“Pangs of the Messiah,” at the 14th Street Y, follows a family of Zionist settlers being removed from the West Bank in 2014 as part of a fictional peace treaty.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:38PM“The Dumb Waiter,” Harold Pinter’s one-act play, follows two hit men killing time before targeting something more sentient.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:54PMThe monologist Mike Daisey speaks about what defines a real “tech geek” and how his exposure to Chinese factories has changed his relationship with his beloved iPhone.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:57PM“Dublin by Lamplight,” part of the 1st Irish Theater Festival at 59E59 Theaters, tries to juxtapose the serious with the silly.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:28PM“Play It Cool,” a new musical about a gay jazz club in 1950s Hollywood, promises mystery, scandal, provocation, eroticism and moral outrage, but it fails to deliver on any of them.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:15AM"Sammy Gets Mugged!" has a promising concept, but the execution is a little sloppy and slow.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:20PMSomewhere within the rambling recesses of "Cow Play" there lurks a great drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:37AM"Gleeam" is a lively but uneven musical parody mash-up of "Glee" and the 1996 horror flick "Scream."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:49PMThe Irish playwright Dermot Bolger’s “Parting Glass,” at the Barrow Street Theater, is about perpetual underdogs in love, sports and the economy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:59PM“home/sick,” about the Weather Underground, is an unsettling story in an uncomfortable setting.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:22PMThe creators of “The Magdalene,” a musical based on an alternate telling of the story of Mary Magdalene, have managed to take stunningly incendiary material and douse it with blandness a…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMDaniella Shoshan’s “Yes We Can,” at Walkerpsace, tries to explore the idea of a postracial America.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMIn the musical “Next Thing You Know,” with music by Joshua Salzman and book and lyrics by Ryan Cunningham, young artists try to come to grips with life in New York.
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