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playing now or in the near future
| A DANGEROUS PERSONALITY |
| Julia Miles Theater |
| Drama |
| by Sallie Bingham |
| She explored Tibet, fought with Garibaldi, rode across India on the back of an elephant, was friends with Thomas Edison - a terror to the establishment, and a nightmare to the British Raj. Russian-born spiritualist and philosopher Helena Blavatsky lived everywhere from London to India to Hell's Kitchen - and was (and remains) one of the most controversial figures in world religion. |
(from 04 Jun 2008 to 29 Jun 2008)
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| A DEVIL INSIDE |
| Richmond Shepard Theatre |
| Dark Comedy |
| by David Lindsay-Abaire |
| On his 21st birthday Gene is informed that his 400-pound father was brutally murdered while hiking in the Pennsylvania Poconos. Now, left with only the old man's severed feet (carefully preserved in a jar of formaldehyde by his mother), Gene must find the killer and avenge his footless father. |
(from 26 Jun 2008 to 13 Jul 2008)
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| A FREE MAN OF COLOR |
| Public's Theater |
| Comedy |
| by John Guare |
| Re-creates the sexually progressive New Orleans of 1802 when the landscape of race was shifting and the Louisiana Purchase could complete America's unfinished maps. |
(from to )
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| A PERFECT COUPLE |
| DR2 Theatre |
| Drama |
| by Brooke Berman |
| A story about three best friends -- Amy, Issac and Emma -- and their young next door neighbor, Josh. After fifteen years of dating/living together/taking breaks and now, moving upstate, Amy and Isaac are finally tying the knot. Emma, their single best friend, has decided to get out of the city and join them for a summer weekend in the country. Over the long weekend, secrets are revealed and bonds are tested, forcing these friends to discover who they are now, versus who they thought they would become. |
(from 09 Jun 2008 to 12 Jul 2008)
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| ALL KIND OF SHIFTY VILLAINS |
| Kraine Theater |
| Comedy |
| by Robert Attenweiler |
| Follows private detective, Max Quarterhorse, as he winds his way through a dark and seedy underworld filled with beautiful but manipulative women, lowlife villains, vagrants, and . um, clowns. all of whom are likely plotting his doom. |
(from 12 Jun 2008 to 28 Jun 2008)
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| ALL THE RAGE |
| Manhattan TheatreSource |
| Dark Comedy |
| by Keith Reddin |
| A picture of a world spinning out of control, as everybody has a gun and is ready to use it. |
(from 30Jul 2008 to 23 Aug 2008)
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| ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER |
| McGinn/Cazale Theatre |
| Drama |
| by Rajiv Joseph |
| When a world renowned origami artist opens her studio to a teenage prodigy and his school teacher, she finds that life and love can't be neatly arranged in this drama about finding the perfect fold. |
(from 14 Jul 2008 to 17 Aug 2008)
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| AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS |
| The Irish Repertory Theatre |
| Drama |
| by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne |
| England in 1872, after a newspaper asserts that traveling around the world in 80 days is a legitimate possibility, Fogg and his fellow Londoners debate whether becoming a globetrotter is indeed that easy Convinced he could accomplish the task, Fogg enters into a wager with the men, betting 20,000 pounds that he could complete the journey in the allotted time. |
(from 11 Jul 2008 to 07 Sep 2008)
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| BABYLOVE |
| The Green Room at 45 Bleecker |
| Comedy |
| by Christen Clifford |
| Writer-performer Clifford is fearless and often shockingly honest in dealing with her feelings about conception, pregnancy, delivery breastfeeding, and her ever-changing relationship with her husband. |
(from 27 Apr 2008 to 27 Jul 2008)
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| BACK BACK BACK |
| NY City Center Stage II |
| Drama |
| by Itamar Moses |
| Does greatness always come with a price? Can only someone with nothing to lose tell the whole truth? The play follows the turbulent careers of three very different teammates in baseball's steroid era whose clubhouse secrets bring them under federal scrutiny. |
(from ?? ?? 2008 to )
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| BEACHWOOD DRIVE |
| Abingdon's June Havoc Theatre |
| Drama |
| by Steven Leigh Morris |
| The story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman brought to America and enslaved as part of a prostitution ring. A single mother, Nadya becomes squeezed between her Russian mafia protectors and the LAPD detective who arrests her in a sting operation. |
(from 17 Oct 2008 to 16 Nov 2008)
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| BECKY SHAW |
| Second Stage Theatre |
| Comedy |
| by Gina Gionfriddo |
| A newlywed couple fixes up two romantically challenged friends: wife's best friend, meet husband's sexy and strange new co-worker. When an evening calculated to bring happiness takes a dark turn, crisis and comedy ensue. |
(from ?? Jan 2009 to ?? ?? 2009)
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| BETRAYED |
| Culture Project-SoHo theater |
| Drama |
| by George Packer |
| Tells the story of three young Iraqis - two men and a woman - who are motivated by hope to go work for the Americans, until they begin to wonder who, if anyone, can be trusted. |
(from 25 Jan 2008 to 28 Jun 2008)
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BILLIE'S BLUES
Part of the Downtown Urban Theater Festival |
| Cherry Lane Theater |
| Drama |
| by Hershell Norwood |
| About a woman's struggle against a world that is controlled by men. A young Billie Holiday suffers usury and physical abuse to survive. Undergoing transformation, she realizes the value of her own life and art. |
(from 28 Jun 2008 to 28 Jun 2008)
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BINCHBOTTOM DECLARES WAR! (OR, FULL FRONTAL JACKET)
Part of Undergroundzero Festival |
| Collective: Unconscious |
| Theatre Festival |
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| When beleaguered President Porkpie learns that the Pinchbottom Burlesque Organization are stockpiling 'Weapons of Ass Destruction', he orders an immediate invasion. In response, the burlesque stars forswear their beloved bump & grind in favor of military maneuvers. When the two armies clash, who will emerge victorious? |
(from 18 Jul 2008 to 20 Jul 2008)
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| BODY OF WATER, A |
| 59E59 Theaters |
| Drama |
| by Lee Blessing |
| The story of Avis and Moss who awake one morning in a house set in the forested hills above a picturesque body of water. The weather's great, the view's magnificent. However, neither of them seems to know whose house this is or who they are. Will a stranger at their doorstep be able to help? |
(from 30 Sep 2008 to 09 Nov 2008)
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| BOYS' LIFE |
| Second Stage Theatre |
| Drama |
| by Howard Korder |
| About three college buddies making their way in the big city. As they maneuver between life and sex in New York, Korder lacerates the prolonged adolescence that often takes the place of modern manhood. |
(from 02 Oct 2008 to ?? ?? 2008)
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| BRUNCH AT THE LUTHERS |
| Theater For The New City's Community Space Theater |
| Comedy |
| by Misha Shulman |
| Luther and his wife, Ruth, are preparing for a ceremonious meal. A famous chef arrives bearing duck--not to eat, but the wooden decoy, as does a state congressman, a woman named Mansfield, who brings a bronze one. All four characters struggle stubbornly over the details of the meal and await apprehensively the arrival of Harlot Sierra O'toul, a neice of Mansfield. |
(from 19 Jun 2008 to 06 Jul 2008)
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| BUFFALO GAL |
| 59E59's Theater A |
| Comedy |
| by A.R. Gurney |
| Centers around Amanda, a once successful television personality whose star is now fading. Life imitates art as she returns to her hometown of Buffalo to star in Chekov's The Cherry Orchard. Just as she is connecting with her roots - both on stage and off - she is called back to Hollywood for a role that could recharge her career. Will the love of theater be enough to keep her in Buffalo? |
(from 22 Jul 2008 to 30 Aug 2008)
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CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO (CVR)
Part of Undergroundzero Festival |
| Collective: Unconscious |
| Theatre Festival |
| by Collective: Unconscious |
| A live performance documentary derived entirely from the 'Black Box' transcripts of real-life airline emergencies. Allowing the audience into the tension-filled cockpits of actual flights in distress, CVR is a portrait of the psychology of crisis and a testimony to the ability to live to the last second of life. |
(from 08 Jul 2008 to 11 Jul 2008)
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| CHASING MANET |
| 59E59 Theaters |
| Comedy |
| by Tina Howe |
| A rebellious painter from a distinguished family in Boston and an ebullient Jewish woman with a huge adoring family form an unlikely bond. Inside the confining walls of Mount Airy Nursing Home, the two plot an escape to Paris aboard the QE2. But can they possibly pull it off amidst the chaos of their surroundings? |
(from 24 Mar 2009 to 02 May 2009)
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CLOWN AXIOMS / THE BITTER POET (double bill)
Part of Undergroundzero Festival |
| Collective: Unconscious |
| Theatre Festival |
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Clown Axioms: Kendall Cornell and her troupe of women clowns take a cold, hard clown look at gothic romance and gory fairy tales.
The Bitter Poet: goes searching for love in all the wrong black box performance spaces, basement bars, Portland strip clubs, naked-in-public anxiety dreams, impulsive road trips to hook-up with ex-lovers and fantasies of poetry publishing stardom. |
(from 31 Jul 2008 to 02 Aug 2008)
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| COLD STORAGE |
| Richmond Shepard Theatre |
| Comic-Drama |
| by Ronald Ribman |
| Set on the roof terrace of a New York cancer hospital. An acerbic old Armenian dying of cancer is joined by a younger repressed art dealer 'in for tests.' The insights into life and death, the irony of existence, are examined as the actors play out a game of challenges and revelation. |
(from 06 Aug 2008 to 30 Aug 2008)
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COULDN'T SAY
Part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival |
| Abingdon's Dorothy Strelsin Theatre |
| Drama |
| by Christopher Wall |
| When Ethan and Liz are stranded on a deserted highway, the past they've avoided finally catches up to them. Forced to cooperate until help arrives, Ethan and Liz confront the issues that have undermined their marriage: his long hours at work, her history of depression, their emotional and physical estrangement, and the recent death of their son and who, ultimately, is to blame for it. |
(from 16 Jul 2008 to 03 Aug 2008)
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COUPLE OF THE CENTURY
Part of the Downtown Urban Theater Festival |
| Cherry Lane Theater |
| Drama |
| by William Fowkes |
| Looking for love, marriage and therapy on Central Park West? When old friends don't help matters any, what happens when people can't even discuss what's wrong with their relationship? |
(from 25 Jun 2008 to 25 Jun 2008)
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CRAVE / SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC
(Double Bill) |
| Atlantic Theatre's Stage Two |
| Comedy |
Crave by Sarah Kane
Somewhere in the Pacific by Neal Bell |
| Crave: Exploration of English playwright Sarah Kane's seared and segmented inner self, with four actors delivering impassioned monologues and engaging in fevered dialogue, never making eye contact. Somewhere in the Pacific: Takes place on a troopship at the end of World War II. The ship's captain is haunted by the death of his son in battle; the young Marines under his command are terrified and restless as they are stalked by an invisible enemy. |
(from 01 Jul 2008 to 26 Jul 2008)
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| DANCE AT BATAAN |
| Wings Theatre |
| Drama |
| by Blake Bradford |
| While researching Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for her graduate thesis, Hannah Swindon comes across suspicious files regarding a WWII survivor of the Bataan Death March. |
(from 28 Jun 2008 to 26 Jul 2008)
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| DISTRACTED |
| Laura Pels Theatre |
| Drama |
| by Lisa Loomer |
| A contemporary American mom reaches out to teachers, psychotherapists, and neighbors to figure out if Attention Deficit Disorder is the root of her son's problems. |
(from ?? Feb 2009 to ?? ?? 2008)
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| ELIZABETH REX |
| Center Stage |
| Drama |
| by Timothy Findley |
| On the eve prior to the dawn execution of Robert, Earl of Essex, for treason, Shakespeare and his company of actors are at court. Under curfew in a barn, with the Queen, through her restless night as she struggles with the decision she has made to behead her beloved 'Robin.' |
(from 13 Aug 2008 to 06 Sep 2008)
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ENEMIES: A LOVE STORY
Performed in Russian |
| Philip Coltoff Center |
| Drama |
| by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| The action takes place in the New York Jewish community in the 1940s-1950s. Herman Broder, the main character, in a twisted turn of events, finds himself being a husband of three different women at the same time. |
(from 20 Jun 2008 to 12 Jul 2008)
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| EXPATRIATE |
| Culture Project-SoHo |
| Drama |
| by Lenelle Moise |
| Tells the story of Claudie and Alphine, two sophisticated and sexy African-American performing artists and longtime sister-friends. Disillusioned by grief, homophobia and the black glass ceiling, they flee to Europe to heal and realize their starved American dreams. In Paris, they support themselves by singing and dancing on the street and quickly rise to infamy and fortune. But as Claudie and Alphine soon discover, stardom comes at a high price. |
(from 07 Jul 2008 to 14 Aug 2008)
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| EXPLICIT VOWS |
| The Flea Downstairs |
| Comic-Drama |
| by John Jiler |
| Traces the story of one man and the lifetime of roadblocks he encountered on his way to the altar. The play opens with a middle-aged, soon-to-be groom in a church, nervously sweating out the final few minutes before his wedding begins. While he waits, the Man reflects on the varied experiences he's had with women over the course of his life. |
(from 12 Jun 2008 to 29 Jul 2008)
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FEEDER: A LOVE STORY
Part of Undergroundzero Festival |
| Collective: Unconscious |
| Theatre Festival |
| by James Carter |
| Jesse is a 703-pound Gainer who consumes 15,000 calories per day. Noel is her Feeder. Both share in a world of passion, obsession and desserts. |
(from 16 Jul 2008 to 30 Jul 2008)
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| FEVER |
| The Dionysus Theater's L'il Peach |
| Drama |
| by Dave McCracken |
| 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. |
(from 21 May 2008 to 05 Jul 2008)
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| FIFTY WORDS |
| Lucille Lortel Theatre |
| Dark Comedy |
| by Michael Weller |
| Something's gone very wrong behind the idyllic fa‡ade of Jan and Adam's Brooklyn brownstone. At 9:10 p.m., they're reveling in the freedom of having waved off their young son, Greg, to a neighborhood sleepover. By 9:15 p.m., they're both in tears. By 9:25 p.m., things are way past tears. |
(from 10 Sep 2008 to 25 Oct 2008)
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| FREQUENCY HOPPING |
| 3LD Art & Technology Center |
| Drama |
| by Elyse Singer |
| Re-imagines the relationship between film icon Hedy Lamarr (best known for her nude swimming scene in Ecstasy and star turn in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah) and George Antheil ('bad boy' composer of the revolutionary 1924 composition Ballet mecanique). |
(from 29 May 2008 to 29 Jun 2008)
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| FREQUENCY HOPPING |
| 3LD Art & Technology Center |
| Drama |
| by Elyse Singer |
| Re-imagines the relationship between film icon Hedy Lamarr (best known for her nude swimming scene in Ecstasy and star turn in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah) and George Antheil ('bad boy' composer of the revolutionary 1924 composition Ballet mecanique). |
(from 29 May 2008 to 29 Jun 2008)
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| FREUDIAN SLIPS |
| Abingdon's Dorothy Strelsin Theatre |
| Comedy |
| by Marvin Lifschitz |
| Is Sigmund Freud going crazy? Obsessed with a beautiful patient, he dreams of killing her lover, another patient. This happens while he readies himself to face his rival, the mad Dr. Otto Brotto, in a duel for the very survival of psychoanalysis. What's an analyst to do? |
(from 24 Jan 2009 to 15 Feb 2009)
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GREAT CATHERINE/ANNAJANSKA
(Two one-act plays)
Part of Project Shaw |
| Players Club |
| Play-reading / comedy |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
Great Catherine: A dissolute Russian prince, does his best to maneuver his way around Great Catherine, Russia's most infamous Empress, while a shy British Emissary tries to convey news about the newly begun American Revolution.
AnnaJanska takes us to the dawn of the Russian Revolution. While the huge Russian Empire is crumbling, a surviving member of the royal family does her best to convince the doubting General in charge that she actually wants to join the revolutionary cause. |
(from 23 Jun 2008 to 23 Jun 2008)
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| GREEK HOLIDAY |
| Abingdon's June Havoc Theatre |
| Dark Comedy |
| by Mayo Simon |
| Under the hot blue sky of a Greek island, a married couple makes one last try at reconciliation. He lives in despair with memories of a passionate romance with another woman. She lives in silent fury over being abandoned. |
(from 06 Mar 2009 to 05 Apr 2009)
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| HAMLET |
Delacorte Theater
Central Park
New York NY |
| Drama |
| by William Shakespeare |
| A young man haunted by his father's ghost and driven to the edge of madness in his obsession to avenge his death. |
(from 27 May 2008 to 29 Jun 2008)
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HANA ICHIMOMME
Performed in Japenese with Englih subtitles |
| Bank Street Theatre |
| Drama |
| by Ken Miyamoto |
| Set in Manchuria after Japan's defeat in World War II. The play takes place during mid-summer on the Japanese island of Shikoku, which is famous as a destination for pilgrimages, and starts with a woman in a pilgrim's outfit leisurely sharing her experience in Manchuria. She goes on to tell her story, the story of a mother forced to part with her child. |
(from 02 Jul 2008 to 13 Jul 2008)
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| HEIST |
| American Theatre of Actors' Sargent Theatre |
| Comedy |
| by Paul Cohen |
| Concerns the logistical problems experienced by a pack of thieves on the night they intend to rob a jewelry store that is inconveniently located behind a small theatre that is opening a one-woman show. Because the show is about the exquisite results of politically-correct clitoral explosions, the diamond burglars need to time their dynamite blasts with the star's orgasms. Not an easy feat. |
(from 06 Jun 2008 to 28 Jun 2008)
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HENRY V
Part of Shakespeare in the Parking Lot |
| The Municipal Parking Lot |
| Drama |
| by William Shakespeare |
| A play about a King who takes his country to war because he believes God is on his side. |
(from 24 Jul 2008 to 09 Aug 2008)
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| HOME |
| The Peter Norton Space |
| Drama |
| by Samm-Art Williams |
| Leaving behind his family's farm in North Carolina, Cephus Miles seeks refuge and prosperity in the North. Three actors portray more than twenty-five characters over the course of Cephus's epic journey from adolescence to adulthood, spanning the 1950's through the Vietnam War and Civil Rights eras. |
(from 11 Nov 2008 to 04 Jan 2009)
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HONOR & FIDELITY
BALLAD OF SAD YOUNG MEN
(A Double Bill) Part of the Downtown Urban Theater Festival |
| Cherry Lane Theater |
| Drama |
| Honor & Fidelity by Tanya Perez Ballad Of Sad Young Men by Jerome Augustus Parker |
Honor & Fidelity: Almost missing the plane to San Juan, one woman's story unravels a lot more than an upgrade to a window seat in this musical journey across generations of forgotten history.
Ballad Of Sad Young Men: Joe, a soldier without direction, revisits a childhood haunt on the eve of his return to war. On the verge of Joe's personal destruction, his childhood friends do the best they can to save his life before he's shipped off to combat. |
(from 24 Jun 2008 to 24 Jun 2008)
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| HOSPITAL 2008 |
| Axis Theater |
| Drama |
| by Axis Theater Company |
| When Mendel Moskowitz gets a surprise visit from The Burning Bush in his apartment in Brooklyn, his life turns topsy-turvy. Together with his new friend, Murray Schwartz from Miami Beach, they become the two prophets of the Apocalypse, and embark on a madcap spiritual journey that leads them all the way to Jerusalem for some miraculous end-time adventures. |
(from 05 Jun 2008 to 19 Jul 2008)
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| IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING |
| Public's Theater |
| Drama |
| created by Mike Daisey |
| Daisey investigates the secret history of the Department of Homeland Security through the untold story of the father of the neutron bomb and a personal pilgrimage to the Trinity blast site. |
(from to )
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| IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER.WALKIN' TALKIN' BILL HAWKINS |
| Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center |
| Drama |
| by W. Allen Taylor |
| The one-man show explores W. Allen Taylor's adventurous search for information about the father he never knew, Bill Hawkins, Cleveland's first Black radio DJ who was not married to Taylor's mother and whose identity was kept from Taylor throughout his childhood. During his time on the air, Bill Hawkins was one of Cleveland's highest rated DJs for stations such as WHK, WJW, WDOK, and WSRS. |
(from 05 Jun 2008 to 29 Jun 2008)
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INFANTA: USER'S GUIDE
Part of Undergroundzero Festival |
| Collective: Unconscious |
| Theatre Festival |
| by Saviana Stanescu |
| Mirrors the ups and the downs of our current intellectual and egocentric ineptitude for self-expression. This play encourages us to stop and think about our own faults and prejudices in connection with race, culture and individuality. |
(from 12 Jul 2008 to 13 Jul 2008)
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| INKED BABY |
| Playwrights Horizons / Peter Jay Sharp Theater |
| Comedy |
| by Christina Anderson |
| Stuck for money and unable to conceive, Gloria enlists the aid of her sister to make the child that she and her husband can't. As they uneasily await the baby's arrival, a mysterious contamination spreads outside. But consumed by their own struggles, is anyone paying attention? |
(from ?? ?? 2009 to ?? ?? 2009)
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| JUDY AND ME |
| The Royal Theatre at the Producer's Club |
| Comic-Drama |
| by Peter Mac |
| Tells the story of sixteen-year old 'Anthony,' trapped in the narrow-minded suburb of Elmont, Long Island. Anthony is the daily target of verbal and physical torment from his classmates. His life at home is equally tenuous; his volatile, violent father is a constant source of pain to both Anthony and his mother. The teen finds his only escape in the music and entertainment of the legendary Judy Garland, who comes to life before his eyes and counsels him through his daily struggles. |
(from 05 Jun 2008 to 30 Jun 2008)
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| KICKING A DEAD HORSE |
| Public's Martinson Theater |
| Drama |
| by Sam Shepard |
| Hobart Struther, a wealthy New York art dealer, has ditched his shiny city life in search of authenticity in the modern-day wild west, o why does he find himself miles from nowhere with a dead horse? |
(from 25 Jun 2008 to 10 Aug 2008)
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| KINDNESS |
| Playwrights Horizons / Peter Jay Sharp Theater |
| Drama |
| by Adam Rapp |
| An ailing mother and her teenaged son flee Illinois and a crumbling marriage for the relative calm and safety of a midtown Manhattan hotel. Mom holds tickets to a popular musical about love and redemption. Her son, a gifted student currently enrolled at a prestigious military academy, isn't interested. So Mom takes the kindly cabdriver instead, while the boy entertains a visitor from down the hall, an enigmatic young woman seeking solace after a tumultuous, potentially dangerous evening. |
(from ?? ?? 2008 to ?? ?? 2008)
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KING KONG
Part of Summer Fright Fest |
| Players Theatre |
| Drama |
| Adapted by Dan Bianchi |
| Takes you from the streets of Depression Era New York City to the high seas of the Far East to the prehistoric jungles of Skull Island! Witness the terrifying creatures from another time battle the great and mighty Kong! And, be there when the proud giant is captured and brought back to civilization where he escapes from his chains to wreak havoc upon our world! All for the love of a woman! |
(from 03 Jun 2008 to 29 Jul 2008)
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| LASANTA |
| Ontological Theater |
| Experimental theatre |
| Created by Madeleine Bernatchez and Efren Degadillo jr. |
| Plays with the visual storytelling surrounding the aura, sensuality, duplicity, artifice, and mystery of women through the idea of altered states. With text inspired by hardboiled crime writers like Raymond Chandler, Mexican song lyrics and the live musical accompaniment of Lady Lucille, Lasanta explores the fantasy and fallout of kaleidoscoped love. |
(from 26 Jun 2008 to 05 Jul 2008)
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| LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION |
| SoHo Playhouse |
| Comedy |
| by James Braly |
| First comes love. Then comes marriage counseling. James Braly's show is a poignant, humorous tale of lust, love, betrayal, reproduction and redemption. |
(from 26 Jun 2008 to 31 Aug 2008)
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| LOVE DRUNK |
| Abingdon's Dorothy Strelsin Theatre |
| Drama |
| by Romulus Linney |
| An older man picks up a much younger woman in a bar and brings her to his retreat, an Appalachian palace. Her littered past collides with his need and what follows is a dance of sexual tension. |
(from 28 Mar 2009 to 19 Apr 2009)
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| MAKE IT SO |
| Theater for the New City |
| Drama |
| by Edward Miller |
| Set in Memphis, TN. Lester Morgan, the eldest sibling in an estranged middle-class Black family, struggles to reunite his brothers and sisters in time for their father's funeral. His obstacle is the family matriarch, Bertha, whose vindictive and controlling behavior stifles any hope for relationships among her children. |
(from 19 Jun 2008 to 13 Jul 2008)
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MANCHILD MACHISMO
EL BUILDING
(A Double Bill)
Part of the Downtown Urban Theater Festival |
| Cherry Lane Theater |
| Drama |
Manchild Machismo by A. B. Lugo
El Building by Jane Lippman |
Manchild Machismo: Explores Tito's search for masculinity and what it means to be Latino through unlikely sources-the men in his family.
El Building: Bitchy, over-therapized, self-centered-pretty standard population for a gentrified apartment building-so busy bickering and whining, they don't even notice their own impending ruin. |
(from 27 Jun 2008 to 27 Jun 2008)
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MARATHON 2008
Series C |
| Ensemble Studio Theatre |
| Drama |
In Between Songs by Lewis Black
Japanoir by Michael Feingold
Piscary by Frank D. Gilroy
Flowers by Jos‚ Rivera
A Very Very Short Play by Jacquelyn Reingold |
| An evening of five short plays |
(from 06 Jun 2008 to 28 Jun 2008)
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| MARKO THE PRINCE |
| Barrow Group Arts Center |
| Drama |
| by Jovanka Bach |
| Michael, a first-generation American, returns to Sabor (on the border of Bosnia and Serbia) bury his mother in the village of her birth. Michael's plans are derailed when he discovers smoldering religious and ethnic resentments surrounding the ownership of Sabor's tiny village cemetery. |
(from 20 Jun 2008 to 13 Jul 2008)
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| MEN ARE REAL.WOMEN R2 |
| The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street |
| Comedy |
| by Robert Dominguez, Iris Silverio, Halley Bondy and others |
| A series of down-aand-dirty comic monologues: sexy Latinas dish on subjects ranging from promiscuity to domination to intimate relationships with inanimate objects, while five Latino studs explore love, loyalty, betrayal, the machismo myth & the lure of big Latina butts. |
(from 27 Jun 2008 to 22 Aug 2008)
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| MONSTERFACE |
| Irish Arts Center |
| Drama |
| by Daniel Robert |
| After Melanie Crane, a beautiful but middling actress, suffers a mental breakdown, her husband Paul brings her back to her childhood home of New Hope, PA to heal. Can the historical town of New Hope, where George Washington staged his famous Delaware crossing, help the Cranes save their marriage and their lives? Will it be Victory or Death for this troubled, modern couple? |
(from 05 Jun 2008 to 28 Jun 2008)
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| MR. & MRS. FITCH |
| Second Stage Theatre |
| Dark Comedy |
| by Douglas Carter Beane |
| Meet gossip columnists MR. & MRS. FITCH. When the social circuit no longer provides any scandalous news, they find that great celebrity can appear out of thin air. A scathing look at who is in, who is out and who may not even exist at all. |
(from ?? Mar 2009 to ?? ?? 2009)
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| MY FIRST TIME |
| New World Stages / Stage 5 |
| Comedy |
| by Ken Davenport |
| A new play in the style of The Vagina Monologues, featuring four actors in stories about first sexual experiences written by real people . . . just like you. |
(from 12 Jul 2007 to 30 Aug 2008)
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| MY MOTHER'S ITALIAN, MY FATHER'S JEWISH & I'M IN THERAPY! |
| Westside Theatre (Downstairs) |
| Comedy |
| by Steve Solomon |
| Twice the holidays! Twice the hollering! Twice the guilt! .Steve Solomon's tells of his family and all the people in his life whose sole purpose is to drive him into therapy...and they succeeded. One part lasagna, one part kreplach and two parts prozac. |
(from 04 May 2007 to 31 Aug 2008)
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NIGROMANTIA: A SLIGHT RETURN
Part of Undergroundzero Festival |
| Collective: Unconscious |
| Theatre Festival |
| by Don Nigro |
| Nigromantia (medieval Latin for 'speaking with the dead') pairs two monologues: Golgotha and Genesis. Golgatha is either the story of the resurrected Christ or the ramblings of a crazy man in Pittsburgh. In Genesis, Eve, the mother of us all, tells us her side of the Story. |
(from 12 Jul 2008 to 13 Jul 2008)
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| OCCUPANT |
| The Peter Norton Space |
| Drama |
| by Edward Albee |
| A portrait of acclaimed sculptor Louise Nevelson and a quest to capture a charismatic and complex artist and persona. What is the relationship between creator and creation? Who was Louise Nevelson? Only she knew. |
(from 06 May 2008 to 13 Jul 2008)
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| OPH3LIA |
| HERE Arts Center |
| Comedy |
| by Aya Ogawa |
| An immigrant woman embarks on a mysterious journey through New York where she discovers that she can go through life without ever uttering a word. In a Christian international school in China, where the students have formed their own hierarchies within the school walls, the arrival of a new teacher and a transfer student sends the fragile microcosm spinning. |
(from 11 Jun 2008 to 02 Jul 2008)
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| OUR HOUSE |
| Playwrights Horizons / Main Stage |
| Comedy |
| by Theresa Rebeck |
| What happens when news and entertainment are interchangeable? In a cautionary tale ripped from today's headlines, a power-hungry TV mogul faced with dwindling ratings installs America's favorite news anchor as host of a popular reality show. When reality suddenly collides with reality TV, we find ourselves front and center in the thorniest hostage drama since Waco. |
(from ?? ?? 2009 to ?? ?? 2009)
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| PALACE OF THE END |
| Playwrights Horizons / Peter Jay Sharp Theatre |
| Comedy |
| by Judith Thompson |
| Explores the experiences of three key figures of the Middle East crisis: Lynndie England, the U.S. soldier who was convicted of abusing detainees at Baghdad's Alu Gharib prison; David Kelly, the British weapons inspector who allegedly committed suicide after being involved in a government scandal and Nehrjas Al Saffarh, a member of the Communist Party of Iraq who suffered under Saddham Hussein's regime and died when the Americans bombed her home during the initial Gulf War. |
(from 11 Jun 2008 to 13 Jul 2008)
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| PENALTIES & INTEREST |
| Public's Shiva Theater |
| Comedy |
| by Rebecca Cohen |
| The insular existence of office life is a Petri dish for contemporary society in Rebecca Cohen's comedy, Penalties & Interest. Lollie, Lyle and Amy try to keep their heads above water, and their boss, Dick, bobs up when they least expect it. |
(from 10 Jun 2008 to 28 Jun 2008)
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| PERFECT HARMONY |
| Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre |
| Comedy |
| by Andrew Grosso and The Essentials |
| A comedy about the struggle for truth, love and high school a cappella championship glory. Perennial powerhouse, The Acafellas, and their female classmates, The Ladies in Red, bare their dreams, hopes, and struggle to blend, as they battle to win Acapalooza and discover the true meaning of harmony. |
(from 06 Jul 2008 to 24 Jul 2008)
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PRAY, MANTID
Part of Undergroundzero Festival |
| Collective: Unconscious |
| Theatre Festival |
| by Steven Gaultney |
| About a man and a woman dealing with love, violence and death. The entire course of a relationship is boiled down to the fulfillment of a contractual agreement. |
(from 24 Jul 2008 to 27 Jul 2008)
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| PRAYER FOR MY ENEMY |
| Playwrights Horizons / Main Stage |
| Drama |
| by Craig Lucas |
| It's a hell of a night for the Noones - father Austin's watching his nature shows and trying to keep from falling off the wagon, mother Karen's keeping an eye on Austin, son Billy's just back from Iraq, and pregnant daughter Marianne's upset about the state of her marriage to Tad, Billy's childhood friend who may still harbor a crush on him. With the Red Sox battling the Yankees for the 2004 AL title, an American family's long-held secrets are dragged to the fore in what may be its final reckoning. |
(from ?? ?? 2008 to ?? ?? 2008)
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| PRINCE TREVOR AMONGST THE ELEPHANTS |
| Abingdon's June Havoc Theater |
| Drama |
| by Duncan Pflaster |
| When good King Kartoffelpuffen gives up his kingdom to his oldest son Tater and marries off his other children for peace (and for political gain), Prince Trevor, his youngest son, trades places with his manservant Grumbelino in order to escape his fate and find his true love, Toby the stable boy. |
(from 29 May 2008 to 29 Jun 2008)
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| PRISONER OF THE CROWN |
| The Irish Repertory Theatre |
| Drama |
| by Richard F. Stockton |
| A broad and bitter indictment of judicial abuse, is the story of the trial of Sir Roger Casement, an Irish patriot and one of the world's great humanitarians. A few short years after being knighted, Casement was sentenced to be hanged for treason in what was called, 'The Trial of the Century.' |
(from 14 May 2008 to 06 Jul 2008)
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| RAFTA, RAFTA |
| Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre |
| Comic-Drama |
| by Ayub Khan-Din |
| The story of two Anglo-Indian families in London joined by the marriage of their children. Newlyweds Atul and Vina are starting their new lives under the groom's parents roof, and Vina's family is also loathe to let her go. How much scrutiny can a new marriage take? |
(from 18 Apr 2008 to 28 Jun 2008)
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| REASONS TO BE PRETTY |
| Lucille Lortel Theatre |
| Comic-Drama |
| by Neil LaBute |
| Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhanded remarks about a female coworker's pretty face (and his girlfriend's lack thereof) get back to said girlfriend. But that's just the beginning. Greg's best buddy Kent, and Kent's wife Carly also enter into the picture and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated. |
(from 14 May 2008 to 05 Jul 2008)
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| RUINED |
| NY City Center Stage 1 |
| Drama |
| by Lynn Nottage |
| Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, the play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life? |
(from 21 Jan 2009 to )
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| SAFE |
| Studio Dante |
| Drama |
| by Ron Fitzgerald |
| Ginger, Van and Muzzy are relative strangers bound by self-destructive tendencies and the common desire for a fresh start. From Mobile to Chicago, they travel from city to city, doing whatever it takes to survive. As Ginger and Van's relationship intensifies so do their troubles, and Muzzy begins some soul searching of his own. |
(from 10 Jun 2008 to 28 Jun 2008)
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| SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION |
| Atlantic Stage Two |
| Drama |
| by Howard Barker |
| Galactia, a 15th century Venetian painter, is commissioned by the State of Venice to portray the Battle of Lepanto, a naval battle described as 'the greatest triumph of Venetian history.' However, her 1,000 square feet of canvas contains quite a different interpretation. Thus the battle over truth, freedom and responsibility is engaged. |
(from 03 Jul 2008 to 26 Jul 2008)
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| SHIPWRECKED! AN ENTERTAINMENT š The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told By Himself) |
| 59E59 Theaters |
| Drama |
| by Donald Margulies |
| A tale of adventure that left England spellbound in the 19th century is the center of attention in Donald Margulies' play. Louis de Rougemont invites you to hear his amazing story of bravery, survival and celebrity. Shipwrecked! examines how far we're willing to blur the line between fact and fiction in order to leave our mark on the world. |
(from 27 Jan 2009 to 07 Mar 2009)
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| SINGLE BLACK FEMALE |
| Duke On 42nd Street |
| Comedy |
| by Lisa B. Thompson |
| Takes a comic look at the pleasures and perils of being a single middle class black woman who's got everything she wants and needs except more R-E-S-P-E-C-T -- and a man! The play mines topics such as dating (on the Internet and the old-fashioned way!), gynecology, family gatherings, shopping, racial bias, white folks and, poignantly, the odd sense of loss a black woman feels when she does find a man and leaves her single sisters behind. |
(from 10 Jul 2008 to 29 Jul 2008)
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SLAVEY
Part of Summerworks 2008. |
| Ohio Theater |
| Drama |
| by Sigrid Gilmer |
| In a not so distant future, Nora and Robert find themselves climbing the steep social ladder of the super rich - big promotion, bigger house, and a brand new slave. But when growing pains kick in and consumer and consumed find themselves on unexpected sides of the table it can only mean one thing - big trouble. |
(from 22 Jun 2008 to 28 Jun 2008)
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| SOME AMERICANS ABROAD |
| Second Stage Theatre |
| Comedy |
| by Richard Nelson |
| A group of pretentious American college students, accompanied by their professors, embark on a literary tour of England. With a crammed itinerary and barely enough time to digest the sites, their behavior devolves from appreciative to appalling. |
(from 26 Jun 2008 to 03 Aug 2008)
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SOME KIND OF BLISS
Part of the Brits Off Broadway festival |
| 59E59 Theaters / Theatre C |
| Comedy |
| by Samuel Adamson |
| Rachel, a small-time hack and seeker of minor adventure, sets off down the Thames Path to Greenwich to interview British pop legend Lulu for her tabloid's glossy supplement. But between London Bridge and Lulu's mirrored hallway lies a series of unpredicted and comic events. |
(from 11 Jun 2008 to 29 Jun 2008)
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| STILL THE RIVER RUNS |
| Center Stage |
| Dark Comedy |
| by Barton Bishop |
| '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 from the War in Iraq, and Jesse, saddled with a mountain of debt and mouths to feed, be able to cross the deepening divide between them? |
(from 19 Jun 2008 to 06 Jul 2008)
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| STITCHING |
| The Wild Project |
| Drama |
| by Anthony Neilson |
| Stu and Abby love each other so madly, they're driving each other crazy. Stitching follows the increasingly disturbing and inventive games the couple plays in order to connect. As they circle and test each other, they role-play with reality and fantasy to the point where even they don't seem sure what is real anymore. When Abby discovers she's pregnant, the choices they make will haunt them forever. |
(from 17 Jun 2008 to 19 Jul 2008)
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| STREAMERS |
| Laura Pels Theatre |
| Drama |
| by David Rabe |
| Four young soldiers fresh from boot camp wait anxiously in 1965 Virginia, watching the Vietnam conflict escalate. As they struggle to make sense of their new life in the army, tensions rise over race, sexuality, and class, culminating in an explosive act that changes them forever. |
(from 17 Oct 2008 to )
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| TAKING OVER |
| Public's Theater |
| Drama |
| written and performed by Danny Hoch |
| Chronicle the current state of gentrification of New York City. Blazing through a fierce spectrum of New Yorkers, Danny gives voice to everyone from the developers evicting locals to make way for lofts, to the bar-hopping career hipsters who buy them, and those left in the wake of both. |
(from to )
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TALES FROM BORDERTOWN (VOL. II)
Part of Undergroundzero Festival |
| Collective: Unconscious |
| Theatre Festival |
| by Eric Dean Scott |
| Follows a trail of dreams, beat poetry, jazz recollection and tales from true life through South American border towns, Peruvian mountain villages, the Amazon River and on past the Strait of Magellan. It is a mysterious journey into the silent heart of the existential question. |
(from 31 Jul 2008 to 02 Aug 2008)
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THE APOCALYPSE OF JOHN THE RABBIT
Part of Undergroundzero Festival |
| Collective: Unconscious |
| Theatre Festival |
| by Freddi Price |
| Far in the desert in the depths of his cave, John, a drug crazed, sex starved rabbit and harbinger of doom lapses into a hallucination. An albino blues guitar wizard and a talking lamb lead him into a world of harlots and beasts, horned monsters and monstrous men. In this intricate shadow puppet show, the sky really is falling, and it's going to take more than a paranoid bunny to save the world from total destruction. |
(from 26 Jul 2008 to 27 Jul 2008)
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| THE ARTISTICAL PROCESS OF MARK AND ANDY |
| Under St. Marks |
| Comedy |
| by Jeff Sproul |
| Explores the journey of two friends who, with moth-like tenacity, attempt to create their dream video project; bravely leaving behind the clich‚d artistic notions of attention-span, humility, the desire to learn, and talent. |
(from 24 Jul 2008 to 09 Aug 2008)
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| THE BACCHAE |
Delacorte Theater
Central Park
New York NY |
| Drama |
| by Euripides, adapted by Nicholas Ruddall |
| An interpretation of Euripides' classic story about what happens when a government attempts to outlaw desire. |
(from to )
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| THE BREAK OF NOON |
| Lucille Lortel Theatre |
| Drama |
| by Neil LaBute |
| Joe Smith's just had an epiphany. In a blinding flash, he's been gloriously transformed from avowed disbeliever to fervent believer. But he quickly finds himself at the center of his own rapidly crumbling life, as those nearest to him kick back against his newfound faith. Suddenly a stranger to those he values most, Joe must find a modern response to the age-old question: at what cost, salvation? |
(from 14 Jan 2009 to 28 Feb 2009)
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| THE CASTLE |
| New World Stages / Stage 5 |
| Drama |
| conceived by David Rothenberg and written in collaboration with Vilma Ortiz Donovan, Kenneth Harrington, Angel Ramos and Casimiro Torres |
| The Castle is the residential facility run by The Fortune Society for ex-convicts re-entering society. In the play four formerly incarcerated people tell their stories from childhood to prison to redemption. |
(from 30 Mar 2008 to 26 Jul 2008)
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| THE COCKTAIL HOUR |
| Theatre Row's Kirk Theatre |
| Comic-Drama |
| by A.R. Gurney |
| A writer returns home to ask permission of his parents to produce a show that he has written about them. Over cocktails, the family rehashes old slights and reopens old wounds but, with humor, they look toward the future. |
(from 24 May 2008 to 29 Jun 2008)
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| THE ENGLISH CHANNEL |
| Abingdon's Dorothy Strelsin Theatre |
| Comedy |
| by Robert Brustein |
| The murky relationship between great writers and their proclivity to 'borrow' ideas and material is examined in this comedy tracing Shakespeare's relationship with The Earl of Southampton, the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Christopher Marlowe during the turbulent months before Marlowe's death. |
(from 13 Sep 2008 to 05 Oct 2008)
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THE EVENT
Part of Undergroundzero Festival |
| Collective: Unconscious |
| Theatre Festival |
| by John Clancy |
| What starts as a straightforward dismantling of the 'one-man show' transforms into an honest attempt at communion with those gathered. Dealing directly and bluntly with the technician, the stage manager, the playwright, director and critics, the actor moves quickly into dangerous and slippery territory. |
(from 17 Jul 2008 to 19 Jul 2008)
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| THE FEMINAZI |
| Players Theatre |
| Comedy |
| by Suzanne Willett |
| About strong women & the men they scare. The Feminazi - an autoritarian woman dissects and ridcules a term used to shut up strong women; The Virgin Mary shares her angst about the way she raised Jesus; Sara, a middle-class white female, shares what it means to be a woman in a man's career; Fran, an older woman, refuses to be marginalised no matter how much society threatens her. |
(from 22 May 2008 to 07 Sep 2008)
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| THE FIRST BREEZE OF SUMMER |
| The Peter Norton Space |
| Drama |
| by Leslie Lee |
| The struggles of three generations of the Edwards family collide over the course of one sweltering weekend in June. Gremmar, the family matriarch, looks back on her past and considers its legacy for her children and grandchildren as they confront the choices that will define their futures. |
(from 05 Aug 2008 to 28 Sep 2008)
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| THE GOOD NEGRO |
| Public's Theater |
| Drama |
| by Tracey Scott Wilson |
| 1960's American civil rights movement. In the increasingly hostile South, tensions build as a trio of emerging black leaders attempt to conquer their individual demons amidst death threats from the Klan and wire taps by the FBI. |
(from to )
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THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF KHALID AMIR
Part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival |
| WorkShop Theater |
| Comedy |
| by Monica Bauer |
| When the Mad Burka Army burkas the statue of Liberty, suspicion falls on mild-mannered musical-theater-loving professor Khalid Amir. The gay, cross-dressing Middle East studies professor is pursued by the dumbest FBI agent in history, with a cameo by President Bush! Will his friends defend him when he's accused of terrorism? Can Khalid discover his own courage to 'fight the power'? |
(from 16 Jul 2008 to 03 Aug 2008)
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THE ISLAND OF DR.MOREAU!
Part of Summer Fright Fest |
| Players Theatre |
| Drama |
| by H.G. Wells, adapted by Dan Bianchi |
| On a remote island in the South Seas, a mad geneticist creates a tribe of mutants who look to him as their god. They obey him willingly or face torture in the House Of Pain. When they discover that he is a mere mortal, rebellion follows. |
(from 03 Jun 2008 to 29 Jul 2008)
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| THE LANGUAGE OF TREES |
| Roundabout Underground |
| Drama |
| by Steven Levenson |
| When an American translator is sent into a U.S. war zone in the Middle East, a friendly neighbor volunteers to help out his wife and young son. As events abroad spiral out of control, the lives of all the characters are turned upside down. |
(from 03 Oct 2008 to )
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| THE LAST GOOD MOMENT OF LILY BAKER |
| Shetler Studios and Theatre |
| Drama |
| by Russell Davis |
| Follows two couples, who return to the same country inn where they honeymooned together. Out of touch for the past three years, the couples have grown apart. As they try to reconnect, they realize that they have different ideas about money, marriage and life in general. |
(from 20 Jun 2008 to 20 Jun 2008)
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| THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO |
| Laura Pels Theatre |
| Comic-Drama |
| by Christopher Durang |
| A dark comedy that takes a look at the complex marriage of Bette and Boo. Three decades of marriage, divorce, alcoholism, nervous breakdowns and death are played out in 33 quick scenes. |
(from 12 Jun 2008 to 07 Sep 2008)
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| THE PASSION PROJECT |
| 3LD Art & Technology Center |
| Experimental theatre / workshop production |
| by Reid Farrington |
| spun from the reels of the last great silent film, Carl Th. Dreyer's 1928 masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc. Dreyer tells his story through the eyes of Joan, using close ups and fast cuts to communicate the severity of her situation. Dreyer shot in relationship to the film, including the reels that -- like Joan herself -- were lost to fire. |
(from 19 Jun 2008 to 19 Jul 2008)
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THE PROPOSAL, BASED ON AN OLD FARCE
Part of Undergroundzero Festival |
| Collective: Unconscious |
| Theatre Festival |
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| Downtown director Daniel Irizarry has a proposal. Anton Chekhov, deceased, cannot refuse. Daniel is down on one knee, and Anton, giggling like a schoolgirl |
(from 24 Jul 2008 to 26 Jul 2008)
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| THE SAVANNAH DISPUTATION |
| Playwrights Horizons / Main Stage |
| Comedy |
| by Evan Smith |
| Resurrect this! When susceptible Catholic spinster Margaret politely admits door-to-door Pentecostal missionary Melissa into her home, her seemingly-solid faith starts to waver - much to the chagrin of her feisty sister Mary. But who's the blasphemer and who's the believer? Before long, the God-fearing sisters have ambushed their steadfast 'guest' with the aid of an unsuspecting local priest, setting the scene for a showdown of truly biblical proportions. |
(from ?? ?? 2009 to ?? ?? 2009)
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| THE SINGING FOREST |
| Public's Theater |
| Drama |
| by Craig Lucas |
| Takes you on a passage through time - from today's world of Starbucks, celebrity and therapy to Freud's inner circle in 1930's Vienna and to Paris at the end of WWII. It's the story of three generations of a family whose lives are intertwined despite the secrets that have torn them apart. |
(from to )
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THE TERRIBLE TEMPTATION TO DO GOOD: A BERCHTIAN LOUNGE
Part of Undergroundzero Festival |
| Collective: Unconscious |
| Theatre Festival |
| Adapted from Bertolt Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle |
| This rebuttal to the Broadway musical interweaves found text, original music and inspirations from Brecht. |
(from 18 Jul 2008 to 20 Jul 2008)
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| THE THIRD STEP |
| American Theatre of Actors' Sargent Theatre |
| Drama |
| by Anthony Laura |
| The drama is set around a young girl who awaits the results of a grave disease and is being driven crazy by her overtly controlling mother Wendy. As her father tries to hold the house together, Wendy invites the entire Wilson family home to cheer Natalie up. As themes of jealousy, family values, and infidelity are explored, they find the only solace they have is each other. |
(from 24 Jul 2008 to 27 Jul 2008)
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| THE WEDDING PLAY |
| The 14th Street Theater |
| Comedy |
| by Brian MacInnis Smallwood |
| 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. And the band is.... |
(from 09 Jul 2008 to 27 Jul 2008)
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| THREE CHANGES |
| Playwrights Horizons / Main Stage |
| Comic-Drama | | |
