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Manhattan Theatre Club: Ball Change At 2 p.m. ET, Manhattan Theatre Club continues its virtual reading series with Ball Change , Brittany K. Allen ‘s time-traveling examination about how modes of communication evolve and shape society. Margot Bordelon directs. Watch for free until Saturday at 2 p.m. ET on MTC’s YouTube channel .

Theater in Quarantine: Closet Works At 7 and 9 p.m. ET, downtown multihyphenate Joshua William Gelb , known for deconstructing complicated classics like The Jazz Singer , performs a series of brief dance pieces in his closet created by Hadestown associate choreographer Katie Rose McLaughlin in collaboration with French choreographer Van-Kim Tran . Watch for free on Gelb’s YouTube channel .

Performances to put you in the spirit of the season—even in 2020

Thursday, November 26

Friday, November 20

Club Cumming: Ute Lemper: Rendezvous with Marlene At 2 p.m. ET, Alan Cumming, who hosted downtown divas at his eponymous East Village club pre-COVID, is now sharing their fabulousness online. Today, internationally renowned German chanteuse Ute Lemper stars in Rendezvous with Marlene , a celebration of Marlene Dietrich inspired by a three-hour conversation she had with the Hollywood icon back in 1

Encores! Inside the Revival: The Life At 2 p.m. ET, City Center’s Encores! , which revives undersung musicals, kicks off a five-part behind-the-scenes documentary series with a look at its upcoming mounting of The Life . Kinky Boots Tony winner Billy Porter will be directing the revisal of this Cy Coleman and Ira Gasman tuner about sex workers surviving and striving in 1980 Times Square. He’ll cha

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Friday, November 13