Current Productions (view all shows)

The 2nd H.P.Lovecraft Festival Under St Marks,   7/7/2011 to 7/31/2011

Radiotheatre presents Lovecraft's greatest tales of terror - REANIMATOR and THE CALL OF CTHULHU... view full listing details

 

Give In To Sin TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor  7/15/2011 to 7/31/2011

It may be a sin, but in make-believe, everything’s fair game. Three audience members get to be the protagonist in an interactive, spontaneous short story. Choose your favorite deadly sin and play it to the hilt. Maybe you’ll satisfy your darker side. Maybe you’ll just add fuel to the fire. Participa... view full listing details

 

The F*cking World According To Molly Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  8/13/2011 to 8/28/2011

Mollly "Equality" Dykeman Molly “Equality” Dykeman is a barely lucid poet/security guard at PS 339 and a lovable train wreck who is having her first poetry show. Will bed bugs, Percocet, the love of her life and sissy kids get in her way? Michael Musto of the Village Voice says "Molly Dykeman is much funnier--and butcher--t... view full listing details

 

The Crucible Paradise Factory Theatre, 64 E 4th Street  7/13/2011 to 7/31/2011

Edmund Burke is credited with saying “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” If this idea were a fire then the story of the Crucible is the spark. It starts with something small: a young girl’s lie. Unassuming and insignificant by itself, but left unchecked and i... view full listing details

 

Romeo and Juliet Paradise Factory Theatre, 64 E 4th Street  7/15/2011 to 7/31/2011

If the Crucible is the beginning, Romeo and Juliet is the end; is the wildfire. We all know the story of two star crossed lovers, but the real story is the circumstances surrounding the pair. The story of two families operating under assumptions and lies; locked in a feud which no one can remember t... view full listing details

 

BrainExplode! Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave.  7/14/2011 to 7/30/2011

The year is 1987, and renowned game designer Ray Pinter has a problem: his brain has been wired to explode in 60 minutes. In this fully interactive theatrical experience, audience members will navigate Ray through a live-action adventure game, giving him commands as he confronts futuristic technolog... view full listing details

 

Romeo and Juliet Brooklyn Bridge Park, 334 Furman Street  7/30/2011 to 7/31/2011

This is "Romeo & Juliet" with a Muslim/Hindu theme that was inspired by recent news events. It will be a fast paced 90 minute version with eight actors and four puppets. The show will be performed at Saint Charles Borromeo Church and Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn Heights, before touring to the Do... view full listing details

 

Bad Evidence the cell, 338 W. 23rd Street  7/7/2011 to 7/31/2011

A faltering marriage compels a husband and wife to make a pact-to confess searing truths in the heat of passion. The exposure leads to a confrontation with four of their friends, and even deeper revelations.... view full listing details

 

A Midsummer Night's Dream the cell, 338 W. 23rd Street  7/5/2011 to 7/31/2011

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, which casts Hermia and Lysander as lesbian lovers with Demetrius and Helena as a gay couple. This is not your grandmother’s MIDSUMMER, but a MIDSUMMER for 21st century NYC. This production exposes contemporary America’s sexual hang-ups and resistance to gay marriage. Co... view full listing details

 

Red Cloud Rising Bydder Financial, 30 Broad Street / 14th Floor  7/9/2011 to 7/31/2011

From the award-winning creator of the hit iPod noir Suspicious Package comes an entirely new adventure! Alternate Reality Gaming meets theater in Gyda Arber’s Red Cloud Rising, a tale of Wall Street power that unfolds via text message, putting the audience directly in the show. NOTE: Performed off-s... view full listing details

 

FRANKENSTEIN With Mary Shelley and GABRIEL Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th fl.  8/4/2011 to 8/27/2011

Company logo design by Graeme Offord. Redd Tale Theatre Company blasts into its fifth season with the world premiere of two original works! FRANKENSTEIN With Mary Shelley adapted by Virginia Bartholomew is a tight re-telling of the original Shelley story as told by Victor, the Creation, and Mary Shelly herself. We get to hear in the ... view full listing details

 

WHAT THE TIME TRAVELER WILL TELL US Incubator Arts Project, 131 East 10th Street  8/4/2011 to 8/13/2011

Jeffrey Cranor in What the Time Traveler Will Tell Us (photo by Lauren Sharpe) What the Time Traveler Will Tell Us is, among other things, a live demonstration of time travel. This original play, co-written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, tells the story of a man who breaks through the barrier between universes on a futile mission to cheat death, and of a woman whose realit... view full listing details

 

Dia de los Muertos Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center,   7/14/2011 to 7/31/2011

The year is 1916. The world is at war. Kings are falling, and empires are crumbling. And into a small Mexican village near the United States walks Devlyn Byrne, newly arrived from Ireland. There, she meets Pablo Carrillo, a Mexican doctor. Together, they embark on a journey for the honor of both fam... view full listing details

 

Einstein and Mileva Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street  8/18/2011 to 9/3/2011

Einstein & Mileva tells the story of acclaimed physicist, Albert Einstein, and his first wife, scientist Mileva Maric; the rise of his career, the loss of their daughter, and the effects of ambition on a seemingly infallible relationship. Following Einstein through his years with The Olympia Academy... view full listing details

 

Captain Ferguson's School For Balloon Warfare 59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  8/23/2011 to 9/3/2011

David Nelson as the CAPTAIN! Home About the Show The Company Photos & Video Get the News Tickets & Venue Support & Donate to Oracle Oracle Copyright 2011 Oracle Theatre Company, Inc. | Brookly, NY | www.oracletheatreinc.com www.captainferguson.com Inspired by true events surrounding World War I, Captain Ferguson’s... view full listing details

 

ALICE SoHo Playhouse Theatre, 15 Vandam Street  7/30/2011 to 10/15/2011

by Samantha Mercado-Tudda Previews from July 30th - August 7th, then runs every Saturday at 1pm open-endedly. When young, American Alice follows a mime into an elevator, she finds herself in a strange new world. Loosely inspired by Chagall's Paris Through The Window, Alice encounters two little runts with very sticky fing... view full listing details

 

Two Gentlemen of Verona NYC Parks, Queens, Brooklyn & Manhattan  8/12/2011 to 9/4/2011

Shakespeare meets Styx! The Bard's comedy tours the park, set in the early 1980s. A love triangle mixed with hijinks and mayhem.... view full listing details

 

Julius Caesar NYC Parks, Queens, Brooklyn & Manhattan  8/20/2011 to 9/11/2011

Curious Frog brings you Julius Caesar, set in 44 B.C. and with bad-ass sword and shield fights--including woman warriors. Touring the NYC parks, this production upholds Curious Frog's mission to cast diversity in leading roles.... view full listing details

 

The Pillow Book 59 E 59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street  8/12/2011 to 8/20/2011

Illustration by Isaac Fortoul Deb and John are married. Deb and John are strangers. Deb saves John's life on a mountain. John blinds Deb on the Serengeti. John works at an office. John works at a different office. Deb is a doctor, or an exterminator. The Pillow Book is a journey through the real, the imagined, the impossible, an... view full listing details

 

Thieves The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street  8/3/2011 to 8/14/2011

photo by Troy Paul A story about searching. Set in a powwow in a Brooklyn high school, deals are made, souls are compromised, love blossoms, identity is sought after, and redemption is found. At times laugh-out-loud funny and at times frighteningly brutal, the play highlights the absurdity of the urban Indian's dual e... view full listing details

 

Hugh Cox Gets the Pink Slip Kenny Scharf's Cosmic Cavern, 993A Metropolitan Avenue  8/18/2011 to 8/28/2011

When legendary porn star THE MILKMAN (played by Hugh Cox) is killed on the set of his latest film, two hard-boiled dicks are charged with the investigation--and they soon discover that when it comes to porn, nobody's hands are clean. Also featuring THE LONELY HOUSEWIFE, THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, THE HORSE... view full listing details