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August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton

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#1August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/1/15 at 12:27pm

Hamilton is NOT the only show opening this month. There are new plays at the Signature by both Annie Baker, winner of last year’s Pulitzer Prize for The Flick, (new play pictured below), and the 84-year-old A.R. Gurney, experiencing a late-career resurgence. There are 200 shows at the Fringe festival, and another 63 at the lesser known Thespis festival. There are exciting FREE plays at the New Brooklyn Theatre, including one by Lynn Nottage.


August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton


 


A selective list: August Theater Openings on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway

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#2August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/1/15 at 5:28pm

Thank you, NewYorkTheatre, for this list. But I think I'd personally take your post more seriously without the shade thrown at Hamilton. Whether you like that show or not, it's opening and the press around it is massive. I like to stay well-informed about New York Theater, on and off-Broadway but the "not just Hamilton" part is sort of elementary. Just my two cents. 

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#3August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/1/15 at 5:45pm

GL: You've read me wrong. I LOVE Hamilton.


Here's my first review of it at the Public Theater


I've already seen it twice, all set to see it a third time, and written about it four or five times.

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#4August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/2/15 at 10:20am

Opening tonight (first opening of August) -- Delirium's Daughters, by Triumvirate Artists at Theatre Row. (See link for details.) 

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#5August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/3/15 at 7:08am

Opening tonight: What I Learned from Fallsburg, at Stage 72 at the Triad. Details at the link.

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#6August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/5/15 at 6:22am

Opening tonight: Las Meninas by Pulitzer-winning Lynn Nottage, for FREE. 


Details at Link


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#7August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/5/15 at 8:27am

Wow, Las Meninas sounds fascinating (see Jack Gohn's linked 2010 bww review below).

The plot concerns the affair between Maria Theresa of Spain, Queen of France, wife of Louis XIV, and her African servant, Nabo.  

In fact, Louise Marie Therese of Moret (1664-1732), a black French nun, was believed by a great many to be Maria Theresa's daughter.  Yet more proof that, contrary to the criticism often raised here on bww about black actors playing characters like Fantine or the Mother Abbess, there were in fact black people living in Europe throughout much of recorded history and certainly between the 1600s and World War II and on.

Contrary to Gohn's review, however, Maria Theresa of Spain is not the infanta who appears in Velazquez's famous 1656 painting known as "Las Meninas."  That princess is Maria Theresa's sister, Margaret Theresa of Spain, Archduchess of Austria, later Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Germany, and Queen Consort of Hungary and Bohemia.

Also contrary to Gohn's review, there is no record of Velazquez or his contemporaries ever referring to the painting as "Las Meninas."  Early catalogues of the painting listed it as "La Familia."  The first record of it ever being called "Las Meninas" is from an 1843 inventory of the Prado's collections.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/baltimore/article/Lynn-Nottages-Powerful-If-Somewhat-Incoherent-Las-Meninas-Receives-a-Strong-Staging-at-UMBC-20010101.

Updated On: 8/18/15 at 08:27 AM

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#9August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/7/15 at 7:01am

Opening tonight: Rachel, the first anti-lynching play. FREE.


Details at link.

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#10August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/10/15 at 10:26am

Opening tonight - Cymbeline, at the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park.

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Updated On: 8/19/15 at 10:26 AM

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#11August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/11/15 at 8:43am

Opening tonight: John by Annie Baker


August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton


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#12August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/18/15 at 12:26pm

Opening tonight:


Informed Consent


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#13August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/19/15 at 9:40am

Opening tonight:


Mercury Fur


August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton

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#14August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/19/15 at 9:45am

You might want to spell "Cymbeline" correctly in your post and on your website.


"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

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#15August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/19/15 at 11:58pm

Fixed.

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#16August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/20/15 at 12:02am

So basically, Hamilton was the only big show to open this month...

Updated On: 8/20/15 at 12:02 AM

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#17August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/20/15 at 12:24am

It's true that Hamilton was the only show this month to open on Broadway, and it's certainly the biggest hit in a while (not just in the month of August!)

But there were a couple of other shows that got significant notice -- AND, the month is not over. As you'll see from my post, there are still three openings to go, at least one of which has a lot of fans excited.

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#18August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/24/15 at 8:24am

Opening tonight: Love and Money, new comedy by A.R. Gurney, at Signature.


 

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#19August Theater Openings -- not just Hamilton
Posted: 8/27/15 at 10:01am

Opening tonight: 

Whorl Inside a Loop starring Sherie Rene Scott

A Delicate Ship, with Matt Dellapina, Miriam Silverman, and Nick Westrate