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Rattlestick Playwrights Theater: Virtual Salon: Spotlight on Critics of Color At 5 p.m. ET, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater hosts an important conversation with four critics of colo—three of whom have written many articles for TDF Stages. Jose Solís is joined by fellow NYC-based theatre journalists Juan Michael Porter II and Diep Tran and California’s David John Chávez for a no-holds-barred discus

Corkscrew Theater Festival: corkscrew 4.0 At 1 p.m. ET, although the fourth annual Corkscrew Theater Festival has been moved to next summer, the producers are presenting a series of online experiences inspired by the postponed productions. The website itself is a hoot, a throwback to the GeoCities days. Many of the works are interactive and all are free, though it’s worth clicking on the “buy tick

Friday, August 7

Ice Factory: Who’s There? At 10 a.m. ET, the New Ohio Theatre brings its 27th annual Ice Factory festival online with four boundary-pushing premieres over four weeks. The third offering is Who’s There? , an ambitious exploration of cross-cultural blind spots featuring Black, Asian and white artists based in Singapore, Malaysia and the U.S. Created by The Transit Ensemble for digital consumption, t

In This Life At noon ET, WNET’s All Arts series presents In This Life , a dance film created by director Bat-Sheva Guez and American in Paris Tony nominee/former New York City Ballet star Robert Fairchild , who co-produced, co-wrote and stars. A meditation on grief, the 15-minute movie features five sections, each choreographed by a different dance-maker: James Alsop, Warren Craft, Andrea Miller,

First, a hot show alert! This Thursday evening at 8:30 p.m. ET, newly minted EGOT winner Alan Menken , who wrote the music for Little Shop of Horrors and many a Disney movie/show, is doing a live mini-concert in support of the Walt Disney Family Museum’s At-Promise Youth Animation Academy initiative. Tickets to the VIP pre-show chat are pretty pricey, but you can watch the performance for free if

Manual Cinema: The End of TV At 1 p.m. ET, here’s a dazzling treat: Over the next month, the multimedia theatre collective Manual Cinema , which combines shadow puppetry and filmic elements, is sharing recordings of one eye-popping show each week. This week’s show is The End of TV , a deconstruction of the American Dream set in a post-industrial Rust Belt city in the ’90s, as the aspirational prom

Friday, July 31

New York City Center’s Studio 5: Great American Ballerinas At noon, New York City Center continues its Great American Ballerinas series with Nina Ananiashvili , the artistic director of the State Ballet of Georgia, and New York City Ballet star Sara Mearns exploring the iconic role of Odette-Odile from Swan Lake . Watch for free on New York City Center’s YouTube channel .