Today’s Highlights:
Diamond Delirium party & fundraiser, directed by Steven Cuevas, hosted by Tom Hewitt & Ed Staudenmayer, and featuring Alice Ripley, Jack O’Brien, Marc Shaiman, Sally Struthers, Kate Baldwin, Morgan James, Graham Rowat, Christina Bianco, Kyle Taylor Parker, Kerstin Anderson, Belinda Allyn, Paige Turner, and more, streams at 6:30 PM ET at Forestburgh Playhouse.
Bay Street Theater‘s 30th Anniversary Season Kick-Off Benefit, a wine-tasting event, streams at 6 PM ET.
Hadestown Cast Reunion event, an evening of unscripted stories and gossip, featuring Anais Mitchell, Rachel Chavkin, Reeve Carney, Eva Noblezada, Amber Gray, and Patrick Page, livestreams at 8 PM ET here.
MasterVoices presents Myths and Hymns ( Chapter 2), by Adam Guettel, with special guests Shoshana Bean, Daniel Breaker, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Michael McElroy, Ailyn Pérez, and John Lithgow, streams for FREE at 6:30 PM ET.
Freedom Rider excerpts & conversation, featuring writers Richard Allen & Taran Gray, a special appearance by one of the last surviving Freedom Riders: Charles Person, and performers Jennifer Sun Bell, Kevin “Blax” Burroughs, Anthony Chatmon II, Tyla Collier, Meagan Flint, Deon’te Goodman, Payson Lewis, Eboni Muse, Michael William Nigro, Ebony Pollum, Leonard Patton, Scott Redmond, Nygel Robinson, Clayton Snyder, Erin Vanderhyde, Brynn Williams, and Davon Williams, streams for FREE at 7 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Barn.
Virtual Bar Crawl, hosted by Tim Dolan, where you can virtually explore the quirky, fascinating histories of some of Broadway’s most famous eateries through rarely seen photographs and stories, streams at 8 PM ET here.
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Video: Stars in the House, spotlighting Black Male Excellence in the Arts, hosted by Darius de Haas, featuring LeRoy McClain, Jared Grimes, and Blair Underwood. (1:15:32)
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London’s Old Vic has announced its One Voice monologue series, to stream Mon. Mar. 8 at 10 AM GMT, written by Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Regina Taylor.
Putting A Face On, written & directed by Kiri Pritchard-McLean, featuring Susan Wokoma. 
A funny, dark and ultimately empowering monologue about gaslighting and how, despite positive strides toward gender equality, domestic abuse remains prevalent within so many women’s daily lives.
Aisha (the black album), by Regina Taylor, directed by Tinuke Craig, featuring Jade Anouka. The play traces the history of Black women’s political power, from disenfranchisement to mobilization against the backdrop of the pandemic, The Black Lives Matter movement, and the 2020 US election.
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MD’s Olney Theatre presents a filmed version of its 2020 production of Jordan Harrison’s The Amateurs on Mon. Mar. 15 at 7 PM ET, directed by Jason King Jones.
Evan Casey, John Keabler, James Konicek, Michael Russotto, Emily Townley, and Rachel Zampelli.
An intrepid troupe of pageant players races across medieval Europe, struggling to outrun the Black Death. The arrival of a mysterious outsider sends Hollis, the leading lady, in search of answers that can only be found off-script… and soon the 14th century plague begins to look like another, more recent one. This wildly inventive and funny play examines the evolution of human creativity in a dark age: when does a crisis destroy us, and when does it open new frontiers?
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“Teddy,” by Laurence Luckinbill, is now available for purchase here.
July 1918. Preparing to speak to an eager audience, 61-year-old Teddy Roosevelt receives the telegram that all parents of children who serve in war fear most: His son Quentin’s plane has been shot down in a dogfight over France. His fate is unknown. Despite rising fear for his youngest song, Teddy takes the stage to speak to his beloved fellow citizens. It is, he says, “my simple duty.” But the speech evolves from politics and the war, into an examination of his life, the choices he’s made, and the costs of his “Warrior Philosophy.”
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Off-Broadway’s Keen Company will stream The Year of Magical Thinking Mar. 13-17.
Kathleen Chalfant.
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Video: Marsha Mason and Jack O’Brien discuss the history of the American theatre industry and its future. (45:54)
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NYC’s 92Y has announced upcoming events with Harvey Granat:
Frank Loesser (Mar. 4 at 12 PM ET), with special guests Susan Loesser and Marissa Mulder. 
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Marilyn and Alan Bergman (Apr. 22 at 12 PM ET), with special guests Alan Bergman, Christine Andreas, and Ann Hampton Callaway. here.
Johnny Mercer (May 13 at 12 PM ET), with special guests Robert Kimball and Stephanie Blythe. here.
Jule Styne (June 17 at 12 PM ET), with special guests Barry Kleinbort and Veronica Swift. here.
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Video: Santino Fontana sings both roles in “Love is an Open Door” from “Frozen.”
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RIP: Douglas Turner Ward, who co-founded NYC’s Negro Ensemble Company in 1967, died Feb. 20 at the age of 90.
The impetus for the Negro Ensemble Company was a 1966 essay Mr. Ward wrote, titled “American Theater: For Whites Only?,” for The New York Times. At the time, a double bill of his plays Happy Ending and Day of Absence were running at St. Mark’s Playhouse (which would later become home base for N.E.C.). Among its propositions was the immediate formation of “a permanent Negro repertory company of at least Off-Broadway size and dimension.”
The publication of the piece resulted in a $434,000 grant from Ford Foundation Vice President of Humanities and the Arts W. McNeil Lowry to make this call to action a reality. Mr. Ward served as artistic director, with Robert Hooks as executive director and Gerald S. Krone as administrative director. Two years later, they were named recipients of a Special Tony Award.
Prior to N.E.C.’s founding, Mr. Ward had written and acted for the stage; he had appeared in The Iceman Cometh at The Circle in the Square, and as an understudy in the original Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun.
Directing followed. He both directed and performed in Joseph A. Walker’s The River Niger and Leslie Lee’s The First Breeze of Summer, which both transferred from St. Mark’s Playhouse to Broadway. The former won the 1974 Tony for Best Play, and saw Mr. Ward nominated for his performance.
Ward also wrote & directed Brotherhood, as well as directing the world premiere of A Soldier’s Play.
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Video: Donna Vivino performs “She Used To Be Blonde,” a parody of Sara Bareilles’ “She Used To Be Mine.”
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“The Contemporary Musical” will stream Mondays at 5 PM PT at Playhouse Live (although you can watch when you want on demand). Classes continue through Apr. 26. 
here.
In the class, you’ll explore some of the most important musicals of the past few decades, including Dreamgirls, Nine, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Into the Woods, Rent, Hairspray, Avenue Q, Wicked, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, and many more.
Video: Watch the 1st class here for FREE.
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An encore performance of Jagged Live In NYC: A Broadway Reunion Concert, in support of RAINN, Learn to Cope, GLAAD, and Color of Change, will stream Sat. Mar. 6 at 7 PM ET here. The concert will be followed by a live Q&A.
Elizabeth Stanley, Celia Rose Gooding, Sean Allan Krill, Derek Klena, Lauren Patten, Kathryn Gallagher, Antonio Cipriano, and more, alongside the show’s Broadway band.
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“The Outfit,” written & directed by Graham Moore, will begin shooting in London in March. The release date is TBA.
Mark Rylance, Johnny Flynn, Zoey Deutch, Dylan O’Brien, and more.
Leonard (Rylance) is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he ends up operating a small tailor shop in Chicago, making gorgeous garments for the only people around who can afford them – a family of vicious gangsters.
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Theresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates will stream continues through Mar. 14 at NJ’s George Street Playhouse, directed by Peter Flynn.
Andréa Burns
The play follows a single mother of a teen daughter as she goes in search of cute shoes, the perfect dress and a romantic table for two at a great restaurant.
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The crime drama “The Outfit,” written by Graham Moore & Jonathan McClain, and directed by Moore, will begin production soon. The timeline and release date are TBA.
Mark Rylance, Dylan O’Brien, Zoey Deutch, and Johnny Flynn.
The film follows Leonard (Rylance), an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. But after a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.