March 2023: 31 Activities for Every Day This Month
March to your dreams! Welcome back to your actor activities roundup, where we recommend everything from empowering exercises to the best entertainment events for each day of the month. As March marks Women’s History Month, we’ve taken care to uplift women’s voices in this edition. Here are 31 carefully-curated activities that will leave you feeling lucky and springing into action this March.
Advice & Inspiration:
1. Kick off Women’s Month with the premiere of a brand new empowering podcast: In Her Words. Produced by nonprofit Women in Entertainment, the show will present intimate conversations with inspiring guests in their own words.
2. The SAG Awards have come and gone, but the inspiring acceptance speeches will fuel you forever! Watch stars like Michelle Yeoh, Jessica Chastain, Ke Huy Quan and more here.
3. She might not be a philosopher, but Tony Award-winner Kristen Chenoweth has thoughts! Get inspired by the Wicked star’s mini-meditations and everything in between in her new coffee table book.
4. Angela Bassett did the (audio) thing! Go deep with the Wakanda Forever force’s rollercoaster ride to stardom on Awards Chatter.
5. Friends supporting friends! Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow united to shower their friend Courteney Cox with love during her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.
6. As & Juliet lights up Broadway, get invaluable insights and even an acting pep talk from one of its stars Melanie La Barrie on The Art of Kindness podcast!
7. Oscar-nominee Michelle Williams shares an incredible hack for more emotional scenes.
8. March’s Instagram spotlight is Women in Entertainment, an empowering nonprofit that uses its social media channels to uplift and inspire female-identifying folks and allies.
What to watch:
9. In addition to watching new female-powered projects, this Women’s History Month we hope you’ll check out the curated collections on all major platforms that are dedicated to uplifting women’s voices.
10. Daisy Jones & The Six (mini series) rocks onto Amazon Prime March 3: Based on a bestselling novel of the same name, this Hello Sunshine-produced series captures creativity in the wild world of the 1970s by following rock band Daisy Jones & the Six.
11. Give Me Pity! (musical comedy) in select theaters March 3: Sophie von Haselberg sprinkles the talents she inherited from her mom Bette Midler and more onto the screen as Sissy St. Claire in this psychedelic ride which presents a mock TV special.
12. Scream VI (horror) slashes onto screens March 10: Four familiar survivors of the Ghostface murders (cough, cough, Courteney Cox) leave Woodsboro behind for a new chapter in NYC. Things take a bloody turn when a new killer emerges from the shadows.
13. Extrapolations (limited anthology series) streams on Apple March 17: Meryl Streep, Kit Harington, Eiza González, Sienna Miller, Edward Norton, Forest Whitaker and Marion Cotillard… need we say more? Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, An Inconvenient Truth) has a starry cast play out 8 interwoven stories set in the near future, when climate change has wreaked havoc.
14. A Good Person (drama) hits theaters March 24: Zach Braff’s film puts Florence Pugh at the center as Allison, whose perfect life falls apart after surviving a tragedy. Morgan Freeman, Molly Shannon and Zoe-Lister Jones round out this powerhouse cast.
15. Murder Mystery 2 (comedy) streams onto Netflix March 31: End the month on a fun note with the delightful duo Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler. The pair find themselves at the center of a wild crime in this followup popcorn flick.
16. We’d be remiss if we didn’t spotlight that hit series like Netflix’s You, HBO Max’s Succession and Showtime’s Yellowjackets also make a welcome return this month.
Wellness Activities:
17. March into mindfulness by trying at least one of these 32 mindfulness activities. You can do it!
18. March is also National Sleep Awareness Month! Take a hard look at your sleep habits and aim to improve the quality of the z’s you are catching.
19. Think positive! Sticking with the national month theme, did you know March is also National Optimism Month? Let this inspire both the dialogues you have with others and yourself.
20. Let creativity lead you down a healing path with Rupi Kaur’s powerful guided writing book Healing Through Words.
21. From sharing free monthly plans to tips and tricks, spend some virtual time with yogi Queen Adriene Mishler.
22. One of the greatest wellness activities we can do is to connect with others. Consider this your reminder to sign up for a local class or attend community events. This month, consider looking into Stella Adler’s Studio of Acting.
23. Take a break from the blur of screen time and read! This Women’s History Month, we recommend stepping into the perspective of a female author. If you’re looking for a recommendation: Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow is among one of the best new books, featuring almost everything one might want in a read.
Live / Virtual Events:
24. The Independent Spirit Awards will honor the best in indie film on March 8.
25. Not only is March Women’s History Month, but March 8 is International Women’s Day. Do what you can to celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness about discrimination and take action to drive gender parity today.
26. And just like that, festivals sprout up again. South by Southwest (SXSW) kicks off in Austin, Texas on March 10 to celebrate the convergence of tech, film, music, education and culture.
27. It’s the most wonderful day of the year! The 95th Academy Awards will air live in all its glory March 12 on ABC with Jimmy Kimmel returning as host.
28. It’s corn! It has the juice! Shucked, a brand-new farm-to-fable musical from the Tony Award-winning director of Hairspray and the Tony Award-winning writer of Tootsie starts previews on Broadway.
29. He’s… flying? Laughter will be sprinkled over you like pixie dust when Peter Pan Goes Wrong on Broadway March 17.
30. March 17 means it’s time to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day! Whether you honor the Irish heritage by heading to an event like the famous NYC St. Patty’s Day Parade or eat your body weight in corned beef and cabbage, we wish you a happy day.
31. Start spreading the news! The exhilarating new Kander and Ebb musical New York, New York starts previews on March 24. Be among the first to experience an original story by David Thompson with Sharon Washington, additional lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and visionary direction and choreography by Susan Stroman.
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Robert Peterpaul is a writer, podcaster and performer, who can be seen in films like IFC's “King Cobra,” T-Mobile ad campaigns, and TV shows like CBS' “BULL.” He currently hosts the hit podcast The Art of Kindness with the Broadway Podcast Network. Other writing and hosting highlights include: NBC’s “Access Hollywood” and “America’s Got Talent,” “BUILD Series,” the Huffington Post and serving as the Weekend Editor for HOLA!/ HELLO! USA for six years. He also co-founded his family’s nonprofit the Thomas Peterpaul Foundation, which aims to end pediatric cancer. Robert has studied at the Barrow Group, Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, UCB and earned a B.A. from Marist College. Thank you for reading and keep following your bliss! www.robertpeterpaul.com
