Who: Kate Baldwin, Marsha Mason, John-Andrew Morrison, Jasminn Johnson, Pearl Cleage, Kate Cortesi, finkle, James Anthony Tyler, Melissa Li, Kit Yan
What: Weekly interactive discussions about theater
Where: Keen Company website, Facebook page and YouTube channel
When: Monday nights at 6:30, free
Why: New York’s Keen Company recently announced that its twenty-first season will include five world premiere audio plays as they adapt to the pandemic lockdown. In the meantime, the off Broadway troupe, which has staged such works as The Good Thief by Conor McPherson, The Breadwinner by W. Somerset Maugham, Beasley’s Christmas Party by Booth Tarkington, Painting Churches by Tina Howe, and Boy by Anna Ziegler with such actors as Brian d’Arcy James, Keir Dullea, Matt McGrath, John Cullum, Kathleen Chalfant, and the always amazing Thomas Jay Ryan, has begun “Keen After Hours,” free, live discussions taking place every Monday night at 6:30. The series kicked off September 21 with George Salazar (Tick, Tick . . . Boom!) speaking with marketing manager Billy Recce, managing producer Ashley DiGiorgi, and artistic director Jonathan Silverstein, followed the next week with Brenda Pressley (Surely Goodness and Mercy). The program continues October 5 with Kate Baldwin (John & Jen), October 12 with the “Hear/Now” launch party with 2020-21 season playwrights Pearl Cleage (Blues for an Alabama Sky), Kate Cortesi, finkle, James Anthony Tyler, and Melissa Li & Kit Yan, October 19 with Marsha Mason (I Never Sang for My Father), and October 26 with John-Andrew Morrison and Jasminn Johnson (Blues for an Alabama Sky).