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This fall, travel back to the Civil War era with Charles W. Lenox, a Black Watertown-based barber who enlisted as a Private on February 28, 1863. Lenox will lead groups through significant stops in his life, such as the site of his barbershop and the Civil War monument. Through November 8.

Schedule here. Tickets here.

Streaming Events

Theater of War

Ongoing

Theater of War Productions works with leading film, theater, and television actors to present dramatic readings of seminal plays - from classical Greek tragedies to modern and contemporary works - followed by town hall-style discussions designed to confront social issues by drawing out raw and personal reactions to themes highlighted in the plays.

Now online,

More information here. Schedule of virtual productions here.

'Downtown Crossing'

October 22-25, 2020

Company One presents a virtual exploration of undocumented life here in Boston.

Seven undocumented Bostonians cross paths on the Orange Line. When their train is delayed due to police action at Downtown Crossing, they share their stories — both hopeful and heart wrenching — in intimate, intersecting monologues that spotlight what it’s like to

build a life while holding your breath.

More information here.

Playwrights talk about Company One's upcoming Season 22 here.

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 website.

Available on:

Lincoln Center At Home website

Podcasts & Audio Plays

'The Usual Unusual'

Podcasts Available now

The SpeakEasy Stage has adapted the play to a series of podcasts of the same name. The Usual Unusual is the name of a scrappy and quaint bookstore where Boston’s LGBTQ+ community has gathered to shop, organize, and flirt since the 70’s. When the store’s charismatic founder Penn announces his retirement, neurotic staff-member Charlie persuades him to pass leadership on, rather than close the store. The staff’s efforts to unite a fractured community under one banner – or simply coordinate a weekly reading night — stoke generational disputes about identity, community, and trauma, and lead to fraught and hilarious results.

Listen here.

Dream Boston

Series Available Now

Through short audio plays, the Huntington Theater asks local playwrights

to imagine favorite locations, landmarks, and their friends in a future Boston,

when we can once again meet and connect in our city. These micro-plays take place

at locations such as the MIT Great Dome on the 4th of July while the sounds of the

“1812 Overture” float in the background, at the Boston Public Library where a librarian and library patron debate the ethics of reserving a book, and a not-so-perfect first date

on the edge of the Boston Common.

Available here.

Works By Idris

Available Now

Five short plays to spark conversation and serve as a catalyst for action.

Each of these short works, written to be read across the multi-generational spectrum,

offer different insights about disconnects in racial conversation and the

Black experience in America. Idris Goodwin hopes that this release also provides

a model for open-source theater and storytelling, in which the

connection between playwright and community is direct.

Available Here. Scroll to the section below digital content.

Weekly Online Offerings

The Lunch Room

Tuesdays 12:00 PM

A.R.T.’s virtual lunchtime conversation series with the artists, activists, and

civic leaders who are shaping our culture and communities.

October 13: Shawn LaCount and Summer L. Williams, the Artistic Director and Associate Artistic Director of Company One Theater (We’re Gonna Die, Wig Out!, Miss You Like Hell, and Greater Good), share their experiences creating theater at the intersection of art and social change. This event originally aired on May 12, 2020.

October 20: Artist, performer, producer, and activist Brandon Michael Nase (The Black Clown, ExtraOrdinary) speaks about his work furthering racial justice and equity in the theater community at Broadway for Racial Justice, which he founded this summer.

Registration here.

Playbill's Weekly Streaming Guide

Available Now

As we head into September, theater organizations and artists are not slowing down

their streaming projects! Playbill.com has become a rich resource for live theater.

Drama, musicals, dance, classes, concerts, operas and more are just some of the

virtual offerings are taking place online

through the month of September and beyond.

See the Playbill Streaming Calendar,

Tour the NY Theaters between 44th and 46th Streets ($12.99)

and have some fun testing your Broadway knowledge with

Playbill - The Game Show !! (video at top center)

'Macbeth'

Available Now

Follow the Cambridge-based theater company Liars & Believers as they re-imagine this Shakespeare classic in our age of pandemic. Shortened and serialized; each episode

is 5-10 minutes long. Scenes are released weekly. Free.

See all scenes HERE (scroll to the bottom, then scroll up)

The Boston Globe – ArtsAlive

Updated Weekly on Thursdays

Get inspired while staying inside with ArtsAlive, a new initiative from The Boston Globe celebrating the arts with exclusive content provided by local theaters, musicians

and museums. New videos added every Thursday.

Available On:

The Boston Globe Website

The Shows Must Go On

Weekly - Fridays at 2:00 PM

Stream the works of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber on YouTube — for free. “The Shows Must Go On!” streams weekly and plans to air some of his most celebrated shows. Free to stream with options for viewers to donate to organizations that support theater workers during the pandemic,

such as Acting For Others, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Actors Benevolent Fund. Each stream stays available for 48 hours.

Streaming On:

YouTube

Daily Online Offerings

Act Up and Vote! Festival

October 7-11, 2020

Central Square Theater is holding this festival with a different virtual line-up daily. Five days of performances, panel discussions, community workshops and more, surrounding the topics of voting and civic engagement.

For safety, all performances will be outdoors at the Starlight Square.

Calendar and RSVP here.

Metropolitan Opera Nightly Opera Streams

Daily - 7:30 PM

The Metropolitan Opera highlights different composers in its Nightly Met Streams series. The first two weeks of October feature operas by Wagner and Donizetti. $5 or less each opera.

Daily Schedule here.

Stars in the House

Daily – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM

In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theaters across the world closing

their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley, created Stars in the House, a daily live streamed series to support

The Actors Fund and its services.

New shows air daily and are a combination of music, community, and education .

With musical performances by stars remotely from their home and conversations with

Seth and James between each tune, viewers can also donate to the charity and interact with the guests in real time. Guests include Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Lithgow, Jason Alexander, Kristen Chenoweth, Frozen composers Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez,

writers Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond, and many more.

All Shows from the past 10 days are available online, and Stars in the House plans to

stream daily until Broadway re-opens.

Streaming On:

Stars in the House Website | YouTube

International

Fringe Festival, Edinburgh

Home page here; Bits from the 2020 Festival here.

Globe Theater, London

Home page here; All Plays here

Kabuki Theater, Tokyo

Home page here, Recent Video clips here