Off-Broadway
You Say You Want a Revolution: Remembering the Sixties at ...
Click here for more information. Discover the counterculture of the 1960s and '70s. From communal living and forays into expanded consciousness, to tensions around race, politics, sexuality and the environment, this exhibition explores the breadth and significance of this period. This event is part ...
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 ...
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 ...
Review: Boston Ballet's 'Fancy Free' Highlights an All-Bernstein Night at ...
By Brian Taylor, Contributing Writer, August 21, 2018 In 1940, then 22-year-old Leonard Bernstein, the musical wunderkind now being celebrated for his inimitable significance in American classical music, as well as Broadway musical theatre, attended the inaugural season of the Berkshire Music Center. Throughout Bernstein's career, the Boston ...
Art Break: Love (and Art) Abounds in Philadelphia, So Plan ...
By A. E. Colas, Contributing Writer, August 20, 2018 Sometimes at Art Break we feel the need to get out of town but not wander too far. We want to keep the conveniences of great food, interesting art, and cool people – you know, everything we have here, ...
Review: Could ‘Be More Chill’ Be More Shrill?
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, August 17, 2018 The musical Be More Chill was already a bit of a sensation even before it recently opened Off-Broadway at the Pershing Square Signature Center. The show had its world premiere in Redbank, NJ in 2015 at the Two River Theater, ...
Life In Focus: José James in Concert at Lincoln Center ...
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Review: Mark Morris Dance Group Excels in Various Chamber Music ...
By Sheila Kogan, Contributing Writer, August 15, 2018 The Mark Morris Dance Group, which has a long association with the Mostly Mozart Festival, presented a World Premiere for this year’s season at the Rose Theater of Lincoln Center. The company danced to the popular chamber music ...
Review: The Amiable Schlock of 'Gettin' the Band Back Together'
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, August 14, 2018 Sometimes shows come to Broadway that automatically get the online theater wags sharpening their knives. Before a show has even played its first preview, the theaterati start taking bets on when it will close, and polishing off their “What ...
Review: 'Moulin Rouge' Gets a Lavish Pre-Broadway Tryout in Boston
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, August 13, 2018 Before the 1980s, Boston was a major out-of-town stop for plays and musicals before they went to Broadway. The economics of such tryouts have changed drastically, as has the standard model for developing new plays and musicals, and Boston’...
Art Break: Just a Short Journey North, The Hudson Valley ...
By A. E. Colas, Contributing Writer, August 13, 2018 The Hudson Valley has a special place in the heart of Art Break. So many of our favorite artists spent their summers in the region with friends and family, working on projects, and enjoying the beautiful landscape, just ...
Newport Jazz Festival Showcases Women Artists and Emerging Talents
By Doug Hall, Contributing Writer, August 10, 2018 This year’s Newport Jazz Festival highlighted an incredibly diverse selection of women performers and women ensemble groups. The festival’s founder George Wein, in his newsletter “Notes from the Wein Machine” (March, 2018), was very direct in his statement ...
Review: A Young Woman's Quest for Love and Passion in ...
By Megan Wrappe, Contributing Writer, August 9, 2018 Discovering how life works is what resonates the most in Lisa Langseth’s one-woman show Beloved, starring Ellinor DiLorenzo and directed by Kathy Curtiss. The play begins with the character Katarina rummaging around her grandmother’s cottage, putting things ...
Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties at MCC / Lucille Lortel Theatre
MCC Theatre @ The Lucille Lortel Theatre
http://www.mcctheater.org//currentseason.html121 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014
Jen Silverman’s unpredictable comedy Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties, brings together five women named Betty: one rich, one lonely, one charismatic, one lovelorn, and one who keeps working on her truck. The women collide at the intersection of rage, love, and the “thea-tah,” provoking ...
Desperate Measures at New World Stages
Direct from its sold-out run at the York Theatre! When the dangerously handsome Johnny Blood’s life is on the line, he must put his fate into the hands of a colorful cast of characters including a mysterious sheriff, an eccentric priest, an authoritarian governor, a saloon girl gone good, and a ...
Drunk Shakespeare
Liquor, Shakespeare, and actors collide at Quinn’s Bar. You’re 21 or older, and a part of the ...
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 like a kid all ...
Mary Page Marlowe
If you looked back on eleven moments from your life, would you recognize yourself, or would you see a stranger? Mary Page Marlowe is a seemingly ordinary accountant from Ohio who has experienced pain and joy, success and failure. In this sweeping but intimate play, Tracy Letts gives us a haunting ...
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 ...
School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play
MCC Theatre @ The Lucille Lortel Theatre
http://www.mcctheater.org//currentseason.html121 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014
Back for a special “encore” engagement, MCC Theater brings Jocelyn Bioh’s buoyant and biting comedy exploring the universal similarities (and glaring differences) facing teenage girls across the globe. Paulina, the reigning Queen Bee at Ghana’s most exclusive boarding ...
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 shy ...
Shakespeare in the Park: ‘Twelfth Night’ at the Delacorte
Delacorte Theater, Central Park
https://publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/SITP/Twelfth-Night-2018/Enter at 81st St & Central Park West or 79th Street & Fifth Avenue
A remounting and re-imagining production of the 2016 Public Works’ musical adaptation of TWELFTH NIGHT will be presented again — this time for a full five-week run in Central Park. Professional artists and two rotating ensembles of community members from all five boroughs will perform ...
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 African-American ...
Skintight
Laura Pels Theatre
https://www.roundabouttheatre.org/Shows-Events/Skintight.aspx111 West 46th Street, New York, NY, 10036
Roundabout reunites writer Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Significant Other) and director Daniel Aukin (Bad Jews) for Skintight, a scorching examination of beauty, youth and sex. Reeling from her ex-husband’s engagement to a much younger woman, Jodi Isaac (Idina Menzel) turns to her famous ...
Sweeney Todd — in a pie shop at the Barrow Street Theatre
This production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a transfer of the London production which was set in an actual pie shop! This is the classic tale of blood thirsty barber Sweeney Todd and resourceful pie shop proprietress Mrs. Lovett immerses audiences in a completely new ...
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 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 ’50’s ...