Today’s Highlights:
* Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, by Anna Deavere Smith, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, starring Patrese D. McClain, begins streaming on demand at Syracuse Stage.
* Black Butterfly reading, by Mary McCallum & N’Kenge, directed by Jerry Foley, featuring N’Kenge, Terence Archie, Tamara Tunie, Benjamin Eakley, Tess Deisz, Kevin Kilner, Tamika Lawrence, Jahzara Martina, and John Preator, streams for FREE at 7 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s Amas Musical Theatre.
* Love Noël: The Songs and Letters of Noël Coward, FREE benefit concert, written & devised by Barry Day, directed by Charlotte Moore, featuring Steve Ross and KT Sullivan, continues streaming here (on select dates through Feb. 20).
* Master Class with Mark Harris and A.O. Scott: Mike Nichols — A Life streams at 7:30 PM ET at NYC’s 92Y.
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Video: Stars in the House. In honor of Black History Month, Black Theatre United will take over Stars in the House every Tuesday in February.. Last night’s edition featured guest host NatTasha Yvette Williams, with special guests Linda Twine, Jordin Sparks, Angela Robinson, Rhonda Ross, Dr. Traci Gardner, Diamond White, and Olivia Manning. (1:07:08)
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2021 Golden Globe nominations (complete list) here.
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The Broadway production of Come From Away will be filmed in May, for a planned release in Sept, directed by Christopher Ahsley. The live filming will employ 222 people, including members of the Broadway cast, crew, and creative teams.
Casting and additional information TBA.
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North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company continues its reading series — Under Construction: The Full Lengths — through Feb. 22.
* Setting the Table, by Velina Hasu Houston, directed by Stewart J. Zully, featuring Shuko Akune, Merrick McCartha, Geoff Rivas, Nicole Royster, Zine Tseng, Blake Young Fountain, and Kara Hume.
* here comes the night, by Lisa Kenner Grissom, directed by Diana Wyenn, featuring Cherish Monique Duke and Kaitlin Huwe.
* adaptation. resilience, by Jennie Webb, directed by Susan Dio, featuring Deana Barone, Emily Jerez, Carl Johnson, Natalie Llerena, and Michelle Gillette.
* The Skeleton Flower, by Elizabeth Sampson, directed by Christian Lebano, featuring Gwenn Van Dam, Elizabeth Sampson, Stephanie Erb, Donna Simone Johnson, Michael Dempsey, Leandro Cano, and Joe Hart.
* The Caregiver’s Guide, by Jami Brandli, directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky, featuring RumanKazi, Meeghan Holaway, Samantha Tan, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Christine Carlisi.
* Ladyville, by Aja Houston, directed by Inger Tudor, featuring Christian Telesmar, Kacie Roger, Cherish Monique Duke, and Tamika Katon-Donegal.
* Whiskey and Hooch, written & directed by Carlos Lacámara, featuring Steven Porter, Arthur Hanket, Stephanie Erb, Christian Telesmar, and Jacqueline Misaye.
* The Play You Want, by Bernardo Cubria, directed by Michael John Garces, featuring Jorge Cordova, Chelsea Gonzalez, Lidia C. Porto, Natalie Llerena, Jonathan Nichols, Roland Ruiz, Christopher Larkin, and Stewart J. Zully.
* Third Person, by Jennifer Maisel, directed by Emily Chase, featuring Josh Zuckerman, and Samantha Tan.
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Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater presents a reading of Mfoniso Udofia’s On Love on Thurs. Feb. 11 at 6:30 PM ET (and remains available through Feb. 26), directed by Awoye Timpo. The reading will be followed by a 15-min. talkback.
Temídayo Amay, Antwayn Hopper, Chiké Johnson, Patrice Johnson, Zonya Love, and Anastacia McClesky.
In a series of seven short vignettes, poems, and songs, On Love showcases the eight different types of love and the depths in which the human emotion can feel.
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Online concerts in celebration of Black History Month at NY’s Flushing Town Hall.
* John Lewis: A Pioneer for Justice (Feb. 5 at 7 PM ET), by Alton Fitzgerald White reading Lewis’ “Good Trouble” speech.
* Divine Sass: A Tribute to the Music, Life, and Legacy of Sarah Vaughan (Feb. 18 at 7 PM ET), featuring Lillias White.
* Andre De Shields Is Frederick Douglass: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (Feb. 26 at 7 PM ET).
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VA’s Signature Theatre presents Simply Sondheim, currently available through Mar. 26, directed & choreographed by Matthew Gardiner, with music direction by Jon Kalbfleisch. 
The show will remain available for 72 hours after the patron’s initial viewing has begun.
Norm Lewis, Solea Pfeiffer, Conrad Ricamora, Emily Skinner, Nicholas McDonough, Donna Migliaccio, Christopher Mueller, Katie Mariko Murray, Tracy Lynn Olivera, Paul Scanlan, Awa Sal Secka, and Bobby Smith.
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Boston’s Commonwealth Shakespeare Company presents a discussion about the film “10 Things I Hate About You,” to stream Wed. Feb. 17 at 8 PM ET, moderated by Anita Diamant, with panelists Tina Packer and Molly Haskell.
A 1999 makeover of The Taming of the Shrew, the film focuses on new kid in school Cameron, who is smitten with with the beautiful Bianca. The problem is that Bianca isn’t allowed to date unless her surly older sister Kat does. Cameron’s only hope is to enlist the help of Patrick, the school troublemaker with a reputation as nasty as Kat’s. Will Patrick and Kat find true love, or will she find more than 10 things she hates about him?
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Washington, DC’s Shakespeare Theatre Company will present Patrick Page‘s solo show, All the Devils Are Here Feb. 4 – July 28.
A new show about the evolution of evil in Shakespeare’s villainous characters. Over the course of the 80-min. piece, Page will explore how Shakespeare created treacherous characters ranging from Macbeth to Iago to Claudius, while performing excerpts from each play.
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Daniel Goldfarb’s new play, Men’s Health, will premiere Feb. 25 on Audible, directed by Scott Ellis.
Tony Shalhoub, Santino Fontana, and Laura Benanti, with Diane Guerrero and tom Hollander.
Dr. Szabo is an unorthodox urologist treating Adam for a very personal problem.
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A 7-part anthology series, “Solos,” will premiere on Amazon later this year.
Anne Hathaway, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Uzo Aduba, Dan Stevens, Nicole Beharie, Constance Wu, and Anthony Mackie.
The series explores the deeper meaning of human connection through the lens of the individual, through character-driven stories, each told from a different perspective.
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The Congress for Jewish Culture will continue its International Virtual Yiddish Theater series with Megillah Cycle, which will premiere Feb. 21 at 2:30 PM, where it will remain indefinitely, directed & adapted by Mike Burstyn.
(international): Shane Baker, Mike Burstyn, Eli Batalion, Jame Elman, Avi Hoffman, Daniel Kahn, Lia Koenig, Noah Mitchel, Eleanor Reissa, Joshua Reuben, Allen Lewis Rickman, Yelena Shmulenson, and Suzanne Toren.
In 1936, the enfant terrible of Yiddish literature, Itzik Manger, published a cycle of poems shattering time and history by updating the Biblical story of Queen Ester to Eastern Europe of the 20th century. In 1965, with music by Dov Seltzer and under the direction of Shmuel Bunim, the Family Burstein opened a musical production of the cycle that opened a bright new chapter for Yiddish in Israel and would eventually find its way to Broadway’s Golden Theater in 1968. The original cast recording of The Megilla of Itzik Manger was released by Columbia Records.
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Julia von Heinz’s “Iron Box” is currently in development, with plans to film on location in Poland in 2022.
Mandy Patinkin and Lena Dunham.
The story is set in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Ruth Rothwax, a successful New York businesswoman, insists on taking her father on a trip back to the country he fled as a young Holocaust survivor.
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Off-Broadway’s Primary Stages will offer an encore presentation of The Night Watcher, written & performed by Charlayne Woodard, to stream Feb. 17-28. Although the event is free, advanced registration is required here.
Charlayne Woodard is childless only by biological standards. Told with penetrating grace and candor, she weaves together stories of the ordinary and extraordinary ways she has mentored the children in her life. This is an intimate look at the various definitions of parenthood.