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MIDDLEBORO — The Spring Annual Town Meeting held on April 26 has come and gone. Hopefully, it will be the last one held during the pandemic. Roughly 90 people were in attendance, meeting the reduced quorum requirements.  Most of the articles dealt with the town budget, special projects, and necessary expenditures, though the Select Board and attending residents approached each decision gingerly given the last year of economic turmoil the pandemic has brought.  There were a few human intere...

Kathleen Chalfant Evan Zimmerman Wit, Angels in America) stars in a benefit stream of Joan Didions The Year of Magical Thinking March 13 for Off-Broadways Keen Company. Adapted from Didion’s best-selling memoir, the performance is directed by Keen Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein. The Year of Magical Thinking paints a vivid and heartfelt picture of a family dissolving while Didion struggles to maintain security through her grief and memories. Didi...

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By Playbill Staff   Playbill hosts a special virtual red carpet for the new work by Lourds Lane. SuperYou, the new musical that last year pivoted from its traditional opening to a drive-in concert in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, is now heading online. A filmed version of the drive-in presentation streams on Broadway On Demand March 5. Prior to the 8 PM stream, Playbill hosts a free, virtual red carpet event, with interviews with the cast and creative team. A digital af...

Gutenberg! The Musical! Courtesy of Alex Prakken A newly filmed presentation of Gutenberg! The Musical!, starring Bobby Conte Thornton and Alex Prakken, will stream as a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The performance, recorded by Pierre Marais at Open Jar Studios, features piano accompaniment by Andrew Callahan and choreography by Kaitlyn Frank. The video will premiere March 18 at 8 PM ET on YouTube. While free to watch, donations are encouraged. The music...

Ashley Park, Nikki M. James, and Anaïs Mitchell Broadway favorites Ashley Park, Nikki M. James, Anaïs Mitchell, and more will take part in the Maestra Music Amplify 2021 concert, set for March 29 at 8 PM ET. The streaming performance will raise money and highlight Maestra’s programs providing support, visibility, and community for female, non-binary, transgender, and gender non-conforming music makers in the theater industry. An interactive pre-show will kick things ...

Carly Hughes and Michael Urie Broadway alums Carly Hughes and Michael Urie star in the February 27 live stream reading of Douglas Lyons’ Chicken and Biscuits from 59E59 Theaters. The play, a family comedy set at a funeral, debuted at Queens Theatre in March last year but was suspended due to COVID-19. The live stream performance begins at 8 PM ET on 59e59.org with a recorded version of the event available to view on-demand through March 3. All proceeds will benefit The N...

The lineup includes Layton Williams, Sam Tutty, and Cassidy Janson.

Kathleen Chalfant Evan Zimmerman Wit, Angels in America) stars in a benefit stream of Joan Didions The Year of Magical Thinking March 13 for Off-Broadways Keen Company. Adapted from Didion’s best-selling memoir, the performance is directed by Keen Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein. The Year of Magical Thinking paints a vivid and heartfelt picture of a family dissolving while Didion struggles to maintain security through her grief and memories. Didi...

Keen Company Continues 21st Season With DIGGING IN THE DARK The FREE audio play will launch Friday February 26th at 7pm EST.by BWW News Desk Keen Company Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein today announced the World Premiere of a newly commissioned audio play by acclaimed playwright Pearl Cleage: Digging in the Dark takes listeners to a moonless night on a wooded estate outside Atlanta, where a woman awaits her scheming brothers arrival. Hes coming to claim a valuable family heirloom, but s...