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George Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck on Broadway, which is live-streaming Saturday night. Photo by Photo by Emilio Madrid.
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, June 6 to Sunday, June 8, for free or at low cost.
Live-streaming Saturday, June 7 at 7 p.m. for FREE
Leave it to Hollywood heavyweight and Best Actor Tony nominee George Clooney to make history with his stage adaptation of his Oscar-nominated film about how broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow helped take down red scare-monger Senator Joseph McCarthy. The play, which closes Sunday, is streaming its penultimate performance on CNN, the first time a Broadway production will be broadcast live on national television. David Cromer directs this depressingly relevant examination of the dangers of disinformation.
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Live-streaming on Saturday, June 7 at 7 p.m. ET for $29.
Broadway vet turned screen star Tracie Thoms (Rent, Falsettos, 9-1-1) returns to 54 Below with a revamped iteration of her acclaimed 2017 cabaret featuring backstage stories and her favorite songs by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone and John Legend. Her fellow Rent alum Wilson Jermaine Heredia guest stars. Live-streaming from 54 Below's swanky stage. If you prefer to attend in person, click here for info.
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Live-streaming Saturday, June 7 at 7 p.m. ET for $26.50.
Broadway vet (Lempicka, Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde), cabaret star and original Bare: A Pop Opera showstopper Natalie Joy Johnson shares songs and outrageous stories in this evening of belting and bitching. Live-streaming directly from The Green Room 42 in Midtown. If you prefer to attend in person, click here for info.
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Live-streaming Sunday, June 8 starting at 6:40 p.m. for FREE
The Color Purple Tony Award winner and Wicked movie star Cynthia Erivo hosts the 78th annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall! There will be numbers from Best Musical nominees Buena Vista Social Club, Dead Outlaw, Death Becomes Her, Maybe Happy Ending and Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical, along with Best Musical Revival nominees Floyd Collins, Gypsy, Pirates! The Penzance Musical and Sunset Blvd., plus performances from Just In Time, Real Women Have Curves: The Musical, Broadway Inspirational Voices and the original cast of Hamilton in honor of the show's 10th anniversary. As in recent years, the broadcast will be split in two. From 6:45 to 8 p.m. ET, Maybe Happy Ending Tony nominee Darren Criss and Hamilton Tony winner Renée Elise Goldsberry will host The Tony Awards: Act One, which streams for free on Pluto TV and includes the presentation of statuettes in several categories. The main event airs from 8 to 11 p.m. ET on CBS, although if you subscribe to Paramount+ you can watch there as well. We'll be updating the winners in real time here on TDF Stages. And if you haven't yet, be sure to play our FREE Tony Awards game for a chance to win $100 toward theatre tickets!
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Streaming until Monday, June 30 for FREE.
Last fall, Roundabout Theatre Company presented an acclaimed Broadway mounting of David Henry Hwang's 2007 play Yellow Face, and you can watch a recording of that Tony-nominated revival online courtesy of PBS Great Performances. Inspired by real-life incidents in the playwright's life in the 1990s—particularly his protests against the casting of a white man in a Eurasian role in the original production of Miss Saigon and the disastrous debut of his play Face Value—the show is both funny and furious as Hwang explores racism and identity politics. Lost star Daniel Dae Kim snagged a Tony nomination portraying the playwright's onstage avatar and Francis Jue also earned a nod for his empathetic performance as Hwang's dad. An 18-year-old work that feels strikingly timely.
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