Summer Listings:
AMERICAN LIVING ROOM FESTIVAL
Here, 145 6th Ave. (Dominick St.), 212-647-0202, www.here.org for info. Annual festival set in nuclear-family domestic setting, complete w/sofas, oversized chairs & table lamps is in its 11th season. This year's festival incl. works by emerging & established directors, performance artists, musicians, puppeteers & visual artists (7/8-8/27).
BOOMERANG THEATER COMPANY
212-501-4069 for info. Shakespeare's Hamlet performed at various parks throughout NYC. Locations incl. Central Park (6/23 & 6/24); Stuyvesant Sq. (6/30 & 7/1); Prospect Park (7/7 & 7/8). All performances free.
BROADWAY BARES XI: THE BEST OF BROADWAY BARES
Roseland Ballroom, 239 W. 52nd St. (betw. 8th & 9th Aves.), 212-840-0770, x268, www.broadwaycares.org Eleventh-annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefit feat. 150 chorus boys & girls stripping down & strutting their stuff. Directed & choreographed by B'way veteran Jerry Mitchell, burlesque revue has become one of the hottest tickets in town (6/17, 9:30, $35-$150).
GORILLA REPERTORY THEATER COMPANY
212-330-8086. Gorilla theater is free & performed outdoors at Ft. Tyron Park, 193rd St. (Ft. Washington Ave.): Macbeth, where Shakespeare's most notorious couple wheel & deal w/Gothic atmosphere of Cloisters museum as backdrop, Thurs.-Sun., 8 p.m. (5/10-6/3).
HAROLD PINTER FESTIVAL
212-721-6500 for full sched., various locations throughout the city Several British troupes cross the pond to perform Pinter works incl. One for the Road & A Kind of Alaska (7/16, 7/17, 7/20 & 7/21); The Homecoming (7/18-7/22); Monologue (7/19-7/22); The Room & Celebration (7/24-7/28); Landscape (7/25-7/29); Mountain Language & Ashes to Ashes (7/26-7/29).
INTERNATIONAL HISPANIC THEATER FESTIVAL
The Duke, 229 W. 42nd St. (betw. 7th & 8th Aves.), 212-239-6200 for complete sched. Five theater companies from Spain & Latin America converge on the Duke for two-week-long festival in Spanish & Portuguese w/English super-titles. Productions incl. Nuestra Señora De Las Nubes, De Monstruos Y Prodigios, Las Abarcas Del Tiempo, Melodrama & La Puerta Estrecha.
INWOOD HILL PARK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
212-946-1777 for location & complete sched. Artemis & the Wild Things focus on concept of free will in their production of Macbeth, 5/31-6/15.
LATINO CULTURAL FESTIVAL
Queens Theater, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 718-760-0064. Fifth-annual fest incl. Tola & Maruja, w/Columbia's Abbott & Costello (7/28); story of friendship betw. Buñuel, Lorca & Dali told in Teatro del Temple (8/3); music & theater mix in Sofrito, feat. Larry Harlow & Yomo Toro (8/4). Most shows presented in Spanish & English.
LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL
For complete listing of events & venues, call hotline at 212-875-5928 or see www.lincolncenter.org Lincoln Center Festival events are held in various locations from 7/10-7/29. Highlights incl. U.S. premiere of White Raven, a musical theater piece by Philip Glass & Robert Wilson (7/10, 7/12-7/14); the Norse legend of Edda, which recounts the Rheingold curse that inspired Wagner's Ring cycle (7/10, 7/12 & 7/13); U.S. debut of French troupe Cirque Plume in Melanges-Opera Plume, a work incorporating trapeze, dance, acrobatics, music & theater (7/11-7/21).
MIDTOWN INTERNATIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL
Trilogy Theater, 341 W. 44th St. (betw. 8th & 9th Aves.), www.oobr.com Second-annual edition of this showcase series pres. avant-garde, off-beat & classical entries running in the various theater spaces in the city (7/13-8/5). Visit website for details.
NY INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL
Sites throughout city, 212-420-8877, www.fringenyc.org for sched. & volunteer info. In its fifth year, FringeNYC pres. more than 2000 hours of theater, dance & performing arts pieces by 180+ groups from countries incl. England, Poland, Japan & Singapore. Festival runs 8/10-8/26. Performances staged 3-midnight daily.
QUEER@HERE
Here, 145 6th Ave. (Dominick St.), 212-647-0202, www.here.org Held during Gay Pride Month, "Queer@Here" feat. dance, performance art, music, theater & readings by gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgendered artists. For complete festival details visit website. Highlights incl.: I Think I Ken, costarring Barbie (6/15 & 6/16); Merge, multimedia tribute to technology (6/13 & 6/20); Sex is My Religion details relationship between gay son & born-again mama (6/21 & 6/22); the dirty, gossipy romp Tigga Please (6/22); Queer Shoulder to the Wheel, about Korean girl touring U.S. in a nightie (6/21 & 6/22); the racy world of 60s gay culture in Lesbian Pulp (6/21 & 6/22).
SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK
Delacorte Theater at Central Park, 81st St. (midpark), 212-539-8750, www.publictheater.org Measure for Measure, directed by Mary Zimmerman & starring Billy Crudup (6/5-6/28). Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Mike Nichols & starring John Goodman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep & Christopher Walken (7/24-8/19). Performances Tues.-Sun., 8 p.m. Tickets for all performances are free (limited to two tickets per person) & can be picked up day of performance beginning at 1 p.m. at the Delacorte. Tickets also distributed from 1-3 at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St. (betw. Astor Pl. & W. 4th St.).
SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK(ING LOT)
Municipal Parking Lot, Broome St. (Ludlow St.), www.expandedarts.com/parkinglot Expanded Arts' 7th season of free Shakespeare in a decidedly less bucolic, urban setting?a parking lot on the Lower East Side. This summer's season feat. Richard II (6/6-6/23), The Merry Wives of Windsor (6/27-7/14) & The Taming of the Shrew (7/18-8/4). All performances Weds.-Sat. at 8 p.m., box office at 113 Ludlow St. (Delancey St.), directly across the street from the Parking Lot.
UPRIGHT CITIZEN'S BRIGADE
161 W. 22nd St. (betw. 6th & 7th Aves.), 212-366-9176. All comedy, all the time. Every show $5. Entertaining Mister Fear, parody of German clowning, Mon. at 8 p.m. (6/4-7/30); The Best Dope in Town?she don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie...cocaine. Hear someone else's coke babble for a change, Weds. at 9:30 (7/4-8/29); Third-annual Del Close Improv Marathon, 108 acts, 52 hours straight (7/27-7/29); Alive & Kicking, musical about Peruvian soccer team stranded in Andes, Tues. at 8 p.m. (8/7-8/28).
Out of Town
BERKSHIRE THEATRE FESTIVAL
413-298-5536, www.berkshiretheatre.org for tickets & travel info. Classic theater festival offers four productions on its Main Stage. H.M.S. Pinafore, Gilbert & Sullivan's swashbuckling musical previews 6/21, runs 6/22-7/7; Awake & Sing! previews 7/10, runs 7/11-7/28; Michele Lowe's The Smell of the Kill, directed by Christopher Ashley, previews 7/31, runs 8/1-8/11; My Fair Lady, story of everyone's favorite guvnor & cockney lass, previews 8/14, runs 8/15-9/1. Call for showtimes & ticket info. On smaller Unicorn Theater stage, productions incl. This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan (6/15-7/14), August Strindberg's Dream Play (7/19-8/4) & Michael Bolus' Pound of Flesh (8/9-8/19).
CAPE COD REPERTORY THEATER CO.
Rte. 6A, East Brewster, MA, 508-896-1888 for ticket info. 9-Ball by Art Devine (5/10-6/2); Durang/Durang by Christopher...Durang! (7/3-7/21); Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town (8/7-8/25); Pultizer Prize winner Wit by Margaret Edson (9/13-10/6). All performances begin at 8 p.m. except Sun. matinees at 4. The Cape Cod Rep's Outdoor Theater shows Macbeth (7/24-8/4) & the children's play Hyronomous A. Frog (The Frog Prince) Tues. & Fri. at 10 a.m. (6/26-8/31). Also Let Me Entertain You, a musical dinner-theater revue at Old Sea Pines Inn, Rte. 6A, Brewster, on Sundays (6/16-9/16), $42.50 incl. dinner, show, tax & tip. Call 508-896-6114 for res.
HAMPTONS COMEDY FESTIVAL 2001
Various venues on East End, 212-396-2015, www.hamptonscomedyfestival.com Weekend comedy blitz feat. comics from HBO, Comedy Central, Conan & Letterman shows. Workshops also available.
HAMPTONS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
Montauk Village & Agawam Park, NY, 631-267-0105 for complete sched. Sixth season of outdoor theater feat. workshops for children & playwrights reading series. On main stage, the Bard's Twelfth Night previews 7/25-7/27, runs 7/28-8/26.
KILLING KOMPANY CAMELOT CRUISES
Various venues in New York & Connecticut, 888-SHOOT-EM or www.killingkompany.com Mystery dinner theater where actors sit among you & audience is part of show. Murder on the Titanic (5/25), The Triple Crown Murder (6/8, 6/9), Till Death Do Us Part (6/15), Poison Politics (7/6), Murder at Temptation Island (7/13), Grave Secrets (8/25, 8/26, 8/31).
PROVINCETOWN FRINGE FESTIVAL
Provincetown, MA, 508-487-2666 for info & sched. Eighth-annual summerlong, multidisciplinary performance festival. Production sched. TBA.
WILLIAMSTOWN THEATER FESTIVAL
Williamstown, MA, 413-597-3399, 413-597-3400, www.WTFestival.org Eleven-week festival on campus of Williams College in Berkshires of Western Mass. WTF Main Stage season opens w/One Mo' Time (6/20-7/1), recreating New Orleans' Lyric Theatre in 1926?home to Bessie Smith & Ma Rainey; Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale (7/4-7/15); Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All the Luck (7/18-7/29); Street Scene, Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of daily life in Manhattan (8/1-8/12); Kyle Donnelly's Philadelphia, Here I Come! (8/16-8/26); to open the Nikos Stage series, A. R. Gurney's Chekhovian Buffalo Gal (6/13-6/24); John Morley, an obscure gay poet, is simultaneously discovered by the public & the IRS in The Latent Heterosexual (6/27-7/8); Howard M. Gould's Diva (7/11-7/22); Joe Mantello directs Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter & Edward Albee's The Zoo Story (7/25-8/5); Frank McGuinness' Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (8/8-8/19).