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- August: Osage County
- Saturday May 24 (2 & 8pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Saturday May 24 (7 & 10pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 24 (2, 5 & 8pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 24 (2pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 24 (3 & 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
- Saturday May 24 (2 & 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
- Saturday May 24 @ 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
- Saturday May 24 (2 & 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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- DanceAfrica 2008
- Saturday May 24 @ BAM More times »
- BAM's annual DanceAfrica festival is a beloved Memorial Day blowout that brings together traditional dance, film, and art, as well as an outdoor bazaar brimming... View details »
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- Sunday in the Park with George
- Saturday May 24 (2 & 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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- Steve & Idi
- Saturday May 24 (8pm) @ 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 »
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- Birthright
- Saturday May 24 (3 & 8pm) @ 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 »
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- The Sound and the Fury
- Saturday May 24 (8pm) @ 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 »
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- MOMIX
- Saturday May 24 (2 & 8pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- Moses Pendleton's gravity-defying MOMIX dance company performs Passion, a visually stunning piece that kicks off the group's four-week season at the Joyce. Breathtaking physical feats... View details »
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- Prisoner of the Crown
- Saturday May 24 (3 & 8pm) @ 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 »
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- Oedipus Loves You
- Saturday May 24 (8 & 11pm) @ P.S. 122 More times »
- The barrier-breaking, Dublin-based Pan Pan Theatre reinvents a classic Freudian tale in Oedipus Loves You. This innovative stab at the plays of Sophocles and Seneca... View details »
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- The Judgment of Paris
- Saturday May 24 (8pm) @ 303 Bond Street More times »
- Young gun (and award-winning choreographer) Austin McCormick's Judgment of Paris uniquely fuses 17th-century Baroque dance technique (ballet's precursor) with contemporary choreography and theatre. Poking spicy... View details »
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- STRETCH (a fantasia)
- Saturday May 24 (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 »
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- E.S.T. Marathon
- Saturday May 24 @ 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 »
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- Jollyship the Whiz Bang
- Saturday May 24 (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 »
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- Port Authority
- Saturday May 24 (2 & 8pm) @ 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 »
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- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Saturday May 24 (2 & 8pm) @ 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 »
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- Boeing Boeing
- Saturday May 24 (2 & 8pm) @ 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 »
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- Top Girls
- Saturday May 24 (2 & 8pm) @ 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 »
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- La Femme Est Morte
- Saturday May 24 (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 »
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- Toy Theater Festival
- Saturday May 24 @ St. Ann's Warehouse More times »
- Theatre company Great Small Works proves that tiny can be just as powerful as massive. For just over a week, little theatre takes over the... View details »
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- TELL
- Saturday May 24 (7:30pm) @ 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 »
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- The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
- Saturday May 24 (8pm) @ 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 »
