Theater to Stream: Pride Goes Online
Highlights include the latest edition of “Broadway Bares,” Jackie Sibblies Drury’s “Marys Seacole” and a new play by Caryl Churchill.
This year’s edition of the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fund-raiser “Broadway Bares” will be virtual, with a dozen new videos and 170 dancers.Credit.Nina Westervelt, via Broadway Cares
June 9, 2021, 10:00 a.m. ET
Let rainbow-festooned theater and cabaret take over your computer, tablet or television this month: With streaming, you can now bask in Pride from home.
You have to love any event featuring a hair team like the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fund-raiser “Broadway Bares,” which has been bringing on the saucy and the naughty since 1992. A return to form is expected in 2022, but for now, this year’s edition, “Twerk From Home,” will be virtual, promising a dozen new videos and 170 scantily clad dancers.
Interview: Two of Us Director Filippo Meneghetti Talks Elderly Romance Pic
Acclaimed French film
Two of Us is available now on digital and on demand. The Golden Globe-nominated film focuses on a secret romance between two elderly women that becomes difficult after one suffers a stroke. ComingSoon Managing Editor Tyler Treese caught up with director and writer Filippo Meneghetti about the overwhelmingly positive reception for the film and the care that went into portraying the romance.
Check out our full Filippo Meneghetti interview below.
Tyler Treese: You tell a very passionate love story, but due to the stroke, so much emotion is expressed non-verbally. Was that a challenge to depict?
Dark. Messy. Assaultive. Inscrutable. Even From Your Couch.
Without international tours, streaming high-concept, director-driven European theater is the next best thing to being there.
A scene from “We Are All Here,” a production inspired by “Our Town” that was available to stream as part of a Russian theater festival.Credit.via Theatre “School of Modern Play”, Moscow
April 21, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
In October 1973, Arena Stage in Washington took its productions of “Inherit the Wind” and “Our Town” to Moscow and Leningrad for “the first American theatrical performances on the Soviet stage in memory,” according to The New York Times.
A teenager named Dmitry Krymov was so bowled over by “Our Town” that he returned the next day. He grew up to become one of the world’s finest theatermakers, and “Our Town” plays a pivotal role in his wonderfully evocative recent memory play, “We Are All Here,” which tracks Krymov’s relationship with Grover’s Cor
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