Top 5 Stage Performances to Stream This Weekend February 20-22
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, February 20 to Sunday, February 22, for free or at low cost.
Syracuse Stage: Relentless
Thursday, February 19 at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, February 20 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, February 21 at 2 and 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, February 22 at 2 p.m. ET for $39.
Syracuse Stage is currently presenting the world premiere of Rae Binstock’s Relentless and the final four performances are being live-streamed to at-home audiences courtesy of The League of Live Stream Theater. Inspired in part by the playwright’s experiences working the front desk at Brooklyn’s legendary Gleason’s Gym, the play takes place at a boxing gym co-owned by Monique Jeffries, a pugilist who retired after an injury, and Johnny, the stubborn veteran who trained her. When a moneyed client asks about buying the place, Monique and Johnny spar outside the ring about their intertwined pasts and the future of their business.
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Live From 54 Below: Sondheim Unplugged: The Final Season
Live-streaming on Sunday, February 22 at 7 p.m. ET for $29.
After 15 years, this stripped-down concert series celebrating the late songwriting legend Stephen Sondheim is set to sign off. But they’re sending in the crooners a few more times! Talented vocalists perform Sondheim tunes accompanied solely by piano alongside special guest including Shereen Pimentel, who was a fabulous Maria in Ivo van Hove’s polarizing West Side Story revival, Ramona Mallory from the Broadway revival of A Little Night Music and Lucia Spina from the recent Into the Woods. Live-streaming from 54 Below’s swanky stage. If you prefer to attend in person, click here for info.
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Pig Iron Theatre Company: Poor Judge
Streaming until Sunday, February 22 for $20 and up.
Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater presents an encore run of Poor Judge, a trippy genre-defying work by lauded experimental collective Pig Iron Theatre Company. Set to the songs of indie rock icon Aimee Mann, this dance-theatre-cabaret piece is performed by talented actor-musicians who explore the allure of LA despite all its broken dreams. A 2025 Barrymore Award Winner for Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical, Philly’s highest theatre honor.
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Red Bull Theater: The Illusion
Streaming until Sunday, February 22 for $30.
NYC’s Red Bull Theater, which revitalizes undersung classics, presented an in-person reading of The Illusion earlier this week and you can watch a recording through the weekend. Adapted by Ranjit Bolt from the 17th-century play by Pierre Corneille, this meta-theatrical dramedy about a wizard helping a father look for his estranged son features Broadway favorites Jay O. Sanders and Nik Walker. Produced in partnership with L’Alliance New York.
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New Faces of 1952
Streaming for FREE.
A gem from the vaults! This 1952 Broadway quasi-revue (there’s a thin plot) features sketches by Ronny Graham and a Melvin Brooks, now better known as Mel, plus early career appearances by future stars including Eartha Kitt crooning “C’est Si Bon” and “Santa Baby,” funnyman Paul Lynde, a pre-West Side Story Carol Lawrence and Alice Ghostley. Filmed in CinemaScope!
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