Today’s Highlights:
Tales From the Wings: A Lincoln Center Theater Celebration conversation & song, featuring Patti LuPone (Anything Goes), Audra McDonald (Carousel), Rosemary Harris (A Delicate Balance), Steven Pasquale (A Man of No Importance), Paulo Szot (South Pacific), Seth Numrich (War Horse), Ruthie Ann Miles (The King and I), Jordan Donica (My Fair Lady), Bartlett Sher (Oslo), and Lileana Blain-Cruz (2021-22 upcoming season), begins FREE streaming at 7 PM ET here (through May 17).
The Sound Inside, by Adam Rapp, directed by Robert Falls, featuring Mary Beth Fisher and John Drea, begins livestreaming at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.
2021 MAC Awards presentation livestreams for FREE at 7 PM ET here.
NYC’s Symphony Space 2021 Gala, directed by Annette Jolles & Joel Fram, featuring Kate Baldwin, Britney Coleman, Nikki Renee Daniels, Jason Gotay, Jeff Kready, Laura Osness, Rashidra Scott, Nathaniel Stampley, Sally Wilfert, and Tony Yazbeck, along with the world premiere of a new dance work choreographed by Sara Brians, featuring Saki Masuda, Michelle Mercedes, and Devin L. Roberts, livestreams at 7 PM ET.
Watch on the Rhine benefit reading, by Lilllian Hellman, directed by Sarna Lapine, featuring Ellen Burstyn, Mary Beth Peil, Jeremy Shamos, Carla Gugino, Alan Cox, Sasha Diamond, Alfred Enoch, Luca Padovan, Gabriella Pizzolo, and Neel Sethi, livestreams here at 8 PM ET (and available on demand through May 17).
TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever, by James Ijames, directed by Pascale Forestale, featuring Dru Sky Berrian, Jordan Pearson, Tah-Janay Shayone, Sadiyah Dyce Stephens, and Jared Troilo, concludes streaming at Boston’s SpeakEasy Stage Company.
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Video: Stars in the House, a celebration of David Katz’s 21st birthday, with special guests Brenda Braxton, Liz Callaway, Ann Hampton Callaway, Gavin Creel, Colin Donnell, Andy Karl, Audra McDonald, Lou Mirabal, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Patti Murin, Kelly O’Hara, Orfeh, Jack Plotnick, Juli Rudetsky-Wesley, and Marc Shaiman. (1:58:02)
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“Live from Gramercy Park at The Players,” a world premiere 9-part series, is now available on Broadway On Demand, hosted and music directed by Lance Horne. Only $10.99 for the entire series.
Robin De Jesus, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Brendan Maclean, Sxip Shirey, Samora Pinderhughes, Bridget Barkan, Molly Pope, Amy G, Emma & The Hungry Trutch & Erin Markey, Karine Plantadit, Elizabeth Davis, Bill Bower, and more.
The series features evenings of eclectic entertainment that celebrate the best of New York City’s cultural landscape and is dedicated to presenting celebrated music, theater, and cabaret stars, while also introduction dynamic rising talent.
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A new revival of Into the Woods will run Apr. 16 – July 9, 2022 at the Old Vic Theatre, directed by Terry Gilliam & Leah Hausman.
Casting and additional information TBA.
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A concept album of Johanna Telander’s Kalevala: The Musical will be released on a date TBA.
Ramin Karimloo, Alice Ripley, Jewelle Blackman, Marina Pires, Natalie Toro, and Kay Trinidad.
The musical, which combines pop, folk, world music, and jazz, follows two children on a fantasy adventure through an ancient haunted forest.
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The HBO period dram, “The Gilded Age,” will premiere in 2022.
Jeanne Tripplehorn, Christine Baranski, Carrie Coon, Cynthia Nixon, Morgan Spector, and Denée Benton, Audra McDonald, Donna Murphy, Kelli O’Hara, Michael Cerveris, Debra Monk, Katie Finneran, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Kristine Nielson, and John Douglas Thompson, with Louisa Jacobson, Taissa Farmiga, Blake Ritson, Simon Jones, Harry Richardson, Thomas Cocquerel, and Jack Gilpin.
In this epic drama series, the story begins in 1812 – introducing young Marian Brook, the orphaned daughter of a Union general, who moves into the New York city home of her thoroughly old-money aunts Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook. Accompanied by Peggy Scott, an accomplished African-American woman, Marian inadvertently becomes enmeshed in a social war between one of her aunts, a scion of the old-money set, and her stupendously rich neighbors, a ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife, George and Bertha Russell. In this exciting new world that is on the brink of the modern age, will Marian follow the established rule of society or forge her own path?
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An Evening with Michael Feinstein will stream Sat. May 15 at 3 & 8 PM ET (yes, it’s ET) at Indiana’s The Palladium.
Melissa Manchester
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon will run June 11 – Sept. 19 (opening June 18) at the Foutain Theatre, directed by Judith Moreland.
Leea Ayers, Matthew Hancock, Mara Klein, Hazel Lozano, Rob Nagle, Kacie Rogers, Vanessa Claire Stewart, and Pam Trotter.
A modern-day Black playwright is struggling to find his voice. He adapts his favorite play, the Octoroon, a 19th-century melodrama about illicit interracial love written 7 years after Uncle Tom’s Cabin. What ensues is an upside-down world where racial stereotypes challenged and brutally satirized. A highly stylized reality is created to tell the story of an octoroon woman (a person who is 1/8 black) and her quest for identity and love.
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Cabaret will begin performances in early November at the Playhouse Theatre (link TBA). The creative team is TBA.
Eddie Redmayne (Emcee) and Jessie Buckley (Sally Bowles), with more TBA.
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Enid Graham’s Do Not Go, My Love will stream Sat. June 12 at 8 PM ET at NY’s Hudson Stage Company (link TBA), directed by Robert Sella.
Enid Graham and Robert Sella.
A call to a government financial helpline turns into more, as two strangers reach through the bureaucracy and technology to find their common humanity and moments of grace and connection.
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Video: A message from Patti LuPone.
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Evan Stern’s “Vanishing Postcard” is now available here, and on all podcast platforms.
Stern travelled to small towns all over his home state to chronicle great stories about dance halls, juke joints and greasy spoons from the funny and scrappy survivors who still dance, make music and have a beer or two at these wonderful places. A fascinating glimpse into a part of American which may not be around that much longer.
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A reading of Ben Jonson’s Sejanus, His Fall, adapted & directed by Nathan Winkelstein, will stream Mon. May 17 at 7:30 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater (and available through May 21).
Laila Robins (replacing Kate Burton), Denis O’Hare, Shirine Babb, Grantham Coleman, Keith David, Manoel Felciano, Matthew Rauch, Liv Rooth, Stephen Spinella, Emily Swallow, Raphael Nash Thompson, Tamara Tunie, and James Udom
The tragedy of epic proportions is an incisive portrayal of political cronyism, sycophancy, and power. Tiberius is the Emperor of Rome. Sejanus is his right-hand man. But – in a society where books are burnt, “knowledge is made a capital offencse,” and free men have become “the prey of greedy vultures and spies” – factions are forming behind each of these charismatic leaders. The linguistically rich play has startling significance today in its exploration of treason and totalitarian tyranny. Sejanus sets his sights on Emperorship. No one can stop him. His fall is inevitable.
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Steven Brinberg’s On A Clear Day You Can See SIMPLY BARBRA Forever will take place Thurs. June 10 at 7 PM ET at NYC’s Green Room.
At this time, there is no food and beverage service inside the cabaret theatre. However, the New Tickets purchased include a $10 food and beverage credit that can be enjoyed in any of their outlets: the adjoining outdoor terrace and indoor dining space. This voucher can be collected at the Box Office starting 3 hours prior to showtime.
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Cambridges A.R.T. will stream its Spring Celebration on Sat. June 5 at 7:30 PM ET,
Sara Bareilles, Gavin Creel, V (formerly Eve Ensler), Sergio Trujillo, Jack Noseworthy, and more TBA.
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Avatar the Musical, by Dori Berinstein & Mark Peikert, is now available here and on most podcast platforms. directed by Berinstein.
Alex Brightman, Ariana Debose, Andrew Barth Feldman, James Monroe Iglehart, Ramin Karimloo, Ilana Levine, Lesli Margherita, Mauricio Martinez, Bonnie Milligan, Ashley Park, George Salazar, Jake Smith, Sarah Stiles, Michael Urie, Lillias White, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Patti Murin, Sir Tim Rice, Adrienne Warren, with special appearances by Damian Bazadona, Joe Benincasa, Haven Burton, Matt Britten, Gordon Cox, Alan Cumming, Frank DiLella, Greg Evans, Scott Farthing, Felicia Fitzpatrick, David Gordon, Julie James, Natasha Katz, David Korins, Alex Lacamoire, Danny Marin, Peter Marks, Rick Miramontez, Lynn Nottage, Mark Peikert, Michael Riedel, Justin “Squigs” Robertson, Jordan Roth, Paul Tazewell, Paul, Wontorek, and Tom J. Callahan & Marci Kaurman Meyers.
It’s a star-studded extravaganza on the red (no wait…yellow) carpet. Times Square is completely transformed in Zoey’s version of Pandora. But all that glamour is barely masking the rampant tension backstage. The pressure is crushing as the recently voiceless diva, Emma-Olivia, prepares to take the stage on Opening Night. But where is she? And just how many push-ups did Stavros do before it’s curtain up? Will Kay even acknowledge Bobby’s existence? And is that really Charles, reappearing after his many months away after the botched dimpleplasty surgery?
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Cast members from 2016’s The Wilderness, by Kyle Jarrow & Lauren Worsham, will reunite on Wed. May 26 at 7 PM ET here for a concert presentation.
Lilli Cooper, Lauren Worsham, Kyle Jarrow, David Blasher, Jeff Fernandes, Lindsey Ford, Sharone Syegh, Jamie Mohamdein, and Kevin Wunderlich.
The Wilderness is an annual purging of doubts and rears aided by the telling of a rock fairy tale about two girls raised to believe they must never venture into the dark woods, and what happens when the do. Part concert and part ritual, the show blends fact and fiction while inviting the audience to participate.
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CA’s Ojai Playwrights Conference will present its Connection on Sat. June 12 at 8 PM ET/5PM PT, to benefit the OPC 2021 season.
Contributing Writers: Luis Alfaro, Jon Robin Baitz, Father Greg Boyle, Bill Cain, Culture Clash, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Danai Gurira, Samuel D. Hunter, David Henry Hwang, Julia Izumi, James Morrison, Seamus Morrison, Jeanine Tesori, and Charlayne Woodard.
Performers TBA.