SUMMERTIME ON AND OFF BROADWAY

Great news: the musicians’ union and the producers of “Here Lies Love” have reached an agreement that allows the immersive David Byrne-Fatboy Slim disco scheduled -- with live music. Also arriving on Broadway this month: “Seinfeld” star Jason Alexander makes his Broadway directorial debut with “The Cottage,” a new satire by Sandy Rustin set in the English countryside

(“Will & Grace”), Laura Bell Bundy and Lilli Cooper head the cast in this Noel Coward-inspired comedy about sex, betrayal and love.

(In previews; Hayes Theater) https://thecottageonbroadway.com

Ian Shaw stars as his father, the late actor Robert Shaw, Alex Brightman portrays Richard Dreyfuss and Colin Donnell plays Roy Scheider in “The Shark Is Broken,” a comedy co-written by Shaw and Joseph Nix- on, about the behind-the scenes turmoil during troubled by Guy Masterson, the play premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, followed by a successful West End run. (In previews; John Golden Theatre) https://thesharkisbroken.com

Erica Schmidt directs the Theatre For a New Audience’s revival of “Orpheus Descending,” Tennessee Williams’ lyric tragedy about the doomed passion between a shopkeeper’s wife (Maggie Siff) and a guitar-playing drifter (Christopher Abbott) set against the racist violence, bigotry and provincialism of the www.tfana.org

The Irish Rep presents the world stage premiere of Deidre Kinahan’s “The Saviour.” Tony Award-winner Marie Mullen (“The Beauty Queen of

by Jane Klain

son (James O’Neill), bearing dark revelations. (Irish Repertory Theatre) https://irishrep.

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Candrice Jones’s “Flex” all-girls high school basketball team in 1998 as they juggle aspirations of going pro in the WNBA and the pressures of being young, Black and female in rural Arkansas. Lileana Blain-Cruz directs the Lincoln Center Theater production. The August 8 performance features a free post-show discussion between the company and WNBA players. (Mitzi Newhouse Theater) https://www.lct.org/

Rhea Perlman stars in Zarina Shea‘s comedy “Let’s Call Her Patty,” as an Upper West Side woman who must navigate beyond her comfort zone when her daughter (Arielle Goldman) turns to cocaine to help her cope with success, and she enlists the aid of her overextended niece (Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer). Margot Bordelon directs this comedy at Theater) https://www.lct.org/shows/lets-call-her-patty/