American Blues Theater will present the live, online reading of Red Bike, written by Caridad Svich, directed by Lavina Jadhwani, and starring August Forman, as part of “The Room” series. The reading will be live on Wednesday, December 9 at 7pm Central. The 75-minute reading will be followed by a group discussion.
I Love that Senator for You announced today Deck the Vote with Kristen & Kristen, a holiday celebration and wreath-making workshop to raise funds for Fair Fight and the United States Senate campaigns of Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock.
The Dybbuk is arguably the most well-known play in the Yiddish theater lexicon. It was premiered on December 9, 1920 by the Vilna Troupe at the Eizeum theater in Warsaw. Its success catapulted that company onto the International stage. New Yiddish Rep will celebrate it’s 100th birthday with a live performance streamed from Theater For The New City.
The Consulate General of Italy in Boston has announced a special virtual concert titled 'Passione - Canto Italiano' featuring the Marco Pignataro Jazzet with Strings + Special Guests. Mr. Pignataro is a renowned jazz player, saxophonist, composer, professor and co-director of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute at the Berklee College of Music.
Since March, MTC has launched virtual private lessons in piano, voice, violin, viola, cello, saxophone, guitar, drums, and acting with their experienced, year-round faculty. MTC has also transformed their First Notes online music classes (infants to pre-K) into an online format.
Eric Walton, whose one-man show Esoterica was a long-running hit Off-Broadway, now presents the World Premiere of his newest evening of mentalism and mind-reading, VIRTUAL IMPOSSIBILITIES. Performances will be streamed live from Manhattan's wild project December 16 - 20 at 8pm EST / 5pm PST. Running time is 60 minutes.
San Diego Musical Theatre has announced Home For the Holidays Special - scheduled to stream December 18 - 31, 2020, featuring some of San Diego's most notable performers!
NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY has announced classes for The Bridge, featuring Guest Artists Juana Cala and Amalia Suryani December 7-11, 2020. Interested dancers can join the class by registering on Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company's website.
One of the most iconic dance films of the modern day, Center Stage, is celebrating its 20th Anniversary. Broadway Dance Center and Open Jar Studios are partnering to host the 20th Reunion of the cast and a master class open to the public on December 10th to learn the iconic choreography from the film.
On February 6th and 7th, the American Alliance for Theatre & Education and the Dramatist Guild Foundation will be co-hosting 'Everyone's a Playwright: Writing as a Teaching Tool and Expressive Engine.'
Now it is December and the holidays are upon us. Nunnbetter Dance Theatre will present a fully-filmed, reimagined, and COVID-safe spectacular production of The Nutcracker! A tiny studio, a determined group of teachers and choreographers and of course, over 60 dedicated dancers transcended what couldn't be to create what could be.
5-STAR-THEATRICALS will present its first free virtual concert on December 12, 2020 at 7:00pm titled 'Thankful' which will stream on their website. This special event brings together a cabaret of spectacular talents and will also feature cameos from past performers, like Katharine McPhee, Adam Pascal, Julia Lester, Veronica Dunne and more.
Monday December 14th (at 8pm) will offer a performance of Bernard Shaw’s scenes, speeches, and poems: mixed and matched and mashed, adapted and directed by David Staller, featuring Brenda Braxton, Michael Cerveris, Joel Grey, Marsha Mason, Patrick Page, Tonya Pinkins, Renee Taylor, and Karen Ziemba.
The Apollo Theater announced today the line-up for its annual Kwanzaa Celebration: Regeneration Night, which brings together dance, music, and poetry to honor the seven core principles of Kwanzaa including family, community, and culture on Sunday, December 27 at 7:00 p.m. ET.
The Saint Pio Foundation has announced its virtual gala for “Christmas Challenge Initiative 2020” on Friday, December 11, 2020, at 6:00 P.M. The evening’s hosts are Joe Piscopo and Mary Calvi. Special performing guests will include Deana Martin (singer, actress, and daughter of the legendary Dean Martin), and more.
TDF will present Santa and Little B: Zoom for the Holidays!, a special virtual holiday experience for families with children and adults on the autism spectrum who have previously attended TDF’s autism-friendly performances on Broadway. There will be two performances to choose from: Sunday, December 13 at 1pm and Sunday, December 20 at 1pm.
Join original cast members from Hamilton in a virtual grassroots fundraiser to flip the Senate blue! The fundraiser will feature Lin Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson, Jonathan Groff, Javier Muñoz, and more, and take place on December 13.
Rehearsal images have been released today for this year’s OLD VIC: IN CAMERA version of Jack Thorne’s A Christmas Carol starring Andrew Lincoln (AMC’s The Walking Dead) as Ebenezer Scrooge. The show will be streamed December 12 – 24, 2020.
Cyndi Lauper has announced that her 10th annual Home for the Holidays benefit concert will premiere on Friday, December 11 exclusively on her TikTok at 8PM EST, with an additional stream Sunday, December 13 on Lauper’s YouTube and Facebook handles at 8PM EST.
Former Blue Peter presenter, writer, director and regular pantomime dame, Peter Duncan, decided to film a pantomime in his back garden to entertain audiences at home and in cinemas this Christmas.
Two prominent New Mexico poets, Dale Harris and Damien Flores, will read poetry live on Zoom on Sunday, December 27 at 4:00 p.m., as part of the ongoing Teatro Paraguas poetry reading series.
Chicago director/producer/choreographer Zoe Lesser will direct her own new adaptation of the comedy by W.R. Walkes. In A PAIR OF LUNATICS, which premiered in London in 1898, He and She meet for the first time in an asylum and each mistakes the other for an inmate.
The Handel and Haydn Society will celebrate the holiday season with a special performance of A Baroque Christmas. Led by H+H Principal Keyboard and Associate Conductor Ian Watson, members of the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra will perform works by Dall'Abaco, Charpentier, Biber, Torelli, and Telemann.
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Metro Theater Company will present #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence – a yearlong theatre initiative that encourages teens to confront gun violence by creating new works of theatre, culminating in simultaneous staged readings across the country on Dec. 14.
Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts has announced the premiere of Norm Lewis in Concert presented by Feinstein’s/54 Below on Thursday, December 17, at 8 p.m. EST. Norm Lewis and his holiday shows at Feinstein’s/54 Below have become a New York City tradition over the past five years and this year will be no different.