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Cock

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 3/4
  • Critics choice

Mike Bartlett’s sharp new play explores a no-man's-land of sexuality.

  1. Until Sun Jul 22
  2. Duke on 42nd Street

Man and Superman

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 3/4
  • Critics choice

George Bernard Shaw takes us to Hell and back in his 1903 comic masterpiece.

  1. Until Sun Jun 17
  2. Irish Repertory Theatre

The Caretaker

  • Rated as: 5/5
  • Price band: 2/4
  • Critics choice

Jonathan Pryce gives us pause in a cracking revival of Harold Pinter's 1960 drama.

  1. Until Sun Jun 17
  2. BAM Harvey Theater

Clybourne Park

  • Rated as: 5/5
  • Price band: 3/4
  • Critics choice

Bruce Norris's acidly funny satire about race and real estate makes the uptown move.
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  1. Until Sun Jul 15
  2. Walter Kerr Theatre
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Title and Deed

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 2/4
  • Critics choice

This plangent new monodrama by Will Eno questions the meaning of home and belonging.

  1. Until Sun Jun 17
  2. Pershing Square Signature Center 480 W 42nd St, at Tenth Ave

February House

  • Rated as: 2/5
  • Price band: 3/4

The Public Theater's new musical gathers a gaggle of artists under one roof.

  1. Until Sun Jun 10
  2. Public Theater 425 Lafayette St, between Astor Pl and E 4th St

Cock

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 3/4
  • Critics choice

A man is romantically torn between genders in Mike Bartlett's stinging tale of sexual power.

  1. Until Sun Jul 22
  2. Duke on 42nd Street 229 W 42nd St, between Seventh and Eighth Aves

The Caretaker

  • Rated as: 5/5
  • Price band: 2/4
  • Critics choice

Jonathan Pryce stars in an excellent revival of Harold Pinter's 1960 masterpiece.

  1. Until Sun Jun 17
  2. BAM Harvey Theater 651 Fulton St, between Ashland and Rockwell Pls

Man and Superman

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 3/4
  • Critics choice

George Bernard Shaw goes to Hell and back in his philosophically dazzling 1930 classic.

  1. Until Sun Jun 17
  2. Irish Repertory Theatre 132 W 22nd St, between Sixth and Seventh Aves

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Broadway's best

Jersey Boys

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 2/4
  • Critics choice
  1. August Wilson Theatre

The Book of Mormon

  • Rated as: 5/5
  • Price band: 2/4
  • Critics choice
  1. Eugene O'Neill Theatre

The Lion King

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 2/4
  • Critics choice
  1. Minskoff Theatre

War Horse

  • Rated as: 5/5
  • Price band: 2/4
  • Critics choice
  1. Vivian Beaumont Theater (at Lincoln Center)
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Off Broadway's best

Avenue Q

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 4/4
  • Critics choice
  1. New World Stages

Million Dollar Quartet

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 4/4
  • Critics choice
  1. New World Stages

Freud's Last Session

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 3/4
  • Critics choice
  1. Until Mon Dec 31
  2. New World Stages

Rent

  • Rated as: 3/5
  • Price band: 2/4
  1. New World Stages
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Off-Off Broadway's best venues

Ars Nova

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 1/4
  • Critics choice
  1. 511 W 54th St, (between Tenth and Eleventh Aves)

The Brick

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 1/4
  1. 575 Metropolitan Ave, (between Lorimer St and Union Ave)

The Bushwick Starr

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 1/4
  1. 207 Starr St, (between Irving and Wyckoff Aves)

The Chocolate Factory

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 1/4
  • Critics choice
  1. 5-49 49th Ave, (at Vernon Blvd)

Dixon Place

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 1/4
  1. 161A Chrystie St, (between Delancey and Rivington Sts)

Flea Theater

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 1/4
  1. 41 White St, (between Broadway and Church St)

HERE

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 1/4
  • Critics choice
  1. 145 Sixth Ave, (between Dominick and Spring Sts)

Incubator Arts Project at St. Mark’s Church

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 1/4
  1. 131 E 10th St, (at Second Ave)

Kraine Theater

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 1/4
  1. 85 E 4th St, (between Bowery and Second Ave), 10003

La MaMa E.T.C.

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 2/4
  • Critics choice
  1. 66 E 4th St, (between Bowery and Second Ave)

New Ohio Theatre

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 1/4
  1. 154 Christopher St, (between Greenwich and Washington Sts)

Theater for the New City

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Price band: 1/4
  • Critics choice
  1. 155 First Ave, (between 9th and 10th Sts)
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  • Price band: 3/4

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  • Price band: 3/4

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