“Cafe Society Swing,” a revue wrapped around a bit of New York history, traces the demise of the Greenwich Village jazz club Cafe Society.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:51AMIn the musical “Disenchanted!” the director Fiely A. Matias puts a twist on the fairy-tale princess.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:07PM“The Velvet Oratorio,” written by Edward Einhorn and composed and directed by Henry Akona, commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PMTodd Michael’s “The Asphalt Christmas” is a satirical mash-up of old Hollywood movies, holiday-related and otherwise.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:01PMShuler Hensley stars in “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical,” the holiday offering at the Theater at Madison Square Garden.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:57PM“Send for the Million Men,” a multimedia drama at Here, enlists puppets, video, a robot and three human actors to revisit the 1920s trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMAfter 46 years, Michael P. Price is stepping down as executive director of Goodspeed Musicals in Connecticut.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31PM“On a Stool at the End of the Bar,” by Robert Callely, follows a couple as they adjust to some surprising truths.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:02PM“Odd Birdz,” from the ensemble Tziporela, features sketches with a wide range of characters and situations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:46PM“Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman” is a coming-of-age comedy about a Colorado drama geek yearning for his father, who’s fled to New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:49PMZvi Sahar’s theater piece “Salt of the Earth” is set in a dystopian Israel under siege from within.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:02PM“Six Characters in Search of an Author” retains its haunting, experimental feel in Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota’s production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PMNow getting a rare revival from the New Group, David Rabe’s “Sticks and Bones” brings America’s living-room war into a sitcom-perfect American living room.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25PMIn “Not Afraid,” a new play by Nora Sorena Casey, a young woman’s violent fixations threaten to turn on her.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:44PM“Uncanny Valley,” at 59E59 Theaters, is a sort of futuristic Pinocchio tale involving an android.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:02PM“Rococo Rouge” is Company XIV’s flamboyant mix of fashion, opera, dance and more in the East Village.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:13PMA “Tempest” at La MaMa, starring Reg E. Cathey, is sonically lush, with music by Elizabeth Swados.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMJordan Harrison’s new comedy “Marjorie Prime” premieres at the Mark Taper Forum with Lois Smith in the title role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:31PMMike Daisey performs “The Great Tragedies,” four monologues that touch on his grave frailties in the context of Shakespeare’s tragedies, at California Shakespeare Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:53PMThe outdoor presentation of “Everything by my side,” by Fernando Rubio of Buenos Aires, is part of the Crossing the Line festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:32PM“Gaïa Global Circus” is a thoughtful climate-change play by Pierre Daubigny, performed almost entirely in French with English supertitles.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:37PM“Embers,” a radio play by Samuel Beckett, is staged for a theater audience at the Harvey Theater as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMIn “Imagining O,” Richard Schechner meshes Shakespeare with “Story of O,” depicting women as strong and defiant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PMIn “Juárez: A Documentary Mythology,” at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, actors recite the accounts of residents who have witnessed that border’s town’s cycle of violence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMPoetry plays a big part in the one-man show “A Sucker Emcee,” “Ndebele Funeral” and the Irish play “Boys and Girls.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:15PMLauren Gunderson’s play “Bauer” follows the trajectory of Rudolf Bauer, a 20th-century painter who came close to stardom until his patron died.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Dead Behind These Eyes” is a karaoke play that uses video, dance and lyrics to tell a story in a small space.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMThe musical revival of “Red Eye of Love,” by the Tony winners Ted Sperling and John Wulp, is already a victory of sorts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31PMRuby Rae Spiegel, still a Yale undergraduate, will see her play “Dry Land,” about a DIY abortion, produced in New York.
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