Summer means FREE Broadway concerts in Bryant Park and summer theater festivals and…fireworks, as well as dreams of the new season on Broadway and Off, and Off-Off (see below.) It also means a whole mess of Broadway shows coming to an end:

Closing on July 7: The Ferryman, My Fair Lady, Ink

Closing on July 14: Burn This

Closing on August 11: Be More Chill, The Prom

Closing on August 18: The Cher Show, King Kong, Pretty Woman

Closing on August 24: What the Constitution Means to Me

Closing on August 25: Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.

If you’re in town, this might be a good time to see one.

Fourth of July Week Broadway Schedule

Show	Run Time	Theatre	Mon 07/01	Tue 07/02	Wed 07/03	Thu 07/04	Fri 07/05	Sat 07/06	Sun 07/07
Ain’t Too Proud	2h 30min	Imperial		7:00	2:00 & 8:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	2:00 & 7:30
Aladdin	2h 30min	New Amsterdam		7:00	2:00 & 7:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	1:00 & 6:30
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical	2h 15min	Stephen Sondheim		7:00	2:00 & 8:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	2:00 & 7:00
Beetlejuice	2h 30min	Winter Garden		7:00	2:00 & 8:00	2:00	8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
Be More Chill	2h 20min	Lyceum	7:00	7:00	2:00 & 8:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
The Book of Mormon	2h 30min	Eugene O’Neill	7:00	7:00	7:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	2:00 & 7:00
Burn This	2h 30min	Hudson	7:00	7:00	2:00 & 8:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
The Cher Show	2h 20min	Neil Simon	7:00	7:00	2:00 & 8:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
Chicago	2h 30min	Ambassador	8:00	8:00	8:00		8:00	2:30 & 8:00	3:00 & 7:30
Come From Away	100min	Schoenfeld	7:00	7:00	2:00 & 7:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
Dear Evan Hansen	2h 25min	Music Box	7:00	7:00	2:00 & 8:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
The Ferryman	3h 15min	Jacobs	7:00	7:00	1:00 & 7:30		7:00	1:00 & 7:30	3:00
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune	2h 15min	Broadhurst	8:00	7:00	2:00 & 8:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
Frozen	2h 15min	St. James		7:00	1:00 & 7:00		2:00 & 8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
Hadestown	2h 25min	Walter Kerr		7:00	2:00 & 7:30		2:00 & 8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
Hamilton	2h 40min	Richard Rodgers		7:00	2:00 & 8:00		2:00 & 8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two	2h 35min	Lyric			2:00 Prt1 7:30 Prt2		2:00 Prt1 7:30 Prt2	2:00Prt1 7:30Prt2	2:00 Prt1 7:30 Prt2
Ink	2h 45min	Samuel J. Friedman		7:00	2:00 & 7:00	7:00	8:00	2:00 & 8:00	2:00
King Kong	2h 30min	Broadway		7:00	2:00 & 8:00		2:00 & 8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
The Lion King	2h 30min	Minskoff		7:00	2:00 & 8:00		2:00 & 8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
Mean Girls	2h 30min	August Wilson	7:00	7:00	7:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	2:00 & 7:30
Moulin Rouge!		Hirschfeld		8:00	8:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00
My Fair Lady	2h 55min	Vivian Beaumont		7:00	2:00 & 8:00	2:00	8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
Oklahoma!	2h 45min	Circle in the Square		7:00	2:00 & 8:00		2:00 & 8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
The Phantom of the Opera	2h 30min	Majestic	8:00	7:00	8:00		2:00 & 8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
Pretty Woman: The Musical	2h 30min	Nederlander	7:00	7:00	7:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	2:00 & 7:30
The Prom	2h 15min	Longacre	8:00	7:00	2:00		2:00 & 8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
To Kill a Mockingbird	2h 50min	Shubert	7:00	7:00	1:00 & 7:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
Tootsie	2h 35min	Marquis	7:30	7:30	2:00 & 7:30		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
Waitress	2h 30min	Brooks Atkinson	7:00	7:00	2:00 & 7:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00
What the Constitution Means to Me	90min	Hayes					2:00 & 8:00	2:00 & 8:00
Wicked	2h 45min	Gershwin	7:00	7:00	2:00 & 7:00		8:00	2:00 & 8:00	3:00

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A list of Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, theater festivals, puppetry, and immersive theater

The Week in New York Theater Reviews

Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise

Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise” is too long, too confusing, in places tedious, in other places overwrought and even creepy; its silvery and spandex costumes look like a mix of 1950s sci-fi movie and 1970s disco; its songs are paltry and its underscoring persistently annoying – New Age ambient pounding that cries out “We don’t trust that you’ll find what’s going on dramatic.” HOWEVER, amid the awfulness there are a scattering of impressive moments — of visual splendor, awesome stagecraft, and exciting dance and martial arts choreography… enough of them to make me glad that I can say I saw this first theatrical spectacle in The Shed’s inaugural season.

We’re Only Alive For A Short Amount of Time

“We’re Only Alive For A Short Amount of Time,” is simple, unfussy, occasionally awkward, more often delightful, ultimately stirring. But it is also truly disturbing. It is David Cale’s first theater piece that reveals the central trauma of his life, which occurred when he was a teenager.

The Week in New York Theater News

A revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal is opening on Broadway September 5 for 17 weeks at the Bernard B. Jacobs following a West End run. Last on Broadway just 5 1/2 years ago (my review of the 2013 Betrayal with Daniel Craig an Rachel Weisz)this new production is directed by Jamie Lloyd and stars Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton, and Charlie Cox

In development, aiming for Broadway: A bio-musical about Neil Diamond, as yet untitled, produced by Ken Davenport, with a book by Anthony McCarten (best known for his screenplay for Bohemian Rhapsody, Darkest Hour, The Theory of Everything), directed by Michael Mayer.

2019-2010 Seasons

The 2019-2020 season at The Flea Theater is being called The Season of Anarchy: The Return of the Macs A rotating repertory of five plays by Mac Wellman, August 24 – November 1 “The Fre” by Taylor Mac, loosely based on Aristophanes The Frogs March 9 – April 13