The long weekend offers concerts by theater stars (including several in-person), a festival, and online theater that’s both opening and soon to end, as well as more long-lasting videos that you finally have time to see. Below is a selection. Also check out my calendar of September 2020 theater openings. which has more complete theater listings.
Festival
Latinx New Play Festival, Friday through Sunday, from San Diego Rep. The offerings include Marga Gomez’s hilarious childhood memoir Spanking Machine
Concerts
All weekend:
Belting for Biden
Broadway Sessions
In-Person and Online
Friday: Teal Wicks
Saturday: Kate Baldwin
Sunday: Brandon Victor Dixon
All three concerts above are offered through Broadway relief project which is offering in-person, socially distanced concerts at midtown’s Open Jar Studios (for concert prices), but they are also being llive-streamedr for free or at low cost.
Online
Sunday and Monday Karen Olivo
Sunday: Nick Cordero Memorial Tribute
Theater
Friday and Saturday
Porgy and Bess at the Met, the 2019 production starring Eric Owens and Angel Blue with a 60-member ensemble choreographed by Camille Brown. Available for 48 hours.
This new play about Eleanor Roosevelt, by Mark St. Germain stars Harriet Harris (who also portrayed the First Lady, diplomat and activist in the recent Ryan Murphy Netflix series “Hollywood.” as well as in a forthcoming TV series, “Atlantic Crossing.”) The livestream is presented on Friday and Saturday.
Already opened
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel Ends Tuesday
#WhileWeBreath
An anthology of Black theater artists responding to the current crisis.
The B-Side
Ends September 14. The Wooster Group’s unusual sing-along inspired by the 1965 LP Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons, featuring work songs and spirituals When I saw this last year, I wrote: “In “The B-Side,” three men sing along with an album on a record-player — or, as people prefer to say these days, a vinyl on the turntable. But there’s a reason why the Wooster Group’s encore presentation of its simple and odd hour-long piece, first performed at the Performing Garage in 2017, is filling St. Ann’s Warehouse every night….The B-side” seemed to embody what’s become an overused word: authenticity.
