
"Odd Birdz," from the ensemble Tziporela, features sketches with a wide range of characters and situations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:46PM[SHARE]"Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman" is a coming-of-age comedy about a Colorado drama geek yearning for his father, who's fled to New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:49PM[SHARE]Zvi Sahar's theater piece "Salt of the Earth" is set in a dystopian Israel under siege from within.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:02PM[SHARE]"Six Characters in Search of an Author" retains its haunting, experimental feel in Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota's production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PM[SHARE]Now getting a rare revival from the New Group, David Rabe's "Sticks and Bones" brings America's living-room war into a sitcom-perfect American living room.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25PM[SHARE]In "Not Afraid," a new play by Nora Sorena Casey, a young woman's violent fixations threaten to turn on her.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:44PM[SHARE]"Uncanny Valley," at 59E59 Theaters, is a sort of futuristic Pinocchio tale involving an android.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:02PM[SHARE]"Rococo Rouge" is Company XIV's flamboyant mix of fashion, opera, dance and more in the East Village.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:13PM[SHARE]A "Tempest" at La MaMa, starring Reg E. Cathey, is sonically lush, with music by Elizabeth Swados.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PM[SHARE]Jordan Harrison's new comedy "Marjorie Prime" premieres at the Mark Taper Forum with Lois Smith in the title role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:31PM[SHARE]Mike Daisey performs "The Great Tragedies," four monologues that touch on his grave frailties in the context of Shakespeare's tragedies, at California Shakespeare Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:53PM[SHARE]The outdoor presentation of "Everything by my side," by Fernando Rubio of Buenos Aires, is part of the Crossing the Line festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:32PM[SHARE]"Gaïa Global Circus" is a thoughtful climate-change play by Pierre Daubigny, performed almost entirely in French with English supertitles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:05PM[SHARE]A production of "Uncle Vanya" at the Pearl Theater gains immediacy from its loose-limbed translation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:37PM[SHARE]"Embers," a radio play by Samuel Beckett, is staged for a theater audience at the Harvey Theater as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PM[SHARE]In "Imagining O," Richard Schechner meshes Shakespeare with "Story of O," depicting women as strong and defiant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PM[SHARE]In "Juárez: A Documentary Mythology," at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, actors recite the accounts of residents who have witnessed that border's town's cycle of violence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Poetry plays a big part in the one-man show "A Sucker Emcee," "Ndebele Funeral" and the Irish play "Boys and Girls."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:15PM[SHARE]Lauren Gunderson's play "Bauer" follows the trajectory of Rudolf Bauer, a 20th-century painter who came close to stardom until his patron died.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]"Dead Behind These Eyes" is a karaoke play that uses video, dance and lyrics to tell a story in a small space.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PM[SHARE]The musical revival of "Red Eye of Love," by the Tony winners Ted Sperling and John Wulp, is already a victory of sorts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31PM[SHARE]Ruby Rae Spiegel, still a Yale undergraduate, will see her play "Dry Land," about a DIY abortion, produced in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AM[SHARE]The revival of "Pippin" has evolved into a warmer, giddier show, but the darkness is still there, beneath the surface.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PM[SHARE]The temperance movement, undocumented immigrants and obsessive-compulsive disorder are among the theater topics in this year's New York International Fringe Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PM[SHARE]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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:28PM[SHARE]Summer Shorts, an annual festival of one-act plays, includes offerings by Daniel Reitz, Neil LaBute and Albert Innaurato in its Series B.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:45PM[SHARE]An upbeat new musical pushes a girl-power message, casting two historical characters as strong-willed, smart, selfless heroines who choose their own destinies.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:17PM[SHARE]"Play/Date," a collection of short plays about love and relationships, is performed on three levels of a Lower East Side bar.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:44PM[SHARE]The jukebox musical "Piece of My Heart" makes the rock hits written by Bert Berns seem new again.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]In "The Gig," a ragtag band of middle-age, middle-class jazz amateurs get a shot at some professional work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:15PM[SHARE]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."
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