
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."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AM[SHARE]"The Pigeoning" follows Frank, who believes pigeons are plotting against him in this puppet play created and directed by Robin Frohardt.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PM[SHARE]Brian Sutton's romantic comedy spends time with the suitors left behind after Romeo and Juliet fall in love.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PM[SHARE]Sharon Stone, circa 1993, and a nerdy scientist who has a crush on her are two of the characters in "Cloned!"
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:29PM[SHARE]"Fuerza Bruta: Wayra" is a mixed-media happening at the Daryl Roth Theater in which the audience is in the thick of things, and sometimes even wet.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Carroll Simmons, a performance collective, created a parody about Lena Dunham in "Too Many Lenas 3: Let Them Eat Cake."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:47PM[SHARE]"The Other Mozart," a one-woman show by Sylvia Milo, tells the story of Wolfgang's sister.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:05PM[SHARE]The young cast members of "The Mysteries" at the Flea Theater in TriBeCa perform free, while holding down or looking for jobs by day.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:17PM[SHARE]Lucas Kavner's surprising and very funny new play, "Carnival Kids," directed by Stephen Brackett, is part a reckoning of a father-son relationship.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:38PM[SHARE]"Los Monólogos de la Vagina," a version of Eve Ensler's work in Spanish, is using the typical rotating-cast format in its run at the Westside Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:22PM[SHARE]"The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise" features characters who admit that their worlds could use more spark.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:44PM[SHARE]The Vakhtangov State Academic Theater's "Eugene Onegin" at City Center is a play with music and dance, composed of scenes from the Pushkin novel in verse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:57PM[SHARE]The Drilling Company's streamlined, audience-friendly, "Hamlet" kicks off the free Bryant Park Shakespeare season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:21PM[SHARE]"Under My Skin," a body-swapping comedy at the Little Shubert Theater, may bring on flashbacks from your cinematic past, circa the Reagan administration.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:09PM[SHARE]A fragile out-of-work actress moves into her widowed friend's home and becomes entangled with her friend's son, in "A Loss of Roses."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:11PM[SHARE]"17 Orchard Point," by Anton Dudley and Stephanie DiMaggio, is no heartwarming parent-child love fest.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PM[SHARE]In "Peddling," written and performed by Harry Melling, a young man tries to scratch out a living selling "life's essentials" door to door.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:25PM[SHARE]John Noble, the Australian actor perhaps best known for his roles in "Lord of the Rings" and the TV series "Fringe," is making his New York theater debut in "The Substance of Fire."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:08PM[SHARE]In Oni Faida Lampley's semi-autobiographical play, the mother of a newborn and her family deal with breast cancer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:40PM[SHARE]A conversation with LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Anika Noni Rose and Sophie Okonedo, now starring with Denzel Washington in the Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:45PM[SHARE]"Ubu Sings Ubu" mixes a Google Translate version of the 1896 scatological satire "Ubu Roi" with songs by the experimental rock band Pere Ubu.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:26PM[SHARE]The Brits Off Broadway festival brings a double bill of "A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity" and "Clean" to 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PM[SHARE]Ed Sylvanus Iskandar needed four dozen playwrights to create "The Mysteries," almost six hours of brand-new Bible stories based on an English medieval tradition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AM[SHARE]In "Jasper in Deadland," Matt Doyle charms his way into the underworld to find his dead best friend.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Dan Hoyle's solo show "The Real Americans" channels America's just plain folks with compassion and respect, even as it comments on our national inability to understand one another. &nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:58PM[SHARE]Billed as a comedy, "The Shape of Something Squashed" means in part to gibe the ruthless self-absorption of successful artists, but it also offers a portrait of an actor as an almost invisib…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:04PM[SHARE]"London Wall," a 1931 office comedy by John van Druten, depicts the limited choices available to working women then.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:37PM[SHARE]The singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke, who wrote "My Mother Has 4 Noses," performs it at the Duke on 42nd Street.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:19PM[SHARE]In its world premiere at Irish Repertory Theater, "Transport" floats along on the strength of a fiddle- and flute-filled score, but lacks emotional depth.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PM[SHARE]In "Sotto Voce," an 80-year-old recluse is led by a researcher into reliving her first love, who was a passenger aboard an ill-fated ship of Jewish refugees in 1939.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:28PM[SHARE]In "Actress Fury," a dance-theater piece at the Bushwick Starr, three performers join in playing a single striving actress.
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