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A Midsummer Night's (Queer) Dream An encore engagement of The Hive's critically-acclaimed gender-bender production of William Shakespeare’s play. Students: $20.00 Seniors: $20.00 |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream A new contemporary production of Shakespeare's classic comedy directed by Lynnea Benson, with the style of "Athens by way of SoHo." Students: $12.00 Seniors: $12.00 |
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A Raisin in The Sun A revival of Lorraine Hansberry's famous play, presented by The Morningside Players. Students: $10.00 Seniors: $10.00 |
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Big Excellent 20th Reunion A new musical comedy by Ks Stevens about a reunion of once-closeted high school friends. Students: $30.00 Seniors: $30.00 |
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Conversation with a Kleagle A revival of Rudy Gray's play about a black Chicago journalist who travels to the deep South to interview a Kleagle, a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan. Students: $15.00 Seniors: $15.00 |
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Discover AtlantASS An opera about a young teen who gets abducted to the undersea world of Atlantis by a laid-back jazz fish revolutionary. Students: $14.00 Seniors: $14.00 |
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Eavesdropping on Dreams Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg’s haunting play about three generations of women in one family and their struggles with coming to terms with the aftermath of the Holocaust. Students: $25.00 Seniors: $25.00 |
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Express Yourself A stylized depiction of a performance in progress. Students: $14.00 Seniors: $14.00 |
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Freud's Last Session A new play by Mark St. Germain about a meeting between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis. Students: $20.00 rush |
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Glass Cord A NuyoRican play by Evelyn Díaz Cruz, set on a rooftop in the Bronx during the searing 1970s. Students: $15.00 Seniors: $12.00 |
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Growing Up Gonzales In this comedy by Felix Rojas, a Puerto Rican Nuyorican, who thinks he's Jamaican, who spends most of his time in The Dominican Republic, smoking Cubans, drinking Margaritas, and listening to Lady Gaga, takes the stage and crafts a masterful web of truths disguised by lies disguised by truths. Students: $27.50 Seniors: $27.50 |
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Headstrong The world premiere of a play by Patrick Link about pro-football's Post-Concussion Syndrome. Students: $20.00 Seniors: $20.00 |
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Heaven Can Wait A revival of Harry Segall's comedy about a prizefighter accidentally sent to Heaven too soon due to a heavenly mistake. Seniors: $10.00 |
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I Love Bob This original dance musical from Parallel Exit follows the story of two desperately lonely characters attempting to connect within the speed and chaos of 21st century New York City. Students: $15.00 Seniors: $15.00 |
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In Pursuit of Freedom An original work devised by Irondale Ensemble and developed as part of the borough’s first public history project to explore the abolitionist movement in Brooklyn. Students: $15.00 |
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In the Meantime In this new play by David L. Williams, time stops for three people who are sitting in a bar. Students: $15.00 Seniors: $15.00 |
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Jersey Boys A new musical based on the life story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Students: $27.00 rush |
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Jesus Christ Superstar The Stratford Shakespeare Festival presents Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical. Students: $27.00 rush |
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Jukebox Jackie A new musical revue featuring the works of the late, iconoclastic downtown theatre star, Warhol favorite and trailblazer of "glitter rock," Jackie Curtis. Students: $25.00 Seniors: $25.00 |
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King's River The world premiere of a play by by Andrew Rosenberg and Ean Miles Kessler which tells the intertwining stories of people living in a fictional small town in the American South. Students: $15.00 Seniors: $15.00 |
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Leaving IKEA: a play in two cantos As two couples venture through their local Swedish superstore, they become trapped in a blue and yellow purgatory. Students: $15.00 Seniors: $15.00 |
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Lost in Staten Island: More Tales of Modern Living In this third installment of Sheinmel and Zambo’s "Modern Living" cycle, a performing artist copes with the death of his brother. Students: $13.00 Seniors: $13.00 |
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Luther A new play by Ethan Lipton concerning unusual families, war-damaged veterans and the high price of everything. Students: $15.00 Seniors: $15.00 |
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom A revival of August Wilson's famous play, which is set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where band members are waiting to record a new album with the blues singer Ma Rainey. Students: $15.00 Seniors: $25.00 |
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Mamma Mia A musical comedy about a woman who invites three men who may be her father to her wedding, with lots of songs by ABBA. Students: $31.50 rush |
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Mariela en el Desierto Repertorio Español presents this mystery play set in an empty artists' colony in the Mexican desert in 1950. Students: $22.00-$45.00 Seniors: $22.00-$45.00 |
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Miss Hope's Nylon Fusion Collective presents a new play by Jack Karp, Alisha Silver and Joseph Samuel Wright set in a small-town diner where wistful wannabes with half-forgotten dreams meet, mingle and tell their stories. Students: $15.00 |
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Motel Cherry A new play by Peggy Stafford about the guests at a roadside motel deep in the woods of the Olympic Peninsula. Students: $15.00 Seniors: $15.00 |
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Naked Boys Singing The title pretty much says it all: eight unclothed young men perform a variety of sketches and songs in this amusing but tame revue. Students: $21.50 |
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National Comedy Theatre An improv show in which two teams of comedians compete by performing a series of scenes, all based on audience suggestions. Students: $12.50 |
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Nice Work If You Can Get It A new musical comedy with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. Students: $36.50 rush |
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Perfect Crime Convoluted murder mystery involving a dangerous psychiatrist, her patient, a detective, and a man who may or may not be her husband. Implausible, but entertaining; this is the longest-running straight play in New York history. Students: $26.00 rush |
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Playing With Fire Leslie Lee adapts Strindberg's comedy; presented by August Strindberg Repertory Theatre and Negro Ensemble Company with an all black cast. Students: $9.00 |
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Protected A new production of Timothy Scott Harris's play about a man who has entered the witness protection program. Students: $15.00 Seniors: $15.00 |
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Psycho Therapy A new play by Frank Strausser about couples therapy…for three. Students: $20.00 rush |
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Radiotheatre's 3rd H.P. Lovecraft Festival Radiotheatre presents adaptations of five Lovecraft stories in repertory. Students: $20.00 Seniors: $20.00 |
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Rapture, Blister, Burn This new comedy by Gina Gionfriddo is an unflinching look at gender politics in the wake of 20th century feminist ideals. Students: $15.00 rush |
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Sistas: The Musical This musical by Dorothy Marcic tells of the struggles, the joys and the triumphs of being black and of being a woman in America. Students: $29.50 |
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Sovereign The third and final installment of Mac Rogers’ science fiction epic The Honeycomb Trilogy. Students: $15.00 Seniors: $15.00 |
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Symphony of Shadows: A Tale From the Land Beyond the Veil This movement-based spectacular tells the story of a woman combating a variety of sleep disorders, phantasmagorical night terrors, and hypnotic horrors. Students: $12.00 Seniors: $12.00 |
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Takarazuka! A new play by Susan Soon He Stanton about the star of a Japanese theater that stages all-female Western style musical extravaganzas. Students: $15.00 Seniors: $15.00 |
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Take What Is Yours A new play by Erica Fae and Jill A. Samuels about how American women fought for and won the right to vote. Students: $15.00 Seniors: $15.00 |
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The Bad Guys In this new play by Alena Smith, five childhood buddies reunite on a late summer afternoon for some beer, grilling and weed, but deep within their friendship lurk ghosts that rock the patio beneath them. Students: $10.00 rush |
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The Beggar's Opera A revival of the 18th century opera that became the basis for The Threepenny Opera. Students: $14.00 Seniors: $14.00 |
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The Bowery Wars, Part 2 An outdoor site-specific musical by Ryan Gilliam and Michael Hickey inspired by the gang warfare in NYC's Lower East Side at the turn of the last century. Students: $10.00 Seniors: $10.00 |
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The Chalk Circle Yangtze Repertory Theatre presents a modern theater version of this Yuan dynasty masterpiece by Li QianFu, adapted and directed by Joanna Chan employing Chinese Opera elements. Students: $20.00 Seniors: $20.00 |
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The City Club An original blues and jazz musical about the indisputable intoxication of music. Students: $25.00 rush |
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The Fantasticks A revival of the musical by Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt. Students: $31.00 rush |
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The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess A revival of the famous folk opera, with a revised book in a musical theatre format and jazz-oriented musical arrangements. Students: $37.00 rush |
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The House of Mirth A revival of Clyde Fitch's dramatization of the novel by Edith Wharton. Students: $18.00 Seniors: $18.00 |
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The Runner Stumbles A return engagement of Retro Productions' revival of Milan Stitt's play, based on a true story of a nun's mysterious murder in a remote parish in northern Michigan. Students: $20.00 rush Seniors: $30.00 |
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The Wedding Plan A revival of Brian MacInnis Smallwood's comedy about what happens when a young man travels to meet his online girlfriend for her sister's wedding day. Students: $15.00 |
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TINY LIGHTS: Memory’s Storehouse/Infinite Miniature A theatrical collaboration containing dual solos by playwrights/performers Lenora Champagne and Lizzie Olesker. Students: $15.00 Seniors: $15.00 |
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Welcome to America A new English adaptation of a Yiddish play described as a cautionary tale about the tensions within one Jewish immigrant family whose patriarch refuses to adapt, while his children want nothing more than to be “Real Americans.” Students: $15.00 |
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When Clowns Play Hamlet A revival of the seminal off-off-Broadway play by H.M. Koutoukas, in which three star circus performers reduced to the status of Clowns rehearse their “act” in the backyard of a second-rate circus. Students: $13.00 Seniors: $13.00 |
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when half the sphere is visible A collaborative effort between four playwrights, five directors and nine actors, this play creates a greater narrative from four interwoven stories. Students: $15.00 Seniors: $15.00 |
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White Like Me: A Hunky Dory Puppet Show Paul Zaloom employs the intimate medium of toy theater to tell the story of the archetypal White Man as he leaves his planet Caucazoid and travels to Earth in order to civilize it. Students: $12.00 - $15.00 Seniors: $12.00 - $15.00 |
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Wonderful Town Gallery Players presents this musical about the adventures and misadventures of two sisters who move from small-town Ohio to the bohemia of 1935 Greenwich Village. Seniors: $14.00 |
Review: DEGENERATION X by Martin Denton
Degeneration X, a new multimedia play created by Leah Bachar (author) and Meredith Edwards (director), uses live action and pre-recorded video to tell the truly gripping story of Xavier, a young man who is stricken with a rare, incurable disease that will eventually make him blind. In the weeks and months before he completely loses his vision, he is plagued with hallucinations and an increasing inability to focus and concentrate. Much of the play/film deals directly with his condition and his response to it, and when it sticks to this theme Degeneration X is both harrowing and fascinating.
Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by Judith Jarosz
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of his most frequently produced comedies. There are many reasons for this. The play is well balanced with some earnest sincerity coupled with likable humor. There are multiple equally sizable roles for the cast, that each provide a moment or more for the artist to shine. It is an audience favorite. It's cute, it's fun, and it can be a laugh riot--which is what make this production so disappointing.
Review: THE RYAN CASE 1873 by Victoria Linchong
"Watch your step" the guy at the box office said, "it's dark in the 1800s." I made my way down into the basement of the Lower East Side bar Fontana's, where the tinny sound of traditional Irish pipes wafted over four sections of folded chairs. Being a little wary of interactive theater, I took a chair in the back near the entrance and was soon joined by my friend, who was as mystified as I was as to what we were about to see. Our conversation was abruptly ended by the jarring screech of a police whistle as a big burly guy wearing a brogue and a derby hat marched through the audience bellowing, "On yer feet! On yer feet, recruits!"
Review: THE LOMBARDI CASE 1975 by Ed Malin
The Lower East Side is seedy again in Live-in Theater's unique, interactive crime show The Lombardi Case 1975. If you don't remember this side of the neighborhood, you will have fun walking the streets collecting clues on a pleasant weekend afternoon. First, you meet at The Living Room on Stanton Street and get briefed on the facts of the murder case by Officer O'Donnelly (Walter DeForest) and Chief Miller (Tom Staggs). The participants (no "audience" here) form teams and learn how to say "Yes, Chief." Armed with a map, some mug shots, and some notepads, the teams spend an hour walking a circuit of about a dozen blocks.
Review: POOL (NO WATER) by Leslie Bramm
What I truly enjoyed the most about pool (no water): it is a piece of theatre. Playwright Mark Ravenhill creates a series of large metaphors, and expresses them through visual symbols and poetic language. He captures the ugly part of jealousy and recognition that's in all of us. One Year Lease has done an excellent job in bringing this ensemble-driven play to fruition. They should serve as an inspiration to other theatre groups. You can still take a chance on the bold.
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