The perverse Brick boldly mounts an indoor summer Shakespeare festival, featuring eight productions in rep. Selections include riffs on Coriolanus, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Hamlet, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Othello and A Midsummer Night's Dream, plus a comedic three-play sampler called A Taste of Shakespeare.
It's festival time! Broadway takes an annual summer vacation after the rush of the Tony Awards, with only a trickle of new shows until the fall, and most major Off Broadway companies catch their breaths for a few weeks, too. But theater abhors a vacuum, so festivals rush to fill it with less expensive offerings. Some are rigorously curated, like the New York Musical Festival and Ice Factory; others are aimed more at beginners. Take some time to look through their offerings; somewhere among these dozens of shows, there's bound to be something just right for you.
