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Eva Noblezada and Reeve Carney, who are live-streaming three concerts from The Green Room 42 this weekend.
Even though in-person theatre and dance are back in full swing, in the name of accessibility we're continuing to round up performances to watch online from the comfort of home. Our curated list spotlights the five best options to stream this weekend, Friday, August 15 to Sunday, August 17, for free or at low cost.
Streaming Tuesday, August 12 to Saturday, August 16 for FREE.
If you can't catch the free, alfresco Battery Dance Festival in Rockefeller Park this week, you can watch recordings of all the performances the day after each occurs. Enjoy dozens of dance troupes including Buglisi Dance Theatre, Limón Dance Company, Taiwan's Bulareyaung Dance Company, Faizah Grootens from the Netherlands, Platforma 13 from Romania, Spain's UNARTE and Wan Dance from Indonesia. Register to receive emails with links to the recordings.
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Live-streaming Friday, August 15, Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17 at 7 p.m. ET for $26.
Former Hadestown costars, future Cabaret chums and longtime offstage couple, two-time Tony nominee Eva Noblezada and Reeve Carney, bring their talents to The Green Room 42 in Midtown. Their last cabaret at the venue ended in an onstage engagement! Who knows what songs, stories and surprises these concerts will bring. In-person tickets are sold out but you can live-stream the evenings online.
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Live-streaming on Sunday, August 17 at 9:45 p.m. ET for $29.
Darius Delk cowrote and stars in The White House, a new one-man, history-inspired musical narrated by William Dorsey Swann, a former slave turned gay activist and early drag queen, who shares a tale about Marie Laveau, the famed New Orleans herbalist, midwife and voodoo practitioner. Streaming live from the cabaret hub's swanky stage. If you prefer to attend in person, click here for info.
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Streaming until Sunday, August 31 for FREE.
You have until the end of the month to catch Kara Young's dynamic, Tony-winning performance in Purpose on Broadway. You have the same amount of time to stream her first Tony-winning turn as the hilarious Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins in the 2023 revival of Ossie Davis' Purlie Victorious. Subtitled A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, this politically charged comedy centers on a Black preacher (Hamilton Tony winner Leslie Odom, Jr.) who returns to his rural Georgia home hell-bent on winning back his church and freeing his people from an exploitative overseer (Jay O. Sanders). But he can't do it without Lutiebelle's help! Witty, wise and timelier than ever.
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Streaming for $10.
In 2020, London's lauded National Theatre launched its own streaming service featuring professional stage captures of its productions. While you can buy a subscription, shows are also available to rent individually. New to the roster is a rousing revival of Michael Abbensetts' 1978 slice-of-life play Alterations about a Guyanese immigrant tailor in Britain who gets an order that will make or break him professionally and personally. Recorded live onstage in London earlier this year, the production is part of National Theatre's Black Plays Archive project. A 72-hour rental costs $10 and captions are available. It's just one of many fantastic National Theatre shows you can stream, so be sure to browse the entire list.
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