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5 Things to Do This Weekend
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually.
Dec. 10, 2020
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A scene from Jamar Roberts’s “A Jam Session for Troubling Times,” which the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will stream starting on Monday.Credit.via Emily Kikta and Peter Walker
In normal times, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater would now be encamped at New York City Center for the month, inspiring awe and bringing joy. This year, everything is virtual: a mix of archival and newly filmed video, supplemented with conversations, available free on the company’s website, YouTube channel and Facebook page.
Dec. 10, 2020 2:37 pm ET
Will Arberyâs âHeroes of the Fourth Turningâ was one of the most talked-about plays of 2019, and I fully intended to review Playwrights Horizonsâ New York premiere in this space. Unfortunately, a family crisis made it impossible for me to do so, and the coming of the pandemic subsequently prevented regional theaters from taking up the play. Iâve been crossing my fingers ever since that somebody out there would mount a webcast version. Now Philadelphiaâs Wilma Theater, one of the East Coastâs leading drama companies, has taped a fully staged site-specific production of âHeroes of the Fourth Turningâ at a private location in the Poconos, turning the cast and crew into a closed quarantine âbubbleâ so that they could work together face-to-face instead of taping their performances separately via Zoom or green screens. The result, which looks more like a small-scale movie than an online webcast of a st