Openings and Previews
Daniel Sullivan's production, the second free Shakespeare in the Park offering of the summer, features Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, and Raúl Esparza. In previews.
Lin-Manuel Miranda's
acclaimed hip-hop musical, in which Miranda plays the Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, moves to Broadway after a sold-out run at the Public. Thomas Kail directs. In previews.
Pershing Square Signature Center
Sam Gold directs a new play by Annie Baker ("The Flick"), set in a bed-and-breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In previews.
At the Lincoln Center Festival, the director Yukio Ninagawa stages Haruki Murakami's surreal novel, which follows a fifteen-year-old runaway and an elderly man looking for a lost cat. In Japanese, with English supertitles. July 23-26.
Jerry Seinfeld directs Colin Quinn in a comic monologue about the evolution of New York City, from Dutch settlers to hipster Williamsburg. In previews. Opens July 23.
Gerald W. Lynch Theatre, John Jay College
Cheek by Jowl performs Alfred Jarry's absurdist classic at the Lincoln Center Festival, directed by Declan Donnellan. In French, with English supertitles. July 22-26.
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