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Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  2/15/2013 to 6/1/2013

Neo-Futurists ensemble members in Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind. Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind is the New York Neo-Futurists award-winning, energetic ever-changing attempt to perform 30 original plays in 60 minutes. The show, which enjoys an open run every weekend in the East Village, is a collage of the comic and tragic, the political and personal, the ... view full listing details

 

'night, Mother by Marsha Norman Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street  5/3/2013 to 5/19/2013

Photo by Ron Bowman, Design by Melissa Lin Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize, 'night, Mother tells the story of a seemingly regular Saturday evening in rural America at the ranch-style farmhouse that Thelma occupies with her middle-aged daughter, Jessie. Down on her luck, Jessie is divorced, cannot hold down a job, suffers from epilepsy and ... view full listing details

 

A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   5/11/2013 to 5/25/2013

A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG by Peter Nichols, photo by K. Vaughan A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG is a dark comedy about a couple trying to deal with the hardest kind of parenthood; their only daughter Josephine has cerebral palsy, is wheelchair bound and can not communicate. Bri and Sheila's marriage is on the brink from the stress of Joe's afflictions, her grandmo... view full listing details

 

queerSpawn HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  5/10/2013 to 5/19/2013

queerSpawn When you've got two moms in a small town sometimes it's hard to believe "It gets better". For this "queerspawn" Kid, freshman year looks like it's only going to get worse. A comic drama for adults about imaginary friends and surviving high school.... view full listing details

 

Blood Brothers Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 30-44 Crescent St  5/2/2013 to 5/25/2013

Set in Liverpool (1960-1985), Blood Brothers tells the story of fraternal twins who are separated at birth. One brother is raised in a family of great privilege and one brother is raised in poverty. Even with their different socioeconomic backgrounds, the two boys end up becoming best friends until ... view full listing details

 

La Marie-Vison 319 Scholes, 319 Scholes Street  5/10/2013 to 5/26/2013

Doug Barron as Mink Marie The perversely fascinating tale of Marie, a transvestite prostitute who lives in elegant squalor with her dedicated servant. Every day, for 18 years, Marie releases an exotic butterfly into the open fields of the living room. Every day for 18 years the beautiful boy, imprisoned in her den, catches a... view full listing details

 

Sans Merci The 4th Street Theatre, 83 E 4th St  4/27/2013 to 5/17/2013

graphic design: Isaiah Tanenbaum Flux Theatre Ensemble presents the NY premiere of SANS MERCI by Johnna Adams. When Tracy, a shy literature major, falls in love with Kelly, a political activist, their shared idealism takes them on a humanitarian mission to South America. Years later, Tracy’s mother visits Kelly with hard questions ... view full listing details

 

Honey Fist The 4th Street Theatre, 83 E 4th St  5/1/2013 to 5/18/2013

graphic design: Isaiah Tanenbaum Flux Theatre Ensemble presents the world premiere of HONEY FIST by August Schulenburg. Set outside of Boston, HONEY FIST follows a group of old friends gathering for an annual bender honoring Justin, a high school buddy who died young. An old adversary who turned Hollywood shows up with a movie star... view full listing details

 

ADVANCE GUARD Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  5/8/2013 to 5/19/2013

Photo courtesy Spookfish Theatre Company Occupy Wall Street meets Fight Club meets the Art World.... view full listing details

 

The Last Cyclist West End Theater, 263 West 86th  5/25/2013 to 6/9/2013

bitter comedia-style satire originally written in the Terezin concentration camp in 1944... view full listing details

 

DREAMGIRLS Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  4/27/2013 to 5/19/2013

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You Are Here The Workshop Theater/ The Jewel Box , 312 W. 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  5/2/2013 to 5/18/2013

You Are Here These plays had to meet two criteria: 1) they had to be set in a real place you could find on a map of the world (current, ancient, whatever... as long as it exists or existed) and 2) the story being told could only take place in that specific location. They are... The Bloomingdale Road by Mark Loe... view full listing details

 

Broken Fences Theatre 54, 244 W. 54th St., 12th Floor  5/3/2013 to 5/19/2013

Photograph by Nick Suydam When Czar and April buy a home in a black neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side, they find community with Hoody and D, who live next door. Can these two these families stay connected without destroying themselves and each other? Everybody’s in it, from the skittish best friends from the suburbs, to t... view full listing details

 

Wood Bones June Havoc Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 1st Floor  5/9/2013 to 5/18/2013

UrbanTopaz Wood Bones is a uniquely woven story of a haunted house that is a trapped spirit. The home, built in the 1880’s has seen its share of violence and hatred over the years and is near enough to tribal land, but far enough from it to be both a white and dark place.... view full listing details

 

Chemistry of Love La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  5/2/2013 to 5/19/2013

Written by Jill Campbell / Directed by George Ferencz Are others truly happy when we succeed? Lara, a conceptual artist, is nominated for a half-million dollar grant. In order to collect, she must present a brilliant new work to an anonymous committee. As she proceeds, her mentor, ex-boyfriend and ... view full listing details

 

Tigers Be Still Drilling Company Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street  5/9/2013 to 5/25/2013

The Drilling Company and Partly Cloudy People present the first New York Revival of Tigers Be Still, a heartwarming comedy by Kim Rosenstock. This production will serve as an awareness campaign and fundraiser for The Ackerman Institute for The Family. Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh, the show will ... view full listing details

 

Tesla Theatre 80, 80 St Marks Pl  5/23/2013 to 6/8/2013

Tesla Tesla is a theatrical journey into Nikola Tesla’s unlimited imagination in the final years of his life. Living alone and in relative obscurity in a hotel bedroom, he desperately develops his particle beam to save his beloved Yugoslavia from the Nazi Luftwaffe. He draws on the intellectual strength o... view full listing details

 

PLAY OR BE PLAYED Producer's Club Grand Theatre, 358 West 44th Street 3rd Floor  5/22/2013 to 6/14/2013

Play or Be Played mirrors the life of a young Christian woman who travels from the Caribbean to the USA to reunite with her fiancé in the hope of a better life. Reality strikes when she discovers her fiancé is in fact living in squalor and that the stories she has been told about America being a “l... view full listing details

 

Birds on a Wire Sanctuary Arts Initiative, 410 W. 40th St.  6/13/2013 to 6/13/2013

dust storm approaching the Rositzky family house A Texas family's fight to stave off foreclosure during the Dust Bowl has shocking resonance with the national movement to save our communities from the threat of fracking. The Dust Bowl was the greatest ecological disaster of the 20th Century and two thirds of the inhabitants stayed on their farms... view full listing details

 

Where There Was Fire Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue   5/2/2013 to 5/19/2013

Tabula RaSa. Giovanni Rufino Photography “Where There Was Fire is a contemporary theater experience that explores the poetic complexity of women’s love, passion, and emotions having Clytemnestra as a backdrop; a woman who has symbolized passion throughout history... view full listing details

 

There's a Light on Yonder Mountain Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  5/23/2013 to 6/8/2013

There's a Light on Yonder Mountain follows the journey of an unlikely group of misfits on a mysterious mission to change the world. This new play, created by four emerging playwrights and a literary director, is inspired by Joseph Campbell's work on the Hero's Journey.... view full listing details

 

Realists HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  5/11/2013 to 5/25/2013

Realists by Jelena Kajgo Serbian playwright Jelena Kajgo (Director, Bitef Festival and Theatre) presents a super-charged, hyper-real world where five people – a psychiatrist locked in a love triangle with two of his patients, and another super successful couple -- struggle with modernity, money and power in a newly fashione... view full listing details

 

A Midsummer Night's Dream Saint Charles Borromeo, 21 Sidney Place  5/17/2013 to 6/1/2013

David Fuller as Nick Bottom in Theater 2020's production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream." Photo by Judith Jarosz In one of the Bard's most beloved comedies, human will attempts to thwart the power of love, logic is lost and the fairies (in this case, swinging musical fairies, with original music by MAC Award winner Jason Wynn) take over. Imagination is let loose, lovers are seized by madness, and the fairies t... view full listing details

 

Macbeth Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 West 28th Street  6/1/2013 to 6/16/2013

Directed by Lindsay Tanner, this dark tale is told from the perspective of five mysterious witches (Stella Berg, Stacey Bone-Gleason, Laura Borgwardt, Julia Giolzetti, and Holly Hart), who portray more than twenty-five characters – although no one stays in the same role for very long since the actre... view full listing details

 

GORILLA Lion Theatre, 410 Wesdt 42 Street  5/30/2013 to 6/16/2013

Gorilla - sex, power and gender in the office The story of "Gorilla" follows five businessmen as they navigate through the final weekend of a team building program under the guidance of the female head of Human Resources. Under the shadow of the economic collapse, greed, ambition, sex, power, gender, and sexuality all bubble to the surface as t... view full listing details

 

"Covers" ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street  5/22/2013 to 6/2/2013

Covers", the second original production from the Lost & Found Project, is an interactive play that explores personal family stories about the Russian-Jewish identity experience. Under the acclaimed Russian director Alexandre Marine, "Covers" looks into family bonds, our choices, our definition... view full listing details

 

Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon! La MaMa Experimental Theatre, 74A East 4th St  5/16/2013 to 6/2/2013

A Martial Arts-Samurai Sword Fighting-Music/Theater Fantasy Action-Adventure Blockbuster homage to “Lone Wolf and Cub” (Kozure Ogami) in a story of imperial decline and desperation, revenge, intrigue and catharsis. Fred Ho’s super-talented team unleashes a music/theater work of dazzling spectacle an... view full listing details

 

North to Maine: A Journey on the Appalachian Trail Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street  6/5/2013 to 6/16/2013

Image Created by Eric Moore www.emooreillustration.com The Appalachian National Scenic Trail is a 2,176 mile footpath through the American wilderness. It begins at the summit of Mt. Springer in Georgia and crosses through a total of fourteen states before reaching its terminus at the summit of Katahdin in Maine. Every year, in late March, nearly 2,000 ... view full listing details

 

3x3, or 9 after 9 Access Theater Black Box, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor  6/7/2013 to 6/16/2013

It's 9 after 9...do you know what your neighbors are doing? With a range of unique tenants and thin walls, 3×3, or 9 after 9 is a picture of the same nine minutes of time in nine different NYC apartments all in the same building. Each apartment and scene offers its own glimpse into the emotional rol... view full listing details

 

HAMLET by William Shakespeare American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  5/31/2013 to 6/29/2013

Voyerism, Simplified. Hailed as The Best Play in the English Language, HAMLET is the quintessential Revenger's Tragedy of an unlikely hero, unearthing the story behind his father's sudden death. Plays in rotating repertory with ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD - with the same ensemble!... view full listing details

 

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD by Tom Stoppard American Theatre of Actors, Sargent Theatre, 314 West 54th Street  6/1/2013 to 6/30/2013

Voyerism, Simplified. Tom Stoppard's classic (and hilarious) treatise on existentialism, ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, is a worm's-eye view of the tale of Hamlet from Shakespeare's own Beavis and Butthead. Plays in rotating repertory with HAMLET - with the same ensemble!... view full listing details

 

Bureau of Missing Persons New York Theatre Workshop's 4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street  6/14/2013 to 6/29/2013

A piece of chalk. Big band music. A pocketful of leaves. These clues lead Angela on a quest from her apartment on the Upper West Side to a cave in Moscow to search for someone who is missing. Inspired by the stories of Borges, this magical tale explores how we heal. ... view full listing details

 

Rags Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St  5/29/2013 to 6/9/2013

The short-lived Broadway musical RAGS returns to the New York stage in a production from Beautiful Soup, featuring a stunning score by two-time Tony Award winner Charles Strouse, lyrics by three-time Academy Award winner Stephen Schwartz and an extraordinarily moving book by Fiddler on the Roof libr... view full listing details

 

Spoon River Project Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street  6/13/2013 to 6/30/2013

Imagine sitting deep within a Victorian cemetery on a beautiful summer’s night when some of its permanent residents begin to appear in the distance, assemble in front of you, and one by one divulge their secrets, their private thoughts, their regrets, and share the turmoil that filled their lives. ... view full listing details

 

The Lonesome West The Tank, 151 West 46th Street  6/3/2013 to 6/19/2013

A satirical tale of a sibling rivalry between two irreverent brothers in the wake of their father’s untimely death. An oft-embattled priest and a precocious deb attempt to quell their troubles in this final installment of McDonagh’s acclaimed Leenane Trilogy. ... view full listing details

 

The Golden Year The WorkShop Theater | Mainstage, 312 West 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  6/6/2013 to 6/29/2013

After decades of hard work, a Long Island couple embark on their retirement, only to discover that life can be surprisingly unpredictable.... view full listing details

 

OCCUPATION TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor  6/6/2013 to 6/23/2013

In 2017, a crushing national debt, skyrocketing inflation, and crippling unemployment have frozen the United States’ access to global credit. Against the backdrop of economic catastrophe, the US government finds an unexpected savior when China purchases Florida for $5 trillion. But there is a radica... view full listing details

 

Bella's Dream Flamboyan Theatre - CSV Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street  6/16/2013 to 6/30/2013

BELLA'S DREAM a play with dance by Dana Boll In 1939 Poland, a newlywed Jewish couple, Bella & Raymond Boll, heed the advice of a dream and leave their home with no set destination. Starting a family on the run they find themselves on a journey, of thousands of miles, through Siberia and Uzbekistan, encountering eskimos and gypsies, prisoners ... view full listing details