Today’s Highlights:
* A Streetcar Named Desire audio production, directed by Robert O’Hara, featuring Joel Reuben Ganz, Joe Goldammer, Carla Gugino, Carmen M. Herlihy, Sullivan Jones, Brian Lucas, Audra McDonald, Stacey Raymond, Cesar J. Rosado, and Ariel Shafir, begins streaming at 3 AM ET (yes, that’s 3 AM) on Audible Plus at Williamstown Theatre Festival.
* Death Drop, a socially distanced production, by Holly Stars, featuring Monét X Change, Courtney Act, LoUis CYfer, Anna Phylactic, and Vinegar Strokes, begins previews at London’s Garrick Theatre.
* Manhattan Theatre Club‘s Old Friends | New Works: A Benefit for MTC, featuring Laura Linney, Jeremy Pope, Edie Falco, Simon Stephens, Elizabeth Strout, and Jason Michael Webb, streams for FREE at 7 PM ET.
* DreamBuilders: From Post Office to Box Office, a virtual benefit, hosted by Debbie Allen and Nigel Lythgoe, featuring Jeremy Irons, Daniel Hope, Patrice Rushen, Sheléa, Tamyra Gray, Lily Zager, and the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, streams at 6:30 PM PT at Beverly Hills’ The Wallis.
* I Miss The Music — Broadway Salutes the Erie Playhouse Give-What-You Can benefit concert, hosted by Brian Stokes Mitchell, with special guests Nick Adams, Jodi Benson, Ashley Blanchet, Sierra Boggess, Betty Buckley, Alan Campbell, Danny Burstein, Kennedy Caughell, Kim Criswell, Paige Davis, Sandy Duncan, David Green, Cris Groenendaal, Ann Harada, Dee Hoty, Devin Ilaw, Kimberly Immanuel, Judy Kaye, Lauren Kennedy, Beth Kirkpatrick, Blaine Alden Krauss, Beth Leavel, Joshua Morgan, Paige O’Hara, Patrick Page, Christine Pedi, Ron Raines, Jelani Remy, Noah J. Ricketts, Alice Ripley, Thom Sesma, Stephen Schwartz, Eric Sciotto, Douglas Sills, Kimber Elayne Sprawl, Sean Thompson, Kay Trinidad, Tamara Tunie, and Jim Walton, streams at 7 PM ET here.
* Time Stands Still reunion benefit reading, by Donald Margulies, featuring cast members from the 2010 production — Eric Bogosian, Brian d’Arcy James, Alicia Silverstone, and Laura Linney — streams at 8 PM ET (and available through Dec. 7). 
on TodayTix.
* “Classic Conversation,” with special guest Faith Prince, streams for FREE at 6 PM ET Off-Broadway’s Classic Stage Company.
* “Marilyn Michaels: Let There Be Light,” her 70th anniversary CD, released here (scroll down).
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Video: “Stars in the House,” offering an Elegies cast reunion, featuring j. Harrison Ghee, Jayne Houdyshell, Marisha Wallace, Robin Lord Taylor, and Vicki Lewis. (1:13:36).
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Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke with NBC New York on Dec. 1 to discuss various aspects of the coronavirus pandemic as it stands today, including his outlook on vaccine distribution in the hopefully near future and what that could mean for the return of live entertainment, particularly Broadway.
Click here to read the entire article.
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VA’s Signature Theatre has announced its 2021 season (all dates TBA):
* Simply Sondheim, directed & choreographed by Matthew Gardiner, with new orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, features Norm Lewis, Solea Pfeiffer, Conrad Ricamora, Emily Skinner, Awa Sal Secka, Bobby Smith, Tracy Lynn Olivera, and Donna Migliaccio.
* The Jam: Only Child, written & performed by Daniel J. Watts, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. 
Watts recounts his life as the only child of a single mother.
* Midnight at The Never Get, by Mark Sonnenblick, directed by Matthew Gardiner. The piece chronicles New York cabaret crooner Trevor Copeland’s love affair with songwriting partner Arthur during the social turbulence and upheaval of the 1960s.
* After Midnight: Celebrating the Duke Ellington Years, directed & choreographed by Jared Grimes, with music direction by Mark G. Meadows. The song and dance extravaganza is set to the swinging sounds of Duke Ellington, Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields, Harold Arlen, and more, and framed by the poems of Langston Hughes.
* Detroit ’67, by Dominque Morisseau. Director TBA. The piece follows two siblings whose lives are overturned by a stranger with a secret during a tumultuous summer amidst the 1967 race riots.
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Off-Broadway’s York Theatre presents York Musicals in Mufti (2018) — Jule Styne, Don Black & Jack Rosenthal’s Bar Mitzvah Boy on Mon. Dec. 7 at 7 PM ET, directed by Annette Jolles, with music direction by Darren R. Cohen.
Cast members Ben Fankhauser, Timothy Jerome, Neal Benari, Lori Wilner, and more.
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A Christmas Carol, adapted by Theresa Rebeck & Erin Daley, will stream Wed. Dec. 16 at 8 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s Primary Stages, directed by Rebeck. ($100 on Dec. 16, and Free Dec. 17-20) here.
Raúl Esparza (Scrooge), Mary Bacon, Abadi Bacon Leynse, Kimberly Chatterjee, W. Tré Davis, Davis Mason, Krysta Rodrigues, and Matthew Saldivar.
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Dennis T. Giacino & Fiely Matis’ Disenchanted! Stay-At-Home Version will stream Dec. 15 & 17 on Broadway on Demand, directed by Meg Fofonoff, with choreography by Luis Salgado, and music direction by Sean Mayes.
Diana DeGarmo, Micaela Diamond, Celia Rose Gooding, Liisi LaFontaine, Jaygee Macapuagay, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Gabrilla Pizzolo, and Alysha Umphress.
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Brave Hearts for Broadway presents Holidays from the Heart on Wed. Dec. 16 at 7 PM ET on Playbill.com (link not live ’til the day of), in support of The Actors Fund.
In addition to frontline and essential workers, Broadway & Hollywood talent will include Judy Norton, Judy Kuhn, Daryl Roth, Laurie Metcalf, Ann Harada, Deborah Tranelli, Isabella Cascarano, Allyson Tucker-Mitchell, Deven Ilaw, N’Kenge, Shoshana Bean, and more…
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Merry Christmas Darling: Heidi Kettenring Sings Karen Carpenter will be streamed on demand Dec. 17-27 here.
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Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater will livestream a benefit reading of Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher’s A King and No King on Mon. Dec. 14 at 7:30 PM ET (an available until Dec. 18 at 7 PM ET), directed by José Zayas.
Rajesh Bose, Robert Cuccioli, Edmund Donovan, Franchelle Stewart Dorn, Topher Embrey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Teresa Avia Lim, Cara Ricketts, Socorro Santiago, Reagan Tankersly, Craig Wallace, and CJ Wilson.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely in this delicious Jacobean tragicomedy. Arbaces, the King of Iberia, conquers Tigranes, King of Armenia, and offers him noble treatment — and his sister Panthea, for a wife. But it’s been awhile since Arbaces has seen Panthea, and when he does, he is seized with incestuous passion. Arbaces resists this forbidden love with all his might — until Panthea professes she loves him too! But now, what to do about Tigranes?
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Video: “Stay at Home,” performed by Ben Rauch, Rachel York, Christine Pedi, Kay Trinidad, Michael-Demby Cain, Tony Chiroldes, Rita Markova, Peter Brown, and Devon Goffman.
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The LA Philharmonic presents In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl, offering highlights of live performances from the past 10 years, hosted & conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. The series will premiere on Fri. Jan. 15, 2021 on PBS ( link TBA — check local listings).
(individual dates TBA): Kristin Chenoweth, Audra McDonald, Sutton Foster, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Bramwell Tovey, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Natalia Lafourcade, Los Ángeles Azules, La Santa Cecilia, Dianne Reeves, Christian McBride, Chucho Valdes, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Kamasi Washington, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, Cindy Blackman Santana, Wayne Shorter, Misty Copeland, Pablo Ferrández, Vin Scully, Carlos Vives, Café Tacvba, Katy Perry, Pink Martini, Thomas Wilkins, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Diego El Cigala, John Williams, and others.
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Jordan Fisher married Ellie Woods on Nov. 21 in a private after-hours ceremony at Disney World.
The couple were surrounded by a close circle of socially distant and masked friends and family at Cinderella Castle’s back courtyard.
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The New York City Gay Men’s Chorus presents Sweet Is the Sound: A Holiday at Home With (Chosen) Family, which will stream Dec. 18-27, directed by Roberto Araujo and hosted by L. Morgan Lee.
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Video: The 2020 Tappy Christmas Special, featuring five holiday classics is now available, hosted by Christopher Rice. (23:35)
Jessica Vosk), Ali Ewoldt), Jelani Remy (Ain’t Too Proud), Aisha Jackson, and Nick Rashad Burroughs, along with Keely Beirne, Matthew Borchers, Audra Bryant, Liz Byrne, Stephen Carrasco, Jovan Dansberry, Lili Froehlich, Rachel Hanson, Katie Hardin, Jessica Ice, Graham Keen, Kolby Kindle, Michal Kolaczkowski, Emily Kroft, Daniel Maldonado, Jerome Manning, Brian Martin, Stephanie Park, Ashley Peter, Brandi Porter, Hillary Porter, Julio Rey, Abbie Ruff, Jamard Richardson, John Tupy, Clay Thomson, and Shelly Walsh.
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Brave Hearts for Broadway, in support of frontline and essential workers through The Actors Fund, presents Holidays From the Heart on Wed. Dec. 16 at 7 PM ET at Playbill.com (link TBA).
Judy Norton, Judy Kuhn, Daryl Roth, Laurie Metcalf, Ann Harada, Allyson Tucker-Mitchell, Deborah Tranelli, Isabella Cascarano, Devin Ilaw, N’Kenge, Shoshana Bean, and more.