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The Gay Naked Play

EAT Space - Emerging Artists Theater, 432 West 42nd St  9/1/2004 to 10/2/2004
A classical theatre company is going broke playing to tiny houses. Enter a big Gay producer who tells then he can turn their company around by hiring a porn star and directing their next production. A comedy about the art of selling out....
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The Comfort and Safety of Your Own Home

13th Street Repertory Theatre Company, 50 West 13th Street  8/26/2004 to 9/5/2004
In this new, traveling, site specific piece, International WOW Company invites you to board our luxury bus for a two-borough tour of the American collective subconscious....
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DEATH OF NATIONS: The Trailer

13th Street Repertory Theatre Company, 50 West 13th Street
A sweeping overview of International WOW Company‚s upcoming epic cycle play DEATH OF NATIONS, featuring an international cast from nine countries on four continents. Beginning as a lecture on global economics by a panel of international economists that goes awry, the show erupts into an imagistic w...
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The Expense of Spirit

13th Street Repertory Theatre Company, 50 West 13th Street  8/19/2004 to 8/19/2004
At a video store in Brooklyn, 17,000 titles, one dinner party, 25 guests, and two West Point Cadets on a thankless duty collide on Christmas Eve to become the latest battlefield of the war in Iraq. THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT explores the disconnect between war and bloodshed in the movies, and the reality...
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Masquerade

Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street  9/18/2004 to 10/2/2004
Set in Greenwich Village, Masquerade tells the story of a gay couple in their forties who throw a surprise “positive” party for a younger man who has just been diagnosed with HIV. When their downstairs neighbor who is quite ill with AIDS knocks on the door, an unplanned reckoning becomes inevitable....
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Beyond The Horizon

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  9/8/2004 to 9/26/2004

Eugene O'Neill's 1920 Pulitzer Prize winning drama about two brothers and a tragic choice....
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Burning the Old Man

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  9/10/2004 to 10/3/2004

The world premiere of Kelly McAllister's serious comedy about two brothers taking the ashes of their father to the Burning Man festival....
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Patience

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  9/15/2004 to 10/2/2004

New York premiere of Jason Sherman's drama about a man who has everything, loses it, and must decide if he really wants it all back......
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Nobody's Lunch

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  9/24/2004 to 10/17/2004
The Civilians, The Obie-winning theater company, premieres its much anticipated new project, Nobody's Lunch, at Performance Space 122 (150 First Avenue) on September 23. Written and directed by Steven Cosson and featuring original songs by Michael Friedman, Nobody’s Lunch continues through October ...
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Honor part two

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  10/10/2004 to 10/26/2004
The second part of TheDrillingCompaNY's commission of American playwrighs to create new short work around the theme of HONOR; works vary from the romantic to the sharply political in an evening of thought and entertainment....
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Hazard County

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  10/7/2004 to 11/7/2004
Hazard County is the story of Ruth, an impoverished young mother in rural Kentucky struggling to raise twins after the tragic death of her husband. One day she meets Blake, a tabloid TV news reporter from LA who is combing small-town America for stories about "real people." When he discovers that R...
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Contracts

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  10/29/2004 to 11/21/2004
tracts tells the story of four first year law students who are negotiating the terms of the unspoken contracts  the expectations and obligations that govern their intimate relationships.  The play intersperses scenes from a surreal classroom, in which the students grapple with various contract doctr...
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The Revenger's Tragedy

Culture Project, 45 Bleecker Street

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Ordinary People

Pelican Studio Theater, 750 8th avenue, 6th fl.  10/6/2004 to 10/24/2004
A multi-cultural cast starts in this revival of a classic. A family struggles to survive the loss of a son....
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TAM LIN

Producer's Club, 358 West 44th Street  10/21/2004 to 10/31/2004
The Faerie Queen has magically turned young gentleman Tam Lin into her love-slave, and the Queen's jealous knights are plotting to get rid of him. Lord Dunbar wants his daughter Janet to marry Lord Aberdeen, but Janet loves Tam Lin. Janet's lady-in-waiting Margaret loves Aberdeen and disguises herse...
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Post-Oedipus

Flamboyan Theatre - CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  11/11/2004 to 12/4/2004
POST-OEDIPUS is a radical re-working of Euripides’ play The Phoenician Women, chronicling the events of Oedipus’ family after the fall of Oedipus. It uses the structure of royal ceremonies to unravel the mental state of a family after disaster. The family has been beset with war, pestilence, pover...
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Lady Windermere's Fan

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  11/5/2004 to 11/21/2004
Oscar Wilde's tale of highsociety and hypocisy -- including blackmail and manners....
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Agrippina

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  10/14/2004 to 10/24/2004
The power of lust and the lust for power! Sex...Love...Murder... enter a world of undying passion, wickedly playful humor, and ego-driven power struggles. A Roman tragedy told through drama and dance....
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all wear bowlers

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  2/17/2005 to 3/12/2005

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These People

American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, 4th Floor  10/8/2004 to 10/30/2004
Jerry Shurl, a successful entrepreneur, will be spending the next two years in federal prison for tax evasion. But before he goes away, he must ensure that the “perfect life” that he has built for his wife and daughter will still be there when he gets back. Of course his dear friends at the club wil...
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The Shape of Things

Greenwich Street Theatre, 547 Greenwich Street  12/8/2004 to 12/16/2004
Quiet, unassuming Adam is changing in a major way, thanks to his new girlfriend, art student Evelyn. Adam's friends are a little freaked by the transformation. What happens to two couples when their realities get twisted! Another exploration into the age old question - What is art?...
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Eisenstein 's Monster

Duplex, 61 Christopher Street  10/19/2004 to 11/23/2004
Monstrously poignant, hauntingly hilarious . . .a collection of short plays and monologues* by Linda Eisenstein dealing with one monster in particular—Desire...
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The Snow Queen

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  11/6/2004 to 12/19/2004
The Snow Queen, written and directed by Glory Sims Bowen, loosely adapted from the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, follows the adventures of Gerda, a young Norwegian woman, on her quest to save her younger brother Kai from the castle of the icy Snow Queen. Gerda must travel through several world...
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On the Origin of Darwin

Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  12/9/2004 to 12/18/2004
Bromley's full-length play is as ambitious as the journey it attempts to dramatize. On the Origin of Darwin tells the story of a young naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle and the five-year voyage that shaped his Theory of Evolution. The action takes place at various times on the Beagle, in the jungles ...
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Ashes

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  10/20/2004 to 11/7/2004
World premier of this new play where two sisters return to their childhood home after the death of their estranged Mother. Madeline and Leanne must sort through their Mother's things and decide what to do with her ashes. The proscess proves both comic and catstrophic as the two weave their way throu...
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Peace

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  10/21/2004 to 11/7/2004
Aristophanes' classic tale of a man bent on restoring peace to his war torn country. This moder adaptation resonates loudly with present day audiences dealing with the issues surrounding war, not the least of which is how those who profit by war succeed in keeping peace in abeyance....
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Boozy: The Life, Death, and Subsequent Villification of Le Corbusier...

Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster Street  2/13/2005 to 3/5/2005
The Freedom Tower? The West Side Stadium? New York architecture needs a swift kick in the ass.

This February, Les Freres Corbusier finally puts the punk rock back into urban planning: Amidst a blaze of streaming media, ridiculous choreography, and dozens of live fornicating rabbits, a des...
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Nicky Paraiso's "House/Boy"

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  11/4/2004 to 11/21/2004
"House/Boy" is Nicky Paraiso's third autobiographical evening-lengh solo work with music, dealing with identity, sexuality and the enduring theme of what "home" means to Filipino-Americans; this content is interwoven with Nicky's search for the quintessential Filipino houseboy played by Zorro David ...
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Pulling the Lever

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  10/28/2004 to 11/6/2004
One country. One vote. Your choice. An original play by The Rising Circle Theater Collective, based on interviews which explore how we are approaching the most important decision we face as a nation this November 2nd....
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The Ghost of Greenbrier County

Greenwich Street Theatre, 547 Greenwich Street  12/10/2004 to 12/12/2004
Meet Zona the lively young West Virginian bride who mysteriously died in 1896 and comes back to reveal the truth. The history of the Greenbrier Ghost may be one of the most unique stories in the annals of ghostlore. This strange tale from rural West Virginia is not only a part of supernatural his...
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Zed's Dance

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  9/6/2004 to 5/21/2009

Photo by Daniel Rowe

The Dance of Zed, following the previous production of Dance of Zelda, continues the story of the supernatural movement in the natural world....
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Titus X

Chashama, 217 East 42nd Street  11/5/2004 to 11/21/2004
A punk rock musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. Loud, nasty, gory and fun....
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looking4sex

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  11/12/2004 to 12/11/2004
A humerous look at gay internet hookups in the new millennium....
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The Winter's Tale

PC2 Theater, 616 Ninth Avenue  12/9/2004 to 12/19/2004
A classic, yet inventive and modern interpretation of Shakespeare's romantic dramedy - set in the late 1970s/early 1990s. ...
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Bokan, The Bad Hearted

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/3/2004 to 12/19/2004
The latest piece from Federico Restrepo's dance/puppet/theatre company Loco 7 tells the heroic poem of Yurupari Myth:"Bokan, The Bad Hearted," from the Colombian and Brazilian Amazon talks about the age-old struggle for power between men and women and the confict betweent the matriarchal and the par...
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The Owners

Theatre-Studio, Inc., 750 8th Ave. 2nd floor  12/4/2004 to 1/16/2005
World premier of award-winning writer Jay Amari... In this tale of emotionally bruised and bitter lovers, Bob, so “in touch” with his sensitivity that he is in fact played by a woman, struggles with his writer voice and with his lover Katy, who's reeling from the wasting death of her brother Adam. W...
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Conquest of the Universe

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  12/9/2004 to 12/18/2004
In response to the to the pervading atmosphere of distress brought on by the elections, Salt Theater and Artistic Director Emma Griffin are remounting their production of Charles Ludlam’s Conquest of the Universe for two weeks in December (eight performances only!). The production played to packed h...
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South End

John Houseman Theater Studio A, 450 West 42nd Street  1/6/2005 to 1/16/2005
It's a time of political unrest, backroom deal, figureheads in places of power, and violence is THE answer to settling differences. It's election night. It's 1930....
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zshow

100 Grand Dance, 100 Grand Street (between Mercer and Greene)

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It's Karate, Kid! The Musical

Teatro La Tea, 107 Suffolk Street  12/2/2004 to 12/18/2004
It's Karate, Kid! The Musical is an outrageous and unconventional riff on the beloved '80s film. Under the manicured guiding hand of a mystical maintenance man, Daniel-San Larusso wages war against pill-popping, white trash deviants; well-styled, bloodthirsty karate students; rampaging hormones; and...
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communion

Phil Bosakowski Theatre, 354 West 45th Street  1/6/2005 to 1/23/2005
american premiere by award winning irish writer aidan mathews, Communion takes place in a fashionable dublin neighbourhood, we meet a family who laugh and cry through the many fates and faithes that call upon them, a 2 hour tragic commedy, starring john seidman and barbar sims...
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Belize

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/6/2005 to 1/23/2005
A love story shaped by history and politics. Set in Central America and London in the 18th Century, the historical/hallucinatory mix includes the true story of Edward Despard, an Irish-born Colonel in the British Army and Catherine Despard, an Aftican-American woman who became his wife, William Bla...
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Woyzeck: A Fever Dream

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  1/6/2005 to 1/22/2005
Woyzeck… the story of a soldier who descends into chaos and confusion, killing his wife and then himself. Considered the “first modern play”, Woyzeck was written in 1834 by a 24 year old Georg Buchner. Working on the fourth draft of the play when he died, many scholars are divided over which scenes ...
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The Medea

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/13/2005 to 1/30/2005
Director Jay Scheib applied lessons in plot development from the modern detective novel in planning his adaptation of "Medea." Using a verse text based on Heiner Muller, Euripides and Seneca, enhanced by operatic songs and heightened by multimedia, he intends to put suspense back in the tale by play...
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The Swan, by Elizabeth Egloff

Pelican Studio Theater, 750 8th avenue, 6th fl.  4/6/2005 to 4/24/2005
Fierce in its treatment of love, THE SWAN provides a mysterious gloss on whether or not we descended from the beasts and what we may feel when we find them lurking in our truest selves. "A bewitching bedtime story for grown-ups…a psycho-sexual cauldron wherein fantasy and deprivation merge and comb...
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Tricks of the Trade

Duplex, 61 Christopher Street  1/8/2005 to 2/12/2005
How much of a gay man's identity is tied up in his sexual activity? That's one of the questions asked in TRICKS OF THE TRADE - a harsh new drama about four young gay men, ages 17-22, during one very, very long night at West Village mix and meet bar. A show called "Funny, timely and important" and "T...
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The Bitterness of the Meringue

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/20/2005 to 2/6/2005
There is a proverb that says "It's better to have a broken heart than a rusted one." "The Bitterness of the Meringue," written by young Mexican dramaturg, Jorge Kuri, and directed by Raine Bode, reflects on the risk that love implies, the consequences and the price to live an adventure. Features a ...
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El Salvador

ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street  2/2/2005 to 2/12/2005
In EL SALVADOR, six American journalists are stationed in a hotel suite-turned-newsroom in San Salvador during the civil war. Surrounded by combat zones and witness to the ravages of war, the men attempt to produce news footage as the villages, and their personal lives, crumble around them. Tension ...
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The Pinter Project

T. Schreiber Studio, 151 W. 26th St., 7th fl. (between 6th and 7th)  2/2/2005 to 3/13/2005

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Musically Speaking: The World of John Wallowitch

Duplex, 61 Christopher Street  2/17/2005 to 3/12/2005
A musicial revue celebrating the songs, wit and style of legendary New York cabaret icon John Wallowitch....
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Cellphones

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/27/2005 to 2/13/2005
"Cellphones," a new rock musical written & directed by William Electric Black. The war in Iraq and terrorists' threats keeps America on constant alert. Homeland Security is not only the buzz, but the only place that's offering a decent job. A new recruiting booth is about to opne up at 7:00am Mond...
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Have You Ever Seen a Dream Rapping?

Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd Street  1/28/2005 to 2/13/2005
a performance of poem, rap, song, dance letters to MLK on the occasion of his birthday...
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The Apple Cart, A Political Extravaganza

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  2/11/2005 to 3/13/2005
A politcal comedy by George Bernard Shaw...
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Sus Manos by Lauren Gunderson

EAT Space - Emerging Artists Theater, 432 West 42nd St  2/25/2005 to 3/14/2005
Mexico, 1910: an American Filmmaker works on his masterpiece on a grand Mexican plantation, oblivious to the class warefare that surrounds him, marking the beginning of the Revolution....
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Serenade & Philosopher Fox

Collective Unconscious, 279 Church Street  2/3/2005 to 2/27/2005
East River Commedia's production of Slawomir Mrozek's hilarious animal satires Serenade and Philosopher Fox directed by Paul Bargetto. These dark and extremely funny allegories of power, love and redemption come to New York from one of Poland's greatest living playwrights. Interpreted by East River ...
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Measure for Measure

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  1/21/2005 to 2/13/2005
Duke Vincentio transfers his power to Angelo, who quickly unleashes harsh and archaic laws upon the unsuspecting citizens. While pleading for her brother's life, Isabella unwittingly arouses Angelo's baser desires, and he counters with a less-than-pious proposal. In disguise, the real duke plots t...
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The Years

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  1/28/2005 to 2/20/2005
Andrea is mugged on her wedding day but chooses to protect her attacker by hiding it from her family, all of whom are dealing with their own personal trials. Thirteen years later, Andrea and the reformed mugger cross paths and discover how one isolated event can affect a life....
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Revising Germany

Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd Street  3/11/2005 to 4/10/2005
Bertolt Brecht’s intimate relationships with four influential women – Helene Weigel, Elisabeth Hauptmann, Ruth Berlau and Margarete Steffin – are the focus of this intense drama produced by the Castillo Theatre. A montage of performed conversation, music, dance and songs – sung by a mysterious Lotte...
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Dying Goldfish

The Access Theater, 380 Broadway, 4th floor   5/5/2005 to 5/28/2005

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The Colonel's Holiday

Pelican Studio Theater, 750 8th avenue, 6th fl.  2/24/2005 to 3/13/2005
A modern day farce which has been desrcibed as "Noel Coward on acid." ...
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A Beginner's Guide to Deicide

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  3/31/2005 to 4/17/2005
The heartwarming tale of a Catholic schoolgirl's quest to find God...and kill him....
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Disposable Men

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  2/4/2005 to 2/12/2005
Old-fashioned storytelling pairs with new media in Disposable Men. This humorous solo work presents a series of interactive monologues demonstrating the flippant irreverence with which the popular media treats the disposability of African-American men. With a witty sardonicism, Scruggs plays charac...
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SEAL SINGS ITS SONG

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  2/26/2005 to 3/19/2005
seal sings its song explores what it means to be a victim in America through gritty, hyper realistic tragedy. Set in the early 1980’s, seal sings its song follows a charismatic, but resolute man infected with AIDS, who spreads the mysterious virus as a means to get government attention. ...
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Happy Hour at the Event Horizon

Blue Heron Studio Theatre, 123 E. 24th Street  4/21/2005 to 5/1/2005
An electron, a proton and a neutron walk in to a bar… A bar at the edge of a black hole welcomes the strangest patrons. Particles collide, customers perform experiments with shot glasses and ashtrays, and the laws of physics wreak havoc with the waitstaff. At the center of this mayhem we find P...
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The Blind

Frying Pan, Pier 63 North River  3/5/2005 to 4/3/2005
An adventurous and haunting retelling of Maurice Maeterlinck's classic, The Blind (1890), performed on a previously sunken lightship docked off Pier 63. The event will culminate with a full course dinner....
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From the Gutter to the Glitter: A Night Out with the Bindlestiffs

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   2/28/2005 to 4/3/2005
An intimate guided tour through the dark alleyways of American Popular Entertaiment history: Medicine Shows, Circus, Vaudeville, Sideshow, prohibition era Cabaret, Vegas Lounges & Reality TV....
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Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery

McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway, 4th Floor  2/10/2005 to 3/6/2005
SHAKIN' THE MESS OUTTA MISERY combines storytelling, music and dance to recount a young black girl's coming of age in the South in the 1960's. ...
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The Trial of K

Culture Project, 45 Bleecker Street  3/30/2005 to 4/24/2005
The Trial of K is a live multimedia Play Noir inspired by Franz Kafka's unfinished masterpiece, The Trial. The production blends physical theatre, dance, live streaming surveillance video, and original music with the visually intense genres of German Expressionism and classic Film Noir. Synaestheti...
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Saturday Night Rewritten

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  2/20/2005 to 12/18/2005
Taking the previous night's broadcasted Saturday Night Live, this team of writer/ performers writer, rehearse, and perform a whole new show in 7 hours....
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Othello

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  3/16/2005 to 3/26/2005
Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Vennice...
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The God Botherers

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  2/24/2005 to 3/27/2005
GREETINGS from Tanbia, a part-Christian, part-Muslim country where water is scarce, AK-47s are plentiful, the lions are hungry and the locals want email!

LAURA is a young, ambitious American aid worker on her first assignment, ready to bend the rules to save the world. But home starts to ...
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The Striking Viking Story Pirates

Arthur Seelen Theater, 250 W. 40th St.  3/12/2005 to 5/21/2005
New York's Premiere Absurdist Musical Sketch Comedy Show for Kids!...
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TESTICULATIONS

New Media Repertory Theatre, 512 East 80th Street  4/15/2005 to 5/1/2005
"TESTICULATIONS," a new play by Geoffrey Gordon and directed by Miranda McDermott, will open April 15th for an off-off-Broadway Equity engagement at New Media Repertory Theatre, 512 East 80th Street, in Manhattan. Performance dates are Friday, April 15th through Sunday, May 1st. All performances b...
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The Astronomer's Triangle

Studio 5, 28 Warren Street  3/18/2005 to 4/16/2005
An astronomer, a waitress, and a cartographer find themselves in a disorienting, explosive, and unknown scientific state: LOVE. Filled with laughter, stars, coffee cups, and song, this is another exciting world premier written, directed and performed by members of CollaborationTown....
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  3/19/2005 to 4/2/2005
Shakespeare's comedy of goofy lovers and ham actors....
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The Winter's Tale

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  3/18/2005 to 4/3/2005
Shakespeare's late story of terrifying jealousy and blessed forgiveness....
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The Three Musketeers

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  4/15/2005 to 5/14/2005
a lush musical adaptation of the Dumas classic of grand passions and sweeping emotion....
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Murder in the First

Theater 3, 311 W. 43 St., 3rd fl.  4/7/2005 to 4/24/2005
Inspired by actual events, MURDER IN THE FIRST is the story of a passionate, young attorney who must prove that one criminal's cruel treatment during three years in Alcatraz turned him into a vicious killer. Through his defense, he uncovers the surprising truths that ultimately lead to the closing ...
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EATFest: Spring 2005 - Series B

  3/30/2005 to 4/16/2005
2 new short plays by emerging playwrights...
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EATFest: Spring 2005 - Series C

  3/31/2005 to 4/17/2005
3 new short plays by emerging playwrights...
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EATFest: Spring 2005 - Series A

  3/29/2005 to 4/17/2005
3 new short plays by emerging playwrights...
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Les Belles Soeurs

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  5/5/2005 to 5/22/2005
15 women come together after one has won a million greenstamps and needs help pasting them in their books. Family histories, bitter jealousies, parochial frustrations and personal emergencies make for a raucous gathering. ...
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Profile of a Saint

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  3/17/2005 to 4/3/2005
Actress and solo performer Angela Forrest takes on ten different southern characters who live in a small town in the play "Profile of a Saint," a mixture of comedy and drama directed by Susan W. Lovell. They bring this extraordinary tour de force to The Club at LaMaMa March 17-April 3, 2005....
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Iphigenia

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  3/17/2005 to 4/3/2005
A new multimedia theater production by Theodora Skipitares. Skipitares is well-known for her mastery of large-scale puppets as well as miniatures; this production employs several styles of shadow puppetry in the style of the line drawings of ancient Greek pottery, Bunraku puppetry and otehrs....
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The House of Blue Leaves

Gloria Maddox Theatre, 151 W. 26th St.  4/21/2005 to 5/22/2005
Arguably John Guare's most popular play, The House of Blue Leaves is a wacky and poignant play that defies theatrical conventions and is truly stunning in its use of language, humor, and heartbreak....
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Snake in Fridge

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  4/14/2005 to 5/8/2005
Snake in Fridge examines the sordid lives of a group of young misfits living in a creepy Victorian house. Their combined income barely covers club-going and drugs, and overdue rent is mounting. Daydreams of fame and happiness are constantly interrupted by the insidious lure of the porn industry. One...
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Fit To Kill

Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  4/10/2005 to 4/30/2005
FIT TO KILL, a witty and elegant new play in the tradition of SLEUTH and DEATHTRAP, is a suspense-thriller about strategy, deception, and betrayal. Adrian, a charming but self-indulgent chess master, lives a life of luxury thanks to his marriage to Janice, an older, but still sexy and vibrant woman ...
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Keanu Reeves Saves the Universe

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  4/15/2005 to 5/20/2005
Keanu Reeves Saves the Universe is a twisted, bawdy, silly, romp through your favorite science fiction tales where time isn’t the only thing that’s warped! This raucous, irreverent satire marries The Matrix with Star Trek and Star Wars....
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Mushroom In Her Hands

Sandy Shurin Studio Theatre, 311 West 43rd Street, 6th floor  4/29/2005 to 5/15/2005
"Alice and Wonderland" with all the sex and Violence you always knew was in the novel!Told through a series of vignettes featuring encounters with fanatical creatures fromWonderland, the play explores the sexual amd intellectual awakening of a young girl....
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Arms and the Man

Sandy Shurin Studio Theatre, 311 West 43rd Street, 6th floor  4/30/2005 to 5/15/2005
George Bernard Shaw's comic drama about love and war. Take Shaw's comic hero, Bluntschli, a soldier who prefers a supply of choclates to bullets, cast him as a woman and watch the sparks fly. Bluntschli surprise the young Raina by climbing into her bedroom window looking for shelter, starting a chai...
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Embracing the Undertoad

Chashama, 217 East 42nd Street  4/27/2005 to 5/7/2005
3 women struggle for love, peace and safe passage in this new play by Robin Rice Lichtig....
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Shoe Palace Murray

Bernie West Theatre, 17 Lexington Ave. 9th fl  4/6/2005 to 4/24/2005
During the Twenties the most fashionable shoe shop in New York was the I. Miller Broadway store. For the in-crowd B such as Betty Compton; Fanny Brice; Texas Guinan; assorted gun molls and kept women; and Madames in from the Midwest B there was the second floor. It was the theatrical shoe departme...
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THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  5/18/2005 to 6/15/2005
Live, On Stage... Radiotheatre's version of H.G.Wells' classic science fiction novel "THE WAR OF THE WORLDS." It's the 1930s and the Martians have invaded our homeland, causing fear, panic, destruction. Will mankind survive? Radiotheatre Presents "The War Of The Worlds" is a sound extravaga...
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7 Blowjobs

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  4/22/2005 to 5/7/2005
This Spring brings us easy-to-swallow political satire when The Subjective Theatre Company produces Mac Wellman's 7 Blowjobs. The office of Senator Bob falls down on it's knees when a BIG package arrives that contains seven mysterious photos. The action mounts and builds to a screaming climax as th...
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Tonylust! The Broadway Bloodbath of 2006

Duplex, 61 Christopher Street  4/21/2005 to 6/4/2005
Fun, satirical comedy. This no holds barred sequel to the hit satire, Bernadette And The Butcher Of Broadway, pits producer against producer in an epic battle royale to secure the Tony Award for Best Musical....
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Little Suckers

Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster Street  6/4/2005 to 6/25/2005
What happens to a person when they have no one to talk to but themselves? Option A: Reacquaint oneself with one’s childhood imaginary friends and have tea. Option B: Become a Samurai Warrior and hitchhike into the bowels of the Deep South. Option C: Suicide b...
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Elektra

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  4/7/2005 to 4/24/2005
The world renowned Polish theater company Garzienice Center for Theatre Practices, founded and led by Wlodzimierz Staniewski, returns to LaMaMa to debut April 7 to 24 with "Elektra" by Euripides. The company last appeared in NY in 2001 with "Metamorphosis" at LaMaMa, a production which played to st...
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The Cherry Orchard

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  5/11/2005 to 5/21/2005
Madame Ranevskaya's treasured country estate is threatened with foreclosure, thanks to wildly overdue bills and a family living beyond its means. As the family and servants try and fail to grasp the severity of their situation, the merchant Lopakhin offers them their only salvation: to sell the Che...
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Elephant Larry presents BOOM

The PIT, 154 W. 29th Street  4/9/2005 to 5/28/2005
Back from touring around the country, Elephant Larry presents one jam-packed hour of genuine sketchified entertainment, guaranteed to knock your socks off. Using their patented fusion of video and stage sketchery, Elephant Larry's new show is bigger, better, and funnier than any sketch comedy show t...
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The Mermaid

Where Eagles Dare Theatre, 347 W 36th St., ground floor  5/5/2005 to 5/29/2005
1962: Judith Owen begins her career as an actress at a college in Indiana. 1998: In Manhattan, Martin Flaherty and his partner Ken prepare to adopt a child. Though Judith and Martin have never met, they share a connection that will change both their lives forever. Mark Finley's THE MERMAID tells bot...
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The Fall

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  5/5/2005 to 5/29/2005
The Fall explores how some central questions of Hamlet would play out in modern world. What do you do when a hallucination gives you information that requires action? What if this hallucination might be real? For Jill, these questions confront her with an violent duty....
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The Little Prince

Pelican Studio Theater, 750 8th avenue, 6th fl.  7/6/2005 to 7/31/2005
The classic story told by an International multi-racial ensemble of 8. An aviator is stranded in the Sahara and meets a 'Little Prince' who takes him on a special journey....
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The Pursuit of Persephone

Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  5/1/2005 to 5/22/2005
Brilliantly talented, young F. Scott Fitzgerald is swept into the hierarchy of Ivy League society and the antics of the Princeton Triangle Club, in pursuit of beautiful and elusive debutante Ginevra King…...
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Perseus

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  4/29/2005 to 5/15/2005
PERSEUS – loosely based on excerpts from Ovid, Hesiod and Apollodorus with additional text by Ms. Stewart – is the often-told, but rarely-performed saga of Perseus the son of Danae and the god Zeus – who slew the serpent-headed Medusa and married the beautiful maiden Andromeda after saving her from ...
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A Little of What You Fancy

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  4/29/2005 to 5/29/2005
An Authentic British Music Hall, with songs and skits from the 1980s - 1920s...
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Boocock's House of Baseball

Flea Theatre, 41 White Street  6/30/2005 to 7/23/2005
Boocock’s House of Baseball examines contemporary American politics through the vehicle of baseball. Dismayed over today’s government for the few at the expense of many, Boocock turns to baseball for guidance because it is the final frontier of democracy; the rules still apply equally to all partici...
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Ivanov

Bernie West Theatre, 17 Lexington Ave. 9th fl  5/23/2005 to 6/8/2005
Anton Chekhov's first play about a man fighting to understand his depression. We see his efforts to extricate himself from its grips....
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Dress Suits to Hire

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  5/19/2005 to 6/5/2005
Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw in "Dress Suits to Hire," written by Holly Hughes in collaboration with Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw, choreography Stormy Brandenberger, directed by Lois Weaver, costumes by Susan Young. This classic "lesbian-noir" hit show has been begging to be "re-mounted," and that's ex...
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The Persians...a comedy about war with five songs

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  5/26/2005 to 8/6/2005
Based on the play by Aescylus adapted into a comedy about war with five songs...
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Falling Petals

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  5/20/2005 to 6/5/2005
A syndrome which seems to strike only at the young begins to kill off the children in the country town of Hollow. As the mysterious outbreak reaches epidemic proportions, friendship and alliances are stretched to breaking point, while choices between life and death become simultaneously fantastical ...
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Vintage Wine, or Past Its Prime?

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  5/26/2005 to 6/12/2005
"Vintage Wine, or Past Its Prime?" is written and directed by Charles Allcroft, featuring Lavinia Co-op, Jim Neu, Clio Young, Agosto Machado, Little Annie, Terri Robinson, Nicky Paraiso, Joe Munley and Ulla Dydo, among others. A bittersweet play about the nature of teaching, and how to overcome the ...
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No Alarms(headfullofradio)

Collective Unconscious, 279 Church Street  7/21/2005 to 7/29/2005
An episodic multimedia performance inspired by the art and music of Radiohead which blends physical theatre, dance, live original music, and video; No Alarms (headfullofradio) is a series of short plays, each one a visually intense odyssey to find meaning and balance in a world of complacency, techn...
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It's Only A Play

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   7/19/2005 to 8/7/2005
It’s the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway and the wealthy producer is throwing a lavish party at her trendy NYC townhouse. Downstairs the celebrities pour in, but the real action is upstairs where a group of insiders wait for the reviews. Included are the excitable young author, the bri...
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Hell Cab

  11/1/2005 to 1/28/2006
Hell Cab is a day in the life story of a cab driver in for the longest night of his life as he transports a bizarre and mysterious collection of customers through the gritty streets of Chicago. Playwright and Chicago cab driver Will Kern draws from personal experiences to create the alternately f...
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Top Ten

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  7/7/2005 to 7/31/2005
Top Ten is a tragic-comedy that follows the story of ten characters, each assigned a number, whose lives are irrevocably intertwined as they fight to live up to social, political, familial, religious and personal expectations....
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Central Park, The lawn below The Dairy - enter at 66th Street  6/18/2005 to 7/31/2005
no reservations required. Free outdoor Shakespeare production touring parks throughout NYC...
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Tara's Crossing

Tenement Theatre, 97 Orchard St.  6/11/2005 to 6/26/2005
Tara's Crossing recounts a transgendered asylum-seeker's remarkable flights from Guyana and her uphill battle to prove her claims of prosecution from within the confines of US Immigration Detention. The Play is one of the first ever to deal with the subject of political asylum for gay, lesbian, bi-s...
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The Whore of Sheridan Square

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  6/16/2005 to 7/3/2005
"The Whore of Sheridan Square" is a new comedy written and directed by Michael Baron inspired by the life and works of legendary downtown theatre artist Charles Ludlam and told in the spirit of the Ridiculous Theatre he created. The play follows a desperate young writer who escapes to a hidden NYC ...
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Romeo & Juliet

Walkerspace, 46 Walker Street  7/21/2005 to 8/6/2005
The CRY HAVOC Company presents Romeo & Juliet featuring two women in the title roles. This production highlights what happens when love, adolescence, and family collide - where love is love, no matter who it happens to....
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Biblical Bitches Part 1: The Adventures of Everywoman

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  7/18/2005 to 8/10/2005
Upon the ruins of this civilization, a new Garden is recycled from the rubble and among the ashes is born a new race of mankind with hopes of eternal life. If given a second chance for infinite inhabitancy of the Garden, would we make the same mistakes? Follow Woh-man in her adventures as she search...
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Lysistrata

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  9/3/2005 to 9/24/2005
Rising Sun is returning to Central Park with Jason Tyne’s Edgy and Modern day Adaptation of Aristophanes' bawdy anti-war classic. Like you would expect of any self-respecting New York chick, Lucy "The Loosener" Lysistrata is totally over the Georges and Bills of Capital Hill and their testostero...
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The Crucible

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street

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Book of Days

Stella Adler Studio, 31 W. 27th Street, 2nd Floor  8/10/2005 to 8/27/2005
A powerful play about ambition, fear, family, and faith all wrapped up in a murder mystery as one townsperson searches for the truth. ...
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Midnight

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  8/10/2005 to 8/27/2005
Set in the 1950’s atop the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Midnight revolves around an egomaniacal Hollywood director who is desperately trying to salvage his flagging career, while is long-suffering Girl Friday does her best to keep her temperamental boss unaware of just how precarious his situation is. To ...
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Pulling Teeth

American Place Theatre, 520 8th Ave 22nd floor  7/21/2005 to 8/7/2005
Seth and Katie love God, oatmeal cookies, and each other. The only blight on their model Christian lifestyle is when Seth brings his work home. Their life consists of a sweet, simple routine: after Bible study, Katie cooks Seth's dinner while Seth removes the identifiable body parts of his latest "j...
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A Winkle in Time

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  8/11/2005 to 8/27/2005
A guy named Winkle has a meeting with some very important people, except there is going to be a snag. An existential comedy about passion, work, life, ..and moles....
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The Tutor

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  9/10/2005 to 10/2/2005
With a winning mix of clever wit and surprising warmth, The Tutor tells a fresh, funny, contemporary tale of romance, art, and what it really takes to get into Princeton. When a struggling young novelist takes a job tutoring a sullen Manhattan girl, he thinks he's just out for quick cash. But when t...
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Buried Child-by Sam Shepard

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  1/27/2006 to 2/12/2006
Winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize, BURIED CHILD punctures the Norman Rockwell exterior of American family life, revealing a disturbingly rotten core. Set in rural Illinois farm country, the play depicts a family poisoned by repressed desires, shattered relations and a deeply suppressed secret. The a...
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Bertolt Brecht's Edward II

Bank Street Theatre, 155 Bank Street  9/8/2005 to 9/25/2005
Bertolt Brecht's version of EDWARD II is a sharp and searing commentary on the nature of war in society as told through the rise and fall of the infamous, openly homosexual Plantagenet king of England, whose battles with a despotic and ambitious ruling class led to his deposition and murder. This pr...
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All For Love

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  9/9/2005 to 9/30/2005
One of the most famous love stories of all time, following the final day in the life of Antony and Cleopatra. A timeless story poetically told of unmitigated passion and obsessive love which erupts while the entire world is at stake. ...
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Artist Descending a Staircase

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  9/10/2005 to 10/2/2005
Art, history, and a beautiful blind woman. When Donner is found dead at the bottom of the stairs, Martello and Beauchamp each think the other has killed him. In perspectives weaving through time, life and love, each investigates memory and motive while unraveling the relationsh...
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Giant-n-Variation

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  9/15/2005 to 10/1/2005
From a dilapidated Texas ranch, the rumor of twin talking Hereford bulls threatens to derail beliefs in language, history, and evolution.To discover the truth, a linguist and a drifter named Tom Noise must battle the unconditional love of the rancher Edward and his daughter May who fight to protect ...
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The Bubble

Bank Street Theatre, 155 Bank Street  9/27/2005 to 10/16/2005
Zany comedy about the creative process....
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Anathemaville

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  9/2/2005 to 9/18/2005
Monopoly is Peace. All-in-one Shopping is Freedom. Synergy is Low Prices. Obedience is Power. A far cry from Thornton Wilder's picturesque Grover's Corners in the play "Our Town," ANATHEMAVILLE has been slowly taken over by Über-Mart, the ever expanding pinnacle of all-in-one shopping! Ten p...
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La Tempestad

Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster Street  10/9/2005 to 10/30/2005
On the tropical island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, Prospero practices the antiquarian arts in self-imposed exile. After a stormy crossing, three couples, including Prospero's daughter Miranda and her fiancé Ferdinand, are swept up in the island's history of passion, politics, and magic. As U.S. militar...
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Saving the Greeks: One Tragedy at a Time

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  9/8/2005 to 9/25/2005
In a time of war, heroes are needed. Strong, smart, courageous men whose actions are heralded over centuries in stories of their deeds. Saving the Greeks… is not one of those stories, and Dialysis and Peon are not those kind of men. In an ambitious (and possibly moronic) plan to bring peace to Anc...
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Measure For Measure - Adapted

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  10/13/2005 to 11/6/2005
Gender bended to highlight the modern issue of gay marriage, this new adaptation brings a unique insight to Shakespeare's original themes of mercy, justice, religion and government. With big band music, dacning and singing and riotous fun!...
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Last Summer at Bluefish Cove

T. Schreiber Studio, 151 W. 26th St., 7th fl. (between 6th and 7th)  9/29/2005 to 10/30/2005
Jane Chambers' zesty and heartfelt play about a family of friends who share a summer of laughter and love while learning how to celebrate life....
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The Tempest

Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster Street  10/7/2005 to 10/29/2005
The Tempest is Shakespeare's magical and mysterious final play. It tells the story of a banished Prospero who controls his island-prison, its visitors, and its inhabitants by mixing reality and illusion to create a world in which nothing is as it seems. Victor Maog's new adaptation, in which three a...
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Deviant

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  10/7/2005 to 10/23/2005
Worlds collide when Sara and Valerie — a couple pursuing the American dream — find out their new roommate James is a gay prostitute too jaded to believe that dreams still matter. When lives and dreams intertwine in the too-close quarters of their New York apartment, this unlikely trio turn to art, d...
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The Caterers

Altered Stages, 212 West 29th Street  10/6/2005 to 10/30/2005
In THE CATERERS playwright Jonathan Leaf tells the story of two caterers who become trapped in a screening room the night a film about Mohammed is about to premiere. Cornered by an Islamic radical, whose mission is to steal the blasphemous film, the couple, held hostage along with the film’s scree...
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Stumps

Pelican Studio Theater, 750 8th avenue, 6th fl.  10/26/2005 to 11/13/2005
**This will be a show where each of the actors is paired with an actor/interpreter signing for the deaf and co-performing – 10 artists playing 5 roles. Special Note: There are violent, sexual and very disturbing moments in this play – Nobody under 16 admitted without a parent or guardian. Two h...
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The Telling

Seventh Street Small Stage, 41-43 East 7th Street  10/23/2005 to 10/31/2005
On the night that the Davern’s Inn, a bar on the outskirts of a dying town, is to be closed for good, two estranged sisters, the last of the Davern family, return to take one last look at the old place. When they enter the one room they were never allowed to explore as kids, they discover an unopene...
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Reconstruction

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  10/27/2005 to 11/19/2005
A married couple try to revive their love life after reconstructive breast surgery. NOTE: involves extensive nudity....
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The Last Christmas of Ebenezer Scrooge

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  12/1/2005 to 12/17/2005
A readers theatre ensemble adaptation of the novel, which is a sequel to Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"...
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Wired

American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, 4th Floor  11/8/2005 to 11/13/2005
the time is 2012. four imprisoned women, encounter each other during their persecution by a system which deemed their beliefs un-american. ...
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To Nineveh: A Modern Miracle

American Place Theatre, 520 8th Ave 22nd floor  10/21/2005 to 11/13/2005
A Miracle Play about the fall of an American family and the birth of a new era. Rebekah and Isaac, parents to two grown sons, Jacob and Esau, struggle to make their way through their temptations, their sins, and their duties as the two young men prepare for their adulthood, and their roles in a more...
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Dog Lovers

Juvie Hall, 24 Bond St.  10/6/2005 to 11/20/2005
A new play by recent IT Awards nominee, Sheldon Senek. Missy includes her best friend and canine, Mitsy, when she decides to update her dating profile. The search is a success and she finds a perfect mate, Pete... but maybe he loves four-legged companionship just a little too much? A new play, comp...
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Valparaiso

Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 West 28th Street  10/20/2005 to 11/5/2005
Michael Majeski's simple business trip to Indiana becomes a journey of comical and endearing mishaps, turning him into a minor celebrity. Michael offers his story to radio, filmmakers, and talk show hosts, but the spotlight requires more. This modern fable takes you to a place where intimacy is impo...
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Agamemnon

  10/19/2005 to 11/11/2005
For ten years, in the absence of her husband, King Agamemnon, Clytemnestra has ruled over a city left vacant by its men fighting the Trojan War. Upon learning of Agamemnon’s victorious return, Clytemnestra seeks revenge against her husband for the murder of their oldest child. Centered around the...
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Rebound & Gagged

McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway, 4th Floor  10/15/2005 to 11/6/2005
From the Playwright of Straight Jacket & Ti, comes a comedy about getting older, getting over a broken heart, and getting over the fact that oldies radio stations have started playing "The Eurythmics."...
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Series A - Fall Eatfest

Theatre on 5, 311 W. 43rd St 5th fl  11/1/2005 to 11/19/2005
4 original short play premieres...
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Series B - Fall Eatfest

Theatre on 5, 311 W. 43rd St 5th fl  11/2/2005 to 11/20/2005
4 original short play premieres...
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Series C - Fall Eatfest

Theatre on 5, 311 W. 43rd St 5th fl  11/3/2005 to 11/20/2005
4 original short play premieres...
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A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  10/21/2005 to 11/20/2005
Passions & protocal collide on a Russian estate in the 1800's. This dark comedy by the famous novelist, Ivan Turgenev, was banned when first published. Come and see why! ...
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Saint Oedipus

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/20/2005 to 10/30/2005
La MaMa ETC is renowned as a venue for the finest in Polish theater. This time it is the acclaimed Wierszalin Theater from Bialystok in eastern Poland, twice winner of the Best of the Fringe Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Blending elements from the Gesta Romanorum (the 14th century Deeds ...
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Coronado

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  11/30/2005 to 12/17/2005
In a nameless bar somewhere in rural America, a young couple falls hopelessly in love, a psychiatric patient confronts her demons, and a father and son search for a missing woman... and a stolen diamond. A searing depiction of the crimes we commit in the name of love, Coronado takes us into the min...
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size ate

Theatre on 5, 311 W. 43rd St 5th fl  11/5/2005 to 11/19/2005
How many of us have thought that things would be better if we could just be the perfect size 8? 10? 12? The perfect ... whatever? Margaux Laskey’s new one-woman show, size ate, chronicles this futile quest for measured perfection in a theatrical, sometimes musical and often hysterical retelling o...
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Office Sonata

Irish Arts Center, 553 W. 51st St.  12/2/2005 to 12/11/2005
In OFFICE SONATA, young employees just starting out in life get a bizarre and hilarious crash course in the ways of Corporate America at the Empie Advertising Agency, a powerful company with its own twisted views on how to increase productivity....
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Radiotheatre Presents KING KONG

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  11/30/2005 to 12/21/2005
The classic adventure fantasy tale of beauty and the beast in the 20th Century. ...
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Hamlet: The Tragedy of the Prince of Denmark

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  11/3/2005 to 11/20/2005
A new adaptation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet," staged on an all-black set using handmade costumes and props, Kanako Hiyama's "Hamlet" places the King in the audience's midst, recasting spectators as members of the Court. An always-present Ghost introduces the story and observes the action from among t...
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Love! Valour! Compassion!

T. Schreiber Studio, 151 W. 26th St., 7th fl. (between 6th and 7th)  11/10/2005 to 12/11/2005
The story gathers together eight gay men over three summer weekends at the upstate New York house of a celebrated dancer-choreographer who fears he is losing his creativity and possibly his lover. Infidelity, flirtations, soul-searching, AIDS, truth-telling and skinny-dipping mix monumental question...
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The 8: Reindeer Monologues

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  11/18/2005 to 12/17/2005
Sex, Lies & Santa - The Reindeer Spill All! The jolly old elf himself is at the top of the naughty list this year and you won't believe what his 8 most trusted reindeer have to say. Come see this tragic tale of how sex, alcohol, pedophilia and rampant bestiality threatened the very existence of Chri...
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The Lady Cavaliers: Signature Stories

Greenwich Street Theatre, 547 Greenwich Street  12/1/2005 to 1/10/2006
THE LADY CAVALIERS: SIGNATURE STORIES is comprised of 5 short plays. Each work is an action-packed historically inspired look at women, who long before the women’s liberation movement and feminism, were strong, self-reliant, protector of rights--role models for today’s modern women....
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Five Days with Dylan

Producers Club II, 616 Ninth Avenue, Btwn 43rd and 44th Streets  12/7/2005 to 12/18/2005
Aching Dogs Theater is proud to present a new play by Pamela Scott, FIVE DAYS WITH DYLAN, that is a searing drama which explores friendship, motherhood, love and loss. Under the directon of Nye Heron, the cast of eighteen actors, bring to life the event that is motherhood: the discovery of an unpla...
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A Broken Christmas Carol

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  12/8/2005 to 12/30/2005
This Ain't Your Daddy's Dickens. It's a Broken take on a classic as three playwrights conspire to irreverently update Dickens' masterpiece for the 21st Century. Scrooge gets shoved out of the spotlight when two Jewish kids search for the true meaning of Christmas, a lapsed homeboy is spooked into ke...
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I Wanna Be Rosie

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/2/2005 to 12/18/2005
“I Wanna Be Rosie”, a new work by Bev Petty, is an impressionist portrait of America’s Sweetheart “Girl Singer” Rosemary Clooney. This cabaret revue takes a rollercoaster ride through Rosie’s life, which like those “fabulous fifties tunes” hides more sensuality, sadness and shrewdness than it shows ...
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Balletto Stiletto

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/1/2005 to 12/18/2005
Move over Radio City! Say “bah-humbug” to A Christmas Carol and “nuts” to The Nutcracker! A new holiday tradition, "BALLETTO STILETTO", is a non-denominational holiday spectacular based on the Grimm fairy tale “The 12 Dancing Princesses.” Produced by Watson Arts, "BALLETTO STILETTO" is conceived and...
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A Very Nosedive Christmas Carol

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  12/8/2005 to 12/17/2005
Due to both popular demand and the exorbitant amount of fun the company had staging it last year, Nosedive Productions is rehelming their version of A Christmas Carol for a second time at a new venue and a new time. Writer James Comtois and director Pete Boisvert's version of the Charles Dickens c...
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Revenge 2

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  12/3/2005 to 12/17/2005
Exploration of the theme of "revenge" through a series of diverse one-acts....
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Greyhounds

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  2/2/2006 to 2/19/2006
Circumstance brings together two very different women, a provoative loner and a surpressed housewife, at a rural bus stop in Oklahoma. A horrible discovery proves to be the catalyst for revelationa and transformation....
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Golgotha

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/15/2005 to 12/22/2005
A Stirring journey into the past of Albert, a Holocaust survivor from Salonica, this monodrama reveals, through the blending of video and music, the story of the Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jews who were sent to the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps....
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Stangers & Linguish

Mint Space, 311 W 43rd St., 5th Fl.  1/5/2006 to 1/28/2006
Part of the NEUROFEST STRANGERS and LINGUISH Written and directed by Edward Einhorn Untitled Theater Co. #61 Conditions dealt with: Amnesia (Korsakov's Syndrome) and Aphasia LINGUISH posits a disease which causes aphasia, the neurological disorder that takes away one's ability to use lang...
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Avalon

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  2/2/2006 to 2/25/2006
A retelling of the King Arthur story from the perspective of the women behind the throne. Journey with us to the mystical land of England in time full of romance, quests, sorceresses and magic....
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Doctors Jane and Alexander

Theatre on 5, 311 W. 43rd St 5th fl  1/7/2006 to 1/28/2006
Part of the NEUROShorts program of Untitled Theater Co. #61's NEUROFest. Playwright Edward Einhorn takes text from his interviews with his mother, a psychologist now suffering from dementia, about his grandfather, a hematologist who discovered the Rh factor. Mixing those interviews with interviews ...
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Vestibular

Mint Space, 311 W 43rd St., 5th Fl.  1/7/2006 to 1/28/2006
As vertigo routinely attacks a former dancer stricken with Meniere's Disease, an informal conversation with his nurse turns into a revelation that challenges the idea of dependency as a passive force. Vestibular is a short piece presented in the NEUROshorts program, part of the NEUROfestival produce...
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The Dog in the Manger

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  1/6/2006 to 2/4/2006
Quinnopolis, NY has adapted Lope de Vega's classic comedy about a violent love-triangle using three actors, found-object puppets, and live music....
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Separating the Men from the Bull

Laurie Beechman Theatre/West Bank Cafe, 407 W. 42nd St.   1/28/2006 to 2/19/2006
In this tour-de-force comedy, 2 actors portray various characters in seven inventive and insightful vignettes that expose the intricacies of male friendships. A unique, smart and silly romp through the trials and tribulations of being male. "I laughed out loud and held my breath at tender moments....
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Have You Ever Seen a Dream Rapping?

Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd Street  2/3/2006 to 2/18/2006
A celebration of Black History Month, young people bring to the stage original performances honoring the life of Martin Luther King, Jr....
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Rock the Line

  2/9/2006 to 2/26/2006
7 rock groupies wait in line and that is just the beginning of the fun in this rockin comedy...
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The Kitchen Table

  2/8/2006 to 2/26/2006
A boy's memory play of growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950's....
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Edenville

  2/7/2006 to 2/25/2006
a comedy about a gay man's search for Mr Right and his journey to Edenville ...
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Book of the Dun Cow

West End Theater, 263 West 86th  2/4/2006 to 2/26/2006
Set in a time when the sun turned round the earth and animals could speak, The Book of the Dun Cow is a powerful, uplifting new musical adapted from Walter Wangerin Jr.'s National Book Award winning novel. Chauntecleer, an all too human Rooster, battles the evil forces of Wyrm for nothing less than ...
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Good Enough To Be True

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  3/3/2006 to 3/19/2006
The Long and Short of It is a play about four friends who are each stuck in a rut, and the things they do, or fail to do, to get themselves out of it. The darkly humorous drama takes place over the course of three years; the scenes spill out, overlapping and out of order, painting a slow portrait of...
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Delicious Rivers

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/13/2006 to 2/5/2006
DELICIOUS RIVERS, written and composed by Ellen Maddow was created by the same OBIE award-winning team that brought you PAINTED SNAKE IN A PAINTED CHAIR: direction - Paul Zimet, Set Design - Nic Ularu, Lighting - Carol Mullins, Costumes - Kiki Smith, Choreography - Karinne Keithley. In addition the...
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Major Barbara

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/12/2006 to 1/29/2006
The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf, led by director Brooke O'Harra and composer Brendan Connelly, is perceived as one of the standout young companies to work at La MaMa in recent years. The case includes longtime Open Theater member and Two-headed Calf regular Tina Shepard, Printer's Devil star Heidi ...
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The Ride

Seventh Street Small Stage, 41-43 East 7th Street  2/1/2006 to 2/6/2006
The story of an electrician hired to restore power to a country inn on a stormy winter night who encounters a mysterious woman in the dark is the second play in a series of three ghost story one-acts by Crystal Skillman....
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GOATS

Garment District Theater, 302 W 37th Street  1/25/2006 to 2/12/2006
A solo show with politics, mysticism, goatherding and cheese....
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Greener

Bank Street Theatre, 155 Bank Street  2/14/2006 to 2/26/2006
A supernatural thriller set entirely in a cemetery, GREENER is about a group of friends who gather together on the eve of their 10-year high school reunion after one has committed suicide--an identical twin who's spirit is in a major state of unrest. Haunted by their own inner demons as well as actu...
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Heddatron

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  2/8/2006 to 2/25/2006
Les Freres Corbusier finally transforms Ibsen's classic into something truly well-made: A robot. Half a dozen of them. Live onstage. Really. Les Freres continues its irreverent massacre of historical icons and academic esoterica by taking on famed playwright Henrik Ibsen, the well-made play, a...
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Temple

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  2/23/2006 to 3/11/2006
In an America divided by sexual identity a band of revolutionaries unite in the shadow of our nation's capitol for the ultimate act of civil disobedience....
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Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind 2006

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  1/28/2006 to 5/27/2006
An ever-changing attempt to perform 30 original plays in 60 minutes. Every Friday and Saturday night at 10:30pm, The New York Neo-Futurists perform their critically acclaimed, energetic show of original short plays—a non-illusory collage of the comic and tragic, the political and personal, the visc...
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Kiss and Cry

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  2/12/2006 to 3/12/2006
Stacy, a champion male figure skater, and Fiona, a hot young movie star, are the nations favorite couple...a long as nobody finds out they're both gay....
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Living Dead In Denmark

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  5/4/2006 to 5/21/2006
LIVING DEAD IN DENMARK is an action-adventure/horror sequel to William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Set five years after the events of the original, the play follows the story of a newly resurrected Ophelia, Juliet, & Lady Macbeth and their quest to save Denmark from an impending zombie invasion. This high...
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The Emperor Jones

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  2/2/2006 to 2/12/2006
Arthur Adair directs Eugene O'Neill's "The Emperor Jones" for Black History Month, and re-envisions the play's legacy, which is racially charged, with purity: without pop culture or irony. What has evolved is an experiment in recasting the play with a Greek mold. "The Emperor Jones" (1920) depicts ...
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Inside Out

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  2/23/2006 to 3/19/2006
InsideOut is a theatre/video hybrid performance piece where actors, cows, cameras, and projections interact equally to create a piece that questions identity, revenge, hell, and beef in America. InsideOut is the story of an ordinary man who wakes up trapped. We struggle with Harold as he attempts to...
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Spring's Awakening

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  3/9/2006 to 4/2/2006
SPRING'S AWAKENING depicts the onset of puberty as violent and chaotic. Reptilian impulses erupt in children who are terrorized by an adult world sunk deep in neurotic denial. SPRING'S AWAKENING is no after-school special. One boy has suicidal tendencies as he struggles with his shock over the facts...
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FULL BLOOM

Vital Theatre Company, 2162 Broadway, 4th Floor  3/16/2006 to 4/2/2006
A 15- year old struggles with her newly found beauty....
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Silence is Health/Silencio es Salud

Milagro Theatre -- CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  2/23/2006 to 3/4/2006
Based on official documents, testimonies, historical research and analyses of similar periods in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Israel and the United States, Silence Is Health is an aesthetic approach to the pressing debate on human rights, warning us of the symptoms of a horr...
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Valiant

Laurie Beechman Theatre/West Bank Cafe, 407 W. 42nd St.   2/24/2006 to 3/11/2006
Valiant is a multi-media docudrama featuring thirteen women's word-for-word accounts of their courageous, devastating and sometimes humorous experiences of war. From victim to perpetrator to peacemaker, these women from all over the world have fought, struggled and survived. Their stories are chron...
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The Ends of the Earth

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  3/16/2006 to 3/26/2006
A comedy, tragedy, and mystery, "The Ends of the Earth" is a tale of mirrored paranoia and miscommunication. Two men journey to a hotel at the end of the earth where they collide into what they are escaping... each other. ...
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Death and the Ploughman

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  2/9/2006 to 2/26/2006
Actor/director Peter S. Case, a Resident Artist of La MaMa ETC and member of the Great Jones Repertory, will stage his own five-character theatrical adaptation of "Death and the Ploughman" (Der Ackermann aus Bohmen, 1400) by Johannes von Saaz in La MaMa's First Floor Theater. The adaptation, based ...
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The Territory

West End Theater, 263 West 86th  3/10/2006 to 4/1/2006
THE TERRITORY by Tanya Krohn. Two surreal fables of suburbia examine how we search for safety and security in the face of chaos and senselessness. In Part I, a man’s junk mail begins stalking him. In Part II a Home Security Salesman refuses to give up on District 3 despite the residents' confound...
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Sodom's Wife

Phil Bosakowski Theatre, 354 West 45th Street  3/16/2006 to 4/9/2006
Ripple Productions world premier of their original work inspired by the story of the destruction of Sodom....
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The Crucible

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  5/11/2006 to 5/21/2006
Arthur Miller's Classic Story that encapsules fear, Bigotry and religious mania. The story focuses upon a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife's arrest for witchcraft. The farmer brings the girl to court to admit the lie—and it is here that the monstrous c...
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The Trojan Women

TADA! Theater, 15 West 28th Street  3/16/2006 to 4/1/2006
Poseidon and Athena tell of the fall of the Trojan regime, informing us that tough decisions will have to be made in its wake. Journalist Talthybius follows the fate of the vanquished, using Geraldo-style tactics to land exclusive interviews with Helen and Andromache. Poseidon leads a political roun...
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Odchodzi (Passing Away)

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  2/16/2006 to 3/5/2006
"Odchodzi (Passing Away)" is the 17th theatrical production realized by Leszek Madzik and Scena Plastyczna KUL. The creator and director of Scena Plastyczna KUL since 1969, Leszek Madzik is revered in Poland and acclaimed abroad as a unique and remarkably consistent artist who has refined his vision...
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Devil Land

Urban Stages, 259 West 30th Street  4/14/2006 to 5/7/2006
Based on a true kidnapping, GRINCH is a gothic tale about a couple in the Bronx who kidnap a ten year old girl and keeps her in their basement in a misguided attempt at creating a family. The little girl however has other ideas. Protected by her terrifying and perhaps not-so-imaginary friend Grinc...
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THE PALOOKA

The Access Theater, 380 Broadway, 4th floor   3/2/2006 to 3/12/2006
1950's Philadelphia. A professional boxer struggle to escape a risky world of seduction, danger, and vanishing loyalties....
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EATFest: Spring 2006 - Series A

  3/7/2006 to 3/25/2006
4 new short plays...
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EATFest: Spring 2006 - Series B

  3/8/2006 to 3/26/2006
3 new short plays...
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EATFest: Spring 2006 - Series C

  3/9/2006 to 3/26/2006
3 new short plays...
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The US Premiere of 'Skin Tight'

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  4/5/2006 to 4/23/2006
Winner of all awards at the 1998 Edinburg Fringe Festival, Skin Tight premiered in 1994 at the Bats Theatre, where it played to packed houses. This work from New Zea- land, inspired by Denis Glover’s poem “ The Magpies,” tells the intimate story of a rural marriage, where Tom and Elizabeth enga...
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Mrs. California

  3/15/2006 to 4/1/2006
The time is pre-women's lib 1955, the place a Los Angeles hotel, where a homemakers contest is in progress -- the winner to embody the epitome (at the time) of the ideal woman: "a happy, good and beautiful homemaker." Entered as Mrs. L.A., Dot, sponsored by the local gas company, vies with the other...
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L'Ultima Notte di Salome (The Last Night of Salome)

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  3/9/2006 to 3/19/2006
"L'ultima notte di Salomè" (The Last Night of Salome), a black comedy by Emanuele Vacchetto, evokes the mythic Fifties, the period of la dolce vita, Fellini and Callas, the star system in Italy, and magical nights at the theater before the advent of television. The play is a duet for two women--a fa...
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The Madness of Lady Bright

Duplex, 61 Christopher Street  4/11/2006 to 5/3/2006
On a hot afternoon in the city and with only a telephone for company Leslie Bright is going slowly but steadily mad. Originally produced in 1967 at the legendary Cafe Cino, Lanford Wilson's THE MADNESS OF LADY BRIGHT is a stunningly theatrical examination of a lonely and desperate gay man's str...
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Zarathustra Said Some Things. No?

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  4/20/2006 to 5/21/2006
Incest. Suicide. Matricide. A comedy in one act....
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Cupid & Psyche

Altered Stages, 212 West 29th Street  4/7/2006 to 4/30/2006
A contemporary comedy adapted from the ancient mythological story. When Cupid, the god of love, is sent by his mother, Aphrodite, to destroy the most beautiful woman in the world, he hits a snag when he finds himself falling in love with her. With the help of his servant, Runt, and the god Apollo, h...
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Macbeth

American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, 4th Floor  5/10/2006 to 5/21/2006
Traditional staging of Shakespeare's tragic masterpiece with original music...
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TRILOGY

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  3/16/2006 to 4/2/2006
March 16 (Thur) 7:30pm Helen/Odyssey March 17 (Fri) 7:30pm Helen/Odyssey March 18 (Sat) 7:30pm Iphigenia/Helen March 19 (Sun) 2:30pm Iphigenia 7:30pm Helen/Odyssey March 23 (Thur) 7:30pm Helen/Odyssey March 24 (Fri) 7:30pm Iphigenia/Oddysey March 25 (Sat) 7:30pm Iphigenia/Helen Mar...
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How I Learned To Drive

T. Schreiber Studio, 151 W. 26th St., 7th fl. (between 6th and 7th)  3/16/2006 to 4/2/2006
The T. Schreiber Studio is proud to present Paula Vogel’s HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE. Inspired by Nabakov's Lolita, HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE is a poignant love story of two star crossed lovers and a "village that stood by and let it happen." The play reflects a young woman's journey to adulthood, told wit...
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IN DELIRIUM: after the sorrows of young werther

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  4/1/2006 to 4/23/2006
A new adaptation of Goethe's iconic novel about a tormented young "seeking the infinite" in an art he cannot master and a woman he cannot have....
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Locomotive

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  5/4/2006 to 5/20/2006
thru the constant rumblings of a nearby freight train, a mother, father and daughter struggle to stay aboard as their disintegrating family screeches forward by the impelling force of alcohol and the aftershocks thereof. ...
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Seven.11 Convenience Theatre

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  3/30/2006 to 4/23/2006
Seven 11-minute plays all set in a convenience store. Better than Ho-Ho's!...
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Action/Cowboys#2/Chicago

The Big Little Theatre, 141 Ridge St.  4/21/2006 to 5/13/2006
Three of Sam Shepard's early one-act plays, highlighting many of his personal philosophies. Though separate productions, creative casting and common themes provide a thru line by which the plays are connected in a three-act structure. Part of the ongoing MCTC Sam Shepard Festival....
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Little Eyolf

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 123 4th Ave, 2nd FL  4/14/2006 to 5/7/2006
LITTLE EYOLF is a biting portrait of a marriage poisoned by doubt and self-delusion that illuminates Ibsen's reputation as a precursor to Freud—not to mention Shepard and Albee—and illustrates why his characters continue to resonate with today's audience. A tragic accident within the Allmers’ family...
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Convergence

New York Irish Centre, 1040 Jackson Avenue  3/30/2006 to 4/14/2006
Convergence is the stunning conclusion to the Force series by playwright and director Bryn Manion. In a play that spans three continents, a war journalist, a mechanic, an artist, an humanitarian aid worker and a science teacher plunge into painfully normal and profoundly extreme moments in time when...
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They're Just Like Us

  3/29/2006 to 4/15/2006
The slow kid wants the wannabe rap star to come to his birthday party. The wannabe rap star wants to be famous. The famous actress wants to be unknown. And the four unknowns will do anything to be famous....
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Iron Curtain: A New Musical Commie-dy

West End Theater, 263 West 86th  4/8/2006 to 4/30/2006
There's no communism like show communism! 1950's Broadway infiltrates communist espionage in this original musical farce. An unsuccessful composer / lyricist team is kidnapped by the KGB and forced to ghost-write Soviet propaganda musicals. Will they choose fame or freedom? ...
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Bloody Mary

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center,   4/26/2006 to 5/13/2006
Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Katharine of Aragon and thousands of Whores, Princes, Monks, Jews, Heretics, Doctors, and even his Holiness in Rome gather in a dizzying blend of epic history and genuine smut, the likes of which hasn't been seen since Bob Guccione's Caligula. Except funnier, an...
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Marvin's Room

T. Schreiber Studio, 151 W. 26th St., 7th fl. (between 6th and 7th)  4/15/2006 to 5/13/2006

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a very funny and touching look at a family's sturggle to reunite against the backdrop of death, dying and redemtion...
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Stage Kiss

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  5/3/2006 to 5/27/2006
Boy meets boy. Boy falls for boy. Turns out both guys are dolls. What's a girl to do? In Stolen Chair’s newest collective creation Stage Kiss, a bawdy gender-bent romantic comedy in blank verse, love is blind…and lust is blinder....
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Freak Winds

  4/1/2006 to 4/22/2006
Australian psyshological thriller, dark comedy. Very funny and quite disturbing....
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Two Yeats Plays

Independent Theatre, 52A West 8th Street  4/5/2006 to 4/15/2006
Two plays by William Butler Yeats, "The Cat and the Moon" (comedy) and "The Only Jealousy of Emer" (tragedy). Yeats presents stories from Irish mythology in a form inspired by Japanese Noh drama....
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Little Red: Lost in the Woods

Morocco Studio, 6 West 20th Street, 2nd Floor  4/28/2006 to 5/8/2006
Little Red: Lost in the Woods brings you the exclusive investigation of the story that’s gripping the nation; a young girl in a red hood has been attacked by an “allegedly” big bad wolf. Make up your own mind, if you can, as you witness the multi-media frenzy that consumes the truth of this classic...
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The Debate Plays

Phil Bosakowski Theatre, 354 West 45th Street  4/8/2006 to 5/13/2006
An evening of three interconnected comedies by Mat Smart. ...
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Identity Crisis

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  4/6/2006 to 5/25/2006
Join Betty; no maybe it’s Anastasia? Or maybe it’s Tiffani? … Join her on her journey to figuring out exactly who she is… In this hysterical new comedy Identity Crisis by Marc Castle....
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Cul de Sac

Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  4/20/2006 to 5/13/2006
A new comedy by John Cariani...
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  4/28/2006 to 5/14/2006
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard's funny, absurd, and tragic play which centers on Hamlet minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, in their misadventures and musings enroute to their inevitable end. Often compared to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Rosencrantz and Guild...
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Forever Plaid

Greek Cultural Center, 27-18 Hoyt Avenue South  4/28/2006 to 5/14/2006
“Forever Plaid” is a deliciously goofy musical revue that centers on four young, eager male singers that were killed in a car crash on the way to their first big concert back in the ‘50s. ...
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The Hamlet Plays - 1

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  4/29/2006 to 5/14/2006
The Hamlet Plays are a showcase of the Milk Can Theatre’s Artistic Associates’ work in ten-minute form. Each playwright has randomly chosen a character from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and written a ten-minute play inspired by that character. ...
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The Hamlet Plays - 2

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  4/29/2006 to 5/14/2006
The Hamlet Plays are a showcase of the Milk Can Theatre’s Artistic Associates’ work in ten-minute form. Each playwright has randomly chosen a character from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and written a ten-minute play inspired by that character. ...
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Penetralia

Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 West 28th Street  5/4/2006 to 5/20/2006
The inhabitants of Penetralia live in the secure knowledge that all business is everyone's business. A communication system, both advanced and ancient, keeps everyone in the know. But the idyll is forever disrupted by a disturbing discovery, as a mild-mannered Professor fully realizes his mind's pot...
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A Night Near the Sun

The Black Box Theatre @ 440 Studios, 440 Lafayette Street (3rd Floor)  5/12/2006 to 5/27/2006
A young girl disappears for three days before waking up along the side of the interstate, setting off a series of events that culminates in tragedy. A Night Near the Sun explores the consequences of alienation, alien abduction and obsession in small town USA....
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THE PIGMAN OF DELANCEY STREET

Dillons Lounge, 245 W. 54th ST  5/14/2006 to 6/3/2006
Alligators in the sewers! The Fee Gee Mermaid! Albino Cannibals Roaming the Subways? Bodies Under The Floorboards! Who dares to wear the DEADLY fur coat? Involuntary Organ Donors! The Murderous Midtown Minister! What Horror Lies Beyond The Cellar Door? Night of the Gargoyles! The year tho...
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The Singapore Mikado

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  4/28/2006 to 5/28/2006
You are invited to be a guest at holiday party on December 10, 1941, given by the British consul, Sir Evelyn Estebrooke, where the entertainment is "The Mikado," performed by friends of the Singapore community.Occuring just days after the raid on Pearl Harbor, the Brits aim to thumb their collective...
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Better Living

T. Schreiber Studio, 151 W. 26th St., 7th fl. (between 6th and 7th)  5/25/2006 to 6/25/2006
Three grown daughters try to find their own personal ways to deal with their dysfunctional parents in this darkly comic play. The mother is an unorthodox woman with out-of-the-ordinary ideas, including one where she takes a jackhammer to the basement floor of their house to build a cavern where the ...
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Mustard

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  4/28/2006 to 5/14/2006
Mustard: A Play. A Love Story. "Mustard" is a renegade adaptation of Ibsen's "A Doll's House," performed by Ordinary Theater, written and directed by Mitchell Polin, who specializes in "re-mix" as a formalized theatrical tool of process and structure. Falling somewhere between "Happenings," ritual...
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The Dentist (Or Be Careful What You Put In Your Mouth)

Manhattan Repertory Theater, 303 W. 42nd St  5/4/2006 to 5/27/2006
With bedtime stories by French maids, magic candy from flying witches, succulent borscht from the Dells of Wisconsin, and a healthy dose of uncontrolled nymphomania and sword-swashbuckling, this raucous, absurd farce is better than nitrous oxide! Open wide and say AAAAAAAH!

Pantalone, he of ...
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SECURITY

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  6/9/2006 to 6/25/2006

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10 short plays about the greatest political commodity since water and the most sought after and vied for commodity amongst us all....
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The Death of Little Ibsen

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  5/1/2006 to 5/26/2006
Undead literary giant Henrik Ibsen and his puppet alter ego “Little Ibsen” ride on the back of a pig toward their last earthly battle. Inspired by Ibsen’s life and work, and featuring expressive puppets created by Kirjan Waage, “The Death of Lttle Ibsen” is a dark comedy about the poet and playwrigh...
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We Women Do It Better

Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Avenue  5/26/2006 to 6/18/2006
An attractive psychologist gives a Workshop exploring SEXUAL AWAKENING, MARRIAGE & DIVORCE, and LOVE at 50....
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Marat/Sade

The Access Theater, 380 Broadway, 4th floor   6/1/2006 to 7/1/2006
Peter Weiss's classic drama about asylum inmates staging a play under the direction of the Marquis de Sade...
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TAPE

StudioTheatre, 416 W 42nd St., (Off 9th Ave)  5/31/2006 to 6/11/2006
Jon, an aspiring filmmaker on the verge of hitting it big, hooks up for the weekend with his best friend from high school, Vince, a volunteer fireman who makes his money selling dope. Jon's new film is being shown at a festival in Lansing, Michigan, and Vince has come from Oakland to see it. Over th...
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Cherish - US Premiere

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  6/7/2006 to 6/25/2006
A US Premiere of an award winning play about two gay couples and a surrogacy dispute....
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East Village Chronicles, Vol. 3

Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  6/22/2006 to 7/2/2006

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A series of new, one-act plays inspired by famous and infamous residents of the Lower East Side....
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Angel Mountain

Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  7/6/2006 to 7/29/2006
You CAN go home. However...Angel Mountain. Coming July 2006...
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Herakles Via Phaedra

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  5/18/2006 to 6/11/2006

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Adapted and directed by Ellen Stewart, HERAKLES VIA PHAEDRA combines the myths of Herakles (also known as Hercules) and Phaedra, placing them amongst the flappers, bootleggers and jazz babies of the 1920's. (This marks Ms. Stewart's second time visiting the Herakles legend - a very different product...
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Sisters

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  5/18/2006 to 6/4/2006

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"Sister" by Mario Fratti depicts the strains of an Italian family in which a teenage son, wise beyond his years, lives uneasily with his 59 year-old mother and his thirty-something sister. The boy is blessed with a professorial vocabulary and cursed with a judgmental mind. He resents his sister's de...
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The Knight of the Burning Pestle

Jackson Ave Steakhouse, 12-23 Jackson Ave.  7/12/2006 to 7/23/2006

A troupe of actors are about to begin The London Merchant, a quaint play centering on middle-class characters, when a pair of rough-and-tumble working-class spectators and their apprentice, Rafe, interrupt the action and demand to see a play about a Grocer-Errant battling bloodthirsty “giants,” wooi...
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Two Destinies

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  7/7/2006 to 7/30/2006
Two Destinies is a poignant story set in 1967, of an American veteran meeting a man who claims to be the son he never knew he had. Who is the crazy one?...
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Nerve

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  6/8/2006 to 7/1/2006

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A dark romantic comedy about falling in love on the first date....
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The Australia Project

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  6/15/2006 to 7/2/2006

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By turns whimsical, penetrating and evocative, 13 brand new plays explore the relationship between the United States and Australia. A group of the most celebrated playwrights in the United States create projects inspired by the Land Down Under....
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Hamlet 1603: The First Quarto

Stella Adler Studio, 31 W. 27th Street, 2nd Floor  7/8/2006 to 7/29/2006

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Shakespeare's First Quarto version of the quintessential revenge play. This is a rare opportunity to see the first publication of Shakespeare’s most famous play. Presented uncut, this Hamlet is shorter and leaner and in many ways a “different play.” Experience a famous classic in a new way - see i...
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Priscilla

Stella Adler Studio, 31 W. 27th Street, 2nd Floor  7/7/2006 to 7/29/2006

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Jeff Love takes Shakespeare's Hamlet and gives it a new twist with a woman as the protagonist. Will Priscilla choose a life of love and security or will she lose herself amid the unraveling revelations surrounding her mother's suspicious death?...
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Trouble in Paradise

Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street  6/15/2006 to 7/8/2006
world premiere stage adaptation of 1932 ErnstLubitsch film about lovers and thieves; featuring original score by Steven Bernstein and the Millennial Territory Orchestra...
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The Terrorist

Laurie Beechman Theatre/West Bank Cafe, 407 W. 42nd St.   6/8/2006 to 6/24/2006

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The Terrorist by Howard Pflanzer. Directed by David Paul Willinger With: Alice Connorton* Jonathan Teague Cook* George Tynan Crowley* Miriam Tabb *appears courtesy Actor's Equity A dark comedy about a man who must outwit and outmaneuver a government agent bent on labeling him as a terro...
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Men Eat Mars Bars While Touching Their Penis

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  6/29/2006 to 7/15/2006

Dixie, Ginger, Chanel

WORKING MAN’S CLOTHES PRODUCTIONS proudly presents the world premier of ‘Men Eat Mars Bars While Touching Their Penis’, Jennifer Slack-Eaton’s hypnotizing, heartfelt and gut wrenching play about the life and experiences of an exotic dancer in the modern world. Executive Director Jared Culverhouse t...
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The Adventures of Nervous-Boy (a penny dreadful)

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  6/8/2006 to 7/8/2006

In the new black-as-death comedy-horror play from Nosedive Productions, the cruelly-named Nervous Boy wanders around a grotesque nightmare version of the city and comes across New Yorkers of every kind, from rude cell phone users, belligerent alcoholics, pretentious academics, screaming couples, dem...
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Weasel Erotica

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  8/4/2006 to 8/26/2006

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The Talented Talent Brothers return with an army of singing and dancing weasels in this madcap farce about a group of misfits trying to save a zoo....
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Three Sisters

Seventh Street Small Stage, 41-43 East 7th Street  7/10/2006 to 7/19/2006

Photo by Daniel Talbott

Three sisters Olga, Irina and Masha gather in a downtown Manhattan restaurant to celebrate Irina’s birthday. Along the way they drink too much wine, share vicodin, commiserate about unhappy love lives and exile to the outer boroughs, and wonder whether they will ever be able to afford their beloved ...
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KING LEAR

Central Park, The lawn below The Dairy - enter at 66th Street  6/17/2006 to 7/24/2006
King Lear in parks throughout the city...
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Jitter

ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street  6/15/2006 to 7/1/2006

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One act comedy...
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Blood Wedding

Walkerspace, 46 Walker Street  7/21/2006 to 8/5/2006
Frederico Garcia Lorca's allegorical tale of the escalating violence in pre-civil war Spain....
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Never Tell

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  7/22/2006 to 8/13/2006
What's your dirty little secret? Just what are you hiding from your friends? More importantly, what are they hiding from you? You're about to find out the hard way that friends aren't always loyal; lovers don't always tell the truth; and you can never ever trust your boss. ...
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Greed: a Musical Love $tory

The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave  8/10/2006 to 8/26/2006


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Brutality of Fact

Urban Stages, 259 West 30th Street  8/17/2006 to 9/10/2006

Brutality of Fact is a dark comedy about a fractured family of women. After a death in the family, five women examine their own lives and how religion, alcoholism, senility, love, sex, and divorce have affected their sanity, for better and for worse....
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The Prostitute of Reverie Valley

Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  8/11/2006 to 8/26/2006

When a prostitute decides to leave her mysterious town, a john tries to stop her... and reveals shocking secrets. Who were her parents? How did she get there? Why are certain urges forbidden to her? And how does she get out?...
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Hurt So Good

Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 3rd Floor  8/31/2006 to 9/16/2006

Meet Tom, boy next door and aspiring documentary filmmaker. Meet Cecily, the girl of his dreams and loving submissive who wants Tom to be her erotic Master...Wait, what?! Follow the journey of one man exploring the world of BDSM as he rediscovers who he is and what he's capable of becoming for the...
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The Kung Fu Importance of Being Earnest

The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave  7/14/2006 to 8/26/2006

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Two English gentlemen in the 1890s secretly use the name "Ernest" in their double lives. Until they fall for English ladies who cherish honesty. They settle their differences according to the ancienth methods of the Shaolin monks....
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The Horton Foote Project

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  8/6/2006 to 8/29/2006

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Anna Christie

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  9/7/2006 to 9/24/2006
After 20 years, Anna is reunited with her father Chris Christopherson, a barge captain who has come to regard all evil and misfortune as the work of "dat old davil sea." Destiny hurtles toward Anna as she falls in love with the strapping stoker Mat Burke - while Chris tries desperately to change her...
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Turning Tables

Collective Unconscious, 279 Church Street  9/28/2006 to 10/15/2006
Written and performed by Coffee Cup (a theatre co), Turning Tables is a fast paced original comedy about first impressions, told through the eyes of waiters. Fear not! No bitter waiter rants here. A true ensemble cast, Coffee Cup seamlessly weaves together five stories to create one jam-packed eveni...
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Glass Highways

Jan Hus Playhouse, 351 East 74th Street   10/5/2006 to 10/30/2006
Native American man with the assistance of his brother tries to marry a caucasian girl against the wishes of her three brothers and father, and against the backdrop of the worst blizzard in New Mexico history....
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The Ugly Man

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  9/14/2006 to 10/1/2006
When a hideously scarred drifter arrives looking for work both mother and daughter attempt to use him to their own selfish ends, risking tragedy for everyone....
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Fenway: Last of the Bohemians

Chashama, 217 East 42nd Street  11/3/2006 to 11/19/2006
It’s 1986- and conservatism is sweeping the nation. Can the ideals of the Aquarian Age stand up to the glitter of Reaganomics?...
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Buried Child

The Access Theater, 380 Broadway, 4th floor   10/4/2006 to 11/7/2006

Think you know the story? Think again...

Winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize, this blackly humerous and mysterious play is a vision of a dysfinctional family symbolic of the loss of innocence in America....
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Hamlet

Atlantic Stage 2, 330 W 16th St  9/7/2006 to 9/16/2006

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Love In The Insecurity Zone

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  9/9/2006 to 9/30/2006

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In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  2/2/2007 to 2/18/2007
Written in 1969, during an experimental phase in Mr. Williams’ career, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel depicts the tragic demise of a famous American painter and his desperate wife. Set in a Tokyo Hotel Bar, the piece juxtaposes a deeply personal American experience against the cultural backdrop of an e...
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The Frogs

Summit Rock, Central Park @ W 83rd Street  9/9/2006 to 9/30/2006

The Frogs! A Commedia Romp

In yet another ambitious undertaking RSP has enlisted one of its resident playwrights, Jason Tyne to put a new spin on a beloved classic. Rachel Klein, Rising Sun's newest resident director will lead a stellar multi talented cast of RSP ensemble members & guest artists through this circusy comedia r...
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Trojan Woman 2.0

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  9/9/2006 to 9/24/2006

Trojan Women 2.0

What happens when the world falls apart and we have to take responsibility for it? The thought-provoking and wholly relevant play, TROJAN WOMEN 2.0 is written by accomplished historian and author Charles Mee. TROJAN WOMEN 2.0 sets the play by Euripides in modern times, in which we see Troy in ruins...
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The Uncertainty Principle

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  9/9/2006 to 9/24/2006

The Uncertainty Principle

“The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is know in this instant, and vice versa.” -Heisenberg Have you ever had that dream where you were falling? What if you had that dream while you were wide awake? When Cassie, a young and dissatisfied New Yorker, ...
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The Burial at Thebes

Theatre 315, 315 West 47th Street  9/7/2006 to 9/23/2006

Handcart Ensemble presents "The Burial at Thebes" Artwork by Annie Poon

The king of Thebes denies the body of a fallen traitor the washing and burial decreed by the gods. A sister of the fallen openly defies the king’s edict, bringing her and the king into a widening conflict wherein neither will brook compromise in any form. In this adaptation of the Greek tragedy ...
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White Noise

The Barrow Group Theatre, 312 West 36th Street - 3rd Floor  9/18/2006 to 9/30/2006
An adorable pair of sisters, Blanche and Eva, lead the teen band White Noise, mixing irresistible harmonies with white power rhetoric and taking the nation by storm. Their message of racial purity resonates with young people across America and the rise of White Noise coincides with a rise in the whi...
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MY LIFE AS YOU

Producers Club II, 616 Ninth Avenue, Btwn 43rd and 44th Streets  9/14/2006 to 9/24/2006
My Life As YOU, a new romantic comedy about two girls who become each other...
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I (HEART) KANT

Linhart Theater @ 440 Studios, 440 Lafayette Street  9/8/2006 to 10/2/2006

Four New Jersey women, searching for happiness, instead stumble upon the sublime....
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Temptation

The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave  11/2/2006 to 11/26/2006
Part of the Vaclav Havel Festival -- Dr. Foustka, a respected scientist, tries to contact the devil, despite strict government regulations to the contrary. He is contacted by Fistula, an unkempt man who smells like cheese. Fistula claims to be able to fulfill Faustka’s every desire, but he may possi...
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The Boys

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  9/13/2006 to 9/30/2006
"The Boys takes a hard-hitting look at male violence towards women and the many factors that fuel it. When Brett Sprague is released from prison, younger brothers Glenn and Stevie throw him a homecoming party. As the beer flows, tensions begin to arise between the boys and their women: hot-headed Br...
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The Memo

Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster Street  11/1/2006 to 11/25/2006

Andrew Rothkin in a scene from The Memo

Under the nose of Gross, the Managing Director of a large bureaucracy, a mysterious new official language has infected all office communications. The new language is completely logical and almost completely incomprehensible. The key to the whole affair lies in a Memo, but since the Memo is written i...
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Audience

Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster Street  10/30/2006 to 11/25/2006

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The first of the Vanek plays, the character closest to Vaclav Havel himself, it tells of a dissident writer who is forced to work in a brewery, so that he can contribute to society rather than be an intellectual bourgeois burden. The brewmaster calls him in for a friendly talk, or possibly an interr...
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Kingdom of Not

Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street  11/1/2006 to 11/18/2006

Dan Carbone in KINGDOM OF NOT Photo: Jennifer Gwirtz

During “bad times in a hard place that’s getting harder”, a wary, outcast young woman finds herself the guardian of an odd, preternaturally wise baby boy. Together, they take refuge from the rest of the world in a crumbling old house on the edge of town where a whole universe of mysterious wonders ...
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Changing Violet

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  9/28/2006 to 12/16/2006
A Moving one women piece that takes the audience on a roller coaster ride through the life of Violet, a young girl from the Bronx. Throughout we witness the awkward shifting of a young woman struggling with the painful realities of abuse. As Violet's Life changes, so does her attitudes, her loves, h...
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Le LYCANTHROPE

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  10/4/2006 to 10/31/2006

Le Lycanthrope; A Revenge-Farce with a Monster-Movie Groove

SEE French fops covered in Gore! HEAR rhyming couplets! BE transported to the Wild & Wacky 17th Century! FEAR the hunger of … Le LYCANTHROPE! Halloween Night, Paris, 1673 - ALCESTE returns from the wilderness to exact Revenge on its Society where “Man is arrant Wolf to Man”; he invites h...
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To Be Loved

Chashama, 217 East 42nd Street  11/30/2006 to 12/23/2006

Design: Chris Gardella

In a future of war, lust, and greed, how far will you go to be loved? Inspired by classic Kabuki with a wry, modern twist....
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Side Effects May Vary

Independent Theatre, 52A West 8th Street  10/6/2006 to 10/21/2006
When she reveals to her friends that she is infected with a sexually transmitted disease, the character Kara in, Side Effects May Vary, says, “He gave me a secret.” Side Effects May Vary tells not just the story of love and loss, but begins a discussion about social diseases in a way that removes t...
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Urinetown, The Musical

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  10/14/2006 to 11/5/2006
In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets...
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Helix 999

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  10/13/2006 to 11/18/2006
In the future, genetically-produced people walk among us. It is Rick’s job to erase this dirty little secret…then, he gets to know one. In HELIX 999, Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled world unfolds in a Philip K. Dick future. Rick is a self-loathing agent for a genetics conglomerate that has clandest...
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Amnesia Wars presents Reese's Pieces

Sage Theater, 711 7th Ave  10/10/2006 to 10/18/2006

Liz Kennedy, Shane Breaux, Dave McKeel: Uberalles

Join our intrepid future anthropologists as they present scenes from a society obsessed with wordplay, boobs, the Roman Legion, boobs, and why society’s dad is such a dick! Not bad for scientists whose only historical record is the battered hard drive of ancient comedy writer Rob Reese....
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Spic & Spam

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  9/22/2006 to 10/8/2006

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Alba Sanchez, a leading female comedic voice in the Latino community, with the help of her friend Peter J. Byrnes, uses her sarcastic wit to examine the cliches, stereotypes and misconceptions of the races, and ethnicities that make up modern America, while examining the life of their long-time frie...
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The Octoroon

Metropolitan Playhouse, 220 E 4th Street  10/7/2006 to 10/29/2006
1859 melodrama about slavery, racism, and a dying era...
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The Flood

American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, 4th Floor  10/21/2006 to 11/19/2006

The Flood, A New Musical

This season, Prospect returns to Meyerville, Illinois and one community’s struggle against the rising tide of the Mississippi River that would wipe it off the map. Originally workshopped by the company in 2001, events of the past five years have only added to the resonance of this epic story, which ...
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Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind 2007

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  10/6/2006 to 7/28/2007

Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind!

An ever-changing attempt to perform 30 original plays in 60 minutes. Every Friday and Saturday night at 10:30pm, The New York Neo-Futurists perform their critically acclaimed, energetic show of original short plays—a non-illusory collage of the comic and tragic, the political and personal, the visce...
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tri·chot·o·my

TADA! Theater, 15 West 28th Street  11/9/2006 to 11/19/2006
Three one-act plays by David Cahill: Conversing Elevens, Dunce, and Trampoline....
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Tock Tick

West End Theater, 263 West 86th  2/3/2007 to 3/4/2007

Tock Tick

12-year-old Chelsea Tickerman’s mother has cancer. As the clock in the front hall steadily marks each passing moment, she can see the dragon of her mother’s death, hovering. In a bold move, Chelsea embarks on a fantastical quest to slay this dragon and save her mother. Along the way, encounters with...
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West Moon Street

Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street  4/21/2007 to 5/20/2007
Young Lord Arthur is deliriously happy—just down from Oxford and engaged to be married—until a fateful evening at Lady Windemere’s when a mysterious palm-reader predicts a shocking turn of events. Filled with deliciously perceptive wit, glittering bon mots, and wickedly apt social comment, West Moon...
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile

Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens, 21-12 30th Rd  10/27/2006 to 11/12/2006
Picasso at the Lapin Agile places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parision cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism....
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Kansas City Or Along The Way

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  10/6/2006 to 10/22/2006

Becky Benhayon and Adam Groves in KANSAS CITY OR ALONG THE WAY

Two strangers lives collide in the 1930s. Joseph has lost his wife and Louise has been left by her fiance to fend for herself. Their stories come together as they both search for life amidst the scraps of Depression Era Southern Ohio. KANSAS CITY OR ALONG THE WAY moves with the pulse of a Woody G...
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Fall Eatfest - Series A

Theatre on 5, 311 W. 43rd St 5th fl  10/31/2006 to 11/18/2006
4 new short plays...
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Fall Eatfest - Series B

Theatre on 5, 311 W. 43rd St 5th fl  11/1/2006 to 11/19/2006
5 new short plays...
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Fall Eatfest - Series C

Theatre on 5, 311 W. 43rd St 5th fl  11/2/2006 to 11/19/2006
4 new short plays...
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Krankenhaus Blues

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  10/12/2006 to 11/5/2006

Christine Bruno (Anka) grabbing Bill Green (Bruno)

Krankenhaus Blues is a frightening, funny and surreal new play about disability issues, genocide and the grim realities of show business. “Forman’s astonishingly fresh script...makes ‘Krankenhaus Blues’ more than a theatrical gem. It’s also a theatrical rarity - provocative theatre that very un...
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Seascape with Sharks and Dancer

Where Eagles Dare Theatre, 347 W 36th St., ground floor  11/30/2006 to 12/12/2006

Seascape with Sharks and Dancer is set in a beach bungalow. The young man who lives there has pulled a lost young woman from the ocean. Soon, she finds herself trapped in his life and torn between her need to come to rest somewhere and her certainty that all human relationships turn eventually into ...
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WeikelWorks

Duplex, 61 Christopher Street  11/2/2006 to 12/2/2006

WeikelWorks: Three Plays in Concert

TOSOS II presents WEIKELWORKS, Three Plays in Concert by Chris Weikel, author of PENNY PENNIWORTH. LIEBESTRAUM is an unrequited romance between a girl and a piano. FAMILY VOTE exposes a domestic drama with political implications (or perhaps a political drama with domestic implications). Finally, MAK...
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The Blood Brothers present... An evening of Grand Guignol Horror

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  10/19/2006 to 10/28/2006

Through two one-act plays, and three original vignettes, The Blood Brothers present a rare peek into the Theatre of Grand Guignol. This show features graphic violence and strong sexual situations and is recommended for adults only. ...
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Northanger Abbey, A Romantic Gothic Comedy

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  10/20/2006 to 11/19/2006
Comedy! Adventure! Romance!...Murder? Lynn Marie Macy’s hilarious adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel follows the adventures of Catherine Morland, a passionate - though impressionable small town girl, who is perhaps too devoted to gothic thrillers. Young Catherine thirsts for adventure and soon finds ...
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The Mail Order Bride

Beckett Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  11/4/2006 to 11/19/2006
A tribute to the writings of Moliere, THE MAIL ORDER BRIDE is a comic romp about buying and selling youth....
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The Imaginary Invalid

Beckett Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  11/1/2006 to 11/18/2006
An all-female cast performs THE IMAGINARY INVALID, Moliere's final satire about the medical profession and the perpetual pursuit of health....
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The Crackwalker

The Access Theater, 380 Broadway, 4th floor   10/26/2006 to 11/12/2006

The Crackwalker is a plunge into Kingston, Ontario’s underworld of drugs, sex, mental illness and murder, where four local down-and-outs struggle to live, to love and to make a better world for themselves with tragic results. ...
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Modern Living

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/13/2006 to 10/29/2006

Nomi Tichman & Richard Sheinmel in

"Modern Living" is a collection of interrelated stories by and about Mitchell, a New York performance artist. Under the direction of Michael Baron, the production features original music by Clay Zambo, performed live by the trio Jordan Rothstein and the t.v. boys....
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The Ticket

Sage Theater, 711 7th Ave  11/7/2006 to 11/26/2006

Humor, passion, betrayal, fear, manipulation, compromise and triumph mark their respective journeys toward the first Tuesday in November.

While the state has no name, like most others it has never elected a woman as its governor. Her family name is all Diane Johnson has left, but if she's going to make it to the office her legendary grandfather held for an unprecedented four terms, she can't do it alone. Besides the double standards o...
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Shannon In Ambient Light

100 Grand Dance, 100 Grand Street (between Mercer and Greene)  11/2/2006 to 11/18/2006
Shannon in Ambient Light tells the story of a successful young photographer, Quentin Matthews, who finds himself without material for an upcoming exhibition. Frustrated and under pressure, Quentin receives an unexpected package – a set of harrowing pictures from his ex-girlfriend, Shannon. Through a...
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BLINDNESS

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  3/1/2007 to 4/8/2007
Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. A city is hit by an epidemic of white blindness. The blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards. Inside, the criminal element among the blind hold the rest captive: food rations a...
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The Great Conjurer

The Kirk @ Theatre Row Studios, 410 West 42nd Street  10/20/2006 to 11/4/2006

Tzahi Moskovitz, Paula Wilson, and Brian Nishii in THE GREAT CONJURER (Photo by John Ko)

A new play by Korean American playwright Christine Simpson, drawn loosely from Franz Kafka's art and life, THE GREAT CONJURER depicts the struggle of "K," a character forced to choose between a life that his parents wanted him to live—career, marriage, security—and the art that wanted to have life...
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I Wish You A Boat

Ward Studio, 145 W. 28th St. Suite 8F  10/21/2006 to 1/28/2007

I Wish You A Boat

I Wish You A Boat brings the story of a 19th century shipwreck to a space as intimate as your living room and boldly asks the audience to personally witness the sinking of a ship where only the privileged survive. Act One, viewed from the perspective of first-class survivors, was built from...
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Some Historic, Some Hysteric

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center,   11/10/2006 to 12/10/2006

The Hysterics

Some Historic/Some Hysteric visits the nexus of desire and madness. The multi-media theater piece, part-entertainment, part-exposition, uses a 19th century method for examining hysteria as the departure point of its theatrical conversation. French psychiatrist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot uses his pat...
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Over Here/Over There

Youth Onstage!, 543 W 42nd St  11/10/2006 to 12/10/2006
Youth Onstage!’s current production, Over There/Over Here is a new drama created by young people about the war in Iraq as they have come to know it—from the streets of Baghdad to the streets of America's poor communities where most new recruits are being signed up. It is written by 22-year-old Iraqi...
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Guardian Angel and An Evening with Family

The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave  10/27/2006 to 11/26/2006
Synopsis A play about the banalities of life in a typical family, except for a grandmother who claims she is the only one who knows there is a dead body in the house. Production history Havel’s first solo effort at playwriting, put aside and forgotten for many years. The play was never performe...
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Abandon

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/19/2006 to 11/5/2006
ABANDON tells the story of Helena— a young woman in crisis, terrified to love. When Helena’s sister, Marguerite, forces her to confront her fear, will she be saved or destroyed? Matthew Maguire began working theatrically with collage at La MaMa in 1977 with The Seven Deadly Elements, based on th...
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Dancing Vs the Rat Experiment

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/26/2006 to 11/12/2006
Where does that title come from? This production pits the company against Population Density and Social Pathology, John B. Calhouns landmark Behavioral Psychology Study, published in Scientific American, 1962. In an eerily comfortable living room, danced scenes of daily life play out, and all the...
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The Ledge

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  11/27/2006 to 12/17/2006

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The Ledge is based upon the O. Henry Prize-winning short story written by Lawrence Sargent Hall. A fisherman is stranded with his son and nephew on a small reef exposed at low tide off the New England coast in winter. The following morning the fisherman's drowned body is dragged on to a wharf for hi...
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THE HAUNTING OF 85 EAST 4th STREET

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  11/30/2006 to 12/23/2006

In 1910, a prostitute was found on the front stoop clutching a severed man's hand.

85 East 4th Street is a location familiar to ghosthunters and scientists of the paranormal . Its history is riddled with murders and horrible deaths which began even before the present building was erected a hundred years ago. Sightings of ethereal beings and strange noises, unexplainable occuren...
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AMAHLIA

Impact Theatre, 190 Underhill Ave  1/11/2007 to 1/21/2007

The Impact Theatre, photo 2006

Amahlia, a political journalist, returns to her native country and the man she once loved after twenty years of exile only to find that this former lover is now working for the very government she despises, the one that now threatens her life. ...
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Antigone

Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street  11/9/2006 to 11/19/2006
This 1940s adaptation of the ancient drama by Sophocles has become a classic in its own right. In defying the king’s decree, Antigone is willing to die for the sake of burying her dishonored brother–but what are her real reasons? Anouilh lays bare entirely modern questions at the heart of his tellin...
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Security 2: Captive

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  11/10/2006 to 11/19/2006
9 New American short plays where playwrights responded to the word "Security."...
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Open Door

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/1/2006 to 12/17/2006

photo by Richard Greene, left to right-Dan Seda, Allison Hiroto, Federico Restrepo, Denise Greber

"Open Door," a grand puppet theater work with song, by Colombia-born master puppet theater artist Federico Restrepo, his puppet theater troupe Loco 7 and award-winning composer Elizabeth Swados. It centers on the many people who make up New York City from diverse cultural backgrounds: North ...
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The Unseen Hand

The Big Little Theatre, 141 Ridge St.  11/26/2006 to 12/18/2006

Blue (Brian Tracy) and Cisco (Jason Griffith) prepare to take off for another galaxy in their '57 Chevy!

THE UNSEEN HAND, directed by Tom Amici, is a haunting protest against the dehumanizing tendencies of modern societies and a powerful affirmation of the human spirit. The play moves after the "revolution" in a surrealistic and Kafkaesque world. Nogoland is the area ruled absolutely in which three bro...
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Vermilion Wine

Producer's Club, 358 West 44th Street  12/1/2006 to 12/17/2006

Pete Christos (Bob Manus) and Ian Sinclair (Phil Horton) share a joke

A full-length film noir murder mystery set in 1948 New York...
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Women of Manhattan

Gloria Maddox Theatre, 151 W. 26th St.  12/1/2006 to 12/18/2006
Three female Manhattanites lament the fact that, while their careers are flourishing, their emotional lives are a wreck. Rhonda can't dispose of her ex-lover's shoes, Billie can't escape the honeymoon phase of a three-year marriage, and Judy can't seem to find an attractive man who isn't gay. Descri...
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Beyond Christopher Street

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  11/25/2006 to 12/16/2006

Photo from "Work Wife" by David Pumo

New short plays reflecting the gay experience in delightfully different ways by four of New York's leading gay playwrights: Mark Findley, Jonathan Kronenberger, A. B. Lugo & David Pumo...
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Kill Me Like You Mean It

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  1/5/2007 to 1/27/2007

Cameron J. Oro as Detective Ben Farrell

Stolen Chair presents the second installment of its CineTheatre Tetralogy, a timely absurdist film noir for the stage as Ionesco might have imagined it, creating comic chaos out of the possibility that American life might actually be pointless ....
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Dibble Does Christmas in New York

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  12/10/2006 to 12/30/2006

Dibble - that 3'3" 15 Watt Star of the Air in Mayham, Massachusetts - comes to life (well, radio life) on stage. For the first time ever, the popular XM radio series Dibble is presented as a live radio show complete with a sound effects table. Dibble Does Christmas in New York is the year's most uni...
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The Eight: Reindeer Monologues

Producer's Club, 358 West 44th Street  12/11/2006 to 12/23/2006

Should we be trying to protect our children from the man in red? Get the scoop on what Santa is really like right from the mouths of the ones that would know. Vixen has accused Santa of sexual harassment and each reindeer gives their thoughts on the situation. Very Funny. Adult content. Ge...
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Shangri La

Queens Theatre in the Park, P.O.Box 520069  11/30/2006 to 12/17/2006
Three high scholl girls from Queens are determined to make it to the top of the music charts....
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STRINGS

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  12/13/2006 to 1/6/2007
On a train en route to London to attend the play Copenhagen, two English physicists, upper-class cosmologist George and brilliant working-class String theorist Rory, along with George’s American cosmologist wife June, pursue their complex ideas about physics—a conversation that barely masks just-bel...
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Rules of the Universe

Seventh Street Small Stage, 41-43 East 7th Street  1/19/2007 to 1/31/2007

Two restrooms. In one, two men, in the other, one woman; each seeking something else: love, power, refuge....
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The Monument by Colleen Wagner

Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  1/12/2007 to 1/28/2007
In a country wracked by genocidal war, a captured private has been convicted of heinous war crimes. Just prior to his execution, he's offered a reprieve, but not release, by a woman claiming to be his savior. For reasons of her own, she takes the solider in, only to subject him to a life of savage ...
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Israel Horovitz's New Shorts

StudioTheatre, 416 W 42nd St., (Off 9th Ave)  1/3/2007 to 1/21/2007

nine actors, nine new plays...they drop ...
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Strom Thurmond Is Not A Racist/Cleansed

The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave  2/8/2007 to 3/3/2007
Two new plays by Thomas Bradshaw. "Strom..."is about the segregationist politician Strom thurmond and the affair that he had with his black maid. "Cleansed"is the story of a biracial girl named Lauraul who rejects her Blackness and joins a white supremacist group...
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The Country Wife

McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway, 4th Floor  1/5/2007 to 1/27/2007

By spreading the rumor of his own impotence, notorious ladies man Harry Horner gains access to the so-called "virtuous" ladies of society who are all too ready to join the fun. Meanwhile, a new husband desperately attempts to hide his naïve country bride from the predatory men of the town. When she ...
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True West

The Big Little Theatre, 141 Ridge St.  1/9/2007 to 2/1/2007

Sam Shepard's 1980 dark comedy is an explosive exploration of family dysfunction and sibling rivalry. Austin, an Ivy League-educated, hopeful screenwriter, has returned to his childhood home outside L.A., intent on selling his latest script to a Hollywood producer. But Austin 's world is turned ups...
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Kryptonite Hearts

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   1/25/2007 to 2/11/2007

Kryptonite Hearts Cast

Kryptonite Hearts is a pulse-pounding tale of romance, comedy and adventure inspired by 1940’s comic books and radio shows! Women’s Air Corps pilot Wanda Worthington returns home from WWII and quickly grows bored with the life of a housewife. Soon she takes to the rooftops of New York City as ...
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The Germans in Paris

ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street  1/5/2007 to 1/27/2007
This lyrical mixture of high seriousness and romantic comedy traces the intersecting lives of the poet Heinrich Heine, the composer Richard Wagner, and the revolutionary Karl Marx as they make their way across the salons, jails, and dueling grounds of 1840s Paris. ...
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The Girl Detective

Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  2/23/2007 to 3/17/2007

The Girl Detective is a master of disguises. She finds missing things, chases tap dancing bank robbers and eats our dreams. But in her life of intrigue and adventure one mystery remains: the whereabouts of her long lost mother. Join her on a wild journey to the underworld in this surreal, darkly...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  2/24/2007 to 3/17/2007

The White Rabbit races by and Alice is off on a mad adventure that will turn her world upside down. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a fun, frenetic re-imagining of Lewis Carroll's fantastic cats, queens, and caterpillars and the feisty little girl unlike anyone they've met before....
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On a Darkling Plain

The Turtle's Shell Studio, 300 W 43rd ST.  1/11/2007 to 1/27/2007

Tom Sminkey Guy Leonard & Jon Freda George Makapolous On a Darkling Plain by Norman Beim

ON A DARKLING PLAIN was inspired by the reunion of Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller for the production of Miller's play, AFTER THE FALL which occurred 46 years ago this January. Set in 1964, ON A DARKLING PLAIN tells the story of Guy Leonard, a blacklisted Broadway star and film actor who has been dri...
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The Green Game

Theater 3, 311 W. 43 St., 3rd fl.  3/29/2007 to 4/22/2007

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This is a beautifully wrought tale, accompanied by a delightful blend of new and old music, and extravagant dance routines. You will leave the theater "singing the tunes." Presented by La Muse Venale Acting Troupe, a daring and exciting, new non-profit theater company that keeps ticket prices low. F...
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Earth In Trance

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/14/2006 to 12/31/2006
La MaMa E.T.C. presents the New York Premiere of Brazil’s Dry Opera Theater Company in EARTH IN TRANCE. This highly stylized comedy is written and directed by avant garde legend Gerald Thomas. The original Brazilian cast, which includes Fabiana Gugli and puppeteer Juliano Antunes, will premiere Thom...
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The Death of Griffin Hunter

The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave  1/10/2007 to 2/3/2007
The Death of Griffin Hunter is a play noir that tells the story of Griffin Hunter, the Secretary of Disarmament for the United Nations, who flies to San Francisco to sign a peace treaty and is quickly snarled into the crypto-psychotic grip of Vaad Sirat, an international cartel of weapons dealers wh...
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The Trial

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 123 4th Ave, 2nd FL  2/16/2007 to 3/3/2007
An original stage adaptation of Kafka's unfinished novel, "The Trial"....
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The Dirty Talk

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  1/11/2007 to 2/4/2007

Care to Talk Dirty to these boys?

What happens when two melancholy strangers try to turn fantasy into reality? A hilarious comedy about desperation, pain and loneliness....
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Tales of the Lost Formicans

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  3/28/2007 to 4/15/2007

Just another day in the USA...

An estranged American family comes together only to fall apart when Grandpa becomes increasingly disabled due to Alzheimers -- then the aliens show up..............
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Medea

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/4/2007 to 1/14/2007
Having played Medea to sold-out houses worldwide, including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; Adelaide Fringe Festival; Avignon Festival; and the Montreal Festival, Company EAST makes their much-anticipated American debut of the production. Medea melds delicate and intense choreography; exquisite costu...
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Party Time

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/4/2007 to 1/21/2007
The Talking Band will present its production of PARTY TIME, a music-theater work written and directed by Paul Zimet, composed by Peter Gordon, with video by Kit Fitzgerald. The cast features William Badgett and Joe Roseto. Set design is by Lino Fiorito and Lights by Lenore Doxsee. Frankie and Sal...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  1/16/2007 to 3/11/2007
In one of the Bard's most beloved comedies, when human will attempts to thwart the power of love, logic is lost and the fairies take over. Imagination is let loose, lovers are seized by a ridiculous madness, and the fairies themselves fall victim to their own spectacular spells. Warm up with some mi...
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Many Worlds

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  2/1/2007 to 2/24/2007

Maggie is confronted with her past, present and future as she moves from reality to reality in her exploration of philosophy, nature, love and the lines that bleed between. Axel and Maggie have been having an affair for so long it seems like a marriage, and all the motel rooms are beginning to look ...
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Pvt. Wars

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  1/25/2007 to 2/18/2007

War is hell. But healing is hardly heaven. If you can leave anytime you want, why does it seem impossible to escape? There are private wars to be waged...

A dark comedy about three Vietnam veterans coming to grips with the injuries they suffered in combat. The play follows them through the healing process as they tease, torment, and on occasion, support each other. While thirty years have passed from its first Broadway production, today's American ...
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Land O'Fire

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  2/16/2007 to 3/3/2007
Based on the story of two voyages of the HMS The Beagle to Tierra del Fuego in the 1830’s, Land O’Fire is the story of South American Indians plucked from their home and transported to Victorian England to be “christianized”. The growing attachment of one of the Indians, Jemmy Button, to his surrog...
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Little Building

Galapagos Art Space, 70 North 6th St.  11/10/2006 to 2/18/2007
An absurdist musical about real estate...
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Hotel Oracle

Walkerspace, 46 Walker Street  3/7/2007 to 3/31/2007

a new play about life & post-its...
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The Silent Concerto

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  1/25/2007 to 2/17/2007

THE SILENT CONCERTO explores the tangled relationship between three lifelong friends. One is a tragic ingenue trapped inside the body of a chain-smoking character actress, one is a self-tortured artist and the third is a bon-vivant who's had one too many martinis. Caught inside a play that cannot p...
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6969

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  2/9/2007 to 2/24/2007

Picture taken by Anna Tucker

The fine line between truth and fiction, dream and nightmare, murder and suicide, can be severed by even the dullest knife. Lonely teenagers Mark and John find solace in cyberspace. But when the chatroom is invaded by a very naughty schoolgirl, a rapist who thinks he’s Jesus, a sex-starved secret ag...
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Still Life

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  2/16/2007 to 3/3/2007
STILL LIFE tells the painful story of former Marine Mark, his estranged wife Cheryl and his mistress, Nadine - all doing what they can to survive the dark and disturbing memories which plague Mark; flashbacks which often cause him to lash out in anger. In their own way, all three are deeply affecte...
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CYCLE

Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street  2/16/2007 to 3/3/2007
A Vaudeville-inspired play with live music that delivers inventive riffs on historical drama, infectious humor, and beautiful, classic songs...
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MEASURE for MEASURE

The Women's Interart Theatre, 500 West 52nd Street, just west of 10th Avenue  2/16/2007 to 3/12/2007

A young leader, determined to purify society of sexual corruption, finds himself at the mercy of his lust for a nun. She is forced to choose between her brother’s life and her morality. Wickedly comic, unbearably raw and strangely tender, MEASURE for MEASURE exposes the chaos of a society as it f...
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Expressing Willie

West End Theater, 263 West 86th  4/6/2007 to 4/22/2007

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A pre-Great Gatsby look at the obscenely wealthy in Long Island. When newfound money inspires Willie Smith to flaunt his nouveau riche status – his mother brings his down-to-earth former girlfriend Minnie to town. She thinks Willie invited her and he is horrified that she is there. Hilarity follo...
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Once There Was a Village

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/25/2007 to 2/11/2007

Photo by Jonathan Slaff

"Everyone has two villages," says Vit Horejs, founder/director of Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre (CAMT),"one in the old country and one here." That's the idea behind "Once There Was a Village," CAMT's new ethno-opera with puppets and found objects. The music, composed by Frank London, is p...
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Burn This

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  3/14/2007 to 3/24/2007

design by Wade Dansby 3

Set in NYC in the 1980’s, a group of friends grapple with the challenges of loss, love and the healing powers of art. ...
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Men of Steel

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  3/15/2007 to 4/8/2007
In a story that spins the superhero genre on its head, MEN OF STEEL follows the journey of five courageous crusaders aspiring for heroism against all odds. Included are tales of staggering suspense and astounding adventures that will surely have the crowds riveted – witness a superhero lose control ...
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it is said the men are over in The Steel Tower

TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor  3/2/2007 to 3/23/2007

Eriko Ogawi

On the front lines of a war, four members of a vaudeville troupe seek refuge in a steel tower, where they meet a runaway soldier. With gunfire all around them, they do their best to keep their humanity as well as create a new comedy routine. it is said the men are over in The Steel Tower takes a hum...
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Dark of the Moon

Lodestar Theatre, 616 9th Ave  2/23/2007 to 3/18/2007
A modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet, the play takes place in the mountains of North Carolina in the early 1920's within a tight knit community that strongly values religion, music, and hard work. A witch boy named John falls in love with the headstrong Barbara Allen, and begs Conjur Man to make h...
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Dog Day Afternoon (boys in the bank)

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  3/7/2007 to 3/25/2007

Based on the 1972 Brooklyn bank heist and the Academy Award winning film....
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Mad Forest

Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street  2/15/2007 to 3/4/2007

Production Card

In December of 1989, the people of Romania violently overturned the rule of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Combining a fictional storyline with eyewitness accounts of the revolution, Caryl Churchill paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a world in which sudden freedom is both intoxicating and te...
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As You Like It

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  3/15/2007 to 3/31/2007
poortom productions (Joe Plummer, Producing Artistic Director) presents a spanking new look at one of Shakespeare's most misunderstood musical comedies: AS YOU LIKE IT. With an original score by famed classical and musical theatre performer and composer Malcolm Gets, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnag...
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Merry Wives of Windsor

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  3/8/2007 to 3/29/2007
Shakespeare's 'desperate' housewives are quite mischievous, merry, and cunning. Falstaff, today's rock and roll royalty, or so he thinks, is trying to play them for all their worth. Tune in to the best sitcom Shakespeare ever wrote. With live, original music from the creator of the hit show Apath...
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Sweet Love Adieu

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  3/15/2007 to 4/1/2007
Star-crossed lovers, mistaken identities, men posing as women, and all in verse. Sounds like Shakespeare? Close. It’s the new comedy by the “21st century bard”, Ryan J-W Smith, the play Shakespeare would have written today if he were here....
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Spring EATFest 2007 - Series A

Theatre on 5, 311 W. 43rd St 5th fl  3/13/2007 to 4/1/2007
3 new short plays that run the gamut from a laugh to a tear...
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Spring EATFest 2007 - Series B

Theatre on 5, 311 W. 43rd St 5th fl  3/14/2007 to 4/1/2007
Spring Eatfest - Series B...
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Spring EATFest 2007 - Series C

Theatre on 5, 311 W. 43rd St 5th fl  3/15/2007 to 4/1/2007
3 new short plays that are a cornucopia of fun...
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Sweet Bird of Youth

Gloria Maddox Theatre, 151 W. 26th St.  2/15/2007 to 3/18/2007

Sweet Bird of Youth

Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" is about two perople o the reverse side of the American dream of youth, working out their fate amid violence and horror and Williams' compassion for the damned....
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Serenading Louie

Stella Adler Studio, 31 W. 27th Street, 2nd Floor  3/9/2007 to 3/18/2007
Written in 1970 by Lanford Wilson (Burn This, Balm in Giliad , Hot L Baltimore, Lemon Sky) Serenading Louie focuses on two young suburban couples facing the unhappiness at the heart of their marriages....
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La Vie Noir

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  2/15/2007 to 3/4/2007
LA VIE NOIR, Jim Neu’s new comedy of culture, directed by Keith McDermott. In LA VIE NOIR, our national habit of turning everything into entertainment may have lethal consequences. The play’s characters find themselves in an increasingly perilous situation that seems more like a movie than real l...
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NEXT!

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  3/11/2007 to 3/25/2007

A group of U.S. soldiers wait in line for a mobile whorehouse during WWII....
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FIVE BY TENN

The Turtle's Shell Studio, 300 W 43rd ST.  3/9/2007 to 3/25/2007
Two Tennessee Williams plays, “Thank You, Kind Spirit” and “Why Do You Smoke So Much, Lily?”, will be produced for the first time ever in New York City in FIVE BY TENN. The other three plays in “Five By Tenn” are “Talk To Me Like the Rain”, “Hello From Bertha”, and “The Lady of Larkspur Lotion”. S...
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American Family Project

Teatro La Tea, 107 Suffolk Street  3/1/2007 to 3/11/2007
American Family Project illuminates the experiences of five unique people whose moving and deeply personal accounts are underrepresented in the national discussion on family. This dynamic theatrical event uses text from transcribed interviews to explore their experiences and how they've shaped their...
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Romeo & Juliet: Jerusalem

Greek Cultural Center, 27-18 Hoyt Avenue South  3/22/2007 to 4/14/2007
Genesis Repertory will present Romeo & Juliet from March 22 through April 14 at the Greek Cultural Center at 27-18 Hoyt Ave. South in Astoria, setting this great play in Jerusalem, modern day. Romeo is an American Jew visiting Israel and encounters Juliet, the daughter of a Palestinian businessman. ...
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HMS PINAFORE

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  3/3/2007 to 3/31/2007

David Macaluso as Sir Joseph

Gilbert and Sullivan's famous light opera adapted for seven actors using Gilbert's irreverent retelling of the classic story in "The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story of HMS Pinafore"....
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Baal

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  3/1/2007 to 3/25/2007

Baal lives in a world of pleasures without regret. Society and religion dictate that this is the wrong way to live. Baal lives outside the box and rejects its safety. Is it Baal's rejection of the "rules" of society that causes his downward spiral or is it the "rules" themselves? In this producti...
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MURDER UNCENSORED: The Secret Life of William Desmond Taylor

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  3/9/2007 to 4/8/2007

Chad Austin; David Rudd; Desmond Dutcher

A steamy 1920's film-noir thriller based on the sensational unsolved murder of silent-film director William Desmond Taylor...
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Seven.11 Convenience Theatre (2007)

Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street  3/29/2007 to 4/15/2007

Seven.11 Logo - Come celebrate with us.

Seven, 11-minute plays, all set in a convenience store. ...
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Stone and The Maguffin

Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 West 28th Street  4/5/2007 to 4/28/2007

Chris Wild in Stone

Stone Soup Theatre Arts presents evening of two one-acts: Edward Bond's Stone, a chilling fairy tale, explores the power and the risks of finding one's own place in the world as a young man is asked to deliver a seemingly ordinary stone to a mason's house. The puppet character elements in this pr...
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One-Man Play

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   5/10/2007 to 5/10/2007
Written and Performed by Gary Corbin and directed by Willilam Martin, Four One-Legged Men is a critically acclaimed one-man show that has been described as audacious, bold, intense, humorous, and shocking. It is a series of vignettes that depict four distinct right-leg male amputees from different b...
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fuckplays

Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster Street  3/28/2007 to 4/27/2007

fuckplays

8 short plays about illicit sex PLEASE NOTE - The first 5 performances are in Manhattan, the lst 4 performances are in Brooklyn...
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fuckplays (at galapagos)

Galapagos Art Space, 70 North 6th St.

at galapagos evolve series!

8 short plays about illict sex!...
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Dream of a Common Language

Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street  3/16/2007 to 4/6/2007

Acceptance on someone else's terms is worse than rejection.

1874. Paris. Impressionism is on the rise and everyone's a critic. In DREAM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE, husband and wife painters, Clovis and Victor, each struggle to express themselves as artists and as lovers. Realizing that acceptance on someone else's terms is worse than rejection, the two must fi...
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Creatures of the Cabaret

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  3/9/2007 to 4/7/2007
The “Creatures” are coming. In a late-night cabaret of new short plays, eight Looking Glass playwrights offer their take on non-humans with stories range from the ridiculously profound to the profoundly ridiculous. Think about it: Eight million New Yorkers never realize that they're sharing the city...
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HAMLET

The WorkShop Theater | Mainstage, 312 West 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  4/13/2007 to 4/29/2007

Timothy D. Stickney stars as Hamlet

Take Wing And Soar Productions proudly presents Shakespeare's HAMLET. In a time of conflict, a voice from the grave will take a vengeful man to a place beyond sanity where only conspiracy and death await. Elizabeth Swain leads The TWAS Classical Actors of Color as they join Daytime Television Star ...
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J.B.

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  4/12/2007 to 4/28/2007

This Pulitzer Prize-winning verse play by acclaimed poet and playwright Archibald MacLeish reveals one man’s search for hope in a world full of suffering and injustice. In an empty circus tent, two circus vendors, Mr. Zuss and Mr. Nickles, take on the roles of God and Satan in an effort to play out...
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Orestes 2.0

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  3/29/2007 to 4/21/2007

Orestes in Action

Charles Mee's irreverent, surreal and heartbreaking retelling of the Oresteia wheels brother and sister, Orestes and Electra, through a nightmarish and comic dreamscape of autopsy suites, hospital wards, kangaroo courtrooms and hostage takings as they face the emotional and legal consequences of hav...
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A Lie of the Mind

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  4/4/2007 to 4/28/2007

Frankie (Jeff Wills), Beth (Laura Schwenninger) and Jake (Todd D'Amour

Winner of the New York Drama Critics "Best New Play Award" in 1986, Sam Shepard’s classic American play mines the depths of love, loss and resiliency. The powerful tale ricochets between two families reeling from the repercussions of a traumatic event. At its heart, the story is a call and response...
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Republic of Dreams

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  3/8/2007 to 3/18/2007
Double Edge Theatre, the acclaimed ensemble led by founder/ Artistic Director Stacy Klein, now celebrating its 25th Anniversary, makes its return to New York’s La MaMa Annex with a World Premiere performance inspired by Bruno Schulz. Double Edge Theatre is widely renowned for long-term collaboration...
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Janyl

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  3/9/2007 to 3/25/2007
"Janyl" the newest work by Yara Arts Group, is based on an ancient epic song from Kyrgyzstan, "Janyl Myrza" (pronounced Ja-nil Mir-zha), about a woman archer with a skill so refined that she never misses. This World Music-Theater piece includes fragments of the epic performed live by Kyrgyz artists ...
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The Exiles

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  3/22/2007 to 4/8/2007

Liz O. Baylen for the New York Times

La MaMa E.T.C. and Skysaver Productions present a multi-media theater production THE EXILES. The production, adapted from the Orestes/ Electra myth by Theodora Skipitares features realistic 5 foot Bunraku puppets strapped to the front of actors' bodies at the head, the chest, the waist, and the k...
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Bouffon Glass Menajoree

Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  3/15/2007 to 3/30/2007

Glass Menajoree Laura and Tom

A parody of an American classic. Gentlemen callers beware: The Wingfields plume their nest with broken glass, twisted morals and perverted minds. Each night a new audience member will play the role of the gentleman caller. Tom, Amanda and Laura claim no responsibility for your hurt feelings or of...
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Committed

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  4/7/2007 to 4/21/2007
Committed features three hilarious new one-acts about life’s greatest mystery, relationships. Off the Cuff by William K. Powers is a rip-roaring farce in the tradition of Caryl Churchill. A quirky New York family finally notices the mysterious bank robber sitting in their parlor and invites him to...
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile

T. Schreiber Studio, 151 W. 26th St., 7th fl. (between 6th and 7th)  4/7/2007 to 5/6/2007
From the mind of Steve Martin comes the story of a fictious meeting between Einstein, Picasso and a mysterious stranger in blue suede shoes. The true nature of art, science and genius becomes the subject of one of the wittiest play you'll see all season!...
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Manuscript

StudioTheatre, 416 W 42nd St., (Off 9th Ave)  4/5/2007 to 4/20/2007
In the bedroom of a Brooklyn Heights brownstone, three ambitious college freshmen confront the discovery of an unpublished manuscript that can guarantee success. It’s winter break; the parents are out of town; and David is the host of this gathering. His best friend, Chris, is coming over with his n...
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Scituate

The Barrow Group Theatre, 312 West 36th Street - 3rd Floor  3/29/2007 to 4/1/2007
A nine character drama about Stewart Lombardi, who won't get out of bed after his lover dies. His friends and family rally around, him but surproising htings happen when Robbie comes back from the beyond....
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WAXING WEST

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  4/6/2007 to 4/22/2007

Marnye Young and Dan Shaked

Romanian cosmetologist Daniela Popescu arrives in the United States as the soon-to-be bride of the sexually repressed computer engineer, Charlie Aronson. As Daniela seeks to adjust to her new life with Charlie in the land of dreams, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu--formerly Dictator-and-Wife of Romania...
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Character Dogville

Sage Theater, 711 7th Ave  3/16/2007 to 5/18/2007
Manhattan Comedy Collecitve is proud to announce the official opening of the character based improvisational series: Character Dogville. Inspired by the minimalism of Lars Von Trier\'s \"Dogville\" and the comic realism of Christopher Guest, Character Dogville explores pre-developed characters and t...
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5 Years Later

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  4/11/2007 to 4/28/2007

A single-minded executive, a sexy model, a bull dyke, a dirty old man, a hippie and two theatre geeks gather with others at the home of the ultimate debutante to memorialize her father. But as they remember a man who brought the city of New York together, can they stop quarreling, stripping, and out...
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Jamie...another side of Dean

PMT Dance Studio, 69 W. 14th St.  4/19/2007 to 5/26/2007
On the first anniversary of his untimely death, James Dean reappears to his dance teacher Eartha Kitt and beseeches her to take him on a spiritual journey through his short life. Along the way, Jamie is reunited with his mother, who died when he was very young and with his father, with whom he had ...
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Alcestis

Theatre 315, 315 West 47th Street  4/19/2007 to 5/5/2007

Alcestis artwork © Annie Poon

In Alcestis, King Admetos, doomed to an early death, is given a chance to live if someone will agree to die in his place. When others refuse, his wife Alcestis unexpectedly offers up her own life. After Alcestis has died, questions remain: Was Admetos ignoble in accepting his wife's sacrifice? How t...
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An Octopus Love Story

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  5/2/2007 to 5/20/2007

Pictured: Josh Tyson, Kelli Holsopple; Photograph © 2007 Ryan Robinson

What if falling in love with the wrong person was the best thing you ever did? Jane and Danny, two drifting New Yorkers, identify themselves as gay…until their friendship catches their hearts off guard. A political protest against the ban on same-sex marriage ignites an unlikely and heartbreaking ro...
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The Present Perfect

Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  4/26/2007 to 5/14/2007

DoctoredPictures.com

A cocktail party goes horribly awry: the host plays mind games, guests molest the furniture, and our protagonist, an eminent interior designer is driven to eat glass. The play dissects the marriage of art and commerce, inviting the viewer to experience first hand the fine line between patron and voy...
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Admit Impediments

Where Eagles Dare Theatre, 347 W 36th St., ground floor  4/30/2007 to 5/23/2007

Alexandra Finger, Nicholas Santasier, Booth Daniels, Paula Galloway and Duncan Pflaster

Two-time Spotlight On Award-Winning Playwright Duncan Pflaster goes the musical route to tackle the thorny issue of marital rights in the United States. When Josh invites his friends over to see him propose to his girlfriend Chaminade, it causes friction with their gay friends Ritchie and Dominic; a...
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Suburban Peepshow/Trailers

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  4/5/2007 to 4/28/2007

Nosedive Productions presents a comedy about modern suburban living... although, not really. Now that Jack, a cross-dressing social deviant, has been laid off from the office, Bill, a good upstanding citizen and father and family man, wants Jack's job in order to get an in-ground swimming pool for h...
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The Fall & Rise of The Rising Fallen

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  4/27/2007 to 5/12/2007

The Rising Fallen

The multi-award winning theatre troupe and creators of The Sewers, Banana Bag & Bodice concoct their own alter ego in the form of a concept punk band by the name of The Rising Fallen. With their guitar steel and drum-tense electro-dense lyrics, The Fall and Rise of the Rising Fallen catalogs thes...
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Thinking Makes It So

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  4/11/2007 to 4/22/2007
A young man searches for personal redemption in the wake of a controversial incident. A playful and poignant look at the young male image....
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Maud - The Madness by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

June Havoc Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 1st Floor  5/18/2007 to 6/9/2007

Surprisingly contemporary in its politics and psychology, Tennyson’s 1855 Maud outraged critics. The poet’s “little Hamlet” is the story of a morbidly sensitive young man. In love with the eponymous Maud, but tortured by doubt, paranoia, and familial loyalty, he rages at the worlds of commerce, poli...
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Dinner with Friends

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  5/18/2007 to 6/2/2007
Four long time friends, two marriages, one break up and an evening of Pulizter Prize winning theatre that is filled with honesty, humor and the profound realities of love and relationships...
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A New Brain

Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens, 21-12 30th Rd  5/4/2007 to 5/20/2007

A New Brain tells the story of Gordon, a struggling songwriter, who suffers a medical crisis when something goes wrong with his brain and he is forced to undergo surgery. At the time he is struck by illness, he is reluctantly composing a song for a children's television show featuring a frog by the ...
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Beyond Therapy

Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 West 28th Street  5/4/2007 to 5/20/2007
Question: what happens when therapists need couch time of their own and their patients start talking back? Everyone struggles hysterically with their own sanity in the upcoming New York Deaf Theatre (NYDT) production of Christopher Durang's riotous comedy Beyond Therapy. Directed by Garrett Zuerc...
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Trophy Wife

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  4/12/2007 to 4/22/2007

Set in 1920's New York society, "Trophy Wife" is the story of Anna Pennington, a beautiful 19 year old girl, who marries middle-aged Moe Schmertz for his money in a desperate attempt to save her family from financial ruin and social disgrace. To her horror, she very quickly discovers that Moe is a p...
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Penetrator

American Place Theatre, 520 8th Ave 22nd floor  5/31/2007 to 6/23/2007
Penetrator, a tale of perversion and repression is Anthony Nielson’s Crude pointed and alarming script about friendships and what defines them and human nature for better or worse....
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The Potluck Plays

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  5/3/2007 to 5/13/2007

A ten-minute play festival featuring the premiere of seven original plays. Each play is based on a recipe. Seven playwrights randomly drew a recipe from a hat, with each recipe representing a course for a potluck dinner. The result is a seven course theatrical feast....
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A Mouthful of Birds

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center,   5/16/2007 to 6/2/2007
A theatrical collage of 8 different stories about possession. Developed with the Joint Stock Theatre Company in 1986, the play explores forces of violence, spirits, temptation, addiction, power, and what happens when we become overtaken by forces beyond our control. breedingground's production mix...
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HAPPY END

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  4/27/2007 to 5/27/2007

Written on the heels of the phenomenally successful Threepenny Opera, Happy End, which premiered in Berlin in 1929, again takes to task the disparity between the "Haves" versus the "Have-nots." In the underworld of Chicago, 1919, a Salvation Army Lieutenant, Lillian Holiday, a/k/a Hallelujah Lil, tr...
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Accidental Death of An Anarchist

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  6/28/2007 to 7/22/2007

Dario Fo's "Accidental Death of An Anarchist"

Written in 1970, Morte accidentale di un'anarchico is Dario Fo's best know and most popular play. A sharp and hilarious satire on police corruption, and based on a real case, Fo tells the story of the anarchist railway worker who, 'fell" to his death from a police headquarters window. It is a pie...
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RADIOTHEATRE Presents

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  5/24/2007 to 6/10/2007

THE 8th WONDER OF THE WORLD!

"Tonight I'm going to tell you a tale, a tale so unbelievable you'll think I made it up, but, I didn't. I was there...right from the start...." HORSE TRADE Productions is pleased to present RADIOTHEATRE in the only LIVE ON STAGE performance of "KING KONG" in the history of the universe! Join u...
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You Can't Take It With You

T. Schreiber Studio, 151 W. 26th St., 7th fl. (between 6th and 7th)  5/24/2007 to 6/24/2007
Classic comedy from Kaufman and Hart. A Nobel Prize winning script that reminds us to beware of greed, live in the money, and follow our hearts....
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Bug Boy Blues

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  4/28/2007 to 6/3/2007

BUG BOY BLUES is a fantastical journey into the mind of a young Gregor Samsa, who struggles to understand his family and make friends. "Grade school is a horrible place," Gregor says to the play's guide, Butterfly girl, just before they take a ride through time to show us what it is like to be ten-y...
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Chronological Secrets of Tim, The

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  5/18/2007 to 6/3/2007

From the creator of DRUNKEN LESBIAN HOMEBUILDING and the producers of OFFICE SONATA comes a new comedy . . . One man. One diary. Two ex-girlfriends. One lame ass suicide attempt. THE CHRONOLOGICAL SECRETS OF TIM hilariously examines the existence of a complete low-life bastard. and the people who ...
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The Most Beautiful Lullaby You've Ever Heard

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  5/24/2007 to 6/2/2007

he offers it to the distance

An honest and visceral exploration of contemporary relationships, which digs into the story of a man and a woman struggling to connect in a complex, brutal world, extracting beauty from ugliness and hope from pain....
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LIPSTICK ON A PIG

Beckett Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  5/23/2007 to 6/3/2007

LIPSTICK ON A PIG is a daring and dangerous look at futility in the face of death. A family in crisis struggles with self, guilt, secrets and God during a mysterious journey to where all is forgiven, or not. Underlying fear, rage, decadence and insanity surface despite a very human struggle to ...
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The Jocker

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  5/11/2007 to 6/9/2007

'Bama (Jason Alan Griffin) and Nat (Nick Matthews)

In a hobo jungle, 1931, the jealousy & desperati on of an abused young runaway leaves the lives of all around him changed forever....
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The Landlord

Access Theater, 380 Broadway  5/18/2007 to 5/27/2007

You know how sometimes it seems impossible to make a decision about anything, because a part of you says one thing, another part of you says something else, and your gut instinct urges you in yet another direction? Meanwhile, you're distracted because you're hungry even though you ate an hour ago an...
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soloNOVA Arts Festival

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue

soloNOVA 2007

Join terraNOVA Collective for the 4th annual soloNOVA Arts Festival, celebrating artists from diverse disciplines, including spoken word, dance, performance art, monologues, burlesque, music and multimedia artists. Each individual has a unique story. Delight in these tales, and rediscover the joy...
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North of Providence

Altered Stages, 212 West 29th Street  5/25/2007 to 6/3/2007
On the last day of their father's life, Bobbie and Carol the two youngest children in their family of five, make an attempt for reconciliation and peace in their lives. The year is 1984, and the place is North Providence. NORTH OF PROVIDENCE deals with topics ranging from Bobbie's self-destruction t...
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In the Schoolyard

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   5/4/2007 to 5/20/2007

The Guys in the Schoolyard

Musical about a group of middle-aged men who come back to Brooklyn once every year to play basketball and relive their youth....
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Justice

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  5/16/2007 to 5/27/2007

Justice art by Phillip De Vita.

Short plays on the theme of "Justice."...
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Mothergun

Where Eagles Dare Theatre, 347 W 36th St., ground floor  6/4/2007 to 6/27/2007
In a bleak refugee camp "somewhere between Europe and hell," three lost souls are detained. They do not share a common language and must rely on a corrupt member of the peacekeeping troops to translate among them. Evans’ archetypal characters could be from any conflict, in any country, and this sear...
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Odyssey

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  5/10/2007 to 6/3/2007

Andrew Zimmerman as Odysseus in The Looking Glass Theatre production of Odyssey.

When war is the catalyst, the path to forgiveness is an odyssey. This original adaptation of Homer’s classic written and directed by Kate Marks, playfully uses anachronism and humor to examine the repercussions of war.
Using lies and deceit, you’ve won the war waged in the sand. Now a...
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FRITZ & FROYIM

Turtle's Shell Theater, 300 W. 43rd St., 4th floor  5/30/2007 to 6/16/2007

How does Fritz, a former German SS officer haunted by the ghost of Froyim, a Jewish comedian, end up on a cabaret stage? And what exactly is Froyim trying to prove? The answers will surprise you, along with electric shock treatments and a suspicious exorcist with a magic act. Not to mention brillian...
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The Reaching

Seventh Street Small Stage, 41-43 East 7th Street  6/4/2007 to 6/26/2007

A daughter returns to the site of her mother's disappearance seeking closure but finds instead a woman and a strange man also waiting....
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Richard III

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  7/11/2007 to 7/29/2007

by Trinidad Mac-Auliffe

A villain? Perhaps. But what about from his point of view? A new and fresh story about a disabled man in an abled world, a world he must risk it all in order to conquer and have power…...
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Life is a Dream

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  6/8/2007 to 6/24/2007

Christina Shipp, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Joe Medina - copyright Rick Bruner

Kelly O'Donnell finds the human heart of Calderón's ephemeral classic, La Vida es Sueño (Life is a Dream), in Flux Theatre Ensemble's production of John Clifford's lyrical and visceral translation....
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No Exit & Paris Cafe

Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 E. 26th St.  6/12/2007 to 6/24/2007
NO EXIT by Jean Paul Sartre and PARIS CAFE- songs of Juliette Greco...
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Sampaguita

45th Street Theatre – Upstairs, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl.  6/12/2007 to 6/24/2007

New York comic Joshua Timms, a self-loathing man-child, has been left devastated by the loss of his wife. Despite the debilitating effects of her severe Lupus, she was the strong one—his caretaker. In her absence, grief sets his life into a couch-ridden waste until an unexpected gift comes from his...
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The Taming of the Shrew

Flamboyan Theatre - CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  6/15/2007 to 7/1/2007

Hipgnosis' The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew is a play within a play, a piece of theatrical entertainment staged for Christopher Sly, a poor drunkard who is tricked into thinking himself a lord - a man with all the comforts that money and wealth and privilege can offer: a sumptuous home, fine food and drink, obedient se...
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Romeo & Juliet

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  5/25/2007 to 6/17/2007

Noshir Dalal (Romeo) & Malaika Queano (Juliet)

The story is, of course, about a pair of star-crossed lovers. Two teenagers pursue their love for each other despite the fact that their families have been at odds with each other for decades. The story combines sword fighting, disguise, misunderstanding, tragedy, humor all in the name of true love....
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No End of Blame

Atlantic Stage 2, 330 W 16th St  6/26/2007 to 7/13/2007
The life and times of a political cartoonist whose pen is dipped in poison...
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WASHING MACHINE

The Chocolate Factory, 5-49 49th Avenue  6/22/2007 to 7/7/2007

Photo of Dana Berger by Michelle Enfield.

WASHING MACHINE- 'Laundromat Death Baffles Town'- The Washington Post. Inspired by the traumatic and mysterious true story of a 5 year old girl who drowned inside a Laundromat washing machine, playwright Jason Stuart and director Michael Chamberlin expand her final moments of breath as she halluc...
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As You LIke It

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, w.89th and Riverside Drive  7/5/2007 to 7/29/2007
As You Like It, Shakespeare's comedy of class, confusion, and country copulatives...
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Professional Skepticism

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  6/28/2007 to 7/15/2007

Matthew J. Nichols, Britney Burgess (legs), Steve French, Photo by Jonathan Slaff

A darkly comic tale of office intrigue that takes up a timely matter in its portrayal of four accountants working for a Big Five CPA firm who uncover a scandal that will test the very limits of their morality....
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Macbeth

Hudson Warehouse, w.89th and Riverside Drive  8/2/2007 to 8/26/2007
Black hooded figures chorusing the lines of witches, emerge from their cloaks to become the Sergeant, and sons and subjects of Duncan, only to once again sink into the anonymity of their engulfing garments, so that from scene to scene, witches, murderers, nobles and soldiers walk the edge between ...
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DeCADEnce

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  7/11/2007 to 8/25/2007

Graphic by Turning Mill

DeCADEnce flies from 1903 to 1998 in examination of the lies, truths, and in-betweens which have plagued this country in the last century. Meet Topsy the Elephant that helped build Coney Island, and witness her gruesome public execution, Follow the conflict of an African American Actor who has to de...
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Dark of the Moon

Chashama, 217 East 42nd Street  6/15/2007 to 7/7/2007

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Doppelganger

3ld Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street  6/27/2007 to 7/21/2007
Frank jumped out of a building by accident while he was having sex across the street. He almost hit Marcia on the sidewalk, but she was busy,naked, in the conference room upstairs. Theoretical Physics makes Psychology angry. And George just wants to quit his day job. A new multi-media spectacle ...
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The People vs. Mona

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  7/15/2007 to 8/4/2007

The People vs. Mona

A new Southern musical from Jim Wann of Pump Boys and Dinettes...
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Royal Circus' The Magic of Mrs. Crowling

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  7/10/2007 to 8/5/2007

Twelve-year-old Kicken Petchio is not long for this world. Dying of "undisclosed cancer", his only escape is into the wizardly world of his favorite books: the Henry Shield adventures, written by A.R. Crowling. When his father arranges for Kicken to meet his favorite author through Last Ditch Wish, ...
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All's Well That Ends Well

Central Park Lawn, 69th Street and CPW  6/23/2007 to 7/22/2007

Aaron Michael Zook (foreground) and Karen Sternberg in ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

Rockin' production of Shakespeare's Romantic Comedy, outdoors...
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Stoppard Goes Electric

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  9/6/2007 to 9/23/2007

Shauna Kelly and Christopher Yeatts in STOPPARD GOES ELECTRIC


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Two Thirds Home

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  7/21/2007 to 8/12/2007

Sharing secrets makes us intimates, building a life around them sets us apart. We find Michael and Paul in their childhood home, following their mother's funeral, with Sue, her lover, revealing truths that will strain their relationships and the identity they have built for themselves in Padraic Lil...
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What Happened When

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  7/5/2007 to 7/16/2007

What happens behind closed doors in the old rundown houses scattered across the country? What stories are children privy to in the beds of rivers, on the rocky edges of lakes, at countless barbeques and bonfires? Two brothers meet on a winter night and share a conversation filled with old stories ...
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Tyrannos Rex

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  7/19/2007 to 8/5/2007

Promotional Image for Tyrannos Rex

A new play exploring the classical tragedy of Oedipus, and his family, through the eyes of servants....
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Politics of Passion

Atlantic Stage 2, 330 W 16th St  6/26/2007 to 7/14/2007
Connections- personal, social, confused, are at the heart of the plays in this evening....
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"Midtown Murders" - Murder Me Always

Laugh Factory, 303 West 42nd Street

An open run of interactive dinner theatre murder mysteries. Beginning July 5: "Murder Me Always"...
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Swim Shorts 3: Are You In?

Holiday Inn Midtown Rooftop, 440 W 57th Street  7/18/2007 to 8/11/2007
Swim Shorts 3: Are You In? presents two thrilling programs of five aquatic-themed plays in repertory. The festival is inspired by the greatest summer invention of all time, the swimming pool. Originally presented in 2002 and 2003, the festival returns just in time to beat global warming. As the ...
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Art of Memory

Ontological Hysterical Theatre, 131 East 10th Street  7/12/2007 to 7/21/2007

Lisa Ramirez in Art of Memory

Four librarians trapped in a fantastical library search for an exit and create elaborate physical games that explore memory and illusion in Company SoGoNo’s stark atmospheric performance, Art of Memory....
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Removable Parts

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  9/6/2007 to 9/15/2007

In the face of unrequited love, Corey Dargel contemplates voluntary amputation through his hilarious and smart pop songs....
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Never The Sinner

Flamboyan Theatre - CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  7/17/2007 to 7/28/2007
John Logan's play that explores the Leopold and Loeb story - their relationship, their murder of a fourteen year old boy in 1924, and their sensational trial in which they were famously represented by Clarence Darrow....
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Orange

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  7/27/2007 to 8/12/2007
A romantic comedy wrapped in urban sprawl....
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You May Go Now

45th Street Theatre – Upstairs, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl.  9/6/2007 to 9/29/2007
Dottie has trained Betty to be the perfect 1950s housewife; to cook the perfect pot roast. to bake a gorgeous seven-layer cake, to remove any stain. And tonight, Betty’s 18th birthday, it is time for Betty to go out into the world. Only Dottie has failed to mention that the years is 2007, that the w...
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The Young Ladies Of...

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  9/20/2007 to 10/19/2007

HERE is pleased to present the world premiere of The Young Ladies Of, written and performed by Taylor Mac. Stationed in Vietnam in 1968, Lt. Robert Bowyer placed an advertisement asking women ages 19-26 to write him. He was flooded with letters from hundreds of young ladies responding to his ad...
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Madagascar

American Theatre of Actors, Beckman Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  8/1/2007 to 8/11/2007

Is it really better to have loved and lost?

MADAGASCAR is the story of a marriage quietly unravelling in the wake of a lost child. Revealing itself in intimate vignettes, it moves from love's final moments, through rages, silences, and missed opportunities for redemption, back to its tender beginnings....
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Night of Nigro

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  8/2/2007 to 8/19/2007

Are you looking at the real thing or just a reflection, or a reflection of a reflection?

The Strain Theatre Company presents an evening of the works of Don Nigro, a mysterious and prolific playwright who finds truth in the absurd and vice versa. Drawing from his extraordinary wealth of knowledge, Nigro takes his audiences on bizarre, chilling, and often hilarious journeys into the minds...
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Drum of the Waves of Horikawa

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  10/25/2007 to 11/17/2007

The Theatre of a Two-headed Calf explores the 18th-century Chikamatsu play Drum of the Waves of Horikawa. Loud, violent, transgressive and fueled by radical politics, both Kabuki and 1970s punk rock represented unforgiving performance movements that captured the stories of social discord. Combi...
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The Broken Jump

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  7/21/2007 to 8/26/2007

The Broken Jump tells the story of a small-time vaudeville comic who has spent twenty years pursuing his dream of making the big-time and playing the Palace. He arrives in Grand Rapids, Michigan at the end of a broken jump (a "split week," as it were) not to find a stepping stone to success, but ra...
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Bigger Fish To Fry

Sage Theater, 711 7th Ave  7/19/2007 to 7/21/2007

BIGGER FISH TO FRY

An up and coming singer tries to make some sweet harmonies with an out of control rock star. It's Freewill vs. Desire....
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NECROPOLIS #1&2: World Gone Wrong/Worth Gun Willed

Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  8/4/2007 to 8/18/2007

Femme fatale Christina Wright (Stacia French) tempts honest P.I. Ned Daley (Adam Swiderski) in NECROPOLIS #1&2

The popular and critical film noir pastiche of 2005 returns to The Brick! A two act collaged dream of noir - mixing lines from over 150 classic noir films with statements from the current USA government in a political allegory of honor trying to survive in a dark world of backstabbing, betrayal, an...
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NECROPOLIS #0&3: Kiss Me, Succubus & At the Mountains of Slumberland

Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  8/8/2007 to 8/26/2007

Two one-acts in Ian W. Hill's ongoing NECROPOLIS series: "Kiss Me, Succubus" - a funny, then scary tribute to European sexy horror films of the late 60s; and "At the Mountains of Slumberland," which sets comic book character Little Nemo down in the universe of H.P. Lovecraft's stories....
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The Hobo Got Too High

Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  8/4/2007 to 8/25/2007

Playwright-novelist-music critic Marc Spitz takes you on amazing, hysterical hour of sex, drugs, and rock & roll in this story of Bug Blowmonkey, a cokehead (but a nice guy, really!), as he tries to get clean with the help of his spirit guide, Marvin Gaye - a jounrey through an unlikely series of fa...
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Becca and Heidi

Chashama, 217 East 42nd Street  8/12/2007 to 8/22/2007
Becca's alter-ego, Heidi, is braver, funnier, smarter, and sexier. Racing to catch up with her doppelganger, surgical nurse Becca juggles two new boyfriends and struggles to remember the great sex. Everyone loves Heidi, but can she be trusted with a bone file and the keys to the animal resear...
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September 12th

Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 E 3 St  8/23/2007 to 9/15/2007
September 12th is the story of two low level drug dealers filling orders in the wake of the attacks on NYC. After a deal they gone wrong they find themselves in "The Tombs", amongst hurt angry and confused inmates. The story deals with how the world changed after the attacks on the WTC....
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A New Television Arrives, Finally

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  9/8/2007 to 9/30/2007

(l to r) Kate Russell, Tom Pelphrey, Bryan Fenkart

An absurdist black comedy about a dissatisfied couple visited by a man presenting himself as their television. This handsome stranger... is he a charlatan, or a guru? And why is he awakening them from their spiritual slumber?...
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Guns, Shackles & Winter Coats

Where Eagles Dare Theatre, 347 W 36th St., ground floor  10/25/2007 to 11/18/2007

Dedicated to creating art through theatre.

La Muse Venale presents Guns, Shackles & Winter Coats, a harrowing journey of a soldier who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Guns, Shackles & Winter Coats is a very important, prescient play that will make people think and talk about the difficulties that veterans suffer through. ...
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Melodrama and Mayhem on Main Street

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  9/4/2007 to 9/29/2007

(by P. Casey) The Three Playwrights - Bryant, Gerstenberg & Glaspell

6 short plays by women who changed the face of theatre in the early 20th century. Includes the world premiere of Louise Bryant's "From Paris to Main Street"....
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Dangerous Corner

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  9/8/2007 to 9/29/2007

Catherine McNelis, Karen Sternberg, and Jaime West in DANGEROUS CORNER


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Disgraced Productions' ...and we all wore leather pants

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  9/6/2007 to 9/29/2007

It’s Buried Child meets Def Leppard. It’s 100 Years of Solitude written by Twisted Sister. The ground literally moves beneath the feet of the Sturgess family with the arrival of a strange visitor, some heavy metal-tinged magic in the air and the revelation that one of them may be part of the world...
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Six Degrees of Separation

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  9/15/2007 to 9/30/2007

photo credit: Jennifer Maufrais

Based on an actual incident, John Guare’s play is a witty and biting commentary on the things that drive people - the desire for wealth, fame, social standing, and meaningful human connection. The play is best summed up by one Guare’s leading characters, socialite Ouisa Kittredge: “I read somewhere ...
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Kinderspiel

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  10/4/2007 to 10/27/2007

Kinderspiel Postcard

In the seedy and seditious demimonde of Weimar Berlin, five lost souls find meaning, each other, and nightly sold-out audiences when they create KINDERSPIEL ("Child's Play"), the only show in town that dares to entertain you by completely wasting your time. ...
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The Sheik

Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 3rd Floor  9/8/2007 to 9/22/2007

Cast of Deloss Brown's THE SHEIK (photo by John Quilty)

A 3-act farce. Romantic comedy....
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Lilith

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  9/7/2007 to 9/23/2007
How far would you go to create art? Would you manipulate? Compromise? Ruin the lives of others? Shed your morality? CORE Theatre co, Presents Lilith a Sculptress by Alexandra Devin ...
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Mercy Thieves

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  10/5/2007 to 10/27/2007

Mercy Thieves

This is a furiously dark physical comedy of death, loyalty and friendship. Mike and DJ, hired killers by trade, bludgeon, stab and shoot their way across Western Australia in search of the elusive Harry, gangland associate and target. Part homage to the British gangster movie, part Shakespearean tra...
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The Heart Has a Mind of its Own

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  9/12/2007 to 9/30/2007

Aurora Nessly in THE HEART HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN


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Auntie Mayhem

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  9/6/2007 to 9/29/2007

Auntie Mayhem ...it's a family affair!

A Manhattan gay couple accidentally become foster parents to three runaway-throwaway queer teens. An alternative family with its own set of values. It ain’t The Brady Bunch. ...
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The Beebo Brinker Chronicles

The Fourth Street Theater, 83 East 4th Street  9/29/2007 to 10/28/2007
Hourglass Group presents The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, by Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman adapted from the groundbreaking 1950s lesbian pulp novels by Ann Bannon. Leigh Silverman directs. Set in pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village, The Beebo Brinker Chronicles celebrates the era when "the love t...
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The House of Yes

Payan Theater, 300 W 43 St Room 506  10/3/2007 to 10/21/2007

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Iphigenia at Aulis

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center,   12/6/2007 to 12/16/2007

Stranded at the Bay of Aulis, the Greek fleet waits, desperate to launch their attack on Troy. In this fresh imagining of a classic tragedy, watch the struggle that ensues when a father offers up his first-born as a sacrifice to the gods of war and political gain. ...
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Kiss of the Spider Woman - The Musical

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  9/13/2007 to 10/6/2007
A radical restaging of the Tony winning musical based on the novel by Manuel Puig....
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Hurt So Good

Turtle's Shell Theater, 300 W. 43rd St., 4th floor  10/11/2007 to 10/27/2007

Meet Tom, boy next door and aspiring documentary filmmaker. Meet Cecily, the girl of his dreams and loving submissive who wants Tom to be her erotic Master… Wait, what?!? Hurt So Good follows the journey of one man exploring the world of BDSM. Tom and his crew embark on a touching and humorous jo...
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I Used to Write on Walls

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  10/4/2007 to 10/27/2007

I Used to Write on Walls

Diane, Georgia and Joanne are 3 modern women living very different lives. Diane, a catastrophically lonely cop in her mid-30’s, struggles to find love in the city. Georgia, an early 20’s beat/street poet, frequents open-mike nights to vent the heartache of a missing boyfriend. Joanne, 30, is a make-...
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BENT

13th Street Repertory Theatre Company, 50 West 13th Street  10/10/2007 to 11/29/2007

Rudy and Max, homosexuals in Nazi Berlin, unknowingly invite a person on the Nazi's wanted list into their home. Guilty by association and also because they are homosexuals, the Gestapo hunts them down as ardently as Jews. En route to Dachau, Rudy is slain, and a horrified Max is befriended by Horst...
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True Genius

Altered Stages, 212 West 29th Street  9/23/2007 to 10/7/2007

Show poster

TRUE GENIUS tells the unfolding story of a boy genius named Scooter who also happens to be a pathological liar. As Scooter falls in love with another pathological liar named Lila, and an eccentric psychologist pries at his past, Scooter’s bizarre family history begins to unravel and he comes to ques...
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SAY YOUR PRAYERS, MUG!

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  10/4/2007 to 10/27/2007

Mr. and Mrs. Matinee themselves, Skip Rayburn and Dottie Haines, host the 1950s television show “Sunrise Cinema” and eagerly present the long-lost thriller, “Say Your Prayers, Mug!” In between the bubbly hosts’ banter, the 1935 gangster flick comes to life on stage, complete with fist-swingin’ cops...
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Love of a Pig

45th Street Theatre – Upstairs, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl.  10/12/2007 to 10/28/2007
A biting, absurd romantic comedy. Jenny is a NYC violinist who's love life leaves something to be desired. When she meets a brooding bass player, nothing goes as she has always dreamed it would and she reexamines what happiness really is. ...
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The Cherry Orchard

Beckett Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  9/30/2007 to 10/21/2007
THE CHERRY ORCHARD is one of Anton Chekhov's best-loved and most luminous works, exploring the bittersweet passing of a way of life and the devastating effect of the hand of history on the lives of a collection of ordinary people living in the Russian countryside at the turn of the 19th century. Thi...
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The Coffee Trees

Beckett Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  9/28/2007 to 10/20/2007
THE COFFEE TREES, a new play by Arthur Giron, inspired by Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD, takes place on a Guatemalan coffee plantation following the country’s 35-year civil war between communist guerilla forces and conservative landowners. The play examines one family’s struggle to find its pla...
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a Good Farmer

Bank Street Theatre, 155 Bank Street  9/25/2007 to 10/20/2007

In this final installment of 3Graces’ 2nd Class Citizens Season, two women - a farm owner and her unlikely best friend, an illegal Mexican immigrant - fight to survive in a small Upstate New York town divided by America's immigration battle (World Premiere)....
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Townville

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/6/2007 to 10/21/2007

Townville isn't your ordinary run-of-the-mill-ville. It's a picture-perfect artist's community engineered for happiness, where there's a musical every day! But when people start disappearing as often as songs are sung, Townville's secrets begin to surface, unraveling life as Townville knows it....
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Caravaggio Chiaroscuro

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  9/27/2007 to 10/14/2007

Photo by Jonathan Slaff

An opera about Caravaggio's life and struggles as a young painter in Rome...
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Dossier: Ronald Akkerman

Theatrelab, 137 West 14 th Street  10/5/2007 to 10/28/2007

Annie Branson and Peter Schoenaerts as the nurse and the patient.

Dossier: Ronald Akkerman is a Dutch play written by acclaimed playwright Suzanne van Lohuizen. In the piece Ms. Van Lohuizen, while exploring a relationship between a patient and a nurse, brings up a number of themes: preconceptions about AIDS, issues of humanity, and euthanasia. Through a mixture o...
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newFangled theatReR's Harm's Way by Mac Wellman

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  10/2/2007 to 10/30/2007
Born from rocks and tired of waiting for the hot weather to end, newFangled theatReR’s ensemble returns with a new envisioning of Mac Wellman’s Harm’s Way. NYTheatre.com’s Ross Chappell called newFangled’s last stab, in the first annual FRIGID Festival, “near perfection… The performances aren’t ju...
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Second Hand Smoke

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  10/4/2007 to 10/21/2007
Set in a sexy, gritty underworld where men and women are equal in their ability to deceive, SECOND HAND SMOKE follows Donna, a tough, yet worn out diner waitress caught among four men. One late evening, her shady past comes to light when she brings a sexy stranger home with her. What begins as a o...
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RadioTheatre Presents H.G.Wells' THE INVISIBLE MAN

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  10/14/2007 to 11/3/2007

Frank Zilinyi as THE INVISIBLE MAN

One stormy night, a mysterious stranger, who is not only invisible, but insane, arrives in a small town to carry out his reign of terror. Live, onstage, complete with a full orchestral score and a plethora of sound fx as only Radiotheatre can provide! ...
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Radiotheatre Presents H.G.Wells' WAR OF THE WORLDS

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  10/11/2007 to 11/3/2007

Frank Zilinyi in WAR OF THE WORLDS

When our homeland is suddenly attacked by powerful invaders from another world, will we be able to survive not only the onslaught, but, fear, itself? Live, on stage accompanied by a full orchestral score and a plethora of sound fx as only Radiotheatre can provide!...
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Radiotheatre Presents H.G.Wells' THE ISLAND OF DR.MOREAU

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  10/13/2007 to 11/4/2007

Sarah Stephens in THE ISLAND OF DR.MOREAU

A geneticist creates a tribe of weird mutants who worship their maker as their god. Live, on stage! Complete with a full orchestral score and a plethora of sound fx as only Radiotheatre can provide! ...
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Radiotheatre Presents THE ISLAND OF DR.MOREAU

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street

Sarah Stephens in THE ISLAND OF DR.MOREAU

A geneticist creates a tribe of weird mutants who worship their maker as their god. Live, on stage! Complete with a full orchestral score and a plethora of sound fx as only Radiotheatre can provide! ...
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Radiotheatre Presents H.G.Wells' THE TIME MACHINE

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  10/12/2007 to 11/4/2007

Jerry Lazar in THE TIME MACHINE

In the year 1911, a time traveler journeys thousands of years into the future to discover a horrifying conclusion for mankind. Complete with a full orchestral score and a plethora of sound fx as only Radiotheatre can provide! ...
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The Rockae

Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street  9/20/2007 to 10/13/2007
Pent-up King Pentheus takes on Dionysus and his frenzied female fans when the god of wine and theater returns to Thebes. Get ready for moshing Maenads and thrashing catharsis in this rock musical adaptation of Euripides' classic, The Bacchae. Drama Desk-nominated writer Peter Mills fuses the intensi...
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Guns, Shackles & Winter Coats

Where Eagles Dare Theatre, 347 W 36th St., ground floor  10/25/2007 to 11/11/2007

La Muse Venale Acting Troupe

The story of an Iraq Vet with PTSD....
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Kosher Harry

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  10/10/2007 to 10/28/2007

Kosher Harry's

Associate produced with NY Deaf Theater this US Premiere, set in a kosher deli, is about the casual racism that plagues our lives. A sarcastic blonde Waitress, a vociferous Cabbie and a partially deaf old Woman sit in a deli, when a stranger arrives who acts as a truth serum on them–arousing gossip,...
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2007 Fall EATfest: Series A

Producer's Club Grand Theatre, 358 West 44th Street 3rd Floor  10/16/2007 to 11/3/2007
Premiere plays by emerging playwrights....
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2007 Fall Eatfest: Series B

Producer's Club Grand Theatre, 358 West 44th Street 3rd Floor  10/17/2007 to 11/4/2007
Premiere Short Plays by Emerging PLaywrights...
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2007 Fall EATFest: Series C

Producer's Club Grand Theatre, 358 West 44th Street 3rd Floor  10/18/2007 to 11/4/2007
Premiere Short Plays by Emerging Playwrights...
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The Leopard and The Fox

The Barrow Group Theatre, 312 West 36th Street - 3rd Floor  10/17/2007 to 11/3/2007

The Leopard and The Fox

The last days of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first popularly elected prime minister, executed by his closest confidante, his army chief, Zia Ul Haq....
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Yank! A New Musical

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  10/20/2007 to 11/11/2007

(l to r) Maxime de Toledo as Mitch and Bobby Steggert as Stu in The Gallery Players production of Yank! A New Musical. Photo by Mark Krieger

A universal love story that brings to light to a forgotten slice of history, by brothers David and Joseph Zellnik....
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The Possibilities

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street

The greatest living playwright you've never heard of. --The Boston Globe

In The Possibilities, ten thematically linked vignettes highlight, with darkly vibrant humor, the cyclical nature of the East/West cultural clash. This intricate puzzle box of a play explores themes of violence and war and the layers of truth, betrayal and danger in our lives. Although it was first ...
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To the Death of My Own Family

Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street  9/27/2007 to 10/13/2007

To the Death of My Own Family (photo by Luke Ratray)

TO THE DEATH OF MY OWN FAMILY, by David Meth tells the story of an Afghan-American woman who returns to Afghanistan to help her father escape, only to witness the carnage of her entire family. Upon her return to the U.S., she is interrogated as a suspect, detained, humiliated and forced to justify h...
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The Night of Nosferatu

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   9/28/2007 to 10/13/2007

Matt W. Cody as Nosferatu and Tatiana Gomberg as Mina in

Rabbit Hole Ensemble presents The Night of Nosferatu, adapted from Murnau's silent horror film classic Nosferatu and Stoker's Dracula by Stanton Wood. Winner of Best Director in 2007's Midtown International Theatre Festival. Using nothing more than their bodies, voices, and a handful of props, si...
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The Comedy of Errors

St. James Cathedral Pavilion, 248 Jay Street  10/18/2007 to 10/28/2007

Two of a Kind

Two sets of twins are separated at sea. Twenty years later their paths finally cross again; but will they figure out who they are before the hilarious confusion turns fatal? 4 actors; 90 minutes; no intermission; all ages...
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The Blood Brothers present... PULP

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  10/11/2007 to 10/27/2007


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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  9/29/2007 to 5/31/2008

Every Friday and Saturday Night at the Kraine Theatre, the award-winning, ever-changing endeavor to perform 30 Plays in 60 Minutes. Embracing chance, change and a little chaos, each show is unique as the audience randomly chooses the order of 30 original short plays, and the energetic ensemble of N...
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P.O.V.

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  10/20/2007 to 11/3/2007

One Story. Four Points of View. Which One Will You Believe?

Inspired by Kurosawa's 1950 movie, Rashomon, P.O.V. explores the murder of Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello, from four different perspectives. Watch as Othello, Desdemona, Emilia, and Iago, each try to convince Shakespeare to see things their way....
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Iphigenia in Aulis

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/4/2007 to 10/21/2007
In a highly-unusual occurrence, this European-created IPHIGENIA AT AULIS by Gardzienice Theatre -- which makes its home in the small village of Gardzienice near Lublin in eastern Poland and tours widely on the international theatre festival circuit, where it is a favorite of the avant-garde -- will ...
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By Oscar Micheaux

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  10/20/2007 to 11/4/2007

The story of a man whose legacy has been all but lost to the forces of history.

This is the (mostly) true story of Oscar Micheaux, one of the nations first African-American filmmakers. Against all odds, Micheaux became a successful playwright, novelist and director of over 40 films in segregated, early 20th century America. Through a compelling mixture of historical film clips,...
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Savage In Limbo

The DUO Theater, 62 East 4th Street  10/18/2007 to 11/4/2007

Savage In Limbo

The story begins in an 80’s Bronx bar with Murk, a baby-faced bartender with a wooden foot, and his failed nun of a regular April White. Soon Denise Savage—who is still a virgin at 32— stomps into the bar, searching vainly for action. The action arrives with Linda Rotunda, who has the opposite situ...
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A Dream Play

Off-Off-Broadway Playhouse at Roy Arias Theaters, 300 W. 43rd St.  11/1/2007 to 11/10/2007
The Daughter of the Gods falls to earth to find out what it is to be human. Strindberg's lucid, imaginative masterpiece comes to life by an ensemble of nine actors in a brand new adaptation of the work the master playwright considered to be his finest....
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12th Night of the Living Dead

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center,   10/25/2007 to 11/10/2007
Shakespeare. Zombies. Blood. Guts. All you can eat....
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The Three Sillies

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  10/6/2007 to 11/18/2007

Growing up is serious business...Sammy is really starting to outgrow her embarrassingly silly family. With her birthday approaching and her friends smirking, Sammy decides to run away forever with nothing but her old childhood toy: a wise-cracking teddy bear come-to-life. Thus begins a magical journ...
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Unrestricted Acts: Violence & Vaudeville

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  11/1/2007 to 11/18/2007
This production is the culminating step in the first New Mummer Group (NMG) Writers Exchange. In the spring of 2007, three plays were submitted by company members and three plays were chosen from submissions by Kentucky writers. In July, NMG, sponsored by the Appalachian Center at Berea College, hel...
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Always Family

The Kirk @ Theatre Row Studios, 410 West 42nd Street  10/12/2007 to 10/27/2007

Being constantly compared to your seemingly perfect brother, getting C's in school despite trying your best, your parents fighting over you ... this is the life of Ling Ling whose best friend, her dog, is sick. No one understands what she is going through, and her immigrant Chinese parents can't com...
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The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  11/2/2007 to 11/25/2007

The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side

Billy, Dawn, Dear, and Wyatt are an extended sexual family living tribally in NYC. Watch in amazement as they battle through their violent addictions and fears. Behold their celebrations of love, and their search for human grandness. This is the story of the Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side....
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Arpeggio

45th Street Theatre – Upstairs, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl.  11/1/2007 to 11/18/2007

One of the Posters for Arpeggio

"Zeb, the personal assistant and best friend to fading pop superstar, Cindy Hall, is consumed by loneliness so he decides to take on a new roommate, Gerry. Zeb and Gerry become fast friends. He confides in her about the uncertainty of his relationship with his new illegal immigrant boyfriend, Rica...
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Pap Smear (A Rip roaring Comdey)

Star Theater, 300 W. 43rd St/  10/25/2007 to 11/4/2007
Going to the gynecologist was easy, explaining to her husband why the doctor had his head under the sheet and between her...Well, that was another story....
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What I Did Last Summer

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  11/7/2007 to 11/24/2007

While his father is off fighting in WWII, Charlie and his family head to their summer home in an effort to keep some normalcy. While there he rebels against his mother and finds himself under the tutelage of “the Pig Woman,” the town misfit, who tries to help him find his potential while pointing ou...
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New Orleans

Producer's Club, 358 West 44th Street  11/2/2007 to 11/11/2007

Molly Callahan in New Orleans, photo by Diane Swartz

In this world premiere production, New Orleans revisits the old City of Dreams; a woman (Molly Callahan) looks back as a young girl in the 1950's and tries to piece together the puzzle of who she is, who her family was, and why something had to happen in a hotel in New Orleans that changed them fore...
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PROOF

Variety Boys & Girls Club of Queens, Broccoli Theatre 21-12 30th Road  11/2/2007 to 11/18/2007
Proof tells the story of Catherine, a young woman and daughter of Robert, a renowned mathematician struck by mental illness. When a revolutionary proof surfaces, the mystery of its authorship brings personal issues to a boil. Paced as a thriller and infused with crisp humor throughout, the real ...
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Burn, Crave, Hold: The James Wilde Project

Interart Annex, 500 West 52nd Street  10/27/2007 to 11/12/2007
Journey through the heart of the Congo rainforest, a rice paddy in Vietnam, an asylum in Turkey, and a nervous first date in a Parisian café in this exploration of the real life adventures of war correspondent James Wilde. This dynamic new play examines what motivated Wilde to obsessively pursue ext...
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Lesbian Bathhouse

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  10/12/2007 to 11/17/2007

Colleen Benedict and Elena Chang in Lesbian Bathhouse.

Where can you go when you’re feeling a little dirty? Come to LESBIAN BATHHOUSE, a late-night play by Helen Eisenbach and directed by Rose Ginsberg. The last thing actress Grace Cameron expects when she walks in to audition for a mysterious new show is that her “big break” will lead her down a wi...
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The Beggar's Group's Glass Houses

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  11/1/2007 to 11/17/2007

We all live in structures--some we see, some we don't. Some we create, some are created for us. Glass Houses is the story of five people whose hidden structures are revealed as their lives begin to unravel. This explosive new drama explores the intricacy of our structured lives and the delicacy o...
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The Round of Pleasure

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center,   11/10/2007 to 12/16/2007

Photo By Markus Hirnigel

The Round of Pleasure is based on Schnitzler's La Ronde. It revolves around the actions and emotions of eleven characters, and their dark, twisted tale of exploitation, sexuality, and materialism. Through dark humor, late Austrian writer Werner Schwab creates an entertaining play that depicts a capi...
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Baby With The Bathwater

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  11/7/2007 to 11/17/2007

Baby With The Bathwater

Christopher Durang's dark-comic classis...
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War Uncensored

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  11/9/2007 to 11/18/2007

After traveling to almost 40 countries around the world, including to Iraq and Afghanistan and through all 50 U.S. states, bestselling military author Andrew Carroll has collected more than 80,000 never-before-seen letters from every conflict in American history. The most candid, unusual, and riveti...
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Dershowitz Protocol

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  11/9/2007 to 11/18/2007

"If the judicially sanctioned torture of suspected terrorists might actually forestall a repeat of the 9/11 bombings, why not use it?" The play, based on Alan Dershowitz’s Why Terrorrism Works, sets out to explore the situation in which investigators, desperate to get information about a so-calle...
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Archipelago

Altered Stages, 212 West 29th Street  11/9/2007 to 11/18/2007
10 short one-person plays that explore themes of solitude, self, and theatricality. All of the plays in ARCHIPELAGO explore the different ways people relate to, and deal with, their own isolation. A woman trapped inside her own mind, a desperate man in a jail cell, an artist with dynamite strapped t...
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The Chaos Theories

McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway, 4th Floor  10/25/2007 to 11/17/2007

A flashy movie star, a Senator and his controlling wife, a vindictive stockbroker and a hallucinating homeless woman -- These are just a few of the characters who parade through a downtown restaurant in The Chaos Theories, a new, fast paced work by Alexander Dinelaris (2x Drama Desk Nominee for his ...
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Sister Cities

Gloria Maddox Theatre, 151 W. 26th St.  10/18/2007 to 11/18/2007
Sister Cities is a witty commentary on the dignity of choice, and the power of relationships....
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The Turn of the Screw

Bank Street Theatre, 155 Bank Street  10/31/2007 to 11/17/2007
Based on the short story by Henry James, this adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher uses two actors to tell the tale of a governess who is in charge of two children that she fears may be under the influence of the ghosts of their former tutor and governess....
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The Lesson by Eugène Ionesco

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  11/15/2007 to 12/2/2007

Eugene Ionesco's classic absurdist comedy; the first production of The Collective...
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Edward II

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  11/29/2007 to 12/16/2007

Edward II by Christopher Marlowe; Produced by (re:) Directions Theatre Company

A contemporary interpretation of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II in which a young king's power is threatened by members of the old regime as a result of his personal life. Edward II's relevance is evident because of current debates about gay marriage and civil unions, as well as the highly parti...
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Appearance - A Suspense In Being

Theaterlab, 137 W 14th St.  11/29/2007 to 5/17/2008

Liza Cassidy in Appearance

At its heart, "Appearance - A Suspense in Being" is a performance piece about acting. In that respect it is unusual, since so much experimental theater is now devoted to movement theater and multimedia. Altomare and Crispino have devised a performance structure which focuses primarily on the actor's...
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BOSOMS AND NEGLECT

Interborough Repertory Theater, 154 Christopher St.  11/29/2007 to 12/23/2007

In Bosoms and Neglect, Scooper, a thrice-weekly psychiatric patient, meets Deirdre, a woman with a five-visits-a-week therapy habit, in the waiting room of their shared psychiatrist. When their doctor goes on vacation, they turn to each other and begin an impassioned affair that gives new dime...
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Innocent Diversions, A Christmas Entertainment with Jane Austen and Friends

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  11/16/2007 to 12/16/2007
December 1803, Miss Jane Austen, her family & friends have arrived at Manydown Park, the Hampshire estate of the Bigg-Wither family for a Christmas celebration. At the persistent urging of her hosts, Jane has consented to be Mistress of Ceremonies and preside over their Holiday theatricals, which a...
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Atomic Farmgirl

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  11/16/2007 to 12/1/2007

Jane Guyer, Melissa Condren, and Vanessa Davis in ATOMIC FARMGIRL.

Atomic Farmgirl is the exciting New York debut of writer C.Denby Swanson. An adaptation of a memoir by Teri Hein, it follows growth of a farming community in Hanford, Washington during the "nuclear" age when many families were stricken with radiation related illness because of their proximity to ...
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The Usual Freak Show

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  11/2/2007 to 11/18/2007
Jeffrey Essmann is an acclaimed satirist, actor and writer, whose sharp vignettes offer a kaleidoscope of characters ranging from “Barbie” to the fashion editor “Vivyen”. His comedy is bold and original with a dynamic edge that is truly both endearing and plain hysterical. Essmann was part of the...
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SHINING CITY

Queens Theatre in the Park, P.O.Box 520069  11/28/2007 to 12/9/2007
Drama by Conor McPherson...
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New Amsterdames

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  12/1/2007 to 12/16/2007
A NY reporter covers the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage while in 1659 the women of New Amsterdam, including doughnut inventor Anna Joralemon and first generation African-American farmer Dorothy Angola, race against an army of beavers to find the lost deed to Manhattan....
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The Eight: Reindeer Monologues

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  11/30/2007 to 12/21/2007
Dysfunctional Theatre Company presents the 4th annual revival of this now classic tale....
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Maudie & Jane

Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street  12/5/2007 to 2/24/2008

photo by Chantel Lucier

Inspired by Doris Lessing's novel, The Diary of Jane Somers, The Living Theatre presents the encounter of two women of different ages and different classes, an elderly, poor woman living in squalor, and a middle-aged fashion editor near the top of her career -- they bridge a series of cultural-histo...
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A Christmas Carol: the new musical

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  11/29/2007 to 12/22/2007
A contemporary adaptation of Dickens' classic ghost story with a haunting indie rock score. Not the aging misanthropic archetype, but rather a modern day Scrooge: a corporate philanthropist who must examine what it means to do good in a country faced with environmental destruction and corporate dom...
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Business As Usual

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  12/6/2007 to 12/16/2007

From the Staged Reading of BUSINESS AS USUAL in February 2007.

A Dark Comedy Set in the Sunniest State on the Planet... Meet STEVE. The Actor. A James Dean wannabe heartthrob who no one wants to work with... ALEX. The Agent. A low-level everything who needs Steve to make it big... And finally KATHERINE. The Mystery Woman. A savvy entrepreneur who...
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All Aboard the Marriage Hearse

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   1/3/2008 to 1/27/2008
Sean and Amy are your typical co-habitating, Catholic/Jewish, twentysomething couple living in Manhattan. They work hard, love each other and share common goals in life. Well, sort of. After nearly three years together, Amy wants to get married but Sean does not believe in the institution. The ga...
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He's Having A Baby

Altered Stages, 212 West 29th Street  12/3/2007 to 12/23/2007
He’s Having a Baby is about the trials and tribulations of young couple’s attempt to start a family. Through fun-loving and thought-provoking dramedy, the audience experiences the male point-of-view of the problems, anxieties, and stress of a process they expected to be easy and was supposed to be...
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On the Way to Timbuktu

Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street  12/8/2007 to 12/21/2007
In this new one-woman play Dr. Selene Slater-Bernaud, also known as Slim, teaches a class scrutinizing Shakespeare's sonnets titled "The Poetics of Race...The Politics of Beauty." After years in a caring interracial marriage, she finds herself in love with a female student. Grappling with persona...
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West Bank, UK

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  11/29/2007 to 12/16/2007
n the new musical WEST BANK, UK, when Israeli ex-patriot, Assaf Ben-Moshe Benvenisti, breaks up with his German girlfriend and returns home to his rent-controlled flat on the West Bank of London, he discovers that Palestinian refugee, Aziz Hamoud, has taken over his lease. Their American landlord is...
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Fetish

Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  1/10/2008 to 1/20/2008

Photo: Alden Ford

“Asian women are the other white meat.” A white man and an Asian woman make the most common and socially acceptable interracial pairing and yet Matt and Sophie, a couple about to get married, must contend with how much race and ethnicity still matter to them in an era after political correctness....
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Celebration

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  12/27/2007 to 1/6/2008

Celebration with Words by Tom Jones and Music by Harvey Schmidt

Celebration, written by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt nearly ten years after their legendary off-Broadway smash, employs a number of the same aesthetic devices to tell their story of inevitable change and how one adapts and evolves as the seasons of life pass them by.

An orphan boy meets ...
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Oedipus at Colonus

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  1/10/2008 to 1/26/2008

Artwork by Annie Poon

After a lifetime of roaming the earth in blind exile, an aging Oedipus comes upon a grove where he is bestowed with godlike power. Prophecies of this event lead warring factions from the city that once banished Oedipus to compel his return. Oedipus refuses, determined in his final hours to rise abov...
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Test Production

100 Grand Dance, 100 Grand Street (between Mercer and Greene)

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On the Verge or the Geography of Yearning

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  1/30/2008 to 2/10/2008
On the Verge begins in 1888 with three fiercely independent explorer ladies as they embark on an adventure that will include not only the darkest of jungles and Himalayan peaks but the brave and exhilarating new world 1955 America. Mr. Overmyer arms his heroines with essentials such as pith helmets,...
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The Tempest

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  12/28/2007 to 1/12/2008

Known as his fantastical swan song, The Tempest follows Prospero (two time Emmy-winner Joan Darling), a deposed magician that inhabits a distant island with his young daughter Miranda. With the help of the sprite Ariel (Kerry Shear), Prospero is able to bring those responsible for his misfortunes t...
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In Circles

Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square Park South  2/12/2008 to 2/22/2008

Musical by Al Carmines and Gertrude Stein...
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Boys' Life

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  1/22/2008 to 2/13/2008
Three Friends facing the daunting task of adulthood deal with life, love, and the terrifying prospect of growing apart....
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The Jack of Tarts - A Bittersweet Musical

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/31/2008 to 2/17/2008

l.to r. Chris Tanner & Lance Cruce

The Jack of Tarts - A Bittersweet Musical is an audacious fairy tale set in a kingdom called Tartannia where life is centered around the consumption of irresistible tarts. On the day of the annual Grand High Tea, a revolutionary named Agnes (Michael Lynch) endeavors to blow the house of tarts down....
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PROVIDENCE

The View Theatre, Roy Arias Theatre Center, 300 West 43rd Street, 3rd Floor  2/7/2008 to 2/24/2008

PROVIDENCE

When Mark loses his best friend Sarah in a tragic plane crash destined for Providence RI, he reaches out to the only other person he knew from the crash - Neil, who also lost a loved one. Conflict arises when Neil asserts that his grief is deeper - because he lost his wife and Mark only lost a frien...
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At The Hand Of My Mother

Ward Studio, 145 W. 28th St. Suite 8F  1/12/2008 to 4/5/2008
At The Hand of My Mother Performances run from January 12 - April 5, 2008 Set alternately in mid-19th and late-20th century Ireland, At The Hand of My Mother presents interwoven stories of the deaf community's ongoing struggle to communicate and exist on its own terms. Whether being forced to ab...
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Thoroughly Stupid Things

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  1/30/2008 to 2/9/2008
Thoroughly Stupid Things is a ribald, sexy new follow-up to Oscar Wilde’s landmark play The Importance of Being Earnest. Written by Montserrat Mendez, the comedy of manners follows the outrageous shenanigans of Jack and Gwendolyn and Algernon and Cecily as they settle into married life. Come for t...
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Sherlock Solo

The Kirk @ Theatre Row Studios, 410 West 42nd Street  1/10/2008 to 2/2/2008

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Fat Kids on Fire

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  1/26/2008 to 2/6/2008

Back at home, 15 year old Bess is another angst-ridden teenager trying to fit in. But this summer, things are going to be different. Shirts come off, hearts are faint, first times are had, hands sweat, the sun burns. Campers and counselors alike at this “new image camp” are automatically drawn to th...
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Do Not Disturb Productions' The Hand that Feeds You

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  2/7/2008 to 2/23/2008

It’s a summer of innocence for teenage cousins growing closer by the minute and experiencing love for the first time. As youth, rebellion and lust give way to betrayal and obsession one moment changes them forever and takes them on very separate paths. How can you let go of the past when it has shap...
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The Importance of Being Earnest

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  2/8/2008 to 3/9/2008
A master of the studied insult, Oscar Wilde's jabs at hypocrisy, pretense and boring conventionality are as timely and funny today as when he wrote them. A classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest is widely considered to be one of the finest plays ever written. ...
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SAME TRAIN

The Algonquin Theater, 123 East 24th Street  2/13/2008 to 3/8/2008

SAME TRAIN Cast with Writer, Composer/Lyricist and Director

Emotional story-telling along with soul-stirring R&B, jazz, gospel and blues come together to create SAME TRAIN, a unique theatrical tribute to the African-American experience of the last century and beyond. The show is performed by four actors, two singers and a trio of musicians....
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The Blue Flower

West End Theater, 263 West 86th  2/4/2008 to 3/2/2008
Four friends and lovers. The promise of youth. A world in pieces. Driven by voluptuous music and fanciful silent films, the haunting memories of artist Max Baumann take us on a passionate ride down the twisted rails of history, from pre-war Paris to the battlefields of WWI, the Weimar Republic, 1950...
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Anchors

The Kirk @ Theatre Row Studios, 410 West 42nd Street  2/7/2008 to 2/23/2008

ANCHORS by Tony Zertuche, directed by Eliza Beckwith The Kirk Theatre at Theatre Row February 7th-23rd Michael Goliad is stuck! He is stuck in his life, stuck on himself, and now... He’s stuck in the Navy! As the US revs up for the first Gulf War, wannabe artist, Michael Goliad jo...
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Does Anyone Know Sarah Paisner?

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  2/15/2008 to 3/2/2008
Inspired by the missed connections page of Craigslist.com, Does Anyone Know Sarah Paisner? is the story of a young woman fleeing her identity. Ginger heads to New York City to reinvent herself, trying different personalities online, until she finds one that fits. This edgy, dark comedy begs the que...
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North

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/18/2008 to 2/2/2008

Heather Christian & The Arbornauts

In North, Heather Christian and her kitchen sink orchestra ‘The Arbornauts’ lovingly hybridize pre-1700 classical pieces, original music and post 1960’s pop. The unique Baroque infused setting is a crystalline outdoor living room with a moving visual circus of oddities and silhouettes that includes ...
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Rhoda Heartbreak

Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  1/31/2008 to 2/29/2008

A new play by E. Dale Smith

Backstage at Vestments, a poupular New York drag bar, Rhoda Heartbreak reigns supreme. She and her fellow cast mates Ginger Snap, 'Lotta Drama, and Stella Mann dazzle the crowds nightly as they scrape and scrimp to make ends meet. But one fateful night when Stella calls in sick, the three remaining ...
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Elizabeth Rex

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  4/2/2008 to 4/19/2008


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Actors Are Fucking Stupid

The Wild Project, 195 E. 3rd St.  2/15/2008 to 3/15/2008
ACTORS ARE FUCKING STUPID is dark comedy set during the final call backs for an MTV produced feature film in which four actors do anything in order to assure getting cast. Standing in their way is Bill Lawrence, a super producer with tendancy to cast hot, trendy actors, and Doug Collins, a protect...
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The Night of the Iguana

T. Schreiber Studio, 151 W. 26th St., 7th fl. (between 6th and 7th)  2/21/2008 to 3/30/2008
Confronting the demons of frantic sexuality, religious guilt, and emotional confusion - one of Tennessee Williams most searing dramas....
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Pinocchio

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/10/2008 to 1/27/2008

Teatro Del Carretto in Pinocchio

Teatro Del Carretto -- the renowned company founded in 1983 in Lucca, Italy by director Maria Grazia Cipriani and designer Graziano Gregori, and widely recognized as one of Italy's most innovative theatre companies -- makes its long-awaited US debut at LaMaMa ETC with its acclaimed adult adaptation ...
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Pinocchio

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St

Teatro Del Carretto in Pinocchio

Teatro Del Carretto -- the renowned company founded in 1983 in Lucca, Italy by director Maria Grazia Cipriani and designer Graziano Gregori, and widely recognized as one of Italy's most innovative theatre companies -- makes its long-awaited US debut at LaMaMa ETC with its acclaimed adult adaptation ...
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Macbeth

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  2/14/2008 to 3/8/2008

A story of power and the detriment of unchecked ambition. A lean, taut, vibrant Macbeth that aims to break through four centuries of silly superstitions and conventional heaviness surrounding the play and reclaim the original story for today's audiences....
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Shel's Shorts

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  2/8/2008 to 2/23/2008
In a hilarious romp through 14 independent scenes, Shel Silverstein, the long-time cartoonist for Playboy Magazine, prolific songwriter, and beloved author of the celebrated tomes The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends, unleashes his devious wit on the adult world of Shel’...
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Ghost On Fire

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  2/21/2008 to 3/9/2008

Ghost on Fire, is a witty, moving, sharply observed drama of disillusionment and faith regained the hard way. It tells the story of a trio of friends who worked together in their student days making films they hoped would change the world; now, fifteen years later, they are nostalgic for their lost...
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FUCT with two dots over the

Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street  2/15/2008 to 3/8/2008

FUCT with two dots over the

The NYC-based comedy troupe FUCT returns to the Cherry Lane for an all new night of scenes, songs & stunts, all sure to infuriate, offend, maim, and tickle that soft spot on your inner thigh!...
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Cat's Cradle

Walkerspace, 46 Walker Street  2/22/2008 to 3/15/2008

Timothy McCown Reynold (John) and Horace V. Rogers (Bokonon) in Cat's Cradle

A CALYPSO MUSICAL based on the book by KURT VONNEGUT. A pageant that decries “the stupidity and viciousness of all mankind,” this faithful, humorous adaptation of the cult classic is set in the Church of Bokononism, Vonnegut’s fictional religion. Presenting a Bokononist passion play, the members of...
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Conjur Woman

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/31/2008 to 2/10/2008

l to r: Harry Mann, Jasper McGruder, Sheila Dabney, Yukio Tsuji

In honor of Black History Month, we are proud to present Beatrice Manley’s "Conjur Woman", a dramatic folk opera chillingly sung by Obie-Winner Sheila Dabney and directed by George Ferencz, a resident director at La MaMa. Original music for "Conjur Woman" is composed by Ellen Stewart along with Shei...
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Notes from Underground

The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave  2/15/2008 to 3/22/2008

Descend into the squalid, candlelit dwelling of Dostoevsky’s Underground Man. Sit on his broken furniture and battered books. Experience his wretched loneliness. Feel his penetrating anguish. Fear his outbursts of manic rage. Voices from the auditorium ring out, belittling and degrading the man. Ar...
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Sunday On The Rocks

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  2/14/2008 to 2/24/2008


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Who Will Carry the Word?

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  2/21/2008 to 3/2/2008

Who Will Carry the Word?

Based upon the true story of Charlotte Delbo, Who Will Carry the Word depicts the lives of 23 women while they shared a barracks in Auschwitz. Their goal: to keep the strongest of them alive so that someone could share what they had experienced with the world....
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The Two Lives of Napoleon Beazley

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center,   2/22/2008 to 3/16/2008

Two Lives...documents the true story of 17-year-old Napoleon Beazley, a black, honor roll student who murders the father of a prominent federal judge. Even though he is a juvenile, Napoleon is sentenced to death and spends the next eight years on Death Row. His attorney, Henry Boyd, struggles not ...
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The Buttonhole Bandit: An Intergalactic Musical Fantasy

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  2/23/2008 to 4/6/2008

Phoebe’s active imagination sometimes stops her from doing the things she wants to do. Then one day she discovers that an entire galaxy lives inside her closet! With the help of a silly alien named Melf the Gelf, Phoebe bravely embarks on a magical journey to save the galaxy. Through these adventure...
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Fight Girl Battle World

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  3/6/2008 to 3/30/2008
Star Wars meets Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in this action-packed space odyssey for the stage! Set in a futuristic universe where the human race is on the brink of extinction, Fight Girl Battle World is the story of E-V, the last human female in all the known galaxies, and her quest to find the last h...
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American Badass

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  2/28/2008 to 3/9/2008

One of downtown NYC's favorite solo performers returns with this multiple-character examination of the state of the world as we head into another round of election hijinks. Harcum's emotionally driven, virtuosic, and irreverent signature style is deployed in this battle to figure out who the hel...
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American Cake

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  2/28/2008 to 3/9/2008

A high-octane and high-glucose ride though the world of non-partisan political satire, as seen by “stand-up performance artist” Jonathan Pereira. American Cake is a startlingly refreshing blend of personal and political comedy that not only entertains, but makes you think. It’s Red, Blue, and ...
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Antonin...mon Artaud

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  2/27/2008 to 3/9/2008

An irreverent performance-art-psychodrama uncovers Artaud’s passionate, daring truth and exposes him naked with his pain…"the pain of the world." A visual-dynamic spectacle with a touch of absurd and unpredictable humor that fuses magic realism and the shocking awareness of the Theatre of Cru...
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Chosen

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  2/28/2008 to 3/9/2008

What if Hillary talked to angels? Well, then she'd be Bernie. Growing up in middle America , Bernie always knew she was meant for something. Then one day, an angel told her what it was. She's going to be the leader of the world, free or otherwise. Why? Because it's what God wants. ...
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Diary of a Mad Fashionista

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  2/27/2008 to 3/8/2008

Elisa DeCarlo (star of 2007's Pointless Rebellion) is the Mad Fashionista, the plus size Internet diva feared throughout the world of style. Helped by her browbeaten assistant (Shannon Sutherland) this larger-than-life Goddess of Chic dishes on the famous men and women she’s bedded, celebrity ...
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Diversey Harbor

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  2/27/2008 to 3/8/2008

Diversey Harbor, a funny and ruthless ghost story, explores finding your place and losing your innocence at the same time through monologues by four characters in Chicago--all the while unfolding the mystery of the unseen woman who brings them together....
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Looking Up - a romance with trapeze

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   2/16/2008 to 3/2/2008

when a daring trapeze artist climbs down to earth and a frustrated bartender looks up from his speed rack, true love beckons. A hit at the Edinburg Fringe...
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Count To Ten

Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  2/29/2008 to 3/16/2008

Count to Ten.....Back by Popular Demand !!!!

Count To Ten is the new tap your feet to the beat musical that charms young and old audiences alike - a truly original family musical. Book by Michael Blevins, Lyrics by Michael Blevins & Beth Clary. Music by Michael Blevins, Scott Knipe, Bruce Sacks & David Wollenberger. From the pen of 'Vic...
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ExcesSecret Circus: “¿Guess What ‘It’s’ About?”

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  2/28/2008 to 3/8/2008

Olga and Björn host this entirely unpredictable (yet lovingly delightful) production that features audience tampering, two wildly comic ExcessoMimes (Gluttony and Lust), an outlandish game of Operation (you're the doctor!™), video and audio montage, tap dancing, outrageous fun and mild-nudity....
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Preparation Hex

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  2/28/2008 to 3/9/2008

“Who would put a hex on me?” is the question Bob Brader tries to answer in his new dark comedic monologue from the creative team who brought you “Spitting In The Face Of The Devil”. It’s about hemorrhoids, fear of death and finding the love of your life....
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Sporknotes

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  2/28/2008 to 3/7/2008

Graphic by Jason Tyne

Sporknotes is a 45 Minute set of Intellectual mockery and Literary blasphemy, set in motion by audience suggestions of both Classic & Obscure Literature, the troupe of improvisers and actors bring the stories to life with little to no knowledge of the story line, guided only by online student s...
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Subway Series

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  2/28/2008 to 3/7/2008

Subway Series is an experimental improvised play that explores the levels of connection between expression and individuality, exposing the strengths and weaknesses of communication and the imagination....
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Whence Came Ye Scarlett O'Hara O'Hanrahan?

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  2/27/2008 to 3/7/2008

When Scarlett ran away from her Irish home in search of her roots, she never thought she'd discover America: Badonkadonks! Popsuperstar-divas!! Political Correctness!!! Will this African-American-Irish-African-American lassie thrive or will NYC eat her alive? Written/Performed by Melle Powers ...
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XY(T)

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  2/28/2008 to 3/9/2008

Do you have the balls to become a man? XY(T) brings to life a series of questions, contradictions, and characters around the theme of testosterone. Veering between playful, poignant, hilarious, and disconcerting, transgender butch Kestryl Lowrey strips away layers of gender and self in pursui...
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Hap Scotch

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  2/27/2008 to 3/5/2008

A tour of lives in transition. Before one settles on a lifestyle, career, religion, or partner, if one ever does, hosts of adventures, personalities and (pre)occupations influence the unmanageable tug of war between vocation and diversion. Comical characters recount life's best and worst bouts a...
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Rebel Without a Niche

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  2/27/2008 to 3/8/2008

The most awkward dead-end jobs anyone's ever worked, injected with a high-octane cocktail of drollness! We’ve all been there. We’ve met waves of creepy/doldrums/smiles-too-much types of people. Kurt roasts them all in an hour, along with a killer bit with a jelly donut."Kurt Fitzpatrick is one...
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Echo Lake

ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street  3/6/2008 to 3/16/2008

The Premier of a new play by Patrick Hogan and Rob O'Neill. Directed by Rosemary Quinn. Friends build. Brothers struggle. Angels reveal. This two-person play weaves movement and narrative to uncover the fractured past of reunited brothers. As memories play out and fears are confronted, a mysterious ...
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How to be a Doll

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  3/13/2008 to 3/23/2008

What kind of life would you live if everything made sense?

a mixture of dance, movement, and spoken word poetry created in collaboration with eight female performers from all walks of life. It is centered on the issues of young women, particularly issues of self. ...
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A Rope in the Abyss

Blackbird Theatre, 347 W. 36th St, 13th floor  4/3/2008 to 4/19/2008
A Rope in the Abyss deals with questions of identity through the lens of neuroscience. There are four main plots, each focusing on an individual who faces a brain disorder. Each individual must deal with how this disorder affects his or her sense of self, while those around him or her must confront ...
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Euphoric Tendencies

Access Theater Black Box, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor  3/6/2008 to 3/22/2008

Euphoric Tendencies

Euphoric Tendencies is a romantic comedy about a young writer whose rocky path to creative fulfillment leads her through the world of erotic spanking, bi-sexuality and, eventually, to happiness and success...
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The Baby Dance

The Directors Company, 311 W. 43 St., Ste. 409  3/27/2008 to 4/6/2008
Rachel and Richard fight to exert their rightful place in the life of Wanda's and Al's unborn child, who will be given up for adoption. On the day she is born, when faced with the reality of having the baby, both couples must finally decide how she fits into their lives. ...
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Imminence

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  2/15/2008 to 3/2/2008

La MaMa ETC present the Talking Band

IMMINENCE follows three generations of a family in an exploration of time, and how it shapes our lives from the smallest human instant to the massive geotectonic cycles of the earth. Following the death of her mother, Simone takes her twenty year old daughter, on a cross-country car trip to visit h...
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BRIDE

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  3/17/2008 to 3/30/2008

The One True (lonely) God

Interdisciplinary work with puppets on the bloody and tragic separation between God the Father and the Mother Goddess....
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The Optimist

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  3/20/2008 to 4/12/2008

The Optimist

Previously workshopped at MCC, Ars Nova, and Naked Angels, The Optimist follows three intelligent and passionate young characters as they confront themselves and their place in the world over the course of a single, astonishing weekend....
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(RUS)H

3ld Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street  2/27/2008 to 3/22/2008

Luis Vega and Lathrop Walker in (RUS)H.

The intimate, psychosexual mystery of one man, his wife, and another -- each yearning to feel something they can't feel anymore -- drawn together towards a final fall. Piece together a fragmented memory trail that revealsan underworld of extreme pleasure, set to throbbing Latin beats....
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booble

100 Grand Dance, 100 Grand Street (between Mercer and Greene)
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parts is parts

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  2/25/2008 to 3/10/2008

how does it all fit together?

blood, baked goods, power tools, and tom jones all conspire to ask the terrifying question: how does it all fit together? original music and bizarre shenanigans spiral together to create a stunningly heart-wrenching and heartwarmingly unique melding of theatre and performance art that is not to be m...
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The Cherry Orchard Sequel

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  2/21/2008 to 3/9/2008
It is eighteen years after Chekhov’s “Cherry Orchard” and his characters are struggling with the rain, the mud, and the grand innovating ideologies of the Russian Revolution. In this production of THE CHERRY ORCHARD SEQUEL everything is lost in a turmoil of booze and blizzard. Nic Ularu’s plays ...
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Questa

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  2/29/2008 to 3/22/2008

Questa Poster - Photo: PeterLauPhotography.com

A drama about a gay-bashing gone wrong -- and a young man's search for redemption....
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Crosstown Playwrights Spring Forward -- Show A

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  3/20/2008 to 3/29/2008
Eight new short plays by eight emerging playwrights....
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Dirt--

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  4/2/2008 to 4/26/2008

by jordan craven

"I start with the premise that the war was important. Even necessary. When one compares the pictures of the great American cities with the pictures of our cities. The pictures of the beautiful people with pale skin. Then the war has meaning. That's the premise I start with." - Dirt excerpt ---- ...
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100 Grand Dance, 100 Grand Street (between Mercer and Greene)

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Flyin' High

Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street  3/27/2008 to 3/31/2008
Flyin' High is a Hybrid one-man show by shaneca Adams a veteran performer of BLUE MAN GROUP, STOMP, and DE LA GUARDA...
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Seven Days

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  3/13/2008 to 3/30/2008
"Seven Days" by Israeli playwright Shlomi Moskovitz, translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris, tells the story of an Israeli family saving itself as an analogy to a Kabalistic version of the biblical creation story. Emmanuel, an esteemed poet, appears at the home of his former lover Tamar, wh...
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Medea

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  3/13/2008 to 3/30/2008

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Designed, directed and adapted by Skipitares, MEDEA is the latest in her series of plays based on Greek classics. Building on Euripides' iconic story of a spurned woman who kills her competition as well as her own children, Ms. Skipitares' MEDEA begins many years before: Medea is a child who lives a...
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STILL LIVES

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   4/4/2008 to 4/19/2008

Still Lives is a sexually charged story exploring the sometimes desperate longings of individuals trying to connect. Patrick, a visual artist, is haunted by his past. Sondra, looking for extra cash and a new place to live, has convinced him to use her as his model. Sondra quickly realizes that Patr...
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HOSTAGE SONG the new indie-rock musical

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  4/3/2008 to 4/26/2008

Paul Thureen, photo by Jeffrey Weiss

Bound and blindfolded in a war-torn country, two hostages take refuge in music, memory and each other in this new indie-rock musical. ...
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Thirty Seven Stones

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  4/10/2008 to 4/26/2008
Nathan has a problem with women and sex. Edna, his Jewish mother, cannot face either his growing up or his eventually leaving home. She may hate his father and most of the men in her life, but she hates the idea of Nathan with another woman more. Doing everything in her power to keep Nathan close to...
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My Dead Mother Is Funnier Than You

ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street  4/3/2008 to 4/13/2008
A dark comedy of one womans heartbreaking and hilarious tale of lust, love, and loss....
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Crosstown Playwrights Spring Forward ---- Evening B

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  3/21/2008 to 3/30/2008
Eight short plays by eight emerging playwrights....
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Me

Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster Street  5/3/2008 to 5/24/2008
Me is the story of life in the womb told from the perspective of a group of actors who think they are fish in order to properly recognize and learn from the extinction of the white river dolphin of the Yangtze and hopefully prevent any more such tragedies. 11 actors, 12 songs, many stories....
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The Secret Rapture

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  4/3/2008 to 4/27/2008
Altruistic Isobel Glass is a small business owner. Her sister Marion is a self-centered, rising conservative politician. When their father dies, Isobel assumes responsibility for their young, reckless, alcoholic stepmother. Shifting alliances and misplaced loyalty saturate the world of THE SECRET RA...
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The Hey You Monster: Poking the Bears in a Zoo (Part One)

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  4/25/2008 to 6/1/2008

The Hey You Monster

The Hey You Monster The Hey You Monster is a brutal dissection of mothers and daughter, fathers and sons, and the aftermath of murder. It is a tapestry of interwoven themes and revelations, independent of its separate characters and plots. Welcome to The Hey You Monster. Part One: Pokin the...
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The Hey You Monster: Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter (Part Two)

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  4/26/2008 to 5/31/2008

The Hey You Monster

The Hey You Monster The Hey You Monster is a brutal dissection of mothers and daughter, fathers and sons, and the aftermath of murder. It is a tapestry of interwoven themes and revelations, independent of its separate characters and plots. Welcome to The Hey You Monster. Part Two: Bring Us t...
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We Call Her Benny

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  4/3/2008 to 4/28/2008

Photo by Scott Wyn

We Call Her Benny features a dynamic 10-actor ensemble and bold theatrical techniques to create a visceral, exhilarating and kaleidoscopic portrait of one adopted woman’s struggle for identity and intimacy. Themes of replacement and betrayal saturate the play, which explores family, identity, illnes...
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Man of La Mancha

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  4/26/2008 to 5/18/2008
One of the most beloved musicals of Broadway’s Golden Age, Man of La Mancha made its Broadway debut in 1965 starring Richard Kiley. Based on the CBS Dupont Show of the Month original drama, I, Don Quixote, with Lee J. Cobb, the show quickly gained acclaim, containing some of the most beautiful music...
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SIX

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center,   3/4/2008 to 3/29/2008

(l to r) Jason Liebman, Paul Juhn, and Steven Sanpietro in Michael Lew's Moustache Guys

Second Generation presents SIX new one-act plays by today's hottest APA playwrights. Featuring: Round And Round by Julia Cho directed by Kate Whoriskey** | starring Joel de la Fuente*, Jennifer Ikeda* George is a linguist. He speaks many, many languages. But when his marriage starts to unravel...
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TBA

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center,   3/11/2008 to 4/5/2008

Lloyd Suh in Carla Ching's TBA

When Silas Park’s girlfriend leaves him, he becomes a shut-in, pumping out blistering autobiographical writings in his little East Village apartment. Just as Silas finds himself unexpectedly on the verge of literary stardom as the next Asian American wunderkind, his brother Finn shows up on his door...
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Sunrise at the Quarry

Payan Theater, 300 W 43 St Room 506  4/24/2008 to 5/11/2008

Postcard created by Jason Stanger

Former high school friends return home as part of a promise made years ago just before graduation. The perception of memory is explored in this original production that juxtaposes youth and adulthood with interlacing scenes of past and present. ...
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A Grand Night for Singing

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  4/25/2008 to 5/25/2008
A Grand Night for Singing opened the 1994 Broadway season with flair and distinction, garnering wildly enthusiastic notices and a Tony nomination for Best Musical. With a cast of two men and three women, this revue explores romance and relationships using more than thirty Rogers and Hammerstein son...
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Spring 2008 EATfest, Series A

Roy Arias Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street  4/15/2008 to 5/4/2008

New short plays by emerging writers -- Series A: What happens when you combine women and food?...
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Spring 2008 EATfest, Series B

Roy Arias Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street  4/16/2008 to 5/4/2008

Four new short plays by emerging writers...
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Spring 2008 EATfest, Series C

Roy Arias Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street  4/17/2008 to 5/4/2008

Five new short plays by emerging writers....
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A Muse in Manhattan

13th Street Repertory Theatre Company, 50 West 13th Street  4/30/2008 to 5/18/2008

The Muse asks

A Muse in Manhattan a comedy Written & Directed by Terence Patrick Hughes Did James Frey deserve to fry? Did William Shakespeare really write all of those plays? In a restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a celebrated novelist confesses to plagiarism and his publisher urges him to...
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Trumph of Love

Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens, 21-12 30th Rd  4/25/2008 to 5/11/2008

Love can make a woman do strange things. Like lie about her past. Or give up her career for the man she loves. Or throw off her princessly raiment and disguise herself as a young man in order to infiltrate the guarded “men-only” palace compound of an exiled prince she’s admired from afar, who is sec...
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The Man Who Appear**ed

Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street  4/3/2008 to 4/6/2008

Filming on the set of 'The Man Who Appear**ed.' photo credit: chantel cherisse lucier

A woman experiences the emotions of a war veteran....
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After the Rain

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  4/4/2008 to 4/20/2008

After the Rain - Yara Arts Group

"After the Rain" by Yara Arts Group is an original theatre piece based on short stories written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japan’s best short story writer and most profound novelist of the Taisho period. During his short life (1892-1927, he committed suicide at the age of 35) Akutagawa wrote more than ...
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Vengeance Can Wait

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  4/25/2008 to 5/4/2008
Vengeance Can Wait is a comedy about love, submission and sweet sweet revenge by one of Japan’s most intriguing new literary voices. Hidenori Yamane and Nanase Ogawa have the perfect domestic arrangement: Yamane (Paul Juhn) spends his days planning the perfect revenge, while Nanase (Jennifer Lim) a...
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Cherry Docs

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   4/24/2008 to 5/18/2008
A Neo-Nazi Skinhead is on trial for a racially motivated murder and is being defended by a court appointed liberal Jewish lawyer. Over the course of the trial each man finds his belief system challenged as he is forced to delve into his own conscience and to reluctantly examine the limits of his own...
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A Year in the Life of Twenty-Five Strangers Living in a City by the Lake

Algonquin (Parker Theater), 123 East 24th Street  5/2/2008 to 5/18/2008

Photos by Justin Bacolo

Set over the course of a year, these twelve vignettes explore the lives of everyday strangers. The audience is invited to be a “fly on the wall” from one month to the next, from sharing Valentine’s Day with a married friend, to brothers needling each other about a dead cousin they don’t remember, du...
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle

The Green Room at 45 Bleecker St, 45 Bleecker St  4/26/2008 to 5/11/2008

Hipgnosis' Chalk Circle Postcard

The Caucasian Chalk Circle explores the complexities of wealth , ownership and justice. Through clever inversions and reversals, broad comedy and plenty of music and song, Brecht questions commonly accepted social mores and offers a hopeful alternative for a healthy society....
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Armor of Wills

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  5/1/2008 to 5/17/2008

Armor of Wills

Kalib is bleeding to death. But before he dies, a few people want to talk to him. Armor of Wills is a breathtaking story of reflection and reconciliation. A fast paced adventure set to live music and full of mystery....
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100 Grand Dance, 100 Grand Street (between Mercer and Greene)

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Cinderella

The Bushwick Starr, 207 Starr Street  7/19/2008 to 7/27/2008

Youth on Target presents Cinderella

There are no dancing mice or transforming pumpkins in this Cinderella. Rather than scrubbing floors and feeding chickens, our would-be heroine spends her days mourning the death of her father, while avoiding her mother and her ridiculous sisters. She hides in her room, reading and imagining what her...
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The Actors Nightmare / The Real Inspector Hound

T. Schreiber Studio, 151 W. 26th St., 7th fl. (between 6th and 7th)  5/16/2008 to 6/15/2008

One man’s dream is another man’s Nightmare….and in The Actor’s Nightmare, George Spelvin certainly gets the wrong end of that bargain. Playwright Christopher Durang thrusts his anxious accountant on the stage to replace an ailing actor, but George has no knowledge of the lines or even the name of th...
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Mill Fire

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  5/7/2008 to 5/24/2008

Lauren Kelston as Marlene and Mike Mihm as Champ in MILL FIRE. Photo by Kristen Vaughan.

When an explosion at the local mill takes the lives of several of the town’s men, Marlene, one of the widows, refuses to grieve in the conventional, quiet mode thought proper for 1978. Mill Fire masterfully weaves the past and present to create a collage of time and sensation. It delves into the shi...
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A Piece of My Heart

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  5/1/2008 to 5/13/2008

Artwork by Alexandra Williams

Based on true stories related in the book of the same name by Keith Walker, A Piece of My Heart centers on a group of young military and civilian women who go to the Vietnam War. Spanning twenty years, their true stories, songs and music call up a tumultuous era that changed them and America foreve...
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The Accidental Patriot: The Lamentable Tragedy of the Pirate Desmond Connelly, Irish by Birth, English by Blood, and American by Inclination

Milagro Theatre -- CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  4/25/2008 to 5/17/2008

Postcard by Deborah Gorman

The Accidental Patriot is the third installment of Stolen Chair's CineTheatre Tetralogy, an original 1930s-style swashbuckler (as Sophocles might have written it if he’d been under contract to Warner Brothers), set against the tumultuous backdrop of the American Revolution. This mash-up of Greek tr...
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BritBits

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  4/14/2008 to 4/26/2008

Camilla Maxwell & Fiona Choi in a scene from BritBits. photo by Gillian Crosson

An ongoing festival of shorts by, for or about The British featuring our in-house Anglo-American Rep Co of actors...
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Cherry Docs

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   4/24/2008 to 5/18/2008
A Neo-Nazi Skinhead is on trial for a racially motivated murder and is being defended by a court appointed liberal Jewish lawyer. Over the course of the trial each man finds his belief system challenged as he is forced to delve into his own conscience and to reluctantly examine the limits of his own...
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Van Driver!

Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street  5/9/2008 to 6/7/2008

Photo: Jonathon Stearns

Take a magic carpet ride with Van Driver! Wordsmith, World-explorer, Mind-tripper and Revolutionary. Waldo "Van" Driver and friends thrill audiences with their multimedia circus of the wild, weird and wonderful. Regarded by some as a prophet and others as a madman, Van's often outlandish, but eerily...
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Mary Trilogy

Access Theater Black Box, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor  5/15/2008 to 5/25/2008

© Alden Ford

"Mary Trilogy" explores stories from various Greek tragedies in three American parts. A mother kills her children, a girl with a hatchet fights while another dies, and somewhere out there a monster waits. Containing three parts "La Madia Cycle," "Like Meat Love Salt," and "Heart of the Dark Deep" is...
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Honor

Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street  4/19/2008 to 5/18/2008

As You Like It is transplanted to feudal Japan in this passionate tale of romance and the redemption of family honor, told through action-packed martial arts choreography, elegant lyrics, and an intricate score. In the tradition of Illyria, Prospect's resident writers once again forge an accessible ...
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HERO

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  4/17/2008 to 4/27/2008
a collection of ten short commissioned new works around the common theme of HERO - something we're all looking for in a Presidential year....
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Bordertown

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  4/24/2008 to 5/11/2008
In a remote and run-down café, Fate brings nine disparate characters together as a tornado thunders in. But appearances are deceiving, and there is always something stranger hidden beneath. Gangsters, gamblers, waitresses, cops, the damnable and the Damned and maybe even God Himself meet in a dusty ...
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Running

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  5/2/2008 to 5/17/2008

The Milk Can Theatre Company

Three gay men, a widow, and a funeral set the stage to answer the questions - can we escape our past? What happens when we have to confront the lies we tell ourselves? Running not only tackles the issue of coming out about ones sexuality, but also what everyone must face when confronting the truth a...
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The 5 Borough Plays

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street

The Milk Can Theatre Company

A showcase of five original short plays inspired by the five boroughs of New York City. Five playwrights randomly drew a borough from a hat: Brooklyn, the Bronx, Staten Island, Manhattan and Queens. The resulting work is The 5 Borough Plays, a marathon evening of theatre through the five boroughs of...
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The 5 Borough Plays

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  5/3/2008 to 5/18/2008

The Milk Can Theatre Company

A showcase of five original short plays inspired by the five boroughs of New York City. Five playwrights randomly drew a borough from a hat: Brooklyn, the Bronx, Staten Island, Manhattan and Queens. The resulting work is The 5 Borough Plays, a marathon evening of theatre through the five boroughs of...
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Stomp and Shout (an' Work it All Out)

45th Street Theatre – Upstairs, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl.
From 1963 to 1965, the F.B.I. undertook a national investigation into the lyrics of the popular song, "Louie, Louie."* Stomp and Shout finally reveals this quintessentially American story. As the nation stumbles into the heart of the 60s, two dedicated agents probe the mystery of the incomprehen...
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Stomp and Shout (an' Work it All Out)

45th Street Theatre – Upstairs, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl.  5/29/2008 to 6/21/2008
From 1963 to 1965, the F.B.I. undertook a national investigation into the lyrics of the popular song, "Louie, Louie."* Stomp and Shout finally reveals this quintessentially American story. As the nation stumbles into the heart of the 60s, two dedicated agents probe the mystery of the incomprehen...
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Zen and The Art of Doing Nothing

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  5/28/2008 to 6/8/2008
Descend into the infinite depths of an actor's pysche, moments before he goes onstage, as he searches for some sense of why on earth he does this shit, in "Zen and the Art of Doing Nothing."...
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No More Waiting

13th Street Repertory Theatre Company, 50 West 13th Street  5/23/2008 to 6/29/2008

No More Waiting, a new musical comedy, follows five actors at their day jobs--waiting tables at a sleazy cabaret. Tired of waiting for someone else to discover their talent, they throw down their aprons and take over the stag, creating a world of romance, laughter, and dreams fulfilled!...
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The Ghost Dancers

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  5/8/2008 to 5/24/2008

artwork by Chris Soria

South Dakota, 1890. South Dakota, 1973. For the Lakota Sioux, time has stood still in a standoff for the earth at Wounded Knee. What happens when progress engages the past and forces the inhabitants of Wounded Knee to redefine borders and cross bloodlines? The Ghost Dancers brings the audiences to t...
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Colorful World

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  5/8/2008 to 5/31/2008
It’s 2005. A superhero walks the earth. The Twin Towers are still standing. The Iraq War is almost over. Can the world get any worse? ...
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the cowboy is dying

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  5/15/2008 to 5/24/2008

Donnetta Lavinia Grays: the cowboy is dying

the cowboy is dying by Donnetta Lavinia Grays fuses storytelling about her Southern upbringing and original music in a semi-autobiographical tale of self-discovery. 'cowboy' is a queer comedic look at God, romance, and the wondrous limitations of childhood expectations....
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Spoiled Bea

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  5/15/2008 to 5/24/2008

Jeanne LaSala as Beatrice, photo by Martin Swoverland

Spoiled Bea deals with isolation as it forces its way into the life of a dancer who, due to a tragic accident, is no longer able to communicate with the outside world. Rather than succumbing to the horror of her situation, Beatrice finds humorous, poignant and creative ways to connect with the chara...
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Standing Clear

Access Theater Black Box, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor  5/29/2008 to 6/21/2008

Cast of STANDING CLEAR

a comedy about the distance we put between us on the train...
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Stella by Starlight

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  5/16/2008 to 5/25/2008

Heidi Tokheim (photo by Ryan Jensen)

This solo jazz comedy follows the journey of Stella, an aspiring jazz piano player who is female, white and can't swing. What chance does she have? One fateful night, she meets Herbie Hancock who teaches her how to groove...which changes everything. ...
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FEVER

Dionysus Theatre's L'il Peach, 270 West 36th Street (at 8th Ave.)  5/21/2008 to 7/5/2008

Rick Lattimer and Miguel Belmonte in FEVER

FEVER is set on a scorching desert landscape. Under a relentless sun, two great warriors and mortal enemies, Atrox and Bonitas, have momentarily retired to their corners. Atrox enlists a handsome young soldier to his cause, the seduction and capture of Bonitas. FEVER is about the battle between...
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This Is a Cowboy Poem My Daddy Taught Me

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  5/22/2008 to 6/15/2008

Set in Marfa Texas, the play follows the interweaving lives of four people; a young woman looking for her mother, two children abandoned on the outskirts of town, and the sculptor Donald Judd who changed their lives forever. ...
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Cinephilia

The Studio Theater @ Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street  5/31/2008 to 6/15/2008

If you could live in any movie what would it be?

Set in a small apartment in Williamsburg, CINEPHILIA examines the lives of two lost and loney twenty-somethings, Johnny & Arden. The two cinephiles cling to their obsessions with sex and film as a way to validate their relationship, even their existence. As we all know, loving movies is easy...lov...
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Still the River Runs

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  6/19/2008 to 7/6/2008

Steve French and Jaron Farnham

"Ain’t no one alive knows what dead feels like," reasons Jesse. Will that stop him and his brother Wyatt from stealing their dead Paw Paw’s body right from under their family’s nose? Will Paw Paw’s spirit be more at peace buried in the land of his old Florida hunting grounds? Will Wyatt, on leave fr...
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The Framer

Michael Weller Theatre, 311 W43rd Street  5/31/2008 to 6/22/2008

Craig Bockhorn and Matt Walton in The Framer

Edward Allan Baker returns to Broken Watch to bring you a tragic-comedy set in a picture frame-shop in a New England mill town from which a dying man ceaselessly toils in order to leave his once-abused wife some security while retracting the emotional brutality of his past but he's side-tracked due ...
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No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  7/9/2008 to 7/27/2008
THE STORY: Halifax, North Carolina is where the Cheeks family, Rawl and his wife, Mattie, and their two daughters, makes its home. The year is 1949, and the title refers to signs commonly posted in the region in that era. The Cheeks are visited by Yaveni, a Jewish scholar from Cleveland, who is rese...
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Don't Pet the Zookeeper

Seventh Street Small Stage, 41-43 East 7th Street  7/23/2008 to 7/31/2008

A job interview under highly unusual circumstances flips itself into a power struggle of animal like proportions....
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The Witlings

West End Theater, 263 West 86th  5/16/2008 to 6/1/2008

O how little does the world suspect the secret labours of a belle esprit!

Censored in its own time, Frances Burney's 1779 Restoration Comedy makes its long-awaited professional New York debut. Frances Burney's witty and salient words are brought to life by this actor-driven company in a vibrant production that matches her 18th Century wit with dynamic portrayals of famili...
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Everyman

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  5/8/2008 to 6/1/2008

“Oh Death, thou comest when I had thee least in mind.” The Looking Glass Theatre proudly presents EVERYMAN, the timeless morality play, directed by Shari Johnson. Knock, Knock! Death is at Every’s door and she is not prepared. A Reckoning is the last thing she reckoned on. She’s been living ...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

West End Theater, 263 West 86th  6/5/2008 to 6/22/2008

Nitya Vidyasagar as Puck. Photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum

Flux Theatre Ensemble's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream explores this classic through the prism of Bottom and Titania's sublimely comic and deeply unsettling union. Flux uses actor-driven magic to set a fairy world of limitless possibility against a mortal world fraught with change and loss....
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Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street

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You Got Questions? I Got Answers!

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  5/16/2008 to 5/25/2008

Andrea Caban: You Got Questions? I Got Answers!

Playwright/performer Andrea Caban draws from interviews and original source materials to create a theatrical exploration of loneliness, existential isolation, and life in New York City, which suggests that, maybe, we’re all in this together after all....
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Radiotheatre Presents KING KONG

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  6/3/2008 to 7/29/2008

Mike Borak, Serrah McCall, Zach Lombardo

The only live stage production of KING KONG in the history of Theatre...75th Anniversary...endorsed by the Merrian C.Cooper Estate....
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Thérèse Raquin Desire

Stage Left Studios, 214 W 30th Street, 6th floor  6/13/2008 to 7/10/2008

Thérèse Raquin Desire

An Original One Woman Show based on Emile Zola's novel. Thérèse Raquin Desire unlocks the nightmarish world of a woman caught in the trap of her race, her sex, and her society. With Original Video, Choreography, and Sound....
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Thérèse Raquin Desire

Stage Left Studios, 214 W 30th Street, 6th floor

Thérèse Raquin Desire

An Original One Woman Show based on Emile Zola's novel. Thérèse Raquin Desire unlocks the nightmarish world of a woman caught in the trap of her race, her sex, and her society. With Original Video, Choreography, and Sound....
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Seven.11 Convenience Theatre

Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 E. 26th St.

Seven, 11-minute plays, all set in a convenience store, weaved together for a night of entertainment....
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Ars Nova, 511 West 54th Street  5/1/2008 to 5/1/2008

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The Reckoning of Kit & Little Boots

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  6/7/2008 to 6/21/2008
PLEASE NOTE THAT FINAL THREE PERFS (JUNE 17-21) ARE AT MANHATTAN THEATRE SOURCE **NOT** AT THE GALLERY PLAYERS. See websites for details. The Reckoning of Kit & Little Boots is a fiery, impassioned, hallucinatory, comedic, and ultimately poignant exploration of the art of writing, what it is that c...
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100 Grand Dance, 100 Grand Street (between Mercer and Greene)

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Vampire Lesbians of Sodom & Sleeping Beauty or Coma

Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  6/18/2008 to 6/29/2008

The fabulous vampiress, Madelene Astarte (Michael Miller) and her "boys."

One of the longest running plays in Off-Broadway history, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom tells the saga of two fatally seductive vampiresses whose paths first collide in ancient Sodom. Their bitter rivalry as bloodsuckers - but more importantly, as actresses - endures for two thousand years with stops al...
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All Kinds of Shifty Villains

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  6/12/2008 to 6/28/2008

ALL KINDS OF SHIFTY VILLAINS is carnival noir, combining elements of circus with 1930s crime fiction. The result is a hilarious hallucination of a new play. ALL KINDS OF SHIFTY VILLAINS follows private detective, Max Quarterhorse, as he winds his way through an underworld filled with beautiful wom...
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Seven.11 Convenience Theatre

Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 E. 26th St.  6/4/2008 to 6/22/2008
Seven, 11-minute plays all set in a convenience store and weaved together for a night of entertainment...
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Suspicious Package: an interactive noir

The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave  6/7/2008 to 7/27/2008

In this Brooklyn Noir, you are the Detective, the Starlet, the Heiress, or the Producer in the mean streets of Williamsburg, where technology, reality, theater and film meet. Are you a victim of circumstance or the guilty party? Personal video players accompany you through the mystery and prompt yo...
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The Apple Sisters

The PIT, 154 W. 29th Street  6/12/2008 to 8/14/2008

Hey there Puddin'! photo by Keith Huang

Live from the Big Apple, it’s The Apple Sisters—Candy, Cora, and Seedy! The award-winning, WWII-era radio show, The Apple Sisters ironed their dresses, tuned their three-part harmonies, saved their food rations, and made a BIG BIG MUSICAL! FDR is coming to the studio to give his fireside chat on t...
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Gerald's Method

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  5/28/2008 to 6/7/2008
A once great broadway star leads two young actors through a twisted tutorial...
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The Rarest of Birds

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  5/1/2008 to 7/4/2008
One Man show based on Montgomery Clift...
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WASHING MACHINE

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  6/20/2008 to 7/19/2008

Photo by Michelle Enfield

WASHING MACHINE is a tragicomic solo performance about the mysterious death of a five year old girl who drowned inside a laundromat washing machine. Inspired by a June 2005 Washington Post article, the play is a bracing re-imagining of the five year old girl's final moments of breath as she and the ...
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Carpe Tunnel

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  6/3/2008 to 6/10/2008
In an effort to explore humanity, life and the struggle therein, Counting Squares Theatre presents a series of new works being examined for their 2008-2009 Season. From a new piece by Stephen Belber to a new adaptation of Buchner’s Woyzeck, the celebration of life is captured through the eyes and t...
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Dog Day Afternoon

Studio Theater @ Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street   7/16/2008 to 8/16/2008

A new play based on the fouled-up 1972 Brooklyn bank heist that became a media circus side show and made history on live T.V. and inspired the academy award winning film...
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Oph3lia

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  6/11/2008 to 7/2/2008
Three disparate stories of displacement, inspired by Shakespeare's character, are interwoven in this haunting and playful exploration of identity in a globalized world....
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Miss America

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  6/12/2008 to 6/29/2008

l to r: Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver

In their newest duet, MISS AMERICA, Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver turn their unapologetic critique and riotous humor loose on the dissolution of the American Dream. A beauty pageant on a landfill full of too much information in the midst of a giant storm, MISS AMERICA exposes what is lost in a society ...
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The Raven

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  6/12/2008 to 6/29/2008

Photo by Leonieke Toering

Adapted, composed, and directed by the legendary Ellen Stewart, THE RAVEN tells the story of King Milo who shoots a raven during a hunting expedition, then is placed under a horrific curse by the bird's owner. To be delivered from that curse he must find a woman who possesses special qualities. E...
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The Wedding Play

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  7/9/2008 to 7/27/2008
You are cordially invited to join the Desario family and guests for the wedding of their daughter, Miss Sarah Desario.... except that the groom hasn't arrived yet. And the flowers aren't ready. There's been a huge cake mistake. Her identical twin sisters/maids-of-honor are lusting after the guests....
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Perceptions, An Evening of One Acts

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  7/10/2008 to 7/20/2008

Founding Artistic Director, Akia has selected the work of 3 promising playwrights as part of their “Aspire to Inspire” Series, one of RSP’s many programs created to support the work of emerging and established NYC theatre artists. Two of the pieces are making their stage debut, and the other scripts...
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The Artistical Process of Mark and Andy

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  7/24/2008 to 8/9/2008
The Artistical Process of Mark and Andy is a comedy that explores the journey of two friends who, with moth-like tenacity, attempt to create their dream video project; bravely leaving behind the clichéd artistic notions of attention-span, humility, the desire to learn, and talent....
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Much Ado About Nothing

North Patio of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, w,89th and Riverside Drive  7/10/2008 to 8/3/2008
Victory feels empty, and lovers and liars find themselves at war in peacetime Messina. In 1930s Italy, loose lips may sink a lover's wish and passions will pitch to extremes, even in the quieter confines of the countryside. Hudson Warehouse returns for its fifth season of free classics on the Nort...
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Collected Stories

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  7/16/2008 to 7/26/2008


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Fragments

The Matthew Corozine Studio Theater, 300 W. 43rd Street 5th floor  7/13/2008 to 7/20/2008

Fragments by Michael Weems

Fragments depicts six friends amidst their tumultuous senior year of college. Between Tiffany's 'loving' emasculation of any man nearby, Jay's rampant paranoia that the sexiest girl ever, Melissa, will make him her bitch, and Troy's maniac nightmares of his castrating fiancé, these roommates and th...
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Six Husbands of Elizabeth the Queen

Algonquin (Parker Theater), 123 East 24th Street  7/5/2008 to 7/19/2008
World premiere of Robert Gulack's SIX HUSBANDS OF ELIZABETH THE QUEEN, written in verse, is a lively exploration of an alternate universe in which the woman we know as the Virgin Queen experiences motherhood and romance with a series of English history's notables during a Golden--and dangerous--Age....
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Songs For A New World

Chernuchin Theater, 319 West 54th Street  10/5/2008 to 10/25/2008
A new look at a modern classic told through movement...
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Make It So

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   6/26/2008 to 7/13/2008

Beverly Bonner and Kelly Jo Reid

A wayward son returns to his old hometown to find his closest relatives dropping like flies. As if this weren't enough of a distraction, he soon encounters the stepmother from hell. She's intent on causing him and all those around him as much grief and misery as possible. Mending fences and healing ...
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Anna Christie

Bullet Space , 292 East Thirds St.  7/9/2008 to 8/2/2008
This classic play is Eugene O’Neill’s gritty tale of a desperate woman clawing her way through a rough and tumble man’s world. It seems even more powerful and apt today than when it was written 86 years ago....
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What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  7/19/2008 to 8/23/2008

Carrie Keranen and Todd D'Amour have different ideas for a night out in Larry Kunofsky's anti-social comedy What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends.

What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends is a play about impossible people trying to make impossible friendships possible. Matt is a guy who hates all his friends. Celia is a woman at the center of The Friends, a secret group that has perfected friendship through specific rules and a rigid rank...
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7 Stories

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  8/7/2008 to 8/24/2008

An absurdist ensemble play about a man perched on the ledge of a building whose suicide attempts are continually interrupted by the mad-cap zoo of the building's residents. ...
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Scenes from an Execution

Atlantic Stage 2, 330 W 16th St  7/3/2008 to 7/26/2008

JAN MAXWELL as Galactia in SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION

Set in Renaissance Venice, SCENES depicts the conflict between the artist and the state when a provocative painter paints "the greatest triumph of Venetian history..."...
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Crave and Somewhere in the Pacific

Atlantic Stage 2, 330 W 16th St  7/1/2008 to 7/20/2008
Crave is a fugue for four voices...Pacific boards a troop ship in the waning days of WWII in an atmosphere of sex and death...
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The King is Dead

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  8/7/2008 to 8/17/2008
Five teenagers, a pair of twins, a culturally-enlightening trip to Graceland and a few too many supernatural occurences throw social norms and lifelong bonds into upheaval. How do you cope when you can no longer trust the one person you thought would always be there?...
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Cake and Plays...But Without the Cake

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  8/6/2008 to 8/24/2008
Cake and Plays is a ridiculous night of theatre where everyone says what they mean, but nothing is what it seems. Who is really responsible for Shakespeare's genius? Is it ok to make fun of Down's Syndrome on a first date? Is true love closer than you think? Cake and Plays answers all of these quest...
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Macbeth

Theater 3, 311 W. 43 St., 3rd fl.  11/13/2008 to 12/6/2008
Shakespeare's most popular play receives the Roust treatment. This bloody, unrelenting drama, which looks so deeply at the tortured human psyche, will be an intense and visceral R-rated ride from start to finish, containing violence, nudity and strong sexual content....
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The Meaning of Life...and other useless pieces on information

45th Street Theatre, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl  7/11/2008 to 7/19/2008
A genuine slice of life, THE MEANING OF LIFE… tells the story of a small group of twenty-somethings as they look for love in New York City. It is a humorous and touching exploration of what happens once academia vanishes and the real world appears. The play follows six friends in New York City as ...
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Harry In Love: A Manic Vaudeville

The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave  7/31/2008 to 8/24/2008
Harry Rosenfeld is a big, neurotic, unnerved and unnerving man who believes his wife, Hilda, is planning to cheat on him (and he seems to be right). His response: drug her coffee and keep her knocked out until her paramour goes away. The plan works about as well as should be expected and, over sever...
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Spell

The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave  8/1/2008 to 8/24/2008
An American woman who considers herself a patriot has committed a horrible, murderous, terrorist act on US soil as an act of protest and, she hopes, revolution against the United States Government, which she believes no longer represents the law, people, and Constitution of the USA. She finds hersel...
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Everything Must Go (Invisible Republic #2)

The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave  8/6/2008 to 8/23/2008
A play in dance and fragmented businesspeak. A day in the life of 11 people working in an advertising agency as they toil on a major new automobile account, interspersed with backbiting, backstabbing, coffee breaks, office romances, motivational lectures, afternoon slumps, and a Mephistophelian boss...
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All the Rage

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  7/30/2008 to 8/23/2008

All the Rage

All the Rage is a darkly comic Jacobean Revenge Tragedy with shades of Robert Altman and Quentin Tarantino. When Warren shoots and kills a burglar, he sets in motion a chain of violent events that deeply affects ten interconnected lives. As the labyrinthine tale unfolds in an unnamed city, no one ...
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The Underpants

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  9/13/2008 to 9/28/2008
Steve Martin, the renowned comic actor and author provides a wild satire adapted from the classic German play about Louise and Theo Maske, a couple whose conservative existence is shattered when Louise’s bloomers fall down in public. Though she pulls them up quickly, he thinks the incident will cost...
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Summer and Smoke

Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  8/20/2008 to 8/31/2008
Tennessee Williams' classic play about a preacher's daughter and a reckless young doctor....
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SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   9/19/2008 to 10/5/2008

Set in a seaside bar on the coast of Southern California in the early 1970s, "Small Craft Warnings" (by Tennessee Williams) offers a glimpse into the lives of the “regulars” who inhabit the bar as refuge from the storm of life. Impassioned by the anniversary of her “angelic” brother’s death, Leona (...
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THE AMISH PROJECT

Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  8/8/2008 to 8/22/2008
One woman show about the Amish schoolhouse shooting in 2006....
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  8/14/2008 to 8/30/2008
Written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, "...Shakespeare Abridged" is a hilarious, fast-paced, Monty Python-type romp through Shakespeare's plays. Three male actors take audiences through 37 plays, which are condensed down to a 90-minute free-for-all, making mincemeat of the Bard. Impr...
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There or Here

14th Street Theatre, 344 E. 14th Street  9/7/2008 to 9/28/2008
A dark comedy about a couple who outsource their baby-making surrogacy to India. ...
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, w.89th and Riverside Drive  8/7/2008 to 8/31/2008
Originally set in ancient Greece and its environs, Pericles is the story of a man who refuses to stand up to a tyrant, choosing instead to run away. The consequences of his non-action lead him on a near twenty year journey through the Mediterranean, encompassing five city-states, and involving storm...
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The Taming of the Shrew

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  8/21/2008 to 9/4/2008
The Taming of the Shrew. Right now. We have a theatre. We have 8 actors. We have some stuff we found in our apartments. And we have an old play that we've all seen before. This production reveals its own story of creation while retelling Shakespeare's classic story of lording it and playing th...
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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  8/1/2008 to 6/6/2009
Totally new show EVERY Friday & Saturday Night @ the Kraine, open-ended run, Award-winning, ever-changing attempt to perform 30 Plays in 60 Minutes. Embracing chance, change and some chaos, each show is unique as the audience chooses the order of 30 original short plays, and the energetic ensemble o...
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The Things I Wish My Mother Would Have Told Me

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  10/22/2008 to 11/2/2008
Running backwards through her memories, a girl, on a journey to find the one missing piece in the jigsaw of her life. Is it hidden between the fumes of a Colombian shamanic ritual? Or in the last words her mother never said?.......
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The Chalk Boy

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place

Ouija boards, pentagrams, high school, and teenage love in The Chalk Boy

The Chalk Boy is a deathly black comedy about measuring your own worth by comparing it to everyone else’s. Beneath its boring façade a Northwest town hides a nasty secret, and the girls from the local high school’s Christian Athletes Club are here to tell you all about it. Murder, the occult, Alge...
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The Chalk Boy

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  9/4/2008 to 9/20/2008

Ouija boards, pentagrams, high school, and teenage love in The Chalk Boy

The Chalk Boy is a deathly black comedy about measuring your own worth by comparing it to everyone else’s. Beneath its boring façade a Northwest town hides a nasty secret, and the girls from the local high school’s Christian Athletes Club are here to tell you all about it. Murder, the occult, Alge...
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The Rape of the Lock

The DUO Theater, 62 East 4th Street  9/11/2008 to 9/28/2008

Photo Credit: Aaron Diehl

In this theatricalization of his classic 18th Century mock-epic poem, Alexander Pope is portrayed as the crankiest playwright ever, as five actors alternately suffer under and subvert his tyrannical direction. Judith Shakespeare Company's signature "gender-reverse" casting comes into brilliant cont...
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When It Stands Still

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  8/30/2008 to 9/18/2008
In a time-twisted riff on the nature of obsession and old-testament sacrifice, Soren Kierkegaard needs to get into the mind of Abraham at that moment on the mountain with the boy and the knife. And then there's a fiancée to repel, a father to satisfy, and 20th-century philosophy to invent....
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The Selfish Giant

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  9/6/2008 to 10/26/2008
Can the laughter of a child melt the cold heart of a selfish giant? Yes it can! This adaptation of Oscar Wilde's beautiful fairytale will warm the hearts of young and old alike. Step into Wilde's imagination as the story unfold through music, dance, storytelling and puppetry....
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The Spitfire Grill

Sage Theater, 711 7th Ave  9/4/2008 to 9/13/2008
A feisty parolee follows her dreams, based on a page from an old travel book, to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. It is for sale but there are no takers for the only eatery in the depressed town, so newcomer Percy suggests to Hannah that she...
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will

T. Schreiber Studio, 151 W. 26th St., 7th fl. (between 6th and 7th)  10/9/2008 to 11/23/2008

Shipwrecked on a strange shore. Lost your twin brother in the storm. A woman in a man’s world. What do you do? Why, put on your brother’s clothes, cut your hair, fall in love with the local Duke, woo his lady, and win her heart, of course! Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a fun-filled frolic filled wi...
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Almost, Maine

Access Theater, 380 Broadway  8/14/2008 to 8/31/2008
A collection of quirky vignettes introduces a series of lovelorn and love-primed eccentrics taking a shot at the big moose of romance. This production utilizes a larger cast than the original production, allowing each character to come even more vividly to life with unique actors....
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A Great Place to Be From

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  9/4/2008 to 9/27/2008
In heat like this, the world gets louder and rules don't apply. You can't trust anyone and sometimes, suddenly, everything becomes clear. The Midwest is struck by a monstrous heat wave -- the kind that makes cows keel over and chickens explode. In A Great Place to Be From, four people tell the ...
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Southern Promises

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  9/6/2008 to 9/27/2008
Playwright provocateur Thomas Bradshaw ignites the stage yet again in his signature inflammatory style. Following sold out and controversial runs at Performance Space 122, including Prophet and Purity, and elsewhere, including Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist and Cleansed, Bradshaw teams with acclaim...
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A Grave for Sister Agatha

American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, 4th Floor  9/10/2008 to 9/21/2008

Shira Gregory

A new character comedy about drinking and magic....
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The Pearl Merchant

The Space, 300 W. 43rd St, Suite 402  9/23/2008 to 10/4/2008
Hannah is a painter and teacher whose desire to adopt a boy from her preschool classroom forces her to confront her assumptions about God, marriage, and race. Thoughtful, poetic, and layered, The Pearl Merchant brings the audience deep questions and glimpses of great hope....
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The Redheaded Man

The Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow St
Darkly funny new play takes you on a multimedia journey through the mind of a man with a unique mental illness. Brian is a gifted young architect plagued by visions that inspire his designs, yet render him a walking social disaster....
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The Redheaded Man

The Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow St  8/13/2008 to 9/13/2008

Halley Bondy and David Jenkins in "The Redheaded Man" photo by Jesse Garrison

Darkly funny new play takes you on a multimedia journey through the mind of a man with a unique mental illness. Brian is a gifted young architect plagued by visions that inspire his designs, yet render him a walking social disaster....
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Big Thick Rod

Access Theater, 380 Broadway  8/10/2008 to 9/21/2008

Cricket and her new husband, Elmer. The honeymoon is over.

BIG THICK ROD is a neo-realist fairy tale that follows a wood nymph named Cricket who leaves the forest to marry a lawyer, only to discover that he never wants to have sex. Since sex is an essential part of her magical nature, she hires a simple handyman named Rod to “make up the difference”, and a...
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The Chalk Boy

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place

A tale about measuring your own worth by comparing it to everyone else's. Beneath its boring facade a Northwest town hides a nasty secret, and the girls from the local high school's Christian Athletes Club are here to tell you all about it. Murder, the occult, Algebra... this is a deathly black come...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Abridged

Times Square Arts Center, 669 8th Avenue  9/9/2008 to 10/2/2008

Our postcard

Come watch the valiant efforts of three Shakespeare enthusiasts, who will perform all 37 of his plays in 90 minutes. A feat even the Bard himself would be proud of!...
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Tune Up, Faulty Piston!

Access Theater Black Box, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor  8/9/2008 to 9/7/2008

Daniel Wood as Faulty Piston

Tune Up, Faulty Piston! is an exploration that challenges ones ability to maintain individuality in an increasingly automated world. Set in the not-too-distant future, Faulty Piston is a man who works in a baby factory with his wife. Constantly distracted and out-of-sync, he escapes from this overly...
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The Women of the Mahabharata

Roy Arias Theatre 2, 616 Ninth Ave  10/9/2008 to 10/26/2008

"Those who are wise lament for neither the living, nor the dead"

A fantastical telling of a mythological 5,000 year old war, fought between 2 sets of cousins for a kingdom and a beautiful woman. In this play, actresses live the story, modern and South Asian dancers add to the emotions, and multi-media sets the atmosphere. ...
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Kite Cut Loose in the Middle of the Sky

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  10/8/2008 to 10/26/2008
Rosie is a quadriplegic who is debating on whether she wants to continue living. All her friends also are dealing with living with an assortment of different abilities…there is Brandon the drug dealer with cerebral palsy and Soiree a burn and stroke victim. We also get to know Leonard a war vet para...
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Woyzeck

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  9/23/2008 to 10/29/2008
In this new and gripping adaptation, we will take a poignant look at the effects of wartime on young men. After seeing war and bloodshed, Franz Woyzeck returns home to his lover and child. Unable to reintegrate into society, perform sexually, or relate to those around, he is thrust into a world of c...
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Room To Panic

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/3/2008 to 10/19/2008

Photo by Gian Marco Lo Forte

"Room to Panic" is a new work by LOCO7 (www.loco7.org) depicting, in movement and visual theater, the struggles of the immigrant's mind on the path toward assimilation. The piece is conceived and created by Federico Restrepo and Denise Greber with music composed by Elizabeth Swados. It brings toget...
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Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  9/12/2008 to 9/28/2008

Calling poster image

Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness is conceived and directed by Wickham Boyle from her book, A Mother’s Essays from Ground Zero, with an electro-acoustic score by award-winning composer Douglas Geers. Calling follows the up-close experience of one TriBeCa family on September 11, 2001, and the month i...
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Atomic City

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  9/11/2008 to 9/28/2008

Living surrounded by secrets is a weird existence. Ask any resident of Oak Ridge, TN, the city established in 1942 as a base for the Manhattan Project: Over 70,000 workers, scientists and their families moved there, most unaware of their actual goal. The town grew in a culture of secrecy that was nu...
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Life After Bush

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  10/17/2008 to 11/2/2008

It's the end of an error! Against the backdrop of this historic election, an exuberant cast paints a musical and comedic portrait of the American political scene – a satire so sharp that within a few months, Bush and Cheney will have no choice but to leave office....
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A HUMAN SHIELD

13th Street Repertory Theatre Company, 50 West 13th Street  10/3/2008 to 11/2/2008
A wonderfully written family drama focusing on how differing political views affect the Grant family when twin daughters are on opposing sides. One following in her father's footsteps, has joined the army, while the other, a determined anti-war activist becomes part of a human shield. Opens 10/3 - ...
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Dead Lawyers

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  10/10/2008 to 11/2/2008

Design by James Neggie

'Dead Lawyers' makes its New York debut this October with Endtimes Productions. Playwright George Larkin elevates the "whodunit spoof to new levels of hilarity" (LA Weekly), embroidering with skeins of black comedy and farce to render this classic motif in the present day. Two lawyers and a social...
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Red Light Winter

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  9/18/2008 to 9/28/2008
Knife Edge Productions presents a bold new staging of Adam Rapp's Red Light Winter. For mature audiences only....
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McReele

Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 E. 26th St.  10/10/2008 to 10/25/2008

Stephen Belber’s sharp script follows world-weary Delaware journalist Rick Dayne as he rediscovers his zeal, working for the exoneration of death row inmate Darius McReele from a sixteen-year murder conviction. Darius’ magnetic personality makes him a darling of the lecture circuit, leading to natio...
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Cymbeline

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  10/9/2008 to 11/2/2008

The cast of Cymbeline

A crack team of six actors tackles Shakespeare's epic romance, using only their wits, their skills, their long experience with Shakespeare, and maybe the occasional funny hat....
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Blue Before Morning

DR2, 103 East 15th Street  10/17/2008 to 11/8/2008
At dawn, a New York cabbie picks up a teenage girl headed for the bus station. Before long, they’re driving to South Carolina, accompanied by a very pregnant, foul-mouthed hitchhiker. The three strangers hit I-95 and find themselves on a journey of unusual coincidences and second chances that stradd...
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Sunset Motel

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  10/9/2008 to 10/25/2008

Sunset Motel is a night of two original one-act plays, both set in an off-the-map motel in Joplin, Missouri. Spend the night with us and watch a bumbling salesman hook up with a former child star, and a road weary folk singer bond with a lonely groupie. Will they check out or will they sleep in...? ...
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Ko'olau: a true story of Kaua'i

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  9/18/2008 to 10/5/2008

Yoko Myoi & Pilani puppet (Photo by David Soll)

"Ko'olau," designed and directed by Tom Lee (www.tomleeprojects.com), is an intimate and inventive puppet performance based on a now-legendary story of Hawai'i in the 1890s. The title character, Kaluaiko'olau (hereafter Ko'olau), hides with his wife and son in the Kalalau Valley of Kauai as he tries...
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Doruntine

Interart Annex, 500 West 52nd Street  10/10/2008 to 10/26/2008
A collaboration with Teatri Oda of Kosova. A marriage that spurns tradition, an impossible journey on horseback, a brother who defies the grave. Inspired by the Albanian legend as written by Ismail Kadare, DORUNTINE is the mythical tale of a forbidden love and the danger of a promise that can never...
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Missa Solemnis or The Play About Henry

The Barrow Group Theatre, 312 West 36th Street - 3rd Floor  10/30/2008 to 11/22/2008

Missa Solemnis or The Play About Henry

On the morning of February 25, 2000, a young man named Henry Stuart Matis drove to the Mormon Ward House in Los Altos, California, placed a gun to his head, and ended his life. This provocative drama is based on the actual events of gay Mormon Henry Stuart Matis, who had engaged his life in a false ...
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The Tempest

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  10/17/2008 to 11/16/2008
One of the great romantic comedy plays by William Shakespeare. When at sea, Queen Alonsa of Naples and her entourage encounter a violent storm, or Tempest, they are all washed ashore on a strange island inhabited by the powerful magician Prospero who has deliberately conjured up the storm. Prospero ...
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Three Movements

The Studio Theater @ Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street  10/17/2008 to 10/26/2008
Based on the life of the famed ballet choreographer George Balanchine, Three Movements follows a fictional choreographer as he nurses his wife, his greatest dancer, through polio. Unable to face the reality that she will never dance again, he convinces himself he can save his muse. Soon frustrated w...
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Most Damaging Wound

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  11/7/2008 to 11/29/2008

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Something Weird...in the Red Room

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street

Photos by Lisa Soverino. Graphic Art by Tony Patryn.

A double feature of horror plays that fuse together elements of dance and movement theater with the Twilight Zone and David Lynch....
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Something Weird...in the Red Room

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  10/7/2008 to 10/31/2008

Photos by Lisa Soverino. Graphic Art by Tony Patryn.

A double feature of horror plays that fuse together elements of dance and movement theater with the Twilight Zone and David Lynch....
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The Philanderer

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  2/13/2009 to 3/15/2009
Prolific playwright G. B. Shaw (1856-1950) authored more than sixty plays. Nearly all of his writings deal sternly with prevailing social problems, but are leavened by a vein of comedy to make their stark themes more palatable. An ardent socialist, he became an accomplished orator in the furtherance...
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Ruddigore, or The Witches Curse

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  4/24/2009 to 5/24/2009
You loved Theater Ten Ten’s productions of The Singapore Mikado, Iolanthe…unplugged, and The Nova Scotia Pirates of Penzance. Our unique productions of G&S musicals have resulted in multiple nominations and an OOBR & Innovative Theater Award! Join our wonderfully inventive director David Fuller for ...
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Memoirs Of Madness

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  10/30/2008 to 11/23/2008

Memoirs of Madness

My Fair Heathen Productions continues their foray into the dark and irreverent with the fall show, "Memoirs of Madness". Opening Halloween weekend, this horror double feature adapts two classic diaries of diseased psyches! Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, "The Yellow Wallpaper" is an indictment of the pa...
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Lee/gendary

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  10/14/2008 to 10/30/2008

Soomi Kim as Bruce Lee in Lee/gendary from the First National Asian American Theater Festival (photo by Steven Schreiber)

Set in the inner landscape of Bruce Lee's mind the moment before he died in 1973, LEE/GENDARY is a spiritual and psychological examination of Lee's life from birth to death. This unique gender bending theater performance integrates text, original music, video and an explosive hybrid of martial arts ...
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Affair in 22B

Producer's Club, 358 West 44th Street  10/13/2008 to 10/26/2008

Can a relationship survive success?

Written by Jay Christopher (aka Jack Kelly) in 1984, the play revolves around the relationship of the two main characters, Abbey and Paul, who share their lives in a run-down New York apartment, and who are looking to build a successful and meaningful relationship, though Paul’s eagerness towards ...
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Adventures of the Puppet Princess

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  10/18/2008 to 11/23/2008

ADVENTURES OF THE PUPPET PRINCESS is a Balinese fairytale with music which follows Putu, a troublesome tomboy, and Nyoman, the neighbor boy that her father, a master puppeteer (dalang), is teaching about the art of puppets. Putu loves to play with the puppets and make up stories, but in Bali girls c...
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The Spanish Wives:

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  10/30/2008 to 11/23/2008
This groovy new adaptation of Mary Griffith Pix’ restoration piece, THE SPANISH WIVES, has been completely reinvented and transplanted to the hippie streets of San Francisco, where the characters find themselves exploring their options in this quickly changing world. The Governor of Barcelona is now...
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Like You Like It

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  10/18/2008 to 11/2/2008
All the world's a mall in this totally awesome mix of Shakespeare and John Hughes. It's 1985 and the brand new Arden Mall is hosting a high school dance. Bookworm babe Rosalind wants to go with varsity wrestler Orlando, but she's never had the guts to talk to him. Rosalind disguises herself as a fr...
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Phedre

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor

Celebrity=Royalty

Sexy and classically poised, the cast of Phedre brings a modern tabloid twist to the 17th century Jean Racine's Phedre. The myth of Phedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology. Left alone by her husband Theseus, Phedre grows ill out of her desire for Hippolytus. Tortured, Phé...
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Phedre

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  11/6/2008 to 11/23/2008
Sexy and classically poised, the cast of Phedre brings a modern tabloid twist to the 17th century Jean Racine's Phedre. The myth of Phedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology. Left alone by her husband Theseus, Phedre grows ill out of her desire for Hippolytus. Tortured, Phé...
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Peep Show Male

Dionysus Theatre's L'il Peach, 270 West 36th Street (at 8th Ave.)  10/8/2008 to 11/15/2008

Peep Show Male, A New Dirty, Filthy Musical Comedy by Dave McCracken. At “Lip Service,” A Gay Bar With Go-Go Boys And Back Rooms, A Group of Lovable Regulars Meet Nightly To Pump Each Other Up And Tear Each Other Down Along With Any New Faces That Dare To Enter And Play. “How weird is tonight...
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The Blood Brothers present... The Master of Horror

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  10/9/2008 to 11/1/2008

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The Tender Trap

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  11/6/2008 to 11/22/2008

The Tender Trap by Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith

For Charlie, life in early 50s New York City sure is swell, at least, that is how his old friend Joe sees it when he comes to visit. Charlie has a swinging bachelor pad, a good job, and more girls than he can handle. Before long at least one of those girls finds herself in a tug-of-war, and jealousy...
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Amerissiah

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  11/13/2008 to 12/7/2008
Barry Ricewater is a dying man who is convinced he’s God. His degenerate family thinks he’s crazy… until an unlikely disciple walks through the door. Barry knows that only through his own divine intervention can the crooked Ricewater clan be saved. Prepare yourself for, 'Amerissiah', a new come...
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To Barcelona!

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   10/11/2008 to 10/26/2008
A mile from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, three New Yorkers indulge in their final night of drunken revelry before they kill, and possibly die, for their ideals. By morning they will know just how much they are willing to sacrifice for their utopia. Set at the high water mark of American...
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An Ideal Husband

Times Square Arts Center, 669 8th Avenue  10/30/2008 to 11/16/2008

What do the Keating Five, the Savings & Loan Scandal, drilling for oil in Alaska, and Oscar Wilde have in common? The RFTC’s modern adaptation of An Ideal Husband! On the verge of our historic Presidential election, this production is a Wilde and witty look at how one politician's secrets threaten...
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YELLOW FACE

Queens Theatre in the Park, P.O.Box 520069  11/13/2008 to 11/23/2008
A comedy about racial identity, done as a mock documentary...
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Lord Oxford Brings You the Second American Revolution, Live!

Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  10/23/2008 to 11/22/2008

Dangerous Entertainment in the form of Lord Oxford's Oxfordettes!

A new musical that’s "Democracy in America" meets "Alice in Wonderland" meets "Cabaret." "Lord Oxford..." wonders what it might be like if the first American Revolution hadn't suceeded and explores a world in which everything you know about race, power, and politics is turned on its head. Bawdy, tun...
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Angel Eaters

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  11/3/2008 to 11/22/2008

Credit: Isaiah Tanenbaum

First play in The Angel Eaters Trilogy (see Rattlers and 8 Little Antichrists). Joann, a slow girl growing up poor in 1930's Oklahoma, claims to talk to angels and raise animals from the dead. But when her father dies, the angel's message takes a darker turn. As her mother hires a pair of carnies to...
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Rattlers

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  11/4/2008 to 11/22/2008

Credit: Isaiah Tanenbaum

The second play in The Angel Eaters Trilogy: set in the 1980’s, follows the children of the survivors of ANGEL EATERS. Unwilling to accept her sister Kate's death, Ernelle kidnaps Osley, her ex-lover and uses dark methods of persuasion to convince him to raise Kate from the dead. Meanwhile, Kate and...
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8 Little Antichrists

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  11/5/2008 to 11/22/2008

Credit: Isaiah Tanenbaum

The final play of The Angel Eaters Trilogy: set 20 years in the future, 8 LITTLE ANTICHRISTS imagines a dystopia where Disney Corporation runs jails and SONY clones workers. Skipping ahead two generations, this play follows Osley’s (from RATTLERS) grandchildren—Jeremy and Melanie—in their quest to ...
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Eatfest Fall 2008: Series A

Roy Arias Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street  11/4/2008 to 11/16/2008
Emerging Arists' biannual premiere of short plays by emerging playwrights...
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Eatfest Fall 2008: Series B

Roy Arias Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street  11/6/2008 to 11/16/2008
Emerging Artists' biannual premiere of new short plays by emerging artists...
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The Importance of Being Earnest

Off-Off-Broadway Playhouse at Roy Arias Theaters, 300 W. 43rd St.  11/5/2008 to 11/16/2008

Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrief are both busy leading double lives in the highest of style: creating false identities, avoiding family obligations, wooing well-bred young ladies, visiting imaginary invalids and (equally imaginary) wayward brothers. As their respective alternate lives collide, th...
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The Granduncle Quadrilogy: Tales from the Land of Ice

Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  12/4/2008 to 12/20/2008

Granduncle's Land (image by Jeff Lewonczyk)

A frozen northern country. Mammoths and walruses. The legendary death of a saintly child. A twisted winter celebration. The Granduncle Quadrilogy is a holiday special for a made-up holiday. Listen to Granduncle, ancient storyteller and veteran of an endless war, as he and his fellow citizens mix fol...
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As We Speak

14th Street Theatre, 344 E. 14th Street  11/7/2008 to 11/23/2008
“This is not the time to question authority. You are either with America, or you are not.” In a post-9/11, post-Katrina world full of the politics of fear and doctrines of intolerance and hate, what are we willing to sacrifice for our own sense of security? What liberties are we willing to give up ...
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Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls!

Flamboyan Theatre - CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  11/19/2008 to 12/21/2008

This play is conceived and directed by Ildiko Nemeth. With original and classical music, dance and striking stage design, the production will recreate Anita Berber's life in a series of cabaret-styled performances, including much of her "repertoire of the damned." This play occurs 80 years after he...
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Love Dr. Mueller

Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street  11/8/2008 to 11/24/2008

Writer, actress, mother, outlaw, fashion designer, go-go dancer, Dreamlander, witch-doctor... Cookie Mueller was a force of nature who blazed a trendsetting trail through the 60s, 70s, and 80s, only to have her life cut short by AIDS. Love Dr. Mueller is the first-ever play to tell Cookie's amazing ...
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RADIOTHEATRE PRESENTS DRACULA

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.

Brides of Dracula!

Once again, the award-winning RADIOTHEATRE presents an environmental sound spectacular with an original orchestral score, a talented cast of storytellers and a plethora of sound effects! Join them as they present the classic tale of everyone's favorite vampire, DRACULA...but, be warned, this isn't ...
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RADIOTHEATRE PRESENTS DRACULA

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  11/11/2008 to 12/30/2008

Brides Of Dracula!

Once again, the award-winning RADIOTHEATRE presents an environmental sound spectacular with an original orchestral score, a talented cast of storytellers and a plethora of sound effects! Join them as they present the classic tale of everyone's favorite vampire, DRACULA...but, be warned, this isn't ...
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Beauty and the Beast

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  11/15/2008 to 12/30/2008

Beauty and the Beast

An original musical adaptation of the classic fairy tale....
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Funny as a Crutch

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  11/1/2008 to 11/23/2008

a hilarious new comedy by Rich Orloff exploring the concept of disability, featuring an ensemble of versatile comedic actors with disabilities. Mary Theresa Archbold, Shannon DeVido, Stephen Jutras, Gregg Mozgala and Frank Senger star in a collection of nine shorts skewering icons, stereotypes and ...
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Summer & Smoke

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  11/13/2008 to 12/14/2008

Summer & Smoke


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Native Speech

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  11/20/2008 to 12/21/2008

In a futuristic city, one man tells it like he sees it-The Hungry Mother! He's the DJ with a strong pulse but a weak signal. He riffs on the truth with verbal virtuosity, with primal passion, with ambidextrous dexterity, with a sexy scream...but when his visions begin to manifest themselves in sinis...
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Parking Lot Lonely Heart

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  11/15/2008 to 12/20/2008


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Ragtime

Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 30-44 Crescent St  2/5/2009 to 2/22/2009

D. William Hughes* (Coalhouse) & Janine Ayn Romano (Sarah)

This epic musical by the award-winning composer/lyricist team Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Lucky Stiff, My Favorite Year, Once On This Island, Seussical) paints a nostalgic and powerful portrait of life in turn of the century America. Based on E.L. Doctorow's distinguished novel, Ragtime intert...
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The Funeralogues

All Souls Chapel, 1157 Lexington Ave.  11/7/2008 to 12/13/2008

Illustration by Anwar Ghazal

a site-specific look at the words and the lives behind the eulogies. Starring Stacy Mayer....
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(Not) Just A Day Like Any Other

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  11/6/2008 to 11/22/2008
The New York Neos bring you a very cool, autobiographical, full-length, multi-media theatre experience. Using video, comedy, puppetry and music, 4 actor/writers weave together compelling real-life stories documenting a day that altered the course of their lives: a wedding, a death, a reunion and a ...
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Call Me Anne

Access Theater Black Box, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor  12/2/2008 to 12/21/2008

To come.

One-man show based on the life of actress Anne Heche....
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Lysistrata's Children

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   11/14/2008 to 11/23/2008
A group of teens decide to put an end to war by withholding their love from their parents....
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THE ANASTASIA TRIALS IN THE COURT OF WOMEN

Off-Off-Broadway Playhouse at Roy Arias Theaters, 300 W. 43rd St.  12/3/2008 to 12/14/2008

The Emma Goldman Theatre Brigade, a radical feminist theatre group, is at it again - implementing their innovative lottery system to insure theatrical equality. They each draw the role they will play out of a hat each night before the show, but tonight there's a critic in the audience and t he siste...
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Pig Tale

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  12/5/2008 to 1/3/2009

Pig Tale by Chris Weikel

Johnny and Dave have been dating casually until one night Dave turns into a pig—literally. Does this mean it’s over? ...
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Uncle Vanya

The Space, 300 W. 43rd St, Suite 402  12/4/2008 to 12/20/2008

An elderly professor and his beautiful young wife retire to a remote country estate left by his deceased first wife to find themselves confronting the brooding figure of the professor's brother-in-law and estate manager, Uncle Vanya. In a desperate attempt to allay their upper-class ennui, the large...
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An Experiment With An Air Pump

Poppenhusen Institute, 114-04 14th Road  11/28/2008 to 12/6/2008
Queens revival of Shelagh Stephenson's award-winning darkly humorous drama...
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The Frankophile

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  12/11/2008 to 12/21/2008

Alceste, the infamous misanthrope, left his place in Moliére’s play in search of a world up to his standards. After four centuries of refusing change and running from play to play, he is confronted by Moliére, returned from the dead and hell-bent on rewriting him entirely. Faced with the deadline of...
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Lillian Yuralia

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  11/13/2008 to 11/30/2008

l-r: Barbara Eda Young, Ben Hammer, John Magaro

The play, a finalist at the Humana Festival and winner of a 2001 Berrilla Kerr Grant, is set on the Lower East Side in 1930. Lillian, a former star of the Yiddish Theater (or so she says) has lived for many years with her lover Jake in a top floor flat of a brownstone. Across the hall, Levy, a refug...
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3 Sisters

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  12/4/2008 to 12/21/2008
With only six actors playing all the roles, Theatre of the Expendable will be presenting Chekhov’s original story – the story of how we wish for what we won’t get, of how we haggle over an unknown future, and of how time ruins us all – in a new way. Presented true to the original script and staged i...
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Anna Christie

Metropolitan Playhouse, 220 E 4th Street  11/21/2008 to 12/14/2008

Sam Tsoutsouvas and Jenne Vath. photo by Steven Lemark

O'Neill's tenderest tale of fallen angels looking for land. Anna has left a life in the streets to find her estranged father working a coal barge, and to fall in love with a bold and brazen man who cannot accept her past. Three hard headed lovers of the sea are tossed in a storm of their own desire...
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Plucking Failures like Ripe Fruit

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  11/20/2008 to 12/6/2008

Jeremy Mather contemplates suicide as Brooke Eddey looks on, also contemplating suicide, in Breaking Even by Dan Dietz, one of the short plays in Plucking Failures like Ripe Fruit. Photo by D. Robert Wolcheck.

A collection of small works by big playwrights, all of which are about failing at love. Before each show, the audience will draw 6 of the short romantic tragedies from a collection of more than 10, so every night will be a different mix of failure. Playwrights include Christopher Durang, John Guare,...
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Ecstasy

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  1/9/2009 to 1/25/2009

Photo Design by Jason Stanger

Mike Leigh's 1979 play set in London. Jean, Dawn, Mick, Len, Roy and Val - the six characters in Ecstasy - are as different as any people can be. But what they all have in common is an instinctive need for survival and sustenance. In sharing the burdens of their world and socio-economic climate, ...
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The Very Sad Story of Ethel & Julius, Lovers and Spyes and about Their Untymelie End while Sitting in a Small Room at the Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y.

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   11/28/2008 to 12/14/2008

Julius and Ethel. photo by Tom Lee

A show that explores the myths surrounding the Rosenbergs’ purported betrayal of the atomic bomb secret to the Soviet Union....
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THE SCANDAL!

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  12/4/2008 to 12/21/2008
One-woman show: A small town gal, Pink, has devised the perfect, poetic suicide plan. Her journey is complicated by a distant mother, a judgmental entourage, the ghost of her father, and a mysterious newcomer. In a world so small, everyone is hungry for a scandal....
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Dammerung

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  1/8/2009 to 1/25/2009
Play about what happens in those final moments between falsehood and truth, between darkness and light, between day and night......
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Gang of Seven

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/4/2008 to 12/21/2008

l-r: Mary Shultz, Jim Neu, Byron Thomas

"Gang of Seven," a new comedy by Jim Neu, rips the lid off the dynamics, delusions, and dangers of the focus group movement sweeping across America. The play cunningly anticipates what will happen when ordinary gatherings for market research get infected with the human potential movement. Alone, thi...
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The Judgment of Paris

The DUO Theater, 62 East 4th Street  1/8/2009 to 2/1/2009

Photo by Steven Schreiber

-a dramatic entertainment-...
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The Mystery of Claywoman

Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street  12/4/2008 to 12/14/2008

The Mystery of Claywoman

Michael Cavadias performs in his own hybrid documentary-cum-lecture live-art piece that dares to delve into a myth entirely of his own devising. Rob Roth directs a multimedia production that includes onscreen cameos from Justin Bond, Alan Cumming, Deborah Harry, Amy Poehler and Ruth Maleczech. ...
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The Blue Bird

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center,   1/7/2009 to 1/24/2009

The Blue Bird

The Blue Bird is a dance theater piece that pinballs from absurdist comedy to poetic beauty. Its about birds, scientists, bears, wild cats, stuffed dogs, crossbreeding humans with insects, technology, the dangers of leaving your mouth hanging open, and maybe losing the ability to look up at the sky....
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Shadow of Himself

Access Theater, 380 Broadway  1/8/2009 to 1/31/2009

Inspired by one of the masterpieces of world literature (The Epic of Gilgamesh) and interviews with men from all walks of life about fear, Shadow of Himself is a modern epic about man's struggle for immortality. Bell uses contemporary attitudes about masculinity, power, and mortality to tell the sto...
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Homeward Bound

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  4/10/2009 to 4/25/2009

Homeward Bound is the story of three GI's wounded in the Iraqi War, stuck in a hospital in Germany, waiting to go home. When two wounded Iraqi civilians are temporarily housed in the same ward, they all share the same nightmare. They have been irredeemably changed by their wounds and experiences, an...
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Any Day Now

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  1/6/2009 to 1/30/2009
The Colby family is facing its share of problems. Jackie is doing poorly at school, Josh is drinking too much, Beverly is far too controlling, Pen is slipping into senility ... but that's nothing compared to the difficulties to come. One of their own is found wandering in the backyard, days after he...
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Retrospective

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  1/20/2009 to 2/7/2009
It's three am. Georgia O'Keeffe has been invited to write an essay for her late husband, Alfred Stieglitz, 1978 Retrospective at the Met. During her "wee hour" review of erotic photographs Stieglitz did of her when they met, Stieglitz shows up. Past and present collide. Fact, fiction, intimacy, ambi...
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23 KNIVES

Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  1/13/2009 to 2/7/2009

23 KNIVES Logo by S. Kim Glassman

In 44 B.C., the fate of the Roman Republic hangs in the balance. The most powerful man in the world, Julius Caesar, lies dead in the Theatre of Pompey, as politicians and military men ambitiously move to fill the void of power. Marcus Antonius summons the physician Antistius to uncover the truth a...
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CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA

Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  1/14/2009 to 2/7/2009

CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA Logo by S. Kim Glassman

Four years before Julius Caesar sailed to Rome to meet his untimely end, the great leader sought to conquer the outer reaches of the land, always questing for a kindred spirit to rival his own. What he finds, sitting on top of an ancient Egyptian Sphinx, is a young Queen Cleopatra, who beguiles him...
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Twelfth Night, Or What You Will

The Kirk @ Theatre Row Studios, 410 West 42nd Street  1/8/2009 to 1/24/2009

Feste sings "O Mistress Mine!" with the band

NYNEO's Twelfth Night reflects the joy and doubt of a young generation facing a world of uncertainty. Shakespeare's comedy about the lengths we go to reach those we love is combined with a live band, playing a fresh indie rock score that sounds like it was downloaded from iTunes this morning....
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HOLLOW LOG

Roy Arias Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street  1/16/2009 to 2/8/2009
A millionaire, a stoner, a russian, an actor, and a big bag of drugs. Find them all in HOLLOW LOG. A thriller in two acts....
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When in Disgrace

Theater st St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street  1/23/2009 to 2/8/2009

It's not too late to make this right . . .

Inspired by a true story, WHEN IN DISGRACE weaves a tale of shattered hope and personal destruction as three close friends are torn apart by jealousy, neglect, guilt, and ultimately, love. Fusing rock music, iambic verse, and video games, WHEN IN DISGRACE explores what drives youngsters to extreme a...
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Likeness

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  1/9/2009 to 1/25/2009
In Colonial Boston, an idealistic young painter scores a career-making gig: the portrait of a wealthy landowner's spoiled daughter. But there is more to the assignment than meets the eye. Artistic integrity battles ambition, and subject defies artist, as the first rumblings of revolution rattle the ...
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Raised in Captivity

The Turtle's Shell Studio, 300 W 43rd ST.  1/29/2009 to 2/15/2009
A dark comedy about twin siblings who deal with guilt, redemption, self punishment, and revealed secrets following their mother’s untimely death....
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Theatre Is Dead and So Are You

Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  1/9/2009 to 1/31/2009

Photo by Carrie Leonard

Theatre is Dead and So Are You is an irreverent funeral for the stage. A ragtag bunch of variety hacks are laying their sometimes beloved MC to rest, performing his funeral live, travelling from city to city, until such time as his body is too decomposed to make the proceedings pleasant. Their "eulo...
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The Real Thing

T. Schreiber Studio, 151 W. 26th St., 7th fl. (between 6th and 7th)  2/19/2009 to 3/29/2009

A dazzling romantic comedy that cleverly employs a play within a play to explore adultery and fidelity between a playwright and his theatrical coterie. Stoppard masterfully interweaves the realities of pain and betrayal as the characters confront the true nature of their relationships in this witt...
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Thoroughly Modern Millie

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  1/31/2009 to 2/22/2009
A revival of the 2002 Tony Award winner for Best Musical....
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FUCT: Show Me on the Doll

The Cherry Pit, 155 Bank Street  2/5/2009 to 2/28/2009

The FUCT Angel

FUCT is a sketch comedy troupe that incorporates music and dance, nudity and pain, misdirection and audience participation. A circus of humor that is truly, FUCT....
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Yanagai! Yanagai!

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/8/2009 to 1/25/2009

La MaMa E.T.C. in association with the Australian Aboriginal Theatre Initiative presents Yanagai! Yanagai! by Andrea James (Yorta Yorta) Yanagai! Yanagai! evokes a place where past, present and future exist as one. On the banks of "Dhungula" sacred trees, familiar fishing holes, cheeky dingoes, min...
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Sunday On The Rocks

The Theater At 30th St, 259 West 30th St  1/27/2009 to 2/8/2009

This comedy finds female housemates having scotch for breakfast. Over the course of one day inhibitions disappear, secrets are revealed and the women soon find their lives on the rocks....
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ZOMBIE

The Studio Theater @ Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street  2/18/2009 to 3/29/2009

The serial killer next door.

A Jeffrey Dahmer-esque serial killer confesses his crimes. A mild "everyman' turns out to be your worst nightmare. A new play about a "monster", and the potential monsters that may lurk within ourselves....
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Much Ado About Nothing

Beckett Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  2/12/2009 to 2/28/2009

Much Ado About Nothing - artwork by Mike Marwit

Benedick and Beatrice have vowed to remain single and appear to enjoy their battle of wits too much to ever call a truce. Young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to change their minds. A romantic comedy about winning the one you didn’t know you wanted most....
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American Rapture

Beckett Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  2/14/2009 to 3/1/2009

American Rapture - artwork by Mike Marwit

An evening of one-act plays, some humorous, some tragic, all exploring the unique mixture of loneliness and hope which make up the American Experience. Playwright/director Alexander Dinelaris weaves his way through modern relationships, religious hypocrisy, love, loss and the endless cycle of viole...
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habeas corpus

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  2/27/2009 to 3/8/2009
habeas corpus is year-long project on the topic of "what would you like to get rid of?" a performance art melange of original music, dance, and theatre fueled by responses to this question received anonymously via email, voicemail, and post and also live during the show! ...
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Rooftops

Milagro Theatre -- CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  3/5/2009 to 3/28/2009

Benjamin Spradley, Mika Porro, and Dechelle Damien

Rooftops comments on the economic divide present in American society and magnifies it to drastic proportions. Written by Wreckio co-Artistic Director Karly Maurer , the play begins as the protagonist, Crane, is ripped from her world of comfort and convenience and is catapulted on to “the Tops”. She ...
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Elephants on Parade 2009

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street

designed by Montgomery Sutton

Elephants on Parade 2009 is a continuation of the one act festival which launched EBE Ensemble in 2006. The five plays in this year’s festival, three of which are world-premieres, were chosen from nearly three-hundred submissions from across the country. In John Aldous’ Presidential Roulette, direct...
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Elephants on Parade 2009

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  2/5/2009 to 2/14/2009

designed by Montgomery Sutton

Elephants on Parade 2009 is a continuation of the one act festival which launched EBE Ensemble in 2006. The five plays in this year’s festival, three of which are world-premieres, were chosen from nearly three-hundred submissions from across the country. In John Aldous’ Presidential Roulette, direct...
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The Wendigo

Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 3rd Floor  2/5/2009 to 2/28/2009

The Wendigo (artwork by Gino Barzizza)

Lost in the wilderness, four hunters venture deep into a world they were never meant to see in this adaptation of Algernon Blackwood's classic tale of supernatural horror. ...
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Universal Robots

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  2/12/2009 to 3/7/2009

Universal Robots image by Wade Dansby 3

The Great War has just ended. The fledgling Republic of Czechoslovakia, under its first elected President, boasts a thriving artistic and intellectual community. At the center of that community is Karel Capek, a celebrated playwright and a passionate advocate for all his newborn nation can achieve. ...
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KING LEAR

National Black Theatre, 2031 Fifth Avenue  2/20/2009 to 3/1/2009

artwork © John Pirtel 2009 | graphic by dabgrafix

Three daughters. Two Liars. And a King grown old but not wise. KING LEAR directed by Shakespearean actor and director Timothy D. Stickney tells a poignant tale of tragedy, murder, greed, power, madness, and ungrateful children! Can a man of power, give away that which makes him powerful, and ...
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WICKETS

3ld Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street  1/5/2009 to 1/25/2009

Emma's Entrance

WICKETS is Fefu and Her Friends at 30,000 feet. Set inside an airplane, the entire theater becomes the stage with high flying action that takes place all around the audience,--in the aisles, galleys and lavatories of a trans-Atlantic flight. Immersed in an identity crisis, eight 1970's stewardesses ...
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Let's Go

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  2/21/2009 to 3/8/2009

Um...let's make a play? Yes! About what? About Waiting for Godot. Except not about Waiting for Godot. Okay! How should we make it? Ooooh, I know, I know! Oh wait?I don't know. Well if it's about that play but also not about that play, then what is it about? Memory. Friends. Leaving, coming, going....
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Room For Cream - Season One: The Box Set!

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/22/2009 to 2/8/2009

Cast of "Room For Cream"

Directed by Brooke O'Harra, with episodes written by Jess Barbagallo, Laryssa Husiak, Brooke O'Harra, Brendan Connelly and Laura Berlin Stinger, the live lesbian soap opera was originally mounted over the first half of 2008. (Theatre of the Two-Headed Calf had previously been noted for intrepid ada...
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Treasure Island

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  2/14/2009 to 5/10/2009

Long John Silver & Jim Hawkins

New musical based on the classic novel - Treasure Island...
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Nobody

Seventh Street Small Stage, 41-43 East 7th Street  2/19/2009 to 2/28/2009

A world premiere commissioned and written specifically for the moody and extremely intimate close quarters in the basement space of downtown restaurant Jimmy’s No. 43, Crystal Skillman has written a play in which six people come together, each for their own reasons, at a restaurant on the Lower East...
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My Big Brother Nick

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street
It's a show...
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Bomber Jackets

Broadway Comedy Club, 318 west 53rd st

Bomber Jackets

A man has been killed in Brooklyn, and the detective questioning the chief suspect uncovers a powerful and troubling story. On the surface it is about the bigotry of a gang with a mission to keep homosexuals out of there neighborhood and its reaction to a sassy & passable transsexual who has moved i...
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Avow

45th Street Theatre, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl  2/23/2009 to 3/8/2009

A play by Bill C. Davis, ("Mass Appeal"). A devout gay Catholic couple, Brian and Tom, ask to be married by their liberal parish priest, Father Raymond. Though sympathetic to their affections, Father Raymond sticks to the churchʼs long held beliefs that they cannot marry and should remain celib...
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The High Priestess of Dark Alley

The Billie Holiday Theatre, 1368 Fulton Street  2/19/2009 to 3/28/2009

Two sisters, one robbed of her sexuality, the other defined by it, do battle with their domineering mother over the men they love....
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WAITING FOR THE SHOW

WOW Cafe Theater, 59 East 4th Street  1/30/2009 to 1/31/2009

Kristin Ciccone and Angela Carolfi, lead cast. Photo by Bill Hayward

What if Beckett staged Marat-Sade and all the parts were played by amorous lesbians? Inmates of the Hahns Jopkins psych ward, Nina and Anne rehearse their anti-abortion variety show playing the roles of Maria from "The Sound of Music" and Founding Father George Washington. Every day at the same time...
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Johnny Bad vs. Jackie True

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  4/19/2009 to 5/6/2009
In a violent and corrupt neighborhood, the ruffian, Johnny Bad chases his dream of becoming a renowned poet. In Jackie True, he finds the muse he's looking for. The romance is complicated by the potential of a family, and the couple must choose between their aspirations and reality....
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Fresh Kills

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street
A domestic tragedy played out to the back drop of blue-collar Staten Island where Eddie, a restless married man, turns to the internet and discovers a teenage boy, Arnold. Suddenly, lives are in danger as its clear Arnold wants more than a rendezvous and Eddie's family becomes his obsession. ...
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Fresh Kills

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  2/12/2009 to 3/1/2009
A domestic tragedy played out to the back drop of blue-collar Staten Island where Eddie, a restless married man, turns to the internet and discovers a teenage boy, Arnold. Suddenly, lives are in danger as its clear Arnold wants more than a rendezvous and Eddie's family becomes his obsession. ...
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A Gathering

Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue  3/5/2009 to 6/18/2009
A Gathering is an experimental text that questions the nature of identity and bodied presence. As three people hide from an unseen threat, language breaks down and narratives spiral out of control....
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The Love Project

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/29/2009 to 2/8/2009

l-r: Idris Ackamoor & Rhodessa Jones

With the election of America’s first African American President, Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor, two prominent artistic voices in American race and gender politics for the past thirty years, make a timely return to the La Mama stage. While pundits crank out sanitized narratives of multi-culturali...
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FINISHING HOUSE

Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street  2/21/2009 to 3/28/2009

You Haven't Lived Until You've Seen The Light

All hail the United States of Health! And all do. But terrifying rumors are spreading of a covert budgetary agency capping the lifespan of citizens. Elizabeth, living in a remote gentleman’s farmhouse in Connecticut, is fraught with paranoia of her own blue-blood husband. Is he one of the secret age...
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The Book of Lambert

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  2/13/2009 to 3/1/2009
A new work by Leslie Lee, directed by Cyndy A. Marion. The Book of Lambert, a new play by Obie-winner and Tony-nominated playwright Leslie Lee, depicts the lives of several lost souls living in the subterranean depths of an abandoned NYC subway station. Lambert, their leader, a disillusioned young A...
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Prime Numbers

Greek Cultural Center, 27-18 Hoyt Avenue South  2/27/2009 to 4/5/2009

“Prime Numbers” is a mind-game of deception, a psychological thriller of allegory and symbol, about destiny and revenge, about people who hide their past punished for their choices. A writer (Eddie) struggling with a novel manuscript finds himself somehow mysteriously transported to Tijuana,...
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Happy Days

WOW Cafe Theater, 59 East 4th Street  2/26/2009 to 3/21/2009

The scintilating Asta Hansen as Winnnie in Beckett's timeless play

Samuel Beckett's iconic 20th century masterpiece of modern isolation and illusion is presented by Intentional Theater using a text specially edited to reflect Beckett's own changes as limned in his production notebook.  This production promises to be a groundbreaking event. Asta Hansen and Dale Ful...
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The Oath

ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street  4/23/2009 to 5/10/2009

http://www.mtworks.org

In outpost ruled with a macabre sense of justice by two rival sisters. A darkly comic look at balancing ambition and ideals in a time of crisis.this Southern Gothic tale, a wandering preacher is embroiled in the passions and politics of a swampy Florida ...
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Figaro/Figaro

14th Street Theatre, 344 E. 14th Street  2/27/2009 to 3/22/2009

The New York premiere of Eric Overmyer's adaptation of Beaumarchais's The Marriage of Figaro and Ödön von Horváth's Figaro Gets a Divorce. Figaro/Figaro follows the iconic characters Figaro, Susanna, the Count and Countess Almaviva, and other favorites through the ups and downs inherent in all relat...
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A Season in the Congo

Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd Street  3/6/2009 to 4/5/2009
Written by Aime Cesaire, noted Martinique poet and playwright, about the turbulent historical events surrounding Patrice Lamumba's rise to power and ultimate assassination in early 1960's....
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Anna's Perfect Party and the Amazing Magician's Marvelous Mistake

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  2/21/2009 to 4/5/2009

Nobody’s perfect. But Anna is a girl who won’t take no for an answer. Can an Amazing Magician’s spell turn her into the perfect girl? Anna has the perfect present for Betsy Bailey’s birthday. Now if only she could tie the perfect bow… Come to think of it, Anna wants to do everything perfectly! A...
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Coming, Aphrodite!

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  2/20/2009 to 3/8/2009
COMING, APHRODITE! is a love story about a man, a woman, and a dog that explores the pursuit of art and the nature of success. A painter, Don Hedger and his dog, Caesar, live in a one-room apartment. Their daily life is upended when Eden Bower, an aspiring actress who likes to sing show tunes and ex...
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Human Jukebox

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  2/20/2009 to 3/8/2009

Joseph Keckler

Keckler has developed a distinctive brand of performance, combining animated and unapologetically literary storytelling with a classically trained and chameleonic three-octave voice to explore the space between autobiography and fiction. Human Jukebox weaves together stories about a mother’s life-t...
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BEOWULF - A Thousand Years Of Baggage

Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street  4/1/2009 to 4/18/2009
Banana Bag & Bodice is an ensemble-based theatre company that creates unique shows with a strong emphasis on text, music and design. Founded in 1999, we have created 9 original productions varying in style and content, from a prison yard psycho collage, to a futuristic costume drama, to a musical ab...
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The Man in the Newspaper Hat

45th Street Theatre – Upstairs, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl.  3/5/2009 to 4/1/2009
Inspired by Elizabeth Bishop's poem "Visits to St. Elizabeths" (a strange, critical, almost cruel commentary on Pound in the form of a nursery rhyme.), Hayley Heaton's, The Man in the Newspaper Hat, consists of a series of meetings between the poets Ezra Pound and Elizabeth Bishop between 1949 and 1...
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Love

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  3/20/2009 to 4/12/2009
Tanya, Annie and Lorenzo are at the bottom of the heap. They're young, but already the youth has been wrung out of them. They've been abused, they're abusive and they're difficult to like, let alone love. But it is love in all its distorted and mutated forms that holds them together. Patricia Cornel...
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Merry Wives of Windsor

Access Theater, 380 Broadway  3/18/2009 to 3/29/2009

Windsor Correctional Facility for Women

This classic Elizabethan-era tale of wealth, seduction, and jealousy gets an unconventionally anachronistic treatment within the barbed wire fences of Windsor Correctional Facility for Women....
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Mrs. Warren's Profession

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  4/1/2009 to 4/18/2009

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95/turnpike/95: Chickens in Jersey

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  2/25/2009 to 3/7/2009

An absurdly slow day on the Jersey Turnpike takes a sudden turn when two tollbooth attendants face impending doom barreling towards them… in the form of a truck filled with chickens....
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Are We Freaks?

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  2/26/2009 to 3/8/2009

4 short stories about 8 abnormal women. Freaks and friends-who really is normal after all?...
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Dalton Trambo's Johnny Got His Gun

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  2/26/2009 to 3/7/2009

Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun tells of Joe Bonham, rendered a blind and deaf quadriplegic in WWI. Through an intimate one-man performance, we explore the mind of a boy cut off from the world as he struggles to come to terms with the life he has lost....
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Jet of Blood or the Ball of Glass

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  2/25/2009 to 3/8/2009

A visceral and violent look at humanity, both funny and disturbing. Love, loss, sex, religion and violence collide, pushing the world into apocalypse. What once seemed beautiful becomes a chaotic hell. The discovery of Truth is imminent…as are scorpions....
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“LIVE! … at the Cockpit: Will at Work with the Lord Chamberlain’s Men”

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  2/26/2009 to 3/8/2009
Back stage fun and acting adventures at the 1599 Globe Theatre - our postmodern palette. The Lord Chamberlain’s “Men” (with William Shakespeare as The Lion) will begin with the end of a performance: “… the most lamentable comedy and tragic death of Pyramus and Thisby.” ...
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RECESS

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  2/25/2009 to 3/7/2009

Una Aya Osato brings us her new one-woman show Recess, an impassioned response to her experiences attending and teaching in NYC's public schools. A performer whose presence demands attention and inspires audiences, Osato seamlessly uncovers stories, and weaves together the diverse voices of NYC yout...
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The Dysfuntional Guide to Home Perfection, Marital Bliss, and Passionate Hot Romance

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  2/27/2009 to 3/7/2009

As a companion piece to Dysfunctional’s 2001 hit, “How to Have the Ultimate Orgasm Each and Every Time”, this “How To” piece will use a blend of vintage and original writings to teach you how to be the perfect housewife (or househusband) - Dysfunctional style....
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The Expatriates

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  2/26/2009 to 3/8/2009

The Expatriates is a fast paced, physically charged, drama about F. Scott Fitzgerald confronting other luminaries of his lifetime. Exploring the similarities of the lives he wrote and the life he lived, this show is sure to engage as it paints a literary genius barreling toward his demise. ...
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The Question House

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  3/1/2009 to 3/7/2009

If you were trapped in a house where you could speak only in questions, how long would you survive? In a race against time, God, and declarative statements, the intrepid employees of The Question House are ready to find out…or are they?...
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Y

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  2/25/2009 to 3/8/2009

Y, Marilyn Unstitched, is the psychic autopsy of a woman who was given the name Marilyn Monroe. Unraveling truth, rumour and delusion, Y is one woman's investigation into the mysteries of her unsolved death....
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Tibet Does Not Exist

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  4/8/2009 to 4/26/2009
The play is about everything from politics to religion to the environment to love to movies. The action takes place in the fictional town of Winston, Connecticut, near Yale University. A Tibetan Buddhist monk, Buton Rinpoche, visits with several college professors -- but the action particularly ...
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Melting in Madras

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  2/26/2009 to 3/4/2009

A quixotic pilgrimage to India. Slightly misguided adventures into drugs, sickness, and delusion. H.R. Britton recounts his humorous, and increasingly anxious tale from the Subcontinent....
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Miss Evers' Boys

The Turtle's Shell Studio, 300 W 43rd ST.  3/19/2009 to 4/5/2009

This powerful drama is a fictional account based on a true government study carried out from 1932 to 1972. In an effort to get medical help for Alabama tenant farmers, their nurse, Miss Evers, convinces them to join a government study to treat venereal disease. When the money runs out, Nurse Evers ...
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The Children's Hour

Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 30-44 Crescent St  5/21/2009 to 6/7/2009
The insidious power of a lie takes center stage at the Wright-Dobie School for Girls in Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour. When a student perceives she is being treated unfairly by the headmasters, she fabricates a malicious lie about them. Fearful that their children will be inappropriately inf...
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Mrs. Warren's Profession

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  4/1/2009 to 4/18/2009

Adaptation of Aubrey Beardsley by Bill McMahon

"Mrs. Warren is the proprietress of a string of highly successful brothels. Her daughter, Vivie, is a modern young woman, but not so modern that she can ignore the source of her mother's wealth. The clash of these two strong-willed and culturally constrained Victorian women is the spark that ignites...
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Balm in Gilead

Ward Studio, 145 W. 28th St. Suite 8F  4/25/2009 to 5/10/2009
While the rest of New York is sleeping, the hustlers, the bums, the addicts, the drag queens, the lesbians and the prostitutes hang out at their after-hours diner in search of a fight, a f*ck, a fix or just a cup of coffee....
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A New Theory of Vision

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  3/18/2009 to 4/11/2009
What is "real?" Do "we" all live in the same reality as "you?" Hilarious, moving, and spooky, Bob Jude Ferrante's surreal, poetic new comedy, directed by Cat Parker, will rock your MIND....
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Shekinah

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  3/12/2009 to 3/22/2009

Photo by Jonathan Slaff

"Shekinah," a new dark comedy by Charles Case, revolves around the tragic, humorous and desperate lives of early twentieth century spiritualists. People who lost loved-ones to WWI or a child to polio made especially easy prey for these practitioners of mystic bunkum, who would abuse the desperate an...
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Won and Lost

TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor  4/3/2009 to 4/19/2009

Art by Lee Moyer

WON AND LOST, the premiere production of Apple Core Theater Company, includes two one-acts about the American veteran experience: a revival of James McLure's dark comedy, PVT. WARS, and a new drama by Steven Gridley, THE RETURN OF ODYSSEUS....
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puppet KafKa

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  4/23/2009 to 5/10/2009

gregor samsa awaKes one morning to find he has been transformed... franz KafKa awaKes one morning to find someone has been telling lies... the letter K awakes one morning as another world pounds on the bedroom door, trying to get in... combining traditional czech marionettes and abstract found objec...
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Birthday

Seventh Street Small Stage, 41-43 East 7th Street  4/2/2009 to 4/10/2009

A young woman, alone on her birthday, is thrown a party by a bar full of strangers only to discover that her real gift is sitting in the other room....
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Macbeth

Flamboyan Theatre - CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  4/3/2009 to 4/19/2009

Macbeth - Hipgnosis Theatre Co.

A play of raw eloquence about a reluctant brute with a boundless imagination....
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Trickster At The Gate

Ted Bardy Acting Studio, 153 W 27th St  3/20/2009 to 3/29/2009
Trickster at the Gate tells the story of an African god who has been sentenced to live the life of a mortal African American woman throughout the 20th century....
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The Mechanical

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   4/23/2009 to 5/10/2009

Captain Walton (Joshua Wynter), Mary Shelley (Meghan Frank), and the head of the automaton. Photo by Bond Street Theatre

The Mechanical transplants the Monster from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein into the true story of a chess-playing automaton built in 1770 by von Kempelen of the Austria-Hungary court. It was an illusion of ingenious design which played and defeated Napoleon, Ben Franklin and Beethoven. The Me...
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Gaugleprixtown

The Kirk @ Theatre Row Studios, 410 West 42nd Street  3/19/2009 to 4/4/2009
A TRUE STORY. London, 1993. Two 11-year-old boys abduct, torture and murder a three-year-old, abandoning the body along railroad tracks. The crime becomes instantly legendary. Eight years later the boys, then men, are released into society with new identities and a court order never to conta...
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The Who's Tommy

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  5/2/2009 to 5/24/2009

Brett Travis as Tommy. Photo by Ron Amato

Pete Townshend’s tale of a young boy’s journey from pain to triumph is the most electrifying evening of rock and roll ever to play in a theatre! The classic ’60s rock opera by The Who was translated to the stage by theatrical wizard Des McAnuff into a high-energy, one-of-a-kind theatrical event. The...
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The Nosemaker's Apprentice

Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  5/1/2009 to 5/23/2009

Chronicles of a Medieval Plastic Surgeon...
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Hamlet

Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  4/16/2009 to 5/2/2009
With its questions about morality, honor, and what makes a man, Hamlet has become one of the best-known works in English literature. Director Rich Ferraioli’s swift-moving, minimalist production takes a new approach to this classic, with cross-gendered casting and an ensemble-based ideology that cre...
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Pretty Theft

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  4/23/2009 to 5/17/2009

credit: Isaiah Tanenbaum

Is beauty a thief or a gift? Flux's 2009/10 season, "A Season of Give and Take" begins with Adam Szymkowicz's PRETTY THEFT, a play about ballerinas, boxes and the dangers of beauty. After losing her father, Allegra falls under the wing of bad girl Suzy, only to find an unexpected friendship with Joe...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 E. 26th St.  5/6/2009 to 5/24/2009

Graphic Design by Scott Hartman


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BritBits 5

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  4/26/2009 to 5/5/2009

BritBits5

MTG's fifth installment of new short plays for the busy Anglophile...
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One Thing I Like to Say Is

Access Theater Black Box, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor  4/16/2009 to 5/3/2009
A Scottish butler, a dollhouse, and a place called Nantucket that is not in Massachusetts... adult siblings cling to the rich, imaginative world they created as children to escape from the harsh realities of their upbringing. But their relationships are suffering. Can they learn to stop running away...
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"Getting and Spending"

Poppenhusen Institute, 114-04 14th Road  5/15/2009 to 5/23/2009
Light-hearted comedy/drama that deals with religion, illicit finance, love and criminal justice - so nicely applicable to today's problems....
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Go Go Killers

Sage Theater, 711 7th Ave  5/8/2009 to 5/30/2009

Photo by Lisa Soverino

1960's B-Movie style, retro-futuristic go-go dancing girl gang deb play....
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Good Night Lovin Trail

Producer's Club, 358 West 44th Street  4/16/2009 to 5/2/2009

Good Night Lovin Trail

At a truck stop diner in West Texas, two wounded strangers find redemption in each other’s eyes while discussing a stolen guitar. Being remounted as part of the Best of the Strawberry Festival. "THE COLORS OF LIFE" 7 One-Act Plays running in repertory from April 16th through May 3, 2009 ...
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Fifth of July

Gloria Maddox Theatre, 151 W. 26th St.  5/14/2009 to 6/21/2009

“A beckoning warmth radiates from Lanford Wilson’s masterpiece, Fifth of July” (Ben Brantley, NY Times). Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in rural Missouri with his lover Jed. As he struggles to renew life as a teacher, old friends and family descend for a vacation. Di...
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Caitlin and the Swan

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  4/16/2009 to 5/2/2009

Image by Ashley Alexander - I'm Smitten

Caitlin and the Swan tells the story of a frustrated SAT tutor, her animal-loving friends, and their powerful attractions to the forbidden. Inspired by the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan, this play explores feminism, bestiality, and the twisted links between pain and love....
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Finding the Rooster

13th Street Repertory Theatre Company, 50 West 13th Street  5/8/2009 to 6/7/2009
Set in New England in 1965, Finding the Rooster is about the wealthy and volatile Fine family whose profits and losses both emanate from war. On this evening, the father of the family, Richard, a wealthy weapons manufacturer and self-made man has summoned a group of lawyers to his elegant home to dr...
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Suckers

The Black Box Theatre @ 440 Studios, 440 Lafayette Street (3rd Floor)  6/16/2009 to 6/27/2009
When Romaine and Jeff meet some fun and crazy folks who run a late-nite coffee house, they never suspect that they're actually vampires. Rather than being devoured, Romaine's cunning captures the imagination of Elvis, the leader of the group - will they be the victims of the political schemes of the...
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Mentshn by Sholem Aleichem

Theater 3, 311 W. 43 St., 3rd fl.  5/23/2009 to 6/13/2009
Jobs are hard to come by, so Madame Gold s servants [Yiddish word Mentshn means servants and people]have limited options. To keep their jobs, they have to be willing to maintain the status quo by relinquishing their self-respect and free will. But how much abuse can they be expected to tolerate? ...
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The Colonists: a puppet show

Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  5/3/2009 to 5/24/2009

"The Colonists" is a lyrical fantasy, inspired by the fascinating and alien world of the bee. Developed by Nick Jones and Raja Azar ("Jollyship the Whiz-Bang") in Bangkok, and developed through a grant by the Jim Henson Foundation, "The Colonists" tells the story of an earthworm who dreams of flying...
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Way To Heaven

Teatro Círculo, 64 East 4th Street  5/7/2009 to 5/24/2009

Francisco Reyes

Way to Heaven is based on the notorious true story of the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where the Nazis constructed a fake village to fool the Red Cross inspectors and quell extermination rumors. Juan Mayorga’s startlingly original play begins years after the fact with an account by the Red C...
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When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  5/7/2009 to 5/23/2009

When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? original artwork by Matilda Szydagis

It's the end of the 60s in New Mexico and an early morning shift change at Foster’s Diner turns ugly when Teddy walks in. Steak and eggs evolve into taunting and bullying and before long the patrons and diner staff are helpless puppets in Teddy's cruel game, too terrified to resist him. Will they pu...
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Christmas is Miles Away

Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  5/2/2009 to 5/23/2009

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The Surpise

DR2, 103 East 15th Street  5/7/2009 to 5/13/2009
Set amidst the ruins of Angkor Wat, The Surprise is the true and comic story of an uncertain girlfriend, an enigmatic father, and a most epic game of emotional chicken. It is the tale of a family rife with secrets, and clueless as to how to reveal them....
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FUN DESIGN WITH SVELTE! [Can you Believe How Fun This Is?!]

DR2, 103 East 15th Street  5/7/2009 to 5/13/2009
Make your own Fun with world-renowned Fun Designer, SVELTE! You will master Svelte’s Eight Elements of Fun Design including Music! Costumes! Lighting! Specificity! And More! So Neat! So Easy! You won't believe how Fun this is!...
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Cozi Sa Wala: Magic Words

DR2, 103 East 15th Street  5/8/2009 to 5/14/2009
Cozi Sa Wala: Magic Words unites the two worlds of an American-born Ghanaian woman by introducing the audience to a series of characters who are attending a funeral party, while simultaneously passing on the Fanti stories told to her by her father....
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Mann Seeking Man: Jesus-Lovin’ Schoolgirl Seeks Soulmate

DR2, 103 East 15th Street  5/8/2009 to 5/14/2009
Everyone’s favorite Catholic schoolgirl, Maddy Mann, is looking for love, and she’s got tales to tell of the cute guys she crushed on and the Christians who made her cry. Ryan Migge, creator and performer, brings to Maddy Mann his years of musical theatre experience and a devilish sense of humor. WW...
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Traces

DR2, 103 East 15th Street  5/15/2009 to 5/21/2009
The body is a map, a cellular map, a history of memory-personal, cultural, uncharted, and unseen. Combining Butoh dance, sound, song, and text, Leigh Evans plunges deeply into the cartography of the inner body to unveil ancestral, cellular, and archetypal memory in her new work, Traces....
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Pebble and Cart Cycle

The New Dixon Place, 161 Chrystie Street  6/16/2009 to 6/25/2009

A woman battles a fly. Father has a horse attack. Brother turns into a goat. Pebble-and-Cart Cycle weaves together various styles and subjects, emerging as one, great spell-binding journey, exposing the theater of inner conflict through animal archetype, folk legend, religious rite and personal expe...
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Where My Girls At?

DR2, 103 East 15th Street  5/15/2009 to 5/21/2009
Which one will you vote for? This hilarious comedy lets the audience decide which black lesbian will fill the last slot on the new reality tv show BLACK BEAUTY: America's Next Top Negress. come along - laugh, sing, get fabulousity make-overs and see just how many ways a woman can be black or queer i...
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Face

DR2, 103 East 15th Street  5/18/2009 to 5/23/2009
Face is a lyrical rendition of a girl's story who survived two wars. Her story moves through vivid images, extreme brutality, and daring questions about violence and history. Based on the book of testimonies of Comfort women, who are survivors of sexual slavery by the Japanese army during World Wa...
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Creating Illusion

DR2, 103 East 15th Street  5/18/2009 to 5/23/2009
Magician Jeff Grow explores the diverse facets of the art of illusion, whether for entertainment or manipulation, beauty or deception. The tools of the conjurer are seen all around us. Elegant sleight of hand and surreal mind reading mix together to explore the tools of the art of creating illusio...
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The Magic Show: The Story of the Barefoot Angels

DR2, 103 East 15th Street  5/26/2009 to 5/30/2009
The Magic Show is the story of two American communities, one devastated by Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast and the other by a volcano eruption in Santa Ana, El Salvador. Nessen Bengson channels the voices of six good-hearted and passionate characters that dance, weep, laugh, seduce, share their ...
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Piccola Cosi

DR2, 103 East 15th Street  5/26/2009 to 5/30/2009
A sheltered girl gets swept right out of her orthopedic sneakers by a sea of eager Italian men when she follows her dreams of singing jazz in the smoky clubs of Bologna. Sold out run in the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival....
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The Science Plays

Urban Stages, 259 West 30th Street  5/2/2009 to 5/17/2009

Classical Greek, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, Atomic Age and the Future.

Six playwrights were assigned an era of science (the Atomic Age, the Dark Ages, etc.) and asked to write a ten-minute play. The results are funny, intelligent, and just a little bit dark. From an egomaniacal (and frustratingly slow moving) Archimedes to a couple picking out their genetically perfect...
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Galileo by Bertolt Brecht

Urban Stages, 259 West 30th Street  4/30/2009 to 5/16/2009
Galileo resonates with myriad modern political and social implications. Brecht shows us a man, a brilliant man, who craves a comfortable life. He uses science as the currency to acquire it - sometimes at any cost. And in the end, we are faced with a conundrum, left to wonder whether Galileo is...
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A Comedy of Errors

American Theatre of Actors, Beckmann Theatre, 314 W. 54th St.  5/14/2009 to 5/24/2009

Cartoons meets Classics as Phare Play Productions presents A Comedy of Errors, adapted and directed by Michael Hagins. Using the slapstick style that ran rampant in the cartoons we all grew up with, Hagins brings live animation to this Shakespearean tale of double twins confusing an entire town. The...
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Orange Flower Water

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  5/14/2009 to 5/31/2009

ORANGE FLOWER WATER written by Craig Wright, directed by Bryn Boice...
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CATHEDRAL

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  4/23/2009 to 5/16/2009
Father Jake is a much-loved and respected priest. When a young hustler accuses him of inappropriate sexual conduct, he is thrown into a crisis of conscience and faith that endangers not only his vocation, but his soul and the souls of those nearest to him...
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Measure for Measure

La Plaza Cultural, The Corner of 9th Street and Ave C  5/7/2009 to 5/23/2009

Fresh from a successful run of their rock-and-roll, hipster TWELFTH NIGHT at the KIRK THEATRE on Theatre Row, NYNEO presents a wickedly comic, site-specific FREE production of Shakespeare’s most controversial play. The Duke of Vienna skips town leaving his second-in-command free to outlaw sexual mi...
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Cirque du Quoi?!?

Skybox at the House of Yes, 342 Maujer Street  5/21/2009 to 6/6/2009

Cirque du Quoi?!?

Cirque du Quoi?!? is the marriage of the outrageous shock comedy of FUCT and the elegant aerial dancing skills of Lady Circus. Both troupes have shared their expertise with the other, creating a show that is at once beautiful, hilarious, subversive and unforgettable. It is a show unlike anything ...
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True West

181 Ave B, 181 Ave B  5/16/2009 to 5/31/2009

Two brothers house-sitting for their mother in California, fight over a movie deal. ...
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Liars

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  5/7/2009 to 5/23/2009
A collection of eight brand-new comedic plays about deceiving, falsifying, fibbing, and stretching the truth....
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FREEDOM

78th Street Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street   4/30/2009 to 5/10/2009
niine short commissioned plays around the common theme of FREEDOM...
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Caucasian Chalk Circle

The Chocolate Factory, 5-49 49th Avenue  6/25/2009 to 7/11/2009
Following our mentorship as part of the 2007-2008 Mabou Mines/ SUITE Resident Artist Program, PL115 brings its inventive imagining of Brecht’s epic masterpiece of war and responsibility to the home of the experimental vanguard in Long Island City. In our stripped down, decidedly 21st century inte...
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Reflections

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  5/17/2009 to 6/6/2009

Graphic Design by Bill Thompson

A selection of classic and world premiere short plays about life, theatre, and what comes next....
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Mare Cognitum

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   5/15/2009 to 5/30/2009

F*$k It! Let's Go to the Moon!

A country on the brink of war. A city wracked by ineffectual protests. An extraordinarily odd job interview. Faced with such perils, three young idealists do the only thing they can: fly to the Moon in a homemade rocketship....
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Squiggy and the Goldfish

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   5/13/2009 to 5/30/2009

Squiffy and the Goldfish

Squiggy has a lot of problems. His home life is rough, his love life sucks, and his goldfish has just started talking to him. But things are about to change. In the play of Squiggy's life, he's about to make some cuts. Will he find the answers he's looking for or will he end up at the bottom of the ...
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Ore, or Or

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   5/14/2009 to 5/30/2009

Ore, or Or

A zen exploration of the gap between truth and convenient fictions that employs the known facts about General Tomoyuki Yamashita and his legendary gold to illuminate the tangled love lives of four disaffected New Yorkers trying to ignore their pasts....
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The Imaginary Invalid

The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  5/14/2009 to 5/31/2009

A contemporary reimagining of Molière’s THE IMAGINARY INVALID, this production satirizes today’s pill-popping culture and drug-driven health care system. The setting for the play takes place in a Manhattan loft apartment, which is full of art, and paintings that now jostle with medical equipment an...
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Pious Poetic Pie

Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street  5/21/2009 to 5/30/2009

Pious Poetic Pie postcard image by Music4Robots

PIOUS POETIC PIE is a new spoken word adaptation of Medea by poet Yubelky Rodriguez...
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Doctors Jane and Alexander

Theater 3, 311 W. 43 St., 3rd fl.  5/23/2009 to 6/14/2009

Alyssa Simon as Jane

Using found, fabricated, and occasionally finagled text, the playwright explores the life of his grandfather Alexander S. Wiener, the co-discoverer of the Rh factor in blood, through interviews with his mother, a psychologist who recently retired due to a debilitating stroke. An examination of art, ...
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Much Ado About Nothing

Parks in Queens, Brooklyn and NYC, all different  6/4/2009 to 6/28/2009
This family-oriented version of the play is set in the world of baseball and incorporates many baseball elements in this romantic comedy full of tricks. Love happens at first sight but then a catastrophic wedding is destroyed by a villainous and jealous prince, the bickering and perpetually single B...
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NICK

Interart Annex, 500 West 52nd Street  5/28/2009 to 6/15/2009

A contemporary adaptation of Chekhov's Ivanov from the original Russian by Laura Wickens. Nick Ivanov, a man of infinite promise and debt, is torn between his loving wife and the lusty daughter of his creditor. When his vodka swilling, poker playing, gun toting friends insert themselves into the int...
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The Roses on the Rocks

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  6/4/2009 to 6/27/2009
In a time and place hovering between dreams and reality, a prostituted, orphaned Latina teenager, and her pimp’s widow attempt to form a loving family in a house haunted by evil. After her pimp Bill’s death, Blossom, nearly 15-years-old and HIV-positive, has no where to turn. Guided by his wicked ...
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The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  6/5/2009 to 6/28/2009
An extraordinary gathering of young idealists live as a modern day urban tribe above a vegan restaurant in NYC. Billy, Dawn, Dear and Wyatt are an extended sexual family battling their fears and addictions in order to live their utopian dream. The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side is a celebration ...
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Belle of the Ball Bearings: The Bike Shop Musical

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   6/4/2009 to 6/21/2009

Belle of the Ball Bearings

A one-woman musical about bicycles....
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FUBAR

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  6/11/2009 to 6/28/2009

San Francisco in the late 90's: the Internet, new tailored drugs, raves, and bikram. When all the freedom and fun come up against a random act of violence, things become totally FUBAR. The amazing, interesting, fantastic, incredible story of five really F***ed up people. ...
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Give Us Bread

Milagro Theatre -- CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  6/5/2009 to 6/21/2009

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A Mysterious Way

MTA Subway Platforms, 81st Street and Delancey Stops  6/4/2009 to 6/21/2009

"Chris Domig is captivating, highly skilled, and utterly heartbreaking." - NYTheatre.com Starring Fringe Outstanding Actor Award Winner Chris Domig, Written by Dallas Theatre Critic Award winner, and Dallas Observer's Best Local Playwright, A Mysterious Way is a story of two men---a youth ministe...
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The Secretaries

78th Street Theatre Lab, The, 236 W. 78th Street  5/25/2009 to 6/6/2009

Patty Johnson has just started a new job at Cooney Lumber Company, but little does she know that this career boost will deliver her into a dark forest of lust, madness and murder....
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The Tempest

North Patio of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, w,89th and Riverside Drive  6/4/2009 to 6/28/2009

Playwright Jerrod Bogard attaches his own spin cycle to the Bard's brave new world...
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Innove D and SM

All Souls Chapel, 1157 Lexington Ave.
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The Website That Needed Testing

Access Theater, 380 Broadway

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Shay's Test Show

Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster Street
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Hiding Behind Comets

Nicu's Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th  7/8/2009 to 7/26/2009
Although twin brother and sister, Troy and Honey, share an unusually strong bond, they seem as different as night and day. One late summer evening, a stranger wanders into their family-owned bar. When he starts asking personal questions, it soon becomes clear that his visit to this small-town dive h...
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The Comedy of Errors

Central Park Lawn, 69th Street and CPW  6/20/2009 to 7/19/2009

Steven Beckingham and Jon Dykstra as the brothers Dromio

Two sets of estranged twins come face to face to face to face in the bustling port of Ephesus, Greece. Wives mistake their brothers-in-law for their husbands, masters confuse their servants, and kitchen wenches go wild in a whirlwind of switcheroos and witty wordplay - with a bit of love thrown in....
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Shining Days

Producers Club Royal Theatre, 358 W. 44th St. (bet. 8th & 9th Aves)  6/17/2009 to 6/28/2009

Megan O'Leary and Sarah Koestner as Annie Horniman and Maud Gonne in Shining Days

The relationships among the members of the Golden Dawn an elite occult society which flourish in Victorian London; the members in the cast of 6 include: W.B. Yeats, poet, Florence Farr, famed actress, Annie Horniman, artist and Maud Gonne, Irish revolutionary....
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Asclepius

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  5/28/2009 to 6/14/2009

Asclepius - directed by Ellen Stewart

In Ms. Stewart's adaptation of this classic Greek tale, Asclepius is the son of the mortal Coronis, who was raped by the god Apollo. Angered by Coronis' agreement to raise the child with her true love, mortal Ischys, Apollo's twin sister, Artemis, kills Coronis. Although Apollo tries to stop his sis...
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Blue Day

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  5/29/2009 to 6/14/2009
Alessandro Corazzi, an Italian filmmaker and playwright of "human comedies" (Commedie Umane), will have his first American production with "Blue Day," a two-character play that will be performed in English. Giulio, a newly-unemployed and temperamental man of 35, sits outside a factory holding a ...
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Infectious Opportunity

Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  6/7/2009 to 7/21/2009

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Barefoot In The Park

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  7/8/2009 to 7/25/2009

Barefoot In the Park

In this intimate revival of Neil Simon's classic New York comedy, the audience members are as close as eavesdropping neighbors to newlywed couple Paul and Corie Bratter. Married for just six days, the Bratters move into a fifth floor walk-up brownstone apartment that boasts a lack of heat, a major l...
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Macbeth

The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  6/11/2009 to 6/27/2009
Shakespeare's classic is presented as environmental-style theatre. We promise you a Macbeth to remember. The memorable character of The Porter and other cast members will lead the audience 'promenade' style between the indoor world of the castles and Weird Sisters' lair and the concrete wasteland of...
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Bird House

Theater 3, 311 W. 43 St., 3rd fl.  7/10/2009 to 7/26/2009

On the Bright Side, Louisy and Syl live happily together in the safety of their treehouse until Syl ventures off to be a hero in the far away war-torn Lop Side. Louisy is left alone for the first time, falling victim to the whims of tiny creatures at her doorstep. When their worlds collide and imp...
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TWISTED

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  7/9/2009 to 7/25/2009
Rising Sun's annual One Act Series. 5 Short Plays of Perverse & Funny stories that will make you scratch your head in disbelief.. Two Friends testing boundaries, a Relationship on the brink, A boy and his Teddy bear, and a mother and son's bond that's just too close for comfort.....
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Art of Memory

3ld Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street  7/16/2009 to 8/2/2009

Lisa Ramirez in Art of Memory, photo by Ryan Jensen

Books topple and minds are twisted in this fantastical library of babel....
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FLAHOOLEY

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   12/24/2009 to 1/3/2010

FLAHOOLEY Poster

FLAHOOLEY is an allegorical musical tale for audiences of all ages is set in fictional Capsulanti, USA, which is the site of B.G. Bigelow, Incorporated, the largest toy corporation in the world. Puppet designer Sylvester Cloud has created a remarkable doll called Flahooley. As Flahooley is about to ...
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Therese Raquin

Atlantic Stage 2, 330 W 16th St  6/30/2009 to 7/26/2009
Originally a novel by Emile Zola published in 1867, Therese Raquin is a dark erotic exploration of the human subconscious, told through a series of sort scenes that alternate between comic and horrific. Therese, a young half-French, half-Algerian woman, was unhappily married to her sickly first cous...
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THE EUROPEANS

Atlantic Stage 2, 330 W 16th St  7/2/2009 to 7/26/2009
The Europeans takes place in war-ravaged Vienna after the Turkish invasion of the late 1600's, during which Christianity and Islam brutally collided. Vienna is now a place where manners have disappeared, women sell their bodies for loaves of bread, and the blood of Turkish prisoners runs free. The E...
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Hamlet

North Patio of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, w,89th and Riverside Drive  7/9/2009 to 8/2/2009
Drama...
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Pre-Disposal

Access Theater, 380 Broadway  7/10/2009 to 7/25/2009

graphic design: Montgomery Sutton

On a hot Bed-Stuy morning, one Robert is looking for someone to confide in. Another Robert is looking for a story to tell. And a man named George is looking for an opportunity. These three men's fate collide in a savage comedy about race, terror in all its forms, and the role of art in a world that...
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On The Way Down

Access Theater Black Box, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor  7/30/2009 to 8/9/2009
It’s a summer’s afternoon and all eight million New Yorkers have invaded the Hamptons for the weekend. Why everyone has come remains a mystery, but what is clear is that the situation is becoming too much for three of them to handle. Since graduation from college, Josie, Browning and Stevenson have ...
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Lyric Is Waiting

Irish Repertory Theatre, 132 W 22nd St  7/30/2009 to 8/22/2009

A mysteriously sad tale, Lyric is Waiting follows a young, passionate couple as they struggle to contain their love that will either be their salvation or their untimely destruction. ...
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Greendale, G.P.

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  8/27/2009 to 9/13/2009

Physicians with God-complexes, Domestic Abuse, High School Shootings, Reality TV, and Pharmaceutical Salesmen: Welcome to “Greendale, G.P.” Brad Saville’s latest play takes a hard-hitting satirical look at the absurdity of the American Medical Industrial Complex, the Pompousness of our Physicians, t...
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A Little Piece of the Sun

The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave  8/7/2009 to 8/30/2009

The Soviet Union, 1978 to 1990. Andrei Chikatilo, serial killer. Official Body Count: 53. Actual Body Count: Will never be known. Chernobyl Reactor Unit #4, nuclear power plant. Official Body Count: 31. Actual Body Count: Will never be known. Two true stories of murder, which are one ...
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Blood on the Cat's Neck

The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave  8/8/2009 to 8/29/2009

Oh, poor Phoebe Zeitgeist . . . dropped, half-naked, from a distant star into a cocktail party with no language to call her own. How will she possibly get by? Maybe if she listens to the people attending this party, she might learn something about Human Language, and Human Democracy. Nope, that d...
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George Bataille's Bathrobe

The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave  8/8/2009 to 8/29/2009

It is the last day in the life of Frank Norris, writer (not that OTHER writer Frank Norris, this is one you've never heard of, somewhat of a cross between Henry Miller and Norman Mailer). He appears to be in a prison cell, in some unnamed country, for some unnamed political crime - but as his mind i...
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Sacrificial Offerings

The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave  8/8/2009 to 8/30/2009

David Finkelstein has spent over 20 years creating improvisation-based theatre with his Lake Ivan Performance Group, most recently moving into creating original video artworks that begin as videotaped improvised duets between him and other performers, which then are overlaid with a complex interweav...
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Maddy: A Modern Day Medea

Nicu's Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th  8/6/2009 to 8/29/2009

MADDY is set in the heartland of America at The Corinthian, a trailer park. Against the backdrop of the original Greek tragedy, this production adds a Fringe/X-Files/Supernatural element into the mix. Maddy finds herself seven years into a relationship: Two children, jobless, broke, living in a trai...
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Walter Vs. The Water Authority

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  8/5/2009 to 8/23/2009
Walter is fighting a well being put on his property. Is this all that is bugging him?...
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On the Eighth Day

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  8/4/2009 to 8/22/2009
The Eighth Day Ministry has hit a bump in the road. Is God at fault? ...
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The Brokenhearteds

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  9/10/2009 to 9/26/2009

image by Daniel Winters

Peter Graves has just been hired as the author of a daily politics blog in the midst of a contentious presidential election. His friend, Ezra, an aide to the President, leaks information to him about a Pakistani man called Mu'Awiyah Fareed that could change the course of the election and history. Hi...
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Modern Dance for Beginners

Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street  7/16/2009 to 7/25/2009
"Modern Dance for Beginners" is an exploration of contemporary interactions between men and women. Four couples struggle with the ways that public perceptions can turn into private hang-ups and explore the age-old relationship maxim: you never know what goes on behind closed doors....
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Emily, An Amethyst Remembrance

The Kirk @ Theatre Row Studios, 410 West 42nd Street  9/11/2009 to 9/27/2009
By the time she was 30, Emily Dickinson had so isolated herself from the world that she never left the house and rarely accepted visitors. Many have hypothesized madness, scorned love, or secret homosexuality. This play looks at the different events and relationships in Emily's life, and presents t...
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As You Like It

Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.
Rosalind flees to the Forest of Arden to find love and escape prosecution. ...
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As You Like It

Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  8/20/2009 to 9/5/2009
Rosalind flees to the Forest of Arden to find love and escape prosecution. ...
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Evanston: A Rare Comedy

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  5/10/2009 to 8/5/2009

Bodine Orban and Anna Margaret Hollyman in "Evanston: A Rare Comedy"; Photo by Justin Ezra Mound

EVANSTON: A RARE COMEDY begins with the disappearance of a teenage girl in deepest suburbia and ends when a meeting of The Evanston Women’s Book Club goes horribly awry. In between, a transgender student dreams of death, a housewife dreams of Mexico, an economics professor has an affair with a Whole...
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"Walking The Road"

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  9/11/2009 to 10/4/2009
Dermot Bolger’s play, “Walking the Road”, is an act of repatriation for Ireland’s forgotten heroes, seeking to give voice to men whose lives and untimely deaths have traditionally undermined the linear narrative of nationalist Irish history. But like thousands of fellow Irishmen who died in that war...
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The Report of My Death

Lilac Steamship, Pier 40  7/22/2009 to 8/22/2009

Mark Twain returns from the dead through actor Michael Graves on the Lilac Steamship (Photo credit: Michael Lemmerling)

Michael Graves stars as the departed Samuel L. Clemens in One Armed Man’s production of The Report of My Death, about the Lilac Steamship. Mark Twain said that people cannot be completely honest until after they’re dead, and this play takes him at his word — with the deceased great writer saying ...
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Homer's Odyssey (a Retelling by Simon Armitage)

The Green Room at 45 Bleecker St, 45 Bleecker St  9/3/2009 to 10/18/2009

After a decade spent fighting in Troy, the mythical hero Odysseus faces ten more years of peril and privation before he can reunite with those he loves. Building on Simon Armitage's masterful and accessible treatment of the ancient epic, Handcart Ensemble's production will incorporate acrobatics, s...
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Haunted House

Sanford Meisner Theater, 164 11th Ave. (22nd-23rd St.)  10/6/2009 to 10/31/2009

No one under 18 admitted and you have no choice but to walk through alone. "Haunted House" is an intense interactive experience that lasts approximately 15 minutes/person. You don't just walk through it - you live it. And yes, you will be touched. ...
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Pink!

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   9/10/2009 to 9/20/2009
Ah the joys of sleepaway camp: raids, color war, a slavish devotion to social hierarchy. For the girls of Bunk 14, camp isn't an eight week vacation; it's a dog-eat-dog microcosm of the adult world they're so desperate to inhabit. Join Ashley, Zoe, Tracy, Samantha, and Abby on a hilarious yet terrif...
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Psych

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  9/9/2009 to 9/19/2009

L-R: Jake Lipman (Sunny) and Brynne Kraynak (Molly). Photo by Brian W. Seibert

Molly's best friend Sunny Goldfarb is sweeter than sweet, a clinical psychology student, and a part-time dominatrix. When a female classmate accuses Sunny of verbal harassment, she is pulled into a world where psychological power reigns supreme and empathy is psychotic. It seems Molly must decide wh...
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Thunder Above, Deeps Below

TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor  9/8/2009 to 9/26/2009
In this world premiere production, a trio of homeless kids begs on the streets of Chicago for money to bus westward. But as winter nears, a journey through coffee shops, drag clubs, and mythic Lake Michigan waters brings change of a far queerer kind....
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The Pillowman

Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 30-44 Crescent St  11/5/2009 to 11/21/2009
With echoes of Stoppard, Kafka, and the Brothers Grimm, THE PILLOWMAN centers on a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a series of child murders. The result is an urgent work of theatrical bravura...
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Eye of God

Kirk Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street
In Kingfisher, Oklahoma, an innocent young woman meets a strong man of faith. A young boy witnesses a brutal murder. Where is the line between moral and radical? A love story between the lonely, the troubled, the forgotten and the radical believer who can save them. ...
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Eye of God

Kirk Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  10/2/2009 to 10/17/2009

Design by Still Picture Designs

In Kingfisher, Oklahoma, an innocent young woman meets a strong man of faith. A young boy witnesses a brutal murder. Where is the line between moral and radical? A love story between the lonely, the troubled, the forgotten and the radical believer who can save them. ...
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The Tenement

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  9/3/2009 to 9/13/2009

The Tenement at HERE Arts Center Production Postcard

The Tenement is a new multi-media mask theater production. It takes place in New York City in 1945 and depicts the story of a rat who becomes human and experiences life, labor, and love....
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Gloria Maddox Theatre, 151 W. 26th St.  10/15/2009 to 11/22/2009

Take a peek behind the scenes of Hamlet as seen from the worm's eye-view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. This fabulously inventive tale about a Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy lets us in on the parts of the story you never knew existed....
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DIAL 'N' FOR NEGRESS

Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  9/10/2009 to 9/26/2009

It’s 1974 in Soulsville, USA. An apathetic community lives from fix-to-fix, and pimps, thugs, and crooked cops rule the streets. Fresh from jail, the Negress arrives home and has to choose: turn away from the corrosive street life of Soulsville or accept his destiny as the unlikely hero of the c...
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The Death of A Dream

Roy Arias Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street  10/23/2009 to 11/8/2009

Design by Tommel designs

La Reina Del Barrio Productions in Association with Larimar Consulting Present The Death of A Dream A Play by Nancy Genova Directed by OBIE Award Winner Frank Perez Starring Caridad De La Luz, April Lee Hernandez-castillo & Rhina Valentin Tickets available at TheaterMania.com “The De...
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Ask Someone Else, God

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  9/9/2009 to 10/4/2009

Who’s that lady? Wait, that’s no lady, that’s the Super-Essential Godhead, source of all being! And she wants Jonah to go to Ninevah. But how does he feel about it? Jonah is simultaneously God’s prophet and a burned-out businessman working through personal issues. Just as he’s finally escaped the cl...
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The Dark Heart of Meteorology

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  9/22/2009 to 10/14/2009

Franklin Elijah White

A series of barely-multimedia presentations—part lecture/slideshow, part happening—by lonely traveling weatherman Franklin Elijah White on natural disasters, large and small...
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MilkMilkLemonade

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  9/10/2009 to 9/26/2009

MilkMilkLemonade. A play about gay children, a parasitic twin, an antagonistic grandmother, a depressed chicken, and our growing bodies. Bring the kids! (Note: not appropriate for actual children.)...
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A Little Potato and Hard to Peel

The Workshop Theater/ The Jewel Box , 312 W. 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  9/24/2009 to 10/11/2009

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Ever feel like you’re missing a piece of yourself? In his hilarious new one-man show, David Harrell explores what it’s like to grow up with only one hand. Using baseball, Shakespeare, and even some spiritual guidance from Mr. T.— David helps us see that a person is more than just the sum of his part...
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore

Teatro IATI, 64 east 4th St  9/26/2009 to 10/16/2009

In a dark, paranoid world of explosive passions, a forbidden sibling love turns fatal in a power struggle among the rich and elite. There's comedy. There's incest. There's blood. Toy Box's sleek adaptation explores the boundaries of love and morality in a devout society where appearance and soci...
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The Garden of Forked Tongues

Teatro IATI, 64 east 4th St  9/24/2009 to 10/18/2009

Journey to the center of your mind.

The Garden of Forked Tongues is a live and recorded mixed-media performance concerning a group of ordinary people who become involved with tourists from the future. Their journey takes them to all corners of the universe, and to vast, unknown horizons in their minds. Throughout the production the...
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Balaton

The Theater At 30th St, 259 West 30th St  10/17/2009 to 11/7/2009
In this liminal world, where memories replace and highlight reality, Sabrina and her Hungarian kin must confront the post-communist, Americanized world that has drastically altered their lives. Desperate for unity, the family struggles violently against the infiltration of fast food, designer clot...
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All Through the Night

Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, 5 West 63rd Street  10/2/2009 to 10/25/2009

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT speaks directly with a warning for today. Inspired by interviews with German Gentile women, and set during and after the Third Reich, the play is both stylistic and surrealistic, sweeping through the women's teen years and young adulthood during the Holocaust and then beyond. T...
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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  10/1/2009 to 6/4/2010

With its ever-changing “menu” of plays, Too Much Light... is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes—an original concept by Greg Allen and the Neo-Futurists. The audience is fully part of the act, deciding the order that these plays are performed. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble member...
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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street

With its ever-changing “menu” of plays, Too Much Light... is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes—an original concept by Greg Allen and the Neo-Futurists. The audience is fully part of the act, deciding the order that these plays are performed. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble member...
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Laika Dog in Space

Ontological Hysterical Theatre, 131 East 10th Street  10/1/2009 to 10/17/2009

Jumping off of the stories of Laika (the more famous dog sent into space by the Russians in the 1950s) and Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince, Laika Dog in Space incorporates “The Prisoner” TV series, Russian fairy tales, Neo-Futurism, and musical and dancing elements into a 104-minute exp...
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23 Coins

Nicu's Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th  10/7/2009 to 10/25/2009
Ginny Walker is not like other girls. Hiding out in the badlands of southern Louisiana, this genius girl-prodigy and her fugitive mother, Sarah, live precariously. But the law is not the only threat. Both of them dangle beneath a giant question mark—a fatal genetic legacy that may (or may not) strik...
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Henry V

The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  9/17/2009 to 10/3/2009
It’s 1415. Henry V has been King of England for just two years. In a bid to cement his power and gain status, Henry seizes upon an obscure reading of an ancient law and a distant family connection to make a claim for the French throne. When the French reject his claim, Henry sets off to invade Franc...
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The Maiden's Prayer

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  10/1/2009 to 10/18/2009

Directed by Terry Berliner, Nicky Silver’s THE MAIDEN’S PRAYER opens at the wedding of Taylor and Cynthia. Libby, Cynthia’s hard-drinking sister is in love with Taylor herself and she can take it no longer. Libby then meets Taylor’s best friend, Paul, who, since childhood, has harbored a secret lov...
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Top of the Heap

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  10/24/2009 to 11/15/2009
It’s New York City, 1955. The Brooklyn Dodgers are about to square off with the Yankees in a World Series that will net “dem bums” their first title in fifty-five years. So, T.V.’s most popular variety program, ‘Top of the Heap,’ is headed to Brooklyn for a live, remote broadcast tied into the Serie...
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Lila Cante

Ted Bardy Acting Studio, 153 W 27th St  10/2/2009 to 10/18/2009
A reclusive singer-songwriter makes an album that rocks the world. Now, as the music industry implodes, two siblings battle over their mother's legacy and her twenty years of silence. ...
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Blackouts

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  10/7/2009 to 10/24/2009

1977 and 2003. Two blackouts. Two generations of artists. One Hell's Kitchen apartment. Unwanted legacies from the past push the destiny of future generations. Where did it all go? And what will things look like when the lights come back on?...
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Twelfth Night (or What You Will)

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  11/12/2009 to 11/29/2009

Deborah Beshaw and Puppets by Miloš Kasal. Photo by Orlando Marra from TWELFTH NIGHT

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater will perform "Twelfth Night (or What You Will)," the timeless Shakespearean tale of mistaken identity and misplaced matrimony. This three-tea-tray production, adapted and directed by Vít Horejš, will feature 22 eight-inch toy marionettes and three (more or le...
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Granada

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  11/5/2009 to 11/22/2009

Granada begins in 1992 as the King of Spain prepares to symbolically welcome Jews back to Spain after 500 years of banishment. A young Egyptian Jewish woman has been invited to stand in for all of those exiled—but following the ceremony, she reveals to Spain’s prince that she believes herself to be ...
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Arms and The Man

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  10/8/2009 to 11/1/2009
Theater Ten Ten continues its love affair with G. B. Shaw! This season we present one of his best known pieces “Arms and The Man” which was first produced on April 21, 1894, and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume. The play is a delightful comedy, and an exuberant take on love ...
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Cymbeline

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  9/25/2009 to 10/2/2009
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare...
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No Exit

Turtle's Shell Theater, 300 W. 43rd St., 4th floor
Jean Paul Sartres' No Exit. Exitentialist One Act....
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The Cradle Will Rock

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  2/12/2010 to 3/14/2010
This 1937 fierce and riveting musical comedy about the fight of the everyman against the power of corruption has a history as exciting as the musical itself. It was originally a part of the Federal Theatre Project, and was directed by Orson Welles, and produced by John Houseman. When the original pr...
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Twelfth Night

Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue  4/29/2010 to 5/23/2010
TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare is one of the Bard’s most beloved Comedies! This riotous romp of love and mistaken identity is set in Elizabethan times with sumptuous costumes by Deborah Houston and Set and Lighting by Resident Lighting and Set Designer Giles Hogya. The show will be directed by...
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FRANKENSTEIN

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  10/11/2009 to 12/19/2009

In 1818, a 19 yr old girl, Mary Shelley, wrote the most influential, the most frightening science fiction novel of all time...about a scientist who dared to go where no man had gone before...in his quest to become God. The critically acclaimed, award winning RADIOTHEATRE pulls out all the stops ...
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Don't Do Drugs

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  10/16/2009 to 10/25/2009
Five short plays about all the things we do but shouldn't....
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Ready, Set, Story! How Katie Saved the Sneaky Spider's Tales

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  10/10/2009 to 11/22/2009
Katie is always getting into trouble for playing tricks! But then, she meets the greatest trickster of them all: Anansi the Spider, the African god of storytelling. When Katie peeks into Anansi's magical box of stories, three ancient myths escape from the box! Katie and Anansi travel through the mis...
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Are You There, Zeus? It's Me, Electra.

Roy Arias Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street  10/29/2009 to 11/22/2009

Electra is angry, ruthless, and hell-bent on revenge. Too bad she’s only 16... Electra is determined to avenge her father Agamemnon’s death. Unfortunately, she’s powerless - a teenager stuck at home with nothing but a Greek chorus that just won’t go away. She will need to band together with her l...
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Children At Play

Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street  11/5/2009 to 11/21/2009

CHILDREN AT PLAY is a tragic farce following five friends as they [hopefully] survive the average high school experience: algebra, fluctuating sexuality, eating disorders, groping teachers, guns, school bombings, nuclear fallout, and, most dangerous of all, love....
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Holy Days by Sally Nemeth

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  11/6/2009 to 11/21/2009

In April 1936, Kansas is plagued with drought and decay in the wake of The Great Depression. America migrates toward work but one family is rooted to their barren farm, haunted by loss and a once-prosperous life. As another spring approaches with no sign of renewal they begin to adapt to the inevit...
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Hinterland

Off-Off-Broadway Playhouse at Roy Arias Theaters, 300 W. 43rd St.
‘Hinterland’ is a modern fairy tale inspired by the work of the Brothers Grimm...
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Hinterland

Off-Off-Broadway Playhouse at Roy Arias Theaters, 300 W. 43rd St.  10/26/2009 to 11/8/2009
‘Hinterland’ is a modern fairy tale inspired by the work of the Brothers Grimm...
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The Credeaux Canvas

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  11/4/2009 to 11/21/2009

The Credeaux Canvas by: Keith Bunin

Winston, a young painter, shares an East Village apartment with Jamie, the son of a prominent art dealer. The death of Jamie's father, who has disinherited him, sets him spinning into the depths of despair. It seems that neither Winston nor Jamie's girlfriend, Amelia, can do anything to help him. Bu...
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The Real Thing

Walkerspace, 46 Walker Street  11/11/2009 to 11/23/2009

Max discovers that his wife, Charlotte, has been having an affair...in Henry's play. But Henry, Charlotte's real husband, has been sleeping with Annie, Max's real wife. Do Annie and Henry have the real thing? Annie loves Henry, but also loves Billy, who plays Brodie, who both love her. Henry loves ...
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Penang

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street

Photo by Antonio Minino

Their hearts and minds torn by fear, pain and grief, two young American officers in Vietnam have lost faith in themselves, their families, their country and their God. When they meet in Penang in a brief respite from the Mekong Delta, they learn what every soldier comes to know: In war, the only thi...
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Penang

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   11/5/2009 to 11/22/2009

photo by Antonio Mininio

Their hearts and minds torn by fear, pain and grief, two young American officers in Vietnam have lost faith in themselves, their families, their country and their God. When they meet in Penang in a brief respite from the Mekong Delta, they learn what every soldier comes to know: In war, the only thi...
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The Contrast

Metropolitan Playhouse, 220 E 4th Street  10/9/2009 to 11/1/2009

Tovah Suttle and Amanda Jones

One of the earliest American plays: a sophisticated satire of American manners and morals....
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Next Year in Jerusalem

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   10/8/2009 to 10/31/2009

Jake Robards (Young Abraham), Burt Edwards (Abraham) and Elyse Mirto (Anna) in

Abraham Mendel was a hero who escaped the Nazis and fought for Israeli independence. Now at the end of his life, he must let go of his regrets to be the father, and the hero, his grown children need him to be. ...
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Down Range

Theater 3, 311 W. 43 St., 3rd fl.  10/28/2009 to 11/14/2009

Two twenty plus year veterans return home after their convoy is hit by an IED in Iraq. Torn between family and the call of duty, their war continues at home, opening old wounds of betrayal, fear, infidelity, and loneliness for them and their wives. In this touching, poetic, brutal and romantic com...
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The Lemon Tree

Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street  11/6/2009 to 11/15/2009

A play set to music about a Greek immigrant who loses his father in the Smyrna massacre. He comes to New York, immerses himself in work and makes enormous sacrifices to avoid poverty. He dreams of an ideal love, but after marrying a Greek woman who longs for home, ends up in a marriage that is empty...
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The Traveling Players Present The Women of Troy

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/8/2009 to 10/25/2009

The Traveling Players Present The Women of Troy

Designed, directed, written and adapted by Ms. Skipitares, THE TRAVELING PLAYERS is a circus-like play-within-a-play featuring four female activists in 13-foot tall puppet form (based on four real-life female activists) - 2 from Zimbabwe, 1 from Kenya and 1 from Afghanistan - who, while enacting exc...
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Radnevsky's Real Magic

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/9/2009 to 10/25/2009

Radnevsky's Real Magic

After more than three decades away, legendary underground magician The Great Radnevsky is returning to the New York stage in a never-before-seen magic show, Radnevsky’s Real Magic. The show blends the avant-garde theatrics of downtown theater company Talking Band with Radnevsky’s masterful talents. ...
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The Lesser Seductions of History

The Cherry Pit, 155 Bank Street  11/6/2009 to 11/22/2009

photo credit: Isaiah Tanenbaum

The Lesser Seductions of History follows ten characters through each year of the 1960's. History becomes as intimate as a lover when the decade's fracture points of Civil Rights, Free Love and Vietnam break and remake the characters in this coming-of-age story. Written, directed and performed by the...
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Much Ado About Nothing

Bowne Street Community Church, 143-11 Roosevelt Ave  11/5/2009 to 11/14/2009

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Get ready for a new spin on an old classic as Queens Shakespeare Inc. presents William Shakespeare's witty and suspenseful battle of the sexes, now set in the scandalous world of reality television. Join the maddeningly skeptical bachelor Benedick and the vivacious bachelorette Beatrice in their liv...
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Bail Out The Musical

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  12/9/2009 to 12/20/2009

The government is bailing out theater. But, if you want a slice of Uncle Sam’s pie you have to make a musical! Can a group of indie artists receive the funding? Watch this absurd comedy about how far people are willing to go to cash in on the opportunity of a lifetime....
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Suite Horovitz

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   11/5/2009 to 11/21/2009

Six short plays about Love, Chance, and Hope within the walls of a New York City Hotel....
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Mid-East Pieces

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   11/6/2009 to 11/22/2009

Four short plays set in New York, Israel, Palestine, and Beirut. Israel Horovitz's most controversial and important works to date....
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The Hypochondriac

the cell, 338 W. 23rd Street  11/4/2009 to 11/22/2009

Photo by Ian Savage. Chris Harcum as Argan (front) and Cate Bottiglione as Beline (back)

an adaptation of Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid"...
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Brownsville Bred

Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 E 3 St  11/2/2009 to 11/30/2009

Brownsville Bred

The autobiographical show takes the audience through an “emotional rollercoaster” that is uplifting, heartbreaking and powerful as they witness Del Valle recreate life in the tough projects of 1980’s Brownsville, Brooklyn NY. Amongst eight other characters, Del Valle narrates as herself from ages 11...
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The Importance of Being Earnest

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  11/5/2009 to 11/21/2009

This masterpiece, arguably the most famous of all comedies, revolves wittily around the most ingenious case of “manufactured” mistaken identity ever put into a play. Set in present-day New York City, in a world where people can invent their identities and be anything they want, this story remains j...
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Welcome to the Woods

Witzenhausen Gallery (232), 548 West 28th Street, 2nd Floor  11/14/2009 to 12/10/2009

Welcome to the Woods

The U.S. premiere of WELCOME TO THE WOODS (Welkom in het Bos), a provocative play where “Revolutionary Road” meets “Little Red Riding Hood.” After yet another marital crisis, Dora, accompanied by her friend Fannie, seeks solace in the woods. But the forest doesn’t offer a safe haven or a peaceful...
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Acting Alone

ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street  11/12/2009 to 11/21/2009

Acting Alone

The true story of Lee Harvey Oswald and the only story of the JFK assassination. When Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, he was barely 24-years-old. Acting Alone reveals Oswald’s fascinating life, focusing on his peripatetic childhood, defection to the ...
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"The Children's Hour"

Poppenhusen Institute, 114-04 14th Road  11/13/2009 to 11/21/2009
Queens revival of Lillian Hellman's classic drama...
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A Midsummer Nights' Dream

Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  12/3/2009 to 1/3/2010

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A Midsummer Nights’ Dream in Winter? Yes please! In director Katherine M. Carter’s energetic new staging of Shakespeare’s most beloved romantic comedy, follow four young lovers into a colorful and mysterious forest where fairies Titania and Oberon rule, where a band of “rude mechanicals”, led by th...
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Over The Line

78th Street Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street   11/5/2009 to 12/6/2009

A sexual coming of age play about 6 teens near graduation who encounter a brush with violence that changes all of their lives forever. No nudity, explicate sexual language....
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A Christmas Carol

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  11/21/2009 to 12/30/2009
A musical adaptation of the classic Dicken tale. Nov 21 - Dec 30th ...
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The Luck of the Ibis

Access Theater, 380 Broadway  1/20/2010 to 1/31/2010

A fractured adventure filled with girl detectives, a chupacabra, a museum hidden inside a zeppelin, and . . . shrimp. This soaring fable of fanciful fact and mournful fiction examines the stories we must tell to keep safe in a cruel world....
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No Exit

Turtle's Shell Theater, 300 W. 43rd St., 4th floor  11/19/2009 to 12/6/2009
An Existentialist One Act, by Jean Paul Sartre...
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A Quarreling Pair: a triptych of small puppet plays

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/29/2009 to 11/8/2009

A Quarreling Pair

Following revelatory sell-out seasons at La Mama Melbourne and Malthouse Theatre Melbourne, "A Quarreling Pair" by Australia's Aphids returns to its inspirational and intellectual source, New York City, to be presented by La MaMa E.T.C., 74A East Fourth Street from October 29 to November 8. The prod...
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Snow White

303 Bond St Theater, 303 Bond St  12/5/2009 to 1/17/2010

Gioia Marchese as the Wicked Queen. Photo by Daniel Perez

Company XIV’s version of Snow White is a baroque infused show for all ages inspired by the Brothers’ Grimm version of the fairy tale. Just in time for the holiday season, the lavish production features opera, dance, puppetry and fun for the entire family. The baroque opera trio Charities joins the c...
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Le Serpent Rouge

303 Bond St Theater, 303 Bond St  12/4/2009 to 1/17/2010

Laura Careless, John Beasant, Gioia Marchese. Photo by Steven Schreiber

In the sensual and sumptuous Le Serpent Rouge, Company XIV enacts the story of Adam, Eve and the fall of man as only Austin McCormick and his multi-talented troupe can; humorous, heartbreaking and extravagantly decadent. Fusing dance, theater, music and visual art, Le Serpent Rouge draws inspiration...
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The Judgment of Paris

303 Bond St Theater, 303 Bond St  12/3/2009 to 1/16/2010

Can Can girls from The Judgment of Paris. Photo by Steven Schreiber

Inspired by the Greek myth “The Judgment of Paris”, in which the first ever beauty contest occurred, and informed by the stage directions of the Baroque Opera, The Judgment of Paris (by John Weaver), Company XIV tells an epic story of lust, love, and tragedy, illustrating the events that lead to Par...
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Kitsch, or Two for the Price of One

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   11/12/2009 to 11/29/2009
A Brechtian-flavored retelling of The Comedy Of Errors transplanted to Berlin in 1989 (when the wall comes down) and featuring 4 sets of twins...
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She Like Girls

Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster Street  12/2/2009 to 12/29/2009

She Like Girls Image by Kelly Syring

Inspired by true events, She Like Girls, follows the story of Kia Clark, a black teen, as she struggles with brutal self-discovery in the face of a non-accepting, insular community where falling outside of the norm is difficult and dangerous. When Kia‚s relationship with Marisol Feliciano moves fro...
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Sexual Healing

Mint Space, 311 W 43rd St., 5th Fl.  1/6/2010 to 1/30/2010
The play is a study of the life and work of Dr. William Masters, the noted sex reearcher nad obstetrician....
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A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  12/10/2009 to 12/23/2009

Israel Horovitz's adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale brought to life by the Barefoot Theatre Company......
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Agamemnon

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  11/12/2009 to 11/29/2009

Valois Mickens in

Historically, English adaptations of Aeschylus' "Agamemnon" have rendered its ancient Greek poetry into proven English poetic forms. The results have been often good and occasionally brilliant. Yet the original Greek meters provide clues as to how a section of a play was performed (sung, spoken or s...
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Meg's New Friend

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  11/29/2009 to 12/20/2009

Meg's New Friend

The Production Company re-teams with playwright Blair Singer, author of their hit play The Most Damaging Wound, for Meg's New Friend, a timely, provocative play. Meg, a local New York television features reporter, realizes that, in the age of Obama, she doesn't have one African-American friend. Wh...
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Naked Holidays NYC 2009

Ace of Clubs, 9 Great Jones Street  12/2/2009 to 12/20/2009
EndTimes Productions presents our annual holiday offering: a darkly comic Yuletide bacchanalia....
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A Twelfth Night's Dream about Nothing

Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 E. 26th St.  12/11/2009 to 12/20/2009
Shakespeare's newest comedy! Meet new lovers, enjoy new disguises and a new kind of cross dressing!...
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2 Rooms

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   12/3/2009 to 12/13/2009
Political drama with a love story at its core. A young married couple torn apart by a hostage situation fight to keep their love alive over incredible distance and amidst international politics,...
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Cyrano de Bergerac

Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  11/18/2009 to 12/5/2009

photo by Cameron Hughes

The classic story of how the disfigured genius, poet, and dashing swordsman, Cyrano, falls in love with Roxanne only to find she is in love with Christian de Neuvillette...
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THE EXCHANGE!

Josiah Theatre Works, 345 Lenox Ave

The EXCHANGE! World Premier, Written and Directed by Nickolas Long, III.- A story of wealth, fame,secrets, betrayal, love and redemption. Set in late 1920's, during the HARLEM RENAISSANCE era, about a fictional famous Vaudeville Family, THE MARTIN REVUE, ceases due to illegal running of numbers, dea...
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THE EXCHANGE!

Josiah Theatre Works, 345 Lenox Ave  12/20/2009 to 1/31/2010

The EXCHANGE! World Premier, Written and Directed by Nickolas Long, III.- A story of wealth, fame,secrets, betrayal, love and redemption. Set in late 1920's, during the HARLEM RENAISSANCE era, about a fictional famous Vaudeville Family, THE MARTIN REVUE, ceases due to illegal running of numbers, dea...
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The Two Noble Kinsmen

Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 3rd Floor  1/7/2010 to 1/17/2010
Was it even written by the Bard? We say yes! And more importantly, we've got the moxie to perform it! The GSP brings you Shakespeare's hilariously devastating, rarely produced tragicomedy about love, honor and the frightening unpredictability of life. It's funny. It's shocking. And it may be your on...
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God Bless You, Mister Scrooge!

Teatro La Tea, 107 Suffolk Street  12/4/2009 to 12/20/2009
A libertarian/conservative adaptation of A Christmas Carol wherein Scrooge is the hero....
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Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  12/5/2009 to 12/20/2009
In this departure from Dickens, young Scrooge’s exclamations of “Bah, humbug!” are an undiagnosed “kind of seasonal Tourette’s Syndrome,” and The Ghost of Christmas Past is played by a sassy African-American woman with enough attitude to portray all three spirits (which she does). She tries to show ...
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Closer

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  12/9/2009 to 12/20/2009
Four lives intertwine over the course of four and a half years in this densely plotted, stinging look at modern love and betrayal. Dan, an obituary writer, meets Alice, a stripper, after an accident in the street. Eighteen months later, they are a couple, and Dan has written a novel inspired by Alic...
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Red Noir

Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street  12/7/2009 to 12/31/2009

Luba Lukova design

Detective Thriller with Anarchist Chorus. Audience Participation....
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The Ninja Cherry Orchard

The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave  1/3/2009 to 1/10/2010

In turn-of-the-century Russia, the Ranevsky country estate must be sold for debts. But will the family sell their beloved cherry trees? Will the lovelorn affections of a fading aristocracy triumph over common sense? Or will a 14th-Century Japanese assassin slaughter everyone? ...
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Romeo and Juliet

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/3/2009 to 12/13/2009

l-r: Enrique Esteve & Ashley C. Williams

Italy's Dario D'Ambrosi, a radical innovator of the theater and founder of the movement called Teatro Patologico (Pathological Theater), will stage a novel version of "Romeo and Juliet" at La MaMa. His interpretation is meant to contrast the marvel of love with the fragility of life, the shock of th...
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Diagnosis of a Faun

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St

Diagnosis of a Faun

In Diagnosis of a Faun, Tamar Rogoff’s faun steps out of his mythical world to interface with the world of medicine. As the faun moves through the seemingly disparate spheres of the operating room and the forest in the company of dancers, doctors, humans and nymphs, the curse of separation between m...
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Diagnosis of a Faun

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/3/2009 to 12/20/2009

Diagnosis of a Faun

In Diagnosis of a Faun, Tamar Rogoff’s faun steps out of his mythical world to interface with the world of medicine. As the faun moves through the seemingly disparate spheres of the operating room and the forest in the company of dancers, doctors, humans and nymphs, the curse of separation between m...
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No Exit

Turtle's Shell Theater, 300 W. 43rd St., 4th floor  11/19/2009 to 12/6/2009
Jean Paul Sartres "No Exit" -- 80 minute One Act Play - full length...
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IN FIELDS WHERE THEY LAY

Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street  12/12/2009 to 1/2/2010

Michael Swartz as Pte Teddy Jones

dramatization of the incredible true story of the World War I Christmas Truce of 1914...
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Last Life

Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  12/10/2009 to 12/19/2009

Jo-anne Lee and Maggie Macdonald in Timothy Haskell and Eric Sanders' Last Life. Photo by Ariella Goldstein.

In a borderless, burnt out world the few remaining inhabitants are at the end of a long, indefinable war. The survivors, not knowing what they are even fighting for, vow to destroy each other and wrest control for what remains. The new fightsical from the creator of Road House: The Stage Play....
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teaser cow

Teatro Círculo, 64 East 4th Street  1/14/2010 to 2/4/2010

Meet an epically dysfunctional family plucked from Greek mythology and dropped square in the middle of Fast Food Nation. In Clay McLeod Chapman’s teaser cow, King Minos is a cattle baron hell-bent on world beef domination. Queen Pasiphaë can’t stay off the sauce. Their daughter spends her days sling...
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A Brief History Of Murder

The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave  1/14/2010 to 1/31/2010
A mind-bending collision of Grand Guignol, David Lynch, Broadway musicals, and police procedurals, A BRIEF HISTORY OF MURDER tells the story of a series of grisly killings in the small town of Sentinel, Oklahoma. This sprawling, absurd mystery appears in a double billing of two independent yet inter...
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The Cherry Orchard

Gloria Maddox Theatre, 151 W. 26th St.  2/25/2010 to 4/4/2010

The Cherry Orchard centers on the attempts of Madam Ranevsky to save her Russian country estate and her beloved cherry orchard. Through the interactions of fourteen characters, Chekhov tells a story of loss and death, but also of hope and new beginnings....
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Clothes for a Summer Hotel

Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street  2/5/2010 to 2/21/2010

Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Mr. Williams’ highly theatrical and evocative “ghost play”, imagines an ethereal final meeting between the restless ghosts of literary great F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. Set on a windy hilltop at the gates of the Asheville, NC asylum where Zelda was institution...
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Fêtes de la Nuit

Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster Street  2/8/2010 to 2/27/2010

A deliciously naughty valentine to Paris, Fêtes de la Nuit celebrates life, love and all things Parisian, weaving together a pulsating collage of dance, live music, tango, language, video and drama. Set in a sidewalk café in 21st century Paris, Fêtes reveals that from first kisses to eternal bonds, ...
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The Complete Performer

SoHo Playhouse Theatre, 15 Vandam Street  12/19/2009 to 1/30/2010

Win the cab ride home!

Letterman-Emmy-winning writer and comic, Ted Greenberg, cracks all entertainment genres* in just under 53 minutes. For the show-stopping finale, he drives audience members home in a licensed yellow taxi. "Not to be missed. Run don't walk. This is magic." -Air America. "Outrageously funny"- Backstage...
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Erosion: Life on Life's Terms

Nicu's Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th
The production explores issues of abuse addiction and recovery. Various charcters portray struggles (inner or outer) that the lead character, Donny contends with...
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Erosion: Life on Life's Terms

Nicu's Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th
The production explores issues of abuse addiction and recovery. Various charcters portray struggles (inner or outer) that the lead character, Donny contends with...
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Erosion: Life on Life's Terms

Nicu's Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th  1/13/2010 to 1/30/2010
The production explores issues of abuse addiction and recovery. Various charcters portray struggles (inner or outer) that the lead character, Donny contends with...
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Dark Rapture

Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  1/22/2010 to 2/6/2010
The Attic Theater Company presents Dark Rapture. “In classic noir manner, the story advances tableau by moody tableau from Baja bedroom to Key West bar deck to Tampa kitchenette, each offering its sharply etched character cameo, its fragment of information, its new complication, straight to a co...
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Daddy

TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor  1/28/2010 to 2/13/2010

Colin McCormack, a popular newspaper columnist, is handsome, confident and athletic. Law professor Stewart Wisniewski is less so. Virtually inseparable since college, these friends have managed to go more than twenty years without really examining their relationship. But now Colin has fallen for a m...
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Loyalties

Cassino Restaurant, 47-18 Vernon Blvd  1/14/2010 to 1/30/2010
Exploration of prejudice in upper class British society following World War I. By Nobel Prize winning author John Galsworthy....
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Romeo and juliet

Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  1/21/2010 to 2/6/2010
It is the classic tale of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...
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Afterclap

Seventh Street Small Stage, 41-43 East 7th Street  2/8/2010 to 2/22/2010

Haskell King in Afterclap

A man wakes up naked on the floor in the backroom of a bar at 4 am, not immediately clear how he got there, both trying and dreading to remember. He dresses, he drinks, he self-medicates and he recounts, in a quest for self-exoneration. Grappling with the gnawing feelings of his culpability, poring ...
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American Soldiers

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   1/14/2010 to 1/31/2010
American Soliders is the story of the Collettis, a politically prominent Long Island family, who find it difficult to stay together when the eldest daughter, Angie, an Army veteran, returns from the Middle East for an uneasy homecoming. Angie, emotionally scarred from her military service, is deter...
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The Devil You Know

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/30/2009 to 1/24/2010

The Devil You Know

Award winning playwright and director Ping Chong joins forces with marionette artist and composer Erik Sanko and set designer Jessica Grindstaff of Phantom Limb Company to present the world premiere of THE DEVIL YOU KNOW in the Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa ETC, as part of the Public Theatre’s 20...
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For the Love Of

Flamboyan Theatre - CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  2/4/2010 to 2/14/2010
For the Love Of... is a constellation of three visceral and absurd dance plays. In a mash-up of classical text, contemporary movement and pop culture, the profound becomes pedestrian and the mundane, magnetic. It’s about dead guys like Chekhov and Kafka and Shakespeare. It’s about loving a bookca...
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Radio Star

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  1/7/2010 to 2/20/2010

Radio Star by Tanya O'Debra

Radio Star is a 1940's radio detective spoof....
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Take Me Out

The Heights Players, 26 Willow Place  1/7/2010 to 1/24/2010

"Take Me Out" at The Heights Players (January 8 - 24, 2010). Photo © Jan VanderPutten

Take Me Out is a Tony Award-winning, three-act play by Richard Greenberg that features an all-male cast and explores themes of homophobia, racism, class and masculinity in sport. The play's central character, Darren Lemming, is a popular, mixed-race baseball player at the peak of his career when he ...
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The Average-Sized Mermaid

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  2/3/2010 to 2/14/2010

In THE AVERAGE-SIZED MERMAID, kindergarten teacher Miriam Moselle loses it in front of her class the day after she’s dumped by her erous fiance. After possibly traumatizing the six-year-olds indefinitely with a tirade about male chauvinism in “The Little Mermaid,” Miriam inexplicably turns into a me...
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"The Unspoken"

Josiah Theatre Works, 345 Lenox Ave  5/15/2010 to 5/23/2010

"The UnSPOKEN"

"The Unspoken" World Premier play, set in present day New York City, about the lack of diversity in the modeling industry. Poetry, Dance and drama all take residence in this world premier. The Play opens up as a celebration for a legendary supermodel manager and activist, only for 4 of her clients t...
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A Midwinter's Tale

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  3/3/2010 to 3/13/2010
Point of You's staged adaptation of A Midwinter's Tale by Kenneth Branagh. An out-of-work actor makes a last-ditch effort to redeem himself by producing, directing and starring in HAMLET at Christmas. Is it a lost cause or will the magic of theatre prevail? Adapted for the stage by Johnny Blaze Leav...
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Titus Andronicus

American Globe Theater, 145 West 46th Street, 3rd Floor   2/25/2010 to 3/21/2010

Titus Andronicus, the revenge tragedy by William Shakespeare. It all begins when victorious general, Titus Andronicus, returns to Rome with hostages: Tamora, Queen of the Goths and her sons. Then ensuing maelstrom serves up tongue, hands, rape, adultery, racism and Goth-meat pie. Not for the faint o...
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Hot Cripple

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  2/5/2010 to 2/21/2010

Hot Cripple

Salman Rushdie called Hot Cripple “An immensely impressive piece who’s satire of the American medical system hits its mark” when it premiered in the 2008 NY International Fringe Festival and won Hogan Gorman the Fringe's best actor award. A wild ride complete with a stalker ambulance driver, short...
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When We Have Gone Astray

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  2/6/2010 to 2/21/2010

When We Have Gone Astray

Hysterically poignant, When We Have Gone Astray provides an entertaining look at the modern-day struggles of three twenty-something New Yorkers in the current economic recession. In the play, Ira Trask (played by Brandon Walker), a lonely and struggling actor, decides that New Year’s Eve, 2008 wil...
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The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 E. 26th St.  1/15/2010 to 2/7/2010

Simultaneously pious and profane, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot follows the Trial of the Millennium. Between Heaven and Hell, two attorneys argue the fate of the Bible's most infamous sinner, Judas Iscariot. Mother Theresa, Satan, and Pontius Pilate are among the witnesses called to testify in Ste...
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REVOLUT¿ON !

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   3/4/2010 to 3/21/2010
In this new creative work that bridges puppetry, object theatre, and circus arts, Czech and Czech-American theater artists join together to offer their perspectives on the 1989 Velvet Revolution and an overview of the idea of revolution through the ages. Revolution! is performed in the tradition of ...
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Caroline, or Change

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)

Caroline, or Change at The Gallery Players


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Caroline, or Change

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  1/30/2010 to 2/21/2010

Caroline, or Change at The Gallery Players

This production of the Tony Kushner-Jeanine Tesori musical is the first NYC revival since it was on Broadway in 2004. Set in 1963 in sleepy Lake Charles, Louisiana, Caroline, or Change centers its action on the Gellman family and their African-American maid, Caroline. “Nothing ever happen undergrou...
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The Importance of Being Earnest

The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  2/10/2010 to 2/20/2010
Ken Hailey returns as to The Secret to direct Wilde's hilarious play. With sometime Charles Busch collaborator and original Vampire Lesbians cast member, Arnold Kolodner as Lady Bracknell you can expect a show high on laughs and complete absence of dullards....
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Julius Caesar

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  2/18/2010 to 2/28/2010

graphic design by kelsey mcmahon

The Bushwick Shakespeare Repertory (BSR) will present Julius Caesar from February 18 - 28th at the Access Theatre in Tribeca. Julius Caesar, is a psychological drama exploring the human struggle for power, security, trust, and friendship. Eight actors from this all-female collaborative will play ...
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Servant of Two Masters

The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  2/4/2010 to 2/19/2010
Alberto Bonilla takes Gildoni's Servant of Two Masters and puts a red nose on it. The Queens Players explores this comedia del arte play through the world of the clown. This production will be a brave, fresh, and irreverent tribute to the beloved play about a servant who tried to serve two master...
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Too Little Too Late

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  2/3/2010 to 2/14/2010
Too Little Too Late is the first theatrical venture from the young company, Red Elevator Productions. Featuring original and premiere short plays from six of the most promising and arresting young writers on the New York theater scene, Too Little Too Late explores the problem of (dis)connect in a c...
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MOMENTS and LEMONS

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   2/18/2010 to 3/7/2010

Jessica Day & Tony King

A play in one act - MOMENTS and LEMONS explores the life of Casper, from his teens to his eighties. Pepper, Casper's wife, agrees to help tell the story -- she plays eight characters. No sets, no costume changes, no scene changes, only story telling. The audience is included in the drama -- the fo...
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The Power of Birds

Milagro Theatre -- CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  2/19/2010 to 3/13/2010

A world premiere family drama about the ties that bind and the love that sets you free. Any way the wind blows, when the birds begin their winter migration, the Fogarty family will never be the same again....
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GraceNotes presents Prescription Strength Theater

Milagro Theatre -- CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  2/23/2010 to 3/13/2010

GraceNotes presents PRESCRIPTION STRENGTH THEATER - 2 World Premieres commissioned by 3Graces about Healthcare - because healthcare is no laughing matter... or is it?...
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Carl & Shelly, Best Friends Forever

Theater 3, 311 W. 43 St., 3rd fl.  2/18/2010 to 2/28/2010

With a little help from 80s sitcoms, poetry, and hot glue, Carl and Shelly, hosts of the outrageously popular public access show Poetry Craft Corner, are bonded for life. When the "other woman," a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and ravenous roaches threaten their relationship, will they remain Carl ...
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Sex & Violence

Theater 3, 311 W. 43 St., 3rd fl.  2/17/2010 to 2/28/2010

A love story. Yeah, it's f**ked up. Clair and Chris really need to stop seeing each other but can never figure out how to end their off-and-on-again affair. Some people think lying, cheating and manipulation are bad, so one night Clair decides to come clean with Jimmy, her husband, and the result is...
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Measure for Measure

The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.
Director Rich Ferraioli’s production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, answers the question of whether this “problem play” is in fact a problem. With music and dance to enhance the sleek, minimalist design, and intense approach to the text, The Queens Players production of “Measure for Measure” ...
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The Last Supper

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street
The NYC Theatrical premiere of the 1995 Cult film. A group of 5 liberal grad students have an unfortunate "incident" with a dinner guest, which leads them on a descent into murder and mayhem while they attempt to change the world... Eat. Drink.. Be Buried.. will you make it to dessert?...
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The Last Supper (CAST 1)

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  4/22/2010 to 8/25/2010

THE LAST SUPPER follows a group of liberal minded roommates, and their well-meaning descent into murder. After a dinner party goes wrong and their guest ends up unexpectedly slain after a violent political debate, the group decides that this can be their way of changing the world and making a differ...
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Anaphylaxis

IRT Theater, 154 Christopher St., 3rd floor  3/10/2010 to 3/21/2010

Anaphylaxis

Ana is allergic to everything. She was designed that way. Frank is under orders to replace her memory every few days; he's not doing a very good job. When tinkering with DNA has gone too far, human nature takes a turn for the worse....
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Shakuntala and the Ring of Recognition

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St

Soneela Nankani as Shakuntala

Kalidasa's 5th Century epic tale of love, loss, and redemption....
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Shakuntala and the Ring of Recognition

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  2/11/2010 to 2/27/2010

Soneela Nankani as Shakuntala

La MaMa ETC in association with The Magis Theatre Company presents Shakuntala and the Ring of Recognition, Kalidasa's classic of the Sanskrit theatre. In the fifth century, India 's master poet Kalidasa composed an epic of love, fidelity, courageous faith, hope in spite of despair, and memory. ...
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Garage

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/28/2010 to 2/7/2010

Garage

The play, directed by Ivica Buljan, is based on the popular contemporary Croatian novel of the same name by Zdenko Mesaric, which has been described as "moving, dark, cold, Sisyphean." The play will be performed in English and a boxing ring will be set up center-stage. There will be live music by Cr...
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Alice in Slasherland

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  3/18/2010 to 4/10/2010
Veronica Mars meets Evil Dead in Vampire Cowboys newest creation for the stage, ALICE IN SLASHERLAND! When young Lewis Diaz accidentally resurrects the soul of a brutally slain girl named Alice, he unwittingly unleashes a literal hell on Earth. Now with every sort of demon, monster, and killer ravag...
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Elephants on Parade 2010

Teatro IATI, 64 east 4th St  3/10/2010 to 3/20/2010

design by Montgomery Sutton

Elephants on Parade 2010 features five world premieres and one New York area premiere that examine the peculiar difficulties of communication and connection in the 21st century. Erin Austin’s “Buddha Nosh” is a comedy about spiritual, social, and emot­ional independence at a trendy Pan Asian restaur...
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Hamlet

The Paradise Factory, 64 East 4th Street  2/25/2010 to 3/6/2010

Hamlet (Stacy Jordan, center) and the ghost of his father (Tina Shepard, right) watch the memorial for Ophelia (Tommy Heleringer, center).

A cast of eleven actors explores the corrupt and grief-stricken world of Shakespeare's tragedy through meticulous structure and free experimentation in order to figure out what's really so rotten in the state of Denmark....
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Rudolf II

Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73rd St  3/5/2010 to 3/28/2010

Rudolf II is the story of a bisexual, bipolar emperor in 1600 Prague obsessed with alchemy, astronomy, his longtime mistress, and his newest lover and valet, a converted Jew. The production uses the vast expanse of the Bohemian National Hall to create an environmental production in the center of it...
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Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls!

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/4/2009 to 2/7/2010

Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls!

The New Stage Theatre Company (www.newstagetheatre.org) makes its La MaMa debut with a re-imagined theatrical cabaret version of its 2008 play" Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls." It is an evening of music and dance inspired by the life and artistry of Anita Berber, the dancer/poet who epitomized for...
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Craven Monkey and The Mountain of Fury

The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave  2/26/2010 to 3/13/2010

Craven Monkey realizes his fellow monkeys are not his friends.

A Darwinian Martial Arts Fairy Tale in Which Monkeys and Monsters Beat the Crap Out of Each Other....
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Josiah Theatre Works, 345 Lenox Ave  5/15/2010 to 5/30/2010

"LENA!" WORLD PREMIER Drama with Music and Dance, that CELEBRATES THE LIFE of LIVING LEGEND, LENA HORNE. See the captivating story from her days as a dancer in the famed Cotton Club, to her becoming the LIVING LEGEND. Featuring a BOOMING NEW ENSEMBLE ...
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Children of Eden

Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 30-44 Crescent St  5/6/2010 to 5/29/2010
Stephen Schwartz (Wicked) and John Caird's (Les Miserables) Children of Eden is an inspirational musical about forgiveness. Loosely based on the story of Genesis, this frank, heartfelt, and often humorous examination of the timeless conflict between parents and children has been presented across the...
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The Soup Show

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  3/4/2010 to 3/27/2010

Desiree Buch, Erica Livingston, & Cara Francis

"The Soup Show" features Cara Francis, Desiree Burch, and Erica Livingston naked in a giant pot of self-made soup. Instantly creating intimacy and tension with the audience, the atmosphere of the play draws from interaction with this sensual centerpiece. Incorporating ingredients from interviews, li...
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Romance Romance

The WorkShop Theater | Mainstage, 312 West 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  2/18/2010 to 3/7/2010
6 person Musical...
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Glee Club

Access Theater, 380 Broadway  3/3/2010 to 4/3/2010
The eight misfit members of Romeo, Vermont's glee club are on the verge of meltdown after their soloist makes the disastrous decision to save his own life. Will they be ready in time for the big recital? And isn't music the most important thing? Glee Club is a comedy about singing. Singing makes peo...
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+30NYC

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  3/4/2010 to 3/21/2010

+30NYC – new plays imagining the next new York; An all sustainable project, this evening of short plays examines how our actions today will directly affect our lives in 30 years. Playwrights include Bekah Brunstetter, Victor Cazares, Christine Evans, Michael John Garcés, Ashlin Halfnight, Mac Roger...
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Who Is Jordan Bishop?

Theaterlab, 137 W 14th St.  3/5/2010 to 3/14/2010

Who Is Jordan Bishop? incorporates the work of over 35 theater artists in 8 short intertwined plays to chronicle the meteoric rise and inevitable demise of celebrity gossip monger/part-time rock-god/full-time scumbag Jordan Bishop....
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The Taming of The Shrew

American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, 4th Floor

"This is the way to kill a wife with kindness."

The renowned American Theatre of Actors presents Shakespeare's "The Taming of The Shrew." Kate is a witty, waspish shrew. Yet, she must be married off before her younger, tamer sister. When Petruchio comes in search of a wife, will he live to woo this wildcat, Kate? Award winning Director Jame...
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The Taming of The Shrew

American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, 4th Floor  3/3/2010 to 3/14/2010

Michael Matucci & Jessica Jennings

The renowned American Theatre of Actors once again brings you Shakespeare's "The Taming of The Shrew." Kate is a witty, waspish shrew. Yet, she must be married off before her younger, tamer sister. When Petruchio comes in search of a wife, will he live to woo this wildcat, Kate? Award winning ...
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The Crucible

The Old Stone House, JJ Byrne Park 5th Ave btwn 3rd and 4th Sts  3/4/2010 to 3/14/2010

BNW Crucible Cast at The Old Stone House

lantern-lit site specific production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible at The Old Stone House of Brooklyn. Acts 1 and 2 on first floor; acts 3 and 4 on 2nd floor...
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PECONG

National Black Theatre, 2031 Fifth Avenue

On a mythical Caribbean island, circa 1890, PECONG -- based on the Greek Play Medea -- tells a poignant tale of music, magic, laughter, betrayal, sex, power and revenge! Mediyah is a high priestess of exceptional magical power. She can give, and she can take away…well, that is until she falls in lo...
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Last Life

Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster Street  3/4/2010 to 3/14/2010
After a completely sold-out run at the Brick Theatre’s Fight Fest, and subsequent sold-out extension, Last Life returns. In a borderless, burnt-out world the few remaining inhabitants are at the end of a long, indefinable war. The survivors, not knowing what they are even fighting for, vow to destro...
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Room #103, Chelsea Hotel

Hotel Chelsea, 222 W23rd St  3/18/2010 to 3/27/2010

Room 103, Hotel Chelsea is a performance set in New York City's most famous artistic haven. With the hotel's decor as a backdrop and with room 103 as a stage, audiences are led on a journey where history meets memory and the lines of fiction and reality are blurred. Exploring tales of Dylan T...
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Michael Ian Black's My Custom Van

Drilling Company Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street  4/1/2010 to 4/24/2010

Dare to step inside acclaimed comedian/actor/writer Michael Ian Black’s My Custom Van and take a tour of one of the greatest literary minds the universe has ever known! See the myriad freaks of nature all living in relative harmony (and sometimes irrelative disharmony) within one brilliant and beaut...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

Interart Annex, 500 West 52nd Street  3/20/2010 to 4/12/2010

Blessed Unrest heats up Shakespeare’s magical tale of people trying desperately to love each other in spite of volatile weather, identity confusion and meddling sprites. This physically dynamic production ignites Shakespeare’s language and tears open the heart of the play....
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Return to Mellow Falls

Joria Theater, The, 260 West 36th Street  2/20/2010 to 3/27/2010

We need a Manager.

In 1938 a group of men set out to defy all odds by gaining access to the Negro baseball league but encounter jealousy and greed that could hinder their chances....
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Tuesday Night Poker

Studio Theater @ Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street   3/24/2010 to 4/4/2010

(Left to Right) Nick Hulstine, Adam Couperthwaite, Mike Hauschild, Jon McCormick, and Matt Brown

Five best friends struggle through life in Lower Class New York City. Fed up with living hand to mouth, they hatch a plan over a weekly game of poker that will change their lives. But is it for the better?...
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Somewhere in Between

Drilling Company Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street  3/12/2010 to 3/21/2010

Following the death of their mother, two estranged brothers reunite with a plan to move forward. But when a secret from the past emerges, their inability to assess reality provides a glimpse of what may truly be hell on Earth. Somewhere in Between was developed as part of Collaborative Stages' Scene...
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Magnitude of the Slope

45th Street Theatre – Upstairs, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl.  4/3/2010 to 4/11/2010

As the world bids farewell to the King of Pop, investment broker JP arrives at the kitschy Aloha Motel for his own date with destiny. He is joined by his mistress, Amelia, a devoted paramedic, whose fifteen-year relationship with JP has known its share of hurt and comfort. But as JP prepares to turn...
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Wit

Nicu's Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th  4/7/2010 to 4/25/2010
'W;t' by Margaret Edson, is a play that asks us to question the way we live our lives, the choices we make and the relationships we form. It presents us with Vivian, a woman forced to evaluate her life as she faces her death. Having focused her whole life on the academic analysis of the poetry of Jo...
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Asylum

Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street  4/23/2010 to 5/22/2010
Darkly comic autobiographical monologue about a teenage pothead who checks into a psychiatric hospital to get off pot, and finds the patients and counselors are often crazy -- but (much more disturbing) much more sane than his family....
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4.48 Psychosis

Access Theater, 380 Broadway  3/2/2010 to 3/28/2010

The Subject - Rachel Lynn Wood - The Doctor - Julian Sapala - The Lover - Michael Jefferson

Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis is a humane and candid account of a mind preparing to shut down. The play examines on the thoughts of a suicidal woman diagnosed with pathological grief. 4.48 Psychosis is Sarah Kane's fifth and final play which epitomizes her dark humor, simplicity and freedom from tradi...
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Barrier Island

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  4/30/2010 to 5/22/2010

Barrier Island tackles the nature of a fearless community that chooses to stake their lives on the strength of the historic Galveston seawall -- built to protect the island from natural disasters -- as they await the arrival of one of the most devastating hurricanes to hit the United States since Ka...
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The Tempest

Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  4/15/2010 to 4/30/2010
Shakespeare's last and greatest play, The Tempest, will perform at The Secret Theatre opening April 15th, 2010, and playing weekends until April 30th. Directed by veteran Shakespearean director Kelly Johnston, this production features The Secret Theater's own Artistic Director, Richard Mazda, as Pro...
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The Tender Mercies

Teatro Círculo, 64 East 4th Street  4/15/2010 to 5/1/2010
A US premiere - at its premiere in Edinburgh the press raved: “This new play must rank as one of the most powerful in recent years. Vujovic maps out her own territory and her dazzling play upon the savagery of war approaches a universal statement.” ...
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Noah's Arkansas

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  4/21/2010 to 5/15/2010

Wayne Riggins loves his small-town life. He lives in a sweet double-wide trailer with his beautiful second wife, goes fishing with his father and sees his teenage son three months every summer. But, as the saying goes, into every life a little rain must fall, and Wayne has to learn how to swim right...
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Caligula Maximus

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  3/11/2010 to 4/10/2010

photo by Lia Chang

CALIGULA MAXIMUS takes place on the last night of the notorious dictator's life, in his palace where he is stage managing, directing, and starring in one of his famous "entertainments" which test the limits of human intellect and appetite. Caligula, sensing the encroachment of monotheistic religions...
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Ready, Set, Story!

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  3/13/2010 to 4/25/2010

A fun children's show exploring international folktales of tricksters -- Katie is always getting into trouble for playing tricks! But then, she meets the greatest trickster of them all: Anansi the Spider, the African god of storytelling. When Katie peeks into Anansi's magical box of stories, three a...
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La Vie Materielle

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  3/11/2010 to 3/21/2010

Irina Brook

After sold out performances at FIAF, Celebrated Parisian stage director Irina Brook is proud to announce the extension her New York theatrical debut at La MaMa E.T.C. with “La Vie Matérielle,” a vivid interpretation of Marguerite Duras’s collection of essays on daily life, and Virginia Woolf’s A Roo...
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Much Ado About Nothing

Flamboyan Theatre - CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  4/16/2010 to 5/1/2010

Copyright: Carrie Crow

In his comedy, Much Ado About Nothing, the Bard weaves an intricate tale of love and deception. There is the sweet, forthright love of Hero and Claudio set against Benedick and Beatrice’s sizzling battle of wits. There is Leonato’s gleeful plotting to spark a romance between Beatrice and Benedick an...
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Psycho Beach Party

Green Room Theatre, 45 Bleecker Street  4/8/2010 to 4/17/2010

Chicklet Forrest, a teenage tomboy, desperately wants to be part of the surf crowd on Malibu Beach in 1962. One thing getting in her way is her unfortunate tendency towards split personalities....
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Rabbit Hole

Rockaway Theatre Company (Post Theater), Post Theater (T4), Fort Tilden  4/9/2010 to 4/25/2010

Cast of Rabbit Hole

A story of loss, heartbreak, and forgiveness—told through daily moments and emotional hurdles—as a family moves on after the accidental death of their four-year-old. ...
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Hell and High Water, or Lessons for When the Sky Falls

Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street  4/1/2010 to 4/18/2010

Hell and High Water…is a poignant and sharply satiric account of the playwright’s experiences during Hurricane Katrina. Poetic, brutal and surprisingly funny, the story is told from the perspective of Sirker’s alter-ego, Teacher Alice, who journeys through the abyss of sudden homelessness. Mixing th...
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The Return of Peter Grimm

Metropolitan Playhouse, 220 E 4th Street  3/18/2010 to 4/11/2010

Matthew Hughes and Frank Anderson, photo by Jack Goldberg

A ghost story from 1911...
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Miss Lulu Bett

The WorkShop Theater | Mainstage, 312 West 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  3/18/2010 to 4/3/2010

Laurie Schroeder as Miss Lulu Bett

First play by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Lulu Bett, a single woman living with and keeping house for her sister's family, discovers her self worth when a wordly man sweeps her off her feet, then is forced to leave her....
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Joking Apart

Gloria Maddox Theatre, 151 W. 26th St.  5/20/2010 to 6/27/2010

Richard and Anthea seem to have it all: a lovely country house, two wonderful children, and a natural social charm that captivates the friends surrounding them. Or do they? Cleverly crafted with vintage Ayckbourn wit, Joking Apart simmers with triumphs on and off the tennis court, ongoing rivalries,...
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Authenticating Eileen

Theatrelab, 137 West 14 th Street  3/26/2010 to 4/11/2010

Authenticating Eileen

Tin Lily presents Authenticating Eileen, an original play collaboratively created by the cast of nine. It follows the journey of Eileen Sook, a shy, introverted data entry specialist who after a spontaneous move from New Hampshire to New York has difficulty connecting to the world outside of her int...
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Moving Day

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  4/12/2010 to 5/1/2010
Moving Day, a one act drama, set in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, centers around Max, a recovering heroin addict. We watch Max prepare to leave the two family childhood home he shares with his sister, Emily, who wants to convince him that leaving their home won’t eliminate his problems. Emily ...
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The Maids

306 8th Avenue, 306 8th Ave
Solange and Claire are two housemaids who construct elaborate sadomasochistic rituals when their mistress (Madame) is away. The focus of their theatrical playing is the murder of Madame and they take turns portraying either side of the power divide. The deliberate pace and devotion to detail guarant...
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The Maids

Roy Arias Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street  4/24/2010 to 5/8/2010
Solange and Claire are two housemaids who construct elaborate sadomasochistic rituals when their mistress (Madame) is away. The focus of their theatrical playing is the murder of Madame and they take turns portraying either side of the power divide. The deliberate pace and devotion to detail guarant...
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Proof

The Bridge Theater, 244 West 54th St, 12th Fl  4/28/2010 to 5/8/2010

Winner of the 2001 Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize for best play.

Catherine’s having a rough week. Her father, a gifted but troubled mathematics professor, has died. While her older sister returns to sort out his affairs and her father’s protégé searches her father’s papers for work of unpublished brilliance, Catherine struggles to solve the most perplexing proble...
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Macbeth

West End Theater, 263 West 86th  4/15/2010 to 5/9/2010
THE FROG & PEACH THEATRE COMPANY dares you to enter the world of Shakespeare's most complex & terrifying hero! Macbeth has won King Duncan's war; all should be well-- but for the gorgeous, seductive witches (AMY FRANCES QUINT, HANNAH OWENS, & LINDSAY TANNER) who haunt the moor, tempting Macbeth t...
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The Spring and Fall of Eve Adams

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   4/15/2010 to 5/2/2010

Martha Lee (left) as Margaret Leonard ponders her betrayal of Steph Van Vlack as Eve in The Spring and Fall of Eve Adams

The Spring and Fall of Eve Adams recounts the true story of an extraordinary woman who was a victim of homophobia and anti-immigrant hysteria that ultimately led to her death. In 1926 Eve Adams, a Jewish lesbian from Poland, was proprietor of “Eve’s Hangout”, a tearoom at 129 Macdougal Street, where...
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THE HAUNTING OF 85 EAST 4TH STREET

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  4/10/2010 to 8/28/2010

Radiotheatre examines the bloody history of the haunted building....
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Generation buY

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue
"Generation buY" is a comedy about selling our children. Marketing to children is an unexamined, yet tremendous force in American culture. A cast of 18 middle school aged actors and 3 adults reveal the methods and moral complexities of branding and product promotion to today's youth--Generation Y...
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Generation buY

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   5/6/2010 to 5/16/2010
"Generation buY" is a comedy about selling our children. Marketing to children is an unexamined, yet tremendous force in American culture. A cast of 18 middle school aged actors and 3 adults reveal the methods and moral complexities of branding and product promotion to today's youth--Generation Y...
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Manhattanpotamia IV

Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street  4/19/2010 to 4/29/2010

Lori Sommer as Stupina

Commedia Dell Arte Brought Up to Date By American Artists in New York City-...
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THE VIGIL or THE GUIDED CRADLE

The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave  4/25/2010 to 5/8/2010
A play about torture, between now and then....
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Long Day's Journey Into Night

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  5/28/2010 to 6/12/2010

Seth Duerr directs Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical drama about a family addicted to drugs, alcohol, and hurting one another. The action covers a fateful day in their lives at their New England summer home in 1912. Drunken confessions and scathing humor in an escalating cycle...
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Almost Exactly Like Us

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   4/22/2010 to 5/1/2010
If your world were different, would you be different, too? ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE US shows us four people in different realities, from a totalitarian regime to an evangelical college and a post-apocalyptic war zone, and examines how the world around us shapes who we are and who we will become. ...
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Poppycock

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  4/8/2010 to 4/24/2010

Poppycock is a modern farce about how we lie to people in order to hide how much we've been lying to ourselves...
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The Realm

Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street  4/7/2010 to 4/18/2010

THE REALM

It's dangerous now - to want things. In the underground world of THE REALM, resources are scarce and everything is rationed - not merely food or water, but also the very words we use to ask for it. To preserve their powers of self-expression and escape from this oppressive place, two rebellious te...
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Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War

The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave  4/1/2010 to 4/17/2010
In an alternate global history, the cold war was decided not by détente, not by nuclear holocaust, but by massive robot invasion. Among the survivors, a team of Russian radio hosts, warmed to a lost culture of 1950s Americana, broadcast a story of brothers’ love drawn straight from the American hear...
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The Prostitutes Will Precede You Into the Kingdom of Heaven

Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Avenue  5/28/2010 to 6/27/2010

Soledad Lopez

Based on a true story, a 20th century "Mary Magdalene" hides in the attic of a shuttered bordello, sharing her life story with her "boyfriend", a larger-than-life statue of Christ....
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Jacob's House

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  4/29/2010 to 5/22/2010

Jacob wrestles the angel

When three siblings argue over a strange provision in their father Jacob's will, allegiances shift, as secrets of his past are uncovered. As the full danger of his power is revealed, Jacob's son and daughters must decide what to do with their enigmatic inheritance. This darkly comic riff on the Bibl...
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Thirst: Memory of Water

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  3/25/2010 to 4/11/2010

Puppet theater has an uncanny ability to take on big themes, and such will be the case when Jane Catherine Shaw, co-director of the Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival, takes on world drought in "Thirst: Memory of Water," her newest puppet theater work. It's a big theme, but Shaw is trying to make it man...
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Re: Last Night

Roy Arias Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street  4/29/2010 to 5/9/2010

Wednesday Repertory Company would like to announce the company's official New York City theatre launch and inaugural performance, Re: Last Night....
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70 Million Tons

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  4/5/2010 to 4/28/2010

God has had it. She gave us a beautiful planet with beautiful animals, beautiful land, beautiful oceans, beautiful air, and beautiful minds with which to make it even more beautiful. Is that what we’ve done? No. And she’s pissed! Fortunately for us humans, Ozie (the much abused ozone layer) has con...
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The Love List

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  4/28/2010 to 5/15/2010

Two men concoct a list of attributes of the ideal woman-the "top ten" best qualities in a mate. What happens when the "Ideal Woman" arrives. Be careful what you wish for....
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KING JOHN

Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 3rd Floor  5/6/2010 to 5/23/2010
In the shadow of victorious crusades and overbearing mothers, King John grasps too tightly for greatness as he fights family and morality to keep the crown. The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project brings its lean and hungry style to Shakespeare's rarely-produced history play....
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Empire of the Trees

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  4/22/2010 to 4/30/2010
EMPIRE OF THE TREES is set in India in 1963. When Deborah, a young American woman living in New Delhi, strikes up a literary and romantic bond with a traveling Indian bookseller, she discovers she has a mysterious connection to ancient Indian myth. She tries to share her new awareness with her hus...
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N.I.C.E.

Producer's Club Grand Theatre, 358 West 44th Street 3rd Floor  6/2/2010 to 6/20/2010

Four estranged Siblings are forced to make life and death decisions regarding the care of their mother. www.thereddoortheatre.com...
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Dickinson:The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson

Producer's Club Grand Theatre, 358 West 44th Street 3rd Floor  6/1/2010 to 6/19/2010

The myth of Emily Dickinson is that she was a prudish Victorian spinster who wrote beautiful poetry. The reality is that she was a stunning creative intellect coping with an emotionally and sexually abusive Father, an enabling mother, surfacing homosexual feelings, raging sexual emotions, and mental...
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T.S. Eliot: A New Musical

Producer's Club Grand Theatre, 358 West 44th Street 3rd Floor  6/2/2010 to 6/19/2010

“The future is a faded and crushed flower, a wistful regret of those who are no longer here to regret.” T.S. Eliot Poet T.S. Eliot's imaginary and real worlds are brought to life and intertwined in this euro-pop jazz musical. Eliot is gay, but his religious background and societal attitudes force...
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Life Among The Natives

Urban Stages, 259 West 30th Street  5/14/2010 to 5/29/2010

One woman's journey out of the closet and into the jungle.Meet the Native family. Richard, our patriarch, is a cross dressing politician. His wife Azalea is best known as a big game hunter. Daughter Lulu likes to blow things up. Grandma has a big heart and an even bigger addiction to painkillers. Bi...
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The Disorder Plays

Urban Stages, 259 West 30th Street  5/11/2010 to 5/30/2010

Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival - Six play wrights, six psychological disorders, all add up to an evening beyond therapy. A collection of original ten-minute plays each exploring a different psychological disorder....
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Three Sisters Come and Go

Theaterlab, 137 W 14th St.  5/12/2010 to 5/27/2010

Three Sisters Come and Go

Set between the apparently opposite poles of Anton Chekhov and Samuel Beckett, the piece follows the lives of the three archetypical Chekhovian women and their desire to reconstitute their lives beyond their sense of profound loss. The three sisters of the title function as archetypes, roles that wo...
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The Desk Set

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  5/7/2010 to 5/22/2010

Meet The Desk Set: Bunny Watson, head librarian of the reference department at the Federal Broadcasting Company, and her team of librarians. Besides being equipped with an encyclopedic knowledge and whip-smart wit, these hilarious working girls know how to have a good time while getting the job done...
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Barbarian!

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  5/5/2010 to 6/30/2010
The production is a bawdy and audacious romp, titled Barbarian!. It is a 60 minute "nerdcore rap" narrative about Ozam the Barbarian's adventures in a fantasy kingdom. It is the first Fantasy Hip-Hopera. ...
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Killing Women

Beckett Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  5/13/2010 to 6/5/2010

KILLING WOMEN is a raucous comic exploration of the ironies and insanities of corporate America where even professional assassins are fighting for their benefits. When Abby, a star on the rise, is simultaneously denied a promotion and asked to kill another woman, tempers flare, guns fire and out com...
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Post Modern Living

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  4/16/2010 to 5/2/2010

Richard Sheinmel in Post Modern Living

POST MODERN LIVING presents two inter-related tales. The first half follows a day in the life of Mitch and Chester, a committed couple in a long time relationship. It is a boy-meets-boy story of promiscuity, first dates, self-imposed celibacy, and true love. The second half takes place on Mother’s D...
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Psych

Paradise Factory Theatre, 64 E 4th Street  5/8/2010 to 5/22/2010

Psych Production Postcard

Sunny is a clinical psychology student with a peculiar part-time job. Her friend, Molly, comes to live with her and is quickly drawn into her roommate's slightly paranoid world view. As Sunny's life starts to unravel, the question becomes: is she a victim of circumstance, or is the engineer of her d...
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Letters to the End of the World

Studio Theater @ Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street   4/29/2010 to 5/16/2010
A revealing article about the African AIDS crisis, buried deep in the pages of a fashion magazine, leads a young gay man in New York City to form an unexpected correspondence with a woman in Zambia. The friendship takes him halfway around the world to discover that Africa is much closer to his hear...
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Waiting for Lefty

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  6/9/2010 to 6/26/2010

Inspired by the 1934 Taxi Strike, this powerfully moving classic has become one of the most important plays of the modern American theater. Set in the Depression era and dealing with the cynical exploitation of the working classes, Lefty Costello leads a group of disgruntled cabbies to fight for the...
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The Comedy of Errors

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  5/6/2010 to 5/23/2010

MosesMogilee presents 'The Comedy of Errors'

MosesMogilee presents a dizzying spin on Shakespeare's classic tale of mistaken identity. With a double tracked, rotating cast - identity is the question, relationships are the confusion and hilarity is the answer - in this 80s set comedy (of errors)...
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Before Your Very Eyes

Flamboyan Theatre - CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  5/20/2010 to 6/13/2010

On September 11th the world opened its eyes. But for five people that day, not everything was what it seemed...
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The Complete Performer

SoHo Playhouse Theatre, 15 Vandam Street  5/1/2010 to 9/25/2010

The Complete Performer

Letterman-Emmy-winning writer and comic, Ted Greenberg, cracks all entertainment genres* in just under 53 minutes. For the show-stopping finale, he drives audience members home in a licensed yellow taxi. "Not to be missed. Run don't walk. This is magic." -Air America. "Outrageously funny"- Backstage...
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The Master Builder

Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street
Ibsen’s classic tells the story of a revered but aging architect who is haunted by painful memories and fears of the future. When a figure from his past suddenly reappears, his outlook, and his destiny, will be forever changed....
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The Master Builder

Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  5/19/2010 to 6/5/2010
Ibsen’s classic tells the story of a revered but aging architect who is haunted by painful memories and fears of the future. When a figure from his past suddenly reappears, his outlook, and his destiny, will be forever changed....
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The Glass House

Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  5/18/2010 to 6/5/2010
The design and building of Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House and Philip Johnson's Glass House is the background for the penetrating dramatic plot that entwines the epic conflict between artist and patron. The Glass House explores the classic struggle of ambition, love and betrayal....
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Sweet Sweet Motherhood

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  7/8/2010 to 7/31/2010

Illustration by Gretchen Van Lente

Shelley McCann is a bitingly intelligent undergraduate student at a top university. Although Shelley covets a spot in a top graduate program, she would rather party than build up a respectable GPA. Professor Henry Stein is an eminent biotechnology researcher and professor at Shelley’s university. On...
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Franklin

ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street  5/22/2010 to 6/5/2010
After being fired for inappropriate behavior, Franklin returns to his teenage home, now occupied by his baby-crazed sister and her politico husband. Hoping to rekindle an old high school flame, Franklin instead ignites past grief and takes nerves to their breaking point as he discovers himself and ...
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"The Good Doctor"

Poppenhusen Institute, 114-04 14th Road  5/14/2010 to 5/22/2010
Anton Chekhov’s early short stories, which so eloquently capture the comic and serious sides of 19th century Russian Bourgeoisie, inspired this tribute by Mr. Neil Simon, one of the most prolific and beloved playwrights of all time. ...
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The Last Supper (CAST 2)

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  4/23/2010 to 8/11/2010
THE LAST SUPPER follows a group of liberal minded roommates, and their well-meaning descent into murder. After a dinner party goes wrong and their guest ends up unexpectedly slain after a violent political debate, the group decides that this can be their way of changing the world and making a differ...
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American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, 4th Floor  6/2/2010 to 6/20/2010
Lions, and Fraries, and Goblins...Oh My!...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, 4th Floor  6/2/2010 to 6/20/2010

Graphic by Alla Kaba


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Faith

Drilling Company Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street  5/6/2010 to 5/23/2010

because we all believe in something...don't we?

9 new short plays on the theme of "Faith."...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Black Box Theatre @ 440 Studios, 440 Lafayette Street (3rd Floor)  6/5/2010 to 6/21/2010
Oscar Wilde's classic adapted and directed by Glory Bowen warns of the dangers of narcissism in this dark and witty story....
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Binding

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  5/5/2010 to 5/29/2010

Jesse Zaritt's Binding

Violent. Tender. Erotic. Submissive. Abandoned. The worlds of pop music, myth and video collide in Jesse Zaritt’s movement-based quest for love, connection and the self. ...
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It or Her

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  5/13/2010 to 5/22/2010

It or Her

Somewhere between Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and The Tell-Tale Heart, Alena Smith's provocative dark comedy IT OR HER explores the basement of a suburban home where Andrew has devoted himself unconditionally to his incredible collection of figurines. Suffering the loss of The Red One, he seeks to uncov...
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MONSTER

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  5/5/2010 to 6/4/2010

Monster

Daniel MacIvor’s celebrated chiller returns to the New York stage with Avery Pearson stepping into the skin of 16 characters. Peeling back psychological layers to reveal the heart of an individual experience, MONSTER dissects the true nature of evil....
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Puppy Love: A Stripper's Tail

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  5/13/2010 to 6/6/2010

Puppy Love: A Stripper's Tail

In her new musical, Erin Markey reveals the details of her graceless debut into the world of professional performance — as a stripper at Déjà Vu in Ypsilanti, MI. Assuming the stage name Bridget, after the patron saint of babies, Erin must learn to navigate the lap-dances, lawnmowers, and hot girl-o...
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Remission

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  5/6/2010 to 5/18/2010

Remission

For 45 years, Daniel Berkey suffered the ravages of schizophrenia with attendant addictions to sex, heroin and alcohol. At the age of 51, he experienced complete remission. This is his story....
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THE W. KAMAU BELL CURVE: ENDING RACISM IN ABOUT AN HOUR

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  5/11/2010 to 6/4/2010

The W. Kamau Bell Curve

Black President or not, racism continues to make a comeback. And W. Kamau Bell is here to make (non)sense of it all. Irreverent and thoughtful, The W. Kamau Bell Curve skewers pop culture, news pundits and the man himself, Barack Obama. According to Comedy Central, Kamau told the very first Obama...
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ROOTLESS: La No-Nostalgia

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  5/11/2010 to 5/22/2010

Rootless: La No-Nostalgia

Sexy. Bold. Bilingual. Take a journey through the emotional life of migrants with songs ranging from tango to rock. Unraveling the psychological toll of displacement, Casiano ferociously and personally criticizes the role of newcomers and probes their responsibility toward their own countries....
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Wanted

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  5/5/2010 to 5/15/2010

Wanted

Arrested and locked up for writing hot checks, a ten-year-old Texan girl loses her way in a reality where even the adults themselves are lost. Shontina Vernon merges childhood stories with searing songs of fear and juvenile justice....
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Magnetic North

The WorkShop Theater | Mainstage, 312 West 36th Street, Fourth Floor East
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Magnetic North

The WorkShop Theater | Mainstage, 312 West 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  5/6/2010 to 5/16/2010
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Dodsworth

Metropolitan Playhouse, 220 E 4th Street  5/15/2010 to 6/6/2010

Michael Scott and Lisa Riegel

Sinclair Lewis's novel, dramatized by Sidney Howard. When a captain of industry retires, he finds a whole new life (and loss) awaiting him....
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BritBits 7

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  6/9/2010 to 6/18/2010
8 all new short plays for the busy Anglophile...
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Men Without Myth

The Theater At 30th St, 259 West 30th St  6/3/2010 to 6/13/2010

Men Without Myth

Men Without Myth-3 One Act Plays From Italian American Playwrights...
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Brazil Nuts

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  5/7/2010 to 5/23/2010

Brazil Nuts starring Susan Jeremy

In BRAZIL NUTS, two lesbians walk into a bar. One of them marries a go-go boy. All three get drop-kicked into the Bermuda triangle of U.S. Immigration. This new comedy details the experiences of Fabiana, a Brazilian and die-hard soccer fan who over-stayed her student visa; Jackie, her girlfriend who...
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Five Days in March

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  5/6/2010 to 5/23/2010

Five Days in March

"Five Days in March" by Toshiki Okada is set in the days before the U.S. began its war against Iraq in March 2003. Minobe meets Yukki at a rock show. Their awkward conversation leads to five days of wild sex in a love hotel. Azuma sells Miffy a ticket to a bad movie. Miffy thinks Azuma doesn’t retur...
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Breath on the Mirror

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  5/6/2010 to 5/23/2010

Breath on the Mirror

Triple Shadow's new multimedia theater production BREATH ON THE MIRROR is set in the last year of Albert Einstein's life as he looks back at himself as a young man during the period of his greatest creativity when he first conceived the theory of relativity. Hovering between consciousness and dre...
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The Thyme of the Season

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  6/5/2010 to 6/23/2010
A new sequel to "A Midsummer Night's Dream". It's Hallowe'en, three months after Midsummer. When Titania and Oberon need to pay their 7-yearly tithe to hell, they have to find a human soul to sacrifice. Puck's been ensorcelled by a witch so that he can't sleep, and there's a new Autumn fairy, Pumpk...
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Lunatic: A Love Story

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  5/27/2010 to 6/12/2010
Solo show recounting the experiences had as a young adult with epilepsy. ...
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Daydream

Prospect Park's Imagination Playground, playground across street from 163 Ocean Avenue  6/5/2010 to 6/27/2010
An adaptation of "A Midsummer night's Dream for audiences of all ages....
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 E. 26th St.  6/2/2010 to 6/20/2010
Shakespeare's most loved comedy asks: What happens when four foolish lovers and a bunch of wannabe actors get lost in the forest? Well, when the forest is the meeting place of the King and Queen of the fairies, who can't resist meddling in the affairs of mortals, magic and mayhem ensues. Luckily, in...
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Candide or Optimism

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  6/3/2010 to 6/20/2010

Candide has been taught by his mentor, Dr. Pangloss, that everything in the world is for the best. The boy embraces this doctrine on a sprawling, world-wide journey. However, his lessons in the world are quite contrary to what he has been taught in the classroom. Voltaire’s masterpiece, adapted for ...
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GORMANZEE & Other Stories

Flea Theatre, 41 White Street  7/7/2010 to 7/25/2010

GORMANZEE & Other Stories

GORMANZEE & Other Stories is an evening of one-act plays presented by dance/theater company anna&meredith....
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Epicene

14th Street Theatre, 344 E. 14th Street  5/22/2010 to 6/6/2010

One of Ben Jonson’s lesser-known works, Epicene tells us of the paranoid Morose, his clever nephew and a new bride unlike any other in the classical theatre. Jonson took gender-bending and identity to a new and hilarious level, and (re:) Directions is proud to ridiculously amplify and completely sul...
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Cloaked

The Shop @ CAP21, 18 West 18th, 6th Floor  6/8/2010 to 6/26/2010
Cloaked is a musical deconstruction of the themes of Little Red Riding Hood, in which Tanner O'Connal, a detective in a cyber crime unit, is seduced by the dark alluring landscape of the virtual world he polices....
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Someone Who'll Watch Over Me

Teatro Círculo, 64 East 4th Street  6/17/2010 to 8/8/2010

In Lebanon, an American, an Englishman and an Irishman are abruptly taken from their work, their lives and the ones they love. Chained in a dark, isolated room there seems no escape from the enemies that terrorize them. In an absence of time they each struggle to make sense of their circumstances wh...
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Fear

American Theatre of Actors, Beckmann Theatre, 314 W. 54th St.  10/20/2010 to 10/30/2010
A Halloween Sadist A Hungry Bedbug A Retired Buddha A culture of fear has gripped their community, overcoming their fear might be the only thing that saves their lives...and their deaths....
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Beautiful Thing

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  7/7/2010 to 7/25/2010
Two best friends in the ugliness of a South London slum discover a 'beautiful thing' - their love for each other- but can two boys survive this love?...
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Gods at the End of the World

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   6/17/2010 to 7/3/2010

Inspired by the video game series' Fallout, Resident Evil and Bioshock; and animes including Neon Genesis Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell; Gods at the End of the World tells the story of the last surviving humans on an Earth that has been made uninhabitable by nuclear warfare. It is a story about...
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The Tempest

Central Park Lawn, 69th Street and CPW  6/19/2010 to 7/18/2010

Luis Vega as Caliban

A storm brings the passengers of a royal vessel crashing onto the unforgiving rocks of a desolate island paradise. Dark forces and magic lead the castaways and the island's inhabitants in a struggle for revenge, love and freedom....
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CHAOS THEORY

The Barrow Group Theatre, 312 West 36th Street - 3rd Floor  5/26/2010 to 6/19/2010

Ranjit Chowdhry and Rita WOlf

An love story which starts in New Delhi, India, and ends in NYC in 2000. A witty and comedic romp through life....
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St. Nicholas

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   6/17/2010 to 7/3/2010

In the tradition of Irish storytelling, a jaded theatre critic recounts his obsession with a beautiful young actress, and how that obsession led him into a macabre world of savage vampires....
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Othello

The Kirk @ Theatre Row Studios, 410 West 42nd Street  6/3/2010 to 6/24/2010

"Othello" directed by Cara Reichel

The music of Vivaldi and the rhythm of the djembe interweave with Shakespeare's elegant language in this tragic masterpiece. As characters dance through the Bard's most intricate and compelling plot, OTHELLO illuminates the fine line between the cerebral and the animal in all of us.Our goal is a fas...
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Order

The Kirk @ Theatre Row Studios, 410 West 42nd Street  6/6/2010 to 6/26/2010

"Order" by Christopher Stetson Boal, directed by Austin Pendleton

Order is the darkly hysterical and ultimately tragic story of Thomas Blander, a former philosophy teacher determined to be mild and polite in a violent and greedy world. His plan goes awry,however, when he is seemingly possessed by a demon who claims to be an ancient creature of power and who brings...
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The Last Dreams of Helene Weigel or How to Get Rid of The Feminism Once and For All

Surreal Estate, 15-1 Thames Street  7/25/2009 to 8/1/2010

Andrea Suarez as Helene Weigel/Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

An experimental, documentary opera following Helene Weigel “the greatest actress who ever lived” as she snaps the neck of a wild swan, escapes robbery by door-to-door linoleum salesmen, and makes covert visits in her dreams to the nunnery cells of Héloïse d’ Argenteuil and Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz....
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Henry VI part III

East 13th Street Theatre, 136 East 13th Street  7/1/2010 to 7/24/2010

Nat Cassidy as Henry VI, photo by Kristin Skye Hoffmann

The War of the Roses rolls on. In the middle of the bloody maelstrom are two men with the forward momentum to take their country in wildly divergent directions. As one ascends to a higher state of existence no longer needing the trappings of a crown, the other descends to a dark and dangerous place ...
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Billy Carver and the Children in Mind

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  7/7/2010 to 7/24/2010

On the evening of her latest Billy Carver novel release, Joannie Roman Redd has to deal not only with the terrible review her novel has received, but with the loving parasites she calls her friends, as she decides to kill the character that has made her famous in the world of Children's Literature....
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The Revival

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  9/9/2010 to 9/25/2010
A progressive pastor tries to open the minds of his Old Testament congregation with the words he learned at Harvard. A desperate and bloodied young man wanders into town looking for a home. A born again, recovering alcoholic fights for his church with a gun in his belt. A desperate housewife lon...
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Brownsville Bred

Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 E 3 St  6/9/2010 to 8/25/2010

Brownsville Bred

Multiple Festival Winning One Woman Show- A true and Inspiring laugh through your tears journey from Gheto to Glamour...
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Twelfth Nigh

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  6/9/2010 to 6/20/2010

Following their critically acclaimed run of CYMBELINE last fall, Fiasco Theater returns with a cast of 8 to take on TWELFTH NIGHT, Shakespeare's hilarious and moving exploration of love, music and storms of both the heart and sea....
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Twelfth Night

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  6/10/2010 to 6/20/2010
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night...
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PLAY/WAR

Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 3rd Floor  7/16/2010 to 8/14/2010

Ben Spatz and Maximilian Balduzzi (March 2010)

Two men. Brothers. Strangers. An explosive journey through intimacy, violence, and liberation....
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PLAY/WAR

Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 3rd Floor  7/15/2010 to 8/14/2010

Ben Spatz and Maximilian Balduzzi (March 2010)

Two men. Brothers. Strangers. An explosive journey through intimacy, violence, and liberation....
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The Little One

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  6/17/2010 to 7/10/2010
Cynthia, a fledgling vampire, is taken under the wing of a more venerable one, Marie. Marie tries to teach Cynthia how to hunt, be merciful towards humans and make the most out of immortality. However, like all rebellious children, Cynthia intends to carve out her own path....
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Theater of the Arcade: Five Classic Video Games Adapted for the Stage

The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave  7/13/2010 to 7/25/2010

An apelike brute holds an innocent young woman captive and hurls obstacles at anyone who dares approach. A glutton eats everything in sight while running away from the ghosts that haunt him. Are these the plots of classic video games, or are they searing narratives of modernist drama? In this collec...
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The Country Wife

American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, 4th Floor  7/9/2010 to 7/18/2010
A Restoration Comedy by William Wycherley, this randy, zany satirical piece from 1675 is remarkably contemporary in its take on sex, love, marriage, and society. ...
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Fuente Ovejuna

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center,   6/23/2010 to 7/3/2010

Fuente Ovejuna

Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega...
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An Ideal Husband

45th Street Theatre – Upstairs, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl.  7/15/2010 to 7/30/2010

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Oscar Wilde's great comic satire of London society...
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BINTOU

Harlem School of the Arts, 645 Saint Nicholas Avenue  6/24/2010 to 7/10/2010
Bintou is an African immigrant girl immersed in the urban slums of modern Western society. At the age of 13, she runs with a pack of wild boys, plays with knives, and has bewitching dreams of becoming a belly dancer. With a budding display of overt sexuality and aggressive behavior consuming her, Bi...
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BETTER LUCKY THAN SMART

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  8/18/2010 to 9/4/2010
Jonathan Kravetz' latest work is a deranged comedy of larcenous manners, full of double-crosses, sex scandals and family values. When a daffy scheme to pass off old violins as Stradivarii explodes into a kidnapping plot involving the president's mistress, FBI, Mafia and CIA; Henry, a clueless dreame...
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A Home Across The Ocean

The Studio Theater @ Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street  9/16/2010 to 10/2/2010

Connor and his boyfriend think they're ready to start a family; Connor's recently widowed mother thinks she needs to re-start a family herself. When a thirteen-year-old foster child and a poet from London arrive into their lives, they'll find out exactly how ready they are. ...
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Tombstone: Saga of the Americans

The View Theater, Roy Arias Theater Center 300 W.43rd st. 3rd FL   7/14/2010 to 7/31/2010
Tombstone: Saga of the Americans – The West is a new western fantasy that explores the definition of justice and honor in the formation and development of the boomtown settlements of the Southwest. It is the story of real people in their struggle to be morally responsible to a greater community whi...
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What May Fall

Pope Auditorium at Fordham University, 311 West 60th Street  7/21/2010 to 7/31/2010

When a window washer falls to his death from the tallest building in Minneapolis, it forces nice strangers to face the slippery and terrifying reality of living in a world made of ice. Loosely and lyrically based on actual events, WHAT MAY FALL explores what keeps us grounded when everything can cha...
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Fracturing

Flamboyan Theatre - CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  7/8/2010 to 7/18/2010
Based on Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, Fracturing explores how a family and a town slowly break apart over the divisive environmental issue of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, a process of drilling for natural gas. In the fictional town of Norville, fracking has been permitted despite t...
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Macbeth

Nicu's Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th  8/6/2010 to 8/28/2010

Redd Tale Theatre Company dives into its seventh season with the classic MACBETH by William Shakespeare. This tightly edited version of MACBETH hones in on the ruthlessness of ambition. RTTC examines the play’s theme of grasping for power while adding RTTC’s tradition of making the audience shudd...
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The Triumph of Love

Nicu's Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th  8/5/2010 to 8/29/2010

Redd Tale Theatre Company dives into its seventh season with the world premiere of a new adaptation of the French classic THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE written by Will Le Vasseur. THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE takes the original 18th century French farce and throws in a healthy dose of RTTC’s signature sci-fi twist...
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The Late Henry Moss

45th Street Theatre – Upstairs, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl.  7/25/2010 to 8/17/2010

A drama in 3 acts by Sam Shepard. Memories and mystery entangle two estranged brothers as they piece together the circumstances of their father's death in a seedy bungalow in the New Mexican desert....
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I LOST MY HEART IN HAITI

Producer's Club Grand Theatre, 358 West 44th Street 3rd Floor  8/10/2010 to 8/21/2010

A drama about the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti and the lives it changed. Friends and family come together to learn about the pride and love of the Haitian community.One woman’s struggle to rebuild her heart while America helps to rebuild her country ...
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Two Gentlemen of Verona

TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor
JSC returns joyously to clowning in their first full Shakespeare production in six years! Featuring the company’s signature gender-reverse casting for the first time in a romantic comedy -- with a splash of commedia dell’arte, live music, and heck, even a real live dog! It doesn’t get much more fu...
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Two Gentlemen of Verona

TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor  8/4/2010 to 8/22/2010
JSC returns joyously to clowning in their first full Shakespeare production in six years! Featuring the company’s signature gender-reverse casting for the first time in a romantic comedy -- with a splash of commedia dell’arte, live music, and heck, even a real live dog! It doesn’t get much more fu...
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The Birds

Greek Cultural Center (new location), 26-80 30 Street  8/10/2010 to 8/21/2010

The Birds is set in a landfill/crow's nest, and inhabited by half-puppet half-man trash art creations, our protagonist's seeks fortune with a plan that hinges on Man's "out of sight out of mind," mentality. The old adage, "one man's trash is another man's treasure," rings true and he prevails by def...
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Wolves

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  8/4/2010 to 8/21/2010

Illustration by Emanuele Sferruzza Moszkowicz

A wolf collides with a young couple’s automobile on a snowy New Year’s Eve, igniting this triptych on the violence of deception. Unfolding across three relationships, an impotent novelist grasps for affection from his resentful fiancé, a woman longs for the specter of her overbearing ex-girlfriend, ...
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"Encounters".. (in a non-lucid state)

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  8/5/2010 to 8/21/2010

5 short plays that explore how sometimes a short encounter can make a lasting impression. Rising Sun's 4th Annual One Act Series.Founding Artistic Director, Akia has selected the work of 5 up and coming playwrights as part of their “Aspire to Inspire” Series, one of RSP’s many programs created to...
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Ravel

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  8/5/2010 to 8/15/2010

For thousands of years, the three Fates have spun and measured human lives. But when a thread breaks, and a woman dies, they must leave their posts to set things right. Meanwhile, the woman’s mother and daughter struggle to understand her mysterious death, her research on frog extinction a...
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Comedie of Errors

Central Park, The lawn below The Dairy - enter at 66th Street  7/30/2010 to 8/15/2010

Double the girls! Double the fun!

New Lions Theatre Co. presents a Comedie of Errors for your kind of summer afternoon: fast, furious and FREE. No lines, no outrageous ticket prices, just some fun in the sun to get your Shakespeare fix and still make it to the bar in time for happy hour. It’s a gender-flip production of mistaken ide...
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Questions My Mother Can't Answer

NYTW's 4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street  8/15/2010 to 8/27/2010

"Lisa"

Andrea’s on a mission: she interviews eight “women-of-a-certain-age” including a sexy Moroccan ballroom dancer, a donations-only prostitute, and her Aunt Shirley, about getting pregnant, staying married and finding a flow. As she embarks on a healing journey after a personal tragic event, Andrea loo...
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Play America (Life is Short, Wear Your Party Pants)

Convent of St. Cecilia, 21 Monitor St   8/20/2010 to 8/30/2010
Play America follows a group of kids at a party and the motivational speaker who tries to save them from their misguided romances and spiritual malaise. Featuring 90's music video inspired dance breaks. ...
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Romeo & Juliet

Carroll Park, Carroll Street  8/16/2010 to 8/28/2010

photograph by Kyle Dean Reinford

Smith Street Stage brings Shakespeare's classic to the streets of New York. Five actors play all of roles in a production that will transform Brooklyn's Carroll Park into the tempestuous and romantic Verona of the greatest love story ever told....
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The Smell of Popcorn

Teatro IATI, 64 east 4th St  9/8/2010 to 9/19/2010

Fabiola and Georgie as they battle for survival between reality and imagination.

The true story of an acting student, a career thief and the battle of the wills that ensues when he forcibly enters her apartment...
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Devils

The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave  8/14/2010 to 8/29/2010

Olivia Baseman as Sister Jeanne in DEVILS

France, 1633-1634 – The city of Loudon, unlike most of the country, is at peace. While religious wars swept the country and kept the Protestants and the Catholics at each others’ throats, the sects live and have lived together without incident in the city for years, primarily due to the charismatic ...
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Weekend at an English Country Estate

Access Theater, 380 Broadway  10/14/2010 to 10/31/2010

Weekend at an English Country Estate, image by Emily French

Inspired by witty Englishmen like Noel Coward and P.G. Wodehouse, Weekend follows a group of upper-crust Brits in the 1930's getting into trouble with love. Fueled by copious amounts of champagne, what begins as an innocent treasure hunt around the estate grounds turns into a frenzied competition f...
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Venus Observed

Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  9/9/2010 to 10/3/2010
The Duke of Altair, a lover of astronomy and women, brings three of his ex-mistresses to his home with the intention of marrying one of them, but falls in love with the young daughter of his amiably dishonest secretary. Can true love win the day? ...
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The Unlikely Adventure of Race McCloud, Private Eye

American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, 4th Floor  9/9/2010 to 9/19/2010

Kevin Gillespie

"The Unlikely Adventure of Race McCloud, Private Eye" is a comic-book style adventure/comedy about the second-most clueless detective in Westside City. When his secret-agent family goes missing, it is up to Race and his 15 year-old super-genius niece Cookie to find them. Their search takes them arou...
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Portrayed : The Unbearable Burden Of Deciding What To Do Before Dying

The Invisible Dog, 51 Bergen Street  9/16/2010 to 10/10/2010
Portrayed is about twins, Mary and Trevor, who as of yet have literally done nothing in their lives, and their younger sister Sarah’s attempt to coax them out of their current stagnant way of life. The play will be performed once in the American theatrical tradition, then again in the French tradit...
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Balm in Gilead

Gloria Maddox Theatre, 151 W. 26th St.  10/14/2010 to 12/18/2010

Balm in Gilead, Lanford Wilson’s first full-length play, captures the lives of the disenfranchised, the lost, and the derelicts who hang out at an all-night diner on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Joe and Darlene, two young people who desire better lives, are at the center of the maelstrom, caugh...
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What the Butler Saw

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  9/11/2010 to 9/26/2010

Joe Orton's British sex farce premiered in London in 1969 and has never had a Broadway production...
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A Wound In Time

Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 E 3 St  10/22/2010 to 11/1/2010

Spanish Harlem Collage by SL Wilson

Full length thriller/drama that unravels a childhood secret and dares to stare in the face of social issues....
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Endless Summer Nights

Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  9/17/2010 to 10/9/2010

Sam is finally over Tracy, just as she returns unexpectedly to their quiet beach town. In a chance meeting, they rekindle something they thought they both had lost, but time, memory and life's grind has changed them. Having faced their past with humor and mercy, Sam and Tracy must now face their fut...
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Blondie of Arabia

Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street  9/22/2010 to 10/9/2010

Monica Hunken in Blondie of Arabia. Photo by Hunter Canning

The story of an American Woman’s bicycle journey through the heart of the Middle East. Alone. A solo play written, performed (and lived) by MONICA HUNKEN Directed by LAURA NEWMAN Two weeks before Christmas, Monica Hunken flew into the heart of the Persian Gulf to cater at a royal wedding part...
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The Beauty Queen of Leenane

45th Street Theatre, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl  8/30/2010 to 9/28/2010

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

The Beauty Queen of Leenane is Martin McDonagh’s macabre yet funny tale from Western Ireland where a mother and daughter find themselves in a never ending battle with one another, as victims of their cultural isolation and existential loneliness. This dark comedy brings a realistic yet electrifying ...
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Uncle Vanya

Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  9/11/2010 to 10/10/2010

The arrival of an aging scholar and his beautiful young wife sets off passionate fireworks on a farm in turn of the century Russia. ...
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Blood Sistas

Producer's Club, 358 West 44th Street  8/20/2010 to 9/11/2010
This story is about four childhood best friends growing up in the hood; Sabrina, Gabrielle, Dominique and Rochelle. An alleged betrayal between them forces them to take sides. It takes them on a very bumpy, turbulent ride. The betrayal hangs in the balance and shows just how far one friend will go t...
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Ceremony

Seventh Street Small Stage, 41-43 East 7th Street  9/16/2010 to 9/29/2010

Two boys from different families meet on the eve of the wedding that will make them step brothers. As they test the boundaries of acceptance and innocence, life after the ceremony hangs in the balance. ...
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Radio Purgatory

The New Dixon Place, 161 Chrystie Street  10/7/2010 to 10/30/2010

Dick Flavor and The Purgettes

Radio Purgatory is an absurd melodrama with music. Private Eye Dick Flavor finds himself in purgatory to solve the mystery of his own murder. He confronts a cast of radio play ghosts. Sex, violence, live music and product placement share his nightmare. ...
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TRANSATLANTICA

NYTW's 4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street  10/1/2010 to 10/17/2010

Somewhere between yesterday and forever lies... TRANSATLANTICA

Playwright Kenny Finkle's lunatic fable that considers love, death and fate in a series of ever more preposterous iterations. Dadaist and surreal, TRANSATLANTICA consciously walks the line between sharp wit and purposeful idiocy, making us laugh at nonsense yet reflect upon it philosophically. Set i...
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The Navigator

The Workshop Theater/ The Jewel Box , 312 W. 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  9/16/2010 to 10/2/2010

The Navigator (Kelly Anne Burns) & her muse (Joe Franchini) - Photograph by Gerry Goodstein

Your GPS Navigator. It tells you where to go. It tells you how to get there. What if it could tell you more?...
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Fat Kids On Fire

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  9/17/2010 to 10/2/2010

Promo Picture by Suzi Sadler, featuring full cast

On the first day at Camp Vanguard, 15-year old Bess’ life turns upside-down. Suddenly this bumbling, awkward wannabe is the most popular girl at camp, and boys and girls alike are all clamoring to get to know this “skinny-fat girl.” Bess is overwhelmed by the response, but with help from her new-fou...
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Keep Your Baggage With You (at all times)

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   9/16/2010 to 9/28/2010

Daniel Abeles (Dave) photo by Sammy Soule.

Keep Your Baggage With You (at all times) is a new play told in seven scenes taking place over several years as we witness the devolution of a friendship between two young men. As they confront their failed relationships and careers, insecurities arise about their identity, spirituality, and integr...
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I Fioretti In Musica

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/1/2010 to 10/17/2010

St. Francis (actor Emanuele Nigro) preaching to the birds. Puppets by Jane Catherine Shaw and Abby Felder, Photo by Gian Marco Lo Forte

I FIORETTI IN MUSICA- Opera in Danza is an original Italian Opera that imagines St. Francis of Assisi as a character in modern New York. The libretto and concept by Gian Marco Lo Forte are based on the 14th century book of poems in vulgar Italian, Little Flowers, and includes an original polyphonic ...
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Look Back in Anger

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  10/13/2010 to 10/30/2010

A savage tale of class conflict - battled in the bedroom.

Jimmy Porter is angry. Overeducated and underemployed, he is stuck in a dead-end job. His wife won't talk to him. His best friend is always by her side. When her upper-crust friend shows up unexpectedly, Jimmy reaches the breaking point. John Osborne's ground-breaking story of a working-class hero f...
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The Contract

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street

Photo by Carl Carrette

In the southern Black Church, one's image and reputation is everything. So what happens when a high profile preacher's wife discovers that her husband has a fetish for young men? In this riveting new production, Deborah does what you'd least expect. She takes control of the situation and refuses...
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The Contract

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  10/5/2010 to 10/19/2010

Photo by Carl Carrette

In the southern Black Church, one's image and reputation is everything. So what happens when a high profile preacher's wife discovers that her husband has a fetish for young men? In this riveting new production, Deborah does what you'd least expect. She takes control of the situation and refuses...
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The NYCycle Vol 2: ConsumerCreditCultureClash

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  9/17/2010 to 10/2/2010
Three plays must be set in September, October, and November 2010, include the quote “There are so many people from everywhere” and reflect the immediate future in relation to the theme “ConsumerCreditCultureClash.” ...
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The Drunkard

Metropolitan Playhouse, 220 E 4th Street  9/18/2010 to 10/17/2010

Charlotte Hampden and Howard Thoresen

From 1844, a Temperance drama of failure and redemption....
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As Is

Studio Theater @ Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street   10/14/2010 to 10/31/2010

Artwork by Adam Kaynan

Written in 1985, AS IS was one of the first plays about the AIDS crisis as it hit the gay community of New York City. Centering on the relationship between an HIV-positive man and his ex-lover, who returns to his side in a time of need, AS IS portrays the confusion and fear as the disease first spre...
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Ritter, Dene, Voss

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  9/23/2010 to 10/10/2010

from Ritter, Dene, Voss

Ritter, Dene, Voss is a razor-sharp ‘misanthropic comedy’ by Thomas Bernhard, “Austria’s most provocative post-war writer” (New Yorker), about two sisters and their volatile brother, who is loosely based on the 20th century’s philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Performed by Toronto’s One Little Goa...
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SIGHT UNSEEN

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  9/23/2010 to 10/10/2010

Jonathan Waxman is the artist as superstar, plunged into the exorbitant hype of the American art world. Just before his works are celebrated at an exhibition in London, he journeys to the village where his former lover, Patricia, lives with her British husband, Nick. In their cold, remote house, Jon...
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Julius Caesar

The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  9/16/2010 to 10/2/2010
The third installment of director Richard Mazda’s gangland Shakespeare series brings you into the center of Rome, where civil strife and political infighting have ripped apart the very fabric of the fragile democracy. Resources are scarce, battle lines are drawn, and even those with the noblest inte...
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Stinky Flowers and the Bad Banana

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  10/7/2010 to 10/24/2010

Are we still loved after the person who loves us is gone?

Sam Stu and Sinclair discover an audience in their attic. Clearly, these quiet strangers are going to eat them, so they distract the savages with their grandfather's original fairytales. With vivid, multi-media storytelling, they discover the answer to the question, "Are we still loved after the...
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Dead White Males: A Year in the Trenches of Teaching

The Bridge Theater, 244 West 54th St, 12th Fl  10/6/2010 to 10/16/2010
Dead White Males follows Janet, a rookie history teacher, over the course of a school year in which she is closely evaluated by her superiors and haphazardly mentored by two seasoned teachers. Countless memos, lesson plans, and an incident involving a troubled student all test Janet’s ability to ac...
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SAINT JOAN

Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  10/28/2010 to 11/13/2010

Opens October 28

George Bernard Shaw's SAINT JOAN is the play which won for George Bernard Shaw the Nobel Prize. While considered a tragedy based on the last months in the life and the trial of Joan of Arc, it is also a "play without villains" and loses none of the biting wit which Shaw is known for. Ken Neil Hailey...
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Circus of Circus

The House of Yes, 342 Maujer St.  10/1/2010 to 10/16/2010

Nick Brooks

Adapted from George Orwell’s anti-totalitarian novella Animal Farm, Circus of Circus is presented as a darkly humorous satire on the performance industry told through the strife of entertainers in a corrupt circus. Set in the middle of the Great Depression, the show combines dazzling musical thea...
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(oh my god I am so) THIRST(y)

Ontological Hysterical Theatre, 131 East 10th Street  10/21/2010 to 10/30/2010

Photo by Yi Zhao

Three desperate souls adrift at sea await the maddeningly cruel fate bestowed on them by an angry God. A (grotesque) comedy which may or may not have absolutely nothing to do with race....
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The Persecution And Assassination Of Jean Paul Marat As Performed By The Inmates Of The Asylum At Charenton Under The Direction Of The Marquis De Sade

Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  10/14/2010 to 10/30/2010

Death of Jean-Paul Marat

An immersive, environmental production set in a modern madhouse, telling the death of French Revolutionary Jean Paul Marat....
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The Land Whale Murders

Theater 3, 311 W. 43 St., 3rd fl.  12/2/2010 to 12/18/2010

A Victorian science murder mystery involving a missing whale, environmental activists, and dead birds...
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(un)afraid

Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street  10/21/2010 to 11/6/2010

(un)afraid

Tell us your secret ghost story. Tell us your fever dreams. Tell us why you fear your fellow human being. By attempting to summon a different guest spirit each performance, from such dead masters of horror as Edgar Allen Poe, HP Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, and many others, the New York Neo-Futurists' F...
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Die Laughing the Stage Play

Roy Arias Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street  10/5/2010 to 10/17/2010

When Michael Laurence a struggling yet promising comedian is suddenly diagnosed with breast cancer on the eve of the biggest break in his professional career, a series of revelations unfold which force him to revisit his stand up comedy routine and to explore his darkest musings in the private mirro...
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Skin Deep

Theatre 54, 244 W. 54th St., 12th Floor  10/16/2010 to 11/6/2010

a comedy without tan lines

When a couple from Ohio inherits a clothing-optional resort in Key West, they discover parts of themselves never before exposed....
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The Girl from Nashville

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  12/3/2010 to 12/18/2010

"The Girl from Nashville" tells the story of a high school football coach who inexplicably murders his star quarterback in the middle of playoff season. Questions of right and wrong, good and evil, and the nature of redemption are explored in this mysterious and poignant tragedy. This world premi...
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The Prairie Plays: High Plains & My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  11/4/2010 to 11/21/2010

Two resonant and eerie fables, HIGH PLAINS and MY DAUGHTER KEEPS OUR HAMMER, explore questions of myth, family, heritage, faith and fear in very different ways. These ain’t your typical Westerns. High Plains- Set on the dark and expansive Colorado plains, this one-man confession tells the story o...
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Reefer Madnes the musical

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)
Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex and violence. The addictive and clever musica...
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Reefer Madnes the musical

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  10/23/2010 to 11/14/2010
Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex and violence. The addictive and clever musica...
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Woyzeck

Teatro IATI, 64 east 4th St  10/22/2010 to 11/12/2010

Poster: Anthony Falco

Toy Box's adaptation is set in a small Midwestern town in the midst of winter and at the depths of the current recession. Woyzeck scrounges for work, battles with paranoia, drinks his breakfast, and struggles to provide the bare essentials for his family. Ultimately, Woyzeck watches his dignity and...
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Hamlet

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  11/5/2010 to 11/14/2010

Artwork by Nicholas Betito

In The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective's sepia-toned, antiquitian world, a steampunk Hamlet returns from Denmark to find his father dead, his mother bedding his uncle and his country at the brink of war. To make things worse, he's being followed around by a clingy coquette with a particularly curi...
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Fefu and her Friends

Center for Performance Research, 361 Manhattan Avenue  11/12/2010 to 12/5/2010

Fefu and her Friends

Fefu and her friends is an intelligent, dynamic and unsettling exploration of feminism, social expectation and individual empowerment. Tin lily has set the majority of the play in the round and then splits, according to Fornes’ alternative staging, the middle of the play into four scenes in four sep...
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The New Normal

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  10/13/2010 to 10/23/2010

Sometimes survivors need a survival guide: A young woman finds grace and humor in the unexpected challenges of survival....
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THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW: AMBER ALERT

The Kraine Theater, 85 E 4th St.  10/14/2010 to 10/30/2010

The Pupkin Pie show

THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW: AMBER ALERT offers five brand new, never performed before short stories “ripped from the headlines” by writer Clay McLeod Chapman – each isolating that moment where innocence curdles into something… much, much darker. High school wrestlers with contagious skin diseases, vaginal...
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Kimberly Akimbo

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  10/6/2010 to 10/24/2010
Set in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, KIMBERLY AKIMBO is a hilarious and heartrending play about a teenager with a rare condition, much like Progeria, causing her body to age four and half times faster than it should. Kimberly is trapped inside the frail physical body of an elderly woman. ...
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Gibraltar

Bowery Electric, 327 Bowery  10/11/2010 to 11/29/2010

Leopold Bloom

World premiere: Gibraltar, an adaptation after James Joyce's Ulysses. Adapted and Staged by Patrick Fitzgerald. Performed by Cara Seymour and Patrick Fitzgerald. Consultant Director: Terry Kinney. Mondays @ Seven @ The Bowery Electric. Oct 11th through Nov 29th....
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Good Egg

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  10/21/2010 to 11/7/2010

Image by Daniel Cantada

Good Egg tells the story of responsible Meg who has always taken care of her bipolar younger brother Matt. But when she decides to get pregnant—and have her embryos screened for bipolar disorder—is she taking the idea of "being responsible" too far? Good Egg is a funny and surprising play about bioe...
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Brothers from the Bottom

The Billie Holiday Theatre, 1368 Fulton Street  10/28/2010 to 12/19/2010

Gentrification threatens a New Orleans neighborhood and the bond between brothers.

Gentrification threatens a New Orleans neighborhood and the bond between brothers. ...
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Bong Bong Bong against the Walls, Ting Ting Ting in our Heads

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/14/2010 to 10/31/2010

Ashley C. Williams in

"Bong Bong Bong against the Walls, Ting Ting Ting in our Heads" is the kind of play that could only be written from the experience of Dario D'Ambrosi, who for over 30 years has worked with mentally disabled people in Italy. It is the American debut for Set/Puppet Designer Aurora Buzzetti (Rome). Tr...
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Folktales from Asia and Africa

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/16/2010 to 11/7/2010

Cathy Shaw's

This one woman show was created, designed, and performed by Jane Catherine Shaw nearly twenty years ago and has been an audience favorite wherever she has performed it. Children and adults delight in the imaginative use of everyday objects to portray the characters in the three stories. "Folktales o...
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Wake Up, You're Dead

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/29/2010 to 11/7/2010

Wake Up, You're Dead

What puppeteer doesn't wonder what will happen to him as he impersonates the creator? In "Wake Up, You're Dead!," Aaron Haskell of Brooklyn Art Department, one of the original designers of Nightmare: NYC's Haunted House, gives us a Halloween-flavored creation myth. It's performed as a dark ceremon...
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I Am Going to Run Away

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/1/2010 to 10/10/2010

Bree Benton in "Poor Baby Bree"

I Am Going To Run Away is a one-person musical, incorporating obscure vaudeville-era songs (1890s-1930s), Victorian children's literature, and original writing. Written and directed by Bree Benton, music by Franklin Bruno....
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In Retrospect

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  11/12/2010 to 11/28/2010

Loco 7: "In Retrospect"

With its newest production, "In Retrospect," LOCO7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company investigates how we each construct our personal memory box: how we keep our memories fresh and preserve the things that made us who we are. These include our mothers' embraces, lost loves, childhood dreams, ideals of y...
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All the Way From China

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  11/10/2010 to 11/21/2010
One year after his girlfriend was killed on campus, Yale dropout Jack holes up in Austin with a temp job, a guitar and an underachieving rich girl who toys with smack. The anniversary of the unsolved murder brings Jack a stream of fresh torments: renewed media attention, additional police interview...
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The Tragic Story of Doctor Frankenstein

BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, 421 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor  10/29/2010 to 11/13/2010

Celebrate Halloween with innovative theatre company Rabbit Hole Ensemble’s expressionistic horror, The Tragic Story of Doctor Frankenstein, premiering at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange in Park Slope on October 28th. Rabbit Hole Ensemble celebrates its Fifth Anniversary by returning to one of literature’...
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The Kentucky Goblin Siege

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street

The Kentucky Goblin Siege is a sci-fi comedy based on accounts of one of the largest reported alien encounters in U.S. history. It’s August 21, 1955, in the small town of Kelly, Kentucky, and the Sutton family is welcoming old family friends in from out of town and settling in for a night of catchin...
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Electra in a One-Piece

Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street  10/28/2010 to 11/14/2010

A brutally funny modern tragedy, ELECTRA IN A ONE-PIECE re-imagines the Greek tale for our digital era. When Elle discovers that her mother has murdered her father and is burying him in the backyard, she sends for help the only way she knows how: the internet. Armed only with a video camera, she vid...
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Letter From Algeria

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  10/29/2010 to 11/20/2010

Ground UP Productions presents...

In Michael Walker's exhilarating new play, three young Americans meet while studying abroad in Belgium. When their wit, charm and sex appeal cast a spell on a wealthy older gentleman, it seems like a golden opportunity to explore a new world. LETTER FROM ALGERIA reveals a world of class envy and em...
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Interchange

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   10/7/2010 to 10/30/2010
A paroled convict...a grieving father...a son bent on revenge...a pregnant middle manager...a college professor. Five lives become subtly but inexorably entwined in this compelling drama of connection and coincidence. ...
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Measure for Measure

Payan Theater, 300 W 43 St Room 506  11/4/2010 to 11/13/2010

Measure for Measure is a dark comedy that examines justice and mercy in a city saturated with moral decline and government corruption. ...
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Speaking in Tongues

NYTW's 4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street  11/4/2010 to 11/20/2010
"We live, as we dream - alone..." - Conrad Two couples put their estrangements in perspective as they share the stories that changed them forever in this partner-swapping, film-noir thriller. Speaking in Tongues gives audiences a charged, live experience of the detective genre we've previously only...
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Smoking Section

Producer's Club Grand Theatre, 358 West 44th Street 3rd Floor  11/4/2010 to 11/7/2010

Welcome to the Smoking Section

Comedy of errors...
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The Servant of Two Masters

45th Street Theatre – Upstairs, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl.  11/1/2010 to 11/22/2010

The Servant of Two Masters

Goldoni's famous Italian farce in the tradition of Commedia dell'Arte. We meet a servant named Truffaldino who, through no more than a desire to eat heartily, end up serving not one but two masters at once. Crazy situations ensue as he blunders he way in and out of countless misadventures....
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Tape

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  11/13/2010 to 11/27/2010

Poster Design by Zachary Keller

An event occurred the night of three friends' high school graduation party that affected them profoundly. They reunite in a shabby motel room 10 years later and battle over the haunting details from that in-erasable evening....
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Betsy is Bored, Bored, Bored, Bored, Bored!

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  10/16/2010 to 11/21/2010

Poor Betsy is stuck at home on a rainy Saturday, when her parents say the single most annoying thing any parent can say: use your imagination. Hah! Betsy imagines herself as a star balloon baseball player, a famous Egyptologist, and a scientist/inventor with a talking cat for a best friend. It’s...
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GHOSTS

Access Theater Black Box, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor  11/5/2010 to 11/21/2010

LeeAnne Hutchison and Anthony Holds, Photo credit: Ellen Brady Wright

Extant Arts presents GHOSTS, a retelling of the Henrik Ibsen's groundbreaking drama through Nemonie Craven's bold new adaptation. Director Sophie Hunter leads a dynamic cast and international, award-winning creative team from the worlds of opera, Broadway, film, and live art in transforming this 19t...
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BENEFACTORS

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  11/3/2010 to 11/20/2010

Retro Productions presents BENEFACTORS by Michael Frayn

Set against the backdrop of the 1960s new housing projects in London, BENEFACTORS centers on an idealistic architect David and his wife Jane and their relationship with their cynical friend Colin and his wife Sheila. David is attempting to build new homes to replace the "twilight area" housing of Ba...
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Macbeth

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  12/1/2010 to 12/19/2010
More than just a tale of “vaulting ambition”, Mortal Folly’s Macbeth is a deeply emotional study of what people are willing to risk in the name of love and honor, and how intensely everyone suffers the consequences of those actions. Set in a mythical Dark Age with feudal lords and long swords, this ...
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Monroe, Illinois: Over Here/Townie

Flea Theatre, 41 White Street  12/8/2010 to 12/21/2010

Monroe, Illinois: Over Here/Townie is written as two separate one-act plays. Both plays are set in fictional, working class town of Monroe, Illinois. Over Here revolves around a widowed matriarch, Patty, and her two children, Nora and Danny, all of whom are coping with the death of their husband/...
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The Showmen

New Amsterdam Musical Association (NAMA), 107 W. 130th Street  1/7/2011 to 1/7/2011

Set in the 1940's.... FROM HARLEM TO HOLLYWOOD and beyond, THE NICHOLAS BROS, mended hearts and Broke Ground in the entertainment industry. SEE the Compelling NEW MUSICAL, INSPIRED by the Legacy of the Nicholas BROS. Featuring stunning portrayals of, The Nicholas Bros, Dorothy Dandridge, Viola Ni...
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A Christmas Carol

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  11/27/2010 to 12/30/2010

A lively musical adaptation of the classic Dickens tale. Follow along with Ebenezer Scrooge as he is visited by four ghosts; his old business partner Marley, the ghost of Christmas past, present and future. See what happens when he gets a glimpse of his own future if he doesn't change his life. Will...
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Bubblemakers

Producer's Club Grand Theatre, 358 West 44th Street 3rd Floor  2/3/2011 to 2/6/2011

Bubblemakers-Hollywood meets the Fishing Channel!

When aspiring actress Ruby Tinsel grows weary of the turbulent ride known as the Hollywood Heartbreak, she decides to hightail it back home to Missouri's Ozark Mountains and work for the family business, selling fishing poles. As fate would have it, she's discovered and Hollywood comes a calling wit...
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An Impending Rupture of the Belly

The Lion at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street  11/17/2010 to 12/4/2010

How far would YOU go to defend your family? AN IMPENDING RUPTURE OF THE BELLY concerns Clay Stilts' desire to fortify his house in preparation for both a new baby and the apocalypse he's convinced is just around the corner. Clay worries about so many things, nulclear terrorism, avian bird flu, kille...
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Malfi, Inc.

Theatre 54, 244 W. 54th St., 12th Floor  11/10/2010 to 11/21/2010

The Milk Can Theatre Company

A modern day adaptation of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, Malfi Inc. explores the deadly repercussions of a romance between an Upper East Side princess and her G.I. Joe....
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The Wife

Access Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th floor  12/2/2010 to 12/19/2010
THE WIFE follows a young Hasidic woman who befriends her gentrified neighbors — and what starts as an innocent relationship quickly spirals into a series of events that unravel their entire urban community. Set in a deconstructed playing environment exposing the Manhattan skyline, THE WIFE is a bla...
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"The Libertine"

Kirk Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  11/5/2010 to 11/20/2010

Joseph W. Rodriguez, Patricia Duran, Libby Arnold

He was the most notorious rake of the Restoration Age. Meet the Second Earl of Rochester (the Libertine), a complex and fascinating man who reveled in debauchery and the arts. He was an English poet, anti-monarchist Royalist, and an atheist who later converted to Christianity. This provocative and w...
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Mapping Möbius

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/2/2010 to 12/19/2010
The Möbius strip, named for German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius, is a surface with only one side. Most objects have at least two sides: a back and a front (inside and out). Because of the way it twists, a Möbius strip has only one. An ant moving along the "inside" would find itself "outside...
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Naked Holidays: NYC 2010

Ace of Clubs, 9 Great Jones Street  12/10/2010 to 12/30/2010
More singing! More dancing! More naked! A gleeful pageant filled with indulgent tidings for all the non-traditional purveyors of holiday mischief and merriment this holiday season. A variety bacchanalia fit for Samson himself....
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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Metropolitan Playhouse, 220 E 4th Street  11/13/2010 to 12/12/2010

The harrowing flight of Eliza’s family from Kentucky to Canada, pursued by bounty hunters. Meanwhile, “Uncle” Tom saves another family through his Christian virtue, only to be sacrificed to the merciless Simon Legree. A thrilling narrative, a touching portrait of sacrifice...and the source of endu...
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Goodbye New York, Goodbye Heart

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  12/1/2010 to 12/21/2010
What does it mean to be “alive” when we spend our lives in virtual worlds? In Goodbye New York, Goodbye Heart, Lally Katz plunges us into a phantasmagorical yet oh-so-recognizable cyber-universe where the living and the dead jostle, time doesn’t pass, and food never seems to fill you up. You can dow...
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Dancing at Lughnasa

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  12/4/2010 to 12/19/2010

This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. Their spare existence is interrupted by br...
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Haunting The Reynosos

IATI theater, 64 east 4th St  12/1/2010 to 12/12/2010

Haunting the Reynosos

Taking place on a fictitious Caribbean island, “Haunting the Reynosos” tells the story of a family of secrets that is being haunted by someone or something while they are in house arrest for the last ten years. Could this haunting be the guilt for the sins of the exiled family patriarch? Or a gove...
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ROOM 17B

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  1/13/2011 to 2/6/2011

What happens in ROOM 17B?

Step into ROOM 17B, an absurd physical comedy for the 21st century. Surreal, chaotic, mind-bending, and just plain silly - in other words, just another day at the office....
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

3ld Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street  11/18/2010 to 12/11/2010

An adaptation of Philip K. Dick's sci fi classic about androids and a bounty hunter, Rick Deckard, who loves them/loves to kill them. The book inspired the film Blade Runner, but this adaptation returns to the original novel's ideas about a post-apocalyptic world seeking resurrection through the re...
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The Painted Bird: Bastard

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  11/11/2010 to 11/21/2010
The Painted Bird Bastard (Part I) * Now Playing * Get Tickets * Get Directions First Floor Theatre Ellen Stewart Theatre The Club The Painted Bird Bastard (Part I) By Palissimo Company November 11 – November 21, 2010 Bastard is the first part of The Painted Bird trilogy, ...
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Broken Nails - A Marlene Dietrich Dialogue

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  11/11/2010 to 11/21/2010
Beautiful, determined, intelligent, controversial–Marlene Dietrich was a transcendent symbol of femininity, a lady of strong character and clear mind, a woman with claws. A fascinating figure to both men and women, Dietrich’s personality has also seduced Anna Skubik, a young Polish actress and puppe...
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H.G.Wells' THE TIME MACHINE

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  12/12/2010 to 1/10/2011

Frank Zilinyi is the Time Traveler.

Take off with Radiotheatre as it presents the most influential science fiction tale of all time...H.G.Wells' THE TIME MACHINE. Complete with story tellers, original symphonic sound track and a plethora of sound effects! ...
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Michael & Edie

Access Theater Black Box, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor  12/3/2010 to 12/19/2010

Matthew Micucci and Stephanie Wright Thompson, "Michael & Edie"

MICHAEL & EDIE. A new play by Rachel Bonds. A boy. A girl. A bookstore. Michael and Edie meet in a mysterious, mixed-up bookstore, where they bury themselves amongst stacks of books in an attempt to flee from the rest of their lives. Aisles turn into secret passages, snow falls from holes in the c...
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THE ORPHANS

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/2/2010 to 12/12/2010

Photo by Marius Chira (www.zbabam.com)

New York City, 2020: The continuing economic crisis has driven the government to privatize even the most basic resources, and the country has turned to violence to ensure its survival. A man joins a subversive militia. His only contact with them is through a stern female agent at a clandestine meeti...
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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  11/19/2010 to 6/4/2011

With its ever-changing “menu” of plays, Too Much Light... is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes—an original concept by Greg Allen and the Neo-Futurists. The audience is fully part of the act, deciding the order that these plays are performed. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble member...
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Nutcracker Rouge

303 Bond St Theater, 303 Bond St  12/10/2010 to 1/9/2011
a sparkling reimagining of the beloved Nutcracker tale told with erotic, sensual, and opulent flair. From the twisted mind of director/choreographer Austin McCormick comes this hedonistic display of gorgeous and decadent winter entertainment. …. Don’t miss this Baroque-Burlesque confection of dance,...
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The Exquisite Corpse Festival

Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 E. 26th St.  10/13/2011 to 10/22/2011

“Angel” by Stephanie Rubiano, Seth Apter, and John Borrero

The exquisite corpse is a game invented by the surrealists to establish a system of collaboration the celebrates fierce individualism....
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HO!

Drilling Company Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street  11/27/2010 to 12/19/2010
one man sols show in two parts. Ho is one part a giant poetic slam by master wordsmith Brian Dykstra in Seussian style describing the branding rights war to Ho-ho ho between Santa Calus and The Jolly Green Giant and the unknown story of Christmas tree named Sammy....
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Cold Snaps 2010

The Workshop Theater/ The Jewel Box , 312 W. 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  12/2/2010 to 12/18/2010

Cold Snaps 2010 at the WorkShop

Betrayal, Intrigue, Death, War and Art! Eight short plays to warm those warm winter nights. And not a holiday-themed piece among them!...
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Pass The Blutwurst, Bitte

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/2/2010 to 12/19/2010
Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte, John Kelly’s masterpiece of dance, film and music, dramatically depicts the life of Viennese expressionist, Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), whose erotic paintings once got him jailed for pornography. Originally presented at Dance Theater Workshop in 1986, it received an OBI...
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Tribute (forget me not)

Paul Michael's The Network, 312 W. 36th st, between th/8th ave  2/18/2011 to 2/18/2011

"Tribute(forget me not)" World PREMIER MUSICAL!!!! Inspired by the MUSIC. The LEGACY. The MYSTERY OF SAM COOKE & DONNY HATHAWAY, Explores the mystery behind their Music, legacy and sudden deaths, both Passing away at age of 33....
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RESERVOIR

Drilling Company Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street  1/6/2011 to 1/16/2011
a modern adaptation of Georg Buchner's "Woycek" in which a soldier returns from war, suffering from its affects and not finding the support ne needs....
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Home of the Great Pecan

Drilling Company Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street  1/20/2011 to 2/6/2011
comedy following the theft of the Great Pecan from the sleepy Texas town of Seguin, TX., and the battle for one woman to get one man down the aisle....
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The Inventor, The Escort, The Photographer, Her Boyfriend and His Girlfriend

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   1/6/2011 to 3/5/2011

A fairy tale and a farce,about the taboo things that make our worlds go 'round. You know, prostitution, infidelity, strawberry margaritas, bikinis, bad 80's movies, role playing and sexual recreational equipment.

The Inventor, The Escort, The Photographer, Her Boyfriend and His Girlfriend exposes the saucy story of Jeffrey, Julia, Karen, John and Molly: Five New Yorkers barricaded in one apartment building during the worst blizzard in City history...looking for love, lust and liquor in all the wrong places! ...
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A Wonderfully Flat Thing

14th Street Theatre, 344 E. 14th Street  12/18/2010 to 1/16/2011
A kid-oriented, innovative retelling of a Mark Twain short story using puppets, dance and interactive video projections. ...
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Alan Bowne's Beirut

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  1/8/2011 to 1/22/2011

Meital Dohan (Showtime’s Weeds, Monogamy) and Sammi Rotibi (Lord of War, Tears of the Sun) star in the revival of Alan Bowne’s gritty masterpiece, Beirut. A Brooklyn man is quarantined in the Lower East Side after being tested positive for a deadly, nameless virus. His girlfriend, who has not been i...
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Displaced Wedding

West End Theater, 263 West 86th  12/11/2010 to 1/2/2011
They've just survived genocide. Now they're in love. Is it too soon for a wedding?...
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EURYDICE by SARAH RUHL

The Bridge Theater, 244 West 54th St, 12th Fl  1/27/2011 to 2/6/2011
In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists...
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Immortal: The Gilgamesh Variations

The Bushwick Starr, 207 Starr Street  1/20/2011 to 1/30/2011

Immortal: The Gilgamesh Variations

An interlocking, interdependent stage adaptation of the Epic of Gilgamesh. ...
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The Secret History of the Swedish Cottage

Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre, 79th St. at West Drive  1/18/2011 to 5/31/2011

The Secret History of the Swedish Cottage is a puppet show about the origins of the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre. We follow the cottage from its construction in Sweden in 1875 to it's display in Philadelphia for America's centennial to it's move to it's current location in Central Park and tra...
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Connect Five: Four Plays, One Audience

Ars Nova, 511 West 54th Street  1/5/2011 to 1/16/2011

The Common Tongue’s Connect Five unites new writers with established playwrights in an evening of one-act plays by award winning writers Wendy MacLeod and Lucy Thurber and emerging playwrights Danny Mitarotondo and Bronwen Prosser. An exploration of what it means to connect with one another in this ...
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Carnival Round the Central Figure

IRT Theater, 154 Christopher St., 3rd floor  1/14/2011 to 1/30/2011

A wild ride into theatrical terrain that arouses the senses, in a space fantastically suited to its provocative energy, Carnival Round the Central Figure is the story of a young girl who takes five steps to the bedside of her dying friend, simply to acknowledge that he is dying and let him go. In a ...
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Dolores and North of Providence

Teatro La Tea, 107 Suffolk Street  1/27/2011 to 2/12/2011
Dolores: What started out for Dolores as a frantic search for shelter ends as usual in her sister Sandra's house, and becomes a reckoning with the mistakes they've made and the limits of acceptance. A harrowing portrait of the evolution of love, Dolores is the story of siblings and spouses, bruises ...
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In Your Image

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  2/10/2011 to 2/27/2011

Courtesy of Duane Tollison

In an Northern English town a man dies alone in his rubbish strewn apartment. As a life is picked over, packed up and set straight, what can be salvaged and what thrown out as trash? How much of who we are is left in what and who we leave behind? ...
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A Girl Wrote It

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  2/13/2010 to 2/19/2011

Wide Eyed Productions presents A Girl Wrote It. An evening of One-Act plays by women playwrights. Because just 17% of America's main stage productions are written by women, Wide Eyed attempts to tip the scales and expose eager audiences to more fantastic theatre. A Girl Wrote It is an ambitious even...
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INGENIUS SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  1/12/2011 to 1/22/2011
AN ECCLECTIC, ENTERTAINING AND THOUGH-PROVOKING SERIES OF SHORT PLAYS BY MEMBERS OF THE WRITERS' FORUM ON THE REALITIES OF HOPES AND DREAMS IN THE 21ST CENTURY. ...
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Gentrifusion

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  1/27/2011 to 2/13/2011

In GENTRIFUSION, playwrights Carla Ching, Joshua Conkel, Michael John Garcés, Jon Kern, Janine Nabers and Crystal Skillman, explore the truth behind the effects of gentrification on New York’s neighborhoods. ...
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The Drowsy Chaperone

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  1/29/2011 to 2/20/2011
A musical so fizzy, tart and intoxicating, it’ll go straight to your head! No, it’s not a vintage ‘28 Dom Perignon…it’s The Drowsy Chaperone, a wildly rambunctious and deliciously funny tribute to musical comedies of the Jazz Age. ...
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Dog Act

Flamboyan Theatre - CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  2/4/2011 to 2/20/2011

postcard art: Kristy Caldwell

Flux Theatre Ensemble presents DOG ACT. A theatrical, post-apocalyptic dark comedy, DOG ACT follows Zetta Stone, a traveling performer, and her companion Dog (a young man undergoing a voluntary species demotion) as they walk through the wilderness of the former U.S.A. with their vaudeville troupe. T...
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A Girl Wrote It.

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  2/3/2011 to 2/20/2011

Lisa Mamazza, Colin McFadden & Brianne Mai in The Return of Toodles Von Flooz

Wide Eyed Productions presents A Girl Wrote It. An evening of One-Act plays by women playwrights. Because just 17% of America's main stage productions are written by women, Wide Eyed attempts to tip the scales and expose eager audiences to more fantastic theatre. A Girl Wrote It is an ambitious even...
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Savage in Limbo

Drilling Company Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street  2/11/2011 to 3/5/2011

Savage in Limbo is a gutsy comedy by John Patrick Shanley. It's about a group of people who find themselves in a Bronx bar one night and decide to change their lives in big ways. A Drunk, a Virgin & a Ho. Is there hope?...
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The Changing Room

Gloria Maddox Theatre, 151 W. 26th St.  2/25/2011 to 4/3/2011

David Storey’s Tony Award-nominated play The Changing Room offers an intimate, revealing portrait of a Northern England semi-pro rugby league team. Set entirely in the team’s locker room over the course of one game, the documentary drama follows the working class athletes’ pre- and post-game ritual...
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LYSISTRATA

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  2/3/2011 to 2/13/2011
Adaptation of Aristophanes' LYSISTRATA featuring giant and life-size puppets...
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Stage Kiss

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  1/27/2011 to 3/5/2011

In STAGE KISS, Stolen Chair’s blank verse love letter to Charles Ludlam, two young virgins independently decide to escape the randy Neptune’s annual raping festival by donning drag and taking to the woods where the two newly butched “boys” fall deeply in lust. With a little help from a drunken Venus...
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Kinderspiel

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  2/3/2011 to 3/5/2011

Stolen Chair’s taboo-flaunting KINDERSPIEL tells the totally fabricated true story of a scandalous Weimar-era club where adults play like children...and customers pay to watch! In Berlin’s seedy and seditious demimonde, five lost souls find each other (and sold-out audiences) when their curious feti...
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The Rubber Room

Theatre 54, 244 W. 54th St., 12th Floor  2/11/2011 to 2/14/2011

THE RUBBER ROOM puts three infamous teachers in a new Reassignment Center and introduces a newcomer in their midst. They are each accused of a serious infraction about which each of them claims innocence. The new Security Guard already resents them. The teachers are raw, short-tempered, wounded an...
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Camp Wanatachi

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/21/2011 to 2/6/2011
Produced by Ian Pai (co-founder of Blue Man Group, music director of Fischerspooner), Bridget Regan (star of Disney-ABC’s Legend of the Seeker) and Lydia Cheuk, Camp Wanatachi follows the story of 13 year-old Jana—an impetuous, pubescent, born-again Christian. This summer, Jana’s world is turned ups...
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The Walk Across America For Mother Earth

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  1/19/2011 to 1/30/2011
The Walk Across America for Mother Earth combines Taylor Mac’s exuberant theatricality with the richly scored work of Talking Band to tell the story of a nine-month protest walk from New York to a Nevada Nuclear Test Site. Eighteen and eager to flee his suburban conservative upbringing, Taylor jo...
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disOriented

The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 416 West 42nd Street  2/16/2011 to 3/5/2011

The world premier of Kyoung H. Park's 'disOriented' directed by Carlos Armesto

disOriented tells the story of Ju Yeon, an immigrant living in New York, who has distanced herself from her Korean roots. When a sudden crisis hits her family, she must return to Korea and face the parents and the life she abandoned long ago. A dancing spirit caught between the worlds of tradition a...
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The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G

Incubator Arts Project, 131 East 10th Street  3/24/2011 to 4/16/2011
It’s been 10 years since Agent G has last been in Vietnam where his family and friends were all viciously slain. He’s now come back looking for answers and a good bit of revenge, however mysterious forces are at hand trying to stop him as well as the playwright from finishing this brutal task. ...
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

American Globe Theater, 145 West 46th Street, 3rd Floor   2/25/2011 to 3/20/2011

American Globe Theatre celebrates its’ 22nd season as Times Square’s longest running classical theatre with MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, the well-beloved comedy by William Shakespeare....
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MACHINAL

Interart Annex, 500 West 52nd Street  2/19/2011 to 3/14/2011

Blessed Unrest's MACHINAL by Sophie Treadwell

Written by Sophie Treadwell in 1928, Machinal is a powerful expressionist drama about women’s financial dependence on men, and one woman’s attempt to break free. It is a play about New York City, about claustrophobia, about the maddening banter of people going through the motions, about faith and Go...
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Korach

Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street  2/2/2011 to 2/26/2011

The Living Theatre

Korach is believed to be the first Anarchist in recorded history. His story takes place in the Book of Numbers in the The Torah/The Old Testament...
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The Killing Room

Teatro Círculo, 64 East 4th Street  3/10/2011 to 4/2/2011

Imagine the end of the world. Ancient, shrunken and constantly bickering, twin brothers Cy and Ed perpetuate their existence through blood transfusions and organ transplants. As young men, their greed was so insatiable and their capacity for brutality so great, they destroyed an entire civilization...
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The Great Divide

Metropolitan Playhouse, 220 E 4th Street  3/5/2011 to 4/3/2011
Men and women, East and West--the assumptions of an arrogant people and the lengths they will go to defy them are the subject of this lyrical play by the poet and playwright, William Vaughan Moody. The author of The Faith Healer, presented at Metropolitan in 2002. ...
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Bridge Boy

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   2/24/2011 to 3/5/2011
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   3/5/2011 to 3/19/2011

Photo by Suzi Sadler, feat. Maura Hooper as Grusha

Pipeline Theatre mounts Brechts parable-within-a-play with original music. In the chaos of revolution, a kitchen maid rescues an abandoned child of royal blood and protects him against all odds. Two years later, order restored, the child’s biological mother returns to reclaim him. Their case ...
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Purge

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  2/11/2011 to 2/20/2011
A manifestation of women’s resistance and survival in the face of violence, Sofi Oksanan merges the historical Soviet occupation of Estonia with human trafficking, tying the political to personal. History and love collide in this darkly poetic rhythmic elaboration. Written by Sofi Oksanen, directed ...
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Bad Seed

Nicu's Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th  4/6/2011 to 4/24/2011
Eight year old Rhoda Penmark is the perfect child, everything is child's play for her...even murder....
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The American Clock

Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue  3/3/2011 to 3/13/2011

Cast of The American Clock. Photo by Angela Radulescu

Arthur Miller's "vaudeville" about the Great Depression, based in part of Studs Terkel's Hard Times...
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The Shelter Presents Night Windows

The WorkShop Theater | Mainstage, 312 West 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  5/5/2011 to 5/15/2011

Night Windows by Edward Hopper. Postcard design by Jonathan Ashley.

Three original shorts inspired by the painting Night Windows by Edward Hopper....
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BESHARET

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  3/7/2011 to 3/27/2011

When a man unknowingly summons the past to haunt him in the form of a mysterious stranger, he and those around him must confront truths they conceal from each other and lies they tell themselves. Drawing on Jewish mysticism and folklore, Besharet throws truth, love, faith, even gender and sexuali...
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Us vs. Them

Roy Aria Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor  3/4/2011 to 3/26/2011
Dark Luna Productions presents the World Premiere AEA showcase of Us vs. Them, a dark and witty new play about broken people surmounting their inner cracks and outer conflicts. Read more: http://offoffbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/Dark_Luna_Productions_Presents_Us_vs_Them_3426_20110208#ixzz1...
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Pas-sage

Roy Arias Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street  3/12/2011 to 3/23/2011
Dark Luna Productions presents the World Premiere AEA showcase of Pas-sage, a dark comedy that looks at a couple whose success has left them with nothing to aspire to. Performances will be held at Roy Arias Studio’s Payan Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street in New York City on March 12-23, 2011. Michelle...
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The Human Comedy

Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 30-44 Crescent St  5/5/2011 to 5/28/2011
The coming-of-age tale focuses on young Homer Macauley, a telegram messenger who is exposed to the sorrows and joys experienced by his family and the residents of his small California town during World War II. Homer's mother Kate is struggling to support her children following the death of her husba...
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Fool For Love

Access Theater Black Box, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor  2/23/2011 to 3/5/2011
Artistic Director Rich Ferraioli of Variations Theatre Group decided to stage the gut wrenching 90 minute play Fool for Love after realizing that Off-Off-Broadway Theatre “needed a bit of an awakening”. The Sam Shepard classic, with its argumentative, ping pong style of dialogue and sexual tension s...
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Hold Music

Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street  3/12/2011 to 3/28/2011

Presented by the Culture Project's Women Center Stage: A symphonic story about the way people listen to each other and to the world around them, HOLD MUSIC takes us on a journey into the musical world of speech and memory, language and thought. Drawing upon live music, video, movement, and text to t...
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On Campus

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  3/10/2011 to 3/26/2011
On Campus reflects the pressures put upon university students who try to establish various relationships despite social and cultural differences. Meanwhile, a precarious bond between a student and professor throws all characters into a downward spiral, forcing everyone to help each other overcome t...
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Wild Blue

The Access Theater, 380 Broadway, 4th floor   3/29/2011 to 4/10/2011

Loosely based on The Wizard of Oz, Wild Blue imagines the hysterical and haunting moments that caused Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater to curse out passengers over the intercom, slide down the emergency slide, and become an instant Facebook sensation. In the second act, Steven escapes to a c...
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Three By the Sea

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  3/5/2011 to 4/10/2011

Photography by Arthur Cornelius

Ladies and gents, girls and boys, scalawags and scurvy dogs! ‘Tis time fer Three By the Sea! Join Buccaneer Bocephus Q. Fizziwater as he dives into a trio of tales about wondrous watery worlds telling the stories of “Paddy and the Mermaid,” “Coyote’s Moon” and “Foghorn Franny.” Mermaids, grizzled...
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Heaven On Earth

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  2/17/2011 to 2/27/2011

Heaven On Earth

In “Heaven on Earth,” a new play by Chuck Mee, Witness Relocation will apply its unique, pop-culture dance/theater style to a show about civilization’s chances of post-apocalyptic happiness. The show is a co-production with French company ildi! eldi, recently seen in New York performing their piece ...
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Arrah na Pogue

Theatre of the Church of Notre Dame, 114th Street and Morningside Park  3/11/2011 to 4/2/2011

Arrah na Pogue

Set in 1798, the classic Irish comedy is written by Dion Boucicault who uses the famed Rebellion as a backdrop for his tale of love, faith, loyalty and betrayal — with a smile. ...
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Things At The Doorstep: An Evening of Horror Based on the Works of H.P. Lovecraft

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  3/14/2011 to 3/26/2011

Designed by Paula Hoza

A disturbing double-bill of solo shows based on the works of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft...
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You Are Now the Owner of this Suitcase

PS 69, 77-02 37th Ave.  3/12/2011 to 3/27/2011

You Are Now the Owner of this Suitcase

A young woman arriving from Ecuador accidentally switches suitcases with a mysterious stranger. Her quest to recover the missing suitcase will lead her to encounter lovers, dreamers, fighters, a magical cell phone, books that come to life, and the best guitar player in the world. Picking up where...
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The Taming of the Shrew

The Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 3rd floor  3/17/2011 to 4/3/2011

Fresh from her Broadway debut in "The Merchant of Venice" with Al Pacino, Kim Martin-Cotten directs Shakespeare's hilarious tale of independent women and confirmed bachelors wrestling with "Co-independence." ...
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Things At The Doorstep: An Evening of Horror Based on the Works of H.P. Lovecraft (2)

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  1/6/2011 to 1/29/2011
A disturbing double-bill of solo shows based on the works of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft...
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The Bitter Poet: Looking For Love In All The Wrong Black Box Performance Spaces

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  2/25/2011 to 3/6/2011

The Bitter Poet

Comic performance artist, The Bitter Poet, presents a darkly humorous and satirical solo poetry reading mixing red shoes, black leather pants, a gold tux jacket, angst, and an electric guitar. What's it about? The search for True Love and the contortionists you meet along the way!...
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Spring EATFest 2011, Series A

TADA! Theater, 15 West 28th Street  3/7/2011 to 3/19/2011
Annual short play festival, series A ...
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Spring EATfest 2011 Series B

TADA! Theater, 15 West 28th Street  3/8/2011 to 3/20/2011
Spring EATfest, Series B...
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The Chiselers, EATfest Series C

TADA! Theater, 15 West 28th Street  3/9/2011 to 3/20/2011

What stinks in Sacramento? Find out in

"The Chiselers," THE CHISELERS was loosely inspired by a film that was loosely inspired by a book that was loosely inspired by actual events. ...
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Jitney

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  3/19/2011 to 4/3/2011

Jitney

Set in 1977 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh that is served by a makeshift taxi company, August Wilson’s Jitney is a beautiful addition to the author’s decade-by-decade cycle of plays about the black American experience in the twentieth century. The men who drive gypsy cabs, or “jitneys,” strive t...
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Feeder: A Love Story by James Carter

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  3/6/2011 to 3/27/2011

Feeder: A Love Story by James Carter follows the relationship of Jesse and Noel. Like thousands of other couples, they met online, fell in love, and got married. When Noel and Jesse delve into the fringe lifestyle of feederism they open themselves up to an extraordinary world of passion, love and fo...
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Three Sisters

The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  3/9/2011 to 3/26/2011

Three Sisters By Anton Chekov Opens Weds March 9th 9 - 12, 16 - 20 & 23 - 26th Tickets $18 Alberto Bonilla and the Queens Players will be presenting Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov opening on March 9th. Coming off his widely successful North of Providence and Dolores, which Martin Denton cal...
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Doctor Frankenstein's Magical Creature

Old First Reformed Church, 729 Carroll Street  3/17/2011 to 4/2/2011

Stanton Wood’s new play, DOCTOR FRANKENSTEIN'S MAGICAL CREATURE, tells the strange and wonderful story of the female creature. Both a sequel (to last fall’s THE TRAGIC STORY OF DOCTOR FRANKENSTEIN) and an independent play, this dynamic new version will feature multiple actors playing the same role, ...
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The H.P.Lovecraft Festival

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  3/17/2011 to 4/3/2011

H.P.Lovecraft

Six terrifying tales from the Grand Master of 20th Century Horror! Complete with a cast of great storytellers, an original orchestral score and Radiotheatre's award winning sound design. Two complete evenings of stories Program A&B. FOR MORE INFO: www.radiotheatrenyc.com ...
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Nuevo Laredo

Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street  4/8/2011 to 4/23/2011
Nuevo Laredo is a dance theater work linking the Day of the Dead tradition with the current narcocultura of the Mexican drug wars. The piece follows an assassin, a new-age drug lord and la Santa Muerte (Saint Death) as they go about their daily business in the fog of a rehab center and the ghost to...
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Trav S.D.'s Tent Show Tetragrammaton

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  3/17/2011 to 4/3/2011

Photo by Tom Bibla

Freaks! Witches! Mummies!Zombies! And that's just in the lobby! 4 original absurdist one acts by Trav S.D....
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"Catch Her in the Lie"

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   5/5/2011 to 5/22/2011
In a society where adults often say one thing, but often do another, how are youth to find the best way to live. "Catch Her in the Lie" will be a hilarious/perilous journey exploring hypocrisy, virtue and madness as teens process the hypocritical/unethical behavior of the adults around them....
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#serials@theflea

Flea Theatre, 41 White Street  3/11/2011 to 3/26/2011

#serials @ the flea

A raucous late night play competition in which 5 ensembles perform original 10-minute episodic plays by some of NYC’s hottest new playwrights....
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The Giver

Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  3/29/2011 to 4/20/2011

Jonas' world is perfect. Everything is under control and safe. There is no war or fear or pain. There are also no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. But when Jonas turns 12, he is chosen for special training from The Giver—to receive and keep the memories of the community. Th...
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Holiday in Hell

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor

He is a nasty old man - ugly and irascible. She is a beautiful young woman, caught in an endless nightmare between the living and the dead. When they meet in a seedy hospital room their lives are changed forever. Everyone thinks they have all the answers...until they've spent some time with Holiday ...
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The Timing of a Day

Center Stage, NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor  3/31/2011 to 4/17/2011
The Timing of a Day follows three New York City roommates who share a loving (if cramped) Harlem apartment and a similarly loving (if cramped) triangular friendship. As the play opens, the three find themselves navigating the regular ups and downs of city life, and the unpleasant question of where t...
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Sex on Sunday

Urban Stages, 259 West 30th Street  3/19/2011 to 4/3/2011

Sex on Sunday by Chisa Hutchinson

Everyone wants to know Laila Meeks' secret for success. Having just moved into a lavish apartment in an affluent neighborhood, Laila peaks the curiosity of her nosey and delightful catty neighbors. The local ladies are desperate to find out just who Laila is and the juicy details of her mysterious p...
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The Family Shakespeare

June Havoc Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 1st Floor  4/14/2011 to 4/30/2011

Henrietta has always been enraptured by the works of William Shakespeare. When she dangerously invites an innocent boy into her magical world, she discovers her family has not only censored the Bard, but also kept her from one of his most scandalous tales. Will their actions crush her imagination, m...
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The Umbrella Plays

The Tank, 354 West 45th St.  3/31/2011 to 4/10/2011

Stephanie Janssen in THE UMBRELLA PLAYS/ photo by: Jimmy Ryan

Written by Stephanie Janssen and directed by Daniel Talbott (art. dir. Rising Phoenix Rep, Keep Your Baggage With You (at all times)), The Umbrella Plays connects six snap-shot-sized plays, each offering a glimpse into the lives of a disparate (and sometimes desperate) cast of characters, as they wo...
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A SHOT AWAY: Personal Accounts of US Military Sexual Trauma

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  3/31/2011 to 4/17/2011

A Shot Away is a docu-drama about sexual assault in the US military; based entirely on interviews with American soldiers who have been sexually assaulted by their "fellow" soldiers. Through her mother and sister, we also meet Tina Priest whose rape allegedly caused her to take her own life, or did ...
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Birds on Fire

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   3/17/2011 to 4/3/2011

top: Gusta Johnason, Tommy Kearney; bottom: Anna Podolak, Amanda Yachechak:

Birds on Fire, a musical drama, portrays what might have been the lives of four unidentified victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Greenwich Village. The production is part of the commemoration of the 100 year anniversary of the disaster. ...
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The Soldier Dreams

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  3/25/2011 to 4/9/2011

The Soldier Dreams

THE SOLDIER DREAMS surrounds a family gathered at the bed of a man who lies dying and dreams of his secret life. We witness his two sisters, Tish and Judy, his brother-in-law Sam, and his partner Richard wrestle with emotions—and sometimes each other—as they struggle to come to terms with losing Dav...
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Macbeth

Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St  3/10/2011 to 3/27/2011
What would you do for power, riches, and worldwide glory? For Macbeth and his wife, nothing will stand in their way. After all on the path to greatness, what's one more murder, more or less? Follow the deadly duo on their dark, spiraling journey through the occult, transcendental bloodlust and mur...
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Twelfth Night

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  3/30/2011 to 4/16/2011

The Seeing Place, known for its intense and intimate work, brings you a modern staging of Shakespeare's greatest comedy. With an ensemble-driven approach, focusing on the human behavior behind the classic story, this is an evening of fun, music, and lovestruck madness that you won't want to miss. ...
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Narrator 1

Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  5/11/2011 to 5/28/2011

Image by Jonathan Ashley

Zara and Dan are two writers facing a crisis somewhere between mid and quarter life. These seem-to-be-perfect-for-each-other friends could come together or their written creations - some pesky narrators, some teens in love, and a mysteriously haiku spouting man - have the potential to keep the...
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vanya

2 Great Jones, 2 Great Jones St.  4/14/2011 to 4/30/2011
Love will cure all. But love may be nothing more than an illusion. This play is about people who lose hope and desperately try to understand life's meaning through love. When love fails to provide hope, they turn to the language of music; a language Vanya desperately wants to speak....
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Four by Tenn

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  4/9/2011 to 4/23/2011

Four by Tenn, Four Works by Tennessee Williams is American Bard Theater Company’s tribute to a true American Bard. These four lesser known plays, written over a span of 40 years, provide a dose of his genius, his bold, bawdy jabs at life and his keen perception of emptiness. Small...
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The Little Mermaid

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  3/12/2011 to 5/22/2011
Once upon a time there was a little mermaid who dreamed of the day when she would finally be old enough to explore the wonders of the world above the sea. When her turn comes, she is not disappointed. In fact she saves a young prince from drowning in a shipwreck and falls deeply in love with him. No...
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LIZZIE BORDEN AT EIGHT O'CLOCK

The Workshop Theater/ The Jewel Box , 312 W. 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  3/24/2011 to 4/3/2011

"Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks..." or did she? The infamous crime remains unsolved. Now Lizzie Borden at eight o'clock promises to reveal everything. By: Mitch Giannunzio Directed By: Kenneth Tigar Thurs, March 24 & Fri March 25, 8pm Sat, March 26, 2pm & 8pm...
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Locker #4173b

The Monkey NYC, 37 W.26th Street  5/3/2011 to 5/21/2011

Borg and Joey aren't REAL archaeologists But they bought a storage locker at auction And they cataloged EVERY item inside Then they wrote a play about what they found... Locker # 4173b. is a recession-era story told in depression-era style that asks the question “What does our “stuff” tell us about ...
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The Drunken City

Shetler Studio 54, 244 West 54th St., 12th Floor  4/27/2011 to 5/7/2011
Off on the bar crawl to end all crawls, three twenty-something brides-to-be find their lives going topsy-turvy when one of them begins to question her future after a chance encounter with a recently jilted handsome stranger. The Drunken City is a wildly theatrical take on the mystique of marriage an...
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Fall and Recover

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  3/26/2011 to 4/9/2011

Kiribu - Fall and Recover

A breakout performance of the Dublin Dance Festival ’09, emerging from workshops with clients of Centre for Care for Survivors of Torture located in Dublin, Ireland mixes two outstanding Irish dancers with a cast of 11 torture survivors from nine countries. Celebrating the power of the human spirit,...
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Hanako Junction

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  4/11/2011 to 4/30/2011

Hanako & Auguste Rodin in an embrace

Auguste Rodin was first introduced to the Japanese dancer and actress Hanako, a featured member of Loie Fuller's dance troupe in 1906. Captivated by her beauty and strength, her dramatic renditions in scenes of dying, Rodin was thrilled to have Hanako become one of his model. A fascinating woman, ...
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The Tremendous Tremendous

Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  3/31/2011 to 4/16/2011

Meet the Abbotts

It is closing night of the 1939 World's Fair. The Tremendous Traveling Abbotts enter their dressing room for the closing night soiree. This family loves to drink, dance, sing, drink, bicker and drink. An unsettling secret might just rear it's ugly head....
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Wisdom Of Obscurity

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  4/14/2011 to 4/30/2011

Sammy, an angry twenty-something Londoner, has had it with society; especially when his degree in media studies can't land him a job. Pushed over the edge by a price increase at the local chip shop, he begins to lash out in an ever-increasing cycle of violence, helped in part by his encounter with a...
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The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret

Paradise Factory Theatre, 64 E 4th Street  4/8/2011 to 4/30/2011

Eight gender stereotypes. Countless dance breaks. One intimately outrageous cabaret. And one androgynous, omnipotent emcee to guide them all… This is the story of a Feminist Lesbian, a Gay Best Friend, a Tomboy, a Nice Guy, a Slut, a Player, a Manly Man, a Girly Girl, and a None-Of-The-Above. This i...
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The Un-Marrying Project

Paradise Factory Theatre, 64 E 4th Street  4/9/2011 to 4/30/2011

Welcome to The Un-Marrying Project, a documentary film by Simon and Kim. Maybe you’ve heard of them? (No, you probably haven’t.) Anyway. In this film, legally (and “happily”) married couples will divorce! In the name of gay marriage! And not get re-married until marriage is legal for everyone! Join ...
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Paper Dragon

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  4/17/2011 to 4/30/2011
The Lamb household is filled with friends and perfect strangers trying to figure out what it means to really live. Ronnie Lamb brings home strangers to protect herself from emotional hurt and loneliness. Walter Lamb attempts to numb his pain by popping pills. Will they ever learn the truth, which An...
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First Prize

ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street  4/28/2011 to 5/21/2011

This world premiere production by renowned concert pianist and award-winning writer, Israela Margalit, explores a young woman’s quest for glory and fulfillment in the cutthroat world of classical music. Inspired by her real-life experience, Margalit weaves a story of colorful characters with wit, ch...
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Elephants on Parade 2011

The Fourth Street Theater, 83 East 4th Street  4/5/2011 to 4/16/2011

Design by Montgomery Sutton, photo by Jonathan Wexler

This year’s festival features five world premieres and one New York area premiere that expose the fears and horrors underlying modern American life. Daniel Welser Carrol’s “The Day the Devil Passed Through Harper County” recounts a pivotal moment in the life of a rural couple that calls into questio...
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NAVY PIER

The Studio Theater @ Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street  5/5/2011 to 5/22/2011

Find your own voice....
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Dear Ruth

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  5/4/2011 to 5/21/2011

Retro Productions presents DEAR RUTH by Norman Krasna

It's WWII, and teenager Miriam Wilkins can't keep her nose out of other people's affairs. Fired up by patriotism Miriam begins a pen pal relationship with an Air Corps officer. Using her older sister Ruth's name and image, Miriam presents herself as a morale boosting love interest, never thinking ...
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Fabulous Darshan

The WorkShop Theater | Mainstage, 312 West 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  6/2/2011 to 6/25/2011

Fabulous Darshan

The Wisdom of Experience... The Exuberance of Youth... The Choreography of Showgirls! Bob Stewart's Fabulous Darshan is a comedy about the transforming dance of friendship & mentoring among three generations of NYC actors (with the help of an ancient Deity). ...
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One-Third of a Nation

Metropolitan Playhouse, 220 E 4th Street  4/23/2011 to 5/22/2011
Revisiting the Federal Theater Project, Metropolitan revives a living newspaper, documenting the cycle of poverty; the valiant attempts to break it; and the callous forces that keep it spinning. Inspired by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Second Innaugural Address!...
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Under The Blue Sky

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  5/19/2011 to 6/5/2011

Under The Blue Sky

David Eldridge's award winning play UNDER THE BLUE SKY (2001 Time Out Live Award for Best New Play in the West End; 2009 Theatregoers Choice Award for Best New Play),is a darkly comic play about the tangled love lives of three seemly-unconnected couples, and what they each learn about the nature of ...
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Oliver!

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  4/30/2011 to 5/22/2011

Gallery Players

As the orphan Oliver journeys from the workhouse to the slums of Victorian London, he encounters such colorful and iconic characters as the cunning Artful Dodger, the wily Fagin, and the menacing Bill Sykes. Lionel Bart’s take on the famous Dickens novel “Oliver Twist” has become a musical theater c...
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I Plead Guilty

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  5/18/2011 to 5/29/2011
I PLEAD GUILTY is an original interactive play written by Natalia Pelevine. We witness a correlation between two women-the journalist Natasha and ‘black widow’- terrorist- Seda. Their relationship, tense, difficult and dangerous takes an unforeseen turn, when Seda, previously wearing a veil, reveal...
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Paper Cranes

Access Theater Black Box, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor  4/15/2011 to 5/8/2011
Paper Cranes follows five people in a modern American town who are connected through a chain of surprising relationships, each desperate to break free from a haunted past in order to find a better future....
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Raven

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  4/8/2011 to 4/24/2011
“Raven” is a performance piece created by Virlana Tkacz with Yara Arts Group and Ukrainian artists, inspired by Oleh Lysheha’s poem of the same title. Acknowledged by many to be the best contemporary poet in Ukraine, Oleh Lysheha is a “poet’s poet.” The 1999 book, “The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha...
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Squealer

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   5/5/2011 to 5/21/2011
Squealer follows an ambitious pork farmer with a roving eye who moves in with a widowed single mother and her teenaged daughter. When he can't get what he wants, things get bloody. A full-on taste of America's poverty-soaked obsession with consumerism and our unquenchable thirst for more, whether it...
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Life Encounters

Payan Theater, 300 W 43 St Room 506  5/24/2011 to 5/29/2011

Michelle F. Hartley

Michelle F. Hartley performs a one woman show that highlights the interesting and compelling folks encountered over a lifetime of experiences and relationships. Dramatic/ Comedic...
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Just A Reading

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  4/28/2011 to 5/15/2011

Alan Watson, NYC playwright turned Hollywood golden boy, returns to Looking Glass Theatre to present a reading of his first new play in eight years. But this isn’t the play anyone expected. This is a new script. About them. Just a Reading is a play about the reading of a play - a play Alan has wri...
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You Never Can Tell

T. Schreiber Studio, 151 W. 26th St., 7th fl. (between 6th and 7th)  5/12/2011 to 6/19/2011

George Bernard Shaw’s side splitting comedy, You Never Can Tell, was born out of a bet: that Shaw could not write a seaside comedy, an extremely popular genre in 1890s England. Shaw, the only person to win an Oscar and the Nobel Prize for Literature, succeeds on his own terms, offering a hilarious ...
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ArtCamp SexyTime FootBall

Interart Annex, 500 West 52nd Street  5/5/2011 to 5/23/2011

ArtCamp SexyTime FootBall

Gratuitous nudity, faux intellectualism, and a parade. There is something shocking for everyone in this game of gay and straight, hot fantasy and cold reality. "ArtCamp SexyTime FootBall" is a smutty, sweaty, epic exploration of violence, betrayal and desire. This original creation, born out o...
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Snow White

The New acting Company, 219 Sullivan Street  4/22/2011 to 5/15/2011

Evil lurks in the forest. Photo by Sarah Hoppes

Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all? Well, Snow White is of course and everything ends up Happily Ever After! Or does it?...
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Being Harold Pinter

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  4/21/2011 to 5/15/2011

Belarus Free Theatre

A poignant contemporary commentary on violence, oppression, freedom and human dignity. The performance is based on the following texts: "Mountain Language," "One Fot The Road," "The Homecoming," "Old Times," "Ashes to Ashes" and "The New World Older" all by Harold Pinter, Harold Pinter's Nobel Speec...
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The Father

Robert Moss Theater, 440 Lafayette Street  6/11/2011 to 6/25/2011
The theme of the play is, a woman’s driving her husband to insanity by making him doubt that he is the father of their child. The dramatist goes to work immediately, shows the man’s ideas and habits, then the woman’s, and proceeds to show how she accomplishes her purpose....
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The Spring Fling

IRT Theater, 154 Christopher St., 3rd floor  4/27/2011 to 5/8/2011
Berman. Brunstetter. Halfnight. Keller. McGraw. Oliver. Schultz. Ziegler. Maybe your girlfriend's parents are crazy. Maybe your co-worker is always drunk. Maybe you're pregnant. And the father is MIA. You deserve a Spring Fling: short plays, short commitment. F*It Club, in associa...
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They That Have Borne The Battle: One-Act Festival

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   5/5/2011 to 5/28/2011

a one-act festival celebrating men and women who have served their countries...
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Summer

Turtle's Shell Theater, 300 W. 43rd St., 4th floor  4/29/2011 to 5/30/2011
There is often a great gulf between the dreams of a young girl and the realities of the world in which she lives. For Charity Royall, a young librarian with little education, few friends and a longing for another life, big dreams and true love are seemingly beyond her reach. Adapted by Martin M. Zuc...
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We couldn't call it what we wanted to call it, so we called it HOLY CRAP!!"

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  4/28/2011 to 5/15/2011
The play that rocked Spain and the world. The most controversial play in a generation that caused Madrid’s archbishop to demand that it be banned, and incited thousands to march in the streets in protest....
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Project: Lohan

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  4/29/2011 to 5/15/2011
A multi-media experience chronicling the life of Lindsay Lohan: actress, singer and tabloid queen. With only found text and images from tabloids, magazines, entertainment TV and Internet gossip sites, Lohan’s arc from Disney starlet to convicted felon is reconstructed in an evocative timeline as bot...
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Santa Claus is Coming Out

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  5/11/2011 to 5/19/2011

Photo by David Derr

SANTA CLAUS IS COMING OUT...
OR HOW THE GAY AGENDA CAME DOWN MY CHIMNEY
 a theatrical mockumentary
 Written and Performed by Jeffrey Solomon
 Directed by Joe Brancato Inspired by theatrical documentarians Anna Deveare Smith and The Laramie Project, Mr. Solomon purport...
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Woman of Leisure and Panic

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  5/11/2011 to 5/19/2011

Photo by Matt Sundin

WOMAN OF LEISURE AND PANIC
 Created, Choreographed and Performed 
by Charlotte Bydwell A recent graduate of The Juilliard School and celebrated performer with choreographers such as Monica Bill Barnes and Larry Keigwin, Charlotte Bydwell makes her solo show debut with “Woman of Leisu...
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...and stockings for the ladies

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  5/12/2011 to 5/20/2011

Performer Brendan McMurtry-Howlett

…and stockings for the ladies Performed by Brendan McMurtry-Howlett, Written by Attila Clemann, Directed by Zach Fraser; Victory Day streamers have barely landed and two Canadian airmen are sent into occupied Germany. Amidst a sea of survivors and an obstinate military, their conviction is put to...
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POLANSKI, POLANSKI

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  5/12/2011 to 5/20/2011

Photo by Nancy Keegan

In this hyper-physical monodrama performed by Grant Neale, playwright Saviana Stanescu (on of NYTheatre.com 2010 People of the Year) has imagined three threshold moments in the life of the famed film director Roman Polanski. Under the direction of 3 time SoloNOVA director Tamilla Woodard, this fast ...
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Questions My Mother Can't Answer

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  5/21/2011 to 5/27/2011

Photo by David Flores

Innovative Theatre Award-winning solo artist Andrea Caban is back with her sold-out 2010 FringeNYC hit. She’s on a mind-body-soul healing mission after being hit by a New York City cab. Searching for guidance she interviews eight “women-of-a-certain-age”. How do a sexy Moroccan ballroom dancer, a do...
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Shakespeare's Slave

Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  5/24/2011 to 6/18/2011
What if William Shakespeare had never written Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear and all his other later masterpieces? In 1596, Shakespeare had a creative crisis. Broke and bedeviled by self-doubt, he was unable to write the “Henry IV” play commissioned by the Lord Chamberlain. The question of wh...
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H4

Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  5/27/2011 to 6/18/2011
Prince Hal, the future King Henry V, is hiding from his destiny in the darkest, seediest outreaches of society. Hal must learn to adapt to the ways of being a king, or be engulfed by the onslaught of the fierce conspiracy against his father’s reign. The production will conjure the ferocious charact...
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The Matra India, a performance-art play

Robert Moss Theater, 440 Lafayette Street  6/8/2011 to 6/24/2011

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An ancient matra made of loom warp wool incites a perceptive discovery of self. ...
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Baltimore in Black and White

the cell, 338 W. 23rd Street  5/11/2011 to 5/21/2011

A young woman is about to marry an old friend of the family. The only problem: she's white and Jewish; he's black... and not. This laugh-out-loud ensemble comedy looks at how far we've come (and how far we haven't) over the past two decades by exploring two Baltimore family's relationships in 1...
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UNVILLE BRAZIL

Drilling Company Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street  6/1/2011 to 6/11/2011
A Stranger from Unville Brazil, the sustainable city of the future, sings the tale of how his nation was founded. It begins in an America where a greedy mega-corporation bought the land to create the world’s largest landfill. Three lost souls; Jack, Jill and Churchill sift through piles of trash for...
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Sweeter Dreams

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  6/2/2011 to 6/25/2011
Sweeter Dreams is a new play by Duncan Pflaster. It's about Luisa Lambert, an independent filmmaker, and the two men she's in love with: Brad, the handsome young actor who appears shirtless in all her movies, and Thomas, her solid and well-meaning husband. Meanwhile, TV Film Critic Roberta LeFay s...
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Ajax in Iraq

Flamboyan Theatre - CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  6/3/2011 to 6/25/2011

postcard art: Kristy Caldwell

Flux Theatre Ensemble presents the NY premiere of Ellen McLaughlin's AJAX IN IRAQ. Past and present collide in Ellen McLaughlin's mash-up of Sophocles' classic play Ajax and today's war in Iraq. The play follows the parallel narratives of the ancient Greek military hero Ajax and a female American so...
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Daydream

Prospect Park's Imagination Playground, playground across street from 163 Ocean Avenue  6/4/2011 to 6/26/2011

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6th Annual production of Daydream, a 45-minute family-friendly adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," good for those aged 3 - 103. When a group of construction workers come to rehearse a play in Prospect Park—they stumble into a battle between the King and Queen of the Fairies. Mag...
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The Short Fall

Teatro IATI, 64 east 4th St  6/3/2011 to 6/18/2011
The Short Fall is a rollicking satire about America's current obsession with notoriety at any cost. Average housewife Tabby Fodder is horrified when her socially challenged family faces a fall from grace. It's not the fall that worries her, but the lack of vertical distance they're doomed to pl...
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JOBZ

P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  5/21/2011 to 5/28/2011

In his newest show, the musician and monologuist takes the audience on a twisted and hilarious ride through the underworld -- the underworld of low-level jobs he has held in the NY arts....
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A Night of Deadly Serious Comedies: Ionesco's 'The Future is in Eggs' & Pirandello's 'Sicilian Limes'

Turtle's Shell Theater, 300 W. 43rd St., 4th floor  6/17/2011 to 6/26/2011

Joseph Hendel, Lauren Rayner Productions, and ADEV Inc. present Eugene Ionesco's The Future is in Eggs and Luigi Pirandello's Sicilian Limes two forgotten modernist plays that are incredibly relevant in an age of economic scarcity, political pessimism, and cultural disaffection. Through strong impro...
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Demon Dreams

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  7/8/2011 to 7/17/2011
A hip hop story theater play for all audiences...
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Bound

NYTW's 4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street  6/8/2011 to 6/18/2011
A bold re-imagining of the Prometheus and Pandora myths. They are both BOUND: she to the legacy of her act of opening the fated "box,” he to the confines of his desolate mountain crag. They are both tortured by the results of their actions…but are they bound forever to pay for them? ...
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  6/3/2011 to 6/12/2011

Adam Aguirre and Jordan Gray as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

An intimate, limited-run presentation of Tom Stoppard's hauntingly hilarious classic. Set amidst the illusionist craze of the Victorian era, Big Rodent’s production of this classic show brings these two hopeless dreamers straight into our lives, where their struggle to understand parallels our over...
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THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING

Walkerspace, 46 Walker Street  5/21/2011 to 6/11/2011

A charismatic soldier bursts through the mayor’s window demanding to be hanged. A sensual woman, condemned as a witch, flees a homicidal mob threatening bloody revolution. A beautiful virgin has the town’s young men trying to kill each other. All in all, a rough day for a medieval town equally fond ...
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Mrs.Perfect! and the Unexpected Visit of Evil!

The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave  6/10/2011 to 7/1/2011
Mrs. Perfect, an ex –super heroine disgraced from her “indie” superhero community, currently knocked up and surly as all hell, finds herself drawn by into the “Super Game” by her old arch villains to fight a new common enemy: her ex and only love, Mr. Perfect. The only way to do it is to steal back ...
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Civilization!

Roy Arias Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street  6/16/2011 to 6/26/2011

Come to beautiful Civilization!

Welcome to Civilization: The society of the future, tomorrow! Come explore the lush jungle with its legendary large pig creatures. Hunt and gather with the men, or if you perfer learn the art of tending to wounds and child-rearing at any of our four-star thatch roof huts. Every room has an ocean vie...
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As It Is In Heaven

Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street  5/20/2011 to 6/11/2011

A a revival of the play by Arlene Hutton, set in the Shaker Community in Kentucky in the 1830s. The arrival of Fanny upsets the community's harmony and routine, and her visions reignite their once dramatic form of worship. But the devout Eldress Hannah, who has lived her entire life preparing to wal...
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The Alexis & Destiny Chronicles: Love Sick & Sick of Love

Producer's Club, 358 West 44th Street

"The Alexis & Destiny Chronicles: Love Sick & Sick of Love" is a cautionary tale that explores the challenges involved in balancing a best friend relationship and a new love. Alexis (Lexy) is a strong minded, career oriented woman. While Destiny (Dee) on the other hand, is a self absorbed, insecu...
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Yes We Can

Walkerspace, 46 Walker Street  6/17/2011 to 7/2/2011

As a historic candidacy pushes the nation ever deeper into an identity crisis of epic proportions, Larry turns to Le Jean for a shared sense of outrage after witnessing a racially-charged incident on a New York City bus. Le Jean’s baffling response sends a whole handful of her fellow citizens into ...
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The Play About My Dad

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  6/16/2011 to 7/4/2011

Larry Killebrew is a man of few words. THE PLAY ABOUT MY DAD is a look at Larry. His select words. His family. His job. His friends. His community of Gulfport, Mississippi. The hurricane that almost turned Gulfport into a coral reef. All through his daughter, Boo. The playwright. Larry wou...
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Much Ado About Nothing

Central Park Lawn, 69th Street and CPW  6/18/2011 to 7/17/2011

When returning soldiers come home from war, the romantic battles begin! Beatrice loves and hates Benedick at the same time, returning his amour with each stinging put down and quip. Benedick loves the game when he is winning, and despises Beatrice when he is not. On the sundrenched hills of Italy, h...
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SKIN FLESH BONE

Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  6/15/2011 to 6/25/2011

skin flesh bone - the story of two poets, two builders and the bridge between them.

SkinFleshBone tells a tale of love, lies, and language; of a house built in the air, and a summer with all her blood, her teeth and muscles. For more details go to www.goingtotahitiproductions.com...
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How and Why I Robbed My First Cheese Store

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  5/26/2011 to 6/5/2011
A homeless playwright turns the tables on the patronizing Artistic Director of a downtown theater to pull off a potent Page Six story headline, if not the most absurd heist of all time. Featuring video, photography, cheese and a life-size taxidermy horse. Written by Mike Gorman...
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Ricky Ian Gordon's Orpheus and Euridice

The DUO Theater, 62 East 4th Street  6/2/2011 to 6/12/2011

Completed in 2001, Ricky Ian Gordon's hour-long song cycle "Orpheus and Euridice" is the most recent interpretation of the Orphic myth by a major composer. The text, which he wrote himself, is at once timeless and highly personal. The music is epic in scope while still maintaining the blend of moder...
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Mauritius

Urban Stages, 259 West 30th Street  6/10/2011 to 6/19/2011

Play by Theresa Rebeck...
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Tarragona

The Workshop Theater/ The Jewel Box , 312 W. 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  6/9/2011 to 6/18/2011

a far away place

What office worker during his hum drum work day doesn't dream of a far away place with an exotic name...
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Down the Road

ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street  6/16/2011 to 6/26/2011

Wayfinder Films

A young Korean War veteran returns home to California to find his parents have died in a house fire and his wife has left him for another man. Having no other family he leaves for Middle America in search of a distant cousin. When he arrives, he finds a woman with five daughters living in a small...
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The Trojan Women

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  7/7/2011 to 7/23/2011

Amy Lee Pearsall as Hecuba with Melissa Johnson as Cassandra in The Trojan Women

Wide Eyed re-imagines Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN, antiquity’s most powerful play about the eternal tragedy of war. This ensemble driven piece brings the ancient text to new life with heart-pounding immediacy inspired by current American military operations. THE TROJAN WOMEN is directed by Kristi...
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Macbeth

Carroll Park, Carroll Street  7/13/2011 to 7/24/2011

photographer Chris Montgomery

Smith Street Stage returns to Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens neighborhood for another run of Shakespeare in Carroll Park. Following last summer's Romeo and Juliet, Smith Street Stage will present the tragedy of blood, Macbeth. A small cast, live music, gifted actors and modern dress will once again be f...
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The 2nd H.P.Lovecraft Festival

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  7/7/2011 to 7/31/2011

Radiotheatre presents Lovecraft's greatest tales of terror - REANIMATOR and THE CALL OF CTHULHU...
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Oscar Wilde's Salome

Flea Theatre, 41 White Street  7/9/2011 to 7/23/2011

Karina Fernicola-Ikezoe in Salome

Oscar Wilde wrote Salome in French, in 1891, and the play premiered in Paris, in 1896. Salome tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, step-daughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her step-father's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Iokanaan (John th...
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This is Not the Play

Theaterlab, 137 W 14th St.  6/22/2011 to 7/3/2011

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How the Day Runs Down

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  7/6/2011 to 7/24/2011

Merge Our Town with Dawn of the Dead and you have a slight idea of what happens when a small town is overrun by the undead. Best described as Our Town with zombies, with Thornton Wilder's Stage Manager moving between the different townspeople's stories to describe not their mundane sorrows and joys,...
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Give In To Sin

TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor  7/15/2011 to 7/31/2011

It may be a sin, but in make-believe, everything’s fair game. Three audience members get to be the protagonist in an interactive, spontaneous short story. Choose your favorite deadly sin and play it to the hilt. Maybe you’ll satisfy your darker side. Maybe you’ll just add fuel to the fire. Participa...
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Cravings

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  7/7/2011 to 7/23/2011

Cravings

5TH ANNUAL ONE ACT SERIES CRAVINGS SIX PLAYS THAT EXPLORE HUMAN DESIRE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ...
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The F*cking World According To Molly

Laurie Beechman Theatre/West Bank Cafe, 407 W. 42nd St.   8/13/2011 to 9/2/2011

Mollly

Molly “Equality” Dykeman is a barely lucid poet/security guard at PS 339 and a lovable train wreck who is having her first poetry show. Will bed bugs, Percocet, the love of her life and sissy kids get in her way? Michael Musto of the Village Voice says "Molly Dykeman is much funnier--and butcher--t...
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The Crucible

Paradise Factory Theatre, 64 E 4th Street  7/13/2011 to 7/31/2011
Edmund Burke is credited with saying “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” If this idea were a fire then the story of the Crucible is the spark. It starts with something small: a young girl’s lie. Unassuming and insignificant by itself, but left unchecked and i...
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Romeo and Juliet

Paradise Factory Theatre, 64 E 4th Street  7/15/2011 to 7/31/2011
If the Crucible is the beginning, Romeo and Juliet is the end; is the wildfire. We all know the story of two star crossed lovers, but the real story is the circumstances surrounding the pair. The story of two families operating under assumptions and lies; locked in a feud which no one can remember t...
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Brilliant Traces

ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street  7/7/2011 to 7/24/2011
BRILLIANT TRACES follows the journey of a runaway bride forced to seek shelter at a remote cabin deep in the wilds of Alaska, home to a reclusive hermit. As a blizzard rages outside the two struggle with the truth about the lives they’re both desperately trying to escape. Can two lonely and fracture...
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BrainExplode!

Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  7/14/2011 to 7/30/2011

The year is 1987, and renowned game designer Ray Pinter has a problem: his brain has been wired to explode in 60 minutes. In this fully interactive theatrical experience, audience members will navigate Ray through a live-action adventure game, giving him commands as he confronts futuristic technolog...
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Romeo & Juliet

Saint Charles Borromeo, 21 Sidney Place  7/14/2011 to 7/24/2011
This is "Romeo & Juliet" with a Muslim/Hindu theme that was inspired by recent news events. It will be a fast paced 90 minute version with eight actors and four puppets. The show will be performed at Saint Charles Borromeo Church and Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn Heights, before touring to the Do...
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Romeo and Juliet

Brooklyn Bridge Park, 334 Furman Street  7/30/2011 to 7/31/2011
This is "Romeo & Juliet" with a Muslim/Hindu theme that was inspired by recent news events. It will be a fast paced 90 minute version with eight actors and four puppets. The show will be performed at Saint Charles Borromeo Church and Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn Heights, before touring to the Do...
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Bad Evidence

the cell, 338 W. 23rd Street  7/7/2011 to 7/31/2011

A faltering marriage compels a husband and wife to make a pact-to confess searing truths in the heat of passion. The exposure leads to a confrontation with four of their friends, and even deeper revelations....
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

the cell, 338 W. 23rd Street  7/5/2011 to 7/31/2011

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, which casts Hermia and Lysander as lesbian lovers with Demetrius and Helena as a gay couple. This is not your grandmother’s MIDSUMMER, but a MIDSUMMER for 21st century NYC. This production exposes contemporary America’s sexual hang-ups and resistance to gay marriage. Co...
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Red Cloud Rising

Bydder Financial, 30 Broad Street / 14th Floor  7/9/2011 to 9/25/2011

From the award-winning creator of the hit iPod noir Suspicious Package comes an entirely new adventure! Alternate Reality Gaming meets theater in Gyda Arber’s Red Cloud Rising, a tale of Wall Street power that unfolds via text message, putting the audience directly in the show. NOTE: Performed off-s...
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Suddenly Last Summer

Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street  9/16/2011 to 10/2/2011

Illustration by Serena Huang

In commemoration of Tennessee Williams’ 100th birthday, WHTC will present a revival of Suddenly Last Summer at the Hudson Guild Theatre in Chelsea from Sept. 16-Oct. 2nd, 2011. Considered a challenging Williams masterwork—this grotesque “moral fable”, set in the Garden District of New Orleans, seeks...
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FRANKENSTEIN With Mary Shelley and GABRIEL

Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  8/4/2011 to 8/27/2011

Poster designed by Graeme Offord.

Redd Tale Theatre Company blasts into its fifth season with the world premiere of two original works!

FRANKENSTEIN With Mary Shelley adapted by Virginia Bartholomew is a tight re-telling of the original Shelley story as told by Victor, the Creation, and Mary Shelly herself...
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WHAT THE TIME TRAVELER WILL TELL US

Incubator Arts Project, 131 East 10th Street  8/4/2011 to 8/13/2011

Jeffrey Cranor in What the Time Traveler Will Tell Us (photo by Lauren Sharpe)

What the Time Traveler Will Tell Us is, among other things, a live demonstration of time travel. This original play, co-written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, tells the story of a man who breaks through the barrier between universes on a futile mission to cheat death, and of a woman whose realit...
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Dia de los Muertos

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center,   7/14/2011 to 7/31/2011
The year is 1916. The world is at war. Kings are falling, and empires are crumbling. And into a small Mexican village near the United States walks Devlyn Byrne, newly arrived from Ireland. There, she meets Pablo Carrillo, a Mexican doctor. Together, they embark on a journey for the honor of both fam...
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Eightythree Down

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  9/1/2011 to 9/17/2011

1983 is going out with a bang.

It’s New Year’s Eve 1983 and Martin’s plan for a quiet night in his parents’ basement is thrown into chaos when his old friend Dina and her hooligan roommates arrive with a gun, a bag of stolen books, and a dangerous idea. Eightythree Down is a is a stylish new comedy of mania written by award-winne...
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TAPE by Stephen Belber

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  9/9/2011 to 9/24/2011

Design by David Blais

Jon, an aspiring filmmaker on the verge of hitting it big, hooks up for the weekend with his best friend from high school, Vince, a volunteer fireman who makes his money selling dope. The old friends meet up at a Motel 6 in Lansing, Michigan, where Jon's new film is being screened at a film festival...
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Einstein and Mileva

Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  8/18/2011 to 9/3/2011
Einstein & Mileva tells the story of acclaimed physicist, Albert Einstein, and his first wife, scientist Mileva Maric; the rise of his career, the loss of their daughter, and the effects of ambition on a seemingly infallible relationship. Following Einstein through his years with The Olympia Academy...
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Captain Ferguson's School For Balloon Warfare

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  8/23/2011 to 9/3/2011

David Nelson as the CAPTAIN!

www.captainferguson.com Inspired by true events surrounding World War I, Captain Ferguson’s School for Balloon Warfare chronicles U.S. Army Captain Thomas Ferguson’s struggle to turn canvas observational balloons into armed attack vehicles against Kaiser Wilhelm. ...
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ALICE

SoHo Playhouse Theatre, 15 Vandam Street  7/30/2011 to 10/15/2011

by Samantha Mercado-Tudda

Previews from July 30th - August 7th, then runs every Saturday at 1pm open-endedly. When young, American Alice follows a mime into an elevator, she finds herself in a strange new world. Loosely inspired by Chagall's Paris Through The Window, Alice encounters two little runts with very sticky fing...
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Two Gentlemen of Verona

NYC Parks, Queens, Brooklyn & Manhattan  8/12/2011 to 9/4/2011
Shakespeare meets Styx! The Bard's comedy tours the park, set in the early 1980s. A love triangle mixed with hijinks and mayhem....
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Julius Caesar

NYC Parks, Queens, Brooklyn & Manhattan  8/20/2011 to 9/10/2011
Curious Frog brings you Julius Caesar, set in 44 B.C. and with bad-ass sword and shield fights--including woman warriors. Touring the NYC parks, this production upholds Curious Frog's mission to cast diversity in leading roles....
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The Pillow Book

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  8/4/2011 to 8/20/2011

Illustration by Isaac Fortoul

Deb and John are married. Deb and John are strangers. Deb saves John's life on a mountain. John blinds Deb on the Serengeti. John works at an office. John works at a different office. Deb is a doctor, or an exterminator. The Pillow Book is a journey through the real, the imagined, the impossible, an...
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Thieves

The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street  8/3/2011 to 8/14/2011

photo by Troy Paul

A story about searching. Set in a powwow in a Brooklyn high school, deals are made, souls are compromised, love blossoms, identity is sought after, and redemption is found. At times laugh-out-loud funny and at times frighteningly brutal, the play highlights the absurdity of the urban Indian's dual e...
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References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  9/6/2011 to 9/11/2011
a lonely housewife finds solace with a music-playing moon. lust rises between a house-bred cat and a wild coyote. her soldier returns with a dark secret & the desperate struggle to rekindle their passion explodes.. but will love be enough?...
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Hugh Cox Gets the Pink Slip

Kenny Scharf's Cosmic Cavern, 993A Metropolitan Avenue  8/18/2011 to 8/28/2011

When legendary porn star THE MILKMAN (played by Hugh Cox) is killed on the set of his latest film, two hard-boiled dicks are charged with the investigation--and they soon discover that when it comes to porn, nobody's hands are clean. Also featuring THE LONELY HOUSEWIFE, THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, THE HORSE...
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Woody Guthrie Dreams

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   9/8/2011 to 10/1/2011

"Woody Guthrie Dreams" takes place in the final moments of the iconic American folk singer's life....
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Mic.

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  8/13/2011 to 9/17/2011

Mic. Logo

My second night in New York City, I stumbled into an East Village open mic; a basement world of poets and painters, musicians, comedians and performance artists. Mic. takes you there to witness the arts and culture of the lower east side, and the artists who call its bars, basements and back-alleys ...
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ObJects

The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave  8/11/2011 to 8/28/2011

At the end of the Nation, the United States is ruled by geographic/corporate fiefdoms that can't hold the place together anymore (and a practically non-existent government), with a populace so overwhelmed by technological future shock and infotaining bread & circuses that it has lapsed into near-cat...
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Antrobus & Gone

The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave  8/13/2011 to 9/2/2011

Two one-act plays. ANTROBUS: At the end of the world, or soon after, or soon before, as the ice rises and the food grows scarce, the six members of a "family" that has banded together for survival begin to turn on each other as the years of hardship, cabin fever, and resentment catch up with the...
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The Birthday Boys

Access Theater Black Box, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor  9/15/2011 to 9/25/2011

The Birthday Boys

Three Marines captured by insurgents during an unheard-of infiltration of the Al Asad green zone struggle with the horror of captivity and their unknowable fate. But what first appears to be a kidnapping unravels an emotionally complex trio of characters dealing with major values such as honor, good...
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Luminescent Blues

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   8/25/2011 to 9/4/2011
Luminescent Blues is a fun, tragicomedy for the internet generation. Set in three neighboring Manhattan apartments, it’s many characters include; a woman who writes homoerotic Harry Potter fan fiction, a young man who creates stop motion Star Wars action figure porn, and a drummer who’s character in...
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The Shadow Box

The Turtle's Shell Studio, 300 W 43rd ST.  9/7/2011 to 9/18/2011

The Cast of The Shadow Box

The Shadow Box, a new production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play about coming to terms with dying....
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Berkshire Retreat

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street

Delirious kids

The magic of our show cannot be adequately described here....
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Barriers

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  9/8/2011 to 9/17/2011
Barriers takes place four months after 9/11 and deals with the Chinese/Pakistani Abbas family, and the loss of their oldest son Nabhil at the World Trade Center. The Abbas's only daughter, Sunima, comes home to announce her pending engagement to a white man. However, Sunima’s news becomes lost in a ...
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Pluck the Day

American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, 4th Floor  9/8/2011 to 9/18/2011

photo by Michael O'Donnell. Picture of Lucy Sheftall, Danny Skinner, Chris Dall'au, and Jake Keefe

“Pluck the Day”, a new searing comedy by Steven Walters, is set on a sun-drenched, emotionally challenged parcel of the West Texas landscape. Here, three friends are held captive by apathy, fear and addiction awaiting a savior. Enter April. This production is an official selection of the inaugura...
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The Family Room

ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street  9/30/2011 to 10/23/2011
All fifteen-year-old David wants is to be a typical teenager, angry with everyone, especially his parents - two therapists who treat David like another patient. But in this world even therapists have therapists, and with David’s rage mounting, and his parents’ marriage on the rocks, every member of ...
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"Ghost in the Machine"

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   10/13/2011 to 10/22/2011
Ghost" tells the story of James and Rachel - a young, post-collegiate couple struggling to cope with the tragedy of irreversible loss. As their Brooklyn apartment is filled with a year’s worth of memories and dreams, space and time collapse inside the walls of their denied reality. “Ghost” looks dee...
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The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill: Vol. 1, Early/Lost Plays

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  9/8/2011 to 10/1/2011

Once confined only to heated discussions amongst doctoral students, the New York Neo-Futurists unleash O'Neill's stage directions from their dissertation prison, transforming O'Neill's eloquent yet obsessive and often controlling stage directions into rip-roaring physical comedy (running under 100 m...
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Lobby Hero

Gloria Maddox Theatre, 151 W. 26th St.  10/13/2011 to 12/3/2011

See the play Time Out New York hailed “a masterpiece.” Drama, comedy and romance collide in the lobby of a Manhattan high-rise apartment building when hapless security guard Jeff gets caught in a power struggle between his boss and two police officers investigating a murder. Lonergan, the award-win...
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The Little Dog Laughed

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  9/10/2011 to 9/25/2011

The Gallery Players logo

Love will either cost Mitchell Green $200 an hour, or his entire Hollywood career… Mitchell is on the brink of superstardom with the role of a lifetime, but something isn’t right. One lonely night, Mitchell hires Alex, a male prostitute, and unexpectedly falls in love. Cut to Diane, Mitchell’s po...
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Dust

Incubator Arts Project, 131 East 10th Street  9/15/2011 to 9/24/2011

workshop @ irondale center

-In the aftermath of tragedy, six abandoned children must navigate their way through rubble and dust in order to decipher their pasts and reveal their future.-...
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Nuclear Love Affair

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   5/9/2011 to 9/3/2011

Nuclear Love Affair Starring the Atomic Bomb

A daringly experimental, multimedia pastiche about the rise and fall of America in the Atomic Age....
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Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant Returns in: The Mothership Landing

Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford St  9/15/2011 to 9/25/2011

Muffin Character Hanshake, Photo by Diana Chester

Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant transforms the Irondale center into a lush banquet hall—complete with a visible kitchen—where each night, guests are treated to a five- course, gourmet-dining experience, with food carefully prepared on the premises and served with charismatic flourish by self-procl...
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Felix and the Diligence, or a Play About Fishermen in the 1940's

Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  9/23/2011 to 10/8/2011

Remember when you were a young, bookish dreamer, growing up during World War II, just waiting for your big chance to fish for cod? Relive that great adventure, with all the love, loss and bright-eyed optimism that it entailed. Fall in love with mermaids, chat with sea monsters, and fight Nazi spi...
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Beneath the Hush, A Whisper

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   9/17/2011 to 10/8/2011

Greg Oliver Bodine as Stephen Harrison. Photo courtesy of Goodpix

The 1950s. The United Nations. A British diplomat, assigned to work with Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold on a project that will change the course of history, faces a personal crisis that tests his idealism and integrity....
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Kaddish (or The Key in the Window)

New York Theatre Workshop's 4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street  9/30/2011 to 10/9/2011

Photo by Nicholas Vaughan

Allen Ginsberg's poem springs to life in this multimedia memory play. A son mourns the death of his mother. He wrestles with painful memories of her battles with mental illness and the guilt of signing for her lobotomy. Ginsberg's stream-of-conscious narrative is a moving story of loss, family, a...
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Lake Water

Interborough Repertory Theater, 154 Christopher St.  9/17/2011 to 10/2/2011

Lake Water follows Iris and James, two small town high school seniors who become estranged after their best friend suddenly commits suicide. Then one “crapping pathetic Friday night,” James calls Iris in distress, and she meets him on the dock where the two untangle the painful events of their past...
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Short Play Festival - Horror

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.
The historic Players Theatre in the heart of Greenwich Village presents our Short Play and Musical for October 2011. This festival's theme will be HORROR and starting October 13th, five 15-minute short plays will be presented each week for three weeks. The Festival will run Thursday through Sunday i...
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Sunday on the Rocks

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  9/29/2011 to 10/9/2011

Sunday on the Rocks

Sunday on the Rocks is a humbling and witty dark comedy which follows four women on their inevitable, intimate journeys and illustrates how violence weaves its way into their everyday lives. This production is being presented in anticipation of domestic violence awareness month. ...
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The World Is My Cheesecake

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   9/6/2011 to 9/17/2011

The World Is My Cheesecake

An unforgettable evening of 7 unrelated short plays by Award-Winning Playwright Daniel Damiano (2004 Wolk Award Winner, Silver Stage Award Winner, 2-Time Playwrights First Award Finalist). The plays blend the surreal, the absurd and the outlandish with biting social commentary, culminating in a funn...
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Stone Soup

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  9/18/2011 to 11/5/2011

Magical Stones!!

Set in the Revolutionary War America, two lost soldiers stumble upon the "perfect" village while searching for food and shelter. Unfortunately, the villagers are not so willing to share with these weary men until the soldiers begin to make their favorite meal - Stone Soup. This classic fable...
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Penetrating the Space

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  9/27/2011 to 10/16/2011

Penetrating the Space, written and performed by Kim Katzberg

Jinny Jikkyl is sure she has the ultimate solution for fame and fortune: mounting a solo show about her childhood incest for a big-time agent. Sending-up every solo show you've ever hated....
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Brooklyn Underground: Theatrical Stories from the Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street  9/23/2011 to 10/2/2011

Performer Lauren Sowa and friend in Brooklyn Underground

The Artful Conspirators, a Brooklyn-based theatre company will perform Brooklyn Underground: Theatrical stories from the Green-Wood Cemetery, an original play inspired by the landmark cultural institution and created from research, interviews and theatrical imagination. ...
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Callous Cad

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  9/30/2011 to 10/16/2011

Charlotte Pines (L) and Tom X. Chao perform in "Callous Cad" by Tom X. Chao. Directed by John Harlacher.

A lonely man finally finds a relationship with a woman, but still feels unfulfilled. Before he can lapse into solitary rumination, his despair is thoroughly and hilariously examined by a dazzling, colorful interloper....
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Mangella

Drilling Company Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street  10/6/2011 to 10/23/2011

It's Go Time!

This darkly comic new play joy rides through one day in the bizarre life of Ned, an underground computer hacker. His attempts to reprogram his dementia-addled father (who insists he’s famous blues musician Mangella St. James) are proving impossible. Vietnamese gangsters want Ned dead. And his comput...
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Too Much Too Soon

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   9/29/2011 to 10/9/2011

www.lesseramerica.com

A sequel to the very successful run of Too Little Too Late, Too Much Too Soon features six short plays by the downtown community's most adventurous and promising emerging writers. ...
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CRACKED (upon a time)

Theaterlab, 137 W 14th St.  10/12/2011 to 10/22/2011

Stretching the boundaries of absurdist comedy by exploring the tragedies of limitation, Houston’s CRACKED (upon a time) is a simple story about the complexities of language and those who speak it. As two ancient companions sit at the foot of a graveyard, their potent ramblings and hysterical bickeri...
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LIFT

Roy Aria Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor  10/7/2011 to 10/15/2011

Irma Bello (Virginia Luque) and Antonio Minino (Franco Exacto)

LIFT will take you into an existential dystopian world where the lives of three people will soon be tangled in more ways than one as they share their darkest secrets, fetishes, dreams and a bottle of Chanel No5, within the confines of an old-fashioned man operated elevator. Step inside and trust the...
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CLOSER

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  9/21/2011 to 10/9/2011

It's not just a play about betrayal. The Seeing Place Theater, known for intensely intimate ensemble work, revives Marber’s penetrating parable of learning how to love in the modern world. Meet Dan. 35 years old. A failed novelist. Stuck in a dead-end job, writing obituaries. He’s all but given ...
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The Tragedy of Maria Macabre

The Wild Project, 195 E. 3rd St.  10/20/2011 to 10/30/2011

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The Tragedy of Maria Macabre is a theatrical dance piece inspired by 19th century European Circus imagery, silent horror films, and el Dia de los Muertos. The story begins at the end of the life of our twisted heroine, Miss Macabre. Upon dying, Maria Macabre is not granted eternal slumber, but inste...
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Times Square International Theatre Festival

Roy Arias Off Broadway Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street  1/16/2012 to 1/22/2012
The Times Square International Theatre Festival will provide an affordable venue for an assortment of plays and performance pieces that will not otherwise be seen in the doorstep of Broadway. TSITF will give companies of reduced budget but great artistic merit the opportunity to show their art in th...
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Vampure

Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 E. 26th St.  10/8/2011 to 12/17/2011
"Vampure" is a late night Rocky Horror-esque romp about seven vampires forced into rehab to cure their vile addiction to blood. In its second bigger and bloodier year, join the eccentric Dr. Fuschia Fernoak at her Vampure Rehabilitation Center on a frightening graduation night to remember!...
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Curse of the Starving Class

The Bridge Theater, 244 West 54th St, 12th Fl  10/27/2011 to 11/13/2011

The Weston family, an alcoholic father, a disconnected and uninvolved mother, a daughter precocious beyond her years and a deranged idealist of a son are the benighted innocents pursuing a dream that remains beyond their reach. This is a major award winning work by Sam Shepard that focuses on the ha...
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Salome

The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  10/6/2011 to 10/16/2011

Davi Santos as Salome (Photo by Tristan Fuge)

All male production of Wilde's classic featuring a queer aesthetic....
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Alice, or the Scottish Gravediggers

The Old Stone House, JJ Byrne Park 5th Ave btwn 3rd and 4th Sts  10/20/2011 to 11/13/2011

Alice Butler, a young orphan working as a serving girl in her aunt’s inn, is torn. Two of the inn's lodgers - the wealthy Sir Jack Spleen and the poor but dashing medical student Edward Belton - are vying for her attention. As their competition takes a dark turn, it is soon not simply Alice's future...
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Pamela Parkers Second Samuel

Urban Stages, 259 West 30th Street
This Touching Southern Comedy is about family, diversity, and strength with a unique blend of charm, wit and humor....
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ENDURE

The Old Stone House, JJ Byrne Park 5th Ave btwn 3rd and 4th Sts  9/24/2011 to 10/30/2011
ENDURE is written and performed by Melanie Jones. The piece addresses themes of endurance, sport, obsession, loss and resilience – through a human story set within the drama of a 26.2 mile marathon race. Audience members are issued iPods at the performance’s ‘start line’ and follow Ms. Jones throug...
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Peter & I

American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, 4th Floor  10/6/2011 to 10/16/2011

Based on true events, Peter & I is a musical brimming with questions of faith, loss, salvation, love and immortality. It explores the mysteries surrounding the life and death of Michael Llewelyn Davies; one of the boys who inspired J.M. Barrie to create the character of Peter Pan in his classic tal...
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We in Silence Hear a Whisper

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  10/5/2011 to 10/23/2011
To lay her brother's soul to rest, a young refugee must escape the relentless Man on the Horse, chased through the wilds of Sudan down into the landscape of her own mind. With riveting action, surprising humor and beautiful puppetry, We in Silence Hear a Whisper explores the redemptive power of con...
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Orson's Shadow

Studio Theater @ Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street   10/6/2011 to 10/19/2011
An ingenious tale of two Hollywood giants-- Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier, set in 1960 in a London West End theatre. Legendary critic Kenneth Tynan has made a startling proposal: Welles should direct Olivier and the young Joan Plowright in Rhinoceros, Ionesco's absurdist masterpiece. But it is t...
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A Felony in Blue

Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 E 3 St  10/12/2011 to 10/29/2011
Five gang bosses play an annual game of poker to determine who will control the city's criminal underworld, but one player plans to kill a rival before the game is through....
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Nightfall on Miranga Island

The Magnet Theater, 254 West 29th St.  10/21/2011 to 12/16/2011

a swashbuckling pirate adventure in three musical acts

Our hero, Declan, has been tracking the legendary pirate captain Vicious Martin La Foe for nearly a decade on a quest to rescue his sister who was kidnapped those long years ago. Finally, he makes landfall on the lawless Miranga Island where La Foe is known to make port, but Declan is one of many w...
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WHAT I MEANT WAS... THE ODD, SHORT-ISH OF VINNIE MARANO

Manhattantheatresource, 177 McDougal Street  9/21/2011 to 10/1/2011

James Armstrong, Ryan McCurdy, Tod Engle in Wisemen

What I Meant Was… The Odd, Short-ish Plays of Vinnie Marano is a veritable artistic smorgasbord of bizarre characters and hilarious stories and quiet introspection. Staged by award-winning directors, Delisa White and Dev Bondarin, our large, talented cast realize my strange and marvelous vision in f...
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Corner Pocker

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  10/8/2011 to 10/23/2011

Virginia Logan as Manayunk O'Hara. Photo by Ellen B. Wright

World-famous pool shark Manayunk O'Hara is having a rough week: her husband is cheating, her arch-rival is ascendant.. and to make matters worse, she's just been murdered. Trapped in the Afterlife with only her sanctimonious Spirit Animal for company, Manayunk has one thing on her mind: REVENGE!...
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A Hard Wall at High Speed

Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 30-44 Crescent St  11/3/2011 to 11/19/2011
Donnie Cole has the ideal Floridian existence: he’s a charter pilot who loves to fly planes – he has the perfect family, owns his home, and basks in the respect of his community. But when he misjudges a situation at work, an unexpected burst of media attention turns an uneasy community against him....
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Dreams of the Clockmaker

The Wild Project, 195 E. 3rd St.  10/17/2011 to 10/30/2011

Jillaine Gill. Photo by Joe Stipek.

Submitted for your perusal- Jillaine Gill, lady on a stage. She requests your company on a mystifying voyage to one of those old, out-of-the-way places; of Dust Bowl occultism and visions of a dystopian future; to a land of splinters and shadows and the darkest corners of the world......
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Scotch Kiss

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  9/26/2011 to 10/9/2011

Married life hasn't been the best for the Turners since they left Scotland in 1951. On the eve of their 60th anniversary, Addie deserts their Brooklyn home while William is running errands. After their wayward son moves her into the living room of their alcoholic daughter's apartment, she drains the...
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Action Philosophers!

The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave  10/6/2011 to 10/16/2011
The SMASH hit of The Comic Book Theater Festival returns! The award-winning, best-selling comics series Action Philosophers is adapted for the stage by award-winning playwright Crystal Skillman and directed by John Hurley as the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust leap to the stage in...
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TENDERPITS

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place

Anthony Johnston in TENDERPITS photo by Cathryn Lynne

TENDERPITS tells the completely 100% half-true story of a young wizard's immigration from the wilderness of Canada to New York City. It is a fast paced genre-destroying comedy possessed by bouts of unrestrained hopefulness and brutal intimacy....
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TENDERPITS

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  9/22/2011 to 10/8/2011

Anthony Johnston in TENDERPITS photo by Cathryn Lynne

TENDERPITS tells the completely 100% half-true story of a young wizard's immigration from the wilderness of Canada to New York City. It is a fast paced genre-destroying comedy possessed by bouts of unrestrained hopefulness and brutal intimacy....
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The Tale of Frankenstein's Daughter

BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, 421 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor  10/13/2011 to 10/29/2011

Praised by critics as "fabulously horrific", "fantastic and unique", and "franklyperfect", our year-long project focusing on Mary Shelley's classic novel climaxes with Playwright Stanton Wood's THE TALE OF FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER. By completely re-imagining and integrating the competing narratives ...
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Muzungu

New York Theatre Workshop's 4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street  10/14/2011 to 10/30/2011
Traveling to present day Rwanda with the idea that he can make a difference, Matthew, an American aid worker, finds himself confronted by Mattie, a local masseuse. And while the play explores the unexpected consequences of lending a helping hand, it also reveals something of Mattie’s desire to esca...
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Brew of the Dead II:Oktoberflesh

Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  11/3/2011 to 11/19/2011
In 2008, Dysfunctional Theatre Company asked, ‘When the Apocalypse comes, will there be beer?’ There was. Unfortunately there wasn't enough. Continuing to lovingly rip off Dawn of the Dead, The Evil Dead and Shaun of the Dead, Brew of the Dead 2: Oktoberflesh asks an even more important question, ...
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GOLEM

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  11/17/2011 to 12/4/2011

photo of the apple cart lady, puppet by Jakub Krejci in GOLEM

A featured presentation of its 50th Anniversary season, La MaMa will reprise what may have been the first puppet "Golem" ever: Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre's (CAMT) dance-theater rendition of the famed Jewish legend, conceived and directed by CAMT’s artistic director, Vít Hořejš. G...
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Swimming in the Shallows

Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 3rd Floor  10/13/2011 to 10/22/2011

Swimming in the Shallows

A funny, absurdist look at the conflicts between what we need, what we want and what we love - the three of which rarely come together....
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Alba

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  11/5/2011 to 11/20/2011
From a distance, all appears to be in perfect order in the house of the wealthy Bernarda Alba. Her daughters are the pillars of society. But behind the white closed doors of this 1930’s Spanish home, are five jealous sisters with loyalty to no one but their own individual ambitions. And in such mat...
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Costa Rehab

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   11/3/2011 to 11/19/2011

Wheeler and Corso, two injured Iraq War veterans, recuperate in the rehab unit of a stateside Army hospital. Their friendship is based on a profane camaraderie and a shared, if unstated, experience of war. Both men, however, are bored and sliding towards burnout, worn down by the weight of their inj...
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someone's trying to kill me

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  11/19/2011 to 12/4/2011

The 1950's American Dream comes crash into contemporary reality in a multi-media mysterious, thrilling, and sometimes darkly humorous tale of parallel words colliding to reveal stark truths and hidden secrets....
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East in Red

Off-Off-Broadway Playhouse at Roy Arias Theaters, 300 W. 43rd St.  10/20/2011 to 10/30/2011
a reimagining of the Jack the Ripper murders conspiracy, set in the East Village....
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POE, TIMES TWO

Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   10/26/2011 to 11/5/2011

POE, TIMES TWO

POE, TIMES TWO -- Twin tales of mystery, murder...and mortar. A double-bill of short, one-man plays adapted from two classic stories of mystery and horror, "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Black Cat", by Edgar Allan Poe. Written and performed by Greg Oliver Bodine....
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It is Done

The Mean Fiddler, 266 West 47th Street  11/7/2011 to 1/24/2012

(L-R) Catia Ojeda, Ean Sheehy, Matt Kalman (photo by Jen Maufrais Kelly)

During a howling windstorm, three strangers are trapped inside a desolate bar in the middle of nowhere. Hank the bartender has a dirty mind. Jonas, a man on the run, has a dirty secret. Ruby, marooned at the bar with car trouble, has a dirty job. This dark and dirty thriller is a site specific prod...
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William Shakespeare's MACBETH

13th Street Repertory Theatre Company, 50 West 13th Street  10/19/2011 to 10/31/2011

The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective, whose Alice in Wonderland enjoyed an Off-Broadway run at The SoHo Playhouse, returns to the New York stage with their production William Shakespeare's MACBETH at 13th Street Repertory, opening October 19th and running through Halloween evening, October 31st. A ...
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Dream Walker

Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  11/9/2011 to 11/19/2011

Original Artwork by Alley Scott

Dream Walker explores the lives of two brothers and the woman they both love, and how the arrival of a strange new superpower changes all of their lives. ...
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Boy Gets Girl

Access Theater Black Box, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor  11/3/2011 to 11/20/2011

Kate Dulcich; photo by Shaun Gunning

Theresa Bedell is an independent literary journalist living in New York City. Utterly devoted to her work, she struggles to find a meaningful relationship. When set up on a blind date with Tony, a handsome man new to town, with humor and suspense her life is turned upside down....
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Seascape with Sharks and Dancer

Red Room, 85 East Fourth Street  11/3/2011 to 11/20/2011

The play is set in a beach bungalow. The young man who lives there has pulled a lost young woman from the ocean. Soon, she finds herself trapped in his life and torn between her need to come to rest somewhere and her certainty that all human relationships turn eventually into nightmares. The struggl...
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Leviathan Lab's 12N (TWELFTH NIGHT) by William Shakespeare

ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street  11/3/2011 to 11/19/2011
An exciting new vision of Shakespeare's classic comedy transported to 1960's Hong Kong....
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Clowns Full-Tilt: A Musing on Aesthetics

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  11/4/2011 to 11/20/2011

Clowns Full-Tilt: A Musing on Aesthetics

Clowns Ex Machina’s spirited, new pop-up book of a show explores familiar, 2-D representations of women – famous paintings, everyday advertisements, the stock characters of film and television. Compressed layers of representation spring to absurd and symphonic life onstage – no flat medium can stop...
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Little Shop of Horrors

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  10/22/2011 to 11/13/2011
One of the longest running Off-Broadway shows of all time, this affectionate spoof of 1950's sci-fi movies has become a household name thanks to the highly successful film version and lively score by Ashman and Menken....
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The Runner Stumbles

Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 E. 26th St.  11/7/2011 to 11/20/2011

Casandera MJ Lollar and Christopher Patrick Mullen in The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt, Retro Productions, photo by Kristen Vaughan

Part courtroom drama, part whodunit, THE RUNNER STUMBLES is based on a true story of a Nun’s mysterious murder in a remote parish in northern Michigan in the Nineteen teens and the charge that her superior, Father Rivard, is her murderer. The alternating action between interrogations, testimony and ...
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Frogs

New York Theatre Workshop's 4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street
A rowdy, bawdy romp through the underworld, Frogs is a celebration of humor and a poignant examination of the purpose of art. Inventing what would become the finest traditions of modern comedy, Aristophanes brings to life characters that belong in the same breath as the Three Stooges, Mel Brooks ...
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Frogs

New York Theatre Workshop's 4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street  11/4/2011 to 11/19/2011

A rowdy, bawdy romp through the underworld, Frogs is a celebration of humor and a poignant examination of the purpose of art. Inventing what would become the finest traditions of modern comedy, Aristophanes brings to life characters that belong in the same breath as the Three Stooges, Mel Brooks an...
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Calamity Jane Battles the Horrible Hoopsnakes

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  10/15/2011 to 11/20/2011

Townie Toula (Sarah Pullman) and Townie Tam (David Mangiamele) are a couple of terrified townfolk! (Looking Glass Theatre)

The new, completely, absolutely, one-hundred per-cent true story of how 12-year-old Calamity Jane saved the terrified town of Hoopersville. (No fooling!) Calamity Jane and her Mother are on their way to California when they find themselves in the beleaguered town of Hoopersville. Here, all but th...
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Prison Light

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  10/20/2011 to 10/30/2011

Parker is a man who feels trappend until he hears the voices of two tortured prisoners calling out to him and only him. Will Parker's quest to free them be a descent into madness or just what he needs to find the light? With wit and grace, PRISON LIGHT is a drama about the everyman inside us all....
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GUTS: A Multi-Media Fantasia by Liat Ron

9th Space, first floor of PS122, 150 1st ave. New York, NY 10009  11/3/2011 to 11/20/2011

Photo Credit: Doron Hanoch

Hellthy is a superwoman--smart, savvy, Israeli-American-New Yorker…she should have it all, why is it so hard? Written and performed by Liat Ron, GUTS is a multi-media fantasia that uses Middle Eastern dance and a shockingly honest comedic narrative to tell Hellthy's story. It’s the story of womanhoo...
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Now the Cat With Jewelled Claws

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  10/27/2011 to 11/13/2011
A cocktail-laden lunch with Madge and Bea inexplicably turns into a song-and-dance number. These not-so-genteel society ladies banter about urban conditions and the ridiculous art of seduction, while hustlers in pink leather jackets contemplate ‘The Mystic Rose’. Featuring John Waters phenomenon Min...
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Hughie/Trifles

Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  11/4/2011 to 11/20/2011
Dealing with the masks people wear to avoid the impact of life's harsh realities, 'Hughie' by Eugene O'Neill and 'Trifles' by Susan Glaspell are presented back to back to examine this aspect of human nature....
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A SPLINTERED SOUL

Theater Three, 311 W. 43rd, 3rd Floor  10/21/2011 to 11/13/2011

New York Premiere, written by Alan Lester Brooks, directed by Daisy Walker. San Francisco, 1947. A group of Jewish refugees arrive from Poland, aided by the American Jewish community. Haunted by the death of their loved ones, they are haunted more by what they did to survive. Rabbi Kroeller, a r...
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Some Girl(s)

American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  12/8/2011 to 12/17/2011

Nunya Production's Theatre benefit for To Write Love on Her Arms. This is the first (& only) time this new version of Some Girl(s) is allowed to be produced before coming to Broadway....
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Heroes and Other Strangers

the cell, 338 W. 23rd Street  11/1/2011 to 11/19/2011
It's 1971. Lenny finds himself searching for two runways in San Francisco, where he finds hippies, revolutionaries, lovers, killers, heroes and other strangers, and, as it turns out, himself....
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The Jazz Singer

Metropolitan Playhouse, 220 E 4th Street  11/16/2011 to 12/11/2011
Jakie Rabinowitz is blessed with a voice to make him the greatest of a long line of cantors. And as Jack Robin, a heart in love with the stage. An artist and young man torn between two worlds--the next toast of Broadway; the next voice to God--knowing his dilemma is just what makes him great....
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You Are Here

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  11/4/2011 to 11/20/2011

You Are Here, a new play by Nylon Fusion Collective

You Are Here follows three central story lines about home and finding and creating your own family: a troupe of drag queens and celebrity impersonators touring across middle America; an American woman fighting to stay in London permanently; and a young married couple on a less than ideal honeymoon i...
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The Complaint

45th Street Theatre – Upstairs, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl.  10/27/2011 to 11/13/2011

The Complaint by Randy Noojin

A gritty new comedy about good cops, bad cops and The Importance of Being Earnest......
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Hand to God

Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street  10/27/2011 to 11/20/2011

Christian Puppet Ministries are a great way to teach children about the Bible. Each child gets a puppet, and each puppet gets his own personality. But children can be fooled by Satan’s tricks. For even within the sanctuary of the Christian Puppet Ministry, the devil lurks. The people of Cypress, Tex...
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REFRAIN

Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street  11/3/2011 to 11/19/2011

REFRAIN at The Wild Project

Angela and Leo have agreed: she will carry his child in exchange for him sending her to art school. For the next nine months, they're preparing to realize their wildest dreams. What they aren't expecting is having to let go of them....
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Angry Young Women In Low Rise Jeans With High Class Issues

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   12/1/2011 to 12/18/2011

A series of 5 one-act comedies about love, sex and dating....
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Derby Day

Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  11/30/2011 to 12/17/2011

Some families are better bets than others.

It’s Derby Day and the Ballard brothers are in Hot Springs, Arkansas for their father’s funeral. Soon, they find themselves at the racetrack drinking, cursing, and fighting. In the end, they have to decide how much they’re willing to wager on one last chance at finally becoming a family....
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Little Lord's Babes in Toyland

Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  11/30/2011 to 12/10/2011

Little Lord's Babes in Toyland

This holiday season, join Mother Goose and friends on a romp through a land of manufactured make-believe! With exuberant song and shoddy spectacle, Little Lord’s Babes in Toyland will recall the happy days of childhood to those who are facing the stern realities of life. (Not recommended for actual ...
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Reckless

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  12/3/2011 to 12/18/2011

Art by Michael C. Malbrough

On Christmas Eve, Rachel is informed by her guilty husband that he has hired a hitman to kill her. Scrambling out the kitchen window into the snowy night, she embarks on a manic journey involving a deaf woman in a wheelchair (or is she?), numerous psychiatrists, a TV game show, and her own increasin...
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Degeneration X

Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street  4/19/2012 to 5/25/2012

Please visit www.perfproductions.com for a full synopsis and additional photos!

Degeneration X uses live performance, film, motion graphics, illustration, and music to chronicle the different pockets of one man’s neurosystem. Degeneration X experiments with the light, the dark, the absurd, and the unexplainable aspects of the human condition as the audience takes front seat on ...
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Fairy Tale

45th Street Theatre – Upstairs, 354 W. 45th Street, 2nd Fl.  12/1/2011 to 12/11/2011

The Shelter Presents: Fairy Tale

The Shelter's newest production, Fairy Tale, brings five spectacular new plays to the New York stage. Each play was inspired by the classic fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, Washington Irving and Charles Perrault, and each explores the fundamentals of fairy tales, diving into their exotic worlds, r...
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The Asphalt Christmas

Studio Theater @ Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street   12/8/2011 to 12/18/2011

Production Postcard

It’s The Bells of St. Mary’s meets The Exorcist in this insane parody of Hollywood Christmas films. This is the story of St. Celestine’s annual holiday pageant, a ‘’possessed’’ fifteen-year-old girl, her long lost burlesque queen mother with a heart of gold, a singing priest with a past and a couple...
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Poisoned

Theater Three, 311 W. 43rd, 3rd Floor  11/19/2011 to 12/10/2011
When Tom’s sister Samantha disapproves of his new girlfriend, he figures it's simply because she's half his age. But she has more than one reason not to like her... Past transgressions and modern technology collide in this drama by Squeaky Bicycle Productions’ resident playwright J. Boyett (MITF awa...
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B*tch

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  1/5/2012 to 1/28/2012
B*tch is a rapid fire, provocative, urban crime-comedy that centers on three brothers who enlist the mob in a seemingly perfect get-rich-quick scheme. The Debenedetto brothers have gotten their hands on a rare blue pit bull and seek the help of an estranged uncle to train and fight her. Nothing goes...
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Hypnotik: The Seer Will Doctor You Now

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   12/21/2011 to 1/15/2012

In an intimate theater, a showman clairvoyant brings his subjects to the stage and promises his audience a spectacle of “raw shame.”

In an intimate theater, a showman clairvoyant brings his subjects to the stage and promises his audience a spectacle of “raw shame.” One by one he entrances his chosen ones, leading them to reveal their most abject and malignant drives. But when no redemptive moment follows, the audacious seer must ...
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Friends Don't Let Friends

Walkerspace, 46 Walker Street  12/2/2011 to 12/18/2011

After four years on a hit sitcom, starlet Laura Burns is at the end of her rope. Unimpressed by the whirlwind of fame and consumed by existential notions, she longs for an escape from the artificiality of her laugh-track life. But as the lines between her off-screen friendships and her on-screen one...
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EXIT CAROLYN

Drilling Company Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street  12/2/2011 to 12/17/2011

When Lorna and Julie face the loss of their mutual best friend, they struggle to fill the void in their lives (and their apartment) with sympathy danishes, a bizarre new roommate, and unexpected romance. In the midst of grief and gorging their friendship is put to the test. Can it survive?...
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for black boys who have considered homicide when the streets were too much

The Actors Fund Arts Center at the Schermerhorn, 160 Schermerhorn Street  12/1/2011 to 12/18/2011

“Tears of a Black Man” Courtesy of Troy Guillory

A powerful piece that depicts the harsh realities of street life, racial and economic injustice, mental slavery, hyper‐masculinity and violence as faced by African‐American males....
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Mad Women

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/1/2011 to 12/11/2011
BUCKLE UP for a hair raising roller coaster ride through hell and back with 2 hysterical mad women, Ms. Judy Garland and Josephine Fleck accompanied by their sons who survive the ride....
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Dogmouth

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   11/22/2011 to 11/27/2011
Time is the 80's. Does an underground ring of Viet Nam Vets who do not shrink from murdering rivals exist - or is it a media creation? And has its leader genuinely repented and is now committed to his young wife or is he still a racist criminal intent on murdering a rival gang intruding on his turf?...
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Full Disclosure

The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  12/7/2011 to 12/18/2011

Everything you need to know about your new home...and then some.

"Under full disclosure, a broker is required to give the buyer all known facts about the subject property." Realtor, Sunny Smith, takes this law very much to heart. Join her for an open house as she discloses not just the details of the appliances but also of her life. Set up in the style of an actu...
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FRIENDS AND RELATIONS

June Havoc Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 1st Floor  12/1/2011 to 12/17/2011

FRIENDS AND RELATIONS at the June Havoc Theatre

FRIENDS AND RELATIONS celebrates the lives of 7 NYC men as their relationships change through the wild 70's into the somber '80's, all with style and wit....
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Sex Good; Money Bad

The WorkShop Theater | Mainstage, 312 West 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  12/9/2011 to 12/18/2011

Sex and money are the focus of these premiere comedies by Michael Weller. From a small apartment to a small dorm room, the occupants are visited by a few larger than life characters that throw a wrench into their plans. In Sex Good; Money Bad some get it and some don't......
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A Christmas Carol by Sgouros and Bell

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  11/27/2011 to 12/30/2011

A Christmas Carol at The Players Theatre

A lively musical adaptation of the classic Dickens tale. Follow along with Ebenezer Scrooge as he is visited by four ghosts; his old business partner Marley, the ghost of Christmas past, present and future. See what happens when he gets a glimpse of his own future if he doesn't change his life. W...
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The Myths We Need-Or- How to Begin

The Monkey NYC, 37 W.26th Street  12/2/2011 to 12/18/2011
This here’s the story of The Kid, who helps run a real paradise for The Boss, an old guy who can still handle hisself. The Boss gets The Kid a girl, a real Tomater, to help him run things. As long as The Kid and The Tomater don’t touch The Boss’s secret stash, everything’ll be Jake. But the The Old ...
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Oyster Orgasms Obituaries

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  12/1/2011 to 12/18/2011

Photo by Alexander Berg

Based on true stories, this tour de force performance embodies motherhood, orgasmic birth, live oysters, anger management, and French toast. With dignity, altruism, audacity, and humor, Raïna von Waldenburg brings flesh to the bones of taboo while examining the true essence of what it means to forgi...
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Righteous Money

3ld Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street  1/4/2012 to 1/21/2012

Michael Yates Crowley performs RIGHTEOUS MONEY in Bielefeld, Germany

In this solo tour de force satire, a financial advice show on network television goes pear-shaped as the host comes out, loses his mind, and tries to justify his wealth to an increasingly angry public....
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Woyzeck

Space on White, 81 White Street  1/26/2012 to 2/12/2012

WOYZECK is the story of the working class. It is a tale of one man’s downward spiral due to his passive reactions to the fires that surround him. Soldier Franz Woyzeck is everyone's man but his own. To his superiors he is just an ant marching in line. To his comrades, a weak and pathetic soldier. To...
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A Hole In His Heart

Atlantic Stage 2, 330 W 16th St  1/20/2012 to 1/28/2012

A Hole In His Heart

"A Hole in His Heart" follows the story of James Logan – a budding young film star who reunites with an old lover. Though wildly successful, James struggles with feelings of loneliness, and has found that all the money in the world won’t fill the void that’s rapidly consuming his soul. In James’ ab...
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Dog Park

Drilling Company Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street  1/25/2012 to 2/12/2012

Dog Park, a comedy for dog lovers

Dog Park...
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A Doll's House

The New Ohio Theatre, 154 Christopher Street  1/25/2012 to 2/5/2012

Description The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective is proud to announce their January, 2012 theatrical event. Running in repertory, audiences are invited to join us to explore Nora Helmer, the complex and brazen young woman who slammed a door in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and chang...ed the wo...
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A Doll's Life

The New Ohio Theatre, 154 Christopher Street  1/26/2012 to 2/5/2012

Description The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective is proud to announce their January, 2012 theatrical event. Running in repertory, audiences are invited to join us to explore Nora Helmer, the complex and brazen young woman who slammed a door in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and chang...ed the wo...
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Rope

Access Theater, 380 Broadway  1/26/2012 to 2/12/2012
Rope is about the nature of superiority and its very real and historical consequences. As the play meditates on the cultural and intellectual components that allow one man to kill another, it asks the audience to think about who must be sacrificed in displays of superiority, from the personal to the...
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Cocktails on Mars

Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue  3/13/2012 to 3/15/2012

Cocktails on Mars

Cocktails on Mars is a two person, mid-century throwback sketch comedy show....
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Blood Makes The Red River Flow

Roy Arias Stage IV Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street 5th floor  2/21/2012 to 2/26/2012
A historical Creole drama set in Louisiana circa 1961 and 1800's about bloodlines and sacrifice and pride in knowing all that you are....
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LoveSick (or THINGS THAT DON'T HAPPEN)

59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  2/3/2012 to 2/25/2012

LoveSick (or THINGS THAT DON'T HAPPEN)

Half rock concert/half theatre. Not your traditional musical. This Valentine's Day show of quirky love songs and hilarious plays is for anyone who ever has been, will be, or wants to be in love. ...
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Miranda

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  1/12/2012 to 1/21/2012

Kamala Sankaram as Miranda - Photo Credit Christopher Lovenguth

The Steampunk Murder Mystery Opera...
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Menders

The Gym at Judson, 243 Thompson Street  1/20/2012 to 2/11/2012

illustration by Kristy Caldwell

Flux Theatre Ensemble presents the world premiere of Erin Browne's MENDERS. Corey and Aimes are new recruits mending the wall that guards their city from an unnamed threat. But as their teacher Drew tells them subversive tales of the world outside they begin to wonder at the real purpose of the wall...
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Leakey's Ladies

Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street  1/13/2012 to 2/4/2012

Description Drama of Works presents... LEAKEY'S LADIES Written by: ... Erin Courtney (JANE) Rachel Hoeffel (BIRUTÉ) Crystal Skillman (DIAN) Directed and designed by Gretchen Van Lente Assistant direction by Molly Kohl Apes by David Valentine Music by Stephanie Richards Sound by K...
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The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

T. Schreiber Studio, 151 W. 26th St., 7th fl. (between 6th and 7th)  2/22/2012 to 4/8/2012

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Tony Award-nominated playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis follows a wild and exciting trial, set in a court room somewhere between Heaven and Hell. Two attorneys and a parade of famous witnesses – Mother Theresa, Sigmund Freud and Pontius Pilate – argue over the fate o...
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Three by La MaMa Playwrights: Fornes, Shepard & Wilson

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  2/2/2012 to 2/12/2012
Presented by La MaMa e.t.c. in association with Pace Performing Artists, Pace University. In honor of La MaMa’s 50th Anniversary we celebrate “Homecomings” season with a tribute to three playwrights who called La MaMa their early home: Maria Irene Fornes, Sam Shepard and Lanford Wilson. These t...
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A Man of No Importance

Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  1/28/2012 to 2/19/2012
This musical by the Tony Award®-winning team behind Ragtime tells the story of Alfie Byrne, a bus conductor in 1964 Dublin who is struggling with a secret he can’t even admit to himself: he is gay. When he’s not driving his route, Alfie pursues his artistic passion and directs theatrical productions...
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Advance Man

Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St.  1/12/2012 to 1/29/2012
ADVANCE MAN is a suspenseful and funny science-fiction-tinged thriller about an American family facing a threat unlike any other in history. Astronaut Bill Cooke returned from the first manned mission to Mars bearing secrets and illicit cargo. Now his wife and teenage children are all that stand bet...
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Jackson Heights, 3am

P.S. 69, 77-02 37th Ave.  1/13/2012 to 2/5/2012

A Bangladeshi cab driver working the midnight shift yearns for an Ecuadorian woman who rises at dawn to bake bread, but does not speak her language. A closeted policeman from Long Island comes to Jackson Heights for a date. At Club Atlantis, a drag pageant contestant has a run-in with one of her fa...
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The Thrill of the Chase

Drilling Company Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street  2/16/2012 to 3/4/2012

The Thrill Of The Chase explores a volatile, highly complex relationship between two lifelong friends; the carefree, womanising playboy Charlie, and the hard-working, timid Nicky, who share a stunning penthouse apartment in the heart of the city. When Nicky unexpectedly announces his intentions to t...
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Created Equal

14th Street Y, The, 344 E. 14th Street  1/26/2012 to 2/12/2012

An evening of one acts centered around issues of equality within the context of the 2012 election season. Playwrights: Rob Askins, Joshua Conkel, J. Holtham, Anna Moench, Kristen Lee Rosenfeld, Luanne Aronen Rosenfeld, and Jen Silverman ...
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The Meeting with Stanley by Lloyd Pace

Urban Stages, 259 West 30th Street  1/12/2012 to 1/22/2012

The Meeting with Stanley is a farce about a man whose heart stops ticking, but whose Blackberry just won’t quit. Stanley is found dead in a hotel room by his mistress, Rebecca. With the help of Stanley’s limo driver, Larry, she embarks on a quest to find out what Stanley’s next meeting is about. The...
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Elephants on Parade 2012

New York Theatre Workshop's 4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street  5/3/2012 to 5/12/2012

Hilarity and heartbreak ensues as people strive to connect to one another amidst the chaos of everyday life. EBE presents an evening of six new one act plays!...
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Borrowed Prey

Dickson's Farmstand Meats, 75 Ninth Avenue  4/26/2012 to 5/13/2012

Bringing together 4 strands of research: hunting, butchering, and slaughtering of animals, plus the work of animal behavior scientist and autistic Dr. Temple Grandin, I am attempting to illuminate more about the true “farm to table” process and our human capacity for empathy....
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The House of Fitzcarraldo

Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  3/7/2012 to 3/17/2012

Jud Knudsen as Klaus Kinski, Hilary Kelman as The Captain. Photo taken by Geraldo Mercado.

For his 1982 film, director Werner Herzog pulled a 300-ton steamship over a mountain under its own steam. In this highly theatrical performance work, the performers, taking on the role of the Collective Ego of Werner Herzog & megalomaniac Klaus Kinski, ponder the significance of dreams and the insan...
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Unreachable Eden

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   2/9/2012 to 2/26/2012

Anais Nin (Zina Anaplioti), Eve Adams (Steph Van Vlack) and Henry Miller (Franco Pedicini) in a Paris' Cafe Dome

A historical drama based on the story of Eve Adams, a Polish Jewish lesbian who was deported from the U.S. in 1927 And spent the 1930's in Paris promoting the work of Henry Miller, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce and Anais Nin. Her first deportation eventually led to her second deportation, this time to ...
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Erosion: a Fable

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  2/17/2012 to 2/26/2012

Erosion: a Fable, playing this February 17-26 at LaMama

Echoing dialogue sparked by Occupy Wall Street, Citizen’s United and the global energy crisis, "Erosion: A Fable" uses Loom’s signature palette of athletic dances, intricate vocal compositions and traditional storytelling techniques to stage this story of corporate competition, environmental catastr...
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ALICE in Wonderland

Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  2/12/2012 to 5/20/2012

Alice in Wonderland at The Players Theatre!

Tumble down the rabbit hole with the wonderfully, wild, wacky and whimsical cast of characters in the new musical and world premiere of ALICE in Wonderland by Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell. Frolic with Alice as she dances her way through Lewis Carroll’s legendary tale. Meet the White rabbit – if...
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Same River

Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford St  2/23/2012 to 3/3/2012
"SAME RIVER” is a multi-media, interview-based, improvised production. As hydro-fracking is poised to affect NYC’s water supply, “Same River” brings the upstate war over this controversial method of drilling downstream. Including live music, modern dance, physical theater, and video, this improvi...
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The Secret Garden

Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 30-44 Crescent St  5/3/2012 to 5/26/2012
This enchanting classic of children's literature is reimagined in brilliant musical style by composer Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of ‘night Mother. Orphaned in India, 11 year-old Mary Lennox returns to Yorkshire to live with her embittered, reclusive uncle Arc...
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The Violet Hour

The WorkShop Theater | Mainstage, 312 West 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  3/9/2012 to 3/25/2012

The Active Theater presents THE VIOLET HOUR. Artwork by David Tracy

The Violet Hour imaginatively explores questions we have all pondered, knowing that we would never be faced with dealing with the answers: What would I do if I knew the future? Would I change the choices I make now? Would I succumb to the hopelessness of a predetermined life? This last question is...
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Three La MaMa Playwrights: Fornes, Shepard & Wilson

La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St
In honor of La MaMa’s 50th Anniversary, Pace University’s Performing Arts (students, alumni and faculty) celebrate La MaMa’s “Homecomings” season with a tribute to three playwrights who called La MaMa their early home: Maria Irene Fornes, Sam Shepard and Lanford Wilson. These three one-acts are m...
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The Confusions of Young Torless

Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  1/21/2012 to 2/11/2012

The Confusions of Young Torless

In an elite, late 19th century Austrian military school four adolescent boys become enmeshed in a web of psychosexual manipulation and abuse: Torless, the witness whose philosophical detachment is threatened by a brief and disturbing brush with homosexuality;... Basini, the lacking character and...
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Love Sick

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   2/3/2012 to 2/25/2012

Elizabeth Canavan in

Emily is Love Sick. Her husband has left her for a younger woman. She's killed one man who's crossed her. And worse, she's started smoking again. Family and friends offer no help. And group therapy ends up disappointing her. Can a mysterious Man be the answer to rekindling her lost passion? Or will ...
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Look For The Woman

Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 E. 26th St.&