Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Steppenwolf Theatre
Streaming: As part of the Steppenwolf NOW initiative
Duchess, Duchess, Duchess
DUCHESS! DUCHESS! DUCHESS!
A FILMED PLAY
By Vivian J.O. Barnes
Directed by Weyni Mengesha
Featuring ensemble member Celeste M. Cooper with Sydney Charles
Streaming March 10 2021
Run time: 35 minutes
A Royal Wedding is looming. The Duchess and The Soon-to-be-Duchess are meeting face-to-face for the first time to go over everything you ever needed to know to become a duchess. There are rules. There’s a way of doing things. Remember, everybody is watching. And you don’t want to know what happens if you step out of line. Duchess! Duchess! Duchess! looks at the hidden costs of being the “luckiest girl in the world.”
Thursday, March 11, 2021
7:00 pm
Looking Back at CONTACT
Lincoln Center Theater
| LOOKING BACK AT CONTACT Next up in LCT’s SPOTLIGHT SERIES will be “Looking Back at CONTACT,” LCT’s 2000 award-winning musical. Featuring the production’s director and choreographer Susan Stroman; writer John Weidman; and original stars Boyd Gaines, Seán Martin Hingston, Deborah Yates and Karen Ziemba. The event will be moderated by Tomé Cousin, also an original cast member who has subsequently overseen productions of the musical world-wide. | |
| CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE FREE ZOOM EVENT » |
Friday, March 12, 2021
9:00 am to 10:00 am
CIUT FRIDAY MORNING, 89.5 fm
An interview with Rebecca Northan, comedienne-theatre creator-extraordaire.
Northan and her fellow improv artists have created a program called Undiscovered Sonnets, in which a real live couple talk about their relationship and the improv team fashions a sonnet with that information, following Shakespeare’s strict formula for sonnets. Wonderful and wild.
Friday, March 12-17, 2021
WIL
Streaming
ERIC MCCORMACK, COLM FEORE, LUCY PEACOK, ERIN KARPLUK
APPEARING IN VIRTUAL READING OF “WIL”
DIRECTED BY SARA BOTSFORD
AN ONLINE FUNDRAISER FOR THE AFC
A virtual reading of Wil, a new feature film project written by Dan Rosen, benefiting The Actors Fund and The AFC (The Actors’ Fund of Canada), will be streamed online March 12-17, 2021.
Sara Botsford will direct and co-produce.
The cast includes :Eric McCormack as Bernie Shylock, Oliver Dench as Wil, Lucy Peacock as Gertrude, Will Swenson as Richard, Colm Feore as Polonius, Jonathan Scarfe as The Narrator, Zuleikha Robinson as Ophelia, Luke Humphrey as Hamlet, Geraint Wyn Davies as Falstaff, Andre Sills as Fortinbras, Christopher Shyer as Edgar, Erin Karpluk as Mistress Quigly and Kendra Leigh as Anne Hathaway, among many others.
Set in 1590, Wil introduces us to 26-year-old Wil Shakespeare – a promising, but floundering playwright with a wife, three children, a ballooning mortgage and a brand-new play, Romeo & Juliet, that just closed on opening night at the Stratford Upon Avon Supper Theater. Things look bleak for the young playwright when his trusted agent, Bernie Shylock, lands Wil his first professional gig – running the summer stock theatre at Elsinore Castle in Denmark. Upon arrival in Denmark, Wil finds a group of less-than-desirable thespians, thieves and murderers and
realizes that putting on a respectable performance of Romeo & Juliet might be the least of his worries.
Tickets are available at www.muchadoaboutwil.com. There is no admission fee, but audience members are encouraged to make donations to The AFC (the Actors’ Fund of Canada) and The Actors Fund
Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 8:00 pm
WHITE RABBIT, RED RABBIT
On Zoom
A Call To Action on March 13 From international producer Aurora Nova: Friday the 13th of March 2020 was the day most theatres in the world had to shut down. It’s been the longest theatre shutdown in modern history. We want to mark the anniversary of that day by creating an extraordinary global event that celebrates theatre and the resilience of our sector. An event that generates much needed income as well as hope and inspiration at this time of uncertainty and isolation.
On the 13th of March 2021 we want a play to be staged in every country in the world. A play which is living proof that creativity can overcome adversity. From Derrick Chua: While the original hope was for the performance to be produced in front of a live audience, even if limited to follow all health and safety guidelines, the appearance of new virus variants resulting in stricter lockdown in many cities, including Toronto, have made that impossible.
Therefore producer Aurora Nova and playwright Nassim Soleimanpour have developed a new version of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit to be performed for camera as a Zoom meeting on Saturday March 13 at 8:00pm, Richard Lee will perform the show.
With no rehearsals, no director, a different actor each night, and a script waiting in a sealed envelope on stage, internationally acclaimed White Rabbit Red Rabbit, by Iranian writer Nassim Soleimanpour, is an audacious theatrical experiment and a potent reminder of the transgressive and transformative power of theatre. Forbidden to leave his native Iran, Soleimanpour wrote a play which travelled the world in his place.
For this Toronto performance presented virtually by Zoom on Saturday March 13 at 8:00pm.
Tickets by donation to The AFC: https://wrrrtoronto.eventbrite.ca
Sunday, March 14, 2021
Elocution: The Life of Richard Berry Harrison.
Written by Jeff Culbert
Starring Walter Borden.
Richard B Harrison (1864-1935), a Black actor from London Ontario became the biggest star on Broadway in the early 1930s. Playing Harrison in this one-man show is the legendary Back Canadian actor Walter Borden, who performed for years at the Stratford Festival, won a Dora Award, and has been awarded the Order of Canada.
Harrison’s parents both escaped slavery in the US and met in London Ontario, where they raised a family. In his late teens, Harrison went to Detroit for theatre training, but he was barred from the professional stage because of racist barriers, so he went out on the road on his own with a head full of classical, popular and contemporary poems, along with one-man Shakespeare plays. At the age of 65, he landed a starring role on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning extravaganza The Green Pastures, which he performed over 1600 times on Broadway and on tour. Just before his death in 1935, he appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, in honour of his work.
This is a theatre project, but in this time of COVID, it’s performed as an audio recording of the play, which will be accompanied by visual images corresponding to people and places in the story.
Presented it to the public online on March 14th, 2021, at www.jeffculbert.ca.