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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

National Theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire At 2 p.m. ET, London’s National Theatre presents A Streetcar Named Desire , starring Gillian Anderson as the tragic Blanche DuBois opposite Ben Foster ‘s unforgiving Stanley Kowalski. Directed by Benedict Andrews, this radical reinvention of Tennessee Williams’ classic ran briefly at Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse and features a slowly rotating set, fiery

Lyric Hammersmith: A Doll’s House At 9:30 a.m. ET, London’s Lyric Hammersmith theatre shares a recording of its well-reviewed 2019 mounting of A Doll’s House directed by Rachel O’Riordan. Henrik Ibsen’s landmark drama was reimagined by playwright Tanika Gupta, who reset the story in 1879, Calcutta in order to explore issues of race and colonialism as well as gender. No matter where Nora (here rech

With theatres around most of the world closed, our in-person industry has been scrambling to adapt to a virtual world. Many companies and stage artists have been sharing their work online, and theatre sites (including TDF Stages) have been publishing carefully curated roundups of what to watch. But if you want many more theatre-related options, behold Thespie , a new U.K.-based website that lists

The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues At 6 p.m. EST, catch the latest installment of The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues , a six-hour series of solos about how we’re living today. Every 15 minutes from 6 p.m. until midnight, well-known actors—including Todd Almond, Maddie Corman, Ari Graynor, Cobie Smulders, Ryan Spahn and Kate Hamill —will perform tailor-made monologues, all penned and filmed withi

Shakespeare’s Globe: The Winter’s Tale At 2 p.m. ET, London’s Shakespeare’s Globe shares a recording of its 2018 mounting of The Winter’s Tale , Shakespeare’s genre-shifting comedy-tragedy-romance about an insanely jealous king, a pair of determined young lovers, an oracle, a magical statue and a bear. Watch for free anytime through Sunday, May 31 on the theatre’s YouTube channel .