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Off Broadway Plays that are now open or due to open!
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4000 MILES
by Amy Herzog
Drama
at Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
After losing his best friend while they were on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace with his feisty 91 year-old grandmother in her West Village apartment. 4000 Miles examines how these two outsiders find their way in today's world.
(from 15 Mar 2012 - Closing on 20 May 2012)
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
by William Shakespeare
Drama
at Classic Stage Company
On an enchanted summer's evening four young lovers find themselves entangled in a bewildering game of lust and longing. In a magical forest where a powerful fairy king and queen are at war nothing is as it seems as mischievous spirits run riot, confusion reigns and love conquers all.
(from 28 Mar 2012 - Closing on 06 May 2012)
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A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN
by Eugene O'Neill
Comedy
at NY City Center
Centeers on the self-destructive James Tyrone, the character modeled on O'Neill's own older brother, and the passionate and lonely Josie Hogan.
(from 06 Mar 2012 - Closing on 15 Apr 2012)
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AN EARLY HISTORY OF FIRE
by David Rabe
Drama
at Theatre Row's Acorn Theater
In a Midwestern town, Danny's world is defined by friendship and loyalty. But the bigger world is encroaching, in the form of Karen, back from college in the east, alluring and unsettling because of what she now knows. Still, Danny can't escape the grip of his immigrant father, who is mourning a vanished world of lost prestige and clinging to his only son.
(from tba - Closing on tba)
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AN ILIAD
by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, adapted from The Iliad by Homer. Translated by Robert Fagles
Drama
at New York Theatre Workshop
Spins the tale of gods and goddesses, undying love, and endless battles, and asks, 'Has anything really changed since the Trojan War?'
(from 15 Feb 2012 - Closing on 25 Mar 2012)
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AND NOW THIS IS HAPPENING
Conceived and Written by Hunter Bell and Susan Blackwell
Comedy
at Vineyard Theatre
(from tba - )
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ASSISTANCE
by Leslye Headland
Comedy
at Playwrights Horizons / Mainstage Theater
For these young assistants, life is an endless series of humiliations at the hands of their hellacious boss, a powerful uber-magnate. In rare moments of calm when the phone calls stop rolling, Nick and Nora and their traumatized co-workers question whether all their work will lead to success - or just more work.
(from 03 Feb 2012 - Closing on 11 Mar 2012)
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BEYOND THE HORIZON
by Eugene O'Neill
Drama
at Irish Repertory Theatre
Set on a farm in Massachusetts where two brothers, Robert, a dreamer and poet who longs to go to sea and seek the promise that lies beyond the horizon, and Andrew, a more practical man, whose desire extends no farther than the family farm, find themselves in love with their neighbor Ruth.
(from 15 Feb 2012 - Closing on 08 Apr 2012)
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BLACK ANGELS OVER TUSKEGEE
by Layon Gray
Drama
at Actors Temple Theater
A story told in narrative of six men embarking on a journey to become pilots in the United States Army Air Forces. The play explores their collective struggle with Jim Crow; challenging their intelligence, patriotism, brotherhood, and dreams of an inclusive and fair society.
(from 05 Jun 2010 - Booking to 12 Feb 2012)
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BLOOD KNOT
by Athol Fugard
Drama
at Signature Center's Linney Theatre
Between patchwork walls in a one-room shack, two biracial South African brothers grapple with crippling poverty and lonely isolation. Morris, the punctilious force that keeps their room tidy, is light-skinned enough to pass for white, but dark-skinned Zach feels imprisoned by his job at a whites-only park.
(from 31 Jan 2012 - Closing on 11 Mar 2012)
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CARL'S SISTER
by Alfred Uhry, based on the book Apples and Oranges by Marie Brenner
Comic-Drama
at NY City Center Stage I
A medical crisis brings Marie, a classic New York liberal and investigative journalist for Vanity Fair and Carl, a conservative apple grower living in Washington State, together after many years apart. While Marie abandons her life to help her dying brother, Carl fights her every step of the way.
(from tba - )
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CHIMICHANGAS AND ZOLOFT
by Fernanda Coppel
Drama
at Atlantic Stage 2
Suffering from a profound sense of disappointment after her 40th birthday, Sonia flees her family and goes on a binge of prescription Zoloft and greasy chimichangas.
(from Expected 2012 - )
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CQ/CX
by Gabe McKinley
Drama
at Peter Norton Space
Jay, an up and coming black reporter at the New York Times, finds his dreams of becoming a famous journalist come crashing down as he becomes the center of a plagiarism scandal.
(from 25 Jan 2012 - Booking to 04 Mar 2012)
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DETROIT
by Lisa D'Amour
Comedy
at Playwrights Horizons / Mainstage Theater
Somewhere in the suburbs of a mid-sized city, Ben and Mary welcome into their lives the rootless couple who move in next door. But as this foursome bonds over backyard barbecues, the neighborly connection they find threatens to unravel the lives they've built and change them forever.
(from expected in Fall of 2012 - Booking to )
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FOOD AND FADWA
by Lameece Issaq, conceived and developed with Jacob Kader
Drama
at New York Theatre Workshop
Meet Fadwa Faranesh, an unmarried, 30-something, Palestinian woman known for her delectable cooking and deep-seated sense of duty to her siblings and aging father. Despite the constraints of a curfew imposed on the community of East Bethlehem in 2002, our kitchen maven insists on continuing the preparations for the wedding of her younger sister.
(from tba - )
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FREUD'S LAST SESSION
by Mark St. Germain
Suggested by Dr. Armand M. Nicoli Jr.'s book, 'The Question of God'
Drama
at New World Stages / Stage 5
Freud's Last Session centers on legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud, who invites a young, little-known professor, C.S. Lewis, to his home in London. Lewis, expecting to be called on the carpet for satirizing Freud in a recent book, soon realizes Freud has a much more significant agenda.
(from 07 Oct 2011 - Booking to 03 Jun 2012)
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GALILEO
by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Charles Laughton
Drama
at Classic Stage Company
Tells the story of Galileo's conflict with the Catholic Church over his scientific communities, and asks was he a coward who compromised his beliefs? or a wise man whoy knew when to speak and when to remain silent.
(from 01 Feb 2012 - Closing on 18 Mar 2012)
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GATZ
Created vy Elevator Repair Service from the text of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Drama/experimental
at Public's Newman Theater
One morning in the office of a mysterious small business, an employee finds a copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter of his desk. He starts to read it out loud, and doesn't stop. At first his coworkers hardly notice. But after a series of strange coincidences, it's no longer clear whether he's reading the book or the book is transforming him.
(from 14 Mar 2012 - Closing on 06 May 2012)
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GOB SQUAD'S KITCHEN (YOU'VE NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD)
Devised by Gob Squad
Drama/experimental
at Public's Newman Theater
It's 1965 and everything is just about to happen. The German/British collective Gob Squad invites you to take the hand of the King of Pop himself, Andy Warhol, and take a trip back to the underground cinemas of New York City, back to where it all began.
(from 19 Jan 2012 - Closing on 05 Feb 2012)
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HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE
by Paula Vogel
Drama
at Second Stage Theatre
Explores the complex relationship between Li'l Bit and her Uncle Peck, as a series of driving lessons progresses from innocence to something much darker.
(from 24 Jan 2012 - Closing on 11 Mar 2012)
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HURT VILLAGE
by Katori Hall
Drama
at Signature Center's Linney Theatre
It's the end of a long summer in Hurt Village, a housing project in Memphis, Tennessee. A government Hope Grant means relocation for many of the project's residents, including Cookie, a thirteen year-old aspiring rapper, along with her mother Crank and great-grandmother Big Mama. As the family prepares to move, Cookie's father Buggy unexpectedly returns from a tour of duty in Iraq.
(from 07 Feb 2012 - Closing on 18 Mar 2012)
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LONELY, I'M NOT
by Paul Weitz
Comedy
at Second Stage Theatre
At an age when most people are discovering what they want to do with their lives, Porter has been married and divorced, earned seven figures as a corporate 'ninja' and had a nervous breakdown. It's been four years since he's had a job or a date, and he's decided to give life another shot.
(from expected early 2012 - )
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LOOK BACK IN ANGER
by John Osborne
Drama
at Laura Pels Theatre
About four people struggling to live together and love each other in 1950s England.
(from 13 Jan 2012 - Closing on 08 Apr 2012)
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LOST IN YONKERS
by Neil Simon
Comedy
at Theatre Row's Beckett Theater
After the death of their mother, two young boys suddenly find themselves living with a stern grandmother they hardly know in the strange new world of Yonkers.
(from 13 Mar 2012 - Closing on 14 Apr 2012)
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LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE
by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron
Comedy
at Westside Theatre Downstairs
Collection of vignettes and monologues based on the best-selling book by Ilene Beckerman, as well as on the recollections of the Ephrons' friends.
(from 21 Sep 2009 - Closing on 19 Feb 2012)
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OUTSIDE PEOPLE
by Zayd Dohrn
Comic-Drama
at Vineyard Theatre
The story of a young American man, Malcolm, who falls in love with a Chinese woman, Xiao Mei. But as his eyes open to the social, political and economic forces that inform their relationship, he must confront his complex place in a foreign culture, the friendship that brought him there, and his own deepest fears and desires.
(from 21 Dec 2011 - Closing on 04 Feb 2012)
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PAINTING CHURCHES
by Tina Howe
Comedy
at Theatre Row's Clurman Theater
Margaret (Mags), an artist who lives in New York, has arrived to help her parents - Fanny and Gardner Church - pack for their move from Boston to a summer House in Cape Cod. She also intends to paint their portrait, and over the course of several days Mags she's her parents in a new light as their parent-child relationship changes.
(from 14 Feb 2012 - Closing on 22 Apr 2012)
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PERFECT CRIME
by Warren Manzi
Thriller
at The Snapple Theater Center
A secluded mansion. A would-be murderess. The perfect crime. Margaret Brent is an accomplished Connecticut psychiatrist-and potential cold-blooded killler. When her wealthy husband turns up dead, she gets caught in the middle of a terrifying game of cat and mouse with a deranged patient and the handsome but duplicitous investigator assigned to the case.
(from 18 Apr 1987 - Booking to 01 Apr 2012)
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PSYCHO THERAPY
by Frank Strausser
Comedy
at Cherry Lane Theatre
Lily's fianc‚e Phillip blows off couples therapy and Dorian, her hot young ex-boyfriend, jumps in to fill the void. When the trio ends up on the couch together, only therapist Nancy Winston can untangle the kinks.
(from 17 Jan 2012 - Closing on 25 Feb 2012)
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RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN
by Gina Gionfriddo
Comedy
at Playwrights Horizons / Mainstage Theater
After grad school, Catherine and Gwen chose polar opposite paths. Catherine built a career as a rockstar academic, while Gwen built a home with her husband and children. Decades later, unfulfilled in polar opposite ways, each woman covets the other's life, commencing a dangerous game of musical chairs - the prize being Gwen's husband.
(from tba - Booking to )
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REGRETS
by Matt Charman
Drama
at NY City Center Stage I
Caleb Farley is the youngest man ever to show up at Mrs. Duke's cabins, a ramshackle retreat in the Nevada desert and one of the few places men can go to secure a quick divorce in 1950s America. Caleb claims he fled his Hollywood home for the same reason as the other men in camp - to shed the lives and wives they've known, and loved, to begin anew.
(from 08 Mar 2012 - Booking to 29 Apr 2012)
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RUSSIAN TRANSPORT
by Erika Sheffer
Drama
at Theatre Row's Acorn Theater
Set in the Russian-Jewish enclave of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Russian Transport is a tale of an immigrant couple, their two assimilated teenagers and the fierce and fiery upheaval they experience when sexy, mysterious Uncle Boris from the old country comes to stay with them for his shot at the American dream.
(from 17 Jan 2012 - Closing on 10 Mar 2012)
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RX
by Kate Fodor
Comedy
at 59E59's Theater A
Meena Pierotti's job is making her unhappy. Luckily, there's a pill for that. Well, not yet. But Meena has joined the clinical trial for a new drug targeting workplace depression. The trial gets messy, however, when she falls in love with her doctor, who himself is trying to enroll into a drug trial targeting heartbreak.
(from 24 Jan 2012 - Closing on 03 Mar 2012)
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SLEEPING DEMON
Standalone play.
Final installment of Shanley's trilogy of plays called Church And State - First play: Doubt, Second play: Defiance
by John Patrick Shanley
Drama
at Linda Gross Theater
The story concerns a Bronx Borough President who is forced, by the mortgage crisis, into a confrontation with a local minister.
(from Expected 2012 - )
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TERESA'S ECSTASY
by Begonya Plaza
Drama
at Cherry Lane Theatre
Carlotta's return to Barcelona has two purposes. It's a stopover on the way to Avila, where she is researching an article on St. Teresa, a 16th Century nun. It's also to serve her husband Andres with divorce papers.
(from 04 Mar 2012 - Closing on 01 Apr 2012)
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THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS
Devised by Mike Daisey
monologue/docudrama/comedy
at Public Theater's Martinson Hall
Mike Daisey turns his wit to America's most mysterious technology icon. He illuminates how the CEO of Apple and his obsessions shape our lives, while sharing stories of his own travel to China to investigate the factories where millions toil to make iPhones and iPods.
(from 31 Jan 2012 - Closing on 04 Mar 2012)
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THE BIG MEAL
by Dan LeFranc
Drama
at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Somewhere in America, in a typical suburban restaurant on a typical night, Sam and Nicole meet. And sparks fly, setting in motion an expansive tale that traverses five generations of a modern family, from first kiss to final goodbye.
(from tba - Booking to )
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THE CANTERBURY TALES REMIXED
by Baba Brinkman
Featuring music and turn-tablism by Jamie Simmonds
Drama
at Soho Playhouse
Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless Canterbury Tales comes to life in a performance linking today's hip-hop lyrics with the greatest stories ever told.
(from 23 Nov 2011 - Closing on 05 Feb 2012)
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THE COMMON PURSUIT
by Simon Gray
Comic-Drama
at Laura Pels Theatre
Chronicles twenty years in the lives of six friends, from their ambitious collegiate days to their surprising discoveries in the real world.
(from 04 May 2012 - Closing on 29 Jul 2012)
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THE LADY FROM DUBUQUE
by Edward Albee
Drama
at Signature Center's End Stage Theatre
At a late night party, Sam and Jo entertain their friends with a round of Twenty Questions and another round of drinks. When an unexpected guest and her mysterious companion arrive, the question 'Who are you?' gains a whole new and desperate meaning.
(from 14 Feb 2012 - Closing on 25 Mar 2012)
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THE MORINI STRAD
by Willy Holtzman
Comedy
at 59E59's Theater A
Inspired by the true New York story of concert violinist Erica Morini and her legendary Stradivari violin. A story of friendship between Erica Morini, a difficult and former child prodigy, and Brian, a stubbornly independent violin maker she hires to restore and then sell her beloved Strad. As Brian makes the arrangements, the question of what will become of the priceless instrument threatens to destroy their unexpected friendship.
(from 20 Mar 2012 - Closing on 28 Apr 2012)
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THE PHILANDERER
by George Bernard Shaw
Comedy
at NY City Center Stage II
Follows the misadventures of one Leonard Charteris, the title character whose simultaneous involvements with two women threaten his equilibrium while sharpening his power of speech.
(from 10 Jan 2012 - Closing on 19 Feb 2012)
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THE TWENTY-SEVENTH MAN
by Nathan Englander
Drama
at Public Theater
A Soviet prison, 1952. Stalin's secret police have rounded up 26 writers, the giants of Yiddish literature in Russia. As judgment looms, a twenty-seventh suddenly appears: Pinchas Pelovits, unpublished and unknown. Baffled by his arrest, he and his cellmates wrestle with the mysteries of party loyalty and politics, culture and identity, and with what it means to write in troubled times.
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THIEVES
by by William S. YellowRobe, Jr
Drama
at Public Theater
Set in a powwow in a Brooklyn high school, deals are made, souls are compromised, love blossoms, and identity is sought after and redemption is found.
(from 03 Aug 2012 - Closing on 14 Aug 2012)
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TRIBES
by Nina Raine
Comedy
at Barrow Street Theatre
Billy was born deaf, into a hearing family, and raised inside the fiercely idiosyncratic and unrepentantly politically incorrect cocoon of his parent's house. He has adapted brilliantly to his family's unconventional ways, but they've never bothered to return the favor.
(from 16 Feb 2012 - Booking to 03 Jun 2012)
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