Online Theater Offerings - July
Categories of Events
Please click on a category below to be taken directly to that section:
Local
A.R.T.
July 1 only, 5-7 PM
Moving through History. This participatory installation is a series of artistic interventions during which the audience will be guided to a number of historic locations in the vicinity of the
Old South Meeting House.
Lunch Room: Tuesdays, 12-1 PM
A continuing virtual Talk Show with the artists, activists, and civic leaders who are shaping our culture and communities. Join members of the A.R.T. staff for curated conversations and Q&A's.
Click here for schedule & registration; FREE
Boston Center for the Arts
July 9th at 6:45 PM only
Pride Extended Fest - From Stonewall Inn in 1969 to the Trans Resistance March in Boston on
June 12, 2021, Black trans women and non-binary people have been in the vanguard on the path toward a true freedom - one that is inter-sectional and layered.
Boston Pops
Through July 10
The Roots of Jazz: American Voices - Join Keith Lockhart and the Pops as they trace the development of Jazz from its New Orleans roots, to the music of Black American innovators like Scott Joplin, Father of the Blues W.C. Handy, and the great Stride pianist James P. Johnson, composer of “The Charleston.” Available with BSO NOW Access Pass.
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
July 21-August 8, 8:00 PM
The Tempest. Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common.
FREE; Advance Registration required here.
Greater Boston Stage
(formerly Stoneham Theater)
The Young Company's Summer Festival 2021: Theater Programs for Kids
The Young Company at Greater Boston Stage company offers Summer programs for students entering grades 1-12 and high school graduates from the Class of 2021, July 5- August 6.
Huntington Theater
Ongoing
The Huntington’s hit 2016 production of Mike Lew’s Tiger Style! has been newly recorded as an audio play, along with a companion podcast series "Exploring Tiger Style!" full of insightful conversations with artists, community members, and more!
Squabbling siblings Albert and Jennifer Chen reached the pinnacle of academic achievement. But as adults, they’re epic failures: he’s just been passed up for promotion and she’s been dumped by her loser boyfriend. So, naturally, they confront their parents and launch an Asian Freedom Tour!
From California to China, this hilarious comedy examines race, parenting, and success
with wit and sharp humor.
Continuing short audio plays: Dream Boston asks local playwrights to imagine favorite locations, landmarks, and their friends in a future Boston, when we can once again meet and connect.
These 11 micro-plays take place at the MIT Great Dome, the Boston Public Library,
and the edge of the Boston Common. The plays, approximately 10 minutes each,
portray a future vision of our city that is somewhere between dream and reality.
All 15 audio plays here; FREE, donations accepted
Irish Repertory Theater
Through July 4
Irish Rep is proud to present the North American premiere of Waterford natives Anne O’Riordan’s (Call the Midwife, Doctors) and Jamie Beamish’s (Bridgerton, Derry Girls) tragic-comic new play Ghosting.
Sí never sleeps well. Sí never remembers her dreams. But she wakes up in the middle of the night to find Mark, who ghosted her six years ago, standing at the end of her bed in London. Wtf? Now she must face her demons and go back to the last place on earth she wants to be: Waterford. Home.
This production of Ghosting was streamed live online from Theatre Royal in April 2020.
Lyric Stage
Streaming Now: The Walking Plays
Short (<15 minutes) audio explorations of the private moments we experience in public.
On Paying Attention, Monster in the Sky, Kill the Dogs, Knock Them Over!,
In Any Face, Living Water, Monstrat Viam.
Lyric Stage’s artistic director Courtney O’Connor says this audio series was created
as a way to bring “a form of live theater” to a public that hasn’t been able to experience it since theaters closed due to the pandemic.
New Rep
Live Outdoors, through July 11
The New Rep’s first Historical Moving Play, The Charles W. Experience, left audiences clamoring for more. Listen to Sipu answers the call with a captivating and powerful story that illuminates Watertown’s Indigenous history. Join in on a socially-distanced performance lead by a modern-day Tour Guide and meet Sipu, a quick-witted Indigenous woman who’s more than willing to correct misinformation when she hears it. Armed with facts, The Tour Guide begins describing Watertown’s local history only to find that the facts are missing a lot of truths. Sipu is ready to step in and set the record straight, but will people choose to listen?
Trinity Rep
July 5-August 13
Summer Theater Camps: Young Actors Summer Institute (YASI) and (Summer Actors Studio) SAS
are several one-week camps with stable pods of students for this summer 2021.
Additionally, we have two weeks of the Summer Actors Studio (SAS) held online via Zoom.
More Info here.
Broadway
Broadway.com
A Different Event Every Day!
Click here to access "What To Do Without Broadway".
July includes 4th of July Specials, Piaf, Schmigadoon, and more.
Click on each event for Tickets, from FREE to $60 (and up for Galas).
Playbill's Streaming Guides
So Many Choices of Daily Goings-On!
June shows, on a variety of platforms (Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Facebook Live, HBO Max, Hulu, Instagram, Netflix, TV, YouTube, Zoom and more), TBA.
Click here for the daily list of Live Streams.
TheaterMania
Scroll through a list of shows,both live and streaming.
Click here for complete listings and more info.
Ongoing
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Daily Varied Offerings
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts now offers Programs, Series, On Demand
and a daily schedule of several Events per day on its outstanding website.
Available on: Lincoln Center At Home website
The Shows Must Go On!
Fridays at 2:00 PM for 48 hours
Each weekend stream a FULL SHOW for free. Thereafter, scenes can be viewed for free.
Options for viewers to donate to organizations that support theater workers during the pandemic, such as Acting For Others, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the
Actors Benevolent Fund, and others. Each stream remains available for 48 hours. Streaming On: YouTube
Metropolitan Opera Nightly Opera Streams
Daily - 7:30 PM
Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for 23 hours,
from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 6:30 p.m. the following day. The schedule will include outstanding complete performances from the past 14 years of cinema transmissions,
starring all of opera’s greatest singers. In July:
John Adams’s Nixon in China; The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; Philip Glass’s Akhnaten.
A different free opera streams every night.
Amazon, and Roku devices, and Samsung Smart TV.
See the complete Schedule here. All Streaming is FREE.
International
Globe Theater, London
Kabuki Theater, Tokyo
Stratford Shakespeare Festival,
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Sydney Opera House
Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
