15+ Stage Performances to Watch Online This Weekend March 11-13
While in-person theatre is back in NYC, there are still wonderful shows to stream at home. Below are performances you can watch online this weekend, Friday, March 11 to Sunday, March 13, for free or at low cost.
Friday, March 11
Mike Daisey: From This Moment You Are Cursed
On Friday at 7 p.m. ET, master monologist Mike Daisey (The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, If You See Something Say Something) returns to The Kraine Theater with From This Moment You Are Cursed, a brand-new, of-the-moment piece about the war in Ukraine. Performed live on stage but also streamed to at-home viewers, the evening is an exploration of viral moments of violence, the West’s complicity and Cold War 2.0 as Daisey addresses everything we’re all worrying about with dark humor and searing insight. Tickets are $15.
Saturday, March 12
Sunday, March 13
Daylight saving time begins today, so remember to turn clocks forward one hour!
All Weekend
Victory Gardens Theater: Queen of the Night
On Friday and Saturday at 8:30 p.m., and Sunday at 4 p.m. ET, Chicago’s lauded Victory Gardens Theater is currently presenting travis tate‘s two-hander Queen of the Night on stage, but select performances are also being live-streamed to at-home audiences. A divorced father and his queer son head to the woods of southeastern Texas to relive the camping trips of earlier, easier days. Can they cross the abyss between them? Victory Gardens’ artistic director Ken-Matt Martin helms this exploration of masculinity and queerness through the lens of multi-generational Blackness. Tickets are $24.
The New Group: i need space
Playwright Donja R. Love, whose drama one in two was a critically acclaimed hit for The New Group, is behind this new digital series called i need space. An eye-opening examination of isolation, loss and loneliness, it centers on a queer Black man named Marcus whose only contact with the world outside his childhood bedroom comes through Zooming. Sound familiar? Expect a real and raw dissection of disconnection. Watch the first three episodes for free on Broadstream.
TheaterWorks Hartford: This Bitter Earth
Connecticut’s TheaterWorks Hartford is currently presenting an in-person production of Harrison David Rivers‘ play This Bitter Earth, but select performances are also live-streamed to at-home audiences. Jesse, an introspective Black playwright is challenged by Neil, his white activist boyfriend about his political apathy. Can love overcome a reckoning of race and class? David Mendizábal directs this two-hander about a couple at a crossroads. Tickets are $20 and the recording is viewable until Sunday, March 20.
The Huntington: The Bluest Eye
Boston’s The Huntington is currently presenting an in-person theatricalization of Toni Morrison‘s celebrated debut novel The Bluest Eye, but you can also stream a recording of the production online. Adapted for the stage by award-winning dramatist Lydia Diamond, the play centers on Pecola, a young Black girl who believes the world would be wonderful if she could have blue eyes. Awoye Timpo directs. Tickets start at $20 and the recording is viewable until Saturday, April 9.
Baryshnikov Arts Center: Peggy Baker’s her body as words
Last chance! The dance-centric Baryshnikov Arts Center continues its 2022 season with her body as words, a new piece by Peggy Baker that explores notions of female identity. The choreographer collaborated with nine dancers to examine themes such as gender expression, sexual orientation, sexual appetite, pregnancy, miscarriage and motherhood through movement. Watch for free until Monday at 5 p.m. ET on BAC’s site.
New Victory Theater: Air Play
NYC’s premiere family theatre, the New Victory, recently presented an in-person production of Air Play featuring married clowns the Acrobuffos exploring the power of air in a series of eye-popping vignettes. Now you can watch this enchanting circus spectacle online. Tickets are $25 and the recording is viewable until Sunday, March 20.
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RAVEN SNOOK