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Drama


Tue May
22
8 p.m.

___ (The Cockfight Play)

Presented by New 42nd Street Studios - The Duke on 42nd Street Theater


When John and his boyfriend take a break, the last thing he expects is to suddenly meet the woman of his dreams. Now he has a big choice to make.
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Categories: Community, Theater


Tue May
22
11 a.m.

La Casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba)

Presented by Gramercy Arts Theatre (Repertorio Espanol)


Federico Garcia Lorca's tragedy is set in a small Spanish village, in which a tyrannical mother decrees after her second husband's funeral that her five daughters will go into mourning for eight years. As the daughters chafe against this strict control of their lives, all five harbor a love for the village's most handsome man, Pepe. Although the eldest daughter is engaged to be married to Pepe, it is the youngest one that ends up becoming his lover - a secret that ultimately ends with tragic consequences. Simultaneous English translation is available.
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Categories: Theater


Tue May
22
8 p.m.

Storefront Church

Presented by Atlantic Theater Company at the Linda Gross Theater


John Patrick Shanley's latest completes the Church and State trilogy, which began with 'Doubt.' A Bronx Borough President is forced, by the mortgage crisis, into a confrontation with a local minister. The question they confront is one that faces us all. What is the relationship between spiritual experience and social action?
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Categories: Theater


Tue May
22
7 p.m.

Death of a Salesman

Presented by Ethel Barrymore Theatre


In Arthur Miller's classic play, Willy Loman is an aging traveling salesman coming to terms with the emptiness of his life. Willy had great dreams for his oldest son, Biff, a former high school football star who has not lived up to his father's expectations. He finds himself struggling with his sons and long-suffering wife Linda, as dreams of the past collide with those that might have been.
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Categories: Theater


Tue May
22
7 p.m.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Presented by Broadhurst Theatre


This Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows the story of Blanche DuBois, a weak and disturbed woman on a desperate prowl for some place in the world to call her own. After losing their ancestral home, Belle Reve, Blanche shows up at the doorstep of her sister, Stella, in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Putting on airs of refinement and Southern gentility, Blanche tries to impress her brother-in-law, and his gentle, good-natured friend, Mitch. Seeking to escape from reality, and an emblem of a lost traditional South, Blanche becomes a victim of the harsh present.
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Categories: Theater


Tue May
22
7:15 p.m.

Take What is Yours

Presented by 59E59 Theaters


'Take What is Yours' is the little-known true story of how American women fought for and won the right to vote, inspired by and composed in the words of Alice Paul, the National Woman's Party, and documents of their time.
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Categories: Theater


Tue May
22
7 p.m.

The Columnist

Presented by Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (formerly Biltmore)


Columnists are kings in midcentury America and Joseph Alsop wears the crown. Joe is beloved, feared and courted in equal measure by the Washington political world at whose center he sits. But as the '60s dawn and America undergoes dizzying change, the intense political drama Joe is embroiled in becomes deeply personal as well.
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Categories: Theater


Tue May
22
7 p.m.

An Early History Of Fire

Presented by Theatre Row - Acorn Theatre


From influential playwright David Rabe comes a world premiere set at the tipping point of the early 1960s. 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.
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Categories: Theater


Tue May
22
7 till 8 p.m.

Sleep No More

Presented by McKittrick Hotel, The


Emursive produces immersive theatre in extraordinary places. Punchdrunk's 'Sleep No More' is an award-winning theatrical experience that tells Shakespeare's classic tragedy 'Macbeth' through the lens of a film noir movie. Audiences move freely through the epic world of the story at their own pace, choosing where to go and what to see, and everyone's journey is different and unique.
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Categories: Arts, Theater


Tue May
22
7:30 p.m.

My Children! My Africa!

Presented by Pershing Square Signature Center, The


In a classroom in a small Eastern Cape Karoo town in South Africa in 1984, Mr. M, an idealistic teacher, seeks to provide a future for his gifted student Thami by forming a debate team with Isabel, a spirited student from the local white school. But outside the classroom Mr. M's hopes for Thami are challenged by their generational divide and increasing political unrest.
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