Theater

Watch season opener 12 Angry Men...and Women: The Weight of the Wait - performed and streamed live on NYC's first Black Lives Matter Mural in Bed-Stuy, organized by The Billie with over 100 visual artists and community members. The show includes select stories from the 2012 12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today, as well as an original story focused on the killing of Breonna Taylor. 

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MCC's signature Miscast event, where star performers take on roles in which they could never be cast, is now streaming and available to all through Sept. 17. Artists include Hamilton's Leslie Odom, Jr. and Phillipa Soo; Beanie Feldstein; Robert Fairchild; Adrienne Warren, and more.

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Irish Rep's digital season opens Sept. 22 - Sept. 27 with Belfast Blues, written and performed by Geraldine Hughes. The autobiographical work is a tapestry of stories told from Hughes’ perspective as a little girl coming of age in the war-torn Belfast of the 1980s. After touring this acclaimed play for fifteen years, last year Hughes recorded its final performances.

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Syracuse Stage goes all-virtual for its fall season, starting with a new production of Lanford Wilson's romantic Talley's Folley starring Kate Hamill and Jason O'Connell. Performances will take place in November - stay tuned for details!

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New York's largest regional theater reimagines its 2020-2021 season starting with Recognition Radio, An Audio Play Festival Celebrating Black Voices, running Oct. - Dec. and featuring four plays written and directed by Black artists that amplify a mosaic of Black stories. Specially crafted for an immersive listening experience. Dates and details will be announced soon.

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This year's festival, Sept. 15-26, will feature more than 170 online productions, including Comedy, Dance, Kids Fringe, Multidisciplinary, Music, Spoken Word, Theatre, and Visual Art & Film. Shows range from the sublime to the ridiculous, from on-demand to live-streamed, and from amateur to world-renowned artists. Plus Fringe-curated selections: the world premiere of Cirque du Fringe: Quarantini and Bard-based drinking game Shotspeare.

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Buffalo's Alleyway opens its digital season with CURRENTS: 716, featuring short sketches, monologues, poetry, ASL, and dance in fifteen solo performances that filmed on location across the Queen City, streaming through Sept. 26.

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See Watching the Watcher, a work in progress by Pulitzer finalist Dael Orlandersmith, Sept. 15 at 5PM.

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Every week, HERE hosts watch parties of archival avant-garde performing arts and invite you into the creation of new works. On Sept. 11, catch Qualified Alien by Rosa Douglas & Benjamin Elling. 

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Watch archival footage and live special events from the Harlem home for legendary and emerging talents, including Antigone in Ferguson, a collaboration between Theater of War Productions and community members from Ferguson, MO.

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Comedy shows, poetry readings and live performing arts are streaming live on the Auburn Public Theater's Facebook Page and archived on YouTube. Sign up here to receive the schedule in advance.

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Stay current or catch what you've missed in contemporary performance via UPSTREAMING, featuring digital commissions, and archival performances. 

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Folksbiene LIVE! will feature live-streamed theatre, workshops, talkbacks and other events, starting with a house concert by NYTF’s Artistic Director, Zalmen Mlotek.

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This song-a-day video series on social media (@NYCityCenter on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter), l features archived musical theater favorites. A roundup of each week’s videos  will be available every Friday afternoon. 

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Brush up your Shakespeare with NY Classical Theatre's video series, #ShakesInPlace, samples of performances of the Bard's work updated every few days. 

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Stream contemporary performance for free through April with On The Boards TV, featuring performances by several NYSCA grantees, commission recipients, and NYSCA-NYFA Fellows including Big Dance Theatre, Young Jean Lee, Danspace, PSNY, Kyle Abraham, Tere O’Conner and Okwui Okpokwasili.

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Every Tuesday at 4PM, join the Tank and e-merging artists for a remote multidisciplinary variety arts gathering. Additional programing is made available throughout the week.

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