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Bullet for Adolf at New World Stages
Photograph: Carol RoseggBullet for Adolf at New World Stages
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Time Out says

Formerly a movie multiplex, this center—one of the last bastions of commercial Off Broadway in New York—impresses with its shiny, space-age interior and five stages, were it presents such campy revues as The Gazillion Bubble Show.

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The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers

  • Interactive

Veteran TV host Marc Summers, of Nickelodeon's green-slimy Double Dare and the Food Network's Unwrapped, tells his own story in a show with a script by comic actor Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice) and music by Drew Gasparini. Chad Rabinovitz directs the Off Broadway premiere, which includes (potential messy!) interactive game-show elements as well as true stories from Summers's career, from on-camera antics to behind-the-scenes struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

A Sign of the Times

  • Musicals

A photographer in New York City navigates the cultural sea change of the 1960s in this new jukebox musical by Lindsey Hope Pearlman, which incorporates period pop hits by the likes of Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield and Lesley Gore. Gabriel Barre directs the New York premiere for the York Theatre Company; JoAnn M. Hunter choreographs, and Joseph Church (The Lion King) oversees and arranges the music. Chilina Kennedy, Ryan Silverman, Justin Matthew Sargent, Crystal Lucas-Perry and Akron Lanier Watson lead the cast.

The Play That Goes Wrong

  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Comedy
  • Open run

Theater review by Adam Feldman [Note: This is a review of the 2017 Broadway production, which moves Off Broadway to New World Stages in 2019 with a new cast.] Ah, the joy of watching theater fail. The looming possibility of malfunction is part of what makes live performance exciting, and disasters remind us of that; the rite requires sacrifice. There is more than schadenfreude involved when we giggle at, say, a YouTube video of a high-school Peter Pan crashing haplessly into the scenery. There is also sympathy—there but for the grace of deus ex machina go we all—and, often, a respect for the efforts of the actors to somehow muddle through. Mischief Theatre’s The Play That Goes Wrong takes this experience to farcical extremes, as six amateur British actors (and two crew members who get pressed into service onstage) try to perform a hackneyed whodunnit amid challenges that escalate from minor mishaps (stuck doors, missed cues) to bona fide medical emergencies and massive structural calamities.  Depending on your tolerance for ceaseless slapstick, The Play That Goes Wrong will either have you rolling in the aisles or rolling your eyes. It is certainly a marvel of coordination: The imported British cast deftly navigates the pitfalls of Nigel Hook’s ingeniously tumbledown set, and overacts with relish. (I especially enjoyed the muggings of Dave Hearn, Charlie Russell and coauthor Henry Lewis.) Directed by Mark Bell, the mayhem goes like cuckoo clockwork.  If you want to have a goo

Gazillion Bubble Show

  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Open run

Self-described “bubble scientist” Fan Yang's blissfully disarming act (now performed in New York by his son Deni, daughter Melody and wife Ana) consists mainly of generating a dazzling succession of bubbles in mind-blowing configurations, filling them with smoke or linking them into long chains. Lasers and flashing colored lights add to the trippy visuals.—David Cote   TIME OUT DISCOUNT TICKET OFFER:THE GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOWIt will blow you away!!!Tickets as low as $49 (regular price $79) Promotional description:After twenty years as a Master of Bubbles, Fan Yang brought his unique brand of artistry to the Big Apple in 2007 and has since wowed bubble lovers of all ages. The Gazillion Bubble Show truly is a family affair for Fan: His wife Ana, son Deni, daughter Melody and brother Jano all can be found on stage in New York and around the world performing their bubble magic. Audiences are delighted with an unbubblievable experience and washed with a bubble tide; some even find themselves inside a bubble. Mind-blowing bubble magic, spectacular laser lighting effects and momentary soapy masterpieces will make you smile, laugh and feel like a kid again.THREE WAYS TO BUY TICKETS:1. Online: Click here to buy tickets through Telecharge2. By phone: Call 212-947-8844 and mention code: GBTONYF453. In person: Print this offer and bring it to the New World Stages box officePerformance schedule: Friday at 7pm; Saturday at 11am, 2pm and 4:30pm; Sunday at 12pm and 3pm Running time: 1hr. No

Katsura Sunshine's Rakugo

  • Comedy
  • Open run

The Canadian performer Katsura Sunshine, billed as the only Western master of the traditional and rigorously trained Japanese comic stortellying art of Rakugo, performs a monthly show at New World Stages. In keeping with the genre's minimalist practice, Sunshine performs in a kimono using only a fan and a hand towel for props. 

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