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Hairspray Live! At 2 p.m. ET, the Shows Must Go On! series moves on from the oeuvre of Andrew Lloyd Webber with a screening of Hairspray Live! , one of the better live TV musicals of recent years . Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman’s tuneful Tony-winning rom-com celebrates the style and civil rights movement of the ’60s as a zaftig teen’s dream to dance on TV sparks social change. This 2016 mounting

National Theatre: This House At 2 p.m. ET, London’s National Theatre presents This House , James Graham ‘s gripping examination of Britain’s political strife in the ’70s. Much as he did for his Tony-nominated play Ink , Graham uses historical events to illuminate current woes, both in the U.K. and the U.S. This play may have been filmed in 2013 but its exploration of polarized politics feels insan

Theatre for a New Audience: Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest At 3 p.m. ET, it’s your last chance to see Theatre for a New Audience and the Fisher Center at Bard ‘s Zoom adaptation of Mad Forest , which got a rave review in The New York Times over the weekend. Playwright Caryl Churchill ‘s drama exploring the Romanian Revolution of 1989 was created with students who lived through that life-upending eve

Every day we share a list of the best online performance to watch right away. But occasionally there are must-see virtual events that require advance registration—almost a nostalgic throwback to the pre-COVID days of buying tickets. We just heard about two major happenings that you need to sign up for right now to watch later:

The VT Show: Brandon Victor Dixon At 5 p.m. ET, the celebrated Vineyard Theatre continues its weekly online chatfest with Tony-nominated performer Brandon Victor Dixon , who starred in the Kander and Ebb musical The Scottsboro Boys at the venue a decade ago. He’ll share stories and songs from the shows he’s been in, such as The Color Purple, Shuffle Along and Hamilton . Watch for free on the theat

While we can’t see theatre in person right now, there are myriad stage performances to watch online , and you can often do so with captions. Two of the most popular video platforms, YouTube and Facebook, offer automatic captioning. And if you want to see a video on a site that doesn’t have captioning, there are apps that can help with that. Below are easy-to-follow instructions for turning on capt

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Puffs At noon ET, the unofficial Harry Potter parody Puffs , which , flies into your home through the magic of streaming. Subtitled Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic , the comedy focuses on an average wizardry student and his pals living in the shadow of you know who. This performance was filmed in 2018, and is available on Playbill.com. Tickets are $8.99 with