This Atlantic for Kids production at the Linda Gross Theater packs in surprises while offering lessons on gender roles and income inequality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:44PMThe show, by New York City Children’s Theater, finds some characters conceived as real people in the author’s life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:13PMThis family play that borrows from the commedia dell’arte tradition has donned holiday garb and been adapted since its New York International Fringe Festival appearance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMThe Rockettes once again are kicking off the holiday season at Radio City Music Hall, with a few new flourishes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:19PMThe Siamese cat who believes he’s a Chihuahua has another musical adventure at the Lucille Lortel Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:41PMA new musical based on the children’s book by the actress Julianne Moore teaches that differences, like a peppering of freckles, add spice to the world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe French Canadian troupe bounced, whirled, juggled and defied gravity in its performance at the New Victory theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:14PMLisa Loeb gets one of the credits for this musical about the summer sleepaway ritual and the growing up that goes on there.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:10PM“The Light Princess,” a richly imagined and delightfully acted musical based on a story by George MacDonald, is at the New Victory Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:21PM‘The Love Note’ (Sunday) Sound like a romance? Think again. The title of this new production, billed as a musical for preteenagers, refers to the words of encouragement the mother of the…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:25PM“Samantha Spade, Ace Detective” has in its arsenal a parody of a scene from “The Maltese Falcon,” as teenagers at summer camp search for a “Maltball Falcon.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMiLUMINATE At this hourlong Off Broadway production, it isn’t the names that go up in lights. Founded by Miral Kotb, a dancer and software engineer, the troupe iLuminate uses wireless progr…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:52PMiLUMINATE: At this hourlong Off Broadway production, it isn’t the names that go up in lights. Founded by Miral Kotb, a dancer and software engineer, iLUMINATE uses wireless programs to lig…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:57PMThe New York holiday tradition of the “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” returns, with floating orbs, game consoles and the enduring Rockettes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:53PMThe Carlo Colla & Sons Marionette Company presents a slightly altered version of “Sleeping Beauty” that emphasizes the second word in the title.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PM“Tilly the Trickster,” a musical for children from the Atlantic Theater Company, is inspired by Molly Shannon’s picture book.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:15PMTheatreworks USA’s production of “The Civil War” is a musical that gives personal faces to some of the hundreds of thousands of casualties in America’s bloodiest war. &nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PM‘Bend in the Road’ (Saturday, Wednesday & Thursday) Remember Anne of Green Gables? The heroine of Lucy Mauds Montgomery’s 1908 novel of that title, she was a spirited redheaded orphan …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:49AMWith music by Laurie Berkner and a script based on an Eileen Spinelli book, “Wanda’s Monster” teaches us that friends can be found in unexpected places.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:12PMThe Scottish troupe Visible Fictions brings “The Mark of Zorro” to life onstage with only three actors and a few props.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:13PMIn “Louis Armstrong: Jazz Ambassador,” by Myla Churchill, Armstrong defends his life at the gates of heaven.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:39PM“Skippyjon Jones” is a family musical, adapted from Judy Schachner’s picture book, which follows the exploits of a Siamese cat who dreams of being a Chihuahua.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PMIn “Flying Fables” a married couple find a trunk in the subway that opens into a world full of characters right out of Aesop’s fables, and their childhoods.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMThe Big Apple Circus’s “Dream Big” has no lions or tigers, but a capybara and a crested porcupine, along with horses and humans, deliver ample awe, suspense and amusement.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:16PMThe Berenstain Bears of the durable children’s-book series come to life onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:10PM“Sky Boys,” a new musical for families, recreates the period in which the Empire State Building was built, representing rising hope and progress at a time when so much seemed crushed and…
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