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Avenue Q
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
After many years, the sassy and clever puppet musical doesn’t show its age. Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx’s deft Sesame Street–esque novelty tunes about porn and racism still earn their laughs. Avenue Q remains a sly and winning piece of metamusical tomfoolery.—David Cote
- 340 W 50th St, between Eighth and Ninth Aves
- $69.50–$89.50, premium $126.50
- Wed May 22 - Mon Dec 30
Blue Man Group
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 4/4
- Critics choice
Three deadpan, blue-skinned men with extraterrestrial imaginations carry this tourist fave, a show as smart as it is ridiculous. They drum on open tubs of paint, creating splashes of color; they consume Twinkies and Cap'n Crunch; they engulf the audience in a roiling sea of toilet paper. For sheer
- 434 Lafayette St, between Astor Pl and E 4th St
- $75–$99
- Wed May 22 - Fri May 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
Bunty Berman Presents...
- Rated as: 1/5
- Price band: 3/4
Theater review by Adam Feldman. New Group @ Theatre Row (Off Broadway). Book and lyrics by Ayub Khan Din. Music by Khan Din and Paul Bogaev. With ensemble cast. Dir. Scott Elliott. 2hrs. 20mins. One intermission. The Bollywood-themed musical Bunty Berman Presents… is the kind of wipeout that is
- 410 W 42nd St, between Ninth and Tenth Aves, third floor
- $60
- Tue May 21 - Sat Jun 1
The Call
- Rated as: 2/5
- Price band: 3/4
Theater review by Helen Shaw. Playwrights Horizons (see Off Broadway). By Tanya Barfield. Dir. Leigh Silverman. With ensemble cast. 1hr 50mins. One intermission. Tanya Barfield’s fidgety play The Call, a sitcomish drama about a couple trying to adopt, is full of mismatched duos: two pairs of
- 416 W 42nd St, between Ninth and Tenth Aves
- $60–$72
- Tue May 21 - Sun May 26
Cougar the Musical
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 3/4
The middle-aged jungle cats who prowl through Cougar the Musical aren’t the predators you’d expect; they’re neither as crafty as Mrs. Robinson nor as voracious as Samantha Jones. Rather, they’re well-meaning older ladies who indulge in young hunks the way other women might go for, say, a day at the
- 308 W 46th St, between Eighth and Ninth Aves
- $39.50–$89.50
- Fri May 24 - Sun Dec 29
A Family for All Occasions
- Price band: 3/4
Philip Seymour Hoffman returns to his Labyrinth Theater Company to tone his directorial muscles in the premiere of a domestic drama by troupe mainstay Bob Glaudini (Jack Goes Boating). The cast of five includes Jeffrey DeMunn, William Jackson Harper and the soulful Deirdre O'Connell.
- 155 Bank St, between Washington and West Sts
- $35–$50
- Wed May 22 - Sun May 26
The Fantasticks
- Price band: 2/4
Whatever magic this semiprecious 1960 musical must once have had is in woefully short supply in this flimsy tourist-trap revival. The show’s earnestly whimsical tone has not aged well, and is poorly served by the shabby Snapple Theater Center.—Adam Feldman
- 210 W 50th St, at Broadway
- $75
- Tue May 21 - Tue Dec 31
F#%king Up Everything
- Rated as: 2/5
- Price band: 3/4
Theater review by Raven Snook. Elektra Theatre (see Off Broadway). Music and lyrics by David Eric Davis. Book by Davis and Sam Forman. Dir. Jen Wineman. Ensemble cast. 1hr 40mins. No intermission. A hit at the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival, the rock-musical comedy F#%king Up Everything is
- 673 Eighth Ave, between 42nd and 43rd Sts, 10036
- $25–$79
- Wed May 22 - Sat Aug 31
Fuerza Bruta
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
This visually impressive dance-rave thrill ride from Buenos Aires—half techno party, half avant-garde mood piece—includes a glum urban everyman on a treadmill, wet girls flopping onto a plastic ceiling and lots of angry stomp-dancing. Neither director Diqui James nor his energetic ensemble seems to
- 101 E 15th St, at Union Sq East
- $79–$89
- Wed May 22 - Sun Dec 29
