| At the link is a day-by-day selection of the theater that is scheduled to open in October, organized by opening date, including fifteen shows on Broadway, more than half of which are new, as well as much Off and Off Off Broadway. The new theater this month promises some laughs (Chicken & Biscuits, opening 10/10) and some chills (The Fever, 10/8), some pop thrills (Six, 10/3) and some blues (Lackawanna Blues, 10/7), some novel takes both on Shakespeare (Midsummer A Shakespearience 10/13; Fairycakes 10/24) and on classic Broadway ( Electric’s West Side Story 10/14 ) as well as some new avant-garde adventures (“Is This A Room” 10/11 and “Dana H,” 10/17 both bravely on Broadway, in repertory); a tale of capitalism (The Lehman Trilogy 10/14) and of socialist revolution (Brecht’s The Mother 10/12.) The month — like the season as a whole — is threaded with plays by Black artists about the African American experience. (Twilight Los Angeles, 10/12; Thoughts of a Colored Man, 10/31.) |
