Today’s Highlights:
Jericho, by Jack Canora, directed by Marsha Mason, featuring Jill Eikenberry, C.K. Allen, Eleanor Handley, Jason O’Connell, Michael Satow, and Carol Todd, begins streaming on demand at New Normal Rep.
The Past is the Past filmed production, by Richard Wesley, directed by Oz Scott, featuring Jovan Adepo and Ron Cephas Jones, concludes FREE streaming at Manhattan Theatre Club.
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Video: Stars in the House, a Floyd Collins Cast Reunion, with special guests Jason Danieley, Chris Innvar, Martin Moran, Theresa McCarthy, Cass Morgan, Jesse Lenat, Tina Landau, Adam Guettel. (2:15:22)
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Nina Segal’s ASSEMBLY will stream Sat. Mar. 20 at 2:30 PM ET at the Donmar Warehouse, directed by Joseph Hancock.
Angie Lieu, Brian McGinnis, David Cunningham, Jenneba Sie-Jalloh, Josiah Phoenix, Karen Walkden, Martin Fisher, Michael Turney, Patrick Burrows, Paul Ringo, Pen Riley, Rita Barry, Sadhbha Odufuwa-Bolger, Stephen Rooney, Ubah Egal, Victoria Valcheva, and Youyangg Song.
Imagine the future. However you choose to imagine it. Now imagine it in your hands. Mixing live performance, animation, and sound, the piece examines the impact of humans on nature and what we might build together for a better futures. It’s about trying, failing, and trying again. In times of emergency, it’s about hope.
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Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater presents two livestream readings:
Gallathea (Mar. 15 at 7:30 PM ET), by John Lyly, directed by Emma Rosa Went, featuring Olivia Rose Baressi, Helen Cespedes, Nathanial P. Claridad, Yonatan Gebeyehu, Amy Jo Jackson, Layla Khoshnoudi, Rami Magron, Christopher Michael McFarland, Jason O’Connell, Aneesh Sheth, David Ryan Smith, and Zo Tipp. A queer love story set inside the landscape of classical myth. In order to avoid becoming dinner for a sea monster, Gallathea and Phillida are sent into the forest dressed as boys. Meanwhile, three shipwrecked brothers set out to seek their fortunes, Cupid stirs up his usual trouble, nymphs fall for mortals, and Neptune – God of the Sea – waits to make his move.
Galatea (Mar. 22 at 7:30 PM ET), by MJ Kaufman, directed by Will Davis. featuring Ty Defoe, Jo Lampert, Even Lindley, Aneesh Shesh, Futaba Shioda, and TL Thompson. A trans love story set against the backdrop of a climate crisis. Loosely based on John Lyly’s Gallathea, MJ Kaufman’s new play tells the story of two young women from a village threatened with flooding, who escape to the nearby woods disguised as boys and fall in love.
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Tonight at the London Coliseum solo concert series in March, all streaming at 7 PM ET here:
Mar. 6: Ramin Karimloo
Mar. 13: Sharon D. Clarke
Mar. 20: Cassidy Janson
Mar. 27: Carrie Hope Fletcher
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Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love will stream Mar. 6-7 here, directed by Amina LaManna.
Kalean Ung (May), Sam Breen (Eddie), Shaun Bedgood (Martin), and Thomas Ashworth (The Old Man).
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The Importance of Being Earnest: A Radio Play will stream Mar. 8-21 at Laguna Playhouse, directed by Michael Raver.
Lauren Molina, Nick Cearley, and Nathan Lee Graham.
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SIX will return to the Lyric Theatre on Fri. May 21 at 50% capacity.
Social distancing at indoor venues expected to remain in place until June 21
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NY Governor Cuomo has announced the long-awaited return of live indoor performances across the state will commence Apr. 2 with the re-opening of a significant number of Flex Venues, as part of an ongoing systematic effort to help jumpstart NYC’s struggling live entertainment sector.
NY PopsUp was established to help revitalize the spirit and emotional well-being of NY citizens through the energy of live performances set over 100 days throughout NYC and the state.
New safety protocols will also serve as the pilot program to re-open Flex Venues, include the following culture hubs:
The Apollo
Park Avenue Armory
St. Ann’s Warehouse
The SHED
Harlem Stage
La MaMa
National Black Theatre
The Glimmerglass Festival’s Alice Busch Opera Theater
In April, select Broadway theaters will open their doors to audiences for the first time since Mar. 12, 2020, with a series of special NY PopsUp programs, and will put in motion safety protocols that will eventually be employed for Broadway’s return. NYPopsUp, the Tribeca Film Festival, and The Festival at Little Island will together bring a total of more than 1,000 performances to New York Stage by Labor Day (note: some have already occurred), signaling an event unmatched in scale and unrivaled in scope.
Per New York State’s Department of Health, attendee capacity of any performance must my limited to the lesser of 33& of the maximum occupancy for the particular are or 50 people, up to a maximum of 150 attendees, within a 33% maximum occupancy limit for the particular area so long as all attendees receive and appropriate negative diagnostic test result prior to the event.
Please note that, given the impromptu nature and surprise element of the pop-up format, not all performances will be announced in advance. Please follow @NYPopsUP on Twitter and Instagram for the latest updates, or simply click here.
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Disney+‘s live-action “Pinocchio,” written by Chris Weitz & Robert Zemeckis, will begin production in April in the U.K., directed Zemeckis. The release date is TBA.
Tom Hanks (Geppetto), Cynthis Erivo (Blue Fairy), Luke Evans (The Coachman), Benjamin Ainsworth (Voice of Pinocchio), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Voice of Jiminy Cricket), Keegan-Michael Key (Voice of Honest John), and Lorraine Bracco (Voice of the new character, Sofia, the seagull).
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Video: Kerry Ellis performs “Memory” with heartfelt new lyrics by Jon Monie.
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Maestra Music presents Amplify 2021 on Mon. Mar. 29 at 8 PM ET, directed by Kate Baldwin, and hosted by Brooks Ashmanskas & Andréa Burns. The benefit will support Maestra’s programs providing support, visibility, and community for female, non-binary, transgender, and gender non-conforming music makers in the theater industry.
A Pre-show will begin at 7 PM ET), with Maestra Music founder Georgia Stitt.
The event sill feature stories, conversations, and musical performances by Brandon Victor Dixon, Tanya Birl, Kenita Miller, Shelley Thomas, Eva Noblezada & Reeve Carney, Kirsten Childs, Helen Park, Rona Siddiqui, Britt Bonney, Kristy Norter, Dionne McClain-Freeney, Meg Zervoulis, Kat Sherrell, Nicole Rebolledo, and Bernadette Peters.
Post-show virtual hangouts available to higher level contributors: Gavin Creel and Celia Keenan-Bolger… Stephanie J. Block, Teal Wicks, Micaela Diamond… Jenn Colella and Rob McClure… Nikki M. James & Andrew Rannells… Ashley Park & Erika Henningsen… and Caitlin Kinnunen & Isabelle McCalla.
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“8-Bit Christmas,” directed by Michael Dowse, is currently filming. The release date on HBO Max is TBA.
Neil Patrick Harris, Winslow Fegley, June Diane Raphael, and Steve Zahn.
A humorous and heartfelt look back at the adventures of childhood. Set in suburban Chicago in the late 1980s, the story centers on ten-year-old Jake Doyle’s herculean quest to get the latest and greatest video game system for Christmas.
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May Adrales has been selected as The Lark’s new artistic director, with the announcement arriving less than a week after John Clinton Eisner shared his retirement from the Off-Broadway company.
Adrales returns to The Lark after nearly a decade at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, which she joined as a board member in 2012 and became associate artistic director of in 2017.
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Michel Legrand, Didier van Cauwelaert & Jeremy Sam’s Amour will stream Apr. 2-4 here, directed by Meg Fofonoff.
Derrick Baskin, Adam Pascal, Rachel York, Christiani Pitts, Drew Gehling, Kara Lindsay, Kevin Massey, Jennifer Sánchez, Thom Sesma, and Vishal Vaidya.
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Stephen Schwartz, David Stern & Michael Scheman’s SNAPSHOTS: A Musical Scrapbook continues through Mar. 7 at Off-Broadway’s York Theatre, directed by Daniel C. Levine.