Broadway Shakespeare
Broadway Shakespeare
MNC77
Stand-by Joined: 5/5/13
#1Broadway Shakespeare
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?
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#2Broadway Shakespeare
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
MNC77
Stand-by Joined: 5/5/13
#3Broadway Shakespeare
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
#5Broadway Shakespeare
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).
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
MNC77
Stand-by Joined: 5/5/13
#7Broadway Shakespeare
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)
#8Broadway Shakespeare
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.
#9Broadway Shakespeare
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 
