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Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
- Rated as: 5/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Theater review by Adam Feldman. Kazino (Off Broadway). By Dave Malloy. Dir. Rachel Chavkin. With Malloy, Phillipa Soo, Lucas Steele. 2hrs 40mins. One intermission. Revisiting a favorite show, like reuniting with a lover after months of separation, can be a source of concern. Has it changed since
- W 13th St, at Washington St, 10011
- $125 (includes dinner and one drink), premium...
- Tue May 21 - Sun Sep 1
Lower East Side Festival of the Arts
- Critics choice
- Free
Poets, playwrights, puppeteers and other performers in and around the Lower East Side will partake in this annual gathering centered at the Theater for the New City.
- Theater for the New City 155 First Ave, between 9th and 10th Sts
- Fri May 24 - Sun May 26
Here Lies Love
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
Theater review by David Cote. Public Theater (see Off Broadway). Concept and lyrics by David Byrne. Music by Byrne and Fatboy Slim. Dir. Alex Timbers. With ensemble cast. 1hr 30mins. No intermission. “This ain’t no party / This ain’t no disco / This ain’t no foolin’ around,” sings David Byrne in
- 425 Lafayette St, between Astor Pl and E 4th St
- $79–$94
- Tue May 21 - Sun Jun 30
Pippin
- Rated as: 5/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
Theater review by Adam Feldman. Music Box Theatre (Broadway). Book by Roger O. Hirson. Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Dir. Diane Paulus. With Matthew James Thomas, Patina Miller, Rachel Bay Jones. 2hrs 30mins. One intermission. Ladies and gentlemen, step right up to the greatest show of the
- 239 W 45th St, between Broadway and Eighth Ave
- $59–142
- Tue May 21 - Sun Dec 22
Sleep No More
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
To untimely rip and paraphrase a line from Macbeth: Our eyes are made the fools of the other senses, or else worth all the rest. A multitude of searing sights crowd the spectator's gaze at the bedazzling and uncanny theater installation Sleep No More. Your sense of space and depth---already
- 530 W 27th St, between Tenth and Eleventh Aves
- $75–$95, premium $125–$162.50
- Mon May 20 - Tue Dec 31
Bull
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
Theater review by Helen Shaw. 59E59 (see Off Broadway). By Mike Bartlett. Dir. Clare Lizzimore. With ensemble cast. 55mins. No intermission. Even in Shakespeare’s heyday, the Globe couldn’t outsell the bearbaiting pit down the street. Sorry, poets, but that’s just what the people like—blood on
- 59 E 59th St, between Madison and Park Aves, 10022
- $30–$45
- Tue May 21 - Sun Jun 2
The Hotel Colors
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
Theater review by Jenna Scherer. The Bushwick Starr (see the Off-Off List). By Eliza Bent. Dir. Anna Brenner. With ensemble cast. 2hrs. No intermission. What’s the difference between saying “I’m Bill” and “I call myself Bill”? Is the first speaker fundamentally more Bill than the second? Such
- 207 Starr St, between Irving and Wyckoff Aves
- $18
- Wed May 22 - Sat Jun 1
White Hot
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
Theater review by Adam Feldman. Flea Theater (Off-Off Broadway). By Tommy Smith. Dir. Courtney Ulrich. With ensemble cast. 55mins. No intermission. As its double-edged title implies, Tommy Smith’s incendiary White Hot limns the paradoxical thrill of self-erasure. The most straightforward of its
- 41 White St, between Broadway and Church St
- $15–$30
- Mon May 20 - Sun May 26
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
Theater review by David Cote. John Golden Theatre (see Broadway). By Christopher Durang. Dir. Nicholas Martin. With David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, Sigourney Weaver. 2hrs 30mins. One intermission. Maybe I was trapped in an Ivanov-like funk when I reviewed Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
- 252 W 45th St, between Seventh and Eighth Aves
- $60–$130
- Tue May 21 - Sun Jul 28
The Trip to Bountiful
- Rated as: 5/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
Theater review by David Cote. Stephen Sondheim Theatre (see Broadway). By Horton Foote. Dir. Michael Wilson. With Cicely Tyson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Williams. 2hrs 20mins. One intermission. Cicely Tyson may be small of frame and advanced in years, but she can still bust clear through a wall.
- 124 W 43rd St, between Sixth Ave and Broadway
- $37–$142
- Tue May 21 - Sun Sep 1
