Today’s Highlights:
* Inside the Box world premiere by David Kwong, a virtual & interactive theatrical experience via Zoom, begins previews at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.
* LA Opera‘s Opera Happy Hour, with Jeremy Frank, streams for FREE at 4 PM PT (scroll down).
* Broadway Buskers virtual concert, with Taylor Iman Jones, streams at 7 PM ET on Facebook.
* Broadway Podcast Network‘s “Town Hall: E-Ticket to Broadway” with members of the Original Broadway Cast of Newsies!, streams for FREE at 8 PM ET.
* York Theatre‘s FREE panel discussion of its 2008 & 2018 Musicals in Mufti productions of Hallelujah, Baby, featuring directors Hope Clarke and Gerry McIntyre, as well as cast members Jen Cody, Latoya Edwards, Thursday Farrar, Aaron Lazar, Jarran Muse, Vivian Reed, Tally Sessions, Stephanie Umoh, Dathan Williams, along with James Morgan and Charles Wright, streams at at 7 PM ET.
* Ken Davenport’s “The Producer’s Perspectives LIVE!” podcast, with special guest Lea Salonga, streams for FREE at 8 PM ET here.
* NYC Ballet: All Balanchine, offering footage from the company’s Balanchine-choreographed works, streams at 8 PM ET.
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Video: “Stars in the House,” with guest host Brenda Braxton, featuring Lisa Dawn, Cody Renard Richard, and Mary MacLeod. (59:46)
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The 2020 Olivier Awards will be presented Sun. Oct. 25 at 3 PM ET here, which was pre-taped at the London Palladium, hosted by Jason Manford.
The event will feature acceptance speeches, unique performances, interviews, and more.
Click here to view the complete list of nominations.
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The Blank Theatre Living Room Series will stream Oct. 12 – Dec. 7 here, all on Monday evenings at 8 PM PT.
* Tablescape (Oct. 12), by Jeanette Farr, directed by Laura Stribling.
* The Snake God of Fiji (A Prequel to Hedda Gabler) (Oct. 19), by Katherine Vondy, directed by Desiree York.
* The Passion of M (Oct. 26), by David Robson, directed by Seth Reichgott.
* Early Days (Nov. 16), by Jeff Tabnick, director TBA.
* No Remedy (Nov. 23), by Ariella Carmell, director TBA.
* Wake the Body (Dec. 7), by Matthew Ackles, directed by Christopher James Raymond.
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Musical Theatre Guild (link TBA) will present Finding the Silver Linings on Sun. Oct. 4 at 5:30 PM PT/8:30 PM ET, with music direction by Brent Schindele.
Jill Marie Burke, Tal Fox, James Gleason, Joe Hart, Ron Christopher Jones, Michael Kostroff, Dino Nicandros, Helen Jane Planchet, Monica Quizz, Alyssa M. Simmons, and Paul Wong.
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Andre Gregory’s “This Is Not My Memoir” is now available on Kindle and Hardcover. 
Order here.
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Video: Jeff Daniels talks about playing Atticus Finch in To kill a Mockingbird, a special lesson he received from Justin Timberlake and the advice that he would give Joe Biden ahead of the first presidential debate.
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RIP: Tony Tanner died at his home in Los Angeles on Sept. 8 at the age of 89.
Born in London, Tanner worked in various British repertory theater companies during the 1950’s. By the early 1960s, he stepped in for Anthony Newley as Littlechap in Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, a role he reprised in the 1966 film adaptation.
Tanner made his Broadway debut replacing Tommy Steele in the original production of Half a Sixpence, and also appeared in No Sex Please, We’re British and Sherlock Holmes.
He directed & choreographed the Broadway production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, (receiving 2 Tony nominations) as well as directing & choreographing Something’s Afoot and Prince of Central Park. and directing A Taste of Honey and Gorey Stories on Broadway.
Charlatan, a one-man show he wrote and performed, which spotlighted Russian ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev, brought Tanner additional success later in his career,
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Video: Jim Parsons breaks down The Boys in the Band.
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Isabella Rossellini will star in virtual performances of Sex & Consequences on Oct. 16, 18, 24 & 25 here.
Streamed from Isabella’s Mama Farm on Long Island, this is a 40-minute comical but scientifically accurate show, on biodiversity and the multiple ways animals reproduce and have “babies.” The event will be followed by a Q&A with viewers.
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Video: London’s Hairspray cast performs “You Can’t Stop the Beat”
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Milwaukee Rep has been cleared by unions to re-open! and has announced its 2020-21 season:
The theatre has successfully collaborated with Actors’ Equity Association, the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees, United Scenic Artists and Stage Directors & Choreographers Society to develop safety protocols that will enable live performances to begin again on December 1, 2020 for Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, assuming conditions in the local area at the targeted start date support going forward. Milwaukee Rep is the first theater in the state of Wisconsin to be approved by all unions to reopen if COVID conditions allow.
2020-21 Season:
* Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol (Dec. 1-13), a solo show by Tom Mula, directed by Mark Clements, starring Lee E. Ernst.
* A.D. 16 (Feb. 5 – Mar. 7, 2021), world premiere by Cinco Paul & Bekah Brunstetter, directed by Stephen Brackett, with music direction by Christopher Youstra. What if your first crush really was perfect? Teenaged Mary Magdalene, who falls in love with the carpenter’s song next door… who happens to be a kid named Jesus. In her quest to impress him. Mary has to fend off a trio of 1st Century Mean Girls and a bunch of Beastie Boys-inspired wiseguys from Sanhedrin. She learns that getting Jesus to love you back is both easier — and harder — than she ever imagined.
* Ella Fitzgerald: The First Lady of Song (dates TBA), starring Alexis J Roston.
* McGuire (dates TBA), starring Anthony Crivello.
* Antonio’s Song/I Was Dreaming of a Son (dates TBA), world premiere by Dael Orlandersmith & Antonio Suarez.
* Nina Simone: Four Women (dates TBA), by Christina Ham.
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Karen Mason: Mason at Mama’s in March (2015) will stream Oct. 15 (8 PM ET), Oct. 17 (8 PM ET), and Oct. 18 (3 PM ET), directed by Barry Kleinbort, and music direction by Christopher Denny. 
here.
Karen performs fan favorites, selections from early in her lauded nightclub career, songs from her storied Broadway roles, and highlights from her most recent album.
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Video: Sierra Boggess and Julian Ovenden sing “Stranger in Paradise”
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MD’s Olney Theatre has announced its updated 2020-22 season:
* A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas (Nov. 24 – Dec. 27, 2020). Limited in-person & live stream.
* Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mar. 31 – May 2, 2021)
* The Thanksgiving Play (May 5 – June 6, 2021)
* Two Pianos, Four Hands (May 28 – June 20, 2021)
* The Music Man (June 11 – July 18, 2021)
* Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express (July 21 – Aug. 29)
* AD16 (Aug. 27 – Sept. 26, 2021)
* Beauty and the Beast (Nov. 5, 2021 – Jan. 2, 2022)
* Dance Nation (Mar. 1 – Apr. 2, 2022)
* Pippin (2022 dates TBA)
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Video: Jim Caruso’s Cast Party, with special guests Chita Rivera, Gary Burr, Avery Raquel, Frankie Moreno, Lisa Mordente, and Naiika Sings. (2:03:46)
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Goodspeed Musicals will present Get Happy: Angela Ingersoll Sings Judy Garland, live from Chicago, on Sun. Oct. 11 at 7 PM ET.
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Video: Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill cast members perform “All I Really Want,” featuring Celia Rose Gooding, Elizabeth Stanley, Lauren Patten, Sean Allan Krill, Kathryn Gallagher, Derek Klena, and Antonio Cipriano.