Today’s Highlights:
Live & In Color’s FREE conversation, hosted by Devanand Janki, with special guests Mary-Mitchell Campbell and Zane Mark, streams at 6 PM ET on Facebook.
Adriana Lecouvreur (2019), by Cilea, featuring Anna Netrbko, Anita Rachvelishvili, Piotr Beczala, and Ambrogio Maestri, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, streams at 7:30 PM ET at Metropolitan Opera.
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GRACE NOTES Quote of the Week: “Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. ~ E.Y. Harburg
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Video: Stars in the House, celebrating Women’s History Month with “What I Learned About Women’s History Through the Roles I Played,” with hosts Anika Larsen and Nicole Lewis, and special guests Hannah Elless, Annie Golden, Ruthie Ann Miles, Patricia Noonan, and Saycon Sengbloh, along with Associate Professor of Design at SUNY New Paltz Andrea Varga, (2:02:18)
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Broadway On Demand has announced the virtual presentation of the the 31st annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre, to stream Mon. Mar. 15 at 7 PM ET here, hosted by Richard Maltby Jr. and Maury Yeston.
The ceremony will also be available for viewing beginning on Tues. Mar. 16 at 10 AM ET here.
Benjamin Scheuer (lyricist)… and Melissa Li and Kit Yan (librettists).
The event will also feature musical performances from the winners.
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A Love Letter to Liza Minnelli: a 75th All-Star Birthday Tribute will livestream Fri. Mar. 12 at 8 PM ET. 
$30 here (or $15 on TDF).
Joel Grey, Ben Vereen, Lily Tomlin, Lea DeLaria, Michael Feinstein, Billy Stritch, Andrea Martin, Andrew Rannells, Chita Rivera, Jason Alexander, John Cameron Mitchell, John Kander, Jonathan Groff, Michael York, Nathan Lane, and Sandra Bernhard. here.
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ABC has announced its pilot for the drama “Queens.” Timeline and additional information TBA.
Eve, Naturi Naughton, Pepi Sonuga, and Brandy Norwood.
The pilot focuses on four estranged and out-of-tour women in their 40s who reunite for a chance to recapture their fame and regain the swagger they had as the 90s group Nasty Bitches.
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Walter Tevis’ 1983 novel “The Queen’s Gambit” will be adapted into a new musical, as yet untitled. Timeline, casting, creative team and additional information TBA.
The story centers around a woman who becomes one of the world’s greatest chess players.
The piece has also been recently adapted into a Netflix miniseries starring Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon.
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The Classical Theatre of Harlem will present ICONS: Harlem Renaissance in Motion, a series of audio plays, which continues through Mar. 12, highlight five Black women who were central to the Harlem Renaissance. The second release, One Night Only, is described below.
Gladys Bentley is the subject of One Night Only, written by Kaaron Briscoe and performed by Cristina Pitter. Bentley was a blues singer and pianist who gained notoriety performing at venues like the Cotton Club, the Ubangi Club, and Harry Hansberry’s Clam House, a gay speakeasy on 133rd street in Harlem. She openly identified as a lesbian during her early career, coming to be known for her signature look of tuxedos and top hats—defying the gender norms of the 1920s and 1930s. As a performer, she commanded the stage with her powerful voice, indefatigable piano playing, and the provocative lyrics she added to well-known songs.
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The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus will stream Angels on Thurs. Mar. 11 at 6 PM PT.
The concert will commemorate the 30th anniversary of When We No Longer Touch, the world’s first requiem dedicated to those lost to AIDS, with a rebroadcast from the 2018 concert.
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“The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 4,” by Jennifer Ashley Tepper, has been released in paperback and on Kindle here.
The newest edition includes the beloved houses the Imperial, Jacobs, Studio 54, Minskoff, Friedman, and Golden Theatres, as well as the five Broadway theaters that were destroyed in 1982, changing the course of New York City history. The book also includes over 30 new interviews, features hundreds of theatre professionals discussing everything that makes Broadway essential. A portion of the book’s proceeds will benefit The Broadway Advocacy Coalition.
The multi-volume series tells the stories of all of the theaters on Broadway. The newest edition includes the beloved houses the Imperial, Jacobs, Studio 54, Minskoff, Friedman, and Golden Theatres, as well as the five Broadway theaters that were destroyed in 1982, changing the course of New York City history.
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Outdoor performances of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon will begin later this Spring at the Fountain Theatre (link TBA), directed by Judith Moreland.
Dates, casting and additional information TBA.
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A benefit reading of John Lyly’s Gallathea will livestream Mon. Mar. 15 at 7:30 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater, directed by Emma Rosa Went.
Olivia Rose Barresi, Helen Cespedes, Nathanial P. Claridad, Amy Jo Jackson, Rami Margron, Christopher Michael McFarland, Jason O’Connell, Layly Khoshnoudi, Aneesh Sheth, David Ryan Smith, and Zo Tipp.
First performed in 1588, the play is a queer love story set inside the landscape of classical myth. In order to avoid becoming dinner for a sea monster, Gallathea and Phillida are sent into the forest dressed as boys. Meanwhile, three shipwrecked brothers set out to see their fortunes, Cupid stirs up his usual trouble, nymphs fall for mortals, and Neptuen – God of the Sea – waits to make his move.
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The Stratford Festival’s 2018 production of King Lear will stream Mar. 11 – June 9 at LA’s Center Theatre Group, directed by Antoni Cimolino.
Ian McKellen (King Lear), Sinéad Cusack (Kent), Danny Webb (Gloucester), Kirsty Bushell (Regan), Claire Price (Goneril), Anita-Joy Uwajeh (Cordelia), Lloyd Hutchinson (Fool), Luke Thompson (Edgar), James Corrigan (Edmund), Michael Matus (Oswald), Anthony Howell (Albany), Daniel Rabin (Cornwall),Richard Clews (Gentleman Informer/Old Man), John Hastings (Curan/Doctor), Caleb Roberts (King of France/British Captain), Jake Mann (Burgundy), and Scott Sparrow (Albany’s Man), with James Millard, Johanne Murdock, Jessica Murrain, John Vernon, Charley Bentley, and Leon Finnan.
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Off-Broadway’s Public Theater presents the world premiere audio production of Romeo y Julieta, adapted by Saheem Ali & Ricardo Pérez González, and directed by Ali, which will begin streaming Mar. 18 on all podcast platforms.
Lupita Nyong’o (Julieta), Juan Castano (Romeo), Carlo Albán (Benvolio), Karina Arroyave (Apothecary), Erick Betancourt (Abram), Michael Braugher (Balthasar), Carlos Carrasco (Lord Montague), Ivonne Coll (Nurse), John J. Concado (Peter), Hiram Delgado (Tybalt), Guillermo Diaz (Gregory), Sarah Nina Hayon (Lady Montague), Kevin Herrera (Ensemble), Modesto Lacen (Prince Escalus/Capulet’s Cousin), Florencia Lozano (Capulet), Irene Sofia Lucio (Mercutio), Keren Lugo (Sister Joan), Benjamin Luis McCracken (Paris’s Page), Julio Monge (Friar Lawrence), Javier Muñoz (Paris), David Zayas (Sampson), and Tony Plana (Chorus).
Audio: Trailer.
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Off-Broadway’s Classic Stage Company will stream “Tell The Story: Celebrating Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins” on Thurs. Apr. 15 at 8 PM ET (and available through Apr. 19), directed by John Doyle. 
Advanced registration is required here. Links to view the event will be sent to registrants closer to the premiere.
(from the upcoming production) Adam Chanler-Berat, Eddie Cooper, Tavi Gevinson, Brad Giovanine, Andy Grotelueschen, Bianca Horn, Judy Kuhn, Whit K. Lee, Rob Morrison, Steven Pasquale, Ethan Slater, Will Swenson, Wesley Taylor, Brandon Uranowitz, and Katrina Yaukey……. along with (from the 1990 world premiere at Playwrights Horizons) with Patrick Cassidy, Victor Garber, Greg Germann, Annie Golden, Lyn Greene, Jonathan Hadary, Eddie Korbich, Terrence Mann, Debra Monk, William Parry, and Lee Wilkof from the 1990 world premiere at Playwrights Horizons…….. as well as (from the 2004 Broadway production at Studio 54) Becky Ann Baker, Mario Cantone, Michael Cerveris, Mary Catherine Garrison, Alexander Gemignani, Ken Krugman, Marc Kudisch, Anne L. Nathan, Denis O’Hare, Chris Peluso, and Sally Wilfert…….. directors Jerry Zaks and Joe Mantello, who will share memories from helming the Off-Broadway premiere and 2004 Broadway productions, respectively; director Doyle and music director Greg Jarrett of the upcoming CSC revival; and alumni of CSC and previous Doyle productions, including Quincy Tyler Bernstine, André De Shields, Raúl Esparza, Ann Harada, Audra McDonald, Mary Beth Peil, George Takei, and Tony Yazbeck.
The special event will culminate in a discussion with Assassins creators Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman.