July Preview: Encores! Off-Center, Summer Shorts, Men on Boats, Oslo, Powerhouse Theater, New York Musical Festival, Macbeth & The Golden Bride
Jack, David, and Lindsay discuss what we’re looking forward to this month at the theater beyond Broadway. We highlight:
Runaways, Off-Center Jamboree! and Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater at Encores! Off-Center (We also get to hear about Jack’s stage debut in a production of Runaways at age 11!)
Summer Shorts 2016 at 59E59 Theaters
Men on Boats at Playwrights Horizons (originally produced in 2015 as part of Clubbed Thumb’s Summer Series, for more information on Clubbed Thumb see Diep’s recent article in the New York Times, “At Clubbed Thumb, Nurturing a Theater of the Weird“)
Oslo at Lincoln Center Theater (for more information about Mona Juul and Terje Rod-Larsen, the Norwegian diplomats at the center of this play about negotiations between the State of Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization that led to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords check out ‘Oslo’ and the Drama in Diplomacy an article by the playwright in the New York Times)
Powerhouse Theater at Vassar
Macbeth from The Classical Theatre of Harlem
The Golden Bride at National Yiddish Theatre
And from our own David Levy, as producer: George Abud’s Change Partners: A Broadway Love Affair at Birdland
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