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Theater for the New City takes its 49th annual Street Theater Company show on the road, bringing agitprop to outdoor locations throughout the five boroughs. Crystal Field and Peter Dizozza's family-friendly (but fascism-hostile!) satirical musical, directed by Field, celebrates diversity, immigration and the welcoming torch of Lady Liberty. Michael David Gordon stars as a Guyanan-American bogeda owner; the cast of 22 is buttressed by giant puppets, moving scenery and a five-piece band led by Dizozza. Visit TNC's website to find out where and when the show is playing.

Hip to Hip Theatre Company swivels from park to park in Queens, with outings to Jersey City and Southampton, to perform its annual diptych of Shakespeare plays in rep. This summer's offerings are the talky tragedy Hamlet, where a ghost and a prince meet and everyone ends in mincemeat, and the magical romance The Tempest, in which an enisled sorcerer storms at the Neapolitan nobles who betrayed him. Consult Hip to Hip's website to see which production plays when and where.

The CUNY Graduate Center's Martin E. Segal Theatre Center goes wide with a new annual festival of free alfresco performances by artists from around the world. The French tightrope artist Tatiana Mosio-Bongonga walks the line, and the Senagalese circus troupe Compagnie SenCirk presents separate indoor and outdoor programs; Quebec's Le Cirque Kikasse performs acrobatic and balancing acts on a tricked out food truck. Two groups up the cool factor with actual frozen water: France's Théâtre de l’Entrouvert shares a choreographic project involving feet made of melting ice, whereas performers from the U.K. troupe Kaleider try to construct an arch out of ice and concrete. Italy's Parini Secondo uses jump rope as percussion for a dance piece, and France's Théâtre de la Ville teams up with the Down to Earth team to offer multilingual one-on-one "poetic consultations" in three boroughs. Meanwhile, the Segal Center offers—as a "festival-within-a festival"—a new edition of its annual Prelude series, an unmissable showcase for upcoming avant-garde work that offers the theater and dance equivalent of a coming-attractions sampler. This year's Preludes is devoted to site-specific work by artists from Cuba, France, Iran, Ivory Coast, Brazil and Ukraine in addition to those from the U.S. Check out the festival's website for a full schedule of events and locations.