You wouldn't expect a 1937 Broadway musical that satirized American profiteering from wartime rumblings in Europe and was written to showcase the unique comedy talents of 'The Perfect Fool' Ed Wynn to be especially playable in the year 2008, but The Medicine Show, on their tiny stage way out west on W. 52nd Street, do a bang-up job with Hooray For What!
42nd Street Moon continues its fifteenth season of Uncommon Musicals in Concert with Alameda native Rick Besoyan's riotously funny The Student Gypsy (or 'The Prince of Liederkranz'), the 1963 follow-up to his smash-hit operetta-spoof, Little Mary Sunshine. Maureen McVerry, who made her highly-acclaimed company debut last year in Pardon My English, returns to play the role of gypsy queen Zampa Allescu. The show previews on March 27 & 28, opens on March 29 at 6 pm, and runs through April 13, with a special family matinee on Saturday April 5 @ 1 pm.
City Repertory Theatre is pleased to announce an all-star reading of Anne Frank, the controversial 1955 theatrical adaptation of the famous story by acclaimed novelist and playwright Meyer Levin
TheatreRats presents the 3rd Annual Chester Horn Short Play Festival, featuring twelve 10-15 minute plays at the Medicine Show Theatre from September 27-30.
At Hand Theatre Company will present the premiere of Andrea Lepcio's new play One Nation Under, directed by Tye Blue at the Medicine Show Theatre
Medicine Show Theatre will end its 37th Season with The Theory of Color, a new play by Lella Heins about a worldly female artist whose life begins to unravel when she and her husband move from Manhattan to a remote hamlet in the middle of nowhere.
Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble, one of NYC's longest-running experimental theatres will present Frank & Stein and Friends, an evening of short verse plays featuring the World Premiere of The Houses At Falling Hanging, a newly-discovered work by famed poet Frank O'Hara, as well as plays by Gertrude Stein, Edna St. Vincent Millay and others.
The black comedy The House of Yes, the play that inspired the 1997 cult film hit, will be presented by TheatreRats at the Medicine Show Theatre from April 26th through May 5th.
The black comedy The House of Yes, adapted from the 1997 cult film hit, will be presented by TheatreRats at the Medicine Show Theatre from April 26th through May 5th.
Medicine Show revives the 1961 Yip Harburg/Jacques Offenbach combination of Lysistrata and Bulfinch's Mythology
Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble, one of NYC's longest-running experimental theatres, will present The Happiest Girl in the World, the 1961 Broadway musical comedy adapted from Lysistratra
Songs for a New World, with Liz McCartney, Barbara Walsh and more, will begin performances at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick on June 24th
Jessica Brickman's The Insomnia Play and Emily Young's The Calamity of Kat Kat and Willie will run in rep Off-Broadway from July 5th through July 29th
The Jacobean tragicomedy The Changeling will be seen off-Broadway from March 2nd through 11th; Anna Chlumsky will headline the cast
Undercover Lover, a lost musical by Arnold Weinstein and Frank O'Hara, will be presented in New York from November 3rd through December 4th
The Babel Theatre Company debuts with a play about love, loss, and astral projection.
Jamie Carmichael's play Pilgrims will have its world premiere at the Medicine Show Theatre when it opens on July 14th
The Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble will present a concert staging of composer Morton Feldman's piece Three Voices on June 17th and 18th
Rob Fisher's final production for Encores! showed off the many musical styles of Eddie Sauter
The Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble's Republic of Poetry suite will run throughout June at the Medicine Show Theatre
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