Under is a number of theater opening* in New York in August, together with one present on Broadway: “As soon as Upon A Mattress,” starring Sutton Foster, which originated as an Encores! live performance earlier this yr. Consistent with August custom, there are additionally three theater festivals providing a complete of some 75 new works. Little Island continues its season of hard-to-categorize out of doors choices, half of them free.
The calendar is organized chronologically by opening date*, or (if no official opening) first efficiency, however we should think about the dates topic to alter, as a result of, sure, COVID-19 continues to be round, and each it and theater are unpredictable.
Every title under is linked to a related web site.
Coloration key: Broadway: Purple 🟥.
Off Broadway: Blue 🟦.
Off Off Broadway: Inexperienced 🟩.
Digital or Hybrid Theater: Yellow 🟨
Theater pageant: Orange 🟧.
Immersive and/or Web site Particular: Silver ⬜️ .
Puppetry: Brown 🟫
Opera: Purple🟪
Live performance: 🎶
Out of city 🇺🇸
Freed from cost (or “pay what you may”) 🆓
August 1
🟧The Little Shakespeare Pageant (Frigid NY at Underneath St. Marks)
The fourth annual version options seven performs impressed by the works of William Shakespeare, riffing this yr on the theme of Camaraderie and Group. Opening tonight: “When My Cue Comes,” offered by an organization referred to as Hamlet Isn’t Lifeless (“In Ready Room Z, Shakespeare’s most frequently forgotten characters discover themselves antsy, excited, and misplaced. “) and “My Personal Non-public Shakespeare,” written and carried out by Justin Hay, by which a Shakespearean actor whose world is collapsing tries to search out solace in a few of Shakespeare’s best passages.
August 1 – 17
August 4
🟦The Assembly: The Interpreter (St. Clements)
A play by Catherine Gropper starring by Frank Wooden and Kelley Curran impressed by true occasions a few Russian-American interpreter who was a witness to a gathering with Paul Manafort and Donald Trump Jr at Trump Tower earlier than the 2016 election.
August 8
🟧Summer season One Act Pageant (Chain Theater)
The pageant options some 50 very quick performs, grouped collectively in 14 totally different packages, together with John Patrick Shanley’s very quick new play “Banshee,” described as a mystical comedy a few banshee (a fantastical Irish spirit) who pays an ailing instructor a go to and makes him an otherworldly proposal. August 8 – September 1
🟦Fowl Play (AMT Theater)
A brand new musical comedy about two unsuspecting, unemployed queers who’re tasked with writing an apology musical for a notoriously homophobic international fried rooster chain
August 8 – 17
August 9
🟩Orion and the Goatman (The Flea)
On this campfire story reimagined, two half-brothers go on the annual tenting journey they’d usually take with dad. This time, they scatter his ashes.
August 9-17
August 12
🟥ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (Hudson)
Sutton Foster and Michael Urie star in Mary Rodgers’ whimsical tackle the fairy story the Princess and the Pea (the Broadway musical that made Carol Burnett a star), which ran earlier this yr an Encores! live performance with a considerably totally different solid. . My evaluate of the Encores productions
July 31 – November 30
August 14
🆓Language Metropolis: 5 Nights, 5 Boroughs (Little Island)
A sequence of performances in regards to the previous, current, and way forward for the world’s most linguistically various metropolis, led by audio system of endangered, Indigenous, and minority languages. It’s exhausting to know precisely what that is, but it surely’s free, and that’s a common language.
Aug 14-18
August 22
🟩Intercourse and the Abbey (The Brick)
Impressed by the primary lady playwright in Europe, Diana Ly’s play considerations the hassle by the canonesses of an Abbey to avoid wasting – by performing a play by Hrotsvit to impress Emperor Otto
August 22 – September 7
August 25
🟧Dream Up Pageant (Theater for a New Metropolis)
The twelfth annual version options 17 new works. Of the 5 that start tonight, the one with probably the most intriguing title is: Matt, James and Ben in Lord Finnington Bus in The Positively Puzzling Case of the Perloined Pelvis at Vicar’s Gate
August 25 – September 15
🟦Hurricane Season (Theatre Row)
A “extremely bodily manufacturing” from Vernal & Sere Theatre of Atlanta facilities on a middle-aged couple who start extra-marital affairs with youthful companions eerily resembling their very own likeness. This opportunity encounter leads them to reverse ends of the earth
August 23 – Sept 7
August 30
🟪The Marriage of Figaro (Little Island)
A brand new and radical tackle Mozart’s traditional about class and gender, multi functional voice. Anthony Roth Costanzo performs each main position in The Marriage of Figaro.
August 30 – September 22
*Opening Night time
This number of performs on this month is organized chronologically by opening night time, however consists of the dates when a present’s run begins and ends (when obtainable.)
Opening night time is often not the identical as the primary efficiency on Broadway and Off-Broadway (though it’s the similar for festivals and most Off-Off Broadway exhibits ) For Broadway and Off-Broadway, there’s often a “preview interval” that may final days or perhaps weeks, generally months. However skilled critiques are forbidden from being printed till opening night time, which is why I arrange this calendar by opening night time (when it exists and after I can discover it) quite than first efficiency, as a technique to help the persevering with relevance of theater reviewing. (Reveals that start previews in August however don’t formally open till September shall be featured in subsequent month’s calendar.) Take a look at my essay: Broadway Opening Night time. What It Means. How It’s Modified. 7 Details to Clear Urp The Confusion and Crystallize the Outrage.
What Is Broadway 🟥, Off Broadway 🟦 and Off-Off Broadway🟩?
Off-Broadway theaters, by definition, have wherever from 100 to 499 seats. If a theater has extra seats than that, it’s a Broadway home. If it has fewer, it’s Off-Off Broadway. (There’s a extra refined definition, having to do with contracts, and extra elaborate distinctions, having to do with ticket costs, quantity and site of theaters, size of runs, willingness to take inventive dangers, and many others.)
(A number of performing arts venues in New York Metropolis, akin to The Shed, Little Island, Park Avenue Armory, NYU Skirball and the Perelman Performing Arts Heart, technically exist exterior these classifications; I checklist them as Off-Broadway, regardless that, for many exhibits, they’ve greater than 500 seats.)
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