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A Lana Turner-style murdered mobster boyfriend, a framed daughter and reptilian religious cultists feature in this high-energy campy musical spoof.
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Three brilliant actors portray multiple characters in this entrancing stripped-down faithful theatricalization of Dostoevsky's classic 1866 novel.
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James Daly is the ideal Count in this comically sexy spoof of the familiar tale; it is laden with homoeroticism, gender-bending and jokey anachronisms.
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Three magnetic fabulously clad comic actors enact this imaginative fantasia based on the 7th century tale of the Irish St. Dymphna's martyrdom.
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Veteran actor David Dean Bottrell hilariously and insightfully chronicles his life journey from Kentucky to NYC and LA, in his entertaining solo show.
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Screen actor Lin Shaye appealingly performs her autobiographical self-written solo play dealing with love and loss in 1960's dreamy and druggy California.
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This spirted small-scale revival of the affectionate and faithful spoof of Anton Chekov's "The Seagull" is wonderfully performed and inventively presented.
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Four tremendous Chicago actors perform in this impeccably written contemporary American drama set on a Wisconsin prairie; it is entrancingly presented.
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An absorbing performance art piece featuring surrealistic vignettes, a variety of curtains and pseudoscience; it is vividly presented and performed.
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Charismatic New Zealand-born performer Catherine Waller is bewitching in her highly theatrical solo show which is comprised of dark vignettes.
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Masha King is towering as a young Jewish woman in Poland who survives internment at three concentration camps in this powerful Holocaust dramatization.
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A youthful, animated and entrancing ensemble portray the six members of a NYC college improv comedy troupe in this affective and bittersweet major play.
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A gay male cabaret performer poses as his deceased landlady to escape Nazi persecution in this powerful musical solo show that is grandly performed.
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"The Emperor's New Clothes" inspires this satirical musical set in a mythical nation ruled by an authoritarian president; it's performed by a peppy cast.
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Joe Pantoliano is irrepressible in this biographical musical starring Constantine Maroulis as legendary DJ Alan Freed; Little Richard is prominent.
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Noël Coward's seldom performed 1925 marital comedy is given a spirited revival by a New York City-based troupe dedicated to artists over the age of 50.
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Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James star as an alcoholic couple in this musical adaptation of the Golden Age of live television play and later classic film.
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Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton appears in this ambitious and thoughtful fantasia dealing with the 1967 Oakland police shooting he was convicted of.
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A beautifully written picaresque character study of a traumatized lost soul's redemption in Upstate New York; it is majestically performed and presented.
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Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in this stirring revival of Lorraine Hansberry's 1964 play of ideas depicting crusading Greenwich Village idealists.
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Euripides is mixed with the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and climate change, during this entrancing performance piece; George Bartenieff appears via audio.
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A game cast portray the iconic "Star Trek" characters in this affectionate and well executed spoof of the 1982 movie with shades of "The Next Generation."
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Chinese American writer-performer Wesley Du's exhilarating and heartbreaking solo show chronicles his journey from poverty to being a blues guitarist.
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Yasmina Reza's modern classic absurdist comedy of manners is given an uproarious revival by a NYC theater company dedicated to those with disabilities.
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An embittered woman contrives to have a disaffected standup comedian roast her imperious mother and her boyfriend in this intriguing black comedy.
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