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In "Sweet, Sweet Motherhood," an ambitious undergraduate plans a senior project like no other: giving birth to a chimp.
In "Musashi," Hisashi Inoue revisits the legendary showdown between the master swordsman Musashi and his rival Kojiro.
Madeleine George's "Zero Hour" is an endearing if ungainly drama about a young woman who starts randomly meeting former Hitler Youth on strolls through New York City.
Al Pacino stars in Daniel Sullivan's marvelous new production of "The Merchant of Venice" in Central Park.
Eddie Izzard, Dennis Haysbert and Afton C. Williamson join the cast of David Mamet's "Race."
At the Theater at St. Clement's Church, Peccadillo Theater Company presents Lillian Hellman's Regina, 20 years before "The Little Foxes."
Americas Off Broadway is presenting the New York premiere of Ayn Rand's 1934 philosophical murder mystery, "Ideal."
The main character in "Order," Christopher Stetson Boal's deliciously nasty little horror comedy, advocates two simple steps: kill and eat.
The play by Lee Blessing takes place the day before George W. Bush goes into the dock for war crimes in The Hague.
A new production at the Repertorio Español features a family that dreams together and must scheme together.
Some prominent names turn up in Ensemble Studio Theater's Series B group of one-acts, but it is a couple of lesser names that deserve attention.
A humorous adaptation of Lewis's novella about a correspondence between an under secretary in the Devil's "lowerarchy" and his nephew.
The 1931 play "Can You Hear Their Voices?" is being presented in a vacant Greenwich Village store, and some of the themes don't seem so distant.
Kathleen Chalfant and George Bartenieff flail their way through "Prophecy," a long and ludicrous new play written and directed by Karen Malpede.
The Amoralists' latest production, "Amerissiah," a ridiculous story of a severely dysfunctional family, certainly keeps you awake.
"The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer," a new musical comedy at the National Yiddish Theater, is a heartwarming, good-humored, tuneful entertainment.
Two new dramas present - and then undercut - the persona of the uncompromising visionary who dreams up buildings.
"Year Zero," by Michael Golamco, is a tenderly observed play about Asian immigrants in the United States.
Andrew Dinwiddie recreates Jimmy Swaggart's glory days, at the Chocolate Factory in Queens.
The Irish Repertory Theater stages an early work by Sebastian Barry, focusing on an outlaw with a burdensome past.
"Dusk Rings a Bell," Stephen Belber's new play starring Kate Walsh and Paul Sparks, evolves into a sublime, beautifully acted drama.
The Ensemble Studio Theater opens its one-act festival with five new short plays.
Cirque du Soleil's Banana Shpeel is not as entertaining as something that lasts almost two and a half hours ought to be.
In Elizabeth Meriwether's comedy "Oliver Parker!" an adolescent boy and his alcoholic older companion seem to be in a sitcom, but darker shadings emerge.
"The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," Kristoffer Diaz's comedy about television wrestling, courses with the vital sap of an able-bodied satire enjoying a love-hate affair with its subject.
