Are you as obsessed with Hamilton: An American Musical as we are? Broadway Up Close Owner Tim Dolan will lead guests on a virtual tour of Alexander Hamilton’s 1700s sidewalks in the “greatest city in the world.” In addition to exploring the historical sites from the musical, guests will hear rarely heard first-hand accounts from the making of the musical as Tim was a fly on the wall for the entire creation on Broadway. This HamilTour will be broken up into two parts (Dec. 2 and 9) to cover as much detail as possible. Don’t “wait for it,” – join us and be in the “virtual tour” where it happened.

Release of the first two parts.

By Amara J. Brady (Last Ones First), Jessie Rivera DeBruin (Luciérnagas), Gina Femia (Allond(r)a), and Nina Ki (Taemong (Birth Dream)) and directed by Tamilla Woodard (Where We Stand).

A future built on commodity and access is altered forever with the disappearance of its main life force. With the fate of the universe rocked by change, four strangers find the answer to survival in each other. Four strangers, four paths, one destination.

The cast of This Is Where We Go will include Brady, Garcia (“Tales of the City”), Teresa Avia Lim (JUNK), Bunny Michael (“High Maintenance”), Lindsay Rico (Fefu and Her Friends), and Danny Wolohan (West Side Story).

This Is Where We Go features sound design by Sadah Espii Proctor, Rachel Brees, and Emilie Weibel, and dramaturgy by Gabriella Steinberg and Al Parker.

The American Theatre Wing wants to empower Artists and Theatre Makers everywhere to not only continue aspiring and dreaming, but to also create a plan and make those dreams into reality. But what is the difference between dreaming and planning?

For this Network for Emerging Leaders in the Theatre meeting, attendees will discover their planning style, learn the different obstacles that act as barriers to achieving goals, and harness their dreams and passions by creating practical, achievable plans to turn them into reality. Theatre Artist and Educator Lauren Jost will lead attendees in breakout sessions to help apply these goal setting skills. Come prepared to participate! With 2021 only weeks away, The Wing wants to ensure that Network attendees can confidently set strong goals, measure progress, and continue to transform the world through artistry.

For more information about the Network, including past panel topics, please visit https://americantheatrewing.org/program/thenetwork/

On Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 6:00 pm, Tim Connell, along with Musical Director James Followell, returns to CVRep, albeit virtually, after being part of CVRep’s Summer of 2018 Cabaret series. Shades of Romance debuted in NYC in November of 2019 at The Triad. This show is a musical journey through the emotional colors that romance ignites. The program includes Skylark, My Foolish Heart, Superstar, I Am What I Am and American Tune. Connell made his critically acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut with the Mabel Mercer Foundation’s All The Things You Are – A Celebration of Jerome Kern’s Music in May of 2019. Connell debuted at Jazz @ Lincoln Center at the Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention’s 30th Anniversary show in October 2019. Join us for an evening of music and story on the various colors that make up the experience of romance! Register for the fabulous one-night-only show, presented via Zoom.

On December 3rd, The Center For Fiction’s Annual Awards Benefit is honoring individuals who have made outstanding contributions to fiction this year. This year’s benefit will be free for anyone who wishes to attend. Honorees include author and screenwriter, James McBride, and Executive Vice President of Nonfiction Programming for Showtime Networks, Vinnie Malhotra for “The Good Lord Bird” and Chris Jackson, Publisher and Editor-In-Chief of One World, a newly relaunched imprint of Random House.

This year’s benefit be hosted by actress, comedian and author Yvonne Orji, and will feature a performance by Laura Benanti (My Fair Lady, She Loves Me). Ethan Hawke and Ta-Nehisi Coates will serve as presenters that evening, with additional appearances by Raúl Esparza and more.

To register online for FREE, please visit https://benefit.centerforfiction.org/.

Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to announce its latest virtual offering, the holiday return of “The Ruffians’ Burning Bluebeard.” Written by Jay Torrence and directed by Halena Kays, “Burning Bluebeard” is available for streaming Friday, Dec. 4 – Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021. Streaming begins Friday, Dec. 4 at 12 p.m. CST with $15 – $50 tickets available at
PorchlightMusicTheatre.org. Links are available for viewing 72 hours after purchase. The running time for “Burning Bluebeard” is 100 minutes and this streamed performance was filmed during the 2019 run at The Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn Street.

“Burning Bluebeard,” now in its ninth year, was created and performed by the critically acclaimed theatre troupe The Ruffians. A magical story is told with music, clowning, tumbling, acrobatics and dance, “Burning Bluebeard” is a physical-performance phenomena inspired by the true story of Chicago’s former Iroquois Theatre and the unforgettable events that resulted in tragedy for 600 theatergoers at Christmastime in 1903.

Each performance is a vaudevillian musical delight with a story that excavates the poetic and poignant remains of a piece of Chicago’s rich history and leaves the audience with an unforgettable experience.

BRAND-NEW INTERACTIVE SHORT FILM EXPERIENCE
“LIKE AFTER DEATH”
TO STREAM DIGITALLY December 4th, 9th, 15th and 17th at 8:00pm

VIEWERS WILL DETERMINE THE STORY SEQUENCE EACH NIGHT

WHAT: Heredia Vision, a digital production company founded in quarantine by Ashley Rodbro (Moulin Rouge!; Oh, Hello) announces Like After Death, a dynamic short film, filmed completely in quarantine and written by Craig Cox (Blades of Glory) and Alex Trow (F Theory), debuting exclusively in All Together Now, an interactive virtual theatre space. Like After Death is a dark comedy that leads the audience on a kaleidoscopic journey through the life and death of a social media influencer named Clarissa. Jumping back and forth through time and between the friends, family members, and followers she left behind, a portrait of a complicated young woman emerges, challenging viewers to examine the assumptions we make about people, and the filters through which we view each other.

WHO: Lacy Allen (Inanimate), Emily Bautista (Miss Saigon), Rubén J Carbajal (Hamilton), Annie Cavalero (The Groundlings), Tony Cavalero (The Righteous Gemstones, Dirt), Harrison Chad (The Black Suits), Rebecca E Covington (Beautiful, Hamilton), Ashley De La Rosa (“The Voice,” Mean Girls), Katie Flahive (“Nurse Jackie”, “Chicago P.D.”), Vincent Jamal Hooper (Hamilton), Colby Lewis (“Chicago Med”), Ashley Loren (Moulin Rouge!), Keetin Marchi, Will Roland (Be More Chill, Dear Evan Hansen), and Morgan Anita Wood (Hamilton). Developed by Stephanie Cowan (Amélie), Like After Death is produced by Danielle Gimbal with the Heredia Vision Team.

WHEN: December 4th, 9th, 15th and 17th at 8:00pm

WHERE: Tickets are on sale now for $25 at herediavision.com/likeafterdeath

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Board this New Symmetry flight and travel through the unstable terrain of an emotional landscape as formed by PTSD.

Composed & recorded by Stephanie Singer during her residency in Russia in March 2020. The score weaves 6 electronica/choral songs together to form one continuous piece of music. Produced by Amanda Mayo (Slow Shudder) whose luminous and immersive sound design envelopes the listener. New Symmetry unfolds like a stream of consciousness triggered by the question: Is it possible for a person to change?

Each song is an intimate window into Singer’s own emotional patterns, and between each song is spoken text intertwined with music. New Symmetry is part album, part podcast and part pep-talk. It seeks to inspire people to open themselves up, to look at their emotional patterns & rhythms, and to see what happens when they embrace the idea that the world is changing constantly, every cell is in flux. A futuristic, surreal polyphonic choral piece which could be seen as a form of much needed therapy for today.

Stephanie Singer (UK) wrote the music whilst in Yekaterinburg in March 2020, collaborators are: producer Amanda Mayo (Seattle, USA), designer Freyja Sewell (London, UK), illustrator Maria Medem (Seville, Spain), dancer Natalya Levchenko (Yekaterinburg, RU), chef Alina Kuznetcova (Yekaterinburg, RU), translator Alexandra Yaroslavtseva (Yekaterinburg, RU), Adam Bernet (London UK) and singer Inna Medvedeva (Yekaterinburg, RU).

Tony Award-winning stage and screen star Kelli O’Hara returns to the University of Connecticut’s Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts for a virtual live performance streaming Saturday, December 5. The evening will include a generous collection of holiday favorites as well as classics from the Great White Way and the American Songbook.

Immediately following the performance, Jorgensen’s director Rodney Rock will interview Ms. O’Hara, and she will engage in a live Q&A with the audience. The concert is presented through Jorgensen Digital Stage, produced by OurConcerts.live, with support from the Jorgensen CoStars and Circle of Friends, and media sponsors CT Public, Connecticut Magazine, Radio.com and Lite 100.5 WRCH.

“I’m so grateful to have the opportunity and responsibility to perform this holiday season. It’s poignant to sing about love and heartache right now. It’s meaningful that we are finding new avenues to gather and honor those who aren’t with us. It’s beautiful to celebrate the ways each of us is doing the best we can. My relationship with these beautiful songs is always evolving, and I continue to find great joy and comfort in them. I hope they will shine a warm light on your winter as well,” says Ms. O’Hara.

The program will encompass Ms. O’Hara’s multi-faceted brilliance as a performing artist. She’ll sing beloved musical theatre showtunes and heartwarming American standards, and sprinkle in a few seasonal holiday classics. She’ll also weave in stories about the pieces she performs and talk about the people who have shaped her path as an artist and person.

Ms. O’Hara has been in the Broadway spotlight for over 20 years. She earned a Tony for her turn as Anna Leonowens in the 2015 revival of The King and I, and, more recently, was nominated for Tony, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle awards for her performance in Kiss Me, Kate. Her other Broadway credits include The Bridges of Madison County (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, OCC nominations), Nice Work if You Can Get It (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, OCC nominations), and South Pacific (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC nominations). She was awarded the prestigious Drama League’s Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Award in 2019.

Ms. O’Hara stars alongside Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon in HBO’s new series The Gilded Age, currently filming in New York City.She received an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Katie Bonner in the hit web series The Accidental Wolf. She is a frequent performer on PBS’s live telecasts, The Kennedy Center Honors, and performs often alongside The New York Philharmonic. She has been nominated for two Grammy awards, and her solo albums Always and Wonder in the World are available on Ghostlight Records.

FOOLS MASS is set during the plague years of the 14th century. When a motley group of village idiots gather for holiday mass, they discover that their beloved pastor has met an untimely death. So they decide to carry on and perform their own mass as best they can. FOOLS MASS celebrates the sacred and profane, the miracle of life and the enigma of death, all with enchanted choral singing, riotous comic buffoonery, and extraordinary dramatic invention.

Since 1998 Dzieci Theatre has presented their roving production of FOOLS MASS at multiple churches and performance spaces throughout New York City, including a stop at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine that routinely sells out. This year, the annual holiday tradition will instead be livestreamed from Bushwick’s Sure We Can on Sunday, December 5th at 5pm.  Running time is 50 minutes. Tickets are $20 per device (with premium packages available) at www.dziecitheatre.org.

Follow producer Catherine Schreiber on an insider’s journey as we explore the hottest shows on Broadway, what shows are coming to Broadway, and where you can find a Broadway show in a town or city near you.

We’ll invite you behind the scenes of Broadway’s blockbusters, let you hear from the biggest stars, and introduce the next generation of performers just beginning to realize their Broadway dreams.

We’ll also lift the veil on the fascinating people behind the curtain, who make the magic possible. 

And, we’ll focus on the women and diverse members of theatre who are finally getting the opportunities and recognition they deserve.

Broadway is so much more than theaters and amazing shows. It’s a community of people and places opening their arms to welcome you. Let us make you a Broadway insider. Theatre has changed so many lives and we hope it will change yours.

Are you as obsessed with Hamilton: An American Musical as we are? Broadway Up Close Owner Tim Dolan will lead guests on a virtual tour of Alexander Hamilton’s 1700s sidewalks in the “greatest city in the world.” In addition to exploring the historical sites from the musical, guests will hear rarely heard first-hand accounts from the making of the musical as Tim was a fly on the wall for the entire creation on Broadway. This HamilTour will be broken up into two parts (Dec. 2 and 9) to cover as much detail as possible. Don’t “wait for it,” – join us and be in the “virtual tour” where it happened.

The spirits of Christmas past, present, and future have returned…but this time they’re knocking on your doorstep. And they’ve brought alcohol.

After Hours Theater Company is proud to announce their next virtual experience: A Christmas Carol Cocktail Spectacular!

Travel back in time to the 1950s with this original retelling of A Christmas Carol, adapted for the screen as an interactive musical experience and cocktail kit for two.

Set on the set of a nostalgic televised Christmas Special, follow along as a cranky Christmas TV host with a hatred for all things Christmas learns to love the Yuletide season again, thanks to a visit from the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.

Each visit from a new Christmas spirit is paired with a different “spirit,” straight from your cocktail kit (available as alcoholic or non-alcoholic), along with personalized instruction on how to craft three different curated Christmas cocktails for up to two people.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

Each Christmas Cocktail Kit Includes
🍸 An interactive live-streamed musical cabaret
🍸 Drink-making guidance to make three drinks which are themed after the spirits of Christmas past, present, and future
🍸 “Christmas Spirit” kit (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) with all of the essential ingredients