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A Brush With Georgia O'Keefe |
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Natalie Mosco's play follows the remarkable life of the celebrated American painter Georgia O'Keeffe, whose meteoric rise to fame through innovative photographer and art impresario Alfred Stieglitz was for her a simultaneously heady and brutal experience.
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Absinthe |
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A night time saunter through the strangest, most sultry circus in town. Absinthe collides fair ground attraction with torch song and spectacle within the elegant, sumptuous surrounds of this exceptional venue.
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Altar Boyz |
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Altar Boyz, the acclaimed musical comedy now in its third year at New World Stages, winner of the coveted Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical Off-Broadway, is the longest running new musical comedy to open in New York in years!
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Arias With a Twist |
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Two national treasures unleash their epic imaginations to conjure a modern and intimate fantasy. Twist's signature magic envelopes Arias' legendary voice, transporting us to unpredictable worlds, channeling ecstatic desires, lavish nightmares and bizarre premonitions in a bejeweled cabinet of curiosities that could only be found in one of downtown's last enclaves for bohemian New York style.
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Around the World in 80 Days |
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Phileas Fogg is the most exact of men. Well-traveled, very wealthy and with no friends or relatives of which to speak, he keeps his days on the most precise of schedules and spends his evenings at the local Reform Club. After a newspaper asserts that traveling around the world in 80 days is a legitimate possibility, Fogg and his fellow Londoners debate whether becoming a globetrotter is indeed that easy.
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Bash'd |
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The award-winning gay rap opera Bash'd, created and performed by Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow, features music by Aaron Macri and is directed by Ron Jenkins.
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Blue Man |
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The East Village's Astor Place Theatre has been the home of Blue Man Group since 1991. Part performance art with audience participation, this show is unlike anything you've seen before. Three performers with bald, blue heads splatter paint and use every imaginable prop in this totally fun and totally unique theater experience.
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Buffalo Gal |
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The comedy centers around Amanda, a once successful television personality whose star is now fading. Life imitates art as she returns to her hometown of Buffalo to star in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Just as she is connecting with her roots -- both on stage and off -- she is called back to Hollywood for a role that could recharge her career. Will her love of theater be enough to keep her in Buffalo?
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Desir |
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Before Moulin Rouge, before Folies Bergere, there was DESIR, the jewel of Paris. The producers of ABSINTHE and LA VIE present the world premiere of a theatrical circus experience which takes you backstage at the greatest nightclub the world has ever seen. A meeting place for showgirls and soldiers, bejeweled courtesans and Maharajahs, it's a fantastical setting where desire meets clever seduction, lavish gifts and breathtaking displays of acrobatic wonder. Enter the sparkling ring of DESIR, where your last love affair is merely an entree to your next encounter.
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East 14th |
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What do you do when your mother divorces your father, then remarries a devout follower of "that religion," who takes you door-knocking at 7 o'clock in the morning? You escape and move in with dear old dad of course. Problem solved. Until you discover your real pop is a real pimp...for real.
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Fela! |
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Bill T. Jones directs and choreographs the world premiere of Fela!, a new musical based on the life of groundbreaking African composer, performer and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Featuring a book by Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones, Fela! features Kuti's rousing music performed live onstage by Antibalas and other members of the New York Afrobeat community.
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Fifty Words |
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Something's gone awry behind the idyllic façade of Jan and Adam's Brooklyn brownstone. At 9:10 p.m., they're reveling in the freedom of having waved off their young son, Greg, to a neighborhood sleepover. By 9:30 p.m., things have gone, well... way past awry. Alternately funny and frightening, Fifty Words is an expansive look at modern marriage, as seen through the looking glass of one couple's long night's journey into day.
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Flamingo Court |
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Flamingo Court—a Florida community of retirees that isn't so much a vacation destination as it is a last resort! Here, a zany cast of characters in the sunset of their lives do whatever it takes to grab hold of one last chance—at love, at compassion, and even at revenge.
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Forbidden Broadway |
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This summer New York's, favorite musical comedy returns with a brand new show - Forbidden Broadway: Dances With The Stars! This special summer edition features past favorites in addition to hilarious new spoofs.
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Fuerzabruta |
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From the creators of the smash-hit De La Guarda, Fuerzabruta is an event where worlds collide, dreams are real and reality takes a back seat. The visuals are spectacular.
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Gazillion Bubble Show |
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The first and only multi-million dollar, high-tech, inter-active, audience participation, scientific, entertainment stage production, created by using the bubble media, fantastic lighting, lasers and incredible bubble special FX!
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Irena's Vow |
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Featuring a cast of ten and starring four time Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh, Irena's Vow is a riveting, life affirming story about one of the most courageous and unsung heroines of World War II.
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Life In A Marital Institution |
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James Braly's Life In A Marital Institution (20 years of monogamy in one terrifying hour) is "never less than excellent" (New York Times). This "stylish monologue reminiscent of Spalding Gray" (The Times, London) was a hit in Edinburgh, sold out 59E59 Theaters, and now moves Off Broadway. It's a "masterpiece of storytelling" (The List), and "Braly presents it winningly" (The New Yorker). Directed by Hal Brooks (No Child and Pulitzer Prize-nominated Thom Pain)
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Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh |
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Spanning 20 years during the dramatically charged build to the French Revolution, the play is a fictionalized triangle between Queen Marie Antoinette, her portraitist, the renowned beauty, Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Le Brun and Count Alexis de Ligne, an aristocrat and political radical.
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Murdered by the Mob |
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Murdered by the Mob lets audiences experience the mafia and a great meal. The Don will make an offer no one can refuse. Mingle with mobsters and molls; break bread and heads with Wiseguys and Mafia princesses. Rubbing elbows with goodfellas and ducking bullets over Broadway has never been this much fun.
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My First Time |
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My First Time, recently featured on CNN, Fox, “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and in an iPhone commercial, is a brand new play in the style of The Vagina Monologues, featuring four actors in hysterical and heartbreaking stories about first sexual experiences written by real people . . . just like you!
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My Mother's Italian... |
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One part lasagna, one part kreplach and two parts prozac, My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm in Therapy! is an Off-Broadway one man show written by Steve Solomon.
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Naked Boys Singing |
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The title says it all! This hilarious revue features 15 original songs, 8 gorgeous guys and no clothes - a truly winning combination! Eight hunks display their charms as they celebrate the splendors of male nudity in comedy, song and dance.
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Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant |
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Can the laughter of a child melt the cold heart of a selfish giant? Yes it can! This adaptation of Oscar Wilde's beautiful fairytale will warm the hearts of young and old alike. Step into Wilde's imagination as the
story unfold through music, dance, storytelling and puppetry.
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Stomp |
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Stomp is a high-energy, percussive Off-Broadway symphony, coupled with dance, played entirely on unconventional instruments, such as garbage can lids, buckets, Stompbrooms and sticks. It is a movement, of bodies, objects, sounds - even abstract ideas, made completely original through the use of everyday objects in totally non-traditional ways.
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The Awesome 80s Prom |
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The Awesome 80s Prom Off-Broadway is a brand new blast-from-the-past party in the style of Tony 'n Tina's Wedding and The Donkey Show set at Wanaget High's Senior Prom... in 1989!
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The Castle |
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Four ex-convicts with a total of 70 years incarceration weave their personal stories together into a fascinating 90 minute journey of deprivation, crime, punishment and redemption. This is a story of heart breaking intensity… ending in a truly jubilant celebration of the human spirit.
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The Fantasticks |
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The romantic, funny "boy meets girl" tale, with book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, The Fantasticks is a captivating and simple love story about a boy, a girl, two fathers and a wall.
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The Marriage of Bette & Boo |
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Roundabout Theatre Company presents The Marriage of Bette and Boo, an Off-Broadway play by Christopher Durang, directed by Walter Bobbie. This dark comedy takes a look at the complex marriage of Bette and Boo.
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The Marvelous Wonderettes |
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The Marvelous Wonderettes is a cotton-candy colored, non-stop musical blast from the past! Featuring your favorite songs from the ‘50s and ‘60s ("Mr. Sandman," "Stupid Cupid," "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me," "Heatwave," and many, many more!).
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The Quantum Eye |
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Sam Eaton's spectacle The Quantum Eye - Magic Deceptions is an amazing evening of intimate magic and mind-reading brought into the 21st century as he performs the impossible. Fresh off a sold-out run, The Quantum Eye has moved to its new home at Times Square's Snapple Theater Center, the only Off-Broadway theater right on Broadway.
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Three Changes |
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Nate and Laurel are a comfortably married, Upper West Side couple - until Nate's wayward brother Hal arrives from Hollywood. What at first seems a casual visit, a chance to reconnect, is quickly revealed as something more ominous.
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Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding |
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As "invited guests," the audience is part of Tony n' Tina's Wedding, a hilarious interactive comedy. It all begins with a ceremony, followed by a rousing reception that includes dancing to a four-piece band, champagne toasts, a full pasta dinner, and a slice of the wedding cake... all provided by the Nunzio and Vitale "families." The nuptials last approximately 30 minutes, and the reception immediately follows.
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