Today’s Highlights:
* Barbecue benefit reading, written & directed by Robert O’Hara, featuring Colman Domingo, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Annie McNamara, S. Epatha Merkerson, Metcalf, David Morse, Kristine Nielsen, Tamberla Perry, and Heather Simms, streams at 8 PM ET. Pay-what-you-can tickets at Today Tix.
* One Night Only: The Best of Broadway benefit concert, in support of BC/EFA, featuring Barbra Streisand, Antonio Banderas (with his Spanish cast of A Chorus Line), Sutton Foster, Brittney Mack, Rob McClure, Mary-Louis Parker, 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, John Stamos, Aaron Tveit, Blair Underwood, Vanessa Williams, and Susan Kelechi Watson, airs at 8 PM on NBC (check local listings).
* “The Fifth Annual Broadway Bee” FREE benefit contest, hosted by Rebecca Feldman and Jay Reiss, with special guests Michael Park, Seth Rudetsky, Sarah Hutchings, Paige Davis, Jessie Hooker-Bailey, Kim Exum, Patric Page, Susie Carroll, Afra Hines, and Lee Aaron Rosen, livestreams at 7 ET here.
* Season for Joy concert, starring Melissa Errico, with music direction by Tedd Firth, streams at 8 PM ET at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre.
* Darius de Haas: Let Me Carry You This Christmas concert streams at 7 PM ET at NYC’s Birdland.
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Video: “Stars in the House,” a Red Bucket Follies celebration, with highlights from past Red Bucket Follies events.(1:40:26)
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Holly Stars’ Death Drop continues streaming through Dec. 17 at London’s Garrick Theatre.
Monét X Change, Courtney Act, LoUis CYfer, Anna Phylactic, and Vinegar Strokes.
Set in the early 90s, Death Drop sees our queens attend a party to die for (literally) on Tuck Island. As each guest reveals the sordid secrets of their suspicious past, they start disappearing one-by-one, leading to a bone-chilling, gut-busting conclusion as the culprit is revealed.
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Halley Feiffer’s Between the Two Humps will livestream only once, on Thurs. Dec. 17 at 6:30 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater, directed by Trip Cullman.
Peppermint, Portia, Noah Robbins, and Kara Young.
Joseph and Mary are at each other’s throats. Giving birth to the Messiah is, like, important and stuff but is it worth this trek to Bethlehem through the desert on a camel? Are we there yet?
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Broadwaysted’s newest 3-part holiday radio play, Twas the Night of Broadwaysted!, by Kevin Jaeger & Jason Pomerantz, is now available here.
James Monroe Iglehart, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Julia Murney, Kara Lindsay, Colin Donnell, Patti Murin, Aaron J. Albano, Nikisha Williams, Hayley Podschun, Elliott Mattox, Kelvin Moon Loh, Jeremy Abram, Jay Schmidt, and more.
The hilarious and heartfelt story of the magical journey the three Broadwaysted hosts take to rekindle their holiday spirit. In Part One, host Bryan Plofsky rekindles his spirit on a magical train!
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A conversation with cast members from Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! will take place Mon. Dec. 21 at 7 PM ET at NYC’s 92Y, hosted by Ruthie Fierberg.
Karen Olivo, Aaron Tveit, Danny Burstein, Sahr Ngaujah, and Robyn Hurder.
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Theatre Royal Stratford East has announced 3 new productions for early 2021, which will be presented live:
* The Sun, The Moon, and The Stars (Feb. 3-20, opening Feb. 5), by Dipo Baruwa-Etti, directed by Nadia Fall. Casting TBA. Femi is visited by her brother’s ghost. He takes her into the past, revealing the final moments before his murder. But with a lack of evidence and eyewitnesses considered unreliable, Femi is determined to set things right herself.
* After The End (Mar. 3-20, opening Mar. 5), by Dennis Kelly, directed by Lyndsey Turner. Casting TBA. A city under attack from a nuclear blast. As the dust settles, Louise wakes to find herself in a fallout shelter with Mark, the colleague who has saved her life. They have enough water and food to last two weeks. Now they just need to find a way of surviving each other.
* Extinct (Apr. 21 – May 8), by April De Angelis. Director and casting TBA. What drives a person to rebel? What is the journey a citizen has to take before they decide to disobey the laws of their own country? From psychiatrists to vicars, classroom assistants to actors – What is their story?
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August: Osage County, a 2014 audio production at LA Theatre Works, directed by Bart DeLorenzo, is now available to stream for FREE through Feb. 7, 2021 here.
Tara Lynne Barr (Jean Fordham), Shannon Cochran (Barbara Fordham), Rosemarie DeWitt (Ivy Weston), Deanna Dunagan (Violet Weston), Kimberly Guerrero (Johnna Monevata), Francis Guinan (Charlie Aiken), Scott Jaeck (Sheriff Deon Gilbeau), Ron Livingston (Little Charles, Robert Marria (Steve Heidebrecht), Mariann Mayberry (Karen Weston), Robert Pine (Beverly Weston), Rondi Reed (Mattie Fae Aiken), and David Warshofsky (Bill Fordham).
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Andrea McArdle in concert will stream Dec. 17-20 here, with music direction by Steve Marzullo.
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The Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51 is now available on Audible Plus, directed by Susan Stroman.
Anna Chlumsky, David Corenswet, Stephen Kunken, Aasif Mandvi, Omar Metwally, and Ben Rosenfeld.
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The Doo Wop Project: Live In Your Home For The Holidays will stream Sat. Dec. 12 at 8 PM ET here.
Charl Brown, Dwayne Cooper, John Michael Dias, Russell Fischer, Dominic Nolfi, and Sonny Paladino.
Krystal Joy Brown.
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“Rachel Brosnahan in Conversation with Judith Light” will stream Mon. Dec. 14 at 4:30 PM ET at NYC’s 92Y.
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Spotlight on Plays from Broadway’s Best Shows will stream its final virtual production of the season, Barbecue, written & directed by Robert O’Hara, from Dec. 10-14, here (tickets are only $5) in support The Actors Fund.
Laurie Metcalf, Colman Domingo, Carrie Coon, David Morse, S. Epatha Merkerson, Carrie Coon, Tamberla Perry, Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Heather Simms, David Morse, Kristine Nielsen, and Annie McNamara.
The O’Mallerys have gathered in their local park to share some barbecue and rousing straight talk while they await their youngest sister’s arrival. What appears to be a festive occasion is actually something quite different.
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Andrew Barth Feldman’s Broadway Whodunit returns with “The Fifth Mystery: A Very Hanukkah Whodunit” on Sun. Dec. 13 at 6 PM ET here.
Alex Brightman, Micaela Diamond, Sky Lakota-Lynch, Ethan Slater, Alex Wyse, Andrew Barth Feldman, Troy Iwata, and Grace Kaufman.
Sleuth your way to a solution as detectives in the live, unscripted event.
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Due to the pandemic, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has decided to combine 2020 and 2021 into one award consideration period.
“The group will make any further determinations based on what the theater world looks like in 2021.
“The LADCC will also be honoring online/streaming productions taking place during this pandemic. Awards aside, we want to take this opportunity to thank the artists whose online work has kept the hope and spirit of L.A. theater alive in this trying time.
“We are inspired by the resilience of our local theater companies and artists as they continue to find ways to keep on creating, and we look forward to seeing our artistic community together again in the near future.”
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One performance only of Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, in support of The Actors Fund, will take place Fri. Jan. 1 at 7 PM ET (and will be available for streaming for 72 hours).
Available only on the TodayTix App.
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Holidaze Harmony, starring Terron Brooks and Kamilah Marshall, will stream Dec.16 at 8 PM at Burbank’s Garry Marshall Theatre (and available through Dec. 20 on demand).
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A Merry Little Christmas Carol will stream Sat. Dec. 19 at 12 PM ET and Sat. Dec. 26 at 8 PM ET at Westport Country Playhouse, written & directed by Mark Shanahan.
Paxton Whitehead (Ebenezer Scrooge), Brian J. Carter (Bob Cratchit), Joel de la Fuente (Fred), Sana ‘Prince’ Sarr (Street Urchin/Peter Cratchit), Triney Sandoval (Jacob Marley), Mia Dillon (Mrs. Dilber), Geneva Carr (The Ghost of Christmas Past), Mark Shanahan (Mr. Creakle), Pear Sun (Fan), Richard Henry (Old Fezziwig), Joe Delafield (Dick Wilkins), Danielle Davenport (Belle), Britney Coleman (The Ghost of Christmas Present), Sarah Manton (Mrs. Cratchit), Catherine Shanahan (Martha Cratchit), Theo Adamson (Tiny Tim), John Gromada (The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come), and Mark Lamos (Narrator).