Today’s Highlights:
* The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs: Valor, Agravio Mujer FREE benefit reading, by Ana Caro, directed by Melia Bensussen, featuring Anita Castillo-Halvorssen, Helen Cespedes, Natsica Diaz, Carson Elrod, Anthony Michael Martinez, Sam Morales, Alfredo Narciso, Ryan Quinn, Luis Quintero, and Matthew Saldivar, livestreams at 7:30 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater.
* “Plays in the House” FREE reading of Shaw’s Man and Superman, adapted, directed & narrated by David Staller, featuring Robert Cuccioli, Claybourne Elder, Santino Fontana, Nikki M. James, Christine Toy Johnson, Rob McClure, John-Andrew Morrison, Margaret Odette, Vishaal Reddy, and Lenny Wolpe, streams at 8 PM ET here.
* “Macbeth” film adaptation, directed by Rupert Goold, starring Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood, begins FREE streaming at 2 PM ET here (and available through Nov. 22).
* “Cabaret Conversations,“ with special guest Chita Rivera, streams at 6 PM ET at NYC’s 92Y (scroll down).
* Tickets on sale today here for An Evening with Audra McDonald, as part of NY City Center’s 2020 Gala, which streams Dec. 9 at 7:30 PM ET.
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GRACE NOTES Quiz – Eyes on the Prizes by Jim Bernhard
1. What was the first Tony Award winner for Best Play on Broadway (1948)?…A Streetcar Named Desire…The Silver Whistle…Mister Roberts…Summer and Smoke
2. The Obie Awards for off-Broadway productions were founded in 1956 by…a group of off-Broadway producers…the Dramatists Guild…Thornton Wilder…The Village Voice
3. What playwright won the first two New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Play (1936 and 1937)?…Robert E. Sherwood…Maxwell Anderson…Clifford Odets…Eugene O’Neill
4. The Outer Critics Circle Award was founded in the 1949-50 season by…critics for foreign-language publications…critics who reviewed only outdoor productions…women critics…critics for newspapers outside the New York metro area and other special interest publications
5. In 1986 the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers founded an off-Broadway award named for the distinguished actress and producer…Stella Adler…Lucille Lortel…Lucille Ball…Uta Hagen…
6. Who was the first playwright to win a Nobel Prize in literature (1911)?…George Bernard Shaw…Henrik Ibsen…Anton Chekhov….Maurice Maeterlinck
7.Who is the only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1936)?…Eugene O’Neill….Robert E. Sherwood…Maxwell Anderson…Thornton Wilder
8. Who is the only playwright to have won four Pulitzer Prizes in drama?…Edward Albee…Eugene O’Neill…Robert E. Sherwood…Thornton Wilder
9. In 1984 the Society of West End Theatres Awards changed its name to…the BAFTA Awards…the Laurence Olivier Awards…the Henry Irving Awards…the Brittties
10. Who won the first Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance (1935)?…Katharine Hepburn…Maurice Evans…Paul Muni…Katharine Cornell
Scroll down for the answers…
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Video: “Stars in the House” offers “Three Pippins and Steven Schwartz,” with John Rubinstein, Michael Rupert, Dean Pitchford. (1:38:15)
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At This Theatre — Broadway’s Beginning, created by Tim Dolan, will take audiences on a virtual journey through Broadway’s beginnings on Tues. Nov. 17 at 9 PM ET, exploring the Main Stem’s origins from the southern end of the theatre district between 41st and 44th Streets. 
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Broadway’s early years are full of roof garden theatres, tap shoes, and theatrical con artists. Learn the true difference between a Broadway theatre and an Off-Broadway theatre and revel in the secrets hidden in plain sight in some of Broadway’s most famous venues. Tour-goers will hear how a show is created from the first rehearsal to opening night and all of the wild activity in between. 
As part of the purchase, audiences receive a downloadable map to follow Dolan’s virtual footsteps as he brings participants around town.
The next tour will be Broadway Ruins on Nov. 24.
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St. Paul’s Ordway CPA will present a holiday presentation of Sounds of Blackness’ The Night Before Christmas: In Concert Dec. 19-31.
Sounds of Blackness Vocalists: Jamecia Bennett, Nneka Costantino, Layce Dreamz, Kadejsha Kibble, Lorrie Lean, Ayenna Davis, Bridget Dawkins, Carrie Harrington, Micah Cherina Eubanks, Artisha Knight-Milon, Quintin Brown, Steve Dinkins, Len Jones, Ronnie Allen, Rodney Fair, Graydon Francis, and David Hurst.
Sounds of Blackness Musicians include Daryl Boudreaux, Gary Hines, Yohannes Tona, Darold McCray, Juan Navarro, Solomon Parham, Larry Robinson, Larry Sims, Billy Steele, and David Wright III.
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Video: 150+ performers and musicians present “All That Jazz,” in celebration of Chicago‘s 24th anniversary, including Ute Lemper, Sally Ann Triplet, Debbie Kurup, Bonnie Langford, Sue Kelvin, Ian Kelsey, Michael Greco, David Hasselhoff, and many more.
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Pending city approval, Virginia Stage will present a live, socially distanced production of A Christmas Carol Dec. 16-24, adapted & directed by Patrick Mullins.
Meredith Noël, Ryan Clemens, and Tyree Jones, all playing multiple roles.
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Luba Mason will celebrate her new album, “Triangle,” in a concert on Fri. Nov. 20 at 9 PM ET here.
A wholly unique, vibrant, new line-up using just voice, vibraphone, and bass. The concert is the live capture of the recording session.
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The 9-episode limited series, “The Gilded Age,” by Julian Fellowes, will premiere on HBO in 2021 (date TBA).
Christine Baranski (Agnes van Rhijn), Cynthia Nixon (Ava Brook), Audra McDonald, Kelli O’Hara, Donna Murphy, Debra Monk, Michael Cerveris, Katie Finneran, and Celia Keenan-Bolger, Kristine Nielsen, and John Douglas Thompson, with Carrie Coon, Denée Benton, Morgan Spector, Louisa Jacobson, Taissa Farmiga, Blake Ritson, Simon Jones, Harry Richardson, Thomas Cocquerel, Jack Gilpin, and Jeanne Tripplehorn.
The series follows Marian Brook, the daughter of a Southern general who, upon being orphaned, moves to New York City to live with her aunts.
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PA’s Bucks County Playhouse will release the world premiere special filmed version of A Christmas Carol, to run Nov. 28 – Jan. 23, 2021, adapted by Jefferson Mays, Susan Lyons & Michael Arden, conceived by Arden and Dane Laffrey.
Jefferson Mays (playing 50+ characters).
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Karen Mason stars in Broadway’s Great American Concert, which will stream Wed. Nov. 18 at 7 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s York Theatre Company (with encore performances Nov. 19-21), directed by Barry Kleinbort, with music direction by Alex Rybeck,
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Matthew Lopez’s “The Legend of Georgia McBride” will premiere on Netflix (date TBA),directed by Ryan Murphy.
Jim Parsons (Miss Tracy Mills) and more TBA.
A drag queen helps a young Elvis impersonator become a popular contemporary.
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North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company has announced that submissions are now being accepted for the 2021 Summer Playwrights Festival (July 15 – Aug. 1).
* Submissions will be accepted for SPF 12 between 12:01 Nov. 15, 2020 through 11:59 PM PT on March 15, 2021.
* Submission Fees: $20 for scripts over 30 pages (full length), and $15 for scripts under 30 pages (short form).
* Plays of all lengths (10-minute, one-act, full-length, and solo performances are eligible for submission.
* Official SPF 12 selections will be announced on May 1, 2021.
* Submission link: Click here.
* Click here for more information, or email roadtheatrecompanyspf1
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Matthew Lombardo’s Who’s Holiday!, starring Lesli Margherita, will stream Fri. Dec. 11 at 8 PM ET here, in support of BC/EFA, directed by Carl Andress. The event was filmed during the show’s 2017 run at Off-Broadway’s Westside Theatre.
The story of a middle-aged Cindy Lou Who, now residing in a beaten-down trailer in the snowy hills of Mount Crumpit. As she prepares to host a Christmas Eve party for her friends, she recalls her own perspective of that fateful night when she first met the Grinch, and the strange turn of events her life has taken for the past 40 years.
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GRACE NOTES Quiz answers: Eyes on the Prizes
- Mister Roberts won the first Best Play Tony Award. The previous year an award was given to Arthur Miller as Best Author for All My Sons.
- The Obie Awards were founded by The Village Voice.
- Maxwell Anderson won the first two New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, for Winterset and High Tor.
- The Outer Critics Circle Award was founded by critics for newspapers outside the New York metro area and other special-interest publications.
- The League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers founded an award named for Lucille Lortel.
- Maurice Maeterlinck was the first playwright to win a Nobel Prize in literature.
- Eugene O’Neill is the only American playwright to have won a Nobel Prize in literature.
- Eugene O’Neill is the only playwright who has won four Pulitzer Prizes in drama. (Robert E. Sherwood won four Pulitzers, three in drama and one in biography. Albee won three for drama, and Wilder won two for drama and one for a novel).
- The Society of West End Theatres Awards were changed to the Laurence Olivier Awards.
- Katharine Cornell won the first Drama League Distinguished Performance Award (for Romeo and Juliet).