The autumn season has plenty of good theater to see. Putting aside Shakespeare for a sec, I'm most excited about Lazarus at NYTW. It's a musical version of The Man Who Fell to Earth, a '60s sci-fi novel about the fall of an alien messiah. The deeply weird '70s movie starred David Bowie, who's also behind the NYTW version in November.
In the Shakes-sphere this fall, there's no major stage productions but plenty to see in New York. Off-Broadway the talented Eric Tucker (of Bedlam) directs a quintet of actors in his protean fashion for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Also highly anticipated: These Paper Bullets, a mod musical adaptation of Much Ado, with Billie Joe Armstrong (of Green Day) doing a Beatles pastiche. Rounding out my top picks is The Changeling, a rare Jacobean tragedy from the Red Bull.
So below I've put together a listing of what NYC's stages will offer in the way of Shakespearean theater. There's so much, next week I'll post a separate list for films (Macbeth with Fassbender & Cotillard), transmissions of London stagings (e.g. the Cumberbatch Hamlet on Oct 15), and local readings (e.g. Red Bull's essential Revelation Readings). In the meantime, here's what's onstage:
In the Shakes-sphere this fall, there's no major stage productions but plenty to see in New York. Off-Broadway the talented Eric Tucker (of Bedlam) directs a quintet of actors in his protean fashion for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Also highly anticipated: These Paper Bullets, a mod musical adaptation of Much Ado, with Billie Joe Armstrong (of Green Day) doing a Beatles pastiche. Rounding out my top picks is The Changeling, a rare Jacobean tragedy from the Red Bull.
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| Shakespeare meets the Beatles in These Paper Bullets at the Atlantic |
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thru Oct 5
An actor lures his birth mother, an alcoholic ex-actress, into a psychodrama involving a phony staging of Shakespeare's tragedy
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The Drilling Co. (in Bryant Park)
thru Sep 20
If you find yourself in Bryant Park one evening this September, check in with Kate and Petruchio
A Midsummer Night's Dream
thru Sep 20
If you find yourself in Bryant Park one evening this September, check in with Kate and Petruchio
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Pearl Th.
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Mobile Shak Unit (Public Th.)
Nov 2015
Shak's minor tragicomedy tours the boroughs in Oct, then settles into a short run at the Public
thru Oct 31
Eric Tucker, the mastermind of Bedlam, casts five actors to play Puck and company
Richard III
Nicu's Spoon (at the Secret Th.)
Sep 29 - Oct 11
In this radically inclusive staging, the only actor without a physical disability will play Richard Crookback
Makbet
Sure We Can Redemption Center
Oct 1-18
A La Mama-style staging (v. gypsy-inflected) of Macbeth at a site-specific venue in Bushwick
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| The cast of the Pearl's Midsummer |
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Nicu's Spoon (at the Secret Th.)
Sep 29 - Oct 11
In this radically inclusive staging, the only actor without a physical disability will play Richard Crookback
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Sure We Can Redemption Center
Oct 1-18
A La Mama-style staging (v. gypsy-inflected) of Macbeth at a site-specific venue in Bushwick
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BAM Next Wave
Oct 21-24
A modernist portrait of Q. Bess using a collage of her public & private writing
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New Victory Th.
Oct 30 - Nov 8
Benjamin Britten's opera gets adapted further by a Cape Town ensemble, who score it to marimbas and djembes
All's Well That Ends WellOct 21-24
A modernist portrait of Q. Bess using a collage of her public & private writing
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New Victory Th.
Oct 30 - Nov 8
Benjamin Britten's opera gets adapted further by a Cape Town ensemble, who score it to marimbas and djembes
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Mobile Shak Unit (Public Th.)
Nov 2015
Shak's minor tragicomedy tours the boroughs in Oct, then settles into a short run at the Public
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Atlantic Th.
Nov 20 – Jan 16
A musical based on Much Ado and A Hard Day's Night (!), with music by Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong (?!)
H2O
59E59
Nov 27 - Dec 13
A fictional Hollywood man-of-the-moment meets his match as Hamlet on B'way, by pseudonymous playwright Jane Martin
The Changeling
Red Bull Th. (at the Lortel)
Dec 26 - Jan 24
An excellent Jacobean play eclipsed by Shak. This noirish tragedy has a lady and her servant/lover kill their lord; it includes a visit to Bedlam Asylum!
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59E59
Nov 27 - Dec 13
A fictional Hollywood man-of-the-moment meets his match as Hamlet on B'way, by pseudonymous playwright Jane Martin
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Red Bull Th. (at the Lortel)
Dec 26 - Jan 24
An excellent Jacobean play eclipsed by Shak. This noirish tragedy has a lady and her servant/lover kill their lord; it includes a visit to Bedlam Asylum!
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ONGOING
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Something Rotten
Broadway (St. James Th.)
ongoing
ongoing
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| Christian Borle's Shakespeare is a rock-musical god in Something Rotten |
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NEXT SPRING
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Classic Stage Co.
Classic Stage Co.
Mar 2016
F. Murray Abraham plays a Jew; the play's a 18th-c. German response to Shylock
Classic Stage Co.
Mar 2016
CSC partners with Columbia Drama's grad students to stage Shak for younger audiences
RSC at BAM
Mar 24 - May 1, 2016
David Tennant is the matinee draw as Richard 2, with Antony Sher's Falstaff as ballast
Romeo and Juliet
Mobile Shak Unit (Public Th)
May 2016
The MSU stages one of drama's most familiar tragedies for the outer boroughs & the Public
These Paper Bullets — Michael Lamont
A Midsummer Night's Dream — T. Charles Erickson
Romeo and Juliet
Mobile Shak Unit (Public Th)
May 2016
The MSU stages one of drama's most familiar tragedies for the outer boroughs & the Public
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PHOTO CREDITS
These Paper Bullets — Michael Lamont
A Midsummer Night's Dream — T. Charles Erickson
Something Rotten — Joan Marcus
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