Events on Friday, September 26
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- Reading: Poetry
- Carmen Valle
- @ McNally Jackson Booksellers
- The haiku poetry form has had its share of ups and downs since its origins in 17th-century Japan. At various times,... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Trouble & Bass Two-Year Anniversary
- @ Love
- Combining their powers, party rockers Drop the Lime, the Captain, Star Eyes, and Math Head formed Trouble & Bass just two... View details »
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- Man with a Movie Camera
- @ Anthology Film Archives
- Dziga Vertov, the wizard of agitprop, once proclaimed, "I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you." The director's... View details »
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- Slovene Poetry
- @ St. Mark's Church
- In a five-page diary entry, Franz Kafka ruminated on the virtues and pitfalls of authorship in undersized and overshadowed writing communities.... View details »
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- Music: Experimental
- Jad Fair w/ Lumberob
- @ Cake Shop
- The avant-garde's ultimate outsider, Half Japanese guru Jad Fair remains pretty much the the most misunderstood artist in existence. Some 20... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- Tropfest NY 2008
- @ World Financial Center
- Last year, Australia's premier short-film festival — and the world's largest gathering in the name of abbreviated cinema — occurred stateside... View details »
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- Art Battles w/ AMIT and DJ Teen Wolf
- @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
- If white-walled museums and galleries make you sleepy, tonight's live-art party is a welcome relief. Hosted by new West Village venue... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- An Albatross
- @ Death by Audio
- More than any other band, Pennsylvania's An Albatross epitomize turn-of-the-century grind punk. Anchored by prog chops and pinched-throat screamo vocals, the... View details »
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- We Burn, We Shiver
- @ SculptureCenter
- In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,... View details »
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- Choke
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Invasion 68: Prague
- @ Aperture Gallery
- For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Man for All Seasons
- @ American Airlines Theater
- A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims... View details »
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- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- @ Various locations
- Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but... View details »
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- A Great Place to be From
- @ Kraine Theater
- In A Great Place To Be From, a heatwave in Milwaukee has driven some of the town's citizens to extremes. Against... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- American Teen
- @ Various locations
- The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school... View details »
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- Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Anger/Nation
- @ The Kitchen
- A divisive female figure appears on the American political scene, promising to push the nation toward her own right-wing agenda —... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Tere O'Connor Dance
- @ Baryshnikov Arts Center
- Tere O'Connor Dance is not only inspired by contemporary architecture, but uses dance movements as shifting layers of architectural evidence —... View details »
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- Democracy in America
- @ Park Avenue Armory
- Creative Time and Park Avenue Armory celebrate the election year (and their first-amendment rights) with Democracy in America: The National Campaign.... View details »
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- Mario Merz
- @ Gladstone Gallery
- In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- Battle in Seattle
- @ Various locations
- In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political... View details »
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- Doug Aitken
- @ 303 Gallery
- Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness
- @ La MaMa E.T.C.
- Wickham Boyle's Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness uses the specificity of personal experience to try to better understand a pivotal moment... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- The Order of Myths
- @ IFC Center
- Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially... View details »
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- Swirl of Swarm
- @ Cinders
- Cinders group-show alums Suzanne Sattler and Mel Kadel collaborate on their first two-person show in New York, Swirl of Swarm, which... View details »
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- More Flavor: Spectacle
- Circus Amok
- @ Various NYC parks
- After nearly two decades of daring, New York's own Circus Amok still overwhelms the senses with its boisterous take on traditional... View details »
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- Fela!
- @ 37 Arts
- Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right... View details »
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- Kevin Bewersdorf
- @ V&A
- Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells... View details »
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- A Secret
- @ Various locations
- This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not... View details »
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- Sue Williams
- @ David Zwirner
- From the all-over-patterened, cock-and-balls expressionism of her early career, Sue Williams has — in the last two decades — developed a... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sa Ka La
- @ The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street
- Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has been hailed as one of the world's greatest playwrights, yet few Americans had seen his work... View details »
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- Sol LeWitt
- @ Storm King Art Center
- In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival
- @ Various locations
- Russian-born comedian Eugene Mirman is kind of like baby-faced prankster Andy Milonakis — except he probably doesn't still get carded. Over... View details »
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- Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1914 marked the beginning of the long-running, deeply influential First World War, as well as the start of the short-lived —... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Number
- @ The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row
- In Caryl Churchill's play A Number, a father faces the consequences of cloning his only son. As the original and the... View details »
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- Traitor
- @ Various locations
- Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist... View details »
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- Oh What War
- @ HERE Arts Center
- Juggernaut Theatre Company's Oh What War is unflinching political theatre. Inspired by Joan Littlewood's 1960s musical Oh! What a Lovely War,... View details »
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- Art: Festival
- Art Under the Bridge
- @ Various DUMBO locations
- For the twelfth year in a row, the galleries and artists of DUMBO open their doors for a three-day festival that... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Home Delivery
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Absinthe
- @ Spiegelworld
- This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a... View details »
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- Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Break Out
- @ Union Square Theatre
- The creators of Jump are debuting an extreme new dance production, Break Out, in Union Square Theatre, the former home of... View details »
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- Other Options
- @ Eyebeam
- Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails... View details »
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- William Pope.L
- @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash
- In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through... View details »
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- In the Heights
- @ Richard Rodgers Theatre
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient... View details »
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- The Wackness
- @ Various locations
- The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... View details »
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- Derek Buckner
- @ George Billis Gallery
- In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings... View details »
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- 1965UU
- @ The Chocolate Factory
- On the planetoid 1965UU, memory is forbidden and words mutate in meaning (i.e., you never know when a vine might become... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- @ Various locations in the East River
- Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns... View details »
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- The Science Barge
- @ Riverside Park South
- Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown... View details »
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- Music: Festival
- The Festival of New Trumpet Music
- @ Various locations
- In feudal times, the shrill sound of the trumpet heralded noteworthy arrivals — recently crowned royalty or new seasons, for instance.... View details »
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- Daisy Bell
- @ Lehmann Maupin
- In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God.... View details »
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- Lady
- @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
- Theatrical parables about our nation's state of affairs aren't uncommon, but few draw as many subtle parallels as Lady. In the... View details »
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- Bottle Shock
- @ Various locations
- In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including... View details »
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- Street Art, Street Life
- @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts
- Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator... View details »
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- Humboldt County
- @ Various locations
- Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Untethered
- @ Eyebeam
- Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Festival
- Prelude '08
- @ Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY
- The annual Prelude festival is a free sneak peek of the upcoming experimental-theatre season. Under the auspices of the CUNY Graduate... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Rudy Burckhardt
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped... View details »
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- An American Rendition
- @ The Duke Theater
- Jane Comfort seamlessly blends scenes of torture and reality television in her new work, An American Rendition. Her talented company members... View details »
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- Hamlet 2
- @ Various locations
- With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the... View details »
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- The Outsiders
- @ Lazarides Gallery NYC
- Love children of the UK's infamous YBA, a host of British artists swarm New York for a two-week show of guerrilla... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- The Bad Plus
- @ Village Vanguard
- Three distinct musical personalities make up the Bad Plus. Drummer David King drives syncopated, rough-around-the-edges rhythms, while Ethan Iverson's piano provides... View details »
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- Quickening
- @ Center Stage
- Quickening uncovers the struggles of four women who make the choice to have abortions. Set in a Portland abortion clinic, the... View details »
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- FIAF Fall Festival
- @ Various locations
- Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking... View details »
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- Dreamland Roller Rink
- @ Dreamland Roller Rink
- Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Acrobatics
- New York Clown Theatre Festival
- @ The Brick Theater
- The Brick Theater Inc.'s third annual New York Clown Theatre Festival descends upon Williamsburg this September, proving that there's more to... View details »
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- Louise Bourgeois
- @ Guggenheim Museum
- After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of... View details »
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- South Pacific
- @ Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center
- Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is one of those rare, magical experiences that makes musical theater... View details »
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- Mister Foe
- @ Angelika Film Center
- Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous... View details »
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- Tickle the Shitstem
- @ Zach Feuer Gallery
- Phoebe Washburn's installation for the 2008 Whitney Biennial was a Gatorade-fueled nursery of raw two-by-fours. Its title — While Enhancing a... View details »
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- @ Lyceum Theatre
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... View details »
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- Brideshead Revisited
- @ Various locations
- For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format.... View details »
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- Shearwater Sailing Happy Hour Cruise
- @ North Cove Marina
- With ever-increasing skyscrapers and gridlock traffic, it's easy to forget that we are surrounded by water. Get into the island-living mindset... View details »
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- The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
- @ Film Forum
- Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola... View details »
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- Signs of Change
- @ Exit Art
- The Signs of Change exhibit at Exit Art features an array of mass-mobilizing posters, photographs, movies, and recordings that chronicle social-justice... View details »
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- The Glass Cage
- @ The Mint Theater
- The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that... View details »
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- Towelhead
- @ Various locations
- It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded... View details »
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- Kehinde Wiley
- @ Studio Museum in Harlem
- Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood... View details »
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- Burn After Reading
- @ Various locations
- After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
- @ Brooklyn Historical Society
- From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many... View details »
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- Crossing the Line
- @ Various locations
- A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French... View details »
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- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man... View details »
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- Fifty Words
- @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
- In Michael Weller's Fifty Words, Jan and Adam send their son to his first sleepover, and what begins as a romantic... View details »
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- I Served the King of England
- @ Various locations
- How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy... View details »
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- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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