In Rachel Bonds’s “Michael & Edie,” a relationship between two bookstore employees comes with its own plot twists.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMTwo dating-theme shows, “Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage” and “Blind Date,” require participation by the willing and almost willing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIn “Three Pianos,” a wacky assault on Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise,” the upright piano turns out to be a much more versatile piece of furniture than most …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Pants on Fire’s Metamorphoses,” a witty, modern take on some of Ovid’s tales, is at the Flea Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe Bleecker Company offers a view of Appalachia through the eyes of its women.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIn “Room 17B,” by Parallel Exit, the antics are the thing, and the officemates are in the business of humor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“How I Fell in Love,” by the television writer Joel Fields, studies the intersection of friendship and love.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“The Road to Qatar!” at the Theater at St. Peter’s is based on the real-life story of two writers who were commissioned to produce a musical in the Middle East.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“La Barbería” at New World Stages features impressive comic timing amid its music and messages about community and assimilation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe circus is in town (if your town is East Rutherford, N.J., or Uniondale, N.Y.), and it has brought a pizazzy show called “Fully Charged,” complete with human cannonball.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMB. H. Barry directs “Treasure Island” at the Irondale Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMPart of the Brits Off Broadway festival, Lucia Cox’s adaptation of a 1961 novel examines the shallow materialism of the 1950s and ’60s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PMMr. Assadourian gave a performance of his one-man show, now running at the Playroom Theater, at the Otisville state prison.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:08PMThe play serves up songs that anyone over 60 and many younger than that know by heart and are played and sung by a skilled cast at the 59E59 Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:13PMJuan Claudio Lechín’s farce at Reportorio Español portrays the Cuban leader on his deathbed, tended by two assassins masquerading as nurses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:45PMPeter Sinn Nachtrieb’s play revolves around four friends facing typical mid-30s angst about the possibility of children and the slow creep of time and aging.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMGreg Edwards and Andy Sandberg’s one-woman show satirizes the intense competition for places at a Manhattan private school.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“A Very Barry Branson” follows the former “Brady Bunch” star Barry Williams in his quest to start a 1970s-themed stage show in the Missouri mecca of country music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:14PM“The Golden Toad,” by the experimental troupe the Talking Band, unfolds over several locations and 27 years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:11PMThe comedy troupe Parallel Exit evokes “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” in its new show, “Everybody Gets Cake!”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:23PMPatrick Stewart stars in the film version of Stephen Belber’s play “Match,” stepping into the role that earned Frank Langella a Tony nomination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:04PM“A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes,” written by Kate Benson and directed by Lee Sunday Evans, begins Monday at City Center Stage II.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMThe Golden Dragon Acrobats from China do the impossible (or at least the improbable) in “Cirque Zíva,” at the New Victory Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:46PMIn Mat Smart’s “Naperville, a son moves back home to help his mother deal with losing her sight, but she finds that even her coffee is different.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:30PMIn her “Me, My Mouth & I” routine, Joy Behar’s humor comes through on subjects like sex, “The View” and her upbringing in Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:39PMVirtual life is less appealing than the physical in “I See You,” Kate Robin’s two-hander at the Flea Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:29PMIn “It Has to Be You,” siblings worried about their aging mother visit her and find that she doesn’t need their pity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:19PMThe Godlight Theater Company is adapting James Dickey’s novel “Deliverance,” presenting it on a 12-by-12-foot stage and scrupulously hewing to the book, not the movie.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:57PMDavid Holthouse’s play, “Stalking the Bogeyman,” is based on his rape as a 7-year-old and his mission as an adult to find and kill his attacker.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:47PMA few cast members head to the perfect bar: The Headless Horseman.
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