Posted: 8/10/15 at 1:20pm
Unless something surprising comes in this season, I believe this will be the longest period without a Shakespeare play on Broadway since the 1960s. Is there any word on a Shakespeare production coming soon? Or are we content with Shakespeare in the Park and other off-broadway Shakespeare productions?
Posted: 8/10/15 at 1:26pm
I'm not sure that's true. There are several gaps on this timeline with no Shakespeare
http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=8638
Updated On: 8/10/15 at 01:26 PM
Posted: 8/10/15 at 1:45pm
But the last show to close was in February 2014. If nothing opens this season we'll have gone 2 and a half years without a Shakespeare Play. Unless I'm mistaken the only similar gap is between '05 and '07
Posted: 8/10/15 at 1:49pm
But the last show to close was in February 2014. If nothing opens this season we'll have gone 2 and a half years without a Shakespeare Play. Unless I'm mistaken the only similar gap is between '05 and '07
There was a longer gap in the early 2000s, between the Kelsey Grammer Macbeth (which opened and closed in June 2000) and the LCT Henry IV (opened November 2003).
Posted: 8/10/15 at 2:05pm
Ah my bad, I was using Playbill Vault and overlooked the fact that it included Shakespeare for The Boys from Syracuse since its based on Comedy of Errors.
http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7539/William-Shakespeare
Either way we're looking at a fairly long stretch without Shakespeare on Broadway (not counting Christian Borle of course)
Posted: 8/10/15 at 3:22pm
Like everything else on Broadway, Shakespeare ebbs and flows. In the 13-14 season there were 4. In general (Rylance being the major exception) Broadway more often than not gets Shakespeare wrong, and the Bard fares better off-B.
Posted: 8/10/15 at 3:52pm
Isn't Hamlet playing at the Richard Rodgers right now? I seem to remember people on twitter being very excited about it. #YayHamlet 
