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Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Sunday May 18 (7pm) @ 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 »
Fuerzabruta
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Sunday May 18 (3 & 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 »
Jump
Performing Arts: Theatre
Macbeth
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ 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 »
Macbeth
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ 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 »
Adding Machine
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Sunday May 18 (2pm) @ 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 »
In the Heights
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ 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 »
Passing Strange
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunday May 18 (2pm) @ 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 »
Sunday in the Park with George
Performing Arts: Theatre
God's Ear
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ 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 »
God's Ear
Performing Arts: Theatre
Yellow Moon
Sunday May 18 (3:30 & 7:30pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several Smiths LPs-worth of adolescent... View details »
Yellow Moon
Performing Arts: Theatre
Steve & Idi
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre More times »
Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then, just as Steve's on... View details »
Steve & Idi
Performing Arts: Theatre
Birthright
Sunday May 18 (4pm) @ Billie Holiday Theater More times »
Jackie Alexander's Birthright is a startlingly realistic story about an African-American family in post-Katrina Louisiana. Set in 2006, the play investigates themes of unemployment, incest,... View details »
Birthright
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Sound and the Fury
Sunday May 18 (2pm) @ New York Theatre Workshop More times »
Elevator Repair Service's inventive adaptation of the opening chapter of The Sound and the Fury delivers the soul of Faulkner's novel without summarizing or paraphrasing.... View details »
The Sound and the Fury
Performing Arts: Theatre
Prisoner of the Crown
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ Irish Repertory Theatre More times »
The Chelsea-based Irish Repertory Theatre company is devoted to Irish and Irish-American work. The New York premiere of Richard F. Stockton's Prisoner of the Crown... View details »
Prisoner of the Crown
Performing Arts: Theatre
Endgame
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ BAM More times »
In Beckett's Endgame, the past is contained in garbage cans, the future is crippled, and the present is blind — but dark humor still reigns.... View details »
Endgame
Performing Arts: Theatre
STRETCH (a fantasia)
Sunday May 18 (8pm) @ The Living Theatre More times »
Kristin Griffith gives an uninhibited performance as Richard Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods in Susan Bernfield's STRETCH (a fantasia). History remembers Woods for "accidentally" erasing... View details »
STRETCH (a fantasia)
Performing Arts: Theatre
E.S.T. Marathon
Sunday May 18 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre More times »
Ensemble Studio Theatre's festival of one-act plays is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Presenting established and emerging playwrights, the festival is usually a mixed bag, but... View details »
E.S.T. Marathon
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jollyship the Whiz Bang
Sunday May 18 (8pm) @ Ars Nova Theater More times »
Life ain't easy for the aging, alcoholic pirate in Jollyship the Whiz Bang, a "Pirate-Puppet-Rock Odyssey." At sea for months, Captain Clamp and his shipmates... View details »
Jollyship the Whiz Bang
Performing Arts: Theatre
Port Authority
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ Linda Gross Theater More times »
"I never thought about myself," claims senior citizen Joe (Jim Norton) in playwright Conor McPherson's Port Authority. Yet he does. A lot. So do middle-aged... View details »
Port Authority
Performing Arts: Theatre
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Sunday May 18 (2pm) @ American Airlines Theater More times »
Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses befitted the greed and self-absorption that characterized the '80s. The play, and its subsequent film adaptation, hit... View details »
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Performing Arts: Theatre
Boeing Boeing
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ Longacre Theatre More times »
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying spectacle — and, miraculously,... View details »
Boeing Boeing
Performing Arts: Theatre
Top Girls
Sunday May 18 (2pm) @ Biltmore Theater More times »
Top Girls isn't what you'd call a "feel-good" play. It's more like a provocative, hard-to-digest one that will leave you thinking for days, maybe years... View details »
Top Girls
Performing Arts: Theatre
La Femme Est Morte
Sunday May 18 (8pm) @ P.S. 122 More times »
Having picked up the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's Best Ensemble award last summer, the Shalimar company returns to New York with eight performances of its Rocky... View details »
Performing Arts: Theatre
TELL
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ Collective:Unconscious More times »
Free
Funny, serious, and daring, TELL is a collaborative theatre work that explores the phenomenon of confession by artfully weaving together a series of vignettes. An... View details »
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ T. Schreiber Studio More times »
The succinct comedies in this theatrical two-fer from Christopher Durang and Tom Stoppard both investigate the nature of bad dreams. Durang's The Actor's Nightmare focuses... View details »
The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound