August 2024 New York Theater Openings – New York Theater

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. In line 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 outside choices, half of them free.

The calendar is organized chronologically by opening date*, or (if no official opening) first efficiency, however we should take into account the dates topic to vary, as a result of, sure, COVID-19 remains to be round, and each it and theater are unpredictable.

Every title under is linked to a related web site. 

Shade key: Broadway: Pink 🟥. 
Off Broadway: Blue 🟦. 
Off Off Broadway: Inexperienced 🟩.
Digital or Hybrid Theater: Yellow 🟨 
Theater comPetition: Orange 🟧. 
Immersive and/or Web site Particular: Silver ⬜️ . 
PupPetry: Brown 🟫
Opera: Purple🟪
Live performance: 🎶
Out of city 🇺🇸
Freed from cost (or “pay what you’ll be able to”) 🆓

August 1

🟧The Little Shakespeare Pageant (Frigid NY at Beneath 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 known as Hamlet Isn’t Lifeless (“In Ready Room Z, Shakespeare’s most frequently forgotten characters discover themselves antsy, excited, and misplaced. “) and “My Personal Personal Shakespeare,” written and carried out by Justin Hay, wherein 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 couple of 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 time One Act Pageant (Chain Theater)
The comPetition options some 50 very brief performs, grouped collectively in 14 completely different packages, together with John Patrick Shanley’s very brief new play “Banshee,” described as a mystical comedy a couple of banshee (a fantastical Irish spirit) who pays an ailing trainer 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 world fried hen 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 completely different forged. . My assessment of the Encores productions
July 31 – November 30

August 14

🆓Language Metropolis: 5 Nights, 5 Boroughs (Little Island)
 A sequence of performances concerning the previous, current, and way forward for the world’s most linguistically numerous metropolis, led by audio system of endangered, Indigenous, and minority languages. It’s exhausting to know precisely what that is, however it’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 issues the hassle by the canonesses of an Abbey to save lots of – 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 essentially 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 function voice. Anthony Roth Costanzo performs each main function in The Marriage of Figaro.
August 30 – September 22

*Opening Evening

This number of performs on this month is organized chronologically by opening evening, however contains the dates when a present’s run begins and ends (when obtainable.)
Opening evening is normally not the identical as the primary efficiency on Broadway and Off-Broadway (though it’s the identical for festivals and most Off-Off Broadway reveals ) For Broadway and Off-Broadway, there may be normally a “preview interval” that may final days or even weeks, generally months. However skilled critiques are forbidden from being revealed till opening evening, which is why I manage this calendar by opening evening (when it exists and once I can discover it) fairly than first efficiency, as a approach to assist the persevering with relevance of theater reviewing. (Exhibits that start previews in August however don’t formally open till September will probably be featured in subsequent month’s calendar.) Try my essay: Broadway Opening Evening. 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 subtle definition, having to do with contracts, and extra elaborate distinctions, having to do with ticket costs, quantity and placement of theaters, size of runs, willingness to take inventive dangers, and so forth.)
(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 outdoors these classifications; I record them as Off-Broadway, regardless that, for many reveals, they’ve greater than 500 seats.)