Streaming and IG LIVE performance thread

For a little more background, this is a professional production from Chicago. I can't wait!

www.theatermania.com/chicago-theater/news/chicago-victory-gardens-theater-to-stream-fun-home_90895.html

Yes they've extended it haven't they, schools could give all their students access, wonder how many have, anyone know any young people given access? Seems a shame if schools haven't picked up on this.

Yank the Musical 10th Anniversary concert on you tube

Tonight's NT at screening of Treasure Island was an absolute joy to watch. A fantastic production from start to finish. That set though was just stunning, particularly with the creation of the ship. I'm not surprised the audience clapped during that particular part. Loved the parrot!

Enjoyed it, though it's a shame they changed the ending! Glad to finally get to see it - the first thing I saw Patsy Ferran in was My Mum's A Tw*t on the recommendation of this website, and now she's one of the actors I always book for.

Orange Tree Theatre is putting Dame Judi Dench in conversation with Giles Brandreth online for £4.99 from Sunday 26th

www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/dame-judi-dench-in-conversation

If you like dance, Alvin Ailey has Lazarus on YouTube for the next couple of days. Here's how the NYT today describes the work:


Rennie Harris is one of the great dance makers of our time. In adapting hip-hop dance to the concert stage, he is at once authentic, imaginative and affecting. Critics have been saying that for decades, but in all that time concert stages were pretty much the only places you could see what we meant. The availability of his work on video or online has been close to nil.

That changes this weekend, briefly, as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater streams his “Lazarus” on its website. Recently, Harris has done his most ambitious work not for his own small Philadelphia-based troupe, Puremovement, but for the enormously popular Ailey group. The hourlong “Lazarus,” created in 2018 for the Ailey company’s 60th anniversary in tribute to its founder, is the most elaborate.

Despite the Ailey troupe’s reputation for inspirational art, “Lazarus” isn’t exactly uplifting. Much of it reads like a nightmare, a dense and turbid vision of African-American history, a tortured questioning of how to survive as a black man in a white world, in Ailey’s day and now. Images of violence and pain abound, haunting in their awful beauty.

And yet “Lazarus” does inspire. Long skeins of glorious dancing — of quick-stepping, rhythmically complex Philadelphia footwork delivered in a cool, quiet manner — speak of inheritance, resilience, even confidence. More than a resurrection, “Lazarus” is a reminder of dark days before the current ones, and of how to dance through them with your eyes open.
BRIAN SEIBERT

Ditto. Thanks @xanderl

It's never too late to read it, and I'd recommend getting the 1992 Everyman reprint with Mervyn Peake's illustrations (I read somewhere that it was Peake's favourite novel, and its influence shows in the Titus books).

Laughing out loud at Jack Black’s exercise regime on the Global Citizen stream...😂

I've just watched and loved it. But fair warning this is a basic archive film and so the sound quality and video quality isn't great but i still managed to watch it with no problems. Just make sure you can turn the volume up!

I have to say i didn't think this would be my thing at all but i thought it was very enjoyable.

One of the good things about all this is that i've watched so many plays, that i've really enjoyed, when normally i'm very much a musicals person. I've been so surprised by what i've enjoyed.  It might make me give more plays a go when theatre re opens!