This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, November 20
* “Stars in the House,” offering a Beetlejuice reunion, with Alex Brightman, Kerry Butler, Rob McClure, David Josefsberg, Will Blum, and Leslie Kritzer, streams at 8 PM ET here.
* Luba Mason: Triangle album release concert, streams at 9 PM ET here.
* Selena: A Live Drive-In Experience, at 7 PM ET at Astoria, Queens’ Radial Park at Hallets Point. (also Nov. 21 at 7 PM ET).
* “If The Fates Allow: A Hadestown Holiday Album” listening party, featuring The Fates — Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, and Kay Trinidad, streams for FREE at 6 PM ET here, moderated by Robbie Rozelle.
* Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn (Broadway 2016), featuring Bryce Pinkham, Megan Lawrence, Corbin Bleu, Lora Lee Gayer, Danny Rutigliano, and Megan Sikora., airs at 9 PM on PBS (check local listings).
* “If The Fates Allow: A Hadestown Holiday Album” featuring Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer & Kay Trinidad, along with the entire Hadestown cast, released here.
* “Anne of Green Gables” concept album, by Matte O’Brien & Matt Vinson, released here.
* “Together at Christmas,” featuring Michael Ball and Alfie Boe. released on Decca Records.
* Man and Superman FREE reading, adapted & directed by David Staller, featuring Robert Cuccioli, Claybourne Elder, Santino Fontana, Nikki M James, Christine Toy Johnson, Rob McClure, Lauren Molina, John-Andrew Morrison, Vishaal Reddy, and Lenny Wolpe, concludes streaming at 8 PM ET here.
Saturday, November 21
* Mystery Box virtual benefit Zoom reading, by Tom Alan Robbins, featuring Mary Testa, Dakin Matthews, Wesley Taylor, and Helen Cespedes, streams at 8 PM ET here.
* Karen Mason in concert, with music direction by Alex Rybeck, concludes streaming at Off-Broadway’s York Theatre.
Sunday, November 22
* Hershey Felder as Claude Debussy – A Paris Love Story streams at 5 PM PT (and available through Nov. 29) at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre.
* The Seth Concert Series, with special guest Adam Pascale, streams at 8 PM ET here (also at 3 PM ET tomorrow).
* “Playhouse Live” variety show, with guest host Adam Pascal, streams at 7 PM ET at Bucks County Playhouse.
* Talley’s Folly, by Lanford Wilson, directed by Robert Hupp, featuring Kate Hamill and Jason O’Connell, concludes streaming at Syracuse Stage.
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Video: “Stars in the House,” with special guests Sally Ann Triplett and Peter Polycarpou. (1:02:00)
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Video: “Stars in the House,” spotlighting the NEA and the CARES Act. (1:12:28)
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Fathom Events has announced upcoming streamed films, both theatrical films and filmed musicals.
In addition, check out the massive schedule of family-friendly fare, anime, film debuts, and classics, concerts, stage production, inspirational movies, and more.
Click here for the complete schedule.
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The world premiere of Amir Nizar Zuabi’s This Is Who I Am will run Dec. 5 – Jan. 3 at Cambridge’s A.R.T., directed by Evren Odcikin.
Ramsey Faragallah (Dad) and Yousof Sultani (Son).
An estranged father and son, who are separated by continents, reunite over Zoom. From their respective kitchens in Ramallah and New York City, they re-create a cherished family recipe and struggle to bridge the gap between them, one ingredient at a time.
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Video: Sneak peak at “As The Curtain Rises,” which premiered Oct. 22, with episodes released every Thursday, featuring George Salazar, Lesli Margherta, Michael Urie, and Alex Brightman.
The podcast chronicles the behind-the-scenes drama of Avvatar, the Musical.
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Off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre has announced its 2021-22 season:
* On the Uses of Pain for Life (dates TBA) world premiere written & directed by Annie Baker. A play about no end in sight. Baker also directs her new work that tackles the eros of illness.
* Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (dates TBA), written by & starring Anna Deavere Smith, directed by Taibi Magar. The news of the police officers’ acquittal in Rodney King’s police brutality case reverberated throughout the streets of Los Angeles, and the events that followed the verdict drew worldwide attention.
* A Case for the Existence of God (dates TBA), world premiere by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by David Cromer. Inside a cubicle in a small office in southern Idaho, two men struggle to balance the confounding terms on a loan.
* Confederates (dates TBA), by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Kamilah Forbes. Sarah, a savvy slave turned Union spy, and Sandra, a brilliant professor in a modern-day private university, are facing similar struggles, even thought they live over a century apart.
* Grass (dates TBA), world premiere written & directed by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. A nightmare eviction leaves an out-of-work actor with nowhere to go but his father’s house on an island in southeast Texas. But in order to get there — and not get shot — he’s going to have to let his mother drive.
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Terrence McNally’s “Selected Works: A Memoir in Plays” is now available in hardcover. 
Order here.
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London’s National Theatre will present a free streaming film capture of Clint Dyer & Roy Williams’ Death of England: Delroy, directed by Dyer, on Sat. Nov. 27 at 2 PM ET here (and will be available for 24 hours).
Michael Balogun (Delroy)
The play explores what it is like to be a Black working-class man searching for truth and confronting his relationship with Great Britain.
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“You Have Done That You Should Be Sorry For,” a conversation focused on the “Tent Scene” from Julius Caesar (Act 4: Scene 3), will livestream Mon. Dec. 7 at 7:30 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater.
Daniel Sullivan and Nathan Winkelstein.
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Tom DeTrinis’ Making Friends will stream Dec. 17 – Jan. 11, 2021 at LA’s IAMA Theatre Company, directed by Drew Droege.
Tom DeTrinis
A non-stop, hilarious litany of grievances, unmasking DeTrinis’ singular views on everything from cheese (“vile f***ing spoiled milk!”) to New York City (“its clutches grab you from the moment you enter until it squeeze the very last ounce of joy out of you right before you shrivel an die slash leave out of JFK/Newark or GOD FORBID LAGUARDIA?!?!?!”).
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The Broadway cast of Jagged Little Pill will reunite for a live concert, Jagged Live in NYC on Sun. Dec. 13 at 8 PM ET here (and available through Dec. 15), directed by Diane Paulus. Proceeds will support regional theatres across the country.
Elizabeth Stanley, Kathryn Gallagher, Celia Rose Gooding, Sean Allan Krill, Derek Klena, Lauren Patten, Antonio Cipriano, and more.
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Anything Goes will May 8 – Aug. 22, 2021 at the Barbicon Theatre, directed & choreographed by Kathleen Marshall.
Megan Mullally and Robert Lindsay, with more TBA.
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“Name That Tune” returns to TV on Wed. Jan. 6 at 9 PM on Fox (check local listings), hosted by Jane Krakowski.
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Broadway actor Alex Weisman was injured after being punched by a man in a Manhattan subway station. Weisman had to undergo laser eye surgery after being hit in the face at the 103rd Street station on the Upper West Side.
The actor said that he expected the man to ask for money when he approached him, “but instead he just started hitting me in the face.” Weisman fell to the ground and the suspect ran without taking anything.
After the attack, Weisman got on the train, and got off at the next stop, where he received help. The suspect still has not been found.
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Hollywood’s Actors Co-op Theatre presents A Co-op Christmas: Two Evenings of Wonder, Love, and Light on Dec. 18 & 19 at 5 PM PT.
Each night will feature different, classic, and maybe not-so-familiar Christmas stories.
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Video: Rob McClure sings “I Love Betsy” from Honeymoon in Vegas.
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“One Night Only: The Best of Broadway” will air Thurs. Dec. 10 at 8 PM on NBC (check local listings). The event will benefit BC/EFA.
from the casts of Ain’t Too Proud, Jagged Little Pill, Diana: The Musical, Jersey Boys, Mean Girl, Rent, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
Kelly Clarkson, Brett Eldredge, Patti LaBelle, Annaleigh Ashford, Lance Bass, Kristen Bell, Ron Cephas Jones, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Peter Gallagher, Josh Groban, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sean Hayes, Nathan Lane, Camryn Manheim, Alanis Morissette, Jerry O’Connell, Leslie Odom Jr., Billy Porter, Joh Stamos, Aaron Tveit, Blair Underwood, Vanessa Williams, and Susan Kelechi Watson.
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NAMT‘s 32nd annual Festival will continue streaming today at 3 PM ET (and available on-demand through Nov. 29).
Eight musicals will be presented, with works ranging from an opera set during the Salem witch trials to a musical about a a boy who has green lizard skin.
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Off Broadway’s York Theatre presents Show (+ Tell!): Roadside, by Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt, on Mon. Nov. 23 at 7 PM ET.
James Morgan, Charles Wright, lyricist/librettist Tom Jones, director David Glenn Armstrong, and cast members Jennifer Allen, Janine DiVita, James Hindman, Julie Johnson, Dan C. Levine, Ed Watts, Nick Wyman, and more TBA.
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Milwaukee Rep will present two virtual holiday productions this season:
* A Christmas Carol (Dec. 1-24), a FREE never-before-seen recording of the theatre’s 2016 production, adapted by Mark Clements,
* Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol (Dec. 10-24), by Tom Mula, directed by Mark Clements, starring Lee E. Ernst.
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Additional casting has been announced for Bill Russell & Janet Hood’s 1989 revue, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, which will take place Tues. Dec. 1 at 5 PM ET here (and available through Dec. 5), in support of BC/BFA, directed by Bill Russell & Justin Ross Cohen, with music direction by Janet Hood.
Previously announced: Brooks Ashmanskas, Laura Bell Bundy, Robin de Jesús, Stephanie Gibson, Lana Gordon, Alan H. Green, Lena Hall, Jayne Houdyshell, Famke Janssen, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Joaquina Kalukango, Tari Kelly, Nathan Lane, Norm Lewis, Alyse Alan Louis, Andrea Macasaet, Kevin McHale, Varla Jean Merman, Jessie Mueller, Cynthia Nixon, Royina Patel , Anthony Rapp, Krysta Rodriguez, Seth Rudetsky , JK Simmons, Robin Lord Taylor, Alysha Umphress, Anna Uzele, and Marisha Wallace.
Newly announced: Paul Castree, Richard Chamberlain, Charity Angél Dawson, Fran Drescher, J. Harrison Ghee, Gideon Glick, Lisa Howard, James Monroe Iglehart, Cherry Jones, Francis Jue, Vicki Lewis, Telly Leung, Stanley Wayne Mathis, Eric William Morris, Michael Notardonato, Okieriete Onaodowan, Kirsten Scott, Matthew Scott, Michael James Scott, Evan Todd, Mariand Torres, and Michael Xavier.
by Danny Burstein, Judith Light, Billy Porter, and Michael Urie.
A celebration of the lives lost to AIDS told in free-verse monologues with a blues, jazz, and rock score.