Off-Broadway
Acqua, Ristorante Italiano on Amsterdam Avenue at 95th Street
Just minutes from Symphony Space, Acqua is a favorite of Upper West Side neighborhood diners and visitors alike. Acqua is located 1 block from the 96th Street 1/2/3 lines, and exactly 1 block west of Symphony space. Enjoy authentic Italian cuisine in a warm, friendly atmosphere at Acqua. 718 ...
Icons by Oscar, The Works of Photographer Oscar Abolafia
Elvis. Cher. Grace. Elizabeth. Marlene. Sophia. Mick. Salvador. Not many are so iconic that a first name is enough to tell us who they are. They were captured by a photographer who goes by the name of Oscar Abolafia. You can call him Oscar. Icons ...
A Parallelogram at 2econd Stage Theatre
Tony Kiser Theatre
http://2st.com/shows/current-production/parallelogram305 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036
If you knew in advance exactly what was going to happen in your life, and how everything was going to turn out, and if you knew you couldn’t do anything to change it, would you still want to go on with your life? That is the question facing Bee who, much to Jay’s confusion, can click ...
Avenue Q
Puppets face life challenges with bad language and sex, as this Tony award winning musical moves beyond a foul-mouthed Sesame Street send-up to a sweet piece about youthful angst and the search for love. This musical has a very strong book and score, and a dedicated cast. Take it in if you ...
Black Angels Over Tuskegee
This play is the story of six black men and their World War II journey to becoming the first African American fighter pilots in US history. The play and production are inspirational, and plays Saturdays at 1 ...
Berkshire Theatre Group Brings Musicals, Dramas and Farce to Multi-Venue ...
By Doug Hall, Contributing Writer, June 22, 2017 What do famous Hollywood legends and current film stars have in common with Western Massachusetts? A history and a connection to the Berkshire Theatre Group. Gracing the stage of the Colonial Theatre from when it first opened its doors ...
Kick Up Your Heels at Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing
ZEALnyc, June 22, 2017 Certain events and traditions help us celebrate the changing seasons. While during most of the year activities take place indoors in concert hall venues and theaters, we know it's summer when everything starts moving outdoors. For three weeks each summer the plaza in ...
Review: 'Fulfillment Center,' A Quietly Moving Character Study
By Jil Picariello, Theater Editor, June 21, 2017 There's a long strip of a stage. A folding chair. And six orange cones. But something is missing in the lives of the folks in the new Manhattan Theatre Club production Fulfillment Center by Abe Koogler. Oh yes, fulfillment. ...
Summer on the Hudson: Sponsoring Free Events All Summer at ...
ZEALnyc, June 21, 2017 Summer on the Hudson, sponsored by the NYC Parks department, features an unbelievable number of special events and full day festivals for individuals, as well as the whole family. Dividing Riverside Park into sections, each area sponsors a whole range of performances and ...
Review: The Laudable But Rambling Path of ‘Bella: An American ...
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, June 20, 2017 There aren’t nearly enough women or African Americans writing musical theater. Not by a long shot. So when someone comes along who is both, it’s really something to celebrate, even if the results don’t always measure ...
Patrick Wilson Replaces Steven Pasquale in New York City Center ...
ZEALnyc, June 20, 2017 While the 2017 Tony Awards are still fresh, New York's new theater season begins. Early and with turmoil. 1984, fresh from a successful run at London's Almeida Playhouse opens this week with a dystopian look at society that could speak to the import of social ...
'1984'—The First Broadway Production of the 2017-2018 Season
By Helaine Feldman, Contributing Writer, June 20, 2017 It’s a book; it’s a film, and now it’s a play. It’s George Orwell’s classic 1984, written in 1949, which gives a chilling look at a future marked by war, government surveillance and public mind control. ...
Review: NYCO Celebrates the LGBT Community With 'Angels in America'
By Brian Taylor, Contributing Writer, June 19, 2017 Commencing a new annual tradition of programming in honor of LGBT Pride in June, New York City Opera recently presented the New York premiere of Hungarian composer Pétér Eötvös's 2004 operatic adaptation of Tony Kushner's great ...
Art Break: Life's a Beach With Mimi Gross at Shrine
By A. E. Colas, Contributing Writer, June 19, 2017 Art Break says how about heading to the beach on your lunch break? It’s not too far if you’re in the downtown area, just stop by Shrine Gallery’s newest show, Mimi Gross – At the Beach. ...
Tanglewood Is Making Music Again With Stars Onstage And Up ...
By Brian Taylor, Contributing Writer, June 16, 2017 New York City music lovers have many things to look forward to in the summer "off season." Concerts in the park and Bargemusic to name just two. But the spiritual heart of the classical music world, really of the ...
Blue Man Group
Astor Place Theatre
http://www.blueman.com/new-york/about-show434 Lafayette Street New York, New York
Blue Man Group combines music, technology, and comedy to create a form of entertainment that defies categorization and appeals to people of all ages. Blue Man Group’s shows have been described by critics as “innovative,” “energetic,” and “wildly ...
Cost of Living at the Manhattan Theatre Club
MTC Stage I at City Center
http://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/2016-17-season/131 W 55th St (btwn 6th & 7th) New York, NY 10019
Cost of Living is the story of four very different people, in four very different circumstances, each trying to get by. Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, reunites with his ex-wife Ani after she suffers a devastating accident. John, a brilliant and witty doctoral student, hires ...
Drunk Shakespeare
Liquor, Shakespeare, and actors collide at Quinn’s Bar. You’re 21 or older, and a part of the ...
Encores! Off-Center: ‘Assassins’ at City Center
New York City Center
http://www.nycitycenter.org/tickets/productionNew.aspx?performanceNumber=10569131 W 55th Street (btwn 6th & 7th)
A carnival ride through the history of political violence, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s 1990 musical Assassins looks right into the heart of American anger, providing sensational showstoppers for a gallery of U.S. presidential assassins ranging from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey ...
Encores! Off-Center: ‘Really Rosie’ at City Center
New York City Center
http://www.nycitycenter.org/tickets/productionNew.aspx?performanceNumber=10578131 W 55th Street (btwn 6th & 7th)
The genius of Where the Wild Things Are meets the genius of Tapestry in this sweet, sad, wonderful musical by Maurice Sendak and Carole King about a little girl in Brooklyn with a big imagination. Can her dreams come true, or does growing up mean letting go? Inspired in part by ...
Encores! Off-Center: ‘The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin’ at City Center
New York City Center
http://www.nycitycenter.org/tickets/productionNew.aspx?performanceNumber=10575131 W 55th Street (btwn 6th & 7th)
Kirsten Childs’ delightful, provocative, and incredibly moving 2000 musical is about a young African-American dancer who finds her way from West Coast suburbia to Broadway, all while navigating the politics of race and gender in an attempt to uncover her own identity. With a deceptively fun ...
Fulfillment Center at Manhattan Theatre Club: The Studio at Stage II
MTC: The Studio at Stage II at City Center
http://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/2016-17-season/131 W 55th St (btwn 6th & 7th) New York, NY 10019
In the New Mexico desert, a down-on-her-luck folk singer (Deirdre O’Connell) takes a job at a giant online retailer’s shipping center. Her young manager struggles to connect with his girlfriend newly relocated from New York. And a drifter living at a local campground dangerously links them ...
Gazillion Bubble Show at New World Stages
The Gazillion Bubble Show will amaze your whole family with mind blowing bubble magic. Step into an interactive bubble world and be dazzled by spellbinding lasers, spectacular lighting effects, and jaw-dropping masterpieces of bubble artistry. It will make you smile, laugh, and feel ...
Hamlet Starring Oscar Isaac at the Public Theater
Anspacher Theater at The Public Theater
https://publictheater.org/Public-Theater-Season/Hamlet/425 Lafayette Street
Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Romeo and Juliet) returns to The Public in this electrifyingly intimate new production of Shakespeare’s eternal drama. Isaac is the Prince caught between thought and action, anger and anguish, as his uncle assumes the throne left vacant by ...
Jerry Seinfeld Continues His Residency at the Beacon for 2017
Beacon Theater
http://www.beacontheatre.com/2124 Broadway (between West 74th and 75th streets) New York, NY 10023
Legendary New Yorker and comedian Jerry Seinfeld continues his once-a-month performance schedule at the Beacon Theatre as part of a residency entitled, “Jerry Seinfeld: The Homestand.”
“My favorite theater in New York to perform in has ...
Lincoln Center Festival: ‘While I Was Waiting’ (North American Premiere) at Gerald W. Lynch Theater
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
http://lincolncenter.org/lc-festival/show/while-i-was-waiting524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
“Western spectators feel like they have a direct line to Syrian society in all its complexity.” – Télérama
Digging into the story of one middle-class Damascus family, the celebrated Syrian team of playwright Mohammad Al Attar and director Omar ...
Lincoln Center Festival: ‘Yitzhak Rabin: Chronicle of an Assassination’ (North American Premiere) at Alice Tully Hall
Alice Tully Hall
http://lincolncenter.org/lc-festival/show/yitzhak-rabin-chronicle-of-an-assassination1941 Broadway, New York, NY 10023
“A beautiful moment of reconstruction and communion.”– Libération
Acclaimed filmmaker Amos Gitai blends the words of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s widow, Leah, with live music and projected imagery to yield this intimate theatrical counterpoint ...
Lincoln Center Festival: Compagnie XY—Il N’est Pas Encore Minuit at Rose Theater
Rose Theater – Jazz at Lincoln Center
http://www.lincolncenter.org/lc-festival/show/il-nest-pas-encore-minuitThe Shops at Columbus Circle, 3 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019
“A pure marvel conquering the sky.” – Le Monde
Daredevil feats combine with poetic sensibility in this “heart-stopping” new piece (Le Progrès) from renowned French circus collective Compagnie XY. In this collaboration with ...
Lincoln Center Festival: Improbable Theatre–’Opening Skinner’s Box’ (North American Premiere) at Gerald W. Lynch Theater
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
http://lincolncenter.org/lc-festival/show/opening-skinners-box524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
“One of the brilliant forces of British theatre.” – The Observer (U.K.)
Why do we love? When would we kill? How do we learn? Why do we believe in the unbelievable?
With their trademark mix of wit, insight, and inventive stagecraft, ...
Lincoln Center Festival: The Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv / Ha’Bima National Theatre—’To the End of the Land’ (North American Premiere) at Gerald W. Lynch Theater
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
http://lincolncenter.org/lc-festival/show/to-the-end-of-the-land524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
“A gripping drama.” – Tablet Magazine
A theater phenomenon that played to sold-out houses around Israel, this drama based on David Grossman’s critically acclaimed novel explores the intertwining threads of love and family between Ora, Ilan, and Avram, who ...
Napoli, Brooklyn at the Laura Pels
The Laura Pels Theatre
http://www.roundabouttheatre.org/Shows-Events/Napoli-Brooklyn.aspx111 West 46th Street
The Muscolinos have raised three proud and passionate daughters. But as the girls come of age in a rapidly changing world, their paths diverge—in drastic and devastating ways—from their parents’ deeply traditional values. Despite their fierce love, each young woman harbors a secret longing ...
Newsical The Musical at Kirk Theatre / Theater Row
No one in the news is safe! The Drama Desk nominated musical revue NEWSical is back lampooning current events, newsmakers, celebrities, and politicians. With songs and material being updated on a regular basis, composer-lyricist (Drama Desk Nominee) Rick Crom’s topical musical comedy is an ...
Sex Tips For Straight Women From a Gay Man at 777 Theatre
This romantic comedy takes the audience on a hilarious and wild ride where no topic is taboo and the insider ‘tips’ come straight from the source: a gay man. The play is set at a local university auditorium where the English department holds its monthly meet the authors event. Robyn is the ...
Shakespeare in the Park: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at the Delacorte
Delacorte Theater, Central Park
https://publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/SITP/A-Midsummer-Nights-Dream/?SiteTheme=ShakespeareEnter at 81st St & Central Park West or 79th Street & Fifth Avenue
The Delacorte Theater will transform into the most enchanted forest in all of theater in Shakespeare’s beloved comedy, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. When the merry sprite Puck meddles with a magical love potion, young lovers lost in the woods mysteriously find themselves infatuated ...
Shear Madness at The Davenport Theater
The Davenport Theater
http://nyc.shearmadness.com354 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036 (between Eighth and Ninth Avenues)
It’s been voted “BEST COMEDY OF THE YEAR” eight times in Boston and “BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR” in both Chicago and Philadelphia. It’s even listed in the GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS as the longest-running play in the history of the USA. Now, at long last, SHEAR MADNESS has made its ...
Sistas at St. Luke’s Theatre
St. Luke's Theatre
https://stlukestheatre.com/2012/01/24/sistas-beginning-september-29/308 46th Street, New York, NY 10019
Three–time Tony winner Hinton Battle and JenKay present SISTAS, a musical journey of a multi generational African-American family. The production follows five women as they prepare to bury the matriarch of their family. The women discuss their family history and the history of ...
Somebody’s Daughter at 2econd Stage Theatre
Tony Kiser Theatre
http://2st.com/shows/current-production/somebodys-daughter305 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036
Alex is a fifteen year old Asian-American girl going to extremes to get her own mother to notice her. She’s a dream child– except to her parents who wish she was a boy. Luckily she finds a sympathetic ear in Kate, her irreverent guidance counselor who knows all too well what it’s like ...
Sweeney Todd — in a pie shop at the Barrow Street Theatre
This production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street features the stars of the original London version of this production, Jeremy Secomb (as Sweeney Todd), Siobhán McCarthy (as Mrs. Lovett), Duncan Smith (as Judge Turpin) and Joseph Taylor (as Tobias), will reprise their ...
The Accidental Pervert
Pervert is Andrew Goffman’s one-man, autobiographical comedy about his youthful discovery of pornography and subsequent journey through addiction to ...
The End of Longing with Matthew Perry at MCC Theater
Lucille Lortel Theatre
http://www.mcctheater.org//currentseason.html121 Christopher Street New York, NY 10014
An alcoholic, an escort, a self-diagnosed neurotic and a well-intentioned simpleton walk into a bar… Broken and deeply flawed, they find their lives irreversibly entwined no matter how hard they try to break free of one another. The End of Longing is a bittersweet comedy that ...
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe at St. Luke’s Theatre
St. Luke's Theatre
https://stlukestheatre.com/2012/01/24/coming-soon-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/308 46th Street, New York, NY 10019
In this inventive and highly theatrical adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ classic, two actors give a tour-de-force performance that’s sure to delight children and adults alike. Through the magic of theatre, Peter and Lucy will take you to Narnia, where The White Witch has cast a spell that ...
The Marvelous Wonderettes at Kirk Theatre – Theater Row
Take a musical trip down memory lane to the 1958 Springfield High School prom where we meet The Wonderettes, four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts! Experience their lives and loves from prom night to their 10 year reunion, as the girls perform such classic ...