Today’s Highlights:
“The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 4,” by Jennifer Ashley Tepper, released in Paperback and Kindle here.
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Video: Jim Caruso’s Cast Party variety show, with special guests Sam Gravitte, Luke Hickey, Lumiri Tubo, Tania & Jeff Grubbs, and Jonathan Karrant. (1:45:16)
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A revival of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson will run in 2022 at a theatre TBA, directed by LaTanya Richardson Jackson. Following its Broadway run, the same cast will star in its film adaptation.
Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Brooks, John David Washington, and more TBA.
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A selection of videos in honor of International Women’s Day:
“Super You Drive-in Concert” (through Apr. 1),featuring mind-blowing female performers, new, iconic superheroines & an instantly singable, anthemic modern rock score. The heartwarming story of a woman remembering the power of her own voice. Watch here.
“Olympia” documentary in which Olympia Dukakis models how to live life with blazing courage. Watch here.
“Kaye Ballard – The Show Goes On!” Kaye recalls her remarkable life in show business accentuated with extensive rare footage and photographs offering an entertaining glimpse of her rich and varied talents. Watch here.
“The Girls in the Band” tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking journeys from the late 1930s to the present day. Watch here.
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The Time Traveler’s Wife, adapted from Audrey Niffenegger’ novel,is currently in development, with hopes of a world premiere in 2022 at a theatre TBA. The musical has a book by Lauren Gunderson, a score by Joss Stone & Dave Stewart, and lyrics by Kait Kerrigan. Bill Buckhurst will direct, with music supervision by Nick Finlow. Production dates and additional information TBA.
The story follows a married couple, Clare and Henry, as they deal with Henry’s genetic disorder that sends him hurtling through time and space.
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Video: “Studio Tenn Talks: Conversations with Patrick Cassidy” offering A 30-year reunion of Assassins discussion, with special guests Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Weidman, Jerry Zaks, Paul Gemignani, and Michael Starobin, as well as original cast members Patrick Cassidy, Victor Garber, Greg Germann, Annie Golden, Lyn Green, Jonathan Hadary, Eddie Korbich, Terrence Mann, Debra Monk, William Parry, and Lee Wilkof. (2:37:46)
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Becca, a benefit concert honoring Rebecca Luker, will stream Tues. May 4 at 7:30 PM ET, written by Sarah Rebell & Schonbert, hosted by Frank DeLella, with music direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell & Joseph Thalken. 
here (only $20, with 100% of the ticket sales & donations benefiting ALS research).
(who will share stories and songs from Becca’s career) include Laura Benanti, Sierra Boggess, Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Santino Fontana, Judy Kuhn, Howard McGillin, Norm Lewis, Kelli O’Hara, and Sally Wilfert.
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Video: Richard Skipper celebrates director Sara Louise Lazarus. (1:03:00)
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Dance Lab New York will stream “First Try” on Mon. Mar. 29 at 8 PM ET (and remain available through May 12).
Joshua Beamish, Andy Blankenbuehler, Hope Boykin, Robbie Fairchild, Lauren Flower, Gierre Godley, Francisco Graciano, William Isaac, Lorin Latarro, Lauren Lovette, Asia Pyron, Maiya Redding, Yoshito Sakuraba, Bradley Shelver, Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Preeti Vasudevan, and Brooke Wendle.
First Try will take audiences deeper into the art form of choreography and highlight the personal journeys of Tilly Evans-Krueger, Ja’ Malik, and Ariel Rivka. All three participated in DLNY’s Nexus Labs, its new digital platform for incubation created in response to the challenges faced by social distancing. Buttressed by reflections from Prince about the founding of DLNY and interviews with other Dance Lab alumni, the film serves as inspiring love letter to dance makers.
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Manhattan Theatre Club presents Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain, to stream Mar. 11-21, directed by Evan Yionoulis. 
here.
Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery, and Bradley Whitford.
Siblings Nan and Walker reconnect with their childhood friend Pip when they come home to settle their father’s estate. The discovery of a diary brings us back in time to their parents’ lives in the 1960s and to the truth of the legacy that connects the generations.
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Walter Tevis’ “The Queen’s Gambit” is being developed into a musical. Read more here.
The story of Beth Harmon, an orphan turned chess prodigy. The novel, published in 1983, depicts Beth’s journey from Kentucky to Paris to Moscow and beyond. It is a chronicle of a young woman’s struggle to overcome a broken past and the demons of addiction, set against the practices and prejudices of a male-centered world.
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(all available through Apr. 1):
“Kaye Ballard – The Show Must Go On.” Watch here.
“The Girls in the Band,” by Judy Chaikin & Edward Osei-Gyimah, directed by Chaikin. The poignant, untold stories of the all-girl bands and the talented female jazz and big band instrumentalists with their fascinating, groundbreaking journeys from the late ’30s to the present day, as they continue to struggle for recognition in a man’s world. Watch here.
“Olympia” documentary. A heart-wrenching story of, Olympia Dukakis, a woman finding her own voice on her own terms to assert a gigantic creative force into the world. Watch here. Watch here.
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Jeffrey Richards’ “Spotlight on Plays” has announced its Spring season, which will all be livestreamed on Stellar at 8 PM ET, each for a limited time. Proceeds will support The Actors Fund.
The Thanksgiving Play (Mar. 25), by Larissa Fasthorse, directed by Leigh Silverman.
Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous (Apr. 9), by Pearl Cleage, directed by Camille A. Brown.
Watch on the Rhine (date TBA), by Lillian Hellman, directed by Sarna Lapine.
Ohio State Murders (date TBA), by Adrienne Kennedy, directed by Kenny Leon.
Dear Elizabeth (date TBA), by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Kate Whoriskey.
The Baltimore Waltz (date TBA), by Paula Vogel, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz.
The Sisters Rosensweig (date TBA), by Wendy Wasserstein, directed by Anna D. Shapiro.
Debbie Allen, Ellen Burstyn, Bobby Cannavale, Kathryn Hahn, Kevin Kline, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, Keanu Reeves, Heidi Schreck, Alia Shawkat, Heather Alicia Simms, Alicia Stith and many more.
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Off-Broadway’s Mint Theatre is offering 6 months of broadcasts on demand:
Katie Roche (through Mar. 28), by Teresa Deeby. The play’s mercurial heroine is a servant girl whose romantic ambitions reach for the heavens.
Women Without Men (through Mar. 21), by Hazel Ellis. A workplace drama laced with biting humor, set in the teacher’s lounge of a private girls’ boarding school in Ireland in the 1930s. The play explores the clash of conflicting natures and petty competitions that erupt amongst the school’s cloistered teaching staff.
A Picture of Autumn (Mar. 29 – May 23), by N.C. Hunter. The play is about an aging, once prosperous family living in an aging, once grand manor, and the echoes of Chekhov are unmistakable, if subdued and Anglicized.
The Fatal Weakness (May 17 – June 13), by George Kelly. The story of Ollie Espenshade – an incurable romantic who discovers, after 28 years of marriage, that her husband is a lying cheat.
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The world premiere of Miles Malleson’s play Yours Unfaithfully (published in 1933, but never produced), continues through Mar. 21 at Off-Broadway’s Mint Theatre, directed by Jenn Thompson.
Todd Cerveris, Mikaela Izquierdo, Elisabeth Gray, John Hutton, and Max von Essen.
An insightful, intelligent, and exceptionally intimate peek behind the closed doors of an open marriage. Stephen and Anne, blissfully happy for 8 years, are committed to living up to their ideas. When Stephen, a writer who isn’t writing, begins to sink into a funk of unproductive moodiness, Anne encourages him to see out a fresh spark. Can their marriage survive uncompromising generosity, sacrifice and love?
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Joss Stone, Dave Stewart, Lauren Gunderson & Kait Keffigan are developing a new musical based on “The Time Traveller’s Wife,” directed by Bill Buckhurst, with music supervision by Nick Finlow. A timeline, theatre, and additional information is TBA.
The musical follows the love story of Henry and Clare, whose relationship takes place out of order due to his rare condition that causes his genetic clock to periodically reset. He never knows where he’s going next, except that he’ll always come back to Clare, but at different ages.