New play festivals are a dime-a-dozen these days. But a new play festival that regularly features works by writers such as Mando Alvarado, Clay MacLeod Chapman, James Comtois, Mike Daisey, J…
When the love of your life walks out on you for someone else, there are the socially acceptable things one does to mourn the relationship, like sit around in your sweats, pine away in front …
A hacker who really, really loves his computer might never need to face the outside world. But what happens when the world (technically, several possible ones) comes crashing in? Mangella by…
Nicky Silver's The Lyons is the newest entry into a genre that can only be described as "wealthy white people being mean to one another." While superbly acted by the six-member company, slic…
Two sisters, the ugly sisters, the ones who didn't get the prince--what happens to them after Cinderella disappears into the sunset with her prize? In the drug-and-sex-imagery-addled world o…
Miriam Felton-Dansky is a DFA candidate in the dramaturgy and dramatic criticism department at the Yale School of Drama, and an associate editor of Theater magazine. She is a founding member…
Nightlands by Sylvan Oswald is a big beautiful play which covers a staggering amount of ground. Themes include astrology, sexuality, class, love, feminism and the civil rights movement. Dire…
A hilarious parody based on the Academy Award winning film.—Special Offer
Reveals with illuminating insight the humor, raw emotions and rocky roads we experience in life.—Pay only $46
What I generally find intriguing about Mac Wellman's work is the way it attempts to bend non-narrative language styles"elliptical, poetic, even philosophical language"to a storytelling purpo…
It might be heresy, but I'm not afraid to admit that I enjoyed Newsies more than any other Disney Theatricals venture I've seen. That long, auspicious list includes Beauty and the Beast, The…
In 1980s New York, one transsexual dominatrix has seen it all. And yet she's anything but afraid of those who put her down. "They see that I'm a woman, and wonder what they could have become…
Colette Freedman, through a handful of plays, has displayed that very courage needed to be a playwright and to earn the right to call herself one. She hasn't got by on guts alone however. Th…
"Shrinks talking to shrinks talking to shrinks, it never fixes anything," laments David, the troubled son of two therapists. While I'm pretty sure that I paraphrased that line slightly, it e…
An evening of short plays written by the Village Playwrights, New York's LGBTQ playwrights collective.—Save!
Phoenix Theatre Ensemble presents a staged reading of August Strinberg's play.—Save $10
Tony Award-winning comedy examines the pressures friends place on each other.—Save $10
Spanning two continents and half a century, it explores the relationships between friends amidst the turbulence and destruction of the World Wars.—Save!
A rotating cast (with celebrity guest stars) read excerpts from celebrity memoirs.—Pay only $33.75
If you long for the rich dark chords of Angelo Badalamenti, equal parts grandeur and Grand Guignol, or for the purest--albeit quirkiest--hero ever, Agent Dale Cooper, or for the master behin…
Director Satoshi Miyagi sees much more in this story than a grand gesture of personal grudge-holding. His interpretation of this classic tale focuses on the friction between genders and the …
Perhaps memory is man's biggest enemy. Alan, the protagonist of Lanford Wilson's autobiographical play Lemon Sky, would likely agree. Following in the footsteps of Tom Wingfield, Alan, Wilso…
The city as we know it is a hybrid of its physical landscape suffused with the emotional landscape we create through the accretion of experiences therein. This dual nature of large cities is…
Stories of adventure on the high seas have long been part of our tales, plays, and literature. Peter Pan, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Moby Dick, to name a few, have taken us on adventures …
Scottish-American couple Addie and William Turner are getting divorced after 60 years of marriage. This protracted legal and emotional adventure, based on a true story and developed over a l…