***If you want to know more about a play, do a Google Search and read articles and reviews. ***
Most of the listings below also have links to reviews. Try to see contrasting types of plays.
RESOURCES FOR FINDING LIVE THEATER IN NYC
Theaters that consistently produce interesting work:
GREAT STREAMING OF LIVE THEATER
Playbill list of live theater streams - they update this every week, I think, though right now it is quite thin
Merry Wives of Windsor Through June 17
Jacob Ming-Trent, Pascale Armand, and Susan Kelechi Watson star in Jocelyn Bioh's adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. Filmed in 2021 at the Delacorte Theater in New York.
Hamlet. Through June 22
Scott Shepherd plays the title role in the Wooster Group staging of the Shakespeare tragedy, that combines live performance with a 1964 film of the play starring Richard Burton. Filmed in 2013 at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Until the Flood Through Fall 2023
Dael Orlandersmith performs her play based on interviews she conducted with the residents of Ferguson, Missouri, in the months following the shooting of Michael Brown. Filmed Off-Broadway at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in 2018.
Border Tales Through 2026
A commentary on multicultural Britain seen through the eyes of an international cast, told through dance, live music, and dialogue compiled from the performers’ personal experiences. Filmed in 2017 at The Place in London.
DISNEY PLUS: Hamilton, Newsies
AMAZON PRIME:
Passing Strange,
Rent (the live stage version, not the movie)
Cats (the live stage version not the movie)
Company
Falsettos
Sunday in the Park with George
Billy Elliot
Elaine Stritch at Liberty (a solo show)
Into the Woods (live not movie)
Kiss Me Kate
Peter Pan
Sweeney Todd
She Loves Me
BROADWAY HD:
Into the Woods
Nicholas Nickleby
Present Laughter
Kiss Me Kate
She Loves Me,