July 2024 New York Theater Openings – New York Theater

Under is a calendar of New York theater opening* in July,, together with two Broadway performs, “Oh,Mary” and “Job,”  each of that are transferring from sold-out runs Off Broadway;  the world premiere of the late celebrated playwright María Irene Fornés’ very first play; an acclaimed Italian manufacturing of “King Lear,” and a month’s value of outside performances, lots of that are free, together with a sequence at Little Island led by Suzan-Lori Parks. 

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 remains to be round, and each it and theater are unpredictable.

Every title under is linked to a related web site. 

Colour key: Broadway: Crimson 🟥. 
Off Broadway: Blue 🟦. 
Off Off Broadway: Inexperienced 🟩.
Digital or Hybrid Theater: Yellow 🟨 
Theater pageant: Orange 🟧. 
Immersive and/or Website Particular: Silver ⬜️ . 
Puppetry: Brown 🟫
Opera: Purple🟪
Live performance: 🎶
Out of city 🇺🇸
Freed from cost (or “pay what you possibly can”) 🆓

July 3

🟩Horsefacts.gov (The Brick)
Author/director/character Sleth delivers a lecture about horses in a far-off future the place horses not exist, having been given this mission earlier by Governor Kathy Hochul
July 3 -13

July 4

🎶 🟨🇺🇸A Capitol Fourth (PBS)
The annual live performance, streamed reside from the West Garden of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C, options greater than a dozen bands and particular person performers, together with Broadway veterans Fantasia and Darren Criss.

July 6

🆓A Midsummer’s Night time Dream (Marcus Garvey Park)
Classical Theatre of Harlem’s one-act model of Shakespeare’s comedy stars stand-up Russell Peters stars as Nick Backside 
July 6-28

July 10

🆓Inform Me Extra with Suzan-Lori Parks (Little Island)
A free five-day sequence that pairs a musical efficiency with a dialog between Parks and an professional from completely different fields. The primary of those, on July 10, is entitled “Greens & Blues,” that includes a set by blues legend Ruthie Foster adopted by a chat between Parks and Majora Carter, founding father of Sustainable South Bronx.
July 10-14

July 11

🟥Oh, Mary (Lyceum)
Cole Escola’s campy Off-Broadway hit about First Girl Mary Todd Lincoln . My overview of it Off-Broadway
June 26 – September 15

🟦Empire The Musical (New World Levels)
A musical celebrating the Empire State Constructing
July 1 – September 22

🟦The Journals of Adam and Eve (Sheen Heart)
Hal Linden and Marilu Henner star as the primary couple on this comedy by Ed Weinberger, telling their story in their very own phrases from their first date to their twilight years, together with what it was like being the world’s first dad and mom.
July 10-28

July 12

🟩King Lear (La MaMa)
Following a profitable world premiere on the Worldwide Competition of Arts & Concepts in June, Compagnia de’ Colombari’s recent, very important and pressing KING LEAR debuts in New York Metropolis for a restricted run of 4 efficiency
July 12-14

July 14

🟦Ain’t Carried out Dangerous (Signature)
A  story of popping out, falling in love, and discovering one’s true voice as a queer individual within the South,  advised solely by way of up to date dance with out a single spoken phrase, (Sure, this feels like Illinoise,) It’s conceived, directed, and choreographed by Jakob Karr (“So You Suppose You Can Dance”) and options the music of nation star Orville Peck.
July 9 – September 1

July 16

🟩 A Hundred Circling Camps (Dogteam Theate Undertaking at Atlantic Stage 2)
This play by Sam Collier recollects the largely forgotten “Bonus Military.” In the summertime of 1932, over 20,000 individuals hopped trains to Washington D.C. and camped out to demand honest pay for veterans of the World CoNFLict.
July 9 – August 3
in repertory with…

July 17

🟩La Viuda (Dogteam Theater Undertaking at Atlantic Stage 2)
The world premiere of María Irene Fornés’ first play, written in 1961, a couple of Cuban girl who fled to Spain after the Spanish-American CoNFLict, and is writing letters to her lawyer about her lawsuit she filed on behalf of her property in Cuba and her dignity whereas her recollections, particularly of her deceased husband, flood the stage. The play was drawn from letters written to Fornes’ great-grandfather.
July 10 – August 4

🟩 Impressed by True Occasions (Out of the Field Theatrics at 154)
 On this play by Ryan Spahn, the star actor of a group theater in Rochester, rrives in a dangerously unhinged state, forcing the corporate to improvise on and off stage in methods they may not have imagined. (The newly named 154 theater, replaces New Ohio, at 154 Christopher Road)
July 10-28

July 24

🆓Justin Vivian Bond (Little Island)
Every week of cabaret
July 24-28

July 25

🆓Twelfth Night time (Riverside Park)
Hudson Classical Theater Firm
July 25-August 18

July 29

🟦Six Characters (Lincoln Heart’s Claire Tow Theater)
In Phillip Howze’s play, residents storm a famend cultural heart the place they’re not meant to be
July 13 – August 25

July 30

🟥Job (Hayes)
On this two-character play by  Max Wolf Friedlich, Jane (Sydney Lemmon), an worker at an enormous tech firm (you recognize the one), has been positioned on go away after turning into the topic of a viral video. She arrives within the workplace of a disaster therapist – Loyd (Peter Friedman) – decided to be reinstated to the job that offers her life which means…and pointing a gun at him. My overview of “Job” Off Broadway.
July 15 – September 29

July 31

🟧🟨SheArts Theater Competition (Connelly Theater and, later, on-line)
Eight reveals at a pageant that showcases new, authentic works by girls, trans, & non-binary writers and composers. The primary, “Borderland,”  is a brand new musical about Ida C. Craddock, a real-life Nineteenth-century sexologist who claimed to be married to an angel.
July 31 – August 11

🟦Somebody Spectacular (at Signature)
As soon as per week, six just lately bereaved strangers collect for group remedy. It’s a secure routine — till one day, their grief counselor is inexplicably MIA. 
July 17-August 31

*Opening Night time

This collection of performs on this month is organized chronologically by opening evening, however consists of the dates when a present’s run begins and ends (when out there.)
Opening evening is often not the identical as the primary efficiency on Broadway and Off-Broadway. There may be often a “preview interval” that may final days or perhaps weeks, generally months. However skilled critiques are forbidden from being printed till opening evening, which is why I arrange this calendar by opening evening (when it exists and after I can discover it) moderately than first efficiency, as a solution to help the persevering with relevance of theater reviewing. (Reveals that start previews in July however don’t formally open till August will probably 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 Information 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 so on.)
(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, although, for many reveals, they’ve greater than 500 seats.)