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Accomplice
Tom and Betsy Salamon’s unique adventure—part interactive theater, part scavenger hunt, part walking tour—draws participants into an amusing web of puzzles and intrigue. You can choose between the three-hour New York tour, which takes participants through various historical and diverse neighborhoods of lower Manhattan, or the two-hour Village tour, which travels through quirky Greenwich Village on Saturdays. Groups of as many as ten are booked every half hour.
Read moreThe Birds
In plays including The Weir and Shining City, Conor McPherson has proved a master of supernatural subject matter. Here he dives into straight-up horror in a stage adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's short story about an avian attack, best known as the source of a Hitchcock fright flick. Stefan Dzeparoski directs. Read the full review here.
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The Black Crook: An Original Magical and Spectacular Musical Drama
Popularly considered the first American book musical, Charles M. Barras's 1866 spectacle was a five-hour Faustian melodrama with repurposed popular songs and a scandalously costumed French ballet troupe. Director Joshua William Gelb marks its 150th anniversary with an off-kilter metatheatrical adaptation, performed by a cast of eight that includes Steven Rattazzi, Randy Blair and Alaina Ferris. Read the full review here.
Read moreDead Darlings
Amanda Duarte's free monthly series provides a forum for abandoned projects, sidelined ideas, or scrapped gems from writers' notebooks, hard drives and beyond. Watch beloved NYC performers and writers share their favorite unrealized pieces to prompts like "Labor," "Cake," and "Dirty."
Read moreDead Shot Mary
Rachel McPhee plays crime fighter Mary Shanley, who joined the NYPD in 1931 and became one of its first female detectives, in a bioplay by Robert K. Benson, directed by Stephen Kaliski.
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Empathitrax
The latest production from Colt Coeur, which has an excellent track record, is Ana Nogueira's play about an unhappy young couple that tries out a new drug designed to increase mutual emotional understanding. Adrienne Campbell-Holt (Cal in Camo) directs the world premiere. Read the full review here.
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Fringe Encore Series
Think the Fringe Festival is over? Not by a long shot! Fourteen shows, including some of the fest's very best, extend their runs with performances at SoHo Playhouse, joined this year by seven shows from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Among the NYC options that we recommended in their original engagements are Mother Emanuel (Sept 9–17), Pucker Up and Blow (Sept 11–Oct 17), Homo Sapiens Interruptus (Oct 15–29), The Box Show (Oct 20–22) and The Radicalization of Rolfe (Oct 23–29).
Read moreHit the Body Alarm
The unique Winsome Brown visits heaven, hell and jail in a new piece that mixes passages from John Milton and James Joyce with new text by Brown and codirector Brad Rouse. The music is by eclectic jazz troublemaker John Zorn.
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The Imbible: A Spirited History of Drinking
[Note: The review below is for the version of The Imbible that played at the 2014 New York International Fringe Festival.] Remember Bill Nye the Science Guy? Great! Now imagine him as a bartender who is deeply interested in the history of ethanol alcohol, really likes wigs and costumes, and just joined a coed barbershop quartet. That description of Anthony Caporale’s The Imbible: A Spirited History of Drinking may sound far-out, but the show is both educational and entertaining. (It's also a fine showcase for a cappella classics arranged by Josh Ehrlich and performed by a gifted ensemble that includes the show's director, soprano Nicole DiMattei.) Mixing whimsy and information, Caporale makes the story of our relationship with alcohol remarkably compelling. And the show's lessons—on subjects like the drinks served at Prohibition-era speakeasies, the origin of the gin and tonic, and the difference between a cocktail and a mixed drink—can be washed down with complimentary, thematically appropriate beverages. As Caporale says, “Trust me, I get funnier with every sip.” That makes the show a must-see for anyone who enjoys free booze, which is probably nearly everyone. Click here for full TONY coverage of the 2014 New York International Fringe Festival.
Read moreLife Masks
Stage veterans Eduardo Machado and Lorinne Vozoff team up in a trio of short plays—one by him, two by her—that they also codirect and star in. Older women feature prominently in all three.
Read moreMiles for Mary
The latest nostalgia trip by the Mad Ones (The Essential Straight & Narrow), set in a 1980s teachers' lounge, finds high school phys ed teachers squabbling about an upcoming telethon event. Lila Neugebauer directs the premiere.
Read moreMonday Night Magic
It’s a mad array of swords through necks, vanishing fingers and levitations at New York’s long-running magic show, which features a rotating cast of the city’s best illusionists and prestidigitators. For a full schedule, visit the MNM website.
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The Meeting* with Justin Sayre
Justin Sayre, an avatar of retro-queer cultivation, poses as chairman of the International Order of Sodomites in this delightfully droll monthly gay variety show, which features wittily scripted riffs and rants, plus sketches and musical interludes. The October edition includes a tribute to Bette Midler.
Read moreSimon Dawes Becomes a Planet
A thimble-size boy grows into a planet-size man in Alex Moggridge's quirky three-act fable (with music). Michael Lluberes directs the premiere.
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Thank You for Being a Friend
Writer Nick Brennan, composer Jeff Thomson, and lyricists Luke Jones and Cisco Cardenas return with an update of their campy Golden Girls musical parody, in which Ricky Martin moves next door to the crotchety quartet and begins a talent feud with those (other) friends of Dorothy. Brennan also directs.
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Tomorrow's Parties
The U.K. company Forced Entertainment visits the Crossing the Line Festival with a show that combines extreme minimalism—two performers on a nearly empty stage—with wild conjectures about the future.
Read moreThe Trojan Women
Trojans moan themselves hoarse in Euripides' searing refugee tragedy, newly adapted by playwright and actor Ellen McLaughlin (who was the original Angel in Angels in America). The Flea's resident director, Anne Cecelia Haney, directs its young resident company, the Bats.
Read moreThe Underpants Godot
Playwright-director Duncan Pflaster's metathetrical comedy imagines a young director trying to escape the wrath of Samuel Beckett's estate while staging a version of Waiting for Godot in which the tramps are hot young guys in their underwear.
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SeaWife at the Melville Museum, South Street Seaport, June 23-July 19. Tickets at SeaWife.org
SeaWife at the Melville museum, South Street Seaport, June 23-July 19.
Possibility Junkie by David Ippolito. David Ippolito is a very talented American Folk singer, performer and song writer and the together with the ensemble, this show rocks. This is a play worth seeing, speaking to our generation about truth, inner courage, commitment to one another and to our country. See it! Directed by Gretchen Cryer, through Oct 20th.