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.
Published June 09. 2021 5:00PM
By Belinda deKay, Special to the Times
June 13 is the birthday of William Butler Yeats, the great Irish poet and one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. This is what he heard ‘in the deep heart’s core’ while standing on London’s ‘pavements grey’
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine-bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
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