In the crowded June theater calendar, Pride fare figures prominently, but there’s a lot more out there, too. Here are some of the notable productions this month across New York City.
‘Not Not Jane’s’
Mara Nelson-Greenberg, whose absurdist workplace comedy “Do You Feel Anger?” was an Off Broadway wow several seasons back, fills the middle spot in this year’s Clubbed Thumb Summerworks festival with this new play in which a young woman gets funding to start a community center, but with an asterisk: It’s at her mom’s house. The reliably fascinating Susannah Perkins is part of the cast in Joan Sergay’s production. (Through June 13, Wild Project)
‘Blood, Sweat, and Queers’
The early life of the Czech athlete Zdenek Koubek, a women’s track and field star of the 1930s who transitioned later that same decade, is the subject of this contemporary Czech play by Tomas Dianiska, translated by Edward Einhorn and Katarina Vizina, and starring Hennessy Winkler as Zdenek. Part of the Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival, it is directed by Einhorn, the festival’s artistic director. (Through June 15, Bohemian National Hall)
‘Lunar Eclipse’
Reed Birney plays George to Lisa Emery’s Em in this Thornton Wilder-inflected new play by the Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies (“Dinner With Friends”), about a long-married couple moon-gazing in a field on their Kentucky farm. Keeping each other company through the summer night, they talk over fear and regret, mortality and memory, love and encroaching decline. Kate Whoriskey directs for Second Stage. (Through June 22, Pershing Square Signature Center)
‘Prosperous Fools’
Arching an eyebrow at philanthropy and its insincerities, Taylor Mac’s latter-day riff on Molière’s comedy-ballet “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme” is set at a gala for a nonprofit dance company. With Mac leading a cast that also includes Sierra Boggess and Jason O’Connell, the Tony Award winner Darko Tresnjak (“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”) directs the world premiere for Theater for a New Audience — the final production in the 46-year tenure of Jeffrey Horowitz, its founding artistic director. (Through June 29, Polonsky Shakespeare Center)
‘The Wash’
The Atlanta Washerwomen Strike of 1881 is the historical inspiration for this fictionalized retelling by the playwright and journalist Kelundra Smith. The play imagines the women at the center of the Black-led, interracial uprising, as they successfully demand a substantial increase in their paltry wages. Awoye Timpo (“Wedding Band”) directs for the New Federal Theater. (Through June 29, WP Theater)
Jordan Tannahill’s New Play
The metatheatrical satire “Prince Faggot” by Jordan Tannahill has something in common with Paul Rudnick’s comic novel “Playing the Palace”: It envisions a queer heir to the British throne. With an ensemble of queer and trans performers including K. Todd Freeman (“Downstate”) and David Greenspan (“I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan”), Shayok Misha Chowdhury (“Public Obscenities”) directs the world premiere for Playwrights Horizons and Soho Rep. (Through July 13, Playwrights Horizons)
‘Lowcountry’
Abby Rosebrock (“Blue Ridge”) sets her dark romantic comedy in the rural South, where a 30-something actress returns to her hometown to visit her father, and begins dating a disgraced high school coach whose life is in chaos. Jo Bonney (“Cost of Living”) directs Jodi Balfour, Babak Tafti (“Small Mouth Sounds”) and Keith Kupferer in the world premiere for Atlantic Theater Company. (Through July 13, Linda Gross Theater)
‘Trophy Boys’
The Australian playwright Emmanuelle Mattana tapped into her own teenage experience as a debate-team member to write this satire of misogyny. A group of quick-witted high school boys, accustomed to victory, are preparing to argue the yes side of the assigned topic — “feminism has failed women” — against their girls-school rivals. The Tony Award winner Danya Taymor (“The Outsiders”) directs the play’s American premiere, in which the boys are played by a female and nonbinary cast that includes the playwright. (Through July 27, MCC Theater)
‘Duke & Roya’
Jay Ellis (“Insecure”) and Stephanie Nur (“Special Ops: Lioness”) star in this romantic drama about a visiting hip-hop artist and an Afghan interpreter who fall hard for each other amid war in Kabul. Written by Charles Randolph-Wright, who is better known for Broadway directing credits like “Trouble in Mind” and “Motown: The Musical,” it has a cast that includes the Olivier Award winner Noma Dumezweni (“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”) and Dariush Kashani. Warren Adams directs. (June 10-Aug. 23, Lucille Lortel Theater)
‘My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?)’
Rob Madge, currently starring as the Emcee in the London production of “Cabaret,” takes a brief break from that gig to do this one — performing an autobiographical solo comedy whose planned Broadway run last year was abruptly canceled. Directed by Luke Sheppard (“& Juliet”), and previously performed in the West End, the show uses old home VHS tapes to recall the misfit’s journey of an exuberantly theatrical child in an affectionately indulgent family. (June 12-June 15, New York City Center)
‘Passengers’
The Montreal-based contemporary circus troupe the 7 Fingers (a.k.a. les 7 Doigts) blends music and dance with signature acrobatics in this show. Written, directed and choreographed by Shana Carroll, the former trapeze artist whose circus design for last year’s Broadway musical “Water for Elephants” was Tony-nominated. (June 12-June 29, Perelman Performing Arts Center)
‘Dilaria’
Ella Stiller, a recent Juilliard School graduate and daughter of Ben, makes her Off Broadway debut in the title role of this new play by Julia Randall, about a self-absorbed young woman in Manhattan’s West Village; her performative reaction to a former classmate’s death is shaped by her generation’s perpetual awareness of the public gaze. Alex Keegan directs the world premiere. (June 13-Aug. 3, DR2 Theater)
The Verbatim Salon
In this free monthly documentary theater series, actors deliver monologues made from interviews with immigrants speaking about their lives in the United States. Presented by the American Playwriting Foundation, in collaboration with the director Scott Illingworth, the unadorned performances have an extraordinary immediacy, with the actors channeling the words from interview recordings that they listen to on earphones as they speak. The audience is gently invited to discuss each monologue afterward, but our listening feels like just as much of a civic exercise. (June 18, Theater Row)
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