A Dozen Off Broadway Shows to Energize Your August
Elizabeth McGovern channels Ava Gardner, a starry “Twelfth Night” reopens the Delacorte and Luke Newton of “Bridgerton” plays Alexander McQueen.
Elizabeth McGovern in “Ava: The Secret Conversations.” Jeff Lorch.
‘Saturday Church’
The Tony Award winners J. Harrison Ghee and Joaquina Kalukango star in this new musical alongside Bryson Battle (“The Voice”), who makes his professional stage debut as Ulysses, a young New Yorker whose world opens up when he discovers the L.G.B.T. haven of Saturday Church. Based on Damon Cardasis’s film of the same name, it has a book by Cardasis and the Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames (“Fat Ham”), music and lyrics by Sia, and additional music by Honey Dijon. Whitney White directs. (Aug. 27-Oct. 12, New York Theater Workshop)
