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Written by Dann Berg and Avital Asuleen (Director/Choreographer), THE FLOORSHOW intersperses song-and-dance numbers into the dramatization of the personal and professional hurdles that an all-female performance troupe faces in 1951 New York City.
You might call John Kevin Jones the 'resident author' of East 4th Street's 1832 landmark Merchant's House Museum, though not in the traditional sense.
Immersive Production I CAN'T SEE Frights and Delights Manhattan
Director Lauren Hlubny takes the idea of violence and molds it into something theatrically beautiful with her play Thoughts and Prayers, produced by Danse Theatre Surreality and now in performances at TADA! Youth Theatre.
How to describe the oratorically dense, frequently hysterical and mind-buzzingly creative The Invention of Tragedy? How does Shakespeare sound to a young child? 'Let there be a dragon of trees and washing without wash cloths bags cats wardrobes bungle things and other things traps and twerps and
When you are a very lucky theatergoer, a play can transport you to a different time and place and age.
When I sat down to see The Chaos Theory of Now, I found the pre-show music selections to be quirky.
With the not so faint wisps of fascism blowing all around the world today, artists seem compelled to paint the future.
Arriving at New York University's Skirball Center, I was handed two green cards.
Swipe, scan, pause, like.
'I do not feel compelled by reason to accept this theory of evolution, nor the periodic table of elements, nor the theory of global warming, nor the supposed crimes against the Jews attributed to one Rudolf Hitler.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the mental health condition explored in DC Fidler's play Boogieban.
Sure, it's a bit early in the game, but what might turn out to be the funniest scene to hit New York stages in this young theatre season occurs at the end of the first act in Jonathan Spector's sharp and empathetic social commentary, EUREKA DAY.
Written by a father-son team (the perfect combination of doctor and composer), EMERGENCY features book, music and lyrics by Jeff Foy and Jacob Foy and is directed by Jeremy Quinn.
Rita Donatella is a struggling wannabe actress working in a science lab and donning the white coat.
Written and produced by Davide Ferrari and directed by Alexa Harris, a?oeSunday Dinnera?? debuts as part of the New York SummerFest Theater Festival.
The music from 2001: A Space Odyssey opens Sea Level Rise: A Dystopian Comedy.
This review is not about Monica Lewinsky.
The New York Musical Festival presents a wide variety of new musicals in the form of readings, concerts, and full-scale productions.
A White Man's Guide to Rikers Island transports the audience from the privilege and prominence of a New Jersey golf club to the cacophony and brutality of New York's Rikers Island.
Riker's Island is New York City's notorious jail complex.
It's a time of change for the women of The Bachelor Girls-and that means swing dancing, ditching their corsets, and learning to be an independent woman in 1920s London.
According to the Bible, there was a prevailing Passover custom in Jerusalem which allowed a crowd to commute a prisoner's death sentence.
Kate Brennan's The Shoebox transports audiences back in time to high school and early adolescence.
The tragicomedy Imminently Yours buoys some historically heavy subject matter with a contemporary lift, giving voice to the experience of multiple generations of African-Americans who thrive in a contradictory space where secrecy and support are both critical to survival.
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Murder on the Orient Express Manes Studio Theatre of Long Island (8/28-9/13) |
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Broadway Magic Hour Broadway Magic Hour: Magic Show (7/25-1/02) |
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Dominant Animals Teatro LATEA (10/02-10/04) |
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Eileen Barnett: Back Again...For The Very First Time! The Laurie Beechman Theatre (10/06-10/06) |
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Falling Into Now Greenroom42 (10/24-10/24) |
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LOVE INSURANCE Theater for the New City (9/02-9/12) |
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PANGEA: UNLEASHED KnJ Theater (10/10-10/11) |
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Psychopathia Paschalis: An Easter Comedy Factory Series at Chain Theatre (9/09-9/13) |
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Rock Never Dies Hard Rock Cafe (5/29-8/30) |
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Shangri-La-La, a comedy musical about Siegfried & Roy Theater for the New City (8/29-8/29) |
