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An Iliad  
New York Theatre Workshop presents a theatrical adaptation of Homer’s epic poem, starring Tony-winners Denis O’Hare and Stephen Spinella, alternating in the role of the Poet. (more)
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Assistance 
At its home just west of Times Square, Playwrights Horizons presents the NYC premiere of a comedy by Leslye Headland about two young admin assistants with an awful boss. (more)
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Avenue Q 
Critics = 4.4
A spunky and cheerful Gen-X musical for grown-ups featuring a cast of both puppets and live performers....the Tony-winning Broadway production was recently downsized and re-opened Off-Broadway at the New World Stages in midtown. (more)
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Beyond the Horizon
The Irish Rep presents a revival of Eugene O’Neill’s first full-length play, a family drama about two brothers and the woman they both love. (more)
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Black Angels Over Tuskegee
Critics = 3.3
In midtown, just steps from the Broadway district, an inspirational play about America's first black military airmen. (more)
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Blood Knot
At its new 42nd Street home, Signature Theatre presents a revival of Athol Fugard's play about biracial brothers in segregated South Africa in the early 1960s. (more)
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Blue Man Group 
Critics = 3.0
The nonverbal performance of "blue men" exploring themes of alienation, depersonalization, and paint. (more)
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Carrie
MCC Theater presents a highly-anticipated revival of one of the epic failures in Broadway history....the 1988 musical based on Stephen King's best-selling horror novel about a girl with telekinetic powers. (more)
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Channeling Kevin Spacey
At St. Luke's Theatre in midtown, "Office Space" meets "Scarface" in a comedy targeted at Kevin Spacey and Al Pacino fans. (more)
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City Center Encores: Merrily We Roll Along
City Center's Encores! series presents a minimally-staged version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s legendary musical about three friends whose friendship is tested by time, events, ambition and fate. (more)
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Close Up Space
Critics = 2.7
At its Off-Broadway home in midtown, Manhattan Theatre Club presents the world premiere of Molly Smith Metzler's new comedy starring David Hyde Pierce, the Tony- and Emmy-winning actor best known as Dr. Niles Crane from TV's "Frasier." (more)
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CQ/CX
At the Peter Norton Space on the extreme west end of 42nd Street, Atlantic Theater Company continues its season with Gabe McKinley's drama about a young journalist at the center of a plagiarism scandal. (more)
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Dancing at Lughnasa
The Irish Rep presents a revival of Brian Friel's Tony-winning memory play about the Mundy sisters, unmarried ladies of a certain age facing the last days of summer, both literally and figuratively. (more)
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Freud's Last Session
Critics = 4.3
After a successful run on the Upper West Side, Mark St. Germain's new play, in which two of history’s greatest minds – C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud – meet for a lively discussion about love, sex, and religion, moves to midtown's New World Stages. (more)
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Fuerza Bruta
Critics = 3.2
The Argentinian performance group "De La Guarda" returns to NYC with another acrobatic spectacular. (more)
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Galileo
Classic Stage Company presents Bertolt Brecht's masterpiece, starring Oscar-winner F. Murray Abraham as the Italian astronomer and philosopher hailed by Albert Einstein as the father of modern science. (more)
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GATZ
At the Public, a return engagement of the critically-acclaimed six-hour theatrical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." (more)
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How I Learned to Drive
At its midtown home, Second Stage presents a revival of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer-winning drama, starring Elizabeth Reaser and Norbert Leo Butz. (more)
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How the World Began
Critics = 3.8
The Women's Project presents a new play by Catherine Trieschmann (author of the well-received 2008 play "Crooked") about a NYC biology teacher who moves to Kansas and quickly realizes she's not in Manhattan anymore. (more)
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Hurt Village
At its new 42nd Street home, Signature Theatre presents a tough, gritty family drama by Katori Hall, author of "The Mountaintop" (more)
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Ionescopade A Musical Vaudeville
York Theatre Company presents a revival of the 1974 Off-Broadway musical celebrating the work of absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco. (more)
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Look Back In Anger
At its Off-Broadway space in midtown, Roundabout presents John Osbourne's legendary play about a love triangle among disaffected 20-somethings in post-WW2 England. (more)
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Love, Loss, and What I Wore
Critics = 3.8
An evening of humorous vignettes and monologues by and about women, with a rotating 5-member cast that sometimes includes some very impressive names. (more)
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Million Dollar Quartet
This small-scale musical, set in 1956 at a recording session that brought together Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins for the first and only time, is transferring to Off-Broadway's New World Stages after a 15-month run on Broadway. (more)
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My Sinatra
At the Midtown Theater (home of the Ha! Comedy Club), Cary Hoffman's one-man musical about his lifelong fascination with Ol' Blue Eyes. (more)
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Naked Boys Singing
Critics = 3.0
Reread the title. (more)
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Newsical the Musical
Critics = 3.0
Nominated for Drama Desk awards in 2005 and 2010, this topical musical revue was described by the Associated Press as "Comedy Central's 'Daily Show' set to music." (more)
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Outside People
Critics = 3.5
The Vineyard Theatre, in collaboration with the Naked Angels company, presents Zayd Dohrn's comedy about an American man forced to reassess his place in the universe after falling for a Chinese woman. (more)
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Perfect Crime
Critics = 2.5
A psychological murder mystery, running in a very small theatre in the heart of midtown for as long as anyone here can remember. (more)
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Psycho Therapy
At the venerable Cherry Lane, a new comedy by Frank Strausser about a 20-somethings in therapy. (more)
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Rated P...For Parenthood
At the Westside Theatre just west of the Broadway district, an evening of comic and musical vignettes about parenting. (more)
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Rent
Critics = 3.6
The Pulitzer-winning Broadway musical, a rock adaptation of "La Bohème" set in the grungiest corners of NYC's Lower East Side circa 1989, will re-open Off Broadway at the New World Stages in midtown. (more)
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Richard III
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey plays Shakespeare’s most Machiavellian monarch in a production directed by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes. (more)
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Russian Transport
The New Group presents the world premiere of a suspenseful family drama set in Sheepshead Bay, the Brooklyn neighborhood known for its vibrant Russian Jewish community. (more)
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Rx
At 59E59 in midtown, Primary Stages presents the world premiere of Kate Fodor’s quirky comedy about romance in the age of prescription drugs. (more)
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Silence! The Musical
Critics = 4.5
At PS 122 in the East Village, the outrageous and unauthorized parody of the "The Silence of the Lambs" is back for an encore engagement. (more)
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Sistas: The Musical
At St. Luke's in midtown, a new musical that aspires to tell the story of African-American women through Top-40 music, incorporating songs from the 30's through the 90's including hits like "Oh, Happy Day," "Mama Said," and "I Will Survive." (more)
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Sleep No More
Critics = 4.5
At the old long-abandoned McKittrick Hotel on the extreme western edge of Chelsea, one of the most unique theatrical events in memory....a site-specific Macbeth-meets-Hitchcock performance piece the NY Times calls a "merry macabre chase." (more)
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Stomp
Critics = 4.0
A percussion show that celebrates the power of rhythm and the sheer joy of banging on things. (more)
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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
The Public Theater presents a new one-man show written by and starring Mike Daisey, the master storyteller the NY Times called "one of the finest solo performers of his generation. (more)
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The Awesome 80's Prom
Just outside the East Village in the heart of NYU, an interactive theatrical experience taking you back to prom night, circa 1989. (more)
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The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith
Critics = 3.8
Miche Braden and a backup trio perform 15 of Bessie Smith's hits as they recreate the iconic blues/jazz diva's final, alcohol-fueled performance in a small after-hours club on the eve of her death. (more)
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The Fantasticks
Critics = 3.0
A revival of the most popular Off-Broadway musicals of all time. Try to remember, and if you remember, then follow; follow, follow, follow, follow... (more)
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The Gazillion Bubble Show
Critics = 3.0
At the New World Stages in midtown, a family-friendly extravaganza created by Fan Yang (holder of 12 Guinness World Records) wherein many bubbles are blown under hi-tech lighting. (more)
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The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G
Obie-winning companys Ma-Yi Theater and Vampire Cowboys present an encore production of Qui Nguyen's well-received play....a serious identity drama told in the playwright's singular action/adventure comicbook style. (more)
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The Lady from Dubuque
At its new 42nd Street home, Signature Theatre presents a revival of Edward Albee's little-known drama about alcohol-fueled gamesmanship among party guests awaiting a dreaded visitor (who is neither a lady nor from Dubuque). (more)
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Traces
Critics = 4.2
At the Union Square Theatre (just a couple of blocks north of "Fuerza Bruta") a unique event combining elements of acrobatics, skateboarding, theater, and contemporary dance. (more)
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Tribes
On Barrow Street in the Village, Obie-winner David Cromer directs the North American premiere of Nina Raine's Olivier-nominated play about a deaf man's belated introduction to "the deaf community." (more)
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Upright Citizens Brigade
The big kahuna of the city's improv theatres, UCB hosts shows featuring stars from Saturday Night Live, Late Nite With Conan O'Brien, etc, rubbing elbows with the stars of tomorrow. (Or perhaps the day after.) (more)
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Voca People
Critics = 3.3
After a successful launch at the Westside Theatre, this quirky musical about friendly aliens from the planet Voca transfers to midtown's New World Stages. (more)
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Yosemite
At its home on Waverly Place in the West Village, the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presents the world premiere of Daniel Talbott's drama about dark family secrets buried behind a trailer park in Yosemite National Park. (more)
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