February 2012
One Man Talking: Emerging Artists Theatre presents a festival of solo shows by men, curated by Scott Klavan and Scott Raker. Participating artists include Desmond Dutcher, James McLindon, Billy Hipkins, Ryan Colwell, Rick Younger, Ric Siler, and more.
Venue: TADA! Youth Theater
Starts February 27
Once: A new musical based on the film of the same name, about an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant who are drawn together by their shared love of music.
Venue: Jacobs Theatre
Starts February 28
Beautiful Bone: A dance piece by Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith that explores shame and love.
Venue: Chocolate Factory
Starts February 29
I Heart Alice Heart I: Amy Conroy's heart-warming tale of two Irish women in love.
Venue: Irish Arts Center
Starts February 29
Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis: A new play about three menopausal women wide-awake at 3a.m. trading prescription drugs online, revealing their passions, and googling old boyfriends, while stressing over the mother of all
issues: moms.
Venue: Cap21
Starts February 29
Romeo and Juliet: Tragedians of the City presents an all-male version of Shakespeare's classic.
Venue: American Theatre of Actors
Starts February 29
The Yeats Game: A farce by John J. Ronan about middle-age choices and their ridiculous consequences.
Venue: Producers Club
Starts February 29
Eternal Equinox: Joyce Hokin Sachs's sexually charged look at the emotional impact of bedroom politics.
Venue: 59E59
Starts March 1
Free Delivery: StrangeMen and Co. presents the story of a determined pizza boy in this site-specific production.
Venue: Made Fresh Daily Bake Shop, South Street Seaport, 226 Front Street
Starts March 1
Heathens: In this new play by Heather Hill, a wandering laborer follows a woman home for the night, only to find a lot more than he bargains for in the home she shares with her sister and her Mamaw.
Venue: Theater for the New City
Starts March 1
Hot Lunch Apostles: Carnival strippers take on the Bible in Sidney Goldfarb's play.
Venue: Ellen Stewart Theater
Starts March 1
Innocent Flesh: A new play loosely based on the real stories of four young girls and the hardships they face as underage prostitutes in America.
Venue: Actors Temple Theatre
Starts March 1
Jesus Christ Superstar: The Stratford Shakespeare Festival presents Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical.
Venue: Neil Simon Theatre
Starts March 1
Make Mine Manhattan: A new production of the hit 1948 musical revue.
Venue: Connelly Theatre
Starts March 1
Mark Morris Dance Group: Mark Morris Dance Company presents Beethoven's
Choral Fantasy — with costumes by long-time collaborator Isaac Mizrahi — and Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein's opera
Four Saints in Three Acts.
Venue: BAM Opera House
Starts March 1
Renegade Princess: Ann Marie Houghtailing's one-woman autobiographical comedy about what happens when you take control.
Venue: Stage Left Studio
Starts March 1
Strawberry One-Act Festival: The 21st bi-annual edition of this one-act festival, in which prizes are awarded by audience vote and judges.
Venue: Hudson Guild
Starts March 1
The Big Meal: Dan LeFranc's extraordinary story of an ordinary family.
Venue: Playwrights Horizons Peter J Sharp
Starts March 1
The Irish Cell: The Cell Theatre presents a night of Irish one-acts.
Venue: Cell Theatre
Starts March 1
The Three Seagulls, or MASHAMASHAMASHA!: Jaclyn Backhaus combines Chekhov's
The Seagull and
Three Sisters into one play focusing on the character of Masha.
Venue: HERE - Dorothy B. Williams Theater
Starts March 1
Buddha: An Oriental take on the Seven Deadly Sins that juxtaposes the biography of Siddhartha Buddha with the fever dream of a contemporary gay man.
Venue: The Club at La MaMa
Starts March 2
Centralia: UglyRhino presents this interactive theatrical experience.
Venue: Brooklyn Lyceum
Starts March 2
Flight: Michel Wallerstein's new play dramatizes a man's search for truth, love and his identity against the backdrop of his mother's deterioration.
Venue: DR2
Starts March 2
Spring Alive!: An interactive theatrical experience for the heart and mind based on the life and music of Spring Groove.
Venue: Dixon Place
Starts March 2
The Clan of the Quillens: An epic tale told in twelve scenes without scenery, set in Scotland, Ireland and the New World in the 1630s.
Venue: 45th Street Theatre
Starts March 2
Thirds: Jacob M. Appel's play about three sisters who inherit their mother's house.
Venue: Lion Theatre
Starts March 2
Deep Are the Roots: A revival of the 1945 play by Arnaud d'Usseau and James Gow about an African American soldier who returns from World War II to his home in the American South.
Venue: Metropolitan Playhouse
Starts March 3
The Real Thing: Tom Stoppard's serious comedy of love and wit, marriage and reality, loss and fidelity.
Venue: The Secret Theatre
Starts March 3
Teresa's Ecstasy: Begonya Plaza's sexually charged look at politics, religion and love.
Venue: Cherry Lane Theatre
Starts March 4
Top Drawer: Adelaide Mestre's solo show based on her unusual life in an eccentric family on Park Avenue.
Venue: Triad
Starts March 4
Look for the Woman: In this play by Christie Perfetti, "Buck, MJ, Lukey and Daryl Hadlow's worlds are rocked when their mother, Vivienne, declares herself the rightful owner of the family's struggling steel company.
Venue: Richmond Shepard Theatre
Starts March 5
A Moon for the Misbegotten: Pearl Theatre Company presents Eugene O'Neill's exploration of despair, love, and salvation got by "human grace".
Venue: City Center Stage II
Starts March 6
The Best Man: A revival of Gore Vidal's play about a contentious presidential election campaign.
Venue: Schoenfeld Theatre
Starts March 6
The Maria Project: Using documentary footage, music and storytelling,
The Maria Project takes audiences on a road trip across America to unravel the mysterious disappearance of Maria Salazar.
Venue: 59E59
Starts March 6
Damn Yankees: Paper Mill Playhouse presents this revival of the musical about a baseball fan who sells his soul to the devil in order to help his team win the World Series.
Venue: Paper Mill Playhouse
Starts March 7
From the Inside: Richard Thomas Henle's story of the inner workings of a relationship of two brothers and the friends that surround the two of them.
Venue: Manhattan Repertory Theatre
Starts March 7
Give Me Your Hand: Playwright Paul Durcan has taken some of the most famous paintings in the world, and interpreted them with his own unique, poetic voice.
Venue: Irish Repertory Theatre
Starts March 7
Hora: BAM presents Ohad Naharin's dance piece.
Venue: BAM Opera House
Starts March 7
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel: A revival of Tennessee Williams' rarely seen 1969 play.
Venue: 292 Theatre, 292 East 3rd Street
Starts March 7
NOW.HERE.THIS.: This new musical from the creators of
[title of show] explores
birds, bees, reptiles, early man, ancient civilizations, and outer space.
Venue: Vineyard Theatre
Starts March 7
Street Scene: A musical about the ordinary romances, gossip and quarrels of an East Side tenement.
Venue: Skirball Center
Starts March 7
Another Life: This new play by Karen Malpede tells of the titanic struggle between a mogul and his physician daughter who become embedded in the war on terror/torture program.
Venue: Irondale Center
Starts March 8
Court-Martial at Fort Devens: Based on a true story, this play by Jeffrey Sweet documents the strike of black WACs (Women’s Army Corps) during World War II.
Venue: Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd Street
Starts March 8
Hindsight: In this play by Simon Van Booy, 25-year-old Barbara meets 85-year-old Barbie on a bench in the Jardin du Luxembourg and the two discuss their lives.
Venue: The Drilling Company Theatre
Starts March 8
Mother McQuillen: The tale of a mother and four daughters on top of a hill in Georgia, 1863.
Venue: 45th Street Theatre
Starts March 8
Regrets: The world premiere of Matt Charman's play about a young man who shows up at a ramshackle retreat in the Nevada desert.
Venue: Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I
Starts March 8
Summer in Sanctuary: An autobiographical piece written and performed by Al Letson that recounts his struggles to connect with the disadvantaged children of the Sanctuary in Jacksonville, Florida.
Venue: New Jersey Repertory Company
Starts March 8
The House of Fitzcarraldo: In this highly theatrical performance work, the performers, taking on the role of the Collective Ego of Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski.
Venue: Brick Theatre
Starts March 8
The Kreutzer Sonata: Nancy Harris's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella incorporating film, live music and performance.
Venue: La MaMa First Floor Theatre
Starts March 8
Women Center Stage 2012 Festival: A dynamic and diverse laboratory for works-in-progress from performing artists at all levels of their careers. Culture Project is committed to providing new artistic forums on wider social justice issues and galvanizing the performing arts community and its audience around supporting the voices and visions of women.
Venue: The Living Theatre
Starts March 8
Bike Shop: A musical by Elizabeth Barkan that tells the story of a Brooklyn bicycle store circa 1993 and its owner, Bobby, an exuberant bike mechanic who runs a shop that was first opened by her grandmother in 1936.
Venue: Theater for the New City
Starts March 9
Lifeline: Frank Tangredi's play about a middle-aged man who is divorced and unemployed, with a habit of wanting to fix things, whether they be pipes or lives.
Venue: Dorothy Strelsin Theatre
Starts March 9
Nocturnal Creatures: A play by Spanish author Juan Mayorga about two neighbors with seemingly little in common who have an encounter in a cafe.
Venue: The Directors Company, 311 West 43rd Street, Suite 409.
Starts March 9
Pericles, Prince of Tyre: An epic play about treachery, love, hope and perseverance written by William Shakespeare and George Wilkins.
Venue: American Globe Theatre
Starts March 9
Saint Joan: A revival of Shaw's play about Joan of Arc.
Venue: Access Theatre
Starts March 9
Spring Tides: The New York premiere of Melissa Gawlowski's play about a newly pregnant woman who escapes onto a beach through a closet door.
Venue: The Secret Theatre
Starts March 9
The Violet Hour: A revival of Richard Greenberg's play about a young publisher who struggles to choose his next project while dealing with the appearance of a strange machine that spits out manuscript pages with information about his future.
Venue: WorkShop Theater
Starts March 9
Three Sisters: The Seeing Place Theater presents Chekhov's famous play.
Venue: American Theatre of Actors
Starts March 9
Stunt Lab: A new show for families featuring a yo-yo master and a contortionist.
Venue: Canal Park Playhouse, 508 Canal Street
Starts March 10
Evita: Ricky Martin, Elena Roger and Michael Cerveris star in the revival of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical.
Venue: Marquis Theatre
Starts March 12
Cocktails on Mars: Maureen FitzGerald and Andrew Shulman use a pair of chairs and a handful of props to tell stories of the exotic made uncomfortably familiar, and the everyday gone suddenly, awfully awry.
Venue: Brooklyn Lyceum
Starts March 13
Lost in Yonkers: The Actors Company Theatre presents Neil Simon's play.
Venue: Beckett Theatre
Starts March 13
Gatz: Elevator Repair Service presents a lengthy stage version of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Venue: Public Theater
Starts March 14
No Place to Go: The company where he's worked for the past 10 years is moving to another planet, and playwright Ethan Lipton doesn't want to go.
Venue: Public Theater
Starts March 14
4000 Miles: A play by Amy Herzog about a young man who takes solace after the death of a friend with his grandmother.
Venue: Mitzi Newhouse Theater
Starts March 15
Dime Heroes: A family drama by Eric Kingrea about ethics, parenthood, and comic books heroes.
Venue: Under St. Marks
Starts March 15
Ghost The Musical: A new musical based on the popular film.
Venue: Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Starts March 15
My Life with Men... and Other Animals: Acclaimed Italian performer Maria Cassi makes her American debut in this semi-autobiographical solo show.
Venue: 45th Street Theatre
Starts March 15
Newsies: A new musical based on the live-action Disney feature film musical.
Venue: Nederlander Theatre
Starts March 15
Parts of Parts & Stitches: The world premiere of Riti Sachdeva's play about the partition of India.
Venue: The Theater at the 14th Street Y, 344 East 14th
Starts March 15
Sordid Lives: When Peggy, a good Christian woman, hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death (after tripping over her married lover's wooden legs), chaos erupts in Winters, Texas.
Venue: Steve & Marie Sgouros Theatre
Starts March 15
Tripartite Time: Each instant of Time contains past, present, future. These three one act plays, diverse in kind, reveal that condition.
Venue: Bridge Theatre at Shetler Studios
Starts March 15
Lucky Duck: A satirical makeover of Hans Christian Andersen's
The Ugly Duckling.
Venue: New Victory Theatre
Starts March 16
My Occasion of Sin: This is the world premiere of a play inspired by true events that led to 1969 race riot in the author’s birthplace of Omaha, Nebraska.
Venue: Urban Stages
Starts March 16
The Angel Play: The world premiere of Bella Poynton's story of God’s most trusted messenger.
Venue: Looking Glass Theatre
Starts March 16
Vivien Leigh: The Last Press Conference: Marcy Lafferty's play about motion picture star Vivien Leigh.
Venue: Alexander Technique Center for Performance and Development, 330 West 38th Street, Suite 805
Starts March 16
A Raisin in the Sun: Lorraine Hansberry's play revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family.
Venue: Gallery Players
Starts March 17
The Taming of the Shrew: Theatre for a New Audience presents Shakespeare's comedy.
Venue: Duke on 42nd Street
Starts March 17
End of the Rainbow: Tracie Bennett stars as Judy Garland in this new play with music.
Venue: Belasco Theatre
Starts March 19
‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore: UK theater company Cheek by Jowl returns to BAM with a new production of John Ford's Jacobean drama.
Venue: BAM Harvey Theatre
Starts March 20
L'il Abner: A concert-style staging of the 1956 musical comedy, based on Al Capp's famous comic strip.
Venue: Lion Theatre
Starts March 20
Part Time Prostitute: This new show by a working hooker examines the ins and outs of sex work, challenges popular myths and misconceptions of the industry.
Venue: The Red Room
Starts March 20
The Morini Strad: A new play by Willy Holtzman inspired by the true New York story of concert violinist Erica Morini and her legendary Stradivarius violin.
Venue: 59E59
Starts March 20
Magic/Bird: The story of legendary Hall of Fame athletes and personalities Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson and Larry Bird.
Venue: Longacre Theatre
Starts March 21
New York City Improv Festival: Over the past fifteen years the improv community in New York City has grown from humble beginnings to one of the premiere cities for improvisation and sketch comedy. With three long-form improv theaters boasting some of the best improvisers and sketch performers in the country, our local improv community offers a uniquely diverse and exciting comedy scene featuring a wide variety of comedic styles and philosophies. To showcase this, the New York City Improv Festival was created. It will be a festival that not only celebrates this
diversity of talent but also fosters a link between improvisers in New York City with improvisers from all over the world, as well as members of the entertainment industry at large.
Venue: Peoples Improv Theatre
Starts March 21
Agamemnon: The second installment of Glyn Maxwell's three-play
House of Atreus cycle.
Venue: Wild Project
Starts March 22
hotINK: Readings of dramatic works by ten playwrights from outside the United States. Each day includes staged readings during the afternoon and evening, featuring the work of distinguished New York actors and directors, and followed by meet-the-writers events. The 2012 playwrights hail from Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Scotland, and Singapore.
Venue: Lark Studio
Starts March 22
Satan’s Whore, Victoria Woodhull: Richard Geha's post-Civil War, period drama about the sexual liberationist Victoria Woodhul.
Venue: Theater for the New City
Starts March 22
The Neverending Story: Roseneath Theatre presents the story of a shy boy who is tormented by school bullies and finds solace in a mysterious book.
Venue: Skirball Center
Starts March 22
The Underbelly Diaries: This one-man play by Aaron Berg details his life as a steroid-addicted bodybuilder, a male stripper and a stud for hire for men and women.
Venue: Theatre Row Studio
Starts March 22
Clybourne Park: Bruce Norris's Pulitzer Prize play about what happens to the house purchased by the family in
A Raisin in the Sun decades later comes to Broadway.
Venue: Walter Kerr Theatre
Starts March 23
Man on the Street: In this one-act play by Gerry Holland, 2 homeless men struggle to save their bookselling turf after five years at the same location.
Venue: New Media Repertory Theatre, 512 East 80th St.
Starts March 23
The Soap Myth: The horrific possibility that the Nazis turned Jews into soap is the catalyst for this play by Jeff Cohen.
Venue: Black Box Theatre
Starts March 23
A Midsummer Night's Dream: A new production of Shakespeare's comedy, directed by Tony Speciale.
Venue: Classic Stage
Starts March 28
Children of the Future Age: In this new play with music, three runaways compete to usher the second coming of the poet William Blake through vision and songs.
Venue: Theaterlab
Starts March 28
Peter and the Starcatcher: This new play by Rick Elice is a "prequel" to the story of Peter Pan.
Venue: Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Starts March 28
Pipe Dream: Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical based on John Steinbeck's novel
Sweet Thursday.
Venue: City Center
Starts March 28
Nice Work If You Can Get It: A new musical comedy with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin.
Venue: Imperial Theatre
Starts March 29
Ahhh HA!: The New Victory presents this physical show.
Venue: New Victory Theatre
Starts March 30
Don't Dress for Dinner: Marc Camoletti's sequel to the Broadway show
Boeing-Boeing.
Venue: American Airlines Theatre
Starts March 30
Judith of Bethulia: Charles Busch's outrageous and bawdy new comedy.
Venue: Theater for the New City
Starts March 30
MacHomer: Actor Rick Miller performs
Macbeth with more than 50 impersonations of characters from the animated show,
The Simpsons.
Venue: Skirball Center
Starts March 30
April 2012
A Streetcar Named Desire: Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Wood Harris star in this multi-racial production of Tennessee Williams's classic.
Venue: Broadhurst Theatre
Starts April 3
Leap of Faith: A new musical based on the film about a traveling preacher who gets stranded in a small Kansas town.
Venue: St. James Theatre
Starts April 3
Massacre (Sing to the Children): José Rivera's play about seven friends who conspire to murder their mysterious neighbor.
Venue: Rattlestick Theatre
Starts April 3
The Columnist: A new play by David Auburn about prominent mid-20th century columnist Joseph Alsop.
Venue: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Starts April 3
A Slow Air: David Harrower's play examines the impact of the 2007 Glasgow Airport attacks through the eyes of a family who live in the village where the attacks were planned.
Venue: 59E59
Starts April 4
Being Shakespeare: Jonathan Bate's show weaves together excerpts, odes, soliloquies, and poetry to present a portrait of the Bard.
Venue: BAM Harvey Theatre
Starts April 4
Bigger Than Jesus: Rick Miller's one-man, multimedia performance following the structure of a Catholic mass.
Venue: Skirball Center
Starts April 4
Federer Versus Murray: The US premiere of Gerda Stevenson's dark comedy about bereavement and war.
Venue: 59E59
Starts April 4
In Masks Outrageous and Austere: A never-before-produced play by Tennessee Williams, written in the 1980s.
Venue: Culture Project at 45 Bleecker
Starts April 5
One Man, Two Guvnors: The National Theatre of Great Britain presents this comedy based on Carlo Goldoni’s
The Servant of Two Masters.
Venue: Music Box Theatre
Starts April 6
The Last Five Years: Jason Robert Brown's autobiographical love story of a five-year relationship.
Venue: Crossroads Theatre
Starts April 12
Sitting Pretty: A concert-style staging of the musical by Jerome Kern, P.G. Wodehouse, and Guy Bolton.
Venue: Lion Theatre
Starts April 17
Three Sisters: Lev Dodin directs Chekhov's classic.
Venue: BAM Harvey Theatre
Starts April 18
Festen (The Celebration): The stage adaptation of a film about a family gathers to celebrate the 60th birthday of the family partriarch.
Venue: St. Ann's Warehouse
Starts April 20
The Book of Everything: The New Victory presents this show about finding your own voice, struggling with big ideas and facing fears.
Venue: New Victory Theatre
Starts April 20
The Dragon Child: This performance by the China Children’s Art Theater blends traditional Chinese art, music and culture with contemporary puppetry, theater and animation.
Venue: Skirball Center
Starts April 20
Plop!: The New Victory presents this participatory play for young children.
Venue: Studio 3A/B, New 42nd Street Studios, 229 West 42nd Street
Starts April 26
Up To You: TADA! presents the world premiere of this new musical about a school in 1977.
Venue: TADA! Youth Theater
Starts April 27
Wonderful Town: Gallery Players presents this musical about the adventures and misadventures of two sisters who move from small-town Ohio to the bohemia of 1935 Greenwich Village.
Venue: Gallery Players
Starts April 28
May 2012
My Children! My Africa!: Athol Fugard's play about a country on the brink of revolution.
Venue: Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street
Starts May 1
Something for the Boys: A concert-style staging of the 1943 musical comedy about three siblings involved, in various ways, in the World War II effort.
Venue: Lion Theatre
Starts May 1
The Dance of Death: Phoenix Theatre Ensemble presents a staged reading of August Strindberg's play.
Venue: Wild Project
Starts May 1
The Caretaker: Jonathan Pryce stars in Harold Pinter's play.
Venue: BAM Harvey Theatre
Starts May 3
8cho: The New Victory presents this children's dance piece.
Venue: New Victory Theatre
Starts May 4
Title and Deed: The U.S. premiere of Will Eno's play about a nameless traveler.
Venue: Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street
Starts May 8
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: This musical follows the madcap adventures of the original "dumb blonde," Lorelei Lee, as she sets sail for Europe with her best friend.
Venue: City Center
Starts May 9
Jack's Back: T. Schreiber Studio's presents this new musical comedy about Jack the Ripper.
Venue: Gloria Maddox Theater
Starts May 10
Harvey: A revival of Mary Chase's fantasy about a man and his best friend, an invisible 6-foot-tall rabbit.
Venue: Studio 54
Starts May 18
35 Years of DanceAfrica: BAM celebrates the 35th anniversary of DanceAfrica — a Memorial Day weekend tradition of dance, music, art, film, and community events.
Venue: BAM Opera House
Starts May 20
Love Goes To Press: A 1947 comedy about women war correspondents.
Venue: Mint Theater
Starts May 26
Once on This Island: A revival of the musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, set on a stormy night on an island in the Caribbean.
Venue: Paper Mill Playhouse
Starts May 30
June 2012
Wear it like a crown: BAM presents this production by Swedish troupe Cirkus Cirkör.
Venue: BAM Opera House
Starts June 1
3C: David Adjmi’s play about a Vietnam vet.
Venue: Rattlestick Theatre
Starts June 6
July 2012
Nymph Errant: A new adaptation of Cole Porter's musical.
Venue:
Starts July 7
Everything About School (Almost): TADA! presents this musical following 8 kids from elementary school through high school graduation.
Venue: TADA! Youth Theater
Starts July 12
August 2012
New York International Fringe Festival: The 16th annual edition of North America's largest multi-arts festival, featuring plays, solo work, musicals, comedy, dance, and performance from all over the world, at about 20 venues in downtown Manhattan.
Venue: Various venues in downtown Manhattan
Starts August 10
The Train Driver: The New York premiere of Athol Fugard's play.
Venue: Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street
Starts August 14
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