OFF-OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 217

Award-winning casting director Jen Rudin and author of Confessions of a Casting Director (HarperCollins) continues to offer weekly online support chats for young actors and their parents during the pandemic.

The acclaimed one woman show 'Bette Davis Ain't for Sissies' will stream LIVE on FACEBOOK June 4, 18, July 2, July 16 at 7:30pm EDT, directed by Drama Desk Award Winning Karen Carpenter (Harry Townsend's Last Stand, Love Loss and What I Wore) and starring Jessica Sherr, presented on Facebook LIVE.

The original musical webseries, 'IS THIS ART NOW: A Musical In The Time of Corona' has announced a Season 3, set to premiere online June 7th.

ExperienceFirst, New York City's leading walking tour and travel experience company, has partnered with two of its former guides - and current industry professionals - to bring theater fans a new live-streamed series entitled 'Visiting Broadway.

Corkscrew Theater Festival, scheduled to return for its fourth season this summer, will postpone its live presentations until summer 2021 due to COVID-19.

On Saturday June 6th at 8pm EST / 5pm PDT The PlayGround Experiment will be hosting a digital revival of it's Faces of America Monologue Festival to help raise funds to support The PGE HOME Fund.

When The Broadway League announced that the annual Tony Award ceremony originally scheduled for June would be postponed due to COVID-19, Chicago-based actor David Robbins (SPAMILTON), like so many others, was disappointed

Messenger Theatre Company presents a podcast about a dragon epidemic recorded in the middle of the pandemic.

Shakespeare Sports, a company dedicated to presenting the works of William Shakespeare in styles similar to the performance styles of his time, in association with Jay Michaels will present Hamlet as an online reading in preparation of their production scheduled for The Clemente in NYC's Lower East

Sinking Ship and The Tank will present the first online streaming edition of their popular long-running puppetry and music cabaret Puppet Playlist on at 8pm on June 4th at puppetplaylist.

Steven Brault is a starting pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates who used his passion for musical theatre to release an entire album of showtunes this offseason titled A Pitch At Broadway.

ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE and The Alfred P.

This Wednesday, May 27th, from 7pm-8:15pm Eastern, Tony nominee Emily Skeggs (Fun Home) joins TPAP Artistic Director Jonathan Bernstein live on Upstage Left.

HAMLET, abridged will be performed May 29th at 7pm on the No Exit Theatre Collective Facebook page.

Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse will present a free 'screened' reading of Neith Boyce's groundbreaking drama, CONSTANCY, via live stream video, with talkback to follow, on Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 8 PM, EST.

This experimental pra??oduction is one in which the audience must reconcile with their own awareness of being a passive viewer.

Theatre East presents a live remote reading of Julia Rae Maldonado's LITTLE MACHINE.

The Martin E.

The Civilians, the award-winning New York-based theater company, presents the ninth annual R&D Group FINDINGS Series.

The Comfortably Quarantined Project, a new virtual playwriting initiative connecting writers and actors to collaborate remotely, announces it will release it's first collection of original plays on Sunday, May 31st at 7pm EST.

In light of recent events, and specifically announcements of Broadway's re-opening postponement, performers Maddie Rodrigue and Trent Soyster created a mini-production in quarantine as a tribute to the beloved Broadway community.

THE LOW ROAD's Gopal Divan, MEAN GIRLS' Cheech Manohar, JESSICA JONES' Aneesh Sheth and OCTET's Kuhoo Verma (WINNER Lucille Lortel Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical) will participate in a virtual reading of William Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING playing Benedick, Don John, Beatrice and

On Thursday, May 28 at 4pm ET, composer, vocalist, and producer Lisa Bielawa will give a free online seminar presented by the Next Festival of Emerging Artists' Next Fest Connects called Building Community through Broadcast from Home.

After an online world premiere last weekend attended by over 700 viewers worldwide, Bare Opera will present three more livestream performances of Exercises on The Presence of Odradek on Sunday, May 24, 2020.

National Queer Theater and Dixon Place, in partnership with the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and NYC Pride, are proud to present the second annual Criminal Queerness Festival, running online June 9a?"29, 2020.