The series centers on Barbara, a self-centered boomer who shows up at her estranged daughter Sarah’s house hoping to live off the family’s money, but forms an unexpected bond with her progressive granddaughter who’s quick to challenge her on their differing views – of which there a plenty.
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Lincoln Center Theater will stream a variety of their production for FREE on Broadway On Demand.
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (begins Mar. 18), directed by Nicholas Martin, and featuring Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, Shalita Grant, Billy Magnussen, and Genevieve Angelson.
The Wolves (release date TBA), by Sarah DeLappe, directed by Lila Neugebauer.
The Royale (release date TBA), by Marco Ramirez, directed by Rachel Chavkin.
Marys Seacole (release date TBA), by Jackie Sibblies Dury, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz.
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Cleveland Play House has announced its new story telling series, Theatre Thursday: ONWARD, which will premiere Thurs. Mar. 18 at 7 PM CT.
Battle Cry, by Bianca Sams, directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene, featuring Brian D. Coats, Rikkí Cupe, Stanley Andrew Jackson III, and Liz Mikel.
The Elephant in Every Room I Enter, by Gardiner Comfort & Kel Haney, directed by Haney, starring Comfort.
Take Me to the Poorhouse, written & performed by Liz Femi.
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“Broadway Profiles with Tamsen Fadal” is America’s first nationally syndicated Broadway entertainment program.
The newest episode will air Mar. 14 at 6 PM ET in NYC on WPIX TV, or watch here.
Josh Groban, David Alan Grier, Stephen Schwartz, and the casts of Freestyle Love Supreme and David Byrne’s American Utopia.
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NYC’s 92Y presents a 3-part series, “The Way Forward: Theater’s Evolution in Moments of Change,” moderated by Stellene Volandes. 
here.
The series explores the past, present, and future of theater during moments of social inflection, curated by The Public Theater. These conversations pose fundamental questions about the art form. What are the historical forces that created the modern theater, and how in turn has theater’s role in our society helped shape our culture at large? How has the last year upended the way artists work? Who will carry theater into the future?
March 17: “Part 1: Past-We Have Been Here Before,” with Oskar Eustis and Patrick Gaspard.
April 26: “Part II: Present – Culture and Crisis.” Panelists TBA.
May 20: “Part III: Future: Where Do We Go Now.” Panelists TBA