Off Broadway

[jbm2]

Posted: 4/11/23 at 11:48pm

Heading to the city the week of April 24. I usually love to catch a few off Broadway shows. I’m not seen a lot of options. What are the Off Broadway shows to see right now?

[JoeW4]

Posted: 4/12/23 at 12:29am

We're in a bit of a lull right now, for Off-Broadway (of course there are still things playing, but not a ton).

If you like a kind of zany, absurd style, I hight recommend Regretfully So The Birds Are at Playwrights Horizons. I had a ton of fun with it - it's a wild ride.

And you'll be there for the final week of The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, at the McKitrick - a fun play with music, staged immersively, with some light spooky elements.

Titanique is also a fun time, if it seems like it's up your alley.

Other than that, not much that I've personally seen that I'd recommend. White Girl in Danger will still be playing, though personally I'm not inclined to recommend it. A lot of things start performances soon, like:

Fuente Ovejena starts at TFANA on 4/28

The Fears, starts 4/25

Terence Blanchard's new opera, Champion, just started (? or will soon) at the Met

Fiasco has a co-production with Red Bull Theatre, Knights of the Burning Pestle, which starts next week.

There's also Shadow/land, which starts at the Public next week.

[PublicHorizons]

Posted: 4/12/23 at 3:10pm

Titanique hands down hysterical, one of the best nights I've had in theater all season can't reccomend it enough

Plays for the Plague Year was pretty good although long, can't go wrong with Suzan-Lori Parks

Regretfully So the Birds Are was absolute torture, nonsensical and dreadful writing that's the only one I would avoid

God of Carnage is starting at Theater Row soon, I would watch out for the early buzz on that one 

[JoeW4]

Posted: 4/12/23 at 6:52pm

PublicHorizons said: "Regretfully So the Birds Are was absolute torture, nonsensical and dreadful writing that's the only one I would avoid” 

 

 

Ha, to each their own! It’s one of my favorite shows of the season so far, but it’s definitely a play that makes strong choices which I guess happen to be right up my alley. 

FWIW I thought Plays for the Plague Year was not very good at all. Just goes to show! 

I’d recommend the OP check it out and see if it looks to be to their taste.

 

[pair-o-dice]

Posted: 4/12/23 at 10:41pm

Walking With Bubbles - so personal and intimate.  Definitely a story you won't soon forget. 

[jbm2]

Posted: 4/29/23 at 9:35pm

Heading back to the city the weekend of the 18th.

what are the Off Broadway shows to see?

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/29/23 at 10:20pm

These haven't opened yet but are on my radar this coming month:

"Wet Brain" at Playwrights

"Primary Trust" at Laura Pels Theater

 

[jbm2]

Posted: 5/3/23 at 4:16pm

Bees and Honey at MCC looks great- opening later this week. Anyone have tickets? 

[PublicHorizons]

Posted: 5/3/23 at 5:00pm

jbm2 said: "Bees and Honey at MCC looks great- opening later this week. Anyone have tickets?"

May 17!! Looking forward

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 5/3/23 at 5:44pm

Shows that I haven't seen that have been on my list to check out: King James, Days of Wine and Roses (if there are still tickets left), Millennials are Killing Musicals, CSC's Romeo and Juliet (with an Asian cast), Wet Brain

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/3/23 at 6:05pm

For the sheer joy of it: THE GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW. It's a delightful hour of bubbles. Absolute fun!