SUMMERTIME THEATER

This is your last chance to experience the wonder of watching free Shakespeare in the Park until the Delacorte Theater reopens in the summer of 2025. The 61-year-old outdoor theater will be undergoing a massive $77 million renovation. Benjamin Velez’s musical adaptation of the Bard’s “The Tempest” offers free performances for one week only from Sunday August 27 through Sunday, September 3, directed by Public Works chief Laurie Woolery with Renee Elise Goldsberry as Prospero heading a cast of professional actors and community amateurs in a participatory production which explores “the grief of being cut off from community, the desire for retribution and the healing power of love.” https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2223/fsitp/tempest/ https://paythewriterplay.com

“Desperate Housewives’s” Marcia Cross, Bryan Batt (“Mad Men”) and Ron Canada star in the world premiere of “Pay the Writer” by novelist Tawni O’Dell. The comedy-drama concerns the complicated 40-year friendship between a gay literary agent, his most successful client – a renowned Black novelist -- and the novelist’s ex-wife.

Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at Pershing Square Signature Center.

The Atlantic Theatre (with London’s National Theatre) presents the world premiere of “Infinite Life,” a new comedy-drama by Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker,

Scottish Festival And Highland Games

With bagpipes, caber tossing, concerts, food, and kids’ games, the 61st Annual Long Island Scottish Festival and Highland Games is back and a perfect day out for everyone! Pipe bands will perform throughout the day on Saturday August 26th. The 42nd Royal Highland Regiment, Scottish dog breeds, pony rides, a petting zoo, birds of prey, falconry, raffles for wonderful prizes and much more will be happening around the grounds of Old Westbury Gardens for everyone in the family to enjoy!

Competitions throughout the day will include: Caber Toss, Tossing the Sheaf & Putting the Stone, Children’s Races, Children’s Tug O’ War, Shortbread Contests, Antique British Automobiles and more.

Early Bird Tickets (purchased BEFORE 8/24), are available NOW at 20% OFF prices listed:

DAY OF ADMISSION TICKETS: ADULTS: $25, SENIORS (62+): $22 CHILDREN (7-17): $12 NOTE: that this is a “special event” and special event admission is charged this day for ALL visitors.

by Jane Klain

described as a “surprisingly funny inquiry into the complexity of suffering and what it means to desire in a body that’s failing you.” Directed by James Macdonald, the cast features Marylouise Burke, Mia Katigbak, Christina Kirk, Kristine Nielsen and Brenda Pressley as women in Northern California, sitting on outdoor chaises and philosophizing about life. (Previews begin August 18.) Linda Gross Theatre. https://atlantictheater.org/ production/infinite-life/

August’s only new Broadway opening is “El Mago Pop,” the American debut of 37-yearold master illusionist Antonio Diaz. The highest grossing illusionist in Spain, Diaz also created and co-directs this “journey through the extraordinary” with close-up magic and spectacular illusions. (Limited two-week engagement runs August 17-27) Ethel Barrymore Theatre. https://www. elmagopop.com/en/schedule/c/51-broadway.html

Award-winning poet/playwright Inua Ellams’

“The Half-God of Rainfall,” is a contemporary epic that weaves poetry and storytelling into a new myth about a half-Nigerian-moral, half Greek-god, who is transported from a village in South West Nigeria to an NBA arena in the US to Mount Olympus. (Through August 20.) New York Theater Workshop. www.nytw.org