Past Shows
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2016
Mezzanine Theatre
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Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre
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Alligator
New Georges
November 27– December 18, 2016
By Hilary Bettis Directed by Elena Araoz Produced in collaboration with The Sol Project
Emerald and Ty are twin orphaned teenagers wrestling ‘gators for a living in a roadside attraction in a small tourist town deep in the Florida Everglades… alternately realistic and surreal, scored with gritty rock music, Alligator is a muscular, satisfying play about learning to tame our darkest impulses.
Alligator will be the first production of The Sol Project, a New York City-based theater initiative dedicated to producing works by Latinx playwrights, bringing the stories and culture of their community to the fore of American theater.
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2017
Mezzanine Theatre
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Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre
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PEER GYNT & the Norwegian Hapa Band
Ma-Yi Theater Company
January 17 - February 11, 2017
By Michi Barall Music by Paul Liber & Matt Park Directed and Originally Conceived by Jack Tamburri
Peer is a brash young man on a journey to discover his ultimate self in this rock music odyssey about risk, reinvention and going roundabout. Ma-Yi Theater Company’s remaking of Ibsen’s classic verse drama asks what it means when we sacrifice everything to be most fully ourselves.
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The Great American Drama
New York Neo-Futurists
January 17 - February 5, 2017
By Connor Sampson
What makes a piece of theater a success? The Great American Drama is a living, ever-changing theatrical experiment to test the validity of the American Dream; that anyone, regardless of their given circumstance, can achieve prosperity and success through hard work and determination.
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Love That Dog
New York City Children’s Theater
February 18 - March 5, 2017
Adapted and Directed by Andrew Frank and Jason Howard Based on the book by award-winning author Sharon Creech Featuring the poetry of Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and Walter Dean Myers
A multimedia play about a boy and his dog. Featuring the poetry of Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and Walter Dean Myers, LoveThat Dog is a contemporary story about discovering the power of your own voice. Best for ages 8 and up.
Presented in repertory with Please Bring Balloons
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BKBX Presents: See Reverse
Broken Box Mime Theater
February 17 - March 5, 2017
Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) presents a brand new set of original short plays with SEE REVERSE. Set to a fresh soundtrack and dynamic lighting design, the mime re-definers of BKBX journey from film noir to political protest and everywhere in between, asking audiences to take their truth and turn it upside down, inside out, and back in time to reveal something truer than they held at the start.
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Please Bring Balloons
New York City Children’s Theater
February 18 - March 5, 2017
Created by David Kilpatrick based on Lindsay Ward’s illustrated book, Please Bring Balloons Directed by Sara Morgulis
An interactive, multi-sensory theater experience created for our youngest audience members. Based on Lindsay Ward’s beautiful illustrated book, Please Bring Balloons will be a fun and dynamic introduction to theater that you and your toddler will love. Best for ages 2-5 years old.
Presented in repertory with Love That Dog
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BKBX Presents: DESTINATION: EVERYWHERE
Broken Box Mime Theater February 25 - March 4, 2017
DESTINATION: EVERYWHERE is a boisterous adventure that invites audiences to journey through invisible worlds. With a speaking host to guide even the youngest theater-goers, BKBXKids! weaves together nine inventive shorts into a rollicking hour-long program. This interactive performance includes a workshop where the kids are encouraged to meet the cast and learn how to mime!
Presented on Saturdays during Broken Box Mime Theater's run of See Reverse
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And She Would Stand Like This
The Movement Theatre Company
July 20 - August 6, 2017
Written By Harrison David Rivers Directed by David Mendizábal Choreographed by Kia LaBeija
AND SHE WOULD STAND LIKE THIS is a theatrical retelling of Euripides' The Trojan Women fused with the world of underground LGBTQ+ ball culture. Set in a hospital waiting room after the emergence of an unknown and deadly virus, AND SHE WOULD STAND LIKE THIS reimagines the characters of The Trojan Women as Black and Latinx queer men and Transgender women fighting for their survival.
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The Other Plays: Six Short Plays about Otherness and Diversity
Theater Breaking Through Barriers
March 10 - March 26, 2017
Playwrights include Dennis A. Allen II, Bekah Brunstetter, Lameece Isaaq, Basil Kreimendahl, and Neil LaBute
Theater Breaking Through Barriers will proudly present its 5th Festival of new short plays, which will examine otherness in its many forms — Racial, Religious, Political, Sexual and Social — all through a lens of disability. The Other Plays promises to provide a provocative evening of truly enlightening, enraging and entertaining theatre that you will not want to miss!
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KPOP
Ars Nova in association with Ma-Yi Theater Company + Woodshed Collective
September 7 - October 21, 2017
Conceived by Woodshed Collective + Jason Kim Book by Jason Kim Music & Lyrics by Helen Park + Max Vernon Immersive Design by Woodshed Collective Choreographed by Jennifer Weber Directed by Teddy Bergman
KPOP is here and America will never be the same. Claim your exclusive, all-access pass and immerse yourself in the Korean Pop music factory where stars are made... or broken.
KPOP was held in A.R.T./New York Theatres's Mezzanine Theatre, Gural Theater, and lobby spaces taking over the full building.
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American Mill No. 2
Pioneers Go East Collective
March 30 - April 9, 2017
Director & Co-writer Gian Marco Lo Forte Composed by Kamala Sankaram Choreography by Maura Donohue Original Concept by Abby Felder
American Mill No. 2 is Pioneers Go East Collective original docudrama with folk songs about Ella May Wiggins – a textile mill worker and folk singer who found herself at the forefront of the protest movement during the strike at the Loray mill in Gastonia in 1929 (North Carolina).
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The Assignment
Houses On the Moon Theater Company
April 17 - May 7, 2017
By Camilo Almonacid and developed by Houses on the Moon Theater Company
An English professor is shaken when a student’s personal essay reopens long buried wounds. The play explores the long-term emotional toll of violence, and the struggle to forgive others and ourselves.
Through the run, Houses on the Moon will present gUN COUNTRY, a selection of stories by professional theater artists and members of the community whose lives have been touched by guns.
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T.B. Sheets
Buran Theatre
May 13 - May 27, 2017
By Adam R. Burnett
Set in a tuberculosis sanatorium on a remote mountainside, a community of terminally ill mystics transcend to an order of living saints and build a spaceship to escape their physical ailments. This dizzying and iconoclastic new work celebrates the power and beauty of the fragile body and the multiplicity and fluidity of identity.
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SOLSTICE PARTY!
Live Source Theatre Group
November 2 - November 19, 2017
Written by Susan Soon He Stanton Directed by Tyler Mercer
A group of friends gather to celebrate the Summer Solstice together in the deep Upstate New York woods behind an old farmhouse. What begins as a casual, fun weeked quickly devolves into something more sinister; a power-struggle and then a game of survival that is by turns bizarre and shocking. Written as a Jonestown parable for the Trump era, playwright Susan Soon He Stanton explores themes of "group-think" and betrayal that instigate our deepest primal fears.
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Sheila
The Associates Theater Ensemble
January 12 - 27, 2018
Created by The Associates Directed by Jamal Abdunnasir
September 1987. The edge of town. Gloria opens her door to the woman she hasn't seen since she disappeared from home ten years ago. Mary sees the face that has haunted her memories of childhood and dreams of womanhood. But the reflection that the women seek in each other is distorted by the years of silence. How did they get here? Did one of them take a wrong turn, or were they driven apart?
A thrillingly intimate drama, Sheila pits two women against the world. Not to conquer it—to survive it. But what chance do they have to decide the terms of that survival?
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2018
Mezzanine Theatre
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Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre
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Folk Wandering
Pipeline Theatre Company
February 23 - March 25, 2018
Conceived by Jaclyn Backhaus & Andrew Neisler Book & Lyrics by Jaclyn Backhaus Music & Additional Lyrics by Blake Allen, Mike Brun, Andrew R. Butler, Joel Esher, Alex Fast, Jo Lampert, Barrie McLain, Annie Tippe, and Dominique Toney
In 1911, Rosealia dreams of a better life. In 1933, Kai struggles to keep daughter safe. In 1955, Hannah finally fights for herself.
Folk Wandering is a sweeping new musical conjured from the hearts and minds of Jaclyn Bauhaus, Andrew Neisler, and nine emerging singer-songwriters. This expansive story investigates the making and breaking of the American dream across three bygone generations. Join Pipeline Theatre Company and their band of troubadours this spring for an awakening of the hope, heartache, and longing that binds us all together.
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Halcyon Days
Oberon Theatre Ensemble
March 4 - 25, 2018
Written by Steven Dietz Directed by Alexander Dinelaris, Jr.
How do you make something go viral in the days before social media? Halcyon Days by Steven Dietz is a shrewd satire exploring what it took to get America behind the 1983 invasion of the western hemisphere's smallest country, Grenada. This eye opening exploration of the D.C. "spin machine" is a brutally witty and thought provoking behind the scenes look at America's first "public relations" war.
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One Thousand Nights and One Day
Prospect Theater Company
April 4 - 29, 2018
Book and lyrics by Jason Grote Music by Marisa Michelson Directed by Erin Ortman
In mythic Persia, a daring young woman spins tales to save the kingdom and her life. In modern-day New York, a Jewish man and Palestinian woman fight to find love in a fractured world. This world premiere musical, adapted from Jason Grote's critically-acclaimed play 1001, reinvents "The Arabian Nights," colliding the contemporary and the ancient. Through a genre-bending score, it questions past and present images of the Middle East, exploring the power of story in our everyday lives.
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UNCENSORED
MCC Theater
April 5 - 8, 2018
Written and Performed by the MCC Theater Youth Company Directed by Jennifer Shirley and Kevin Carillo
UNCENSORED features original and thought-provoking works by New York City teens. Original monologues, scenes, music, and ensemblr pieces written by the company members explore this year's theme: WHAT'S IN THE GROUND? UNCENSORED gives audiences a rare, unfiltered glimpse into some of the most creative hearts and daring young voices in NYC's five boroughs.
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Time's Journey Through a Room
The Play Company
May 10 - June 10, 2018
Written by Toshiki Okada Translated by Aya Ogawa Directed by Dan Rothenberg
If Ghosts represent the past, what represents the future?
Time's Journey Through A Room is a portrait of how we move forward from life-changing events. Part love story, part ghost story and set one year after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, this soulful and complex play observes how hope can spring up alongside sadness and fear, and change can be realized if we are awake to the present moment.
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Mangled Beams
American Indian Artists Inc. (AMERINDA)
April 13 - 29, 2018
Written by Dawn Jamieson Directed by Christen Omantra Callahan
Rather than one man's quest for meaning, Mangled Beams is a play about "A People." It's the first play about the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) high beam walkers' involvement in the cleanup at Ground Zero after 9/11. As four men wait for work at the union hall miles from their home and families, they themselves are like mangled beams. Then the unimaginable happens. Unable to turn their backs on the tragedy, they go to work on the search and rescue effort - untangling beams while they reclaim their identity and find personal redemption.
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Henry VI, Shakespeare's Trilogy in Two Parts
NAATCO
August 11 - September 8, 2018
Adapted and Directed by Stephen Brown-Fried
Experience Shakespeare's saga of a nation spinning wildly out of control. Henry VI is the story of a great nation's decent into barbarism and cruelty. It is a study of how the experience of a problematic foreign war erodes civil discourse at home, and how that erosion allows political self-interests to take hold and send a country hurtling into civil war.
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The Sea Concerto
Flux Theatre Ensemble
May 6 - 19, 2018
Written by August Schulenburg Directed by Heather Cohn & Kelly O'Donnell
The Sea Concerto follows Lynnie, a poet who has lost her creative voice to the silence that claimed her father's. Now, a mysterious letter from her Aunt Janet asks her to return to her old seaside home to take back something of her father's. Will it help explain the mystery of why he gave up music? Will that answer help her write again? And can she ever forgive the betrayal that tore her family apart? In the spirit of classic memory plays like The Glass Menagerie and Side Man, The Sea Concerto explores the legacies of pain and resilience that we inherit, pass on, and sometimes let go.
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Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet
BEDLAM
September 14 - October 28, 2018
Uncle Vanya adapted by Kimberly Pau Directed by Stephen Brown-Fried
"As I began preparing to present the two plays in rep, I saw an opportunity to display their strong thematic similarities in a new way. Both plays showcase characters experiencing longing for love at different times in their lives. In Uncle Vanya, they are looking back saying, 'How did I get here?' In Romeo and Juliet, they are looking forward saying, 'How can I get there?' By watching these epic classics side-by-side in the same sitting, the audience can follow the doubling actors on a journey through a landscape where both worlds intersect, revealing the characters' varying experiences of love, loss, and longing at various milestones in their lives." - Eric Tucker, Director
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The Fourth Wall
Theater Breaking Through Barriers
May 26 - June 23, 2018
Written by A.R. Gurney Directed by Christopher Burris
Peggy has redecorated the living room and her husband, Roger, can't stand it. Peggy's usual exquisite taste has been overcome by a mysterious lapse which caused her to redo the room as if it were a stage set. Everything faces one wall, THE FOURTH WALL, and everyone who enters the room begins to behave as if they were acting in a play. Troubled by this odd behavior, Roger calls in the local theatre professor in the hopes that he can "doctor" Peggy's "play," break THE FOURTH WALL, and bring the madness to a close.
"All Access" performances with Open Captioning and Audio Description: Sunday, June 3rd at 3pm, Thursday, June 14th at 8pm. Talkbacks with ASL interpreters will follow All Access performances.
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Dare to Be Different–A Festival of New Musicals and Special Events
Amas Musical Theatre
November 15 - December 7, 2018
PRESENTING FOUR BRAND NEW MUSICALS and TWO VERY SPECIAL EVENTS - "THE ALGONQUIN KID" AND "WITH LOVE, MARILYN." GO TO www.amasmusical.org FOR MORE DETAILS!
The Algonquin Kid, written by Michael Colby, music director Michael Lavine, directed by Charles Repole (Nov. 17).
With Love, Marilyn, written by and starring Erin Sullivan, music director Garrett Taylor, directed by Stephanie Rosenberg (Dec 7). Bridges, music and lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen, book by Cherly L. Davis, directed by Jeffrey Page (Nov 15 - 16).
Romeo and Bernadette, book by Mark Saltzman, with music adapted from classic Italian Melodies, music director Aaron Gandy, directed by Justin Ross (Nov 19 - 20).
Stealing Freedom: The True, Heroic Life of the Extraordinary Captain Smalls, written by Scott Winfield Sublett, music director Evan Alparone, directed by Christopher Scott (Nov 29 - 30).
Distant Thunder, book by Lynne and Shaun Taylor-Corbett, music and lyrics by Chris Wiseman and Shaun Taylor-Corbett, directed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett (Dec 6 - 7).
Visit www.amasmusical.org for more details!
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The Beyoncé
Adjusted Realists
July 27 - August 18, 2018
Written By Eliza Bent Directed by Stephen Kaliski
Nodding to Queen Bey but based on the Anton Chekov short story "The Fiancé," The Beyoncé is a razor sharp and deeply personal coming-of-age conundrum written by acclaimed playwright Eliza Bent (Toilet Fire, Aloha Aloha), "this generation's answer to Amy Sedaris: frank, weird, and immensely likable" (Time Out New York). With her wedding approaching, Nadia discovers that her heart doesn't want what it obviously should want: a decent husband and a stable family life. She instead fantasizes about running off to the bright lights of the big city, to the counterculture of self-discovery. Is this a silly daydream or a full-body call to adventure that must be answered?
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Meaningful Conversation
New Light Theater Project
September 7 - 22, 2018
Written By Owen Panettieri Directed by Anaïs Koivisto
During a blackout, new neighbors David and Nat engage in unusual conversation and wind up revealing more about themselves than they intend. Two years later, they are thrust back into each other's lives when a domestic dispute erupts in their building, forcing them to reexamine their initial encounter in unexpected ways.
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WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN
The Movement Theatre Company
November 11 - December 16, 2018
Written By Aleshea Harris Directed by Whitney White
WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN is a community ritual created in response to the deaths of Black people as a result of racialized violence. As lines between characters and actors, observers and observed blur, a dizzying series of vignettes build to a climactic moment where performance and reality collide, highlighting the absurdity of anti-blackness in our society. Through facilitation and dialogue we must decide how to cope, resist, and move forward.
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2019
Mezzanine Theatre
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Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre
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The Convent
Weathervane Productions and Rising Phoenix Repertory in association with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
January 16 - February 17, 2019
Written By Jessica Dickey Directed by Daniel Talbott
In Jessica Dickey’s The Convent, a group of women go on a retreat to live like nuns in the Middle Ages and are baptized with 80s pop, female mysticism, hallucinogens and sex. The Convent is a toothy dark comedy about desire, devotion and the mystery of intrinsic divinity.
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SKIN
Broken Box Mime Theater
January 18 - February 3, 2019
Written and performed by Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) Artistic Director Becky Baumwoll
Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) activates their unique reinvention of throwback French pantomime to present a 90-minute collection of all-new stories that riff on the many layers of Skin: color, consent, border, point of contact, identity, a molting snake. There will be a Brooklyn beard competition, a dance of romance, and a sitcom gone awry. There will be wrestling and zombies. There will be lights, original music, and bodies telling each narrative, weaving them all into a singular evening of activated imagination and a dive into the deep deep.
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The Importance of Being Earnest (Two Ways)
New York Classical Theatre
March 5 - 24, 2019
Written by Oscar Wilde Adapted and Directed by Stephen Burdman
Who really wears the pants in 1895 England? New York Classical Theatre opens its 20th Anniversary Season with a gender-flipping production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. The entire cast swaps genders and roles at every other performance! Considered one of the funniest comedies in the English language, Earnest is a satire of social manners and obligations in Victorian courtship. This will be NY Classical's first show presented in a traditional seated venue. Since 2000, NY Classical has provided affordable and approachable performances in iconic New York City settings, from Brookfield Place to Central Park.
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The Neurology of the Soul
Untitled Theater Company No. 61
February 8 - March 2, 2019
Written and directed by Edward Einhorn
A new play by Edward Einhorn examining the nexus between neuroscience, marketing, art, and love. Set at a neuromarketing firm, it follows a neuroscientist who is trying to scientifically define love ; his wife, an artist who is using her brain scans as the basis of video self-portraits; a marketer who is trying to apply the science of love to advertising; and a gallery owner who deals with art as a commodity. This multimedia production continues Untitled Theater Company No. 61’s ongoing interest in combining theater with the fields of economics and neuroscience.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Aquila Theatre Company
April 5 - 7, 2019
Directed by Desiree Sanchez
FRANKENSTEIN: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has haunted our collective imagination for 200 years. First published in 1818, her novel is considered the first true science fiction novel, a classic that explores science's potential in opposition to its consequences. Victor Frankenstein creates life and, dealing with the repercussions of his actions, he must destroy his own creation. Aquila Theatre's production of this timeless piece creates a bold and thrilling homage to Shelley's original novel.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: One of Shakespeare's most beloved and witty comedies is brought to vivid life in this innovative new production. Full of memorable characters--Puck, Oberon, Hippolyta, and Nick Bottom--and the famous "play within a play," the play deals with the universal theme of love, and its attendant complications: passion, lust, frustration, depression, confusion, and, of course, marriage. Aquila Theatre weaves a web of theatrical magic that will take audiences to the heart of an enchanted forest, the injustice of the Athenian court, and the political strife of the fairy kingdom.
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Entangled
The Amoralists
April 18 - May 11, 2019
Written by Charly Evon Simpson and Gabriel Jason Dean Directed by Kate Moore Heaney
In the aftermath of a mass shooting in NYC, the black mother of a victim and the white brother of the shooter try to make sense of what happened, each individually grappling with a soul-shattering experience that few understand. An exploration of loss and survival, ENTANGLED is the story of two strangers connected by tragedy in a nation still struggling to see itself for what it is.
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American Morning
Prospect Theater Company
May 8 - 19, 2019
Book, music, and lyrics by Timothy Huang Directed and choreographed by Marlo Hunter
Chin and Eng share a taxi medallion, a homeland, and the American Dream. When so much ties them together, what drives them apart? Based on a true incident, Prospect presents this Richard Rogers Award-winning musical for the first time in a staged workshop production.
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Women In Theatre Festival
Project Y Theatre Company
June 5 - 30, 2019
Three Musketeers 1941, by Megan Monaghan Rivas Co-Directed by Andrew William Smith and Michole Biancosino, Project Y Co-Artistic Directors
Sleeping Beauty, by Amina Henry Directed by Michole Biancosino
The Women in Theatre Festival seeks to broaden the opportunities for women in the entertainment industry by producing new work by women with more than 50% female representation of all artists involved. The 4th Annual Women in Theatre Festival will feature 10 separate productions, headlined by two fully staged World Premieres, commissioned specifically for the Women in Theatre Festival: Three Musketeers 1941, by Megan Monaghan Rivas, and Sleeping Beauty, by Amina Henry. Additional programing includes The Hrosthwitha Project: Adaptations of Calimachus by Eliza Bent, Susan Bradbeer, Antu Yacob, Laura Pittenger, Kaaron Briscoe Minefee, and Kelley Nicole Girod. Also work by: Gina Femia, Illana Becker, Dana Jacks, Colby Rossmassler, Hannah Manikowski, Stephanie Swirsky, Sheila Bandyopadhyay, The Bellweather Project, Crashbox Theatre, and more!
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Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson
Working Theater
June 11 - July 6, 2019
Written by Rob Ackerman Directed by Theresa Rebeck
Inspired by a true, little-known story about the making of an iconic TV commercial in which a legendary film director puts a movie star’s life in the hands of a very jittery props guy. A humorous and ultimately disturbing account of power in the workplace, “Gumballs” examines how truth is negotiated in both art and in life, and who gets to control the narrative in an increasingly divided society.
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Lear's Shadow
Smith Street Stage
September 5 - 22, 2019
Directed & Adapted by Beth Ann Hopkins Musical Composition & Direction by Elliot Roth
A young girl has run away to her Grandmother's attic, a space for forgotten objects covered with drop cloths and dusty time. When searching through a stack of old books, she opens one up to reveal that the words literally come alive off the pages as characters and creatures emerge around her and begin to tell her the story of King Lear. A classic story, retold through the eyes of a child.
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Drive East 2019
Navatman Inc
August 5 - 11, 2019
Immerse yourself in the music and dance traditions of India—and enjoy their various permutations from artists across the globe. A festival like no other, with evenings featuring seasoned artists alongside undiscovered gems from around the world, Drive East brings you the legacy of a modern voice within an ancient form.
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Partial Comfort Productions
October 1 - 26, 2019
Written by Chad Beckim Directed by Shelley Butler
Clay and Jess have big dreams: college, refuge from the cold Maine winters, and a permanent escape from the paycheck-to-paycheck, rent-a-center furniture lifestyle of their parents. When Jess finds herself temporarily stuck behind and at odds with her stepfather, she moves in with Clay's mom and begrudgingly takes a job at the local chicken farm. Meanwhile Clay heads off to college, counting down the days to his return, desperate to avoid the destiny of his geography. NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY is love story for the opioid era.
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(A)loft Modulation
the american vicarious
September 26 - October 26, 2019
Written by Jaymes Jorsling Directed by Christopher McElroen
It’s the last explosive heyday of jazz and the inhabitants of a seedy Manhattan loft jam night after night, while a compulsive photographer documents everything with round-the-clock reel-to-reel recordings and photographs.
(A)loft Modulation traces the turbulent, roiling obsessions of this group of musicians—a who’s who of jazz from 1957 to 1965—and their pursuit of purpose, while social chaos seeks to overthrow American culture. It’s angst vs. contentment, selfishness vs. benevolence, artist vs. layman—a struggle that plays out through the fractured lens of unlabeled reel-to-reel tapes which are stumbled upon 60-years after they were recorded.
Featuring a live jazz band that improvises nightly, (A)loft Modulation harnesses the power of these rare and precious sound and video recordings, taking the audience on a thrilling and emotional tour of this watershed moment in jazz history.
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Peter and the Starcatcher
Theatre for Humanity
November 1 - 17, 2019
By Rick Elice, music by Wayne Barker Directed by Brad Cain
Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. Peter Pan). A wildly theatrical adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling novels, the play was conceived for the stage by directors, Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, and written by Rick Elice, with music by Wayne Barker. From marauding pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes, Peter and the Starcatcher playfully explores the depths of greed and despair...and the bonds of friendship, duty and love.
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Dare to Be Different Festival of New Musicals and Special Events
Amas Musical Theatre
November 2 - 24, 2019
MISSING PERSON, by Susan Campanaro, music and lyrics by Lynn Portas, directed by Christopher Scott.
KEATON AND THE WHALE book and lyrics by Molly Reisman, book and music by Emily Chiu, music director Benji Goldsmith, directed by Leora Morris.
MIGHTY FUNNY KINDA’ LOVE (A God-sib’s Tale) book, music, and lyrics by Pamela Baskin-Watson, book by Nedra Dixon, directed by Elmore James.
THE DOTTIE MARSCHINO SHOW, starring Dottie Maraschino and the Stems, music director David Caldwell, directed and choreographed by Randy Skinner.
VICTORY TRAIN by David Buskin and Jake Holmes, music director Doug Katzaros, directed by Lynne-Taylor Corbett.
DUET FOR THREE by David Caudle, lyrics by Paul James, music by Kay Swift, music director Aaron Gandy, directed by Gabriel Barre.
WINDYWOO AND HER NAUGHTY NAUGHTY PETS, book, music and lyrics by Wendy Ann Gardner, music director Stephanie Bianchi, directed by Jonathan Cerullo.
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IN A DARK DARK HOUSE
Knife Edge Productions
December 6 - 21, 2019
By Neil LaBute Directed by Sam Helfrich
Drew, who has been court-confined for observation at a psychiatry facility, calls his older brother Terry, to corroborate his claim of childhood sexual abuse, releasing barely-hidden animosities between the two. "In a Dark Dark House" tells a tale of sexual and emotional abuse and two estranged brothers who attempt to overcome it and understand the legacy of abuse, both inside and outside their family home.
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MATILDA the Musical
Actors Technique New York
December 7 - 22, 2019
Directed by Carl Anthony Tramon
The Post-Broadway Manhattan Premiere of every kid's favorite story comes to life in an inventive new turn on the story. An original producer of the Broadway production has teamed up with ATNY, the premiere Acting school in NYC, and some of the most astonishing young talent in the country. Playing at the award-winning A.R.T. NY Theatres for matinee and evening performances on weekends in December. Reserved seating, as well as fun Pillow Seating in front of the stage, is available. Come get swept away in time, movement, music, and magic of MATILDA.
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2020
Mezzanine Theatre
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Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre
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Romeo & Bernadette
Amas Musical Theatre
January 14 - February 16, 2020
Book and lyrics by Mark Saltzman Music adapted from Classic Italian Melodies
Romeo - Yes, THAT Romeo - finds himself in 1960 Brooklyn, chasing a girl he believes is his beloved Juliet. But no, its' Bernadette, the beautiful, foul-mouthed daughter of a crime family in this wild spoof of Shakespeare's timeless tale.
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Border People
Working Theater
January 25 - February 22, 2020
Written & performed by Dan Hoyle Directed by Nicole A. Watson
BORDER PEOPLE is based on conversations with immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and border crossers of all kinds at both the Northern and Southern borders, and the many unseen borders in between. A startling gallery of portraits of those who cross borders, geographical or cultural, by necessity or choice.
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Suicide Forest
Ma-Yi Theater Company
February 25 - March 15, 2019
Written by Haruna Lee Directed by Aya Ogawa
Returning by popular demand, following a sold-out run at The Bushwick Starr, Haruna Lee’s Suicide Forest is a bilingual nightmare play excavating the Japanese American consciousness and its intimate relationship with sex, suicide, and identity. In 1990’s Japan, a teenage girl grapples with her sexuality in a male-defined society as a salaryman desperately tries to escape his masochistic psyche. When their journeys collide, they expose their darkest desires fueled by shame with the notorious Suicide Forest looming over their imagination.
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The Best of TheaterWorks!
Working Theater
February 22 - 29, 2020
Directed by Nicole A. Watson
An off-Broadway production featuring the best short plays to come out of the last 19 years of Working Theater’s TheaterWorks! playwriting program, offered to working people across New York City.
The Award by Alma Brothers Comte des Cierges by Carlos Cotto A Cigarette Girl in the South Bronx by Constance Gemson Drawing Close by Valerie Knight Steps by Althea Matthews To Boldly Go by Michael D. O’Hara Expert Opinion by Dhipinder Walia
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THE ARTIST WILL BE WITH YOU IN A MOMENT
Parallel Exit
March 7 - 29, 2020
Created, Written, and Performed by Joel Jeske Directed by Mark Lonergan
Three-time Drama Desk nominee Parallel Exit returns to NYC with a brand new show.
Join us for an immersive audience experience featuring Joel Jeske in a solo comic performance as an artist, performer, and clown.
A creative force who "can get laughs simply by breathing" (The New York Times), Jeske invites audiences to participate in a multimedia performance and visual art installation with himself as the character, creator, and subject. The production offers Jeskes signature treatment of art, physical comedy, and audience interaction in a work that subversively asks us what we choose to value and why.
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2021
Mezzanine Theatre
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Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre
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No Pants in Tuscon
The Anthropologists
November 5 - 14, 2021
Written & Directed by Melissa Moschitto
It’s the year 1883 and an ordinance prohibiting women from wearing pants has been passed in Tucson. In this subversive new comedy, The Anthropologists dares to calculate the cost of gender oppression. Drawing upon archaic state laws criminalizing cross-dressing, No Pants In Tucson asks: why are you so obsessed with my body? With a creative and producing team of women, non-binary and transgender artists, The Anthropologists’ newest devised play dares to calculate the costs of gender-oppression today.
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Alma Baya
Untitled Theatre Company No. 61
August 13 - 28, 2021
Written and Directed by Edward Einhorn
An original absurdist sci-fi drama. Alma and Baya live on a hostile planet in a pod designed to sustain just them. When a refugee arrives from another pod, the have to balance survival versus compassion.
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Almost, Maine
EPIC Players
December 4-12, 2021
Written by John Cariani Directed by Travis Burbee
On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night's dream.
EPIC is excited to bring to life ALMOST, MAINE, by John Cariani; a show about hope, love, and connection. Something we are all seeking as we look into the future.
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Brecht on Brecht
Theatre Breaking Through Barriers
October 19-November 20, 2021
Written by Bertold Brecht and arranged by George Tabori Directed by Nicholas Viselli Musical Director Dionne McClain-Freeney
Brecht on Brecht celebrates one of the 20th century’s greatest and most prolific playwrights with a stunning, kaleidoscopic, 90-minute revue of his life’s work. Featuring poems, stories & scenes by Brecht and songs by Kurt Weill & Hans Eisler Brecht on Brecht explores the political and social issues he faced throughout his life, as an artist fleeing the Nazi Regime and as an exile, ultimately landing in America. Originally produced by TBTB just months after 9/11, Brecht On Brecht hauntingly mirrored our feelings during that time in the world. 20 years later, Brecht’s words once again resound with pitch-perfect clarity, echoing all we are experiencing in our world today – and offering guidance and hope for these uncertain times.
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2022
Mezzanine Theatre
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Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre
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Bruise & Thorn
Pipeline Theatre Company
March 4 - 27, 2022
Written by C. Julian Jiménez Directed by Jesse Jou Choreographed by Cesar Valentino
Bruise and Thorn are Nuyorican, queer, and tired af of their jobs at a busted up laundromat in Jamaica, Queens. But not for long: Bruise is saving up to become a chef (like on Chopped!), and Thorn spits bars on street corners, one America's Got Talent audition away from becoming the Boricua Nikki Minaj. When the laundromat's basement turns out to be an illegal cockfighting ring, the cousins can't tell if this is an opportunity to cash out and become their most fabulous selves—or a trap to keep them locked into what everyone expects them to be.
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DirectorFest 2022
The Drama League
Bill 1: January 19-22, 2022 She Talks To Beethoven by Adrienne Kennedy Directed by Keenan Tyler Oliphant & Girlfriend, Book by Todd Almond Music & Lyrics by Matthew Sweet Directed by Sivan Battat
Bill 2: February 2-5, 2022 The Seventeenth Chapel by Aditi Brennan Kapil Directed by Reena Dutt & A Number by Caryl Churchill Directed by Ryan Dobrin
DirectorFest is the only festival focusing on the art of contemporary stage directing by an exciting new generation of talent. These brand new productions are led by The Drama League's 2021 Directing Fellows.
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Citizen Wong
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre
April 12-May 1, 2022
Written by Richard Chang Directed by Ernest Abuba & Chongren Fan
An epic tale of Gilded Age pioneer Wong Chin Foo (王清福, 1847–1898), a 19th-century social rights activist and journalist who wielded pen and pulpit to fight the first U.S. law to ban any race from the country, and claim the rightful place for Chinese Americans in New York’s Chinatown to America today.
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The Jury: A New Musical
Theatre Now New York
February 11-26, 2022
Music by Jonathan Bauerfeld Book and Lyrics by Casey Kendall
THE JURY is a new life-affirming musical by Casey Kendall (book & lyrics) and Jonathan Bauerfeld (music). It tells the story of Tess Butler who, after a short lifetime of battling opiate addiction and burning bridges, is dead. Now, it is up to seven people from her life to come together and decide whether or not she’s worth saving. Tess can only bear witness as they reconstruct her life, uncovering secrets, confronting hard truths, and slowly reaching a consensus. Life, or death. Rest, or redemption.
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
EPIC Players
May 12-22, 2022
Music and Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rebecca Feldman Directed by Aubrie Therrien
Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a fast-paced, wildly funny and unforgettable theater experience. Elevated by EPIC Player's neuro-diverse company of artists, an eclectic group of pre-teens vie for the spelling championship while learning the meaning of friendship. Each performance is complete with several chances for audience participation and a healthy amount of competition.
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DISCUS
Hunger & Thirst Theatre
March 19-26, 2022
Written by Becca Schlossberg Directed by Jenn Susi
Hyacinth is dead. Well, no, not yet; he's lost in the Nether Place. But what happened? Who killed him? Wait, did someone kill him? And where's Apollo? That's all Hyacinth can remember at first: that his life truly began the night he locked eyes with the great god Apollo...
DISCUS boldly reimagines the often-overlooked queer love story of Apollo and Hyacinth: a heartbreaking and candid play that challenges us with its powerfully relevant themes of class, power, justice, accountability, and above all: change. Can love inspire a person (or a god) to change for the better?
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Queen
NAATCO in partnership with Long Wharf Theatre
June 10 - July 1, 2022
Written by Madhuri Shekar Directed by Aneesha Kudtarkar
Three researchers on the verge of proving the root cause of bee extinction face a potentially fatal flaw in their model. Careers, politics and ethics collide as they are each faced with a choice between doing what is right or what is good, and must examine what those two things even mean when truth can't be found in numbers alone.
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Take Shape
Broken Box Mime Theater
April 1 - May 1, 2022
Written and performed by Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) Artistic Director Becky Baumwoll
In Take Shape, BKBX explores ten stories of emergence and transformation. What does it look like for a relationship to outgrow its shell like a hermit crab? How does an astronaut move after years of being alone? How long does it take, after an eviction, for a home to become an empty room? The collection of stories includes apocalyptic farce, high-stakes heist, metaphorical image collage, and grounded naturalistic drama. In each narrative piece, the modern mimes of BKBX illustrate how the shapes of our worlds, bodies, and ideas can shift and reshift around and within us.
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Los Otros
Premieres NYC
August 24 - October 8, 2022
Book and Lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh Music by Michael John LaChiusa Directed by Noah Himmelstein
Through a series of beautiful and intimate moments, two Californians, Lillian and Carlos, explore significant moments in their lives, discovering they are linked in unexpected ways. Semi-autobiographical, Los Otros captures a universal story of interconnectedness, love, risk, and revelation through the lens of two people’s lives. Acclaimed director Noah Himmelstein (The Lucky Star; I Am Harvey Milk) helms the New York premiere of this unique musical by Tony Award nominees Ellen Fitzhugh and Michael John LaChiusa which features musical direction by J. Oconer Navarro (Caroline, or Change) and orchestrations by Tony Award winner Bruce Coughlin (The Light in the Piazza).
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CHUSHINGURA - 47 Ronin
Amaterasu Za
October 18 - November 13, 2022
Adapted and directed by Ako Dachs
Chushingura - 47 Ronin is based on real events that happened in Japan in 1702-03. One of the most enduring stories in Japan, this moving story of honor, sacrifice, and revenge will be presented in a new stage adaptation in Japanese with English subtitles by a large cast, with sword-fighting!
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The Karpovsky Variations
Boomerang Theatre Company
May 13-29, 2022
Written by Adam Kraar Directed by Tasha Gordon-Solman
Julia Karpovsky’s father is brilliant, talented—and lives half a world away. Growing up among her eccentric and disparate relatives, Julia navigates her way through a family with a missing piece, searching for the elusive notes of her father's clarinet. This musical story traces the Karpovskys' encounters at airport lounges over two decades as they improvise what it means to be a family.
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The Refugees
Adjusted Realists in association with Weber State University
June 4 - 26, 2022
Written and Directed by Stephen Kaliski Co-Directed by Matt Mastromatteo
Who do we let in? This simple question resonates across the entirety of our lives today, ranging in scale from family feuds to geopolitical crises. In THE REFUGEES, a jaded queen and her activist children struggle to answer it, each side fiercely opposed over whether their prosperous realm should offer asylum to masses of immigrants displaced by climate change.
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Randy's Dandy Coaster Castle
Egg and Spoon Theatre Collective
August 23 - September 2, 2022
Written by Alexander Perez Directed by Rebecca Martinez
Randy's Dandy Coaster Castle takes its audience into the complicated and darkly comedic lives of five co-workers doing their best to hold a scrappy amusement park together. The highs and lows of working at "Randy's" are no joke, but this little piece of life, detailing the experience of a day job that's also killing you, is too funny and too relatable not to break your heart and leave you laughing through the cringe. Randy's Dandy explores class, capitalism, and the American dream through the colorful lens of this deeply human group of people.
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Bloom Bloom Pow: A Queer-Joy Climate-Doom Comedy
Dead Horse Productions
September 16 - October 2, 2022
A NEW GEORGES SUPPORTED PRODUCTION written by Genevieve Simon directed by Katherine Wilkinson co-produced by Brittany Proia and Al Parker
Mag, a nonbinary twentysomething, returns to their childhood home in a small conservative Ohio town. Everything is dull and weird and not queer at all. They are trying to keep it together despite desperate phone calls from their mom, chatty co-workers, and visions of melting ice caps and dead horses at the bottom of the east river. Mag's life gets more interesting (and sexy) when they meet The Creature and learn about the algae taking over the town's water supply. Will Mag save the city, or is it the algae's time to shine?
Bloom Bloom Pow is inspired by 1950s monster movies and the real-life 2014 crisis in Toledo, Ohio, when the tap water became deadly for humans because of toxic algal blooms.
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POWERHOUSE
Manhattan Repertory Theatre
October 6 - 30, 2022
Playwright: David Harms Director: Ken Wolf
A powerful female lawyer is being pushed out of her high profile Law Firm due to an inappropriate relationship that she is having with younger associate.
This relentless, passionate lawyer challenges the traditional roles in this male - dominated business, and asks the question: "What happens when a woman truly stands in her own power?"
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L'Amour A Passy
B&R Productions
November 4-20, 2022
By GW Reed
Directed by Manfred Bormann
Benjamin Franklin’s affair with the beautiful composer Madame Hardancourt Brillon, a married woman half his age.
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Tartuffe
EPIC Players
December 1 - 11, 2022
Written by Moliere
Directed by Travis Burbee
A neuro-diverse rendition of the pointed social comedy Tartuffe, set in the roaring 1920s.
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2023
Mezzanine Theatre
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Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre
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Memorial
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre
January 19 - February 19, 2023
By Livian Yeh Alice Scovell Director: Stephen Burdman
When her “untraditional” memorial is selected to commemorate Vietnam veterans -- to fierce opposition -- Maya Lin must ask herself if democracy about compromise and working together.
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The Rewards of Being Frank
NY Classical
March 3 - 26, 2023
Playwright: Alice Scovell Director: Stephen Burdman
A hilarious new sequel to Oscar Wilde's classic comedy "The Importance of Being Earnest."
Drop in seven years later on Wilde’s characters and see what happens when they meet Frank. After all, the only thing more Important than being Earnest, is being Frank!
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Mothermotherland
Slovo. Theater Group
January 11-15, 2023
Mothermotherland is a devised performance that explores motherhood, motherland, and Ukrainian and American experience through the lens of Mykola Khyvylovy’s autobiographical short story “I am (a Romantic)”.
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The Midnight Chapters
Scantic River Productions
January 20-22, 2023
"Monsters Are Made In The Minds of Men" by Ryan Bultrowicz and "The Truth About Whispers" by Katherine Oostman
Directed by Katherine Oostman
Monsters Are Made In The Minds of Men: Camila's father was a monster hunter. He spent his day's chasing after Bigfoot, the Chupacabra, and an array of other mythical beasts. But now he's dead and Camila and Liam, her boyfriend, are left to rummage through his monster- hunting arsenal.
The Truth About Whispers: Ro is an amateur time traveler. When a mysterious client by the name of “Gray” walks into her office and commissions her to adjust a memory from a New Year’s Eve Party past, Ro doesn’t think much of it. However, as she ventures deeper and deeper into Gray’s memories, she is confronted with increasing paradoxical happenings.
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Dark Night Takeover @ The Gural
Please join our member companies for evenings of readings every Wednesday through Saturday in late January and February at 7:30pm in the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre
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The Harriet Holland Social Club Presents The 84th Annual Star-Burst Cotillion in the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel
New Georges and The Movement Theatre Company
May 3 - 27, 2023
written and directed by Colette Robert music and lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney
As six high-achieving debutantes interrupt their preparations to peek into the shimmering ballroom, The Harriet Holland Social Club’s esteemed Madam President does her damnedest to ensure it all goes well. She needs no stumbles tonight. No teary-eyed smudges, no unraveling lace, no unraveling ANYTHING. Because if she can’t control these girls, whatever will they think over at Table 4?
Experienced in real time as a Black debutante ball in a large American city today—and featuring an all-Black-women company and creative team, down to its three-piece band—The Cotillion interrogates the complexities of Black debutante ball culture and finds that beneath all the respectability politics and sweet serenades lie contradictions even quality make-up can’t cover up. It puts us all in our evening shoes—those fancy ones that start to pinch as the night wears on—to consider how we choose to uplift young Black women in a world that seeks to diminish them.
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Powerline Road
Theatre Now NY
March 17 - April 1, 2023
Book, Music, & Lyrics by Michael Finke Directed by Michael Bello
POWERLINE ROAD is a dark, gripping tale of power- who has it, who wants it, and what people are willing to do to get it.
This neo-noir synth-pop musical by Michael Finke follows four Floridians over the course of 24 hours as they navigate divorce, politics, conspiracies, drugs, the twisted world of social media, and the corruption of the private prison industrial complex, all while discovering what it means to take power into their own hands.
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Into the Woods
EPIC Players
June 8 - 18, 2023
Join EPIC on a neuro-diverse journey Into the Woods! Based on the Grimm Brothers’ most popular folktales, Into the Woods is a reimagining of what can happen when beloved fairytale characters meet on hilarious, soul-stirring, and often times heartbreaking paths in the woods. Be careful what you wish for, you just may get it.
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The 8th Annual Women in Theatre Festival
Project Y
June 2 - 17, 2023
The Women in Theatre Festival (WIT) develops, showcases, commissions, and produces the work of diverse women playwrights, lead creative artists, actors and designers for audiences in NYC. WIT seeks to broaden the opportunities for women in the entertainment industry by producing new work by women with more than 50% female representation of all artists involved.
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