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May 2018 New York Theater Openings

May 2, 2018 Leave a comment

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Buckinghamshire character for calendar
Peace for Mary Frances for calendar
Marin Ireland for calendar
Long Days Journey Jeremy Irons
Paradise Blue for Calendar

Yes, we now debate theater nominations and await the awards, but the shows must go on in May. That includes just one play on Broadway — the first of the 2018-2019 Broadway season and star-studded to boot. There is also a play by Tennessee Williams and a new play about him, as well as works by Caryll Churchill and Stephen Adly Giurgis

Below is a list, organized chronologically by opening date, with descriptions. Each title is linked to a relevant website.
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April 2018 New York Theater Openings

April 2, 2018 Leave a comment

The nine shows opening on Broadway in the month of April include four musicals and five plays – the old ones among the most beloved (Carousel, My Fair Lady) or respected (by Eugene O’Neill, George Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard), the new nes among the most anticipated (Harry Potter, Mean Girls.).

But Off-Broadway is generating excitement this month too — with, for example, a one-two punch at the Public, of a new musical by Quiara Alegria Hudes (In The Heights) and a new play by Lynn Nottage (Ruined, Sweat.) and the debut of new plays at Playwrights Horizons by up-and-comers Lindsey Ferrentino and Clare Barron

Below is a list, organized chronologically by opening date, with descriptions. Each title is linked to a relevant website.
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March 2018 New York Theater Openings

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Jelani Alladin as Kristoff and Andrew Pirozzi as Sven
Jelani Alladin as Kristoff and Andrew Pirozzi as Sven
Nathan Lane in Angels in America
The Oldie of the Year Awards, London, UK - 07 Feb 2017

Six shows are opening on Broadway this month, including the much anticipated  “Frozen,” and starry revivals of both “Angels in America” and “Three Tall Women,” which marks Glenda Jackson’s return to Broadway after 30 years.

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February 2018 New York Theater Openings

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No shows are opening on Broadway in February, but there are many snippets of Broadway musicals all on one stage — a 25th anniversary celebration of Encores! concert series creates a new musical out of old musicals. (See February 7.)

It’s not the only show with a starry cast. So is a revival of Edward Albee’s first hit, altered late in life.

Off-Off Broadway, there are provocative plays about lynching, drone warfare, and gender transition; Off-Broadway about a right-wing takeover of the working class (in Europe), and a political power play (in DC).  Martyna Majok has written “Queens”; Sarah Burgess has written “Kings.” Eve Ensler brings to the stage her memoir about surviving a life-threatening illness; Martin McDonagh imagines an executioner who’s been forcibly retired.

Below is a selective list of (no Broadway), Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway and festival offerings in February, organized chronologically by opening date, with each title linked to a relevant website.

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January 2018 New York Theater Openings

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Just one Broadway show is opening this month,  but January is as usual one of the most robust months for theater in New York, thanks in large part to the January theater festivals.

Stories from the Heart
Stories from the Heart
See January 18
See January 18
See January 13
See January 13
See January 8
See January 8
See January 8
See January 8
See January 19
See January 19
See January 13
See January 13
See January 21
See January 21
See January 14
See January 14

Together these festivals offer more than 100 shows; most are experimental, often hybrids that redefine what theater is; many are difficult to describe; some run only for one or two performances

Below is a selective list of Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway and festival offerings in January, organized chronologically by opening date (or, for a festival show, the first performance), with each title linked to a relevant website. Color key: Broadway: Red. Off Broadway: Black or Blue.. Off Off Broadway: Green. January theater festival*: Orange

Below that, links to the home pages of seven of the festivals.

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December 2017 New York Theater Openings

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Four shows are opening on Broadway in December, two musicals and two plays, placing Mark Rylance in 18th century Spain, Lea Salonga in the Caribbean of the 19th and 20th centuries, and a mix of Broadway veterans and newcomers in post-Apocalyptic England and the underwater community of Bikini Bottom.

December 2017 theater openings collage

Off-Broadway, Chloë Sevigny is a single mother in the Greenwich Village of the 1970s, Danny Burstein a Jewish writer in the Russia of 1920, Constantine Maroulis as the czar of New York, and the Bengson’s with just 100 days to live. Off-Off Broadway: the Emma Stone character from La-La Land in drag, Tennessee Williams re-oriented by Mabou Mines (in its new permanent home), and health through hallucinogens.  With shows by companies with names like Hedgepig and Fiasco, how can you go wrong?

Below is a selection of openings in November on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway, organized chronologically by opening date. Each title is linked to a relevant website.

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November 2017 New York Theater Openings

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In the five Broadway shows opening in November, Amy Schumer and Uma Thurman are making their Broadway debuts; playwrights Ayad Akhtar and Steve Martin are delivering new plays; and two shows that were acclaimed Off-Broadway are transferring intact. Off-Broadway plays are taking place in China and Ghana and Ireland and the mythical Mount Crumpit.

Below is a selection of openings in November on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway, organized chronologically by opening date. Each title is linked to a relevant website.

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October 2017 New York Theater Openings

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Bruce Springsteen makes his Broadway debut in a show that combines memoir with rock n roll, and that relatively few of his fans will be able to see. It is one of three shows opening on Broadway in the month of October. Off-Broadway Joe Papp is making a debut of sorts — as a character.

There are new plays opening in October about life under a dictatorship; under siege; in a world of total environmental disaster; and in prison (there are two prison plays opening Off-Broadway); as well as plays about life as an addict, and on the autism spectrum. There are also comedies about widowhood and overeating. Popular shows by Harvey Fierstein, David Henry Hwang and Stephen Adly Guirgis are getting new productions.

Below is a selection of openings in October, organized chronologically by opening date. Each title is linked to a relevant website.

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September 2017 New York Theater Openings

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Sex and violence — also sex, drugs and rock n roll — are the subjects of several shows opening Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway in September (There are no Broadway openings.) But the month also introduces plays about the very old, and for the very young.

Below is a selection of openings in September, organized chronologically by opening date. Each title is linked to a relevant website.

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August 2017 New York Theater Openings: Hal Prince, Michael Moore…and More

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Michael Moore and Hal Prince marquees

Michael Moore and Harold Prince have the month all to themselves, more or less,  at the center of the two Broadway shows opening this month. It’s unusual to have any shows open on Broadway in August. Usually, it’s a month filled with festival fare — but, for the first time in 20 years, there will be no  New York International Fringe Festival this August, thus minus its 200+ shows. Still, there are three other (much smaller) theater festivals opening this month, one of them new.

Below, shows with August openings arranged chronologically by opening date.Click on any title to get to its website.

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