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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 off at 7 PM with Mastra Music founder Georgia Stitt. Andréa Burns ...

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 Next Wave Initiative (founded and led by Lyons), a new developmental branch of The Directors Company ...

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 Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking March 13 for Off-Broadway's 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. Didion relives the death of her husband of 40 years, writer John Gregory Dunne, as the couple sat down...

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 brother's arrival. He's coming to claim a valuable family heirloom, but she is determined to settle an old score before sunrise. The FREE audio play will launch Friday Feb...