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Virtual Theater: Cris Franco’s 57 CHEVY (San Diego REP)
HOW BROWN WAS MY VALLEY? Following the successful streamed productions of A Weekend with Pablo Picasso and JQA, San Diego REP is offering a filmed version of Cris Franco’s play 57 Chevy, directed by Herbert Siguenza and Sam Woodhouse. I have seen and loved Franco’s rib-tickling one-man memory play live with Ric Salinas when it…
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Virtual Broadway: BROADWAY BARES: TWERK FROM HOME
YOU BETTER TWERK IT It’s a little too soon to present Broadway Bares live this year, but ain’t we lucky for that? From the front porch to the kitchen, the bedroom to the backyard, this year’s cast — more than 170 dancers — has created fourteen premiere, concept, all-new, highly produced virtual performances created exclusively…
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New York Theater: THE TONIGHT ZOOM WITH JORDAN KLEPPER (Elevator Repair Service)
ONE-NIGHT-ONLY EVENT FROM ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE On June 23, the celebrated Off-Broadway theater company Elevator Repair Service will present The Tonight Zoom with Jordan Klepper A Celebration of Live Theatre (remotely) (and partially pre-taped), a virtual gala hosted by comedian Jordan Klepper (The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, The Daily Show). Klepper will interview ERS company members Vin Knight (Everyone’s Fine with Virginia…
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Audio Theater: THE MURDER ON THE LINKS (L.A. Theatre Works; starring Alfred Molina and Simon Helberg)
L.A. Theatre Works has commissioned a new audio theater adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie “whodunit” The Murder on the Links. The all-star cast includes Alfred Molina (as Christie’s most famous detective, Hercule Poirot), Simon Helberg, Adhir Kalyan, Joanne Whalley, Kevin Daniels, Edita Brychta, Darren Richardson, Jocelyn Towne and Matthew Wolf. Written by the BBC’s Kate McAll, who previously adapted the novels Frankenstein, Daniel Deronda and A Room with a View for…
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Virtual Theater: WHERE WE STAND (Steppenwolf in Chicago)
Steppenwolf NOW Concludes First Virtual Season with Where We Stand A Filmed Play By Donnetta Lavinia Grays Directed by Tamilla Woodard Featuring Donnetta Lavinia Grays Streaming June 16 – August 31, 2021 A Remarkable Storytelling Tour-de-Force about Community and Accountability Donnetta Lavinia Grays in Where We Stand. Photo by Joan Marcus, courtesy of WP Theater….
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Virtual Theater: TALES OF THE CITY, THE MUSICAL (American Conservatory Theater, Broadway On Demand)
A.C.T. OFFERS ONLINE SCREENING OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN’S TALES OF THE CITY, THE MUSICAL Filmed during its original 2011 run, this 10th Anniversary event will stream during San Francisco Pride Week on Broadway On Demand’s National Theater Network 10 years ago this month, San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) presented the much-anticipated (and very sold out) musicalization of Armistead…
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Virtual Theater Review: THE NICETIES (Manhattan Theatre Club in association with The Huntington)
I just watched Manhattan Theatre Club‘s special new adaptation of The Niceties updated for the virtual stage by playwright Eleanor Burgess. In The Niceties an ambitious young Black college student and her esteemed white professor meet over Skype to discuss a paper the college junior is writing about the American Revolution. Unfortunately, they find it hard to agree about the facts of the past…
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London Theatre: THE SHOW MUST GO ON! LIVE (Palace Theatre)
THE SHOW MUST GO ON! LIVE AT THE PALACE THEATRE WORLDWIDE BROADCAST SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2021 AT 11AM PT / 2PM ET Presented by National Theatre Live, the world’s most iconic musicals return to the West End stage with a stunning concert performance: WATCH THE SHOW LIVE ONLINE FOR FREE The concert will be hosted…
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Virtual Theater Review: 2.5 MINUTE RIDE (Studio Theatre, D.C.)
KRON-OLOGY Who knew a trip to Auschwitz could be so much fun? Almost as fun as taking a roller coaster ride at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. These two locations have been tethered together by playwright Lisa Kron into a memoir about her ailing father and the family visits to both of these…
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Virtual Theater Review: chekhovOS /an experimental game/ (Arlekin Players Theatre)
THE ILLUSION OF AGENCY Beamed to us from the Chekhov Operating System (chekhovOS), a virtual panoply that contains the great Russian playwright’s works and forlorn characters — who spout about how alternately beautiful and broken our world is — our hostess Natasha, one of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, has the audience, live on Zoom, vote on…
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Virtual Theater Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS (ICT, Long Beach)
HIGH FIVE Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years is contextually brilliant: it is a two-character musical that starts at the end of a five year relationship for the woman, but at the beginning for the man. Her songs go backward in time and his forward. In the middle of the 85 minute, intermissionless show, they…
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Virtual Theater Review: SOMEONE ELSE’S HOUSE (Geffen)
I WANT TO SEE MORE DEAD PEOPLE Who doesn’t love a good ghost story? Jared Mezzocchi (Russian Troll Farm, my favorite theater stream of the COVID era) brings an Amityville Horror-esque, true-life tale right to your living room, courtesy of The Geffen Playhouse, which is streaming Someone Else’s House with a limited number of participants (40…
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Virtual Off-Broadway Theater: PLAY THE LINE (The Public)
ENCORE STREAMING OF WORLD PREMIERE PLAY THE LINE BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND THROUGH JUNE 21, 2021 The Public Theater’s The Line, written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen and directed by Blank, was first performed live on Zoom on July 8, 2020, and the world premiere play was viewed more than 55,000 times in 18 countries during its limited…
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Live & Virtual Theater Gala: CURTAIN UP, LIGHT THE LIGHTS! (Jane Krakowski & The New York Pops for Roundabout)
Jane Krakowski (Tony Award nominee, She Loves Me; Tony Award winner, Nine) will star in the 2021 Roundabout Theatre Gala celebrating the long-awaited return to live theatre. This year’s special hybrid event “Curtain Up, Light the Lights!” will happen live in Central Park on Monday, June 7, 2021 and also stream live. Krakowski will be joined by The New York Pops and…
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Theater Podcast: MAGELLANICA (Audio Drama by E.M. Lewis from Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, OR)
Streaming for free through June 30, 2021, is Artists Repertory Theatre’s five-part, four-hour audio drama Magellanica on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Sticher, and where you find podcasts. Magellanica is about a crew of climate scientists during a 1986 “winter over” in Antarctica. Adapted by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright-in-Residence and Steinberg New Play Award winning…
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Virtual Theater Review: THIS AMERICAN WIFE (FourthWall Theatrical, in association with Fake Friends and Jeremy O. Harris)
AS AMERICAN AS LEMON CHICKEN PIE [On the phone.] Girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl! Wazzup? So, listen, I saw the craziest thing the other night. No, not THAT thing. That’s old news. No, it’s this kinda performance art meets theater meets improv meets homage to reality TV meets virtual streaming meets post-irony meets me gulping down a martini. Hold…
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Virtual Theater: NOT A GENUINE BLACK MAN (The Marsh)
I’ve known about Brian Copland’s work for years, but didn’t get a chance to see the Bay Area performer until the virtual presentation of his solo show The Jewelry Box, easily one of the most effective one-man shows I have ever seen. (See my review here.) On June 19 (Juneteenth) The Marsh will offer a…
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Virtual Theater Review: THE LAST MATCH (Writers Theatre)
SERVE. SET. MATCH. WINNER. Finally! A virtual theater production that actually feels like I’m in a theater. Not only that, but Writers’ production of Anna Ziegler’s The Last Match is intuitively directed as theater-as-cinema by Keira Fromm, and ferociously acted by a perfectly cast pile-driving ensemble. Here’s more proof for the world to see how…
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Virtual Theater: ALICE IN WONDERLAND (A Noise Within)
WHAT A WONDER [Editor’s Note: Just after we published Marc Wheeler’s glowing review of A Noise Within’s production of Alice in Wonderland, the theater had to go dark due to COVID. Fortunately, the amazing cast and crew reunited recently to professionally film the production specifically for high-definition streaming, which begins May 27, 2021. We are…
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Virtual Theater: URSULA (Latino Theater Co; Cara Mía Theatre)
URSULA Written, Directed & Performed by Frida Espinosa-Mí¼ller Watch On-demand for FREE starting May 20 at 6:30 PM PST / 8:30 PM CT ends on June 6, 2021 Ursula tells the story of seven-year-old Nadia, who becomes separated from her mother after seeking asylum at the border. As Nadia waits for her asylum to be processed,…
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