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Performing Arts: Opera
Il Matrimonio Segreto
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (7:30pm) @ BAM Harvey Theater More times »
Domenico Cimmarosa's comic opera Il Matrimonio Segreto is a tawdry soap-fest, filled with romance, deceit, and characters running in farcical circles, declaring their feelings with... View details »
Il Matrimonio Segreto

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Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (2 & 7:30pm) @ 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
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (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 »
Fuerzabruta
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (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
Adding Machine
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (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 »
Adding Machine
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (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 »
In the Heights
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Wednesday May 28, 2008 @ 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
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (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 »
Passing Strange
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (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 »
Sunday in the Park with George
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Sound and the Fury
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (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 »
The Sound and the Fury
Performing Arts: Theatre
Prisoner of the Crown
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (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 »
Prisoner of the Crown
Performing Arts: Theatre
Oedipus Loves You
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (8pm) @ 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 »
Oedipus Loves You
Performing Arts: Dance
MOMIX: Lunar Sea
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
Moses Pendleton's acrobatic dance company MOMIX brings its classic Lunar Sea to the second half of the Joyce's month-long season. In typical Pendleton form, the... View details »
MOMIX: Lunar Sea
Performing Arts: Theatre
E.S.T. Marathon
Wednesday May 28, 2008 @ 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
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (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
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (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 »
Port Authority
Performing Arts: Theatre
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (2 & 7pm) @ 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
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (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 »
Boeing Boeing
Performing Arts: Theatre
Top Girls
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (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 »
Top Girls
Performing Arts: Theatre
Toy Theater Festival
Wednesday May 28, 2008 @ 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 »
Toy Theater Festival
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hamlet
Wednesday May 28, 2008 (8pm) @ Delacorte Theater More times »
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Shakespeare's tale of murder and madness hasn't been staged at the Delacorte Theater since 1975, when Sam Waterston played the title role, but it's been... View details »