Today’s Highlights:
* Making Friends, virtual production written by & starring Tom DeTrinis, directed by Drew Droege, begins streaming at LA’s IAMA Theatre Company (and available through Jan. 11).
* Andrea McArdle in concert, with music direction by Steve Marzullo, begins streaming here (and available through Dec. 20).
* Merry Christmas Darling: Heidi Kettenring Sings Karen Carpenter begins streaming on demand at Goodspeed Musicals.
* Between the Two Humps reading, by Halley Feiffer, directed by Trip Cullman, featuring Peppermint, Portia, Noah Robbins, and Kara Young, livestreams at 6:30 PM ET (with no other options to watch), at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater.
* Christmas With the Tabernacle Choir concert (filmed in 2019), featuring Kelli O’Hara and Richard Thomas, streams at 8 PM on PBS (check local listings).
* Norm Lewis in concert, with special guests Sierra Boggess, and Pastor Bobby Lewis. streams at 8 PM ET at 54 Below (and on demand through Dec. 31).
* “Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020” documentary, produced by Laura Benanti, centering on the struggles and triumphs of seven theatre kids of the class of 2020 as they face school musical cancellations in the wake of a global pandemic, premieres on HBO Max.
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Video: “Stars in the House” spotlights Estella Scrooge, featuring David Bryant, John Caird, Carolee Carmello, Clifton Duncan, Paul Gordon, Patrick Page, Lauren Patten, and Betsy Wolfe. (1:22:16)
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A Holiday Auction, presented by The Costume Industry Coalition and the FIT Foundation, is now available here.
The auction will raise funds to support CIC artisans and business owners who create and supply costumes for the entertainment industry. It will also support equitable access and opportunities to education, tools, and resources for FIT students, who are the future leadership of the costume and creative industries.
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The film adaptation of London’s “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” has been delayed again. The release of the film, which was first set for Oct. 2020, then Jan. 2021, is now in limbo.
Max Harwood (Jamie), Richard E. Grant (Hugo/Loco Chanelle), Sharon Horgan (Miss Hedges), and Sarah Lancashire (Margaret).
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Ensemble Studio Theatre has announced its 38th Marathon of One-Act Plays, which will return LIVE in 2021 when it is safe to do so. The marathon will be fully comprised of work from artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of color.
The theatre will curate the lineup from submissions of plays that have never been produced in New York, and are 10-30 minutes in length.
Submission will be open from Feb. 1-28, 2021. 
Click here for guidelines and additional information.
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Pasadena Playhouse has released Mark Holloman, Erin Quinn Purcell’s “In Development: Iceboy,” directed by Kevin Chamberlin, with music direction by Jesse Vargas. (22:31) Hysterical!
Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Adam DeVine, and Laura Bell Bundy.
The absolutely untrue story of a10,000-year-old Neanderthal who’s discovered frozen in the Arctic, brought to New York, and adopted by Vera Vimm, the biggest Broadway star of 1938. But once thawed, Iceboy becomes an acting sensation who’s talents threaten to upstage the once mighty Vera. It’s “All About Eve” if only Eve were a caveman. The event offers a presentation of 4 new songs and a rare early look at the project.
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A cross-continental developmental reading of Houdini took place recently, directed by Federico Bellone.
Ramin Karimloo (Harry Houdini) and Laura Osnes (Bess Houdini)
The book writer, composer and complete design team will be announced shortly.
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Video: Lea Salonga in Concert, now streaming on PBS. (55:25)
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The Actors Fund presents the premiere of The American Pops Orchestra’s Drag Out the Holly: A Holiday Drag on Sat. Dec. 19 at 9 PM ET via a private broadcast. Register here.
Alexis Michelle, Jujubee, Peppermint, and Lagoona Bloo.
The star-studded performance, filmed at Meridian International Center, brings together celebrated LGBTQ+ performers and The American Pops Orchestra to spread holiday cheer.
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Watch: The final installment of The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues of 2020, with plays by Will Arbery, Kenneth Longergan, Roger Q Mason, and more, and featuring Matthew Broderick, Kerry Butler, Anika Larsen, Daniel Dae-Kim, Hugh Dancy, and more.
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Theater Resources Unlimited has announced its party and Fundraiser, with a screening of John Carid & Paul Gordon’s Estella Scrooge, to stream Fri. Dec. 18 at 4:30 PM ET.
Betsy Wolfe, Clifton Duncan, Lauren Patten, Carolee Carmello, Danny Burstein, and more.
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Video: Laura Osnes performs “What’s the Use of Wond’rin” from Carousel.
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George Stiles & Anthony Drewes’ Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure, a newly re-mastered, 80-minute feature film, will stream Dec. 19 – Jan. 1 at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, directed & choreographed by Amber Mack, with music direction by Kory Danielson. The piece was filmed by multiple cameras in front of a live audience.
Renjin Altay (Storyteller), Roberta Burke (Mrs. Darling/Cecco), Jonathan Butler-Duplessis (Nana/Bill Jukes), Sean Patrick Fawcett (Smee), Cameron Goode (John Darling), Carer Graf (Michael Darling), Christina Hall (Starkey), James Konicek (Mr. Darling/Captain Hook), Michael Kurowski (Tootles), Colin Lawrence (Curly), John Marshall Jr. (Slightly Soiled), Johnny Shea (Peter Pan), Elizabeth Stenholt (Wendy Darling), and Travis Austin Wright (Nibs).
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Carlyle Brown’s The African Company Presents Richard III will stream Mon. Jan. 11 at 7:30 PM ET (and available through Jan. 15) at Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater, directed by Carl Cofield.
Clifton Duncan, Edward Gero, Dion Johnstone, Paul Niebanck, Antoinette Robinson, Charlayne Woodard, and more TBA.
In 1821 — 40 years before the abolition of slavery, and 50 years before Black Americans earned the right to vote — two productions of Richard III are on the rialto. One is presented by the African Comapny of New York, known for putting on plays in a downtown Manhattan theatre to which both Black and white audiences flocked. The other is helmed by Stephen Price, an uptown theater impresario who — fearful of the African Company’s production, which is garnering large white audiences — manipulates the law an employs his privilege to shutter the competition. Shakespeare is the cultural battleground in this inventive, emotional, and energetic retelling of a pivotal moment in American history.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival has released the world premiere of Stacy Osei-Kuffor’s Animals on Audible Plus, directed by Whitney White.
Madeline Brewer, Jason Butler Harner, William Jackson Harper, and Aja Naomi King.
Lydia and Henry’s dinner guests are about to arrive when Henry’s spontaneous marriage proposal threatens to burn the evening to a crisp. Wine bottles and years of unspoken tensions are uncorked, and, before the evening is through, Lydia must confront her long-held fears and feelings if she’s going to commit to a future with Henry.
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Josh Groban’s First Holiday Livestream will take place Sat. Dec. 19 at 8 PM ET here.
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The North American tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musical, which had previously been scheduled to launch Nov. 21 this year, will now run Feb. 26, 2022 – Apr. 24 (opening Mar. 11) at Chicago’s Nederlander Theatre. 
here.
Casting and additional information TBA.
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The stage-to-screen adaptation of “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” has been pushed back again, this time with no new date set for its release. The movie was scheduled to arrive in theatres on Feb. 26, 2021, after already being delayed to January 2021 from a fall 2020 premiere.
Apparently Disney pulled the film from its 20th Century Studios docket, with no reason given for the delay.