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The chance to put on a show cheaply in New York makes FringeNYC, known for its young artists and audiences, a lure for veteran performers, too.
Summer Shorts, an annual festival of one-act plays, includes offerings by Daniel Reitz, Neil LaBute and Albert Innaurato in its Series B.
An upbeat new musical pushes a girl-power message, casting two historical characters as strong-willed, smart, selfless heroines who choose their own destinies.
"Play/Date," a collection of short plays about love and relationships, is performed on three levels of a Lower East Side bar.
The jukebox musical "Piece of My Heart" makes the rock hits written by Bert Berns seem new again.
In "The Gig," a ragtag band of middle-age, middle-class jazz amateurs get a shot at some professional work.
Ally Sheedy returns to the stage, with her celebrity toned down, playing a mother whose son is imprisoned for rape in the Off Broadway drama "The Long Shrift."
"The Pigeoning" follows Frank, who believes pigeons are plotting against him in this puppet play created and directed by Robin Frohardt.
Brian Sutton's romantic comedy spends time with the suitors left behind after Romeo and Juliet fall in love.
Sharon Stone, circa 1993, and a nerdy scientist who has a crush on her are two of the characters in "Cloned!"
"Fuerza Bruta: Wayra" is a mixed-media happening at the Daryl Roth Theater in which the audience is in the thick of things, and sometimes even wet.
Carroll Simmons, a performance collective, created a parody about Lena Dunham in "Too Many Lenas 3: Let Them Eat Cake."
"The Other Mozart," a one-woman show by Sylvia Milo, tells the story of Wolfgang's sister.
The young cast members of "The Mysteries" at the Flea Theater in TriBeCa perform free, while holding down or looking for jobs by day.
Lucas Kavner's surprising and very funny new play, "Carnival Kids," directed by Stephen Brackett, is part a reckoning of a father-son relationship.
"Los Monólogos de la Vagina," a version of Eve Ensler's work in Spanish, is using the typical rotating-cast format in its run at the Westside Theater.
"The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise" features characters who admit that their worlds could use more spark.
The Vakhtangov State Academic Theater's "Eugene Onegin" at City Center is a play with music and dance, composed of scenes from the Pushkin novel in verse.
The Drilling Company's streamlined, audience-friendly, "Hamlet" kicks off the free Bryant Park Shakespeare season.
"Under My Skin," a body-swapping comedy at the Little Shubert Theater, may bring on flashbacks from your cinematic past, circa the Reagan administration.
A fragile out-of-work actress moves into her widowed friend's home and becomes entangled with her friend's son, in "A Loss of Roses."
"17 Orchard Point," by Anton Dudley and Stephanie DiMaggio, is no heartwarming parent-child love fest.
In "Peddling," written and performed by Harry Melling, a young man tries to scratch out a living selling "life's essentials" door to door.
John Noble, the Australian actor perhaps best known for his roles in "Lord of the Rings" and the TV series "Fringe," is making his New York theater debut in "The Substance of Fire."
In Oni Faida Lampley's semi-autobiographical play, the mother of a newborn and her family deal with breast cancer.
