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Tue May
22
7:30 p.m.

The Caretaker

Presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music - Harvey Lichtenstein Theater


Everyman and Playhouse/Theatre Royal Bath presents a major revival of Harold Pinter's play. A pair of working-class brothers allows a homeless man to stay in their decrepit London flat, an act of compassion that sparks a cycle of cruelties, delusions and shifting loyalties in a desperate struggle over territory. Jonathan Pryce, a two-time Tony and Olivier Award winner ('Miss Saigon,' 'Hamlet') and film actor ('Brazil,' 'Pirates of the Caribbean') stars as the vagrant.
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Tue May
22
7 p.m.

One Man, Two Guvnors

Presented by Music Box Theatre


Always famished and easily confused, Francis Henshall agrees to work for a local gangster as well as a criminal in hiding, both of whom are linked in a web of schemes, extortions and romantic associations... none of which Francis can keep straight. So he has to do everything in his power to keep his two guvnors from meeting while trying to eat anything in sight along the way.
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Categories: Performances, Theater


Tue May
22
7 p.m.

Clybourne Park

Presented by Walter Kerr Theatre


On two separate afternoons, 50 years apart, a modest bungalow on Chicago's northwest side becomes a contested site in the politics of race. September 1959: Russ and Bev are moving out to the suburbs. They've inadvertently sold the house to the neighborhood's first black family and ignited a community showdown. September 2009: the neighborhood is ripe for gentrification and the house is again changing hands. This time to a young white couple with plans for demolition and a knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. In a provocative nod to 'A Raisin in the Sun,' Bruce Norris takes a look at what happens when home becomes a battleground.
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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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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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Tue May
22
7:30 p.m.

Tribes

Presented by Barrow Street Theatre (Greenwich House Theater)


In 'Tribes,' Billy was born deaf, into a hearing family, and raised inside the fiercely idiosyncratic and unrepentantly politically incorrect cocoon of his parents' house. He has adapted brilliantly to his family's unconventional ways, but they've never bothered to return the favor. It's not until he meets Sylvia, a young woman on the brink of deafness, that he finally understands what it means to be understood. Yes, Billy's family can hear, but will they ever listen?
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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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Tue May
22
7 p.m.

Other Desert Cities

Presented by Booth Theatre


In 'Other Desert Cities,' Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six year absence to see her parents, her brother and her aunt. Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family's history - a wound they don't want reopened. In effect, she draws a line in the sand and dares them all to cross it.
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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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