My recap thus far of the 2018-2019 theatre season:
Today: revivals!
PLAYS
Best
- Table Top Shakespeare: Hamlet (Forced Entertainment @ NYU Skirball)
- Table Top Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part One (Forced Entertainment @ NYU Skirball)
- Table Top Shakespeare: King John (Forced Entertainment @ NYU Skirball)
- Table Top Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Forced Entertainment @ NYU Skirball)
- Table Top Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida (Forced Entertainment @ NYU Skirball)
- Table Top Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Forced Entertainment @ NYU Skirball)
- Table Top Shakespeare: Coriolanus (Forced Entertainment @ NYU Skirball)
- Table Top Shakespeare: Cymbeline (Forced Entertainment @ NYU Skirball)
- Table Top Shakespeare: 12th Night (Forced Entertainment @ NYU Skirball)
- Table Top Shakespeare: All’s Well That Ends Well (Forced Entertainment @ NYU Skirball)
- Table Top Shakespeare: Henry V (Forced Entertainment @ NYU Skirball)
- Table Top Shakespeare: Timon of Athens (Forced Entertainment @ NYU Skirball)
- Table Top Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale (Forced Entertainment @ NYU Skirball)
- Table Top Shakespeare: Othello (Forced Entertainment @ NYU Skirball)
- Table Top Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (Forced Entertainment @ NYU Skirball)
- Uncle Vanya (Hunter Theater Project)
- Thom Pain (based on nothing) (Signature)
- Gatz (Elevator Repair Service @ NYU Skirball)
Best of the Rest
- Southern Promises (Flea)
- An Inspector Calls (National Theatre @ Arts Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston)
- The Bacchae (BAM Next Wave @ Harvey)
- Sakina’s Restaurant (Audible/Minetta Lane)
- Mies Julie (Classic Stage Company)
- Waiting for Godot (Druid/White Light @ John Jay)
- By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Signature)
- Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet (Bedlam @ A.R.T. NYC)
Rest
- A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (St. Clement’s)
- A Man For All Seasons (Fellowship for Performing Arts @ Theatre Row)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Public Mobile Unit @ Lost Battalion Hall Recreational Center)
- Art (Crossing the Line Festival @ Florence Gould Hall)
- Boesman and Lena (Signature)
- Conflict (Mint @ Theatre Row)
- Days to Come (Mint @ Theatre Row)
- Detroit ’67 (McCarter)
- Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (Signature)
- Faust 2.0 (Mabou Mines @ Performance Space)
- Happy Birthday, Wanda June (Wheelhouse @ Duke)
- Heartbreak House (Gingold Theatrical Group @ Theatre Row)
- Marie and Bruce (Jack)
- Othello (Public’s Shakespeare in the Park)
- The Dance of Death (Classic Stage Company)
- The Member of the Wedding (WTF)
- The Price of Thomas Scott (Mint @ Theatre Row)
- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Classic Stage Company)
- The Sean O’Casey Season (Irish Rep)
- The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (TFANA)
- The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Transport Group @ Abrons Arts Center)
- The White Devil (Red Bull @ Lucille Lortel)
MUSICALS
Best
- Gone Missing (Encores! Off-Center @ City Center)
- Songs From A New World (Encores! Off-Center @ City Center)
- Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope (Encores! Off-Center @ City Center)
- The Who’s Tommy (Broadway Center Stage @ Kennedy Center)
Best of the Rest
- I Married An Angel (Encores! @ City Center)
- Carmen Jones (Classic Stage Company)
- Peter Pan (Bard)
- A Chorus Line (Encores! @ City Center)
- Ordinary Days (Keen @ Theatre Row)
Rest
- Big Apple Circus (Lincoln Center)
- Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes (Radio City Music Hall)
- Diary of One Who Disappeared (BAM)
- Fiddler on the Roof (National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene @ Museum of Jewish Heritage)
- Merrily We Roll Along (Fiasco @ Roundabout)
- On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Irish Rep)
- Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Stage 42)
- The Cradle Will Rock (CSC)