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This month, watch Ming Peiffer’s work on the motion for women’s suffrage and a virtual reading that brings together Ed Harris and Bill Pullman.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
“I was moved and moved, and also a little angry that I had never heard of any of these women,” Ming Peiffer said of her reaction as she read “The fight is over: the brave and revolutionary women who fought!” De Veronica Chambers. right to vote. »
“I had heard of Susan B. Anthony, obviously, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” continued Peiffer, 32, playwright, on the phone, “but knowing that there were black women, Chinese women, Aboriginal women, I moved incredibly through her Se has become transparent in my brain as this would resonate in our current political moment.
Inspired by the book, Peiffer (“Usual Girls”) and director Whitney White collaborated on the new play “Finish the Fight”, which focuses on five of those activists, adding Mary McLeod Bethune (Harriett D. Foy) and Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (Leah Lewis). It starts on August 18 at 7 p.m. starting with the New York Times event series.
Peiffer, who also writes for television and film, said he enjoyed his first virtual production. “I had to give up any visual sense of what I was doing and focus on dialogue, tone, things like that,” he said, adding that it works with actors in separate places.
Since this new form of online theater is here to stay, here are some features to keep your screens active for the next few weeks.
Since 2010, Harlem9 sells black theater. Its flagship program is the “48 hours in …” series; This summer’s edition, “48 hours for … Harlem” presents six short works animated through pieces such as “The Colored Museum”, “Funnyhouse of a Negro” and “Dutchman”, from August 20 to 24. The 18 actors attend with the glorious April Matthis (“Toni Stone”) and Larry Owens (“A Strange Loop”). Tickets start at $10.
The ambitious 2020 festival, which slightly overlaps, plays 10 minutes written and directed through black women, the first of which will be two in two on August 14, 21 and 28 at 6 p.m. (Free but mandatory registration).
Can’t you wait a few days? The seven works from the latest edition of the Fire This Time festival, founded in 2009 for emerging black playwrights, are now available on the All Arts website.
In Nova Scotia, the Highland Arts Theatre is testing a new style of crowdfunding by hiring at least another 2,000 people willing to pay a minimum of $25 per month. While striving to achieve this goal, the company broadcasts two live screens presented to a remote control in August. Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor stars in his own play “House”, while Emily O’Leary and Kevin Munroe direct the musical “John-Jen” by Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald.
After recent readings of “The True” and “The Spoils,” the New Group combines the cast of others beyond the 2013 production, “The Jacksonian.” Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and Bill Pullman delightfully return to beth Henley Southern Gothic Black mature, located at the starting motel in 1964, with Carol Kane replacing Glenne Headly. The game is live on August 27 at 7 p.m. and is available until August 30; Tickets charge $25.
Guild Hall in East Hampton has no challenge to recruit stars for its benefits. Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin’s reading of “At the same time, next year” will run until Sunday ($9.99 for a 48-hour viewing window). On the same day at 8:00 p.m., Matthew Broderick, John Leguizamo, Blair Underwood, Sherri Shepherd, Andrea Martin and Santino Fontana sign up for the cast of 3 short works through Eugene Pack (the author of the popular comedy exhibition “Celebrity Autobiography”) . Tickets cost $50 depending on the household.
Fontana also gave the impression on a reading of Rob Ulin’s “Judgment Day” for the Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts and the Actors Fund. The shared virtual tier will be Jason Alexander, Patti LuPone and Michael McKean. The occasion begins on August 22 at 7:30 p.m. and is available until August 25; Suggested donations start at $35.
In Pennsylvania, the Bucks County Playhouse played Brian Cox and Marsha Mason for advantages from the epistollar function “Dear Liar” on September 1 at 7 p.m. (Advance tickets charge $25, on the day of the exhibition $35).
In a way, Theatre for One, in which a single actor plays for a single viewer in a small custom-made space, awaited the Zoom Theater. Now the concept is online and it will be attractive to see what kind of intimacy it will promote. The new edition, “Theatre for One: Here We Are”, celebrates the centenary of the 19th Amendment with 8 short new works by wonderful writers: Jaclyn Backhaus, Lydia R. Diamond, Lynn Nottage, Stacey Rose, Nikkole Salter, DeLanna StudiArray Regina Taylor and Carmelitana Tropica. A new screen will be presented every Thursday at 6 p.m. From August 20th to September 24th (free, but you will need to register online).
As befits a gigantic event, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival becomes virtual on a giant scale. You can watch many shows, live or on demand, by visiting Fringe’s online page or the new Zoo TV, where presentations will be added every day from August 17 to 22 and will remain available until August 28.
Back in New York, the Corkscrew Festival came in line with the loose “Corkscrew 4.0” (enjoy the site’s ancient geoCities atmosphere and keep scrolling down), which is an area reserved for an IRL edition in 2021. The festival will last until August 23. and provides interactively encouraged reporting through plays that would have had a physical production if the overall hadn’t gone to the bathroom. One occasion is advertised as ‘a party on a Google spreadsheet’, and our theater thirst is strong enough to look wonderful (August 19 at 8 p.m.; registration required).
YouTube’s weekly exhibition through crazy actress Julie Halston, “Virtual Halston,” has a captivating old-school vibe. The presenter, who achieves a discreet oxymoronic extravagance, stores memories and anecdotes of the scenes with visitors from the global Scene in New York. Addressing Mary Testa (“Oklahoma!”), The Broadway Pitcher, Halston exclaimed, “You’re kind of an idol to so many people.” From what Testa was protesting, very marked by his ferocious characters: “Oh, well, that’s good.” Mercedes Ruehl and Michael Urie die on 21 August; Linda Lavin will be here on August 28.
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