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10 Plays and Musicals We Can’t Wait to See This Summer
Shakespeare in the Brand-New Delacorte, promising programming at Clubbed Thumb and Little Island, and Jean Smart on Broadway.
This year, Milo Cramer (creator of last season’s splendid School Pictures) has already opened the festival with Business Ideas, their new play about a mother and daughter engaged in a variety of get-rich-quick schemes while the long-suffering barista in the café they frequent struggles to escape the grind. Little Island’s summer season is really promising, with a new series of short plays and songs by Suzan-Lori Parks and her band SLP & The Joyful Noise, as well as the first New York outing of an original bluegrass adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s Onegin, written by Sarah Gancher ( The Wind and the Rain) and directed by Rachel Chavkin. Though it’s hard to imagine how that will all play out in this production, a team-up of the SoHo Rep and Playwrights Horizons that the producers are calling a “meta-theatrical satire,” it’ll be directed by Public Obscenities ’s Shayok Misha Chowdhury with a queer, trans, and nonbinary cast that includes expert performers like K. Todd Freeman and David Greenspan.
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