Today’s Highlights:
Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose, written by & starring Ed Dixon, directed by Eric Schaeffer, begins streaming here.
We Are Out There virtual production, by Joe Kinosian, Kellen Blair & Daniel Schloss, featuring Cher Alvarez (Sunny), E. Faye Butler (Coral), Alex Goodrich (Matt), Christopher Kale Jones (John), Jaye Ladymore (Ellen), and Joe Kinosian (Others), begins FREE streaming at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (use promo code ALIEN for FREE access).
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Years concert, including songs from Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cats, Sunset Boulevard, and Phantom of the Opera, featuring Max Von Essen, Liz Callaway, Ali Ewoldt, Ethan Slater, Danny Gardner, and Emily Larger, begins streaming at 7 PM ET here.
Broadway’s Future Songbook Series, hosted by John Znidarsic & Mindi Dickstein, featuring Alex Becker, Clare Bierman, Dahlak Brathwaite, Zane Bridwell, Carrie Caffrey, Katherine Catusciello, Alstrael Evans, Spencer Grubbe, Katie Hazdovac, Erika Ji, Anastasia Dextrene S. Johnson, William Karras, Bela Kawalec, Kerry Kazmierowicz Trimm, Earl Marrows, Maggie Moe, Erica Molfetto, Sam Norman, Eliza Randall, Mikey Rosenbaum, Yuri Shibata, Andrew Strano, Brooke Trumm, and Joshua Vranas, streams for FREE at 5:30 PM ET here.
The Forest reading, by Lia Romeo, directed by Diana Wyenn, featuring Carlyle King, Krishna Smitha, Leandro Cano, and Ronaldo Medina, livestreams for FREE at 6 PM PT North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company.
Wine in the Wilderness reading, by Alice Childress, directed by Dominique Rider, featuring Amara Janae Brady, Keith Randolph Smith, Brandon Gill, Chris Myers, and Pat Bowie, concludes streaming for FREE at Off-Broadway’s Roundabout Theatre.
The Sisters Rosensweig filmed production, by Wendy Wasserstein, directed by Anna D. Shapiro, featuring Kathryn Hahn (Gorgeous), Lisa Edelstein (Sara), Tracee Chimo Pallero (Pfeni), Jason Alexander, John Behlmann, Chris Perfetti, Kathryn Newton, and James Urbaniak, concludes on-demand streaming at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre.
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GRACE NOTES Quiz: Missing Links, by Jim Bernhard
Fill in each blank with one missing word that will yield the titles of two plays or musicals.
1. Fun ____ of Flowers
2. All _____ Idiot
3. The Band’s _____ to a Small Planet
4. The Lion ______ of Hearts
5. Prince of _____ Bound
6. Three Tall _____ on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
7. Blossom _____ and the Conways
8. War _____ Your Wagon
9. Wait Until _____ Victory
10. Twelfth ______ Must Fall
Scroll down for the answers…
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2021 Drama League Award winners. Click here for the complete list of winners.
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Video: Stars in the House, a Godspell reunion, with special guests Stephen Schwartz, Bob Garrett, Peggy Gordon, Joanne Jonas, Gilmer McCormick, Don Scardino, Mark Planner, and George Salazar. (1:47:09)
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Hadestown will resume performances Sept. 2 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Casting TBA.
Additionally, the national tour will open officially Oct. 15 at the Kennedy Center. Click here for the tour schedule. Casting TBA.
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Cleaveland Playhouse‘s filmed production of Idris Goodwin’s Blackademics, directed by Ansley Valentine, continues streaming through May 26 at 7 PM ET here.
Mariah Burks, Colleen Longshaw, and Lisa Marie Schueller.
A select table reserved at an exclusive café inspires a ravenous appetite from African American professors Ann and Rachelle. From seed to slaughter, their host has the evening to fully planned — down to the last chair. This comedic culinary celebration turns from crudité to cruelty as our scholars banter, debate, and battle each other to claim their literal seat at the table.
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TDF has announced a raffle to win tickets to see SIX, Hamilton, Thoughts of a Colored Man, Mrs. Doubtfire, Moulin Rouge, and many other Broadway shows. Click here for more information and to enter the raffle.
Raffle: $5 suggested donation per entry, or $25 for 6 entries.
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Trey Ellis & Shelton Becton’s Dorothy Dandridge: The Musical will have a private, in person, NYC reading on Thurs. May 27, directed by Tamara Tunie. The musical is slated for 2-week workshop with Amas Musical theatre. 
dorothythemusical@gmail.com
N’Kenge, Aisha de Haas, Dawn Derow, Benjamin Eakeley, C.K. Edwards, Dewitt Fleming Jr., Jared Grimes, Marva Hicks, Joh Preator, Natalie Renee, and Stuart Zagnet.
The musical charts the meteoric rise of a remarkable actor, singer, and dancer from chitlin circuit barnstorming as a young girl to smoldering chanteuse integrating the Waldorf Astoria to her legendary performance in Otto Preminger’s “Carmen Jones,” garnering her the first ever Best Actress Oscar nomination for a Black actor. Her story, however, takes a sharp turn after this peak. She discovers Hollywood in the 1950s and 60s has no place for a leading black woman, no matter how talented and beautiful. An neither do the men in her life, from legendary tap dancer Harold Nicholas to Preminger. For a time, like her friend Marilyn Monroe, booze and pills become her only lovers, but Marilyn’s suicide at the height of her fame jolts Dorothy out of her downward spiral. But is it too little too late?
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Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre has announced its next concert series, to take place at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie.
New Faces Sing Broadway 1979 (June 12 at 8 PM CT), directed by Brianna Borger, with music direction by Linda Madoina, and featuring Micah Beauvais, Adia Bell, Chloe Belongilot, Wesly Anthoney Clergé, Haley Gustafson, Drew Mitchell, Mia Nevarez, Laura Quiñones, Christopher Ratliff, and Nathe Rowbotham. 
here.
Broadway In Your Backyard (Sat. Aug. 7 at 8 PM CT), directed by Michael Weber, with music direction by Justin Akira Kono. Performers TBA. Link TBA.
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Dear Evan Hansen will begin previews Oct. 26 and re-open Dec. 11 at the Noel Coward Theatre,
Sam Tutty (Evan Hansen ) and more TBA.
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North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company will present its Summer Playwrights Festival, offering readings of 26 plays in 12 days, each followed by a talkback. Casting TBA.
Week One:
Origin Story (July 15 at 6 PM PT), by Nathan Alan Davis, directed by Joanie Schultz.
Here is Where (July 16 at 6 PM PT), by Vasanti Saxena, directed by Jully Lee.
Stuck with Fred (July 17 at 2 PM PT), by Timothy Nolan, directed by Taylor Nichols.
Modern Minstrelsy (July 17 at 6 PM PT), by Kermit Frazier, directed by Gregg T. Daniel.
M-Theory: a play told in 11 dimensions (July 18 at 2 PM PT), by Jami Brandli, directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky.
Five One-act Plays (July 18 at 6 PM PT): The Peace of Home, by Mildred Inez Lewis, directed by Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx…. How Grandma Met the Rat Pack, by Greg Tulonen directed by Bruce katzman….. Our Lady of Broad Street, by Jane Denitz Smith, directed by Susan Vanita Diol…. Interview with a Cat, by Jim Geoghan, directed by Stewart J. Zully…. and 50 Love Letters, by Mercilee Jenkins, directed by Emily Jerez.
Week 2
Earworm (July 22 at 6 PM PT), directed by Ken Sawyer.
Stoop Pigeons (July 23 at 6 PM PT), by Christin Eve Cato, directed by Bruce A. Lemon Jr.
The Big Red Naugahyde Booth (Or, Would-Be Elks) (July 24 at 2 PM PT), by Jennie Webb, directed by Laura Stribling.
Refugee Rhapsody (July 24 at 6 PM PT), by Yussef El Guindi, directed by Risa Brainin.
Family Tree (July 25 at 2 PM PT), by Erin K. Considine, directed by Lauren Patrice Nadler.
Waiting for Godinez (July 25 at 6 PM PT), by Daniel A. Olivas, directed by Sara Gurerrero.
Week 3:
Day of Saturn (July 29 at 6 PM PT), by Leviticus Jelks, directed by Melissa Coleman-Reed.
Beloved (July 30 at 6 PM PT), by Arthur Holden, directed by Cameron Watson.
The Outside World (July 31 at 2 PM PT), by Dayenne C. Walters, directed by Dan Martin.
The Sweater Curse (July 31 at 6 PM PT), with book, music & lyrics by Scooter Pietsch, directed by Adam John Hunter.
Burst (Aug. 1 at 2 PM PT), by Rachel Bublitz, directed by Christina Carlisi.
Five One-act Plays (Aug. 1 at 6 PM PT): Census, by Susan Miller, directed by Abigail Deser ….. Medusa Does a Re-do, by Angela J. Davis, directed by Inger Tudor ….. The Secret Keeper, by David Meyers, directed by Oran Zegman ….. The Restaurant Play, by Scott Gibson, directed by Darryl Johnson ….. and After the Deluge, by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Tracey Silver.
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A series of 3 productions at the Harold Pinter Theatre, titled RE:MERGE have been announced:
Walden (continues through June 12), by Amy Berryman, directed by Ian Rickson, and featuring Gemma Arterton, Fehinti Balogun, and Lydia Wilson. After returning from a year-long Moon mission, Cassie, a NASA botanist, finds herself in a remote cabin in the woods, where her estranged twin sister, Stella, a former NASA artchitect, has found a new life with climate activist Bryan. Old wounds resurface as the sister attempt to pick up the pieces of the rivalry that broke them apart.
J’Ouvert (June 16 – July 3), by Yasmin Joseph, directed by Rebekah Murrell, and featuring Annice Boparai, Gabrielle Brooks, Sapphire, and Zuyane Russell. 2017. Carnival is here. The streets of Notting Hill are alive with history amidst the soca, sequins, and endless feathers, Jade and Nadine are fighting for space in a world that should be theirs.
Anna X (July 10 – Aug. 4), by Joseph Charlton, directed by Daniel Raggett, and featuring Emma Corrin and Nabhaan Rizwan. Immersed in an additive world of front-row fashion shows, private views, and endless parties. Anna and Ariel find themselves struggling to keep up with New York’s dazzling social elite. Har fall will two outsiders got to construct the identities they want? And at what price?
GRACE NOTES Quiz: Missing Links
- Fun House of Flowers
- All American Idiot
- The Band’s Visit to a Small Planet
- The Lion King of Hearts
- Prince of Broadway Bound
- Three Tall Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
- Blossom Time and the Conways
- War Paint Your Wagon
- Wait Until Dark Victory
- Twelfth Night Must Fall