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The isolation crisis has had a devastating effect on the performing arts. is shut down, and the ban on gatherings in New York extends to all other performance spaces as well. So the show must go online-and, luckily, streaming video makes that possible. Here are some of the best , opera, dance and performances you can watch today without leaving your house or apartment, many of which will help you support artists at a difficult time. We update this list completely every day, so please feel free to bookmark it and check back daily. (All show times are in Eastern Time.)
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2020
2pm: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor DreamcoatAndrew Lloyd Webber is rolling out a free streaming version of one of his hit musicals once a week, starting today. Each show drops on Friday at 2pm on YouTube and remains there for 48 hours; you can read all about it here . The initial public offering is Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's first significant collaboration, a cheeky pop-rock Bible story about a flashy dresser who gets sold out by his bros. This direct-to-video 1999 film version is pure camp and a lot of fun. A frequently shirtless Donny Osmond plays the title role; Maria Friedman is the Narrator, and Richard Attenborough and Joan Collins have cameos.

2pm: Stars in the House: Orfeh and Andy Karl Showtune savant and SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky ( ) and his husband, producer James Wesley, are the animating forces behind this ambitious and very entertaining new series to benefit the Actors Fund. Twice a day, at 2pm and 8pm, they play host to a different theater star for a live, chatty interview interspersed with songs. (Rudetsky is an expert at sussing out good stories.) Dr. Jon LaPook, the chief medical correspondent for CBS News, provides periodic updates on public health; surprise virtual visitors are common as well. The main guests at today's matinee are one of musical theater's royal couples: power belter and blue-eyed-soul recording artist Orfeh and her charming husband, dreamboat Andy Karl, who most recently shared a Broadway stage in Pretty Woman .

2pm: Transforma Theatre Inc.'s Tjaša Ferme, the creator of The Female Role Model Project , details her Kafkaesque search for a decent apartment in New York City in this absurdist solo comedy. Ana Margineanu, of the immersive theater group PopUp Theatrics, directs the show, which has been modified for remote broadcast; Ferme performs it from home through April 5, and audiences can pay what they wish.

Wild Child in the City // Photograph: Courtesy Tjaša Ferme

3:30pm: Theater, take me away! Erin B. Mee and her theater company, This Is Not a Theatre Company, specialize in , site-specific works. In response to the current situation, the troupe invites you to immerse yourself more literally by listening to this interactive "audio spa" while soaking in your bath (or at least a foot bath). Candles are optional; home participation is encouraged-there will be singing and splashy dancing-as are donations to the company in an amount of your choice.

5pm: More than a century old, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene recently had a surprise breakout hit with its Yiddish-language production of . In this afternoon's edition of its Folksbiene Live! series, billed as "an online celebration of Yiddish culture," Folksbiene regular Joe Mace shares a collection of songs in English Yiddish and "a few languages in between."

6:30pm: The swanky midtown cabaret nightclub Feinstein's/54 Below continues its #54BelowatHome series with a live-streamed archived show viewable for one night only on YouTube. Christy Altomare, Matt Doyle, Annie Golden, Taylor Iman Jones, Julia Murney and Margo Seibert are among the musical-theater stars who gathered last year for a 20th-anniversary relighting of Paul Scott Goodman's 1999 Off Broadway musical, adapted from Jay McInerney's era-shaping novel.

7:30pm: Miniaturist maestros from around the world convene virtually on the Facebook page of Great Small Works for a delightful two-night celebration of micropuppetry. John Bell plays host; 20 artists or groups of artists have filmed and submitted their teensy creations. Yesterday's half can be viewed here .

7:30pm: The Metropolitan Opera: Les Pêcheurs de PerlesThe Met continues its immensely popular rollout of past performances , recorded in HD and viewable for free. A different archival production goes live at 7:30pm each night and remains online for the next 23 hours. This week's eclectic lineup continues with a 2016 dive into Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de Perles , conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and starring Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani and Mariusz Kwiecien.

8pm: See 2pm above. The evening edition of this twice-daily interview show features the hilarious Randy Rainbow, who has rocketed to internet fame in viral videos of his genuinely witty parody songs and cleverly edited faux interviews. He approaches both politics and entertainment with a perfectly arched eyebrow and nails that are polished and sharp.

Randy Rainbow

8pm: La MaMa and CultureHub serve up a weekly virtual coffeehouse in the spirit of La MaMa's deep East Village roots, featuring short acts of music, theater, dance, comedy, A/V performance and more. Artists participating in this edition include Bad Buka, Kendall Cornell, Jasmine Hearn, Tom Lee, Heather Litteer , Tareke Ortiz, Daniel Pineiro and the witty queer writer and activist Justin Sayre .

8pm: The virtual-theater initiative Play-PerView focuses on the family in the second edition of its weekly series of interviews, hangouts and performances by members of notable theater clans. This installment features Celia Keenan-Bolger and her husband, John Ellison Conlee, who are joined by CKB's fellow graduates of the Broadway production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee : James Monroe Iglehart and Derrick Baskin. Also, Colt Coeur artistic director Adrienne Campbell-Holt and [title of show] 's lovable Hunter Bell drop in to chat about their new musical, Other World . Proceeds from all Play-PerView events go to arts organizations affected by the COVID-19 virus; this one costs $5-$25 and benefits Colt Coeur and the Parent Artist Advocacy League.

8pm: This Is Not a Theatre Company, which is also offering Play in Your Bathtub today (see above), presents a "multinational, multilingual, durational" adaptation of Charles Mee's postmodern dance-theater piece , as experienced via the app . Expect a strange collage of found text, video and occasional song; participants are invited to interact with the characters during the show, or at least try to. 8:30pm: Trump LearYou may know David Carl from his portrayal of Gary Busey in his standout one-man comedy show, David Carl's Celebrity One-Man Hamlet . Now Carl plays an actor named Carl David (try to keep up), who evokes the wrath of Donald Trump by portraying the President in a solo version of , Shakespeare's portrait of a senescent ruler whose vanity tears his country apart. Carl now performs the show live on Zoom from his home in Brooklyn. Tickets are $12.

8:30pm: In this 90-minute solo show, platformed by ShowShepherd and streamed on Facebook, Jessica Sherr raises a cup to Davis in a tribute to the silver-screen legend, set on the night of the 1939 Academy Awards. Karen Carpenter directs.

9pm: Chicago's Theater Wit offers a novel rollout for the digital version of its planned run of Mike Lew's dark comedy, which imagines the hunchback king of Shakespeare's Richard III as an American teen with cerebral palsy (played by MacGregor Arney) who is dead set on becoming president of his senior class. The company filmed this performance before getting shut down, and although it may take a while for viewers to adjust to the format, the production gathers strength as it moves from broad comedy into teenage tragedy. (We liked the play a lot when it was at the Public in 2018.) The show is streamed on Vimeo through April 19 according to the planned schedule of the original run, with 98 people permitted to watch per night. A live post-show discussion follows.

9pm: Steve Watts
Once a familiar face at NYC piano bars including the Duplex and Bar Nine, the snuggly and beloved Steve Watts has since moved to Wisconsin, where there may be fewer nightclubs but at least his vote will count. In his now-weekly Friday gig-part of Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's Safer At Home Performance Series-he performs 90 minutes of piano-friendly favorites by folks like the Beatles, Elton John, David Bowie and Billy Joel.

BONUS (4pm-9:30pm): The beloved West Village institution keeps the show tunes rolling merrily along every night of the week. Read all about it here . Join the Maries Group page on Facebook to watch from home, and don't forget to tip the pianist and staff. Tonight's scheduled pianists are Kenney Green (Venmo: @Kenneth-Green-5) and Brandon James Gwinn (Venmo: @brandonjamesg).

BONUS: National Theatre at Home: One Man, Two GuvnorsThanks to its NT Live series, London's venerable National Theatre has a treasure trove of excellent recordings of past productions-and now the NT is streaming one play per week for free, every Thursday on YouTube. (You get the full ensuing week to catch each one.) Kicking things off in very high spirits indeed is Richard Bean's daffy 2011 farce One Man, Two Guvnors , a 1960s update of the 1743 Italian comedy The Servant of Two Masters . This is the show that made James Corden a major star-and won him a Tony-and it's easy to see why. As 's David Cote wrote of the 2012 Broadway production : "Not enough praise can be heaped on Corden's physical genius, whether trying to lift an improbably heavy trunk, getting into a knock-down, drag-out fight with himself or dragooning audience volunteers into the madness." The play can be viewed through April 8, when it cedes its place to Sally Cookson's .

BONUS: In Ren Dara Santiago's debut play, set in 2014 Harlem, a teenage girl and her two brothers try to make ends meet and raise each other up in the absence of their too-young parents. Jenna Worsham directs for Off Broadway's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, where Santiago has a residency this year. The production was in previews when theaters got shut down-but this week the Rattlestick has made a recording of the production viewable at home for $15. (The video will stay up through Sunday, April 5, The Siblings Play 's original end date.)

BONUS: Since 1995, the 24 Hour Plays series has set itself a challenge: to write, cast and perform new playlets in the span of a single night and day. In this variation on that theme-which the group has now been doing for three weeks-20 leading writers create monologues for 20 top actors, who record them and send them in for online broadcast. On Tuesdays from 6pm through midnight, a new monologue goes live every 15 minutes on the 24 Hours Plays' Instagram feed; the monologues remain viewable afterward. Among the highlights of the latest batch are the great Elizabeth Marvel in Jason Grote's "Elizabeth in the Barn" , Debra Monk in Max Posner's "When Jewish People Die" , Alison Wright in David Cross's "Day 53" , and T.R. Knight in Donald Margulies's "Transition."

Elizabeth Marvel in "Elizabeth in the Barn"

BONUS: Ethan Slater ( SpongeBob SquarePants ) was to have played the Balladeer in Classic Stage Company's revival of the Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's darkly brilliant 1990 musical, , which follows a group of president killers as they plead their demented causes and bemoan their exclusion for the American Dream. In this excellent four-minute clip, Slater and band members from the production share a number about the man who shot William McKinley in 1901, offering a tantalizing glimpse of what we hope to be able to see in person sometime soon. (The video is intended as a fund-raiser for the Actors Fund, so please make a donation.)

BONUS: The St. Louis Actors' Studio presents a series of filmed monologues by the provocative Neil LaBute ( In the Company of Men ), performed in real time. A different pair will be released each Wednesday for five weeks; links are shared on STLAS's Twitter account each Wednesday at 6pm. This week's monologues are for characters in their thirties, and are performed by Frederick Weller and Maggie Grace. (Performers in future weeks include Jenna Fischer, Jason Patric, Richard Kind, Amy Madigan, Bill Pullman and Judith Light.)

BONUS: Molly Pope: Molly Pope, a Gay Man, and a PianoMolly Pope's viscerally thrilling alto is a rich gusher of sound that emerges like a full-on blast from the past, but her cabaret shows are hilariously full of present tension. In this highly entertaining 70-minute set, recorded in February at the Duplex, the downtown darling and cult gay fave applies her Ed Sullivan Show neoretro vocals to a variety of contemporary pop songs, from the Carpenters and the Bee Gees to the Scissor Sisters and Hole, joined by the frisky Matt Aument at the piano. To view the video on YouTube, send Pope $5 (or more!) through Venmo at @Molly-Pope; include your email address with the purchase, and she'll send you a link to the video.

IN MEMORIAM: Adam SchlesingerThe hugely talented songwriter Adam Schlesinger died on Wednesday of coronavirus complications at the age of 52. It's an unspeakable loss. A founding member of the bands Fountains of Wayne, Ivy and Tinted Windows, Schlesinger co-wrote and earned an Oscar nom for the title tune of That Thing You Do . But he also loved musical theater; he cowrote the score for the 2008 John Waters musical , and his new collaboration with Sarah Silverman, , was scheduled to premiere this month. In his memory, here are two songs from : the Patsy Cline spoof "Screw Loose," performed by him and co-author David Javerbaum, and the production number "A Little Upset," performed by the show's cast on the Tony Awards. And he won back-to-back Emmy Awards for these two numbers performed by Neil Patrick Harris as the Tonys' host: 2011's "It's Not Just for Gays Anymore" and 2012's "If I Had Time." Both are hilarious.

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At the start of every new season, fashion designers shift through their research and distil the essence of it into what is commonly referred to as "fashion moodboard". A visual diary of details and inspirations that will later serve as a guideline and constant source of further inspiration while finalising the new collection.

Once you have taken your research as far as it can go, many creatives will tell you that their heads are sometimes on the point of explosion with the myriad ideas and thoughts floating around.

What is a Fashion Moodboard?

Collating your ideas systematically in order to make sense of them yourself and to share with others, is the next step in the design process. This process is called research evaluation, otherwise known as moodboard creation.

The main function of a fashion moodboard is to focus the designer's mind on the aesthetic, style and direction of the collection, while also relaying the colour influences and design area. Visual information relating to your research influences should also be displayed in this format.

The fashion moodboard should be produced as a summary of your findings and before any serious design development begins. The success of a board is due to image selection, editing and layout, which must be sympathetic to the mood the board is trying to convey.

What goes into a Fashion Moodboard?

The amount of information needed to convey the mood is the designer's choice and can vary. Sometimes three images are enough to summarize the mood, sometimes ten are required.

The images used are selected from your research, both primary and secondary sources.

The fashion moodboard should also be treated as a tool to refresh your mind. One that enables you to return to it throughout the designing process and to discover something new. This will enable you to create a collection that's imbued with multiple layers of depth and visual interest.

On occasion, ideas can dry up but, providing your research material is multi-faceted and displayed on the board, this need not occur. It's clearly obvious when a designer's research material is flimsy, as the lack of depth is relayed in the strength (or lack thereof) of the collection.

The main function of a fashion moodboard is to focus the designer's mind.

BEFORE YOU START...

Prior to creating your fashion moodboard consider these points:

What is the message you're trying to convey?

Have you reviewed your images to check for consistency?

Take developmental shots of different layouts with different images prior to creating the finished board.

Crop, augment and change the colours on your images prior to using them. Scan them into your computer and use Photoshop to modify them.

Add to your selection of images if necessary.

Consider your paper choices carefully and select them based on colour, texture, weight, finish and quality.

Overlapping your images and grouping them in a variety of ways allows you to evaluate your final layout choices.

Don't be afraid to let your visuals breathe by making the most of negative space on the board.

Ask for the opinions of your team before you finalise your board.

How to create a Fashion Moodboard?

In fashion moodboard creation, keeping things simple is key and will deliver your message clearly to you and your audience.

The size of your board is dependent on its use as they're often very large if used in a design studio but could be smaller to reflect your set-up.

The moodboard should contain a number of key elements which include the following:

1) Colour palette

Colour choices need to be clearly identified through the use of swatches or images. These can be in the form of fabrics, paint shade cards, Pantone shade cards or colours that you create yourself.

Whatever colour swatches you choose, they must correlate with the colours of your imagery and create a link.

2) Fabric and texture

Fabrics that you've chosen during the research period should be displayed on your board.

Include, trimmings, prints and any other embellishments also. Tangible samples are important in order to convey and support any developing ideas.

Fabric choices also can represent texture and add depth to the research and consequent designs.

3) Theme reference research

A moodboard charts your research journey from initial idea to further development, therefore, it's important that it focusses and edits back to the most important images used for your inspiration.

Most collections are based on a theme - it can be visual, sensory or literary. Exploring the theme and defining it on the moodboard allows for better and more focused design process. It informs the later, selection of materials and trims as well as design details that may be applied to the product.

4) Target market

Re-visit your initial research and brief, when you had considered who you were designing for. This could be the client or your own muse. Include references, in the form of images, to their perceived lifestyle.

Knowing who would be the end client helps create the moodboard. Referring to the client's taste and interests helps create a more focused fashion moodboard.

5) Keywords and text

Inspiration can come from many sources. Sometimes they are visuals and at times they may either be solely or be supported by words.

Annotating your board with short paragraphs or descriptive words to describe the theme or story of the collection to the viewer.

Words can sometimes be more powerful than images, as they allow the mind to wonder and for creativity not to be confined.

6) Styling imager

This is closely linked to the Market in reference to the lifestyle of the muse or client. It adds depth to the character by including imagery of props and styling as well as hair and make-up suggestions which all contribute to creating an ideal image for your collection.

Finalising your Moodboard

The key stages to consider, prior to finalising your board include the following:

Analyse your chosen images

Undertake more research if required

Determine the mood you want to convey

Decide on a traditional or digital approach

Select your paper/board

Explore, develop and refine your images and layout

Print or compile your board

In this digital age, you now have two choices of how to present your moodboard.

The traditional method displays your work onto boards. The images can be placed at angles or perpendicular to the edge of the board, but use a set square to ensure accuracy for the latter. Ensure that you have reference points marked onto the board prior to attaching the images. For best results use spray glue and colour photocopy the board for a more professional finish.

The digital method, on the other hand, enables you to scan your imagery onto your computer. Here you can use Photoshop to manipulate and augment them. Should you wish to resize, recolour, overlay or to add special effects to your images the vast selection of processes will allow you to achieve them.

As a designer with a signature style that should gain strength seasonally, it would be a good idea to allow your moodboards to evolve also.

If your focal point involves a muse, your narrative or story should follow a similar trajectory every six months. The lifestyle of your muse will remain as it was but her wardrobe will change according to the season.

Use your first board to inspire your second and build brand awareness that is both personal and very distinctive.

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Bidicot
by Stephanie Shiman

This is a shawl inspired by a yarn, a yarn that is inspired by flowers. "Blossoms" are dyed as knitted blanks. Dyes are washed over the blank, building layer upon layer, creating seamless shifts from one color to another. Colors blend and overlap and a complex, cohesive colorway is developed. Striping two different colorways together allows the colors to shift and interact as you knit.

To start, Bidicot begins as a "V" shape-with my favorite decrease-a CDD (centered doubled decrease) creating a defined line from the cast-on that continues to the bind off. Once the width is reached, stitches will be "moved" from one side of the CDD to the other, turning the "V" into an elongated triangle. Tassels polish it off.

model: Mesa Kennedy, Amara Cunningham

photos: Stephanie Shiman

SIZE

One

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

Width: 64 inches/ 163cm
Length: 26 inches/ 66cm

MATERIALS

Yarn
Wonderland Yarns "Blossoms" [80% superwash merino, 20% nylon; 425 yds/389m per 4 oz/ 113g cake];

Version one - yellow-green to purple (shown above):
[MC] Heart Leaf Fern; 1 cake
[CC] Muscari; 1 cake

Version two - pink to green (shown below):
[MC] Chrysanthemum; 1 cake
[CC] Lady Slipper; 1 cake

Recommended needle size
[always use a needle size that gives you the gauge listed below - every knitter's gauge is unique]
US #4/3.5mm needles for working flat - a long circular is recommended

Notions
yarn needle
cardboard or something sturdy (and waterproof) for wrapping and blocking tassels, stitch marker
a single needle 2 or 3 sizes larger, for binding off

GAUGE

24 sts/35 rows = 4 inches/10 cm in stockinette stitch

PATTERN NOTES

[Knitty's list of standard abbreviations and techniques can be found here.]

This shawl starts as a "V" shape; section two will "move" the stitches to the other side of the center decrease. By decreasing stitches on one side of the center and increasing stitches on the other side of the center, the shawl's shape is created.

For the stripes, you will be carrying the waiting yarn up the side. If you tend to have tight edges, use this trick to keep your edges loose: on RS rows add a YO after knitting the first stitch. Then drop the YO when you work back to it on WS . Be sure not to forget to drop the YO or you will accidentally increase.

CDD: Slip 2 stitches together (as if to k2tog), k1, then pass slipped stitch over.
Note: If you want tassels in the same color as your starting cast-on, be sure to reserve enough. Or make a tassel with the start of the MC yarn before casting-on. Tassel instructions are at the end of the pattern.
It's very easy to adjust the size of this shawl - just keep working Section One until it's the size you want, and then you'll work more repeats of the rows of Section Two until it hits the end.

DIRECTIONS

Section One
With MC, CO 3 sts.
Set-up row [RS]: K1, yo, k1, yo, k1. 5 sts.
Row 1 [WS]: K2, yo, pm, p1, yo, k2. 7 sts.
Row 2 [RS]: K2, yo, CDD (removing and replacing marker after decrease), yo, k2.
Row 3 [WS]: K2, yo, p to last 2 sts, yo, k2. 9 sts.

Join CC.
Note: From here, you will work four-row stripes, carrying unused yarn loosely up the side as you go.
Row 4 [RS]: With CC, k2, yo, k to last 2 sts before marker, CDD (removing and replacing marker after decrease), k to last 2 sts, yo, k2.
Row 5: With CC, k2, yo, p to last 2 sts, yo, k2. 2 sts increased.
Row 6: With MC, k2, yo, k to last 2 sts before marker, CDD (removing and replacing marker after decrease), k to last 2 sts, yo, k2.
Row 7: With MC, k2, yo, p to last 2 sts, yo, k2. 2 sts increased.

Repeat Rows 4-7, until you have 161 sts.

Section Two
No te: In this section, you will "move" stitches from one side of CDD to the other. The stitch count will stay the same throughout.

Row 1 [RS]: With MC, k2, yo, k to 2 sts before marker, CDD (removing and replacing marker after decrease), k to last 2 sts, yo, k2.
Row 2: With MC, k2, yo, p to last 5 sts, p3tog, yo, k2.
Row 3: With CC, k2, yo, k to 2 sts before marker, CDD (removing and replacing marker after decrease), k to last 2 sts, yo, k2.
Row 4: With CC, k2, yo, p to last 5 sts, p3tog, yo, k2.

Repeat Rows 1-4 until there's only 4 sts before the marker, ending with a RS row.

With MC, knit 4 rows. Bind off loosely, using a larger needle. Weave in ends.

FINISHING

Because of the somewhat kinky nature of yarns that have been dyed as a blank, a thorough blocking will bring out the slinky drape and hand of the yarn. Soak your finished shawl in warm water, adding a bit of hair conditioner if desired. (Wool is a protein fiber, just like hair!) Let the shawl sit for an hour or so, ensuring it's soaked all the way through.

Tassel instructions: Because of the kinky nature of the Blossoms yarn, you may wish to wet block your tassel. To do so, choose something waterproof that's about the length you'd like your tassel to be-I used a 5" long metal needle gauge ruler. For tassels like the sample, wrap a 5" long waterproof object with 70 wraps. Soak the ruler and yarn in hot soapy water and leave it overnight. Squeeze out the excess water and leave to dry. Then tie the top of the tassel, leaving the yarn long enough to so that you can use it to attach the tassel to the shawl points. Wrap yarn around one end of the tassel to form the top knot and cut yarn at the other end. Make two or three and attached to desired points.

ABOUT THE DESIGNER

Stephanie is the owner of frabjous fibers and Wonderland Yarns. When she's not up to her elbows in dye, she enjoys foolishness with her daughters, junk shops, making pottery, and all manner of fiber crafts. She lives with her daughters, darling, and dogs in southern Vermont.

You can find her show and tell on Instagram.

Pattern & images © 2020 Stephanie Shiman.

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Entire show available on Youtube from the National Theatre, London!