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- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- The Moth Uncorked
- Friday Dec 5 (7:30pm) @ The Players Club
- The last main-stage Moth show of the year is all about wine. Tonight's storytellers include chef and wine expert Tamara Reynolds, author and wine lover... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Brian Posehn
- Friday Dec 5 (8 & 10:30pm) @ Comix More times »
- Seasoned standup comic and self-proclaimed metal nerd Brian Posehn hits Comix's stage for four shows of geeky comic-book humor, pot jokes, and yes: very serious... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Black Watch
- Friday Dec 5 (3 & 8pm) @ St. Ann's Warehouse More times »
- If you're lucky enough to score a coveted ticket to Black Watch's limited run, you're in for one helluva show. Based on the true stories... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Opening Night
- Friday Dec 5 (7:30pm) @ BAM Harvey Theater More times »
- The Swedish dramatist August Strindberg once resolved that, "On a flimsy framework of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns." John Cassavettes' 1977 film Opening... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Blasted
- Friday Dec 5 (7:30pm) @ Soho Rep. More times »
- It's taken 13 years for Sarah Kane's extraordinarily controversial play Blasted to make it to New York, but Soho Rep's production makes up for the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Shen Wei Dance Arts
- Friday Dec 5 (7:30pm) @ Judson Memorial Church More times »
- Even if you're not a contemporary-dance buff, you're probably familiar with '07 MacArthur Genius Shen Wei and just don't realize it: he choreographed a segment... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Streamers
- Friday Dec 5 (7:30pm) @ Laura Pels Theatre More times »
- Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's 1976 play is neither... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Limón Dance Company
- Friday Dec 5 (8pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- José Limón's thriving company celebrates his centenary with a week at Joyce. Two familiar works, A Choreographic Offering, Limón's homage to company co-founder Doris Humphrey,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sleepwalk With Me
- Friday Dec 5 (8pm) @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker More times »
- Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells an engaging and very... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Man for All Seasons
- Friday Dec 5 (8pm) @ American Airlines Theater More times »
- A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims of its leader. In... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Seagull
- Friday Dec 5 (8pm) @ Walter Kerr Theatre More times »
- Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard play tortured artists in love in Christopher Hampton's pared-down translation of Chekhov's classic. Thomas' fully realized performance as Arkadina... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Dance Dance Revolution
- Friday Dec 5 (8pm) @ Ohio Theatre More times »
- Les Freres Corbusier, the cheeky and frenetic dance/theatre ensemble responsible for immersive theater environments like Hell House, is at it again with Dance Dance Revolution.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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- Friday Dec 5 (8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Friday Dec 5 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Billy Elliot
- Friday Dec 5 @ Imperial Theatre More times »
- The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot, a sentimental musical about... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Taking Over
- Friday Dec 5 (8pm) @ The Public Theater More times »
- Danny Hoch's one-man extravaganza Taking Over gives a good name to theatre with a social conscious, using scathing humor to make the audience howl and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Friday Dec 5 (8 & 10:30pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Speed-the-Plow
- Friday Dec 5 (8pm) @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre More times »
- Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is finally a true ensemble... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Atheist
- Friday Dec 5 (9–11pm) @ Barrow Street Theater More times »
- In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago. The 90 minutes of... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- ASSSSCAT 3000
- Sunday Dec 7 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre More times »
- Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from The Daily Show, Saturday... View details »
