"Animal Wisdom: Experimental theater favorite Heather Christian returns with an intensely personal music-theater piece inspired by her upbringing in Natchez, Mississippi, blending Catholic ritual, Southern Gothic storytelling, seance and folk-rock concert. Through June 14 at Pershing Square Signature Center, signaturetheatre.org."
"Girl, Interrupted: Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok turns Susanna Kaysen's influential memoir, which recounts her experience in a psychiatric institution in the late 1960s and was previously adapted into a 1999 film with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, into a new play with music. Begins performances on May 13 at the Public Theater, publictheater.org."
"||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||: Playwright, composer, and actor Eisa Davis' new coming-of-age play follows four teenage girls at an elite summer music program in Berkeley while incorporating live musical improvisation. Begins performances on May 12 at Vineyard Theatre, vineyardtheatre.org."
"Hamlet: Brooklyn Academy of Music launches a new partnership with London's National Theatre by importing a fast-paced contemporary production of Hamlet directed by Robert Hastie (Operation Mincemeat) with Olivier Award winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) in the title role. Through May 17 at Harvey Theater, bam.org."
May brings final off-Broadway productions before summer. Animal Wisdom returns Heather Christian with an intensely personal music-theater work drawn from her Natchez, Mississippi upbringing, blending Catholic ritual, Southern Gothic storytelling, seance elements, and folk-rock concert energy. Girl, Interrupted adapts Susanna Kaysen’s late-1960s psychiatric-institution memoir into a new play with music by Martyna Majok, beginning performances at the Public Theater. ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||: follows four teenage girls at an elite Berkeley summer music program, using live musical improvisation in a coming-of-age story by Eisa Davis. Hamlet brings a fast-paced contemporary production from London’s National Theatre to Brooklyn Academy of Music. Heated Rivalry delivers a musical parody of a hockey romance, casting Jay Armstrong Johnson and Jimin Moon as the rival leads.
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