This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, March 5
Lights on the Radio Tower, by Emily Goodson & Kevin James Thornton, directed by Gabriel Barre, featuring Carrie Manolakos and Max Sangerman, begins streaming here.
Super You musical filmed version, by Lourds Lane, directed by JoAnn M. Hunter, featuring Kennedy Caughell, LaVon Fisher Wilson, Molly Tynes, Brie Cassil, and Lourds Lane, streams at 8 PM ET on Broadway On Demand.
Saturday, March 6
Jagged Live In NYC: A Broadway Reunion Concert encore benefit performance, featuring Elizabeth Stanley, Celia Rose Gooding, Sean Allan Krill, Derek Klena, Lauren Patten, Kathryn Gallagher, Antonio Cipriano, and more, alongside the show’s Broadway band, streams for FREE at 7 PM ET here.
Ramin Karimloo in concert streams at 7 PM ET here.
New York Theatre Workshop‘s 2021 Gala, featuring Scott Schwartz and Roman Roth, featuring original cast members Gilles Chiasson, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Rodney Hicks, Idina Menzel, Aiko Naksone, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and Byron Utley, along with Sebastian Arcelus, Annaleigh Ashford, Martha Banta, The Bensons, Adam Chanler-Berat, Linda Chapman, Nicholas Christopher, Paul Clay, Wilson Cruz, Brandon Victor Dixon, Wendy Ettinger, Stephen Graham, Michael Greif, Janet Harckham, Jeremy O. Harris, Neil Patrick Harris, Victoria Hoffman, Telly Leung, Kamilah Marshall, Kevin McCollum, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anaïs Mitchell, Shakina Nayfack, James C. Nicola, Eva Noblezada, Dael Orlandersmith, Ben Platt, Billy Porter, Will Power, Councilmember Carlina Rivera, Jai Rodriguez, Jeffrey Seller, Rona Siddiqui, Leigh Silverman, Ali Stroker, Ephraim Sykes, Bernie Telsey, Jennifer Ashley Tepper, Tracie Thoms, Ivo van Hove, Tom Viola, Tim Weil, Angela Wendt, Marlies Yearby, and more, concludes streaming.
Sunday, March 7
The Pests reading, by Moliere, translated & adapted by Dr. Felicia Londré, directed by John Rensenhouse, featuring Matt Schwader, Sam Cordes, Bri Woods, Vi Tran, Matt Williamson, RH Wilhoit, Meredith Wolfe, Ashley Pankow, Coleman Cranshaw, Robert Gibby Brand, Josh Gleeson, Chris Roady, Walter Coppage, Greg Butell, and Trevor French, livestreams for FREE at 5 PM CT at Kansas City Actors Theatre.
Eva Noblezada in concert livestreams at 3 & 8 PM ET here.
Unremarkable! A Melissa Li & Kit Yan Concert Special, directed by Jesca Prodencio, featuring Ruthie Ann Miles, Marc delaCruz, Stephanie Hsu, Kuhoo Verma, Julia Abueva, Shannon Tyo, Gianna Yanelli, Futaba Shioda, rose Van Dyne, Zeniba Now, and Khaila Wilcoxon, streams for FREE at 8 PM ET here.
Inside the Box world premiere by David Kwong, a virtual & interactive theatrical experience via Zoom, closes at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.
The Color Purple filmed concert, directed by Tinuke Craig, featuring T’Shan Williams (Celie), Karen Mavundukure (Sofia), Carly Mercedes Dyer (Shug Avery), Danielle Fiamanya (Nettie), Ako Mitchell (Mister), and Simon Anthony Rohen (Harpo), along with Geoff Aymer, KM Drew Boateng, Owen Chaponda, Perola Congo, Danielle Kassarate, Anelisa Lamola, Rosemary Annabella Nkrumah, Jochebel Ohene MacCarthy, Landi Oshinowo, and Jo Servi, concludes streaming at London’s Curve Leicester. The Color Purple, filmed concert, directed by Tinuke Craig, featuring T’Shan Williams (Celie), Karen Mavundukure (Sofia), Carly Mercedes Dyer (Shug Avery), Danielle Fiamanya (Nettie), Ako Mitchell (Mister), and Simon Anthony Rohen (Harpo), along with Geoff Aymer, KM Drew Boateng, Owen Chaponda, Perola Congo, Danielle Kassarate, Anelisa Lamola, Rosemary Annabella Nkrumah, Jochebel Ohene MacCarthy, Landi Oshinowo, and Jo Servi, concludes streaming at London’s Curve Leicester.
Art, by Yasmina Reza, directed by caryn desai, featuring Brent Schindele, Michael Uribes, and Brian Stanton, concludes streaming at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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Video: Stars in the House, a Sophisticated Ladies Reunion! Duke Ellington: The Music That Defined A Century, with guest hosts Erich McMillian-McCall & Kenneth Hanson, and special guests Mercedes Ellington, Judith Jamison, Teri Klausner, and Ty Stephens. (1:31:52)
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A revival pf August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson will open in 2022 at a theatre TBA, directed by LaTanya Richard Jackson.
Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Brooks, John David Washington, and more TBA.
Following its Broadway run, the same cast will star in its film adaptation, making it the third of Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle plays be adapted as a movie.
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Lincoln Center Theater‘s Spotlight Series presents Looking Back at CONTACT, to stream Thurs. Mar. 25 at 7 PM ET, moderated by Tomé Cousin.
Director Susan Stroman, writer John Weidman, and original cast members Boyd Gaines, Seán Martin Hingston, Deborah Yates, and Karen Ziemba.
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ABC will produce a re-boot of “The Wonder Years,” by Saladin Patterson, directed by Fred Savage, and starring Saycon Sengbloh (as the mother). Additional casting and a production schedule are TBA.
The reboot will se set in the 1960s, the same era as the original, newly focusing on the Williamses, a Black middle class family in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Video: Carrie Hope Fletcher performs “I Know I Have a Heart” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella.
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Romeo & Julieta, translated by Alfredo Michel Modenessi, will be presented in a bilingual audioplay edition here, beginning Thurs. Mar. 18, directed by Saheem Ali.
Lupito Nyong’o (Julieta), Juan Castano (Romer), Carlo Albán (Benvolio), Karina Arroyave (Aplthecary), Erick Betancourt (Abram), Michael Braugher (Balthasar), Carlos Carrasco (Lord Montague), Ivonne Coll (Nurse), John J. Concado (Peter), Hiram Delgado (Tybalt), Guillermo Diaz (Gregory), Sarah Nina Hayon (Lady Montague), Modesto Lacen (Prince Escalus/Capulet’s Cousin), Florencia Lozano (Capulet), Irene Sofia Lucio (Mercutio), Keren Lugo (Sister Joan), Benjamin Luis McCracken (Paris’ Page), Julio Monge (Friar Lawrence), Javier Muñoz (Paris), David Zayas (Sampson), and Kevin Herrera.
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The Ann Reinking Scholarship will be presented this November, to mark Reinking’s anniversary of her death in December 2020. The scholarship will be awarded annually to a young dancer moving to New York City to help them in their artistic endeavors. The award is open to all young dancers, regardless of specialty. 
here.
Submissions will begin in May. Hinton Battle, Gregory Butler, Gary Chryst, Mindy Cooper, Dylis Croman, Charlotte d’Amboise, Erzebet-Liz Foldi, Joel Grey, Marilu Henner, Bebe Neuwirth, Chita Rivera, Tommy Tune, William Whitener, Peter Talbert, and Chris Reinking Stuart make up the advisory board.
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LA Stage Alliance will livestream the 31st annual Ovation Awards on Tues. Mar. 30 at 8 PM PT, hosted by Michael A. Shepperd
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Sweeney Todd, starring Angela Lansbury and George Hearn, has returned to BroadwayHD.
The musical was filmed during its tour in the 1980s.
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The 4th annual Women’s Day on Broadway will take place Fri. Mar. 12 at 1 PM ET here.
“Broadway Moms: How Life Goes on When the Show Doesn’t,“ moderated by Cara Cooper and Jessica Rush, with panelists Tanya Birl, Laura Benanti, Vanessa Javier, Julia Jones, and Karen Olivo.
“Broadway’s Second Act: A Conversation about Moving Beyond Intention,” moderated by Deborah Roberts, with panelists Maria Manuela Goyanes, Alia Jones-Harvey, Tali Pelman, Eva Price, and Aaliytha Stevens.
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Video: Dancers perform “Cool” from West Side Story around New York City, directed by Joshua Bergasse. Spectacular.
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Broadway Cares will stream Broadway Backwards 2021 on Tues. Mar. 30 at 8 PM ET.
New numbers by Stephanie J. Block, Jenn Colella, Deborah Cox, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Lea Salonga, Matt Bomer, Robin De Jesús, Joshua Henrey, Cherry Jones, Kelli O’Hara, and Jim Parsons…. with past performances by Darren Criss, Ariana DeBose, Cynthis Erivo, and more TBA.
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Ryan Murphy’s next project “Impeachment: American Crime Story,” by Sarah Burgess, will air on FX. Additional casting and the premiere date is TBA.
Edie Falco (Hillary Clinton), Clive Owen (President Bill Clinton), Sarah Paulson (Linda Tripp), Beanie Feldstein (Monica Lewinsky), and Annaleigh Ashford (Paula Jones), and Billy Eichner (journalist Matt Drudge).
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Scott Brown & Anthony King’s Gutenberg! will stream Thurs. Mar. 18 at 8 PM ET here, in support of BC/EFA, with choreography by Kaitlyn Frank.
Alex Prakken and Bobby Conte Thornton.
The story of two overwhelmingly enthusiastic aspiring playwrights. The eager duo is getting set to perform a backers’ audition for their new project: a big, splashy musical about printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg.
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Backstage Babble and Dancers Over 40 present the next Trivia Night on Sat. Mar. 20 at 7 PM ET, which will stream here, hosted by Charles Kirsch.
Lee Roy Reams asks about Gower Champion
Carolyn Kirsch offers Michael Bennett trivia
Learn about Agnes DeMille from Ken Kantor
Learn where Broadway intersects with ballet from Lawrence Leritz
Play a round of “Name That Tune” with music expert Michael Lavine
A Q&A with historians & theater pros
Todd Buonopane, Kevin David Thomas, Kevin Winkler, and Michael Colby will also participate.
…and there will be prizes, too!