Current Productions (view all shows)

The Underpants Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  9/13/2008 to 9/28/2008

Steve Martin, the renowned comic actor and author provides a wild satire adapted from the classic German play about Louise and Theo Maske, a couple whose conservative existence is shattered when Louise’s bloomers fall down in public. Though she pulls them up quickly, he thinks the incident will cost... view full listing details

 

Summer and Smoke Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  8/20/2008 to 8/31/2008

Tennessee Williams' classic play about a preacher's daughter and a reckless young doctor.... view full listing details

 

SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street   9/19/2008 to 10/5/2008

Set in a seaside bar on the coast of Southern California in the early 1970s, "Small Craft Warnings" (by Tennessee Williams) offers a glimpse into the lives of the “regulars” who inhabit the bar as refuge from the storm of life. Impassioned by the anniversary of her “angelic” brother’s death, Leona (... view full listing details

 

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  8/14/2008 to 8/30/2008

Written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, "...Shakespeare Abridged" is a hilarious, fast-paced, Monty Python-type romp through Shakespeare's plays. Three male actors take audiences through 37 plays, which are condensed down to a 90-minute free-for-all, making mincemeat of the Bard. Impr... view full listing details

 

There or Here 14th Street Theatre, 344 E. 14th Street  9/7/2008 to 9/28/2008

A dark comedy about a couple who outsource their baby-making surrogacy to India. ... view full listing details

 

Pericles, Prince of Tyre Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, w.89th and Riverside Drive  8/7/2008 to 8/31/2008

Originally set in ancient Greece and its environs, Pericles is the story of a man who refuses to stand up to a tyrant, choosing instead to run away. The consequences of his non-action lead him on a near twenty year journey through the Mediterranean, encompassing five city-states, and involving storm... view full listing details

 

The Taming of the Shrew Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  8/21/2008 to 9/4/2008

The Taming of the Shrew. Right now. We have a theatre. We have 8 actors. We have some stuff we found in our apartments. And we have an old play that we've all seen before. This production reveals its own story of creation while retelling Shakespeare's classic story of lording it and playing th... view full listing details

 

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  8/1/2008 to 12/6/2008

Totally new show EVERY Friday & Saturday Night @ the Kraine, open-ended run, Award-winning, ever-changing attempt to perform 30 Plays in 60 Minutes. Embracing chance, change and some chaos, each show is unique as the audience chooses the order of 30 original short plays, and the energetic ensemble o... view full listing details

 

The Chalk Boy Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  9/4/2008 to 9/20/2008

Ouija boards, pentagrams, high school, and teenage love in The Chalk Boy The Chalk Boy is a deathly black comedy about measuring your own worth by comparing it to everyone else’s. Beneath its boring façade a Northwest town hides a nasty secret, and the girls from the local high school’s Christian Athletes Club are here to tell you all about it. Murder, the occult, Alge... view full listing details

 

The Rape of the Lock The DUO Theater, 62 East 4th Street  9/11/2008 to 9/28/2008

In this theatricalization of his classic 18th Century mock-epic poem, Alexander Pope is portrayed as the crankiest playwright ever, as five actors alternately suffer under and subvert his tyrannical direction. Judith Shakespeare Company's signature "gender-reverse" casting comes into brilliant cont... view full listing details

 

When It Stands Still Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  8/30/2008 to 9/18/2008

In a time-twisted riff on the nature of obsession and old-testament sacrifice, Soren Kierkegaard needs to get into the mind of Abraham at that moment on the mountain with the boy and the knife. And then there's a fiancée to repel, a father to satisfy, and 20th-century philosophy to invent.... view full listing details

 

The Selfish Giant Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  9/6/2008 to 10/26/2008

Can the laughter of a child melt the cold heart of a selfish giant? Yes it can! This adaptation of Oscar Wilde's beautiful fairytale will warm the hearts of young and old alike. Step into Wilde's imagination as the story unfold through music, dance, storytelling and puppetry.... view full listing details

 

The Spitfire Grill Sage Theater, 711 7th Ave  9/4/2008 to 9/13/2008

A feisty parolee follows her dreams, based on a page from an old travel book, to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. It is for sale but there are no takers for the only eatery in the depressed town, so newcomer Percy suggests to Hannah that she... view full listing details

 

Almost, Maine Access Theater, 380 Broadway  8/14/2008 to 8/31/2008

A collection of quirky vignettes introduces a series of lovelorn and love-primed eccentrics taking a shot at the big moose of romance. This production utilizes a larger cast than the original production, allowing each character to come even more vividly to life with unique actors.... view full listing details

 

A Great Place to Be From Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  9/10/2008 to 9/20/2008

In heat like this, the world gets louder and rules don't apply. You can't trust anyone and sometimes, suddenly, everything becomes clear. The Midwest is struck by a monstrous heat wave -- the kind that makes cows keel over and chickens explode. In A Great Place to Be From, four people tell the ... view full listing details

 

Southern Promises P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue  9/6/2008 to 9/27/2008

Playwright provocateur Thomas Bradshaw ignites the stage yet again in his signature inflammatory style. Following sold out and controversial runs at Performance Space 122, including Prophet and Purity, and elsewhere, including Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist and Cleansed, Bradshaw teams with acclaim... view full listing details

 

A Grave for Sister Agatha American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, 4th Floor  9/10/2008 to 9/21/2008

A new character comedy about drinking and magic.... view full listing details

 

The Pearl Merchant The Space, 300 W. 43rd St, Suite 402  9/23/2008 to 10/4/2008

Hannah is a painter and teacher whose desire to adopt a boy from her preschool classroom forces her to confront her assumptions about God, marriage, and race. Thoughtful, poetic, and layered, The Pearl Merchant brings the audience deep questions and glimpses of great hope.... view full listing details

 

The Redheaded Man The Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow St  8/13/2008 to 9/13/2008

Halley Bondy and David Jenkins in "The Redheaded Man" photo by Jesse Garrison Darkly funny new play takes you on a multimedia journey through the mind of a man with a unique mental illness. Brian is a gifted young architect plagued by visions that inspire his designs, yet render him a walking social disaster.... view full listing details