This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, October 30
* Macbeth: A Surround Sound Experiment audio presentation, directed by Joseph Discher, featuring Tamara Tunie, Laila Robins, Derek Wilson, Joel de la Fuente, Robert Cuccioli, Geoffrey Owens, Jacob Cogman, Sean Hudock, Rocío Mendez, Tim Nicolai, Mandy Olsen, Shane Taylor, Patrick Toon, and Jeorge Bennett Watson, opens here.
* NY Restoration Project‘s In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover benefit event, featuring Bette Midler, Glen Close, Billy Crystal, Jamie Lee Curtis, Martin Short, Sarah Silverman, John Stamos, and many more, streams at 8 PM ET (only available at this date & time).
* Dracula reading, adapted by Steve Wargo, featuring Norm Lewis (Count Dracula), Lindsay Nicole Chambers (Mina Murray), Siho Ellsmore (Lucy Westenra), Chris Renfro (Jonathan Harker), Dick Terhune (Prof. Van Helsing), Stuart Williams (Dr. Seward), and John Stimac, streams at 8 PM ET here (also Oct. 31).
* Typhoid Mary reading, by Mark St. Germain, directed by Matthew Penn, featuring Judith Ivey, TR Knight, Joe Morton, Kate MacCluggage, Frances Evans, and Matthew Penn, streams at 7:30 PM ET at Barrington Stage (also Oct. 31).
* The Metamorphosis Project, an evening of new short plays and monologues, streams at 7 PM ET at Off 0Broadway’s Labyrinth Theatre.
Saturday, October 31
* Halloween Rock ‘N’ Roll Concert, directed by Hunter Foster & Lorin Latarro, featuring Jeremy Kushnier, Brandi Chavonne Massey, and Andrew Polec, opens at 7 PM ET at Bucks County Playhouse.
* The Nightmare Before Christmas benefit concert presentation, featuring James Monroe Iglehart, Adrienne Warren, Danny Burstein, Rafael Casal, Nik Walker, Lesli Margherita, and Rob McClure, streams at 7 PM ET. 
here.
* Andrew Barth Feldman’s My Halloween Friends, a 20-minute concert, with special guests Celia Rose Gooding, Reneé Rapp, Will Roland, and more, streams at Midnight here.
* Betrayal, by Harold Pinter, directed by Jonathan Church, featuring Nancy Carroll, Joseph Millson, Edward Bennett, and Christopher Bianchi, social distanced production, closes at London’s Theatre Royal Bath.
Sunday, November 1
* Belly of the Beast benefit reading, by Margaret Vandenburg, featuring Daniel Day Kim, Joel de la Fuente, Carrie Preston, Tamilyn Tomita, and Antonia Thomas, streams at 7 PM ET here.
* The Seth Concert Series, with special guest Beth Malone, streams at 8 PM ET here (and at 3 PM ET tomorrow).
* Macbeth, an all-new immersive audio performance, directed by Joseph Discher, featuring Tamara Tunie, Laila Robins, Derek Wilson, Joel de la Fuente. Robert Cuccioli, Geoffrey Owens, Jacob Cogman, Sean Hudock, Rocío Mendez, Tim Nicolai, Mandy Olsen, Shane Taylor, Patrick Toon, and Jeorge Bennett Watson, closes here.
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Video: “Stars in the House,” featuring NBC’s “Connecting” (1:08:14)
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Alleyway Theatre has announced its first Digital Theatre Festival, to run Nov. 6-22. Scroll down for the schedule.
Thirty+ performers around the country will perform 8 different world premiere works both live and on-demand.
* Goat Song, by Matt Harmon
* Big Breath, by Elizabeth Gjelton
* LOL – OL, by Sheri Wilner
* Screaming in the Void, by Kira Mason
* Babushka, by Todd Benzin & Don Gervasi
* Red Alien, by Jane B. Jones
* The Mighty Maisie, by Bell Poynton
* Mystery Box, by Tom Alan Robins
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New York Theatre Barn will present excerpts from Ramona (based on the novel by Helen Hunt Jackson, with music by Nevda Lozano, Wed. Nov. 4 at 7 PM ET.
Casting TBA.
The story of an orphan girl growing up on a Mexican hacienda in Southern California in the 1850s. She falls in love with a Native American ranchero, and together they journey across the new U.S. state in search of a place to call home.
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Video: Julie Andrews shares tales from her early days on Broadway and a peek at what it’s like now working and creating from home, on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
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The Broadway Podcast Network’s original soap opera, “As the Curtain Rises” has released Episode 2, written by Dori Berinstein & Mark Peikert. The series is available here, as well as on all podcast platforms.
After the “Broadway Disher” leaks news of a top secret, in-the-works, new mega musical, the Broadway community goes off-the-charts batty. T-of-their-game Broadway Producers Cheryl Philips and Steve Jones, arch enemies, pounce. Who will get the rights? Will way-out-of-their-comfort-zone creators Kaye and Bobby manage to deliver a draft of the show before their marriage implodes? Will Director/Choreographer Zoey Taylor send the show’s budget into a free fall with her wildly ambitious vision? Will Broadway Diva Emma-Olivia get a Schmackery’s cookie (with sprinkles), named in her honor? Will newbie Agent Maxwell Fernsby step into his new big shoes? And will Science Consultant Andrew Barth Feldman protect the integrity and authenticity of the in-the-works mega musical before he needs to leave this top secret show to star in a Broadway musical?
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Chicago’s Lifeline Theatre presents Pride & Prejudice Nov. 12-30, adapted by Christina Calvit, directed by Dorothy Milne.
Bilal Dardai, Andres Enrique, Peter Greenberg, Chris Hainsworth, Katie McLean Hainsworth, Anthony Kayer, Martel Manning, Mike McKeogh, and Jennifer Tyler, with Caroline Andres, Lydia Hiller, Kristina Loy, Pheobe Moore, Samantha Newcomb, Vahishta Vafadari, and Christina Calvit.
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Broadway’s Great American Songbook offers a series of 7 concerts streamed at Off-Broadway’s York Theatre Company, hosted by Michael Feinstein and directed by Barry Kleinbort:
* Alton Fitzgerald White (Nov. 4, with encore performances Nov. 5-7): , with music direction by Doyle Newmyer
* Lee Roy Reams (Nov. 11, with encore performances Nov. 12-14), with music direction by Alex Rybeck.
* Karen Mason (Nov. 18, and encore performances Nov. 19-21), with music direction by Alex Rybeck.
* George Abud (Nov. 25, and encore performances Nov. 26-28), with music direction by Paul Lincoln.
* Ben Vereen & Klea Blackhurst (Dec. 2, and encore performances Dec. 3-5), with music direction by Garry Adler and Alex Rybeck.
* Robert Creighton (Dec. 9, and encore performances Dec. 10-12), with special guest Richard Kline, and music direction by Alex Rybeck.
* Lillias White (Dec. 16, and encore performances Dec. 17-19), with music direction by Mathis Picard.
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Keen Company‘s HEAR/NOW audio program has uploaded its new play, finkle’s [sic] 1993, and is now available for listening, directed by Jonathan Silverstein.
An immersive audio drama with original songs set in Alphabet City written, performed, scored, and designed by finkle [sic]. A series of interconnected episodes that utilize true events from 1993, refracted events from finkle’s own life and a liberal dash of pulp fiction. The piece creates a queer kaleidoscopic journey that examines the power of one’s voice to reclaim the past and speak out.
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The TheaterMakers Studio presents the 4th annual TheaterMakers Summit Nov. 14-15, hosted by Julie James.
Naila McKenzie, Drew Gasparini, Nicholas Edwards, Felicia Fitzpatrick, Frank Dilella, Marc Hershberg, Blake Ross, and many more.
Christopher Jackson, Alan Menken, Jessie Mueller, Ben Brantley, Paul Tazewell, Justin Guarini, Dori Berinstein, Charlotte St. Martin, Michael Arden, Sonya Tayeh, Brian Moreland, Asmeret Ghebremichael, Thomas Schumacher, Tom Kitt, and many more.
This 2-day event aims to unite aspiring writers, producers, directors, actors, and other theatre professionals and fans alike with industry leaders to learn about and discuss the business of Broadway. The weekend will offer a series of panels and presentations on topics ranging from How Theater Comes Back, Streaming: Monetization Methods and Business Models to Make You Money (Even During a Pandemic), Equality: How We Can All Work to Raise Voices of BIPOC On and Off Stage, Safety: Creating a Safe Space for Audiences, Actors, and Your Team During the Pandemic and Beyond, and much more…
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NY City Center will stream An Evening with Audra McDonald on Wed. Dec. 9 at 7:30 PM ET (with encore viewings though Dec. 16), with music direction by Andy Einhorn.
The concert will serve as City Center’s 2020 gala.
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Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater presents a reading of Ana Caro’s The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs: Valor, Agravio Mujer on Mon. Nov. 16 at 7:30 PM ET, directed by Melia Bensussen.
Anita Castillo-Halvorssen, Helen Cespedes, Natsica Diaz, Carson Elrod, Anthony Michael Martinez, Sam Morales, Alfredo Narciso, Ryan Quinn, Luis Quintero, and Matthew Saldivar.
A comedy of wild intrigue and lively ingenuity in which Leonor crossed geographical boundaries and defies social expectations of gender in order to bring her fickle lover to justice and restore her lost honor.
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Beverly Hills’ The Wallis will present two Hershey Felder events:
* A PARIS LOVE STORY — LIVE from FLORENCE, featuring Fedler as Claude Debussy, will stream Sun. Nov. 22 at 5 PM PT (and On-Demand Nov. 23-29). 
here.
* TCHAIKOVSKY — LIVE from FLORENCE will stream Sun. Dec. 20 at 5 PM PT (and On-Demand Dec. 21-27). here.
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Beverly Hills’ The Wallis will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its founding with DreamBuilders: From Post Office to Box Office, a virtual benefit, on Thurs. Dec. 3 at 6:30 PM PT, hosted by Debbie Allen and Nigel Lythgoe. Proceeds benefit the Hope @ The Wallis Resiliency Fund, a crucial source of philanthropic support for The Wallis during its unanticipated and lengthy closure due to the global pandemic.
Jeremy Irons, Daniel Hope, Patrice Rushen, Sheléa, Tamyra Gray, Lily Zager, and the Debbie Allen Dance Academy.
Dreambuilders will provides a fascinating 25-year look-back at The Wallis’ remarkable history, from its origins in 1933 as the City of Beverly Hill’s historic post office, to its transformation into a world class performing arts venue, which embraces both classic and modern architecture and opened its doors to tremendous critical acclaim in 2013. The breathtaking 70,000-square-foot facility, quickly became a dynamic cultural hub and community resource where local, national and international artists share their artistry with ever-expanding audiences, and the eclectic programming it presents mirrors the diverse landscape of Los Angeles and its location in the entertainment capital of the world.