#dominique desanti

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C'est celui (…) qui sait rêver pendant des heures entières, les yeux clos, les yeux ouverts, qui raconte des histoires magiques, il prédit. Vrai ou faux, qu'importe ? En l'écoutant, chacun touche son avenir de sa main.

René Crevel à propos de Robert Desnos cité par Dominique Desanti - Robert Desnos le roman d'une vie 

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Dominique Desanti est d’origine corse mais elle est oléronaise.                 

Surprise dans sa boutique-atelier, rue de la république à Saint-Pierre d’Oléron, cela brille de partout, ça vibre dans tous les sens, c’est plein de couleurs.     

C’est comme dans sa tête, il y a des sens interdits, des reflets, des formes géométriques, des mouettes, toutes sortes d’oiseaux, des attrapes rêves, des madones, des pièces uniques.                                                                

Dominique a collaboré au livre C’est la tournée du perroquet – A turnada di u Papagallu, page 24, photographie Le bel été avec l’une de ses créations, un collier croix et pompon.

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French writer Dominique Desanti for whom Césaire’s poetry is the “chair même d’un people en lutte et d’une souffrance qui se disait” ‘the very flesh of a people in struggle and of a suffering that speaks' (Dominique Desanti in Aimé Césaire, a Voice for History) reports that at the time of the Congress of intellectuals for peace, the denunciation of decadent literature and art by the head of the Soviet delegation profoundly marked Césaire, who did not understand how jazz, the music that had arisen from the sorrows of an enslaved people, could be classified among elements of bourgeois decadence. The pilgrimage in the strategic places of communism shook Césaire’s faith in the ability of Western communism as a framework of liberation for the colonized peoples, but contributed to his rapprochement with black intellectuals of Paris who grouped around Présence Africaine, founded in 1947 by Alioune and Christiane Diop. Depestre’s call to order opens the debate about national poetry, mobilizes black intellectuals and artists around Présence Africaine, and leads to the first Congress of the Sorbonne (1955) in which the Communist Party saw a gathering of négristes and petty bourgeois.[1] Césaire’s resignation from the French Communist Party must be understood in the light of these misunderstandings of class awareness within the Western world and within the colonial situation.(p. 90)

Cilas Kemedjio - Aimé Césaire's Letter to Maurice Thorez : The Practice of Decolonization [Research in African Literatures, Vol. 41, No. 1, Special Issue: Aimé Césaire, 1913-2008: Poet, Politician, Cultural Statesman (Spring 2010), pp. 87-108]

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Origin of the Peace Scarf Design Elements

Picasso's artistic promotion of a dove for peace began at the 1949 Paris Peace Conference, reflecting his personal interest in peace for all of humanity. At the 1949 Peace Conference Picasso met Paul Roberson and became aware of the challenges of the black population - as well as Asian and Indian leaders.   His 1951 Berlin peace scarf was the aggregation of his symbols for peace with the dove at the center surrounded by the four different human races.

When Picasso signed the Nice “Peace scarf against atomic weapons in 1950” he realized the popularity of peace scarves for young people - a revelation that probably led him to design the peace scarf for the Berlin youth festival in 1951.  

In the photo shown below Picasso is signing the 1950 Peace Rally scarf for girl members attending the Communist sponsored International Youth for Peace rally in Nice, France. The young girl with her hand on the table is Alice Hornung, now 86, living in Germany and still active in the peace movement. According to Alice: “we weren't art connoisseurs, we were young people who worked for peace. All had had war experiences in their families or in their own lives. We were shocked by the consequences of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Our aim was to do something for peace. Suddenly we were greeted by the great Picasso, whom the whole world worshiped - an amazing experience.”

Picasso Signs for Commies These girl members of the German Communist youth organization, attending the Communist sponsored International Youth for Peace rally at Nice, France, don't seem to mind going against the party line as they push and shove to get Pablo Picasso's autograph. Not only has the Communist Party denounced autograph hunting as "a decadent capitalistic pastime”, it has also labeled Picasso’s ultra-modern art as "the product of corrupt capitalism.”Above photo caption is from from the Palo Alto, CA Peninsula-Times Tribune (August 22, 1950).

Note: According to Julia Friedrich, curator of the Picasso Shared and Divided exhibit at the Museum Ludwig “The communist youth delegation (FDJ) came from Saarland, which did not belong to Germany before the Saar referendum 1955. I'm pretty sure these young people didn’t go against the party line.”

The Nice peace scarf (shown in detail above) from the Picasso signing newspaper photo. This unique scarf was signed by Pablo Picasso, French journalist Pierre Abraham, French Communist party leader Jean Kanapa, French naval officer Louis de Villefosse, Surrealist movement founder Paul Eluard, French novelist Dominique Desanti, French resistance leader André Verdet, British trade union leader Ken Gill (see his video on this site), French- Armenian poet Reuben Melik, German author Stephan Hermlin, Dutch documentary film maker Joris Ivens, and Nobel Prize winning Pablo Neruda.  The scarf has multiple dedications to Lucienne Tilman (1918 - 1977).  Organized by the Mouvement de la Paix, for “prohibition of atomic weapons”. This cloth scarf was made for the International Youth Meetings from August 13 - 20, 1950.

Scarf from the van Zuiden Picasso Scarf Collection

Shown above: Vintage 1950 Second World Congress of the Partisans of Peace scarf with white dove designed by Pablo Picasso. Made from a crepe silk.

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Manifeste des 343

Le manifeste des 343, est une pétition française parue le 5 avril 1971 dans le no 334 du magazine Le Nouvel Observateur. C'est, selon le titre paru en une du magazine, « la liste des 343 Françaises qui ont le courage de signer le manifeste “Je me suis fait avorter” », s'exposant ainsi à l'époque à des poursuites pénales pouvant aller jusqu'à l'emprisonnement, car l'avortement en France était illégal à l'époque.

C'est un appel pour la dépénalisation et la légalisation de l'interruption volontaire de grossesse qui ouvre la voie à l'adoption de la loi Veil.

Le texte

Le manifeste, rédigé par Simone de Beauvoir, commence par ces phrases :

« Un million de femmes se font avorter chaque année en France.

Elles le font dans des conditions dangereuses en raison de la clandestinité à laquelle elles sont condamnées, alors que cette opération, pratiquée sous contrôle médical, est des plus simples. On fait le silence sur ces millions de femmes. Je déclare que je suis l'une d'elles. Je déclare avoir avorté.

Suivent les 343 signatures de célébrités, notamment celles de personnalités telles que Catherine Arditi, Françoise Arnoul, Florence Asie, Brigitte Auber, Stéphane Audran, Colette Audry, Tina Aumont, Hélène de Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir, Cathy Bernheim, Valérie Boisgel, Olga Bost, Claudine Chonez, Iris Clert, Marie Dedieu, Lise Deharme, Christine Delphy, Catherine Deneuve, Dominique Desanti, Marguerite Duras, Françoise d'Eaubonne, Françoise Fabian, Brigitte Fontaine, Antoinette Fouque, Luce Garcia-Ville, Claude Génia, Françoise de Gruson, Gisèle Halimi, Katia Kaupp, Bernadette Lafont, Danièle Lebrun, Annie Leclerc, Violette Leduc, Marceline Loridan, Judith Magre, Michèle Manceaux, Geneviève Mnich, Ariane Mnouchkine, Claudine Monteil, Jeanne Moreau, Michèle Moretti, Liane Mozère, Nicole Muchnik, Bulle Ogier, Marie Pillet, Marie-France Pisier, Micheline Presle, Marthe Robert, Christiane Rochefort, Yvette Roudy, Françoise Sagan, Delphine Seyrig, Alexandra Stewart, Gaby Sylvia, Nadine Trintignant, Irène Tunc, Agnès Varda, Catherine Varlin, Ursula Vian-Kübler, Marina Vlady, Anne Wiazemsky, Monique Wittig.

Une note en bas de page indique que « parmi les signataires, des militantes du “Mouvement de Libération des Femmes” réclament l'avortement libre et GRATUIT ».

L'idée a été lancée par Jean Moreau, chef du service documentation du Nouvel Observateur lors d'une discussion animée avec la journaliste Nicole Muchnik un soir de juin 1970 dans la salle de rédaction du quotidien, et Simone Iff, alors vice-présidente du planning familial, s'est fortement mobilisée à titre personnel pour obtenir un maximum de signatures de célébrités.

L'article français est un exemple notable de désobéissance civile en France. Aucune des signataires n'est poursuivie. Il a inspiré en 1973 un manifeste de 331 médecins se déclarant pour la liberté de l'avortement.

Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifeste_des_343

https://www.nouvelobs.com/societe/20071127.OBS7018/le-manifeste-des-343-salopes-paru-dans-le-nouvel-obs-en-1971.html

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Manifesto of the 343

The Manifesto of the 343 (French: manifeste des 343), also known as the Manifesto of the 343 Sluts, was a declaration that was signed by 343 women advocating for reproductive rights and admitting to having had an abortion when abortions were illegal in France, thereby exposing themselves to criminal prosecution. The manifesto appeared in the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur on April 5, 1971. It was also known in an alternate English translation of the word "salopes" as the "Manifesto of the 343 Bitches".

The text

The text of the manifesto was written by Simone de Beauvoir. It began (as translated into English):

One million women in France have abortions every year. Condemned to secrecy, they do so in dangerous conditions, while under medical supervision, this is one of the simplest procedures. Society is silencing these millions of women. I declare that I am one of them. I declare that I have had an abortion. Just as we demand free access to contraception, we demand the freedom to have an abortion for free.

Impact

The week after the manifesto appeared, the front page of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo carried a drawing attacking male politicians with the question "Qui a engrossé les 343 salopes du manifeste sur l'avortement?". ("Who got the 343 sluts from the abortion manifesto pregnant?") This drawing by Cabu gave the manifesto its nickname.

It was the inspiration for a February 3, 1973, manifesto by 331 doctors declaring their support for abortion rights:

We want freedom of abortion. It is entirely the woman's decision. We reject any entity that forces her to defend herself, perpetuates an atmosphere of guilt, and allows underground abortions to persist ....

It contributed above all to the adoption, in December 1974-January 1975, of the "Veil law", named for Health Minister Simone Veil, that repealed the penalty for voluntarily terminating a pregnancy during the first ten weeks (later extended to twelve weeks).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_the_343

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To read all manifesto in French: https://www.nouvelobs.com/societe/20071127.OBS7018/le-manifeste-des-343-salopes-paru-dans-le-nouvel-obs-en-1971.html

Photos from pinterest and http://referentiel.nouvelobs.com/archives_pdf/OBS0334_19710405/OBS0334_19710405_005.pdf

Further reading (in French): http://histoiregeographieapaulclaudel.blogspot.com.es/2014/02/une-loi-pour-les-femmes-la-loi-veil.html

8th MARCH, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

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La liste des 343 signataires qui ont eu le courage de publier dans le Nouvel Observateur du 5 avril 1971 ce manifeste : "Je me suis fait avorter",  alors qu'elles encouraient des peines de prison.

Merci Mesdames. <3

"J. Abba-Sidick Janita Abdalleh Monique Anfredon Catherine Arditi Maryse Arditi Hélène Argellies Françoise Arnoul Florence Asie Isabelle Atlan Brigitte Auber Stéphane Audran Colette Audry Tina Aumont L. Azan Jacqueline Azim Micheline Baby Geneviève Bachelier Cécile Ballif Néna Baratier D. Bard E. Bardis Anna de Bascher C. Batini Chantal Baulier Hélène de Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir Colette Bec M.

Bediou Michèle Bedos Anne Bellec Lolleh Bellon Edith Benoist Anita Benoit Aude Bergier Dominique Bernabe Jocelyne Bernard Catherine Bernheim Nicole Bernheim Tania Bescomd Jeannine Beylot Monique Bigot Fabienne Biguet Nicole Bize Nicole de Boisanger Valérie Boisgel Y. Boissaire Silvina Boissonnade Martine Bonzon Françoise Borel Ginette Bossavit Olga Bost Anne-Marie Bouge Pierrette Bourdin Monique Bourroux Bénédicte Boysson-Bardies M. Braconnier-Leclerc M. Braun Andrée Brumeaux Dominique Brumeaux Marie-Françoise.Brumeaux Jacqueline Busset Françoise De Camas Anne Camus Ginette Cano Ketty Cenel Jacqueline Chambord Josiane Chanel Danièle Chinsky Claudine Chonez Martine Chosson Catherine Claude M.-Louise, Clave Françoise Clavel Iris Clert Geneviève Cluny Annie Cohen Florence Collin Anne Cordonnier Anne Cornaly Chantal Cornier J. Corvisier Michèle Cristofari Lydia Cruse Christiane Dancourt Hélène Darakis Françoise Dardy Anne-Marie Daumont Anne Dauzon Martine Dayen Catherine Dechezelle Marie Dedieu Lise Deharme Claire Delpech Christine Delphy Catherine Deneuve Dominique Desanti Geneviève Deschamps Claire Deshayes Nicole Despiney Catherine Deudon Sylvie Dlarte Christine Diaz Arlette Donati Gilberte Doppler Danièle Drevet Evelyne Droux Dominique Dubois Muguette Dubois Dolorès Dubrana C. Dufour Elyane Dugny Simone Dumont Christiane Duparc Pierrette Duperray Annie Dupuis Marguerite Duras Françoise d’Eaubonne Nicole Echard Isabelle Ehni Myrtho Elfort Danièle El-Gharbaoui Françoise Elie Arlette Elkaim Barbara Enu Jacqueline d’Estree Françoise Fabian Anne Fabre-Luce Annie Fargue J. Foliot Brigitte Fontaine Antoinette Fouque-Grugnardi Eléonore Friedmann Françoise Fromentin J. Fruhling Danièle Fulgent Madeleine Gabula Yamina Gacon Luce Garcia-Ville Monique Garnier Micha Garrigue Geneviève Gasseau Geneviève Gaubert Claude Genia Elyane Germain-Horelle Dora Gerschenfeld Michèle Girard F. Gogan Hélène Gonin Claude Gorodesky Marie-Luce Gorse Deborah Gorvier Martine Gottlib Rosine Grange Rosemonde Gros Valérie Groussard Lise Grundman A. Guerrand-Hermes Françoise de Gruson Catherine Guyot Gisèle Halimi Herta Hansmann Noëlle Henry M. Hery Nicole Higelin Dorinne Horst Raymonde Hubschmid Y. Imbert L. Jalin Catherine Joly Colette Joly Yvette Joly Hemine Karagheuz Ugne Karvelis Katia Kaupp Nenda Kerien F. Korn Hélène Kostoff Marie-Claire Labie Myriam Laborde Anne-Marie Lafaurie Bernadette Lafont Michèle Lambert Monique Lange Maryse Lapergue Catherine Larnicol Sophie Larnicol Monique Lascaux M.-T. Latreille Christiane Laurent Françoise Lavallard G. Le Bonniec Danièle Lebrun Annie Leclerc M.-France Le Dantec Colette Le Digol Violette Leduc Martine Leduc-Amel Françoise Le Forestier Michèle Leglise-Vian M. Claude Lejaille Mireille Lelièvre Michèle Lemonnier Françoise Lentin Joëlle Lequeux Emmanuelle de Lesseps Anne Levaillant Dona Levy Irène Lhomme Christine Llinas Sabine Lods Marceline Loridan Edith Loser Françoise Lugagne M. Lyleire Judith Magre C. Maillard Michèle Manceaux Bona de Mandiargues Michèle Marquais Anne Martelle Monique Martens Jacqueline Martin Milka Martin Renée Marzuk Colette Masbou Cella Maulin Liliane Maury Edith Mayeur Jeanne Maynial Odile du Mazaubrun Marie-Thérèse Mazel Gaby Memmi Michèle Meritz Marie-Claude Mestral Maryvonne Meuraud Jolaine Meyer Pascale Meynier Charlotte Millau M. de Miroschodji Geneviève Mnich Ariane Mnouchkine Colette Moreau Jeanne Moreau Nellv Moreno Michèle Moretti Lydia Morin Mariane Moulergues Liane Mozere Nicole Muchnik C. Muffong Véronique Nahoum Eliane Navarro Henriette Nizan Lila de Nobili Bulle Ogier J. Olena Janine Olivier Wanda Olivier Yvette Orengo Iro Oshier Gege Pardo Elisabeth Pargny Jeanne Pasquier M. Pelletier Jacqueline Perez M. Perez Nicole Perrottet Sophie Pianko Odette Picquet Marie Pillet Elisabeth Pimar Marie-France Pisier Olga Poliakoff Danièle Poux Micheline Presle Anne-Marie Quazza Marie-Christine Questerbert Susy Rambaud Gisèle Rebillion Gisèle Reboul Arlette Reinert Arlette Repart Christiane Ribeiro M. Ribeyrol Delya Ribes Marie-Françoise Richard Suzanne Rigail-Blaise Marcelle Rigaud Laurence Rigault Danièle Rigaut Danielle Riva M. Riva Claude Rivière Marthe Robert Christiane Rochefort J. Rogaldi Chantal Rogeon Francine Rolland Christiane Rorato Germaine Rossignol Hélène Rostoff G. Roth-Bernstein C. Rousseau Françoise Routhier Danièle Roy Yvette Rudy Françoise Sagan Rachel Salik Renée Saurel Marie-Ange Schiltz Lucie Schmidt Scania de Schonen Monique Selim Liliane Sendyke Claudine Serre Colette Sert Jeanine Sert Catherine de Seyne Delphine Seyrig Sylvie Sfez Liliane Siegel Annie Sinturel Michèle Sirot Michèle Stemer Cécile Stern Alexandra Stewart Gaby Sylvia Francine Tabet Danièle Tardrew Anana Terramorsi Arlette Tethany Joëlle Thevenet Marie-Christine Theurkauff Constance Thibaud Josy Thibaut Rose Thierry Suzanne Thivier Sophie Thomas Nadine Trintignant Irène Tunc Tyc Dumont Marie-Pia Vallet Agnès Van-Parys Agnès Varda Catherine Varlin Patricia Varod Cleuza Vernier Ursula Vian-Kubler Louise Villareal Marina Vlady A. Wajntal Jeannine Weil Anne Wiazemsky Monique Wittig Josée Yanne Catherine Yovanovitch Annie Zelensky" Manifeste publié dans le “Nouvel Observateur” numéro 334, du 5 avril 1971.

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La activista de 93 años dedicó toda su vida a defender el derecho al aborto y a criminalizar los actos de violación que sufren las mujeres.

La abogada franco-tunecina Gisèle Halimi murió este martes en París a los 93 años, tras una vida dedicada a la lucha por la igualdad y haber sido una de las caras más célebres del feminismo francés junto a figuras como Simone de Beauvoir.

Nacida en 1927 en Túnez, Zeiza Gisèle Elise Taïeb, su nombre de soltera, se crió en una familia judía y conservadora que, como ella recordaba en sus memorias, escondió durante semanas su nacimiento porque su padre no quería reconocer que había tenido una hija. Ya a los diez años inició una huelga de hambre en su casa para defender su derecho a la lectura, mientras se negaba a seguir las prácticas religiosas de la familia.

A los 16 rechazó una propuesta de matrimonio concertado por sus padres y puso rumbo a París, donde estudió derecho y se instaló definitivamente en 1956 al casarse con un administrador civil, Paul Halimi, de quien conservó el apellido, pese a divorciarse de él y casarse de nuevo con Claude Faux, secretario del filósofo y escritor Jean-Paul Sartre, pareja de Simone de Beauvoir.

Precisamente junto a Sartre se alineó en favor de la independencia de Argelia en 1960, cuando defendió a la militante del Frente de Liberación Nacional, Djamila Boupacha, acusada de haber puesto una bomba, que fue torturada y violada por soldados franceses. Halimi y De Beauvoir mediatizaron en «Le Monde» el caso de Boupacha, que fue condenada a muerte y posteriormente amnistiada. Más tarde, escribieron un libro con una portada dibujada por Pablo Picasso, lo que contribuyó a convertir a la joven argelina en un icono de la lucha independentista.

El Manifiesto de las 343 putas

Eso hizo a Halimi abogada de causas políticas y la vinculó a las luchas feministas: fue también una de las firmantes del Manifiesto de las 343, más conocido como «El manifiesto de las 343 putas». Esa declaración de 1971 fue una de las bases de la ley que en 1975 despenalizó el aborto.

Halimi, como De Beauvoir y otras cientos de mujeres famosas y destacadas de las artes, la literatura y las ciencias, tales como Jeanne Moreau, Christiane Rochefort, Violette Leduc, Dominique Desanti, Catherine Deneuve, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, Giséle Halimi y Simone de Beauvoir firmaron el histórico documento conocido como el “Manifiesto de las 343 salopes”, putas en castellano.

Fue publicada en la revista Le Nouvel Observateur, el 5 de abril de 1971. La idea surgió de Jeanne Moreau y la pluma fue de Simone de Beauvoir, pero lo importante fue que esta propuesta atesoró una significativa repercusión mundial. Todas declaraban haber abortado y se exponían a ser sometidas a procesos legales hasta correr el riesgo de terminar en un calabozo. Reclamaban que el aborto fuera gratuito y libre durante las diez primeras semanas de gestación.

Sus reivindicaciones se personificaron en el caso de una joven de 16 años, Marie-Claire, que en 1972 fue juzgada por haber interrumpido su embarazo, fruto de una violación,  con ayuda de su madre. Halimi fue su abogada y logró su absolución.

Las otras batallas de Halimi

No fue la última batalla de Halimi, involucrada también en la penalización de la violación en Francia, en 1980, tras defender a dos jóvenes belgas que denunciaron a tres hombres que las habían violado en 1974.

A finales de los ochenta, Halimi, militante socialista y fiel defensora del expresidente François Mitterrand, se centró en la escritura con obras intimistas en las que habló de sus orígenes, su familia y las causas políticas que marcaron su vida.

«Francia pierde a una republicana apasionada que, como abogada, militante y diputada, fue una gran combatiente de la emancipación de las mujeres», escribió hoy en Twitter el presidente, Emmanuel Macron, como homenaje de despedida.

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Coriolanus starring Tom Hiddleston, see June 4

Carousel with Nathan Gunn Kelli O’Hara. See June 5

Jonny Orsini and Nathan Lane in The Nance, See June 12

Heroes of the Fourth Turning see June 13

Aenid Moloney in “Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom” see June 16 (Bloom’s Day of course)

Click here for June 1 openings

Below is the calendar of “theater openings”* for June, 2020, with many online shows, series and festivals showcasing LGBTQ Pride Month, and the entire list demonstrating the perseverance and resilience of an art form that is adjusting to the shut-down of physical stages.

Among the one-time only star-studded spectacles in June: We Are One Public at the Public Theater (see June 1), two different Tony Awards celebrations (see June 7, the date that the Tony Awards would have taken place) and the New York Times’ “Offstage: Opening  Night” (see June 11.) This last show launches a series that will feature performances from shows that opened (or should have opened) in the 2019-2020 season.

Pride Plays festival director Nick Mayo with producers Michael Urie and Doug Nevin

Among the other exciting new online series in June: Lincoln Center’s Dance Week  (which continues every day through June 4th) and its Broadway Fridays (Carousel on June 5th, The Nance on June 12, Act One on June 19), and Pride Plays, a partnership between Playbill and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, which will present “a live streamed theatrical event from the LGBTQIA+ theatrical canon” every Friday in June (including Mort Crowley’s sequel to The Boys in the Band. See June 26)  — plus 11 new LGBT plays by emerging writers at dates yet to be announced.

Also take note of The Civilians’ ninth annual Findings series, which for the first time is going online. The five offerings in this year’s groundbreaking documentary theater series share “a common thread of how humanity perseveres and seeks out joy through adversity.”

Since so many shows are being put together at the last minute — sometimes not announced until the very day of their launch — I will be updating/filling in this preview guide every day, and highlighting the offerings each new day with the link up top. This calendar as of this moment offers a glimpse of what’s  in store. Come back day by day for a better look.

Here are some ongoing series that have proven to be reliable sources of art and entertainment.

Four offer live performances (often called readings) of original plays: The Homebound Project Livelabs: One Acts from MCC Play-PerView Viral Monologues from 24 Hour Plays

(Play-PerView makes an exception to its original plays with what counts as a coup — the live reading of the Pulitzer finalist play Heroes of the Fourth Turning. see June 13)

A fifth offers live readings of classics and recent favorites: Plays in the House, Stars in the House’s twice weekly matinees  and now Plays in the House Teen Edition.

Three offer recordings of previous (glorious) stage productions.

Metropolitan Opera National Theatre at Home The Shows Must Go On from Andrew Lloyd Webber

For details about these and other ongoing series, check out my post Where To Get Your Theater Fix Online  (which lists, for example, the many long-running online sites such as BraadwayHD and Marquee TV that offer video-capture recordings of shows that were on stage)

All performances are free unless otherwise noted, although almost all hope for a donation (either to themselves or to a designated charity.)

*My definition of theater for the purposes of this calendar generally does not extend to variety shows, cast reunions, galas, panel discussions, documentaries, classes, interviews — all of which are in abundance this month, many worth checking out, but it would be too Herculean a task to list them all in a monthly calendar. My focus here is on creative storytelling in performance. (I make an occasional exception for a high-profile Netathon,involving many theater artists.)

June 1

We Are One Public The Public Theater Live beginning at 8 p.m. A 90-minute Netathon (my term for the starry online fundraising concerts of the pandemic era) featuring “cameo appearances” by Jane Fonda, Alicia Keys, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Meryl Streep, and “stories and songs” by Antonio Banderas, Laura Benanti, Kim Blanck, Ally Bonino, Danielle Brooks, Glenn Close, Jenn Colella, Elvis Costello, Claire Danes, Holly Gould, Danai Gurira, Anne Hathaway, Stephanie Hsu, Oscar Isaac, Nikki M. James, John Leguizamo, Audra McDonald, Grace McLean, Sandra Oh, Mia Pak, David Hyde Pierce, Phillipa Soo, Trudie Styler & Sting, Will Swenson, Shaina Taub, Kuhoo Verma, Ada Westfall, Kate Wetherhead.

The Revenger’s Tragedy Red Bull Theater Launches 7:30 p.m. Jesse Berger’s adaptation of Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean thriller, written a few years after Hamlet, is a searing examination of humankind’s social need for justice and our animal desire for vengeance. Vindice, the “Revenger,” sets off a chain reaction of havoc in a corrupt and decadent Venice.

The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey 92nd Y Recording launches at 8 p.m, available through June 30 Donation to 92nd Street Y required A recording of the one-man show written and performed by James Lecesne, whose short film “Trevor” spawned The Trevor Project, a national suicide prevention helpline for LGBTQ youth. I liked this show when I saw it Off-Broadway in 2015. From my review: “A 14-year-old boy is reported missing, and eventually found dead. Chuck DeSantis, who worked the case as a tough-talking detective “in a half-ass town down the Jersey shore,” begins to tell us the story as if it’s a murder mystery, a film noir on stage (“The dark side is my beat.”) But “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey”…is not really a murder mystery. It is, above all, a showcase for the impressive theatrical talents of James Lecesne, who portrays the detective and eight other characters, male and female, young and old. He does this without props or a change of costumes — just precise, spot-on gestures; a shift in accent and manner of speech.”

Ten Stories: A Decameron The Builders Association https://www.buildersdecameron.com/

Throughout the month of May, The Buildings Association theater company presented five live half-hour episodes inspired by the Decameron, Boccaccio’s 14th-century plague-story. Starting today, all will be released for viewing

Burst Playground Zoomfest Launches 5 p.m. ET As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the San Francisco Playground Festival of New Works (this year completely digital), this play by Rachel Bublitz focuses on Sarah Boyd, the head of one of the fastest growing tech companies in history, at a moment before everything bursts.

June 2

Coppélia Lincoln Center Part of Dance Week, the New York City Ballet presents the 19th century comic ballet of a mad inventor and the life-like doll he creates.

June 3

Pues Nada MCC Launches at 5:30 This latest play in the LiveLabs One Acts series is written by Aziza Barnes, and features Karen Pittman as St. Francis and Samira Wiley as Sunny

The Homebound Project #3 Launches at 7 p.m. Available through June 7 $10 donation to No Kid Hungry required (free to frontline and essential workers) This third edition of original plays fundraising for No Kid Hungry, on the theme of “champions,” features: Jennifer Carpenter and Thomas Sadoski in a work by John Guare, directed by Jerry Zaks; Ralph Brown in a work by Donnetta Lavinia Grays, directed by Jenna Worsham; Diane Lane in a work by Michael R. Jackson; Paola Lázaro in a work by Gina Femia, directed by Taylor Reynolds; Joshua Leonard in a work by Mara Nelson-Greenberg; Eve Lindley in a work by Daniel Talbott, directed by Kevin Laibson; Arian Moayed in a work by Xavier Galva; Ashley Park in a work by Bess Wohl, directed by Leigh Silverman; Will Pullen in a work by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Jenna Worsham; Phillipa Soo in a work by Clare Barron, directed by Steven Pasquale; and Blair Underwood in a work by Korde Arrington Tuttle.

June 4

Coriolanus National Theatre Available through June 11 Tom Hiddleston (Betrayal, The Avengers, The Night Manager) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s searing tragedy of political manipulation and revenge.

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Alvin Ailey Lincoln Center This last show in Dance Week is a 2015 broadcast featuring Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performing Chroma, Grace, Takademe, and its signature dance, Revelations

June 5

Carousel Lincoln Center Launches at 8 p.m. The first of Lincoln Center’s Broadway Fridays features a free digital stream of its concert production of this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical featuring the New York Philharmonic and starring Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Stephanie Blythe, Shuler Hensley, Jason Danieley,Jessie Mueller, Kate Burton, Tony winner John Cullum, and New York City Ballet dancers Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck.

Brave Smiles…Another Lesbian Tragedy Pride Plays Launches at 7 p.m. The Five Lesbian Brothers (Maureen Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, and Lisa Kron) directed by Leigh Silverman.

Julius Caesar Irondale The second of four installments of a revised version of its 2016 show “1599” nspired by the book “A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599” by James Shapiro.

Candidate X The Civilians Launches at 3 p.m. Part of the Civilians “Findings” series, the show is “a dynamic cross between testimonial-based theatre and dance theatre,” celebrating “the risk-takers who challenge and defy the gendered expectations our country has of those who lead.”

The Nesting Instinct Playground Zoomfest Launches 5 p.m. E.T. Part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the San Francisco Playground Festival of New Works (this year completely digital): Two siblings in a house in a Florida flood zone, a pair of blue-footed boobies (those are birds) on a shrinking island are the characters in two of the intertwined stories in this play by Tom Bruett that explores parenthood, identity and the steadfast power of home in a world that is changing drastically.

June 6

The Rendering Cycle Playground Zoomfest Launches 5 p.m. ET As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the San Francisco Playground Festival of New Works (this year completely digital), Genevieve Jessee’s ten interwoven short plays present a theatrical journey through 400 years of the African Diaspora. Directed by Margo Hall

June 7

Tony Awards Celebration Broadway on Demand and TonyAwards.com Launches 6 p.m. A Netathon for American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League, co-producers of The Tony Awards (which would have taken place tonight), the hour-long even will celebrate “the Broadway community, the Tony Awards®, and the global impact that Broadway has as a cultural touchstone around the world.”

Show of Shows: Broadway.com Salutes the Tonys Broadway.com Launches 7 p.m. Also a benefit for the Wing and the League, this one is produced by Paul Wontorek, who produced the 90th Sondheim celebration

June 9

Criminal Queerness Festival Dixon Place The first day of a festival that runs through June 29th, showcasing queer and trans artists from countries that criminalize or censor LGBTQ+ communities.

June 10

Black Feminist Video Game, African.Isch The Civilians Launches at 7 p.m. Part of the Civilians “Findings” series, the show presents a tapestry of theatrical narratives created from ethnographic interviews within the black community of Berlin, Germany.

June 11

Offstage: Opening Night Patti LuPone and Katrina Lenk and the cast of Company performing the show’s opening number; Tony winner Mary-Louise Parkerperforming a monologue from The Sound Inside; a chat with Slave Play scribe Jeremy O. Harris and a sing-along with Elizabeth Stanley from Jagged Little Pill. Times writers will also discuss some of their favorite moments from the truncated season. 7 p.m. Free, but need to register in advance

As You Like It Irondale The third of four installments of a revised version of its 2016 show “1599” nspired by the book “A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599” by James Shapiro.

June 12

The Nance Lincoln Center Launches at 8 p.m. A free digital stream of Lincoln Center Theater’s 2013 Broadway production of Douglas Carter Beane’s dark comedy starring Nathan Lane as a gay burlesque entertainer in the 1930s. ( My review)

One in two Pride Plays Donja R. Love’s portrait of what it means to be black and queer in America today.

June 13

Heroes of the Fourth Turning Play-Perview Launches at 8 p.m. Required $5 minimum donation A live one-time Zoom reading of this much-praised (and 2020 Pulitzer finalist) play by Will Arbery “It’s nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-party. They’ve returned home to toast their mentor Gina, newly inducted as president of a tiny Catholic college. But as their reunion spirals into spiritual chaos and clashing generational politics, it becomes less a celebration than a vicious fight to be understood.” My review when it was a Playwrights Horizons

  In These Uncertain Times Source Material Launches 7:30 p.m. A digital performance piece that uses drinking competitions, sad Chekhov monologues, and corona-virus meme collages to contemplate the impossibility of theater as we’ve known it, and forge a new path in the art form, while grieving for the past.

Best of Playground 24 Playground Zoomfest the top 10-minute plays from the 2019-20 season of the Playground Festival.

June 15

This Show Is Money The Civilians Launches at 8 p.m. A musical about the 1 and 99 percent, exploring how our choices with this fictional creation called money affect people around us in ways we find difficult to see.

June 16

Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom Irish Rep The solo show excerpting the last chapter of “Ulysses” offered online on Bloom’s Day.

Looking for Leroy New Federal Theatre featuring AUDELCO Award winning actors Tyler Fauntleroy and Kim Sullivan, directed by Petronia Paley

June 18

Hamlet Irondale The third of four installments of a revised version of its 2016 show “1599” nspired by the book “A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599” by James Shapiro.

June 19

Act One Lincoln Center Broadway Fridays brings James Lapine stage adaptation of Moss Hart’s memoir for the stage, starring Tony Shalhoub, Andrea Martin and an especially winning Santino Fontana. My review from 2014

Masculinity Max Pride Plays A play by MJ Kaufman, directed by Will Davis

June 22

Against Women and Music The Civilians Launches at 3 p.m. Part of the Civilians’ Findings series, an anachronistic chamber musical that explores the notions of privilege, ambition and morality through the eyes of a female piano tuner in the 1800s. At that time, music was considered dangerous for women to play or even hear.

June 24

The Homebound Project #4

June 26

The Men from the Boys Pride Plays  Mort Crowley’s sequel to The Boys in the Band, showing what happens to the characters

June 28

Pride Spectacular Concert Playbill

June 30

Two Can Play New Federal Theatere Written by Trevor Rhone featuring Ron Bobb-Semple and Joyce Sylvester, directed by Clinton Turner Davis.

June 2020 Online Theater Openings: Pride and Perseverance. What’s Streaming Day by Day Click here for June 1 openings Below is the calendar of “theater openings”* for June, 2020, with many online shows, series and festivals showcasing LGBTQ Pride Month, and the entire list demonstrating the perseverance and resilience of an art form that is adjusting to the shut-down of physical stages.