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- Ángel Salazar
- Thursday Apr 17 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Comic Strip Live
- Famous for his catchphrase "sheck it out," Ángel Salazar has been busting guts for more than 20 years now. The Cuban-born standup has been known... View details »
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- EATfest
- Thursday Apr 17 (7pm) @ Roy Arias Theatre Center More times »
- On TV, Dr. Phil commands us to lose weight and our politicians beg us to trust them. Emerging Artist Theatre's EATfest 2008 encourages us to... View details »
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- August: Osage County
- Thursday Apr 17 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Fuerzabruta
- Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
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- Jump
- Thursday Apr 17 (7pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
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- Macbeth
- Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
- Director Rupert Goold switches out Scottish castles for Soviet regalia in his modern revamping of Macbeth. Patrick Stewart returns to the stage (he was a... View details »
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- Adding Machine
- Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ Minetta Lane Theatre More times »
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven by rage — and... View details »
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- In the Heights
- Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times »
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
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- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Thursday Apr 17 @ Broadhurst Theatre More times »
- Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The weighty issues on display... View details »
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- Passing Strange
- Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ The Belasco Theatre More times »
- The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel Breaker) who flees his... View details »
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- Sunday in the Park with George
- Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ Studio 54 More times »
- Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon... View details »
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- The Four of Us
- Thursday Apr 17 (7:30pm) @ New York City Center More times »
- Itamar Moses is a young, successful playwright who happens to be best friends with a young, incredibly successful novelist named Jonathan Safran Foer. A fictionalized... View details »
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- Women Center Stage Festival
- Thursday Apr 17 @ Culture Project More times »
- Progressive downtown stalwart Culture Project has announced a promising lineup for its annual Women Center Stage festival. Highlights include a conversation with a former death-row... View details »
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- God's Ear
- Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times »
- Playwright Jenny Schwartz made a downtown splash last year with her breakout play God's Ear, and now the Vineyard Theatre revives the production with a... View details »
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- Mandance Project
- Thursday Apr 17 @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- Eliot Feld's Mandance Project returns for its fourth Joyce season. The first program includes solos for two lovely ladies: former Martha Graham dancer Fang-Yi Sheu... View details »
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- Another Vermeer
- Thursday Apr 17 (7:30pm) @ Dorothy Strelsin Theatre More times »
- In historical drama Another Vermeer, notorious art forger Han van Meegeren sells his own painting — claiming it a crecently discovered Johannes Vermeer — to... View details »
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- Fire Island
- Thursday Apr 17 (6pm) @ 3LD Art & Technology Center More times »
- Sitting on floor cushions and deck chairs, the audience provides the stage here, playing an integral role in recreating the relaxed, beachy feel of notoriously... View details »
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- Street Limbo Blues
- Thursday Apr 17 (7–9:30pm) @ Café Pick Me Up More times »
- Upon arriving at Café Pick Me Up, you're handed a coffee, a prop to wear, and a piece of paper outlining your character in Street... View details »
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- Untitiled Mars
- Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ P.S. 122 More times »
- Jay Scheib's experimental play, Untitled Mars (This Title May Change), attempts to answer David Bowie's age-old question, "Is there life on Mars?" Immediately upon entering... View details »
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- Emancipation
- Thursday Apr 17 (7:30pm) @ Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center More times »
- The Classical Theatre of Harlem presents Emancipation, a brand-new play by longtime company member Ty Jones. Emancipation tells the story of Nat Turner's historical 19th-century... View details »
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- Hostage Song
- Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ Kraine Theater More times »
- The new indie-rock musical Hostage Song offers a glimpse into the dark, hallucinatory experiences of two bound and blindfolded American civilians. Between imagined conversations and... View details »
