Schedule of free theater streams (2024)

Here is a new list of streaming theater opportunities from Ron Susek:

Looking for Recommendations?

• Cimarosa’sIl Matrimonio Segreto from Torino
• Handel’sRodelinda from the MET (streaming May 4), Agrippina from the MET (streamingMay 9), and Aci, Galatea e Polifemo from Piacenza
• Purcell’sDido and Aeneas from Modena
• Rameau’sHippolyte et Aricie from Mannheim
• Vivaldi’sOrlando Furioso (1727) from Venice

• Chekov’sUncle Vanya from PBS on May 7
• Shakespeare’sMacbeth, starring Patrick Stewart from PBS
• Shakespeare’sMeasure for Measure from Chicago’s Goodman theater until May 9
• Shakespeare’sRomeo and Juliet, an abbreviated ~90 min version, from London’s Globe Theater.

• Thomas’Hamlet from the Met (streaming May 5)
• Verdi’sOthello from the Royal Swedish Opera
• Blacher’sRomeo und Julia from Deutsche Oper Am Rhein

Opera

The Metropolitan Opera (MET)of New York City

• Monday, May 3. Strauss’s Elektra (1909). Starring Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, WaltraudMeier, and Eric Owens. Performed April 30,2016.
• Tuesday, May 4. Handel’s Rodelinda (1725). StarringRenée Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Joseph Kaiser, and Shenyang. Performed December 3, 2011.
• Wednesday, May 5. Thomas’s Hamlet (1868). StarringMarlis Petersen, Jennifer Larmore, Simon Keenlyside, and James Morris. Performed March 27, 2010.
• Thursday, May 6. Bellini’s Norma (1831). StarringSondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja, and Matthew Rose. Performed October 7, 2017.
• Friday, May 7. Berg’s Wozzeck (1925). StarringElza van den Heever, Tamara Mumford, Christopher Ventris, Gerhard Siegel, AndrewStaples, Peter Mattei, and Christian Van Horn.Performed January 11, 2020.
• Saturday, May 8. Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (1904).Starring Patricia Racette, Maria Zifchak, Marcello Giordani, and Dwayne Croft. Performed March 7, 2009.
• Sunday, May 9 Handel’s Agrippina (1709). StarringBrenda Rae, Joyce DiDonato, Kate Lindsey, Iestyn Davies, Duncan Rock, and MatthewRose. Performed February 29, 2020.
• Monday, May 10. Puccini’s La Bohème (1896). StarringTeresa Stratas, Renata Scotto, José Carreras, Richard Stilwell, and James Morris. Performed January 16, 1982.
• Tuesday, May 11. Mozart’s Don Giovanni (1787).Starring Carol Vaness, Karita Mattila, Dawn Upshaw, Jerry Hadley, SamuelRamey, Ferrucio Furlanetto, and Kurt Moll.Performed From April 5, 1990.
• Wednesday, May 12.Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (1865).Starring Jane Eaglen, Katarina Dalayman, Ben Heppner, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen,and René Pape. Performed December 18, 1999.
• Thursday, May 13. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier (1911). Starring Renée Fleming, ChristineSchäfer, Susan Graham, Eric Cutler, Thomas Allen, and Kristinn Sigmundsson. Performed January 9, 2010.
• Friday, May 14. Thisfeature-length documentary takes you behind the scenes of the Met’s NationalCouncil Auditions. From April 1, 2007
• Saturday, May 15. Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816). Starring Isabel Leonard, Lawrence Brownlee, ChristopherMaltman, Maurizo Muraro, and Paata Burchuladze.Performed November 22, 2014.
• Sunday, May 16. Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux (1837).Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Elīna Garanča, Matthew Polenzani, and MariuszKwiecień. Performed April 16, 2016.

Other Opera Companies (alphabetical,by title)

• Now until ? Handel’s Aci, Galateae Polifemo (1708). Starring RaffaelePe, Giuseppina Bridelli, Andrea Mastroni.Performed at Piacenza, Teatro Municipale https://operastreaming.com/homepage-en/
• Now until ? Verdi’s Aida (1871). Starring Roberta Mantegna, Francesco Meli, MattiaDenti, Irene Roberts Riccardo Zanellato, Roberto Frontali. Performed by Venice’s Teatro La Fenice in 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ0UYvWqqIU
• Now until June 19. Verdi’s Attila(1846). Starring Orlin Anastasov, VentselavAnastasov, Rasostina Nikolaeva, Daniel Damvanov, Plamen Papazikov, Dimitar Stanchev. Peformed by Sofia Opera and Ballet July 2011. https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/attila-sofia-opera-and-ballet
• June 13 – 27. Rossini’s The Barberof Seville (1816). Starring Danielle de Niese, Taylor Stayton, Alessandro Corbelli,Björn Bürger and Christophoros Stamboglis.Performed by Glyndebourne Opera in 2016.https://www.glyndebourne.com/events/the-barber-of-seville/
• Now until ? Rossini’s The Barberof Seville (1816). Starring Manuel Amati,Roberto De Candia, Giuseppina Bridelli, Marco Filippo Romano and Mattia Denti. Performed by Piacenza, Teatro Municipale December2020. https://operastreaming.com/opera-il-barbiere-di-siviglia-pc/
• Now until ? Rossini’s The Barberof Seville (1816). Starring Simone DelSavio, Cesar Cortes, Michela Antenucci, Pablo Ruiz, Guido Loconsolo. Performed at Teatro Valli di Reggio Emilia https://operastreaming.com/il-barbiere-di-siviglia-eng/
• Now until August 5, 2021 Rossini’s The Barber of Seville (1816). Starring Hubert Zapior, Angela Brower, Jack Swansonand David Stout. Den Norske Opera & Ballet.Performed December 2020 by the Den Norske Opera and Ballet. https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/barber-seville-den-norske-opera
• Now until ? Pablo Luna’s Benamor (1923). A Spanish language operetta or zarzeula. Performed by Teatro de la Zarzuela April 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L186Iv2U9HA
• Now until May 10, 2021. Bizet’s/Lange’sCarmen (1875), sung in Basque, French and Calo. Starring Evgenia Asanova, Rodrigo Porras Garulo,German Olvera and Barno Ismatullaeva. FromStaatsoper Hannover. https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/carmen-staatsoper-hannover
• May 3 – Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana (1890) /Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci(1892). Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, BrianJagde, Ambrogio Maestri, Zoryana Kushpler, Isabel Signoret; Roberto Alagna, AleksandraKurzak, Ambrogio Maestri, Andrea Giovannini, Sergey Kaydalov. Performed at Vienna Opera November 2020. https://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/event/ecc1844a-0054-4f90-b730-4c827019ee27
• Now until ? Rossini’s La Centerentola(Cinderella; 1817). Starring PaolaGardina, Nikolay Borchev, Antonio Siragusa and Nicola Alaimo. Modena’s Teatro Comunale. https://operastreaming.com/homepage-en/
• July 4 – 18. Mozart’s La Clemenzadi Tito (1791). Starring Richard Croft, Anna Stephany, Alice Coote, Clive Bayley,Michele Losier, Joelle Harvey.Performed by Glyndebourne Opera in 2017. https://www.glyndebourne.com/events/la-clemenza-di-tito/
• May 23 – June 6. Janacek’s TheCunning Little Vixen (1924). StarringLucy Crowe, Emma Bell, Mischa Schelomianski, Sergei Leiferkus. Performed by Glyndebourne in 2012. https://www.glyndebourne.com/events/the-cunning-little-vixen/
• Now until ? Ward’s The Crucible (1961). Starring Anya Matanovic, WayneTigges, Audrey Babco*ck, Robert Norman, Corey Bix, Colin Ramsey, Nina Yoshida Nelson. Performed by Opera Santa Barbara in 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiPdslvdWMA&list=PLaH3PiYOS6dg3yaJ5XAsDjV_ZYr8WaVgz&index=2
• Now until ? Michael Senturia’s TheDeceiver of Citizens (2020). This isa 14 min mini-opera. “It’s really more ofa condemnatory portrait, produced with current distancing… in a somewhat novel visualarray, and with quite good results. I don’t know that it will radically change anyhearts and minds, but it does combine art and world-view in a timely way,” – Khuner. Starring Alex Boyer, Amy Foote, Charlotte Khunerand Marcus DeLoach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EzunlPHnG8
• Now until ? Purcell’s Dido andAeneas (1689). Starring Michela Antenucciand Mauro Borgioni. Performed at Modena’sTeatro Comunale. https://operastreaming.com/homepage-en/
• Now until ? Verdi’s Don Carlo in concert (1867). Performed February 6, 2021 by Teatro ComunaleLuciano Pavarotti, Modena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6ZitJyAKAM.
• Now until June 4, 2021. Mozart’s DonGiovanni (1787). Starring ChristopherMaltman, Miah Persson, Ben Bliss, Veronique Gens, Adam Palka, Luca Pisaroni, Josep-Ramon,Olive, Leonor Bonilla. Performed October2020 by Gran Teatre Del Liceu, Barcelona.https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/don-giovanni-liceu
• Now until ?. Vive’s Dona Fracisquita(1923), a zarzuela. Starring Sabina Puértolas,Ismael Jordi, Ana Ibarra, Vicenç Esteve, María José Suárez, Santos Ariño, AntonioTorres, Gonzalo de Castro.. Performedat Teatro La Zarzuela May 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ9hgW6mIL4
• Now until ? Verdi’s Ernani(1844) – Concert Performance. Starring PieroPretti, Vladimir Stoyanov, Roberto Tagliavini, Eleonora Buratto. Performed by Parma, Teatro Regio in concert September2020. https://operastreaming.com/opera-ernani/
• Now until ? Tchaikovsky's EugeneOnegin (1879). Starring Karin Wolverton,Lee Poulis, Elliott Deasy, Kevin Langan.Performed by Opera Santa Barbara in 2020.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPof*ckIGrZI&list=PLaH3PiYOS6dg3yaJ5XAsDjV_ZYr8WaVgz&index=3
• May 8. Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin(1879). Starring elene Schneiderman, NicoleCar, Anna Goryachova, Larissa Diadkova, Andrè Schuen, Bogdan Volkov, Dimitry Ivashchenko,Dan Paul Dumitrescu, Mykola Erdyk, Johanna Mertinz. https://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/event/ee614b25-8435-479b-baab-21b887943915
• Now until July 3. Wagner’s TheFlying Dutchman (1843). Starring AlmasSvilpa, Sandra Janusaite, Tadas Girininkas, Andris Ludvigs. Performed by Klaipėda State Music Theatre (Lithuania)August 2020. https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/flying-dutchman-klaipeda-state-music-theatre#
• Now until ? Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi(1918). Starring Roberto De Candia, GiulianaGianfaldoni, Valeria Tornatore, Matteo Desole, Andrea Galli, Renata Campanella,Graziano Dallavalle. Performed at Piacenza,Teatro Municipale https://operastreaming.com/opera-gianni-schicchi/
• May 1 – July 31. Rameau’s Hippolyteet Aricie (1733). Starring AmeliaScicolone, Sophie Rennert, Marie=Belle Sandis, Estelle Kruger, Charles Sy, NikolaDiskic, Uwe Eikotter, Patrick Zielke. Performedat Nationaltheater Mannheim April 2021.https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/hippolyte-et-aricie-nationaltheater-mannheim
• Now until ? Rossini’s The ItalianGirl in Algiers (1813). Starring MartinaBelli, Xabier Anduaga, Carlo Lepore, Paolo Bordogna, and Sara Blanch. Performedby Teatro Regio Torino in 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2ISNX_F63Y&list=PLhaJamV0Nxm8nTJjWKOKI1C26pEPQC2wt&index=3
• Now until ? Rossini’s The ItalianGirl in Algers (1813). Spanish Subtitles. Performed December 2020 by Teatro Colon in BuenosAires, Argentina. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl0v6GIQ_LM&feature=emb_logo
• Now until ? Sorozabal’s Katiuska (1931), a zarzuela. Performed by Teatro de la Zarzuela in 2018.
• Now until August 27. Verdi’s Loveand Politics: Scenes from 4 Verdi operas (i.e., Don Carlo, I Masnadieri,Luisa Miller and Giovanna d’Arco). Based on the works for Schiller. Performed October 2020 by the Swedish Opera. https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/love-politics-norrlandsoperan#credits
• Now until? Federico Moreno Torroba’sLuisa Fernanda, a zarzuela (1932). Performed by Teatro de la Zarzuela in 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ45UuPGRo4
• Now until July 8, 2021. Mozart’s TheMagic Flute (1791). Starring GiovanniSala, Guido Loconsolo, Valentina Mastrangelo, Manuel Pierattelli, Tetiana Zhuravel,Antonio Di Matteo. Performed by the MacerataOpera Festival July 2018. https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/magic-flute-macerata-opera-festival
• Now until ? Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto (1792). Performed by Teatro Regio Torino in 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEy2AVeLu8c&list=PLhaJamV0Nxm8nTJjWKOKI1C26pEPQC2wt&index=5
• May 6 and May 10 Verdi’s Nabucco(1842). Starring Plácido Domingo, FreddieDe Tommaso, Riccardo Zanellato, Anna Pirozzi. Performed by Vienna Opera January 2021. 5/6/21 https://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/event/a9dcc8df-6f5c-445c-b9c6-3ac72697057dand 6/10/21 https://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/event/a5895e01-4f3b-48c3-872d-7a5ba4faa466
• Now until ? Verdi’s Nabucco(1842). Starring Giovanni Meoni, Csilla Boross, Ştefan Pop, Riccardo Zanellato,and Enkelejda Shkosa. Performed by Teatro Regio Torino in 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stjk0lOp3Lc&list=PLhaJamV0Nxm8nTJjWKOKI1C26pEPQC2wt&index=8
• Now until ? Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso(1727). Starring Sonia Prina, Francesca Aspromonte,Lucia Cirillo, Loriana Castellano, Raffaele Pe, Carlo Vistoli, Riccardo Novaro. Performed by Venice’s Teatro La Fenice in 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNnht2vDkEU
• Now until May 29. Verdi’s Otello(1887). Starring Kristian Benedikt, MalinBystrom, Vladimir Styanov, Susann Vegh, Klas Hedlund, Daniel Ralphsson. Performed by Royal Swedish Opera March 2015. https://www.operanplay.se/en/performances/opera/ Note subtitles in Swedish.
• Now until ? Brittens’s Owen Wingrave(1971). Starring Ross Ramgobin, Susan Bullock, . Richard Berkeley Steele, WilliamDazeley, Janis Kelley, James Way, Madeleine Pierard, Kitty Whately. Performed by Grange Park Opera, Surrey UK 2020. https://grangeparkopera.co.uk/whats-on/owen-wingrave/
• Now until August 19. Debussy’s Pelleas and Mélisande (1902). Starring Jacquest Imbrailo and Mari Eriksmoen. Performed by January 2021 by Grand Théâtre deGenève. https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/pelleas-et-melisande-grand-theatre-de-geneve
• Now until October 9. Debussy’s Pelleas and Mélisande (1902). Starring Julien Behr, Vannina Santoni, AlexandreDuhamel, Marie-Ange Todorovitch, Jean Teitgen.Performed by Opéra de Lille in March 2021. https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/pelleas-et-melisande-opera-de-lille
• Now until July 23, 2021. Bellini’sLa Pirata (1826). Starring Pavel Yankovksy,Irina Kostina, Dmitry Korchak, Alexander Skvarko, Vitaly Efanov and Victoria Shevtsova. Performed in concert version January 2021by Kolobov Novaya Opera Theater of Moscow. https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/il-pirata-novaya-opera-theater-moscow
• Now until ? Catan’s Il Postino(2010). Starring Daniel Montenegro, RaúlMelo, Sarah Vautour, Julia Metzler, Suzanna Guzman, E Scott Levin. Performed by Opera Santa Barbara. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5E_PgsUdN0&list=PLaH3PiYOS6dg3yaJ5XAsDjV_ZYr8WaVgz
• Now until May 5, 2021. Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna (2009). Starring Elin Rombo, Beate Mordal, Jeremy Carpenter,Conny Thimander, Ruben Lundstrom, Nadja Sjostrom. Peformed by Swedish Royal Opera. https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/prima-donna-royal-swedish-opera
• Now until ? Mozart’s Il Re Pastore(1775). Performed by New
• England Conservatory. https://necmusic.edu/events/mozart-il-re-pastore
• Now until October 2021. Boris Blacher’sRomeo und Julia (1943). Starring JussiMyllys, Lavinai Dames, Katarzyna Kuncio, Gunes Gurle, Andres Sulbaran, BenjaminPop. Performed by Deutsche Oper Am RheinMarch 2021. https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/romeo-und-julia-deutsche-oper-am-rhein
• May 9. Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier(1911). Starring Martina Serafin, DanielaSindram, Günther Groissböck, Erin Morley, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Piotr Beczała. Performed by Vienna Opera December 2020. https://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/event/4766916e-ac65-4209-b2c3-88e2de761393
• Now until ? Rossini’s Semiramide(1823). Starring Jessica Pratt, Teresa Iervolino,Alex Esposito, Enea Scala, Marta Mari, Simon Lim. Performed by Venice’s Teatro La Fenice in 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrY6XHdvQ6I&t=55s
• Now until ? Gimenez’s LaTempranica (1900), a zarzuela. PerformedTeatro de la Zarzuela October 2020
• Now until May 8. Puccini’s Tosca(1900) Starring Malin Byström. Performedin concert February 2021 by Royal Opera of Sweden. https://www.operanplay.se/en/performances/opera-1/
• Now until ? Puccini’s Tosca(1900). Starring Jennifer Rowley, MarceloPuente and Samuel Youn. Performed February28, 2021 by Opéra de Marseille. https://youtu.be/4ViZh7pQZ8g
• Now until May 14, 2021. Verdi’s LaTraviata (1853). Starring Marina Rebeka,Michael Fabiano, Artur Rucinski. PerformedJuly 2020 by Teatro Real, Madrid. https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/la-traviata-teatro-real-madrid
• Now until ? Verdi’s La Traviata(1953). Starring Maria Mudryak, Matteo Lippiand Ernesto Petti. Performed at Moderna’sTeatro Comunale. https://youtu.be/NxS8KfPU-DUor https://operastreaming.com/homepage-en/
• August 1 – 29. Verdi’s La Traviata(1853). Starring Venera Gimadieva, MichaelFabiano, Tassis Christoyannis. Performedby Glyndebourne Opera in 2014. https://www.glyndebourne.com/events/la-traviata-at-glynde-place/
• Now until ? Puccini’s Turandot(1926). Compañía Nacional de Ópera / INBAL/ México
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPZH2fV_PKc
• Now until ? de Falla’s La VidaBreve (The Brief Life), (1913).Performed by Teatro de la Zarzuela in 2020. Note: subtitles are in Spanish only. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUH5PVWnurE&t=2175s
• Now until June 26. Poulenc’s LaVoix Humaine (1959) and Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole (1911). Starring Talar Dekrmanjian, Gilles Ragon, RomieEsteves, Michael Wilmering, Aleandre Diakoff and Peter Gijsbertsen. Performed by Opera Zuid November 2020. https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/la-voix-humaine-lheure-espagnole-opera-zuid
• Now until ? Massanet’s Werther(1892). Starring Veronica Simeoni, MariaRita Combattelli, Francesco Demuro. Performedat Moderna’s Teatro Comunale. https://operastreaming.com/

Musicals

• Willie Russell’s Blood Brothers (1983). London production of this cult musical. The story is a contemporary natureversus nurture plot, revolving around fraternal twins, who wereseparated at birth, one subsequently being raised in a wealthy family, the otherin a poor family. Note: Poor recording quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP1j1B1TtNU&t=12s
• Sondheim’s Company (1970).Broadway revival from the Ethel Barrymore Theater in NYC. Starring Raul Esparza. Performed 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fhW00fU1uQ
• Sondheim’s Follies (1971).“ a glimpse into the original magic that played at the WinterGarden Theatre, in Follies. Alexis Smith, Dorothy Collins, John McMartin, Gene Nelsonand Yvonne DeCarlo … This 'recreation' project was first conceived seven years ago,and today boasts four film sources and several audio recordings and still photographs,to achieve an audiovisual document as true as possible to the original masterpiece.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUFSmj16h_w
• Herman’s Hello Dolly! (1964) 2018 production with Bernadette Peters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhKCnU2tkr8
• Sondheim’s Into the Woods (1987). Starring Joanna Gleason, Chip Zien,Bernadette Peters, et al. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP8fw_LhOOg
• Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years (2001). From San Francisco’s ACT. Starring Margo Siebert and Zak Resnick. The storyexplores a five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist,and Cathy Hiatt,[1] a struggling actress. Theshow uses a form of storytelling in which Cathy's story is told in reverse chronologicalorder (beginning the show at the end of the marriage), and Jamie's is told in chronologicalorder (starting just after the couple have first met). Note:Poor recording quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb34ciBD2jI
• Sondheim’sA Little Night Music (1973). StarringBernadette Peters, Elaine Stritch, Alexander Hanson, Erin Davie, Leigh Ann Larkin,Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Ramona Mallory, Bradley Dean, Stephen R. Buntock, Ben Davis,Jessica Grove, et al. Performed September2010 on Broadway. Note: Poor recording quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzIovhfZ8OU&t=8132s
• Menken &Ashman’s The Little Shop of Horrors (1982). Performed by American Musical Theatre of San Jose's2008. Note: Poor recording quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUMNY2lsOKU
• Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella (1956). Starring Ichael Corvino, Molly Mustonen,Peter Kendall Clark, Lauren Huffmeier, Brance Cornelius,Lisa Chavez. Performed by DiCapo Opera Theater.Credit 2012.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F58Hl0JvMwQ
• Now until ? Kate Douglas’, KhayferJames’ and Kevin Newbury’s The Ninth Hour: The Beowulf Story (2020?). StarringBrandon Bieber, Antuan Byers, Irineo Cabreros, Alex Clair, Kate Douglas, Kambi Gathesha,Coyle Girelli, Shayfer James, Dani Markham, Emily Morrison, James Quinlan. This performative rock-noir reimagining of thefamous epic explores the intricacies of mankind's relationship with power and violence.Staged in the Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters last spring, this is a classicstory of glory and ruin—as told through triumphant pop anthems, heart-wrenchinglullabies, heroes, and monsters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhsynTXouIg&feature=youtu.be
• Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures (1976). Starring Mako, Soon-Teck Oh, Yuki Shimoda, SabShimono, Isao Sato, Alvin Ing, Ernest Harada, James Dybas, Mark Hsu Syers, PatrickKinser-Lau, Ernest Abuba, Larry Hama, Jae Woo Lee, Freddy Mao, Tom Matsusaka, ConradYama, Timm Fujii, Haruki Fujimoto, Freda Foh Shen and Gedde Watanabe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ546PASgHI. Note. Poor quality video of the 1976 Broadwaystaged performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ546PASgHI
• Uhry and Brown’s Parade (1998).Starring Jeremy Jordan and Laura Benanti 2015 Concert performance from NYC’sAvery Fisher Hall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIKewf3ZTzo&list=RDnIKewf3ZTzo&start_radio=1
• Sondheim’s Passion (1994).Starring Marin Mazzie, Jere Shea and Donna Murphy. 1996 TV movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M8pxgF2NbU&t=512s
• Larson’s Rent(1996). Live “Broadway Production” Performed2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=35&v=yhG3JTchKDA&feature=emb_logo
• Joe Iconis’ We the People: AmericaRocks! TheaterWorksUSA presents the musicalabout a teen hoping to win her high school election, who is helped by founding fathersGeorge Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. StarringRashidra Scott, Zach Piser, Josh Breckenridge, Orville Mendoza, and Dan Rosales,the production was filmed at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse on October 4, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEG3NeH3f4Y
• Now until May 30. The Kilbane’s Weightless(2018). Filmed by the Women’s Project Theaterin 2021 at the Bruns Amphitherater in California. https://wptheater.org/show/weightless/

Plays

• Ryan William Downey and Spencer Thomas Campbell's Biter (Every Time ITurn Around) (2015). Description: [this]“lunatic farce feels cold and fresh, a bracing change from an experimental scenethat can seem to have lost its teeth,” [with] bits that go back generations—itshilarious central act is basically a tarted-up Abbott & Costello routine, ifthose two had stumbled onto a Richard Foreman set and been horribly murdered there.”Presentedby Brick Theater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owf5wVbVn_A
• Eugene Ionesco’s Exit the King (1962). This play comes closest of all Ionesco's playsto the paradigm of absurdism established by Samuel Beckett. From CityGarage Theater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf3_2b6Fjls
• Kelly’s The Fatal Weakness (1946). PerformedOff-Broadway by Mint Theater in 2014. www.MintTheater.org
• Eugene Ionesco’s Journeys Among the Dead (1980) Performed by City Garage Theater of Los Angelesin 2002. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHRUxHFs_QQ
• Daniil Kharms’ LAPA by The Million Underscores (1930). Description:a mesmerizing language machine for the theater … Treating language with thematerial curiosity of early abstract artists LAPA exposes the border of languageand sound, of poetry and meaning. this genre-bending work, modulating between visualcomposition, soundscape, performance, and choreography, to emphasize the distancebetween words, objects, sound, and the body. Performed June 2020 at the Brick Theater,an Okra Project production (serving the Black trans community). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Jzj4qhjyQ
• Now until December 2021. Shakespeare’sMacbeth (~1606). Starring PatrickStewart and Kate Fleetwood. 2009 film versionof the 2008 sold-out limited engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in March2008, and an eight-week run on Broadway.https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/blog/summer-streaming-lineup/
• Now until May 9. Shakespeare’s Measurefor Measure (1604). Peformed by Chicago’sGoodman Theater in 2013. https://www.goodmantheatre.org/season/Encore/measure-for-measure/
• Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette (1985). A co-production of the UK’s Made at Curve, BelgradeTheatre Coventry, Everyman Theatre Cheltenham and Leeds Playhouse. From a 2019 Dress Rehearsal. https://vimeo.com/454083712
• Now until June 13. Hunter’s A Picture of Autumn (1951). A delightful comedy of quality and charm. Themain theme deals with the efforts of the well-meaning son to organize the sale ofhis parents’ house, which is much too large and expensive for them to cope with.The final result is quite different to what he had planned. Performed Off-Broadwayby Mint Theater in 2013. www.MintTheater.org
• Now until ? Shakespeare’s Romeoand Juliet (~1595). An abbreviated ~90min version. From London’s Globe Theater. Performed 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFBWXRqa7Gs
• Now until May 16. Marco Ramirez’sThe Royale (2015). Starring McKinleyBelcher III, Khris Davis, Montego Glover, John Lavelle, and Clarke Peters. Description: New play loosely based on the real-lifeexperiences of Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight world champion.Winner of two Obie Awards, an Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama Desk Award. Performed Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in NYC2016. https://www.lct.org/shows/private-reels/
• Inoa’s SCRAPS (2018). StarringStan Mayer, Tyrin Niles, Ashlee Olivia, Damon Rutledge, Ahkei Togun, & DeniseYolén. Summary: Set in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, three months afterthe fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer, 'SCRAPS' is aprovocative mash up of poetry, realism and expressionism that chronicles the effectsof his death on his family and friends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLdXs4A7NBw&feature=youtu.be
• Ryan Willian Downey’s Sleeping Car Porters (2019). Description: an off-beat dark comedy, Characters named Billy the Kid and Zodiac journey througha twisted and violent landscape of western masculine myth-making. Expect cowboys,killers and ghosts, plus a short musical set at the start. Presented 2019 by the Brick Theater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wTnxBW6_14
• Albert Ostermaier’s Titus Tartar (2002) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpRdp_P1D8w. Performed by City Garage Theater of Los Angelesin 2002. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpRdp_P1D8w&t=144s
• Twelve Angry Men… and Women (2020?). You don't want to miss these compelling storiesof the policing of Black men and women read by an Award-winning cast Wendell Pierce,Lisa Arrindell and Billy Eugene Jones with live music by renowned violinist DanielBernard Roumain and a musical overture performed live by a quartet of New York Philharmonicmusicians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_heHhX093U&ab_channel=BillieHolidayTheatre
• Now until June 2021. Twilight: Los Angeles (2001). Anna Deavere Smith’s powerful one-woman theaterpiece about the 1991 Rodney King beating. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/blog/summer-streaming-lineup/
• May 7. Chekov’s Uncle Vanya(1899). Starring Toby Jones, RichardArmitage, Rosalind Eleazar, Aimee Lou Wood, Anna Calder Marshall, DearbhlaMolloy, Roger Allam, Peter Wight. From PBSGreat Performances.
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZri-Y6aBcTFrxYMF_ghXQA
• Now until 2023 Dael Orlandersmith’s Until the Flood (2018). A one-woman show explores Ferguson following the2014 shooting of Michael Brown. Based on extensive interviews, this theatrical eventgives voice to a community grappling with injustice and yearning for change. https://allarts.org/programs/all-arts-performance-selects/until-the-flood-wtcesv/
• Andrew Bovell’s When theRain Stops Falling (2013). Description:The LA Weekly called it, “A thought-provokingmeditation on coping with the tragedies of life…” Premier at City Garage Theaterin 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ca1L-eCvHE
• Now until May 16. Malleson’s YoursUnfaithfully (2017). This 2017 worldpremier production comes 84 years after the play was written in 1933. Thisis a “a refined, rueful and often shrewd comedy about polyamory” StarringMax von Essen. Performed by Off-Broadwayby Mint Theater in 2017. https://minttheater.org/

Dance

• Silvestrini’sAfter the Interval (2012) and its sequel Before the Interval (2014). Starring .Note: a show about dance and dancers that opens with theperformers’ curtain calls, who then answer audience questions, and continueswith revivals of their past stage roles and steps. After the Intervalavailable now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02ZTS2eUCU4. Before the Interval availablebeginning May 7 Performed at Linbury StudioTheater in London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GYvMcSN5yU
• Luca Silvestrini’s Border Tales (2013). Description: A commentary on multicultural Britainseen through the eyes of an international cast, told through dance, live music,and dialogue compiled from the performers’ personal experiences. Peformed by ProteinDance, filmed 2017 at The Place in London.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJzPr9L0Qao
• Now until ? The Alvin Ailey AmericanDance Theater’s Chroma, Grace, Takademe, Revelations. http://lincolncenter.org/lincoln-center-at-home/show/alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater-chroma-grace-takademe-revelations-173. Performed 2015
• Now until ? Cirque du Soleil. Series of weekly ~ 1 hour programs with excerptsfrom programs. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPiWIjwDZQo3UobMqvi4ggg
• May 7. Adam’s Giselle (1841). Performed by Vienna Ballet September 2017. https://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/event/1bb761ee-a125-4705-92f9-0cf491b10aa6
• Now until ? Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker(Casse-Noisette)(1892) With the Orchester de la Suisse Romande and the Balletdu Grand Théâtre de Genève. Performed 2014. https://www.rts.ch/play/tv/rtsmusique/video/casse-noisette?urn=urn:rts:video:8291734
• May 5 Grieg’s Peer Gynt (1876).Jakob Feyferlik, Alice Firenze, Eno Peci, Zsolt Török, Soloists, corps deballet of the Vienna State Ballet December 2018. https://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/event/c2b7720c-db18-42ad-b6e7-b6f155fce030
• Now until? Sofa Circus: The España-STREB Academy’sQuarantine Cabaret. TrapezeDirector Bobby Hedglin-Taylor serves as the virtual ringmaster in this collectionof circus arts recorded remotely by artists including German wheel acrobat ChrisDelgado, aerialists Luciany Germán and Rae of Mars, diabolo manipulator Jean-TaeFrancis, hair hanger Susanna Morehouse, bubble artist Polly Solomon, hand balancerIvory Fox, hammock swinger Dan Saab and the dance-juggling-music trio Dialectrick. https://streb.org/sofa-circus/
• May 4. Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake(1876). Performed by Corps de ballet of theVienna State Ballet. March 2014.https://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/event/ff2402d0-c453-452a-92dc-0f720c340293

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