The main part of Virtual Boston Early Music Festival may be done, but it's archived through July 11, so you can still catch the things you missed. Meanwhile, the virtual Fringe part is in full swing. Check out the nightly schedule here.
While the theaters remain closed by order of the Master of the Revels, anyone with a jones for Shakespeare history plays should check out the Royal Shakespeare Company's Henry VI Open Rehearsal Project. It's an up-close experience as they tackle everything from the challenges of metrical speechifying to creating fight choreography to how to do a coronation in a plague year. They stream live and archive, all accessible for free (you have to sign up), until the final day (June 23) when they do a complete run-through of the Henry VI part 1 they've been building before our eyes for the last few weeks -- this part requires a paid ticket (£20 or about $25 right now). Henry VI is like a three season HBO series unto itself, covering the ground between Henry V and Richard III, so it's probably worth it to read a synopsis before going in if you haven't been this way before. But this project is all about the process of making theater and it's absolute gold.
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