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Al Smith's quest to build the Empire State Building in 1930 is depicted in this uneven show; its sparkling performances and fine stagecraft are virtues.
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A powerful revival of Charles Fuller's 1980 Black family drama; a 12-year-old girl is shot to death; her family grieves and her 15-year-old killer vents.
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Holland Taylor and Ana Villafañe are captivating as Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in this witty and absorbing fantasia where tempers flare.
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George S. Kaufman's knowing 1925 inside Broadway theater comedy is given a euphoric revival by a NYC-based troupe devoted to artists over the age of 50.
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A troubled South Asian young man's mystical reptilian encounters are depicted in this strikingly presented and grandly performed solo memory play.
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Kafka's classic novella about a man transformed into a gigantic insect is given an engaging and absorbing immersive performance piece-style presentation.
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Maria Isabella Rojas and Michael Garrett Boxleitner are captivating in this spirited revival of the 2012 romantic drama, inspired by theories of physics.
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Tanna Frederick's beguiling self-written solo show is centered on her complex romantic relationship with a renowned and unnamed indie film director
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A stalled Romanian NYC comic and a DJ form a sketch comedy duo emphasizing his nationality in this wildly inventive play which is fiercely performed.
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The lives of 17th century young English male actors who played female roles are dramatized in this theatrical presentation performed by a magnetic cast.
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Len Cariou is majestic as the upbeat professor dying of ALS; the magnetic Christopher J. Domig is his pupil in this ravishing production at a NYC church.
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The acclaimed NYC vocalist triumphed in his retrospective show that was smartly directed by Jeff Harnar and gloriously accompanied by The Tom Nelson Trio.
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This vividly performed Larry David-style comedy of revenge is a highlight of a program of accomplished short plays presented by the Chain Theatre.
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Cynthia Nixon is ferocious as an egotistical performance artist and Taylor Trensch is fearless as her gay son in this haunting high-tech family drama.
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An uproarious 1950's show business spoof with plentiful "All About Eve" references that is performed by a dynamic cast; a Broadway diva is a man in drag.
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A mystical donkey (a fabulous life-sized puppet) figures in this riotous farce set in a Bogotá "erotic resort" where private U.S. forces are on a mission.
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A trio of grand actors recite poetry and interact at a bar in Nyack, New York, as a dystopian scenario emerges outside in this stimulating presentation.
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A happily married Black couple's 31st anniversary celebration is complicated by the arrival of the wife's two sisters in this entrancing domestic drama.
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Gabby Beans is sensational as a woman from a dysfunctional background who triumphs over adversity in this stylized theatrical saga spanning over 20 years.
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Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon are awesome in this cryptic, topical and theatrical psychological thriller about a therapist and a troubled tech worker.
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Bina Sharif and Kevin Mitchell Martin vividly portray two Manhattan tramps in Sharif's latest existential two-character one-act play.
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"The Glass Menagerie" gets an affectionately loopy performance piece-style reworking by an engaging cast in an energetic Almodóvarean presentation.
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Two young male and female singer-songwriters meet in Central Park's Strawberry Fields in this engaging and bittersweet musical; life's harshness intrudes.
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Two deceased Black female playwright's works, personal Off-Off-Broadway shows, and two Broadway revivals were highlights of the New York stage this year.
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Matt de Rogatis is awesome as a disaffected Texas Vietnam veteran in this expanded adaptation of deceased Southern author James McLure's one-act play.
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