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Scene from KITSCHTRAV S.D. TIMES TWO

Kitsch, or Two for the Price of One is Trav S.D.'s new comedy about four sets of twins separated at birth and brought up on alternate sides of the Berlin Wall. It's inspired by The Comedy of Errors. Read Martin Denton's review.

In the photo are Trav S.D., Roger Nasser, Pete Macnamara, and Josh Mertz in a scene from Kitsch.

INDIE THEATER NOW! HOLIDAY PREVIEW: The ubiquitous Trav S.D. hosts our annual audio look at the holiday season on our latest nytheatrecast episode. He welcomes guests from Seven in One Blow, In Fields Where They Lay, Santa Claus is Coming Out, and Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge. Listen now!


PETER AND THE WOLF

The New Victory Theatre is presenting a new production of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, featuring a new prologue and narration by Brian Blessed. Read Rohana Elias-Reyes's review of this movement-based show for kids and families.

BEING, AND BECOMING, A JEW

Two new solo plays explore—in very different ways—the question of what it means to be Jewish. Theodore Bikel's Sholem Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears looks back at the heyday of Yiddish literature and theatre, while Yisrael Campbell's Circumcise Me is a humorous look at one man's conversion from Catholicism to Judaism.

EXCITING NEW PLAYWRITING VOICES

The Public Theater is presenting The Brother/Sister Plays, a trilogy by 29-year-old playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney. Distinguished international playwright Saviana Stanescu reviews the work for nytheatre.com....And New York Innovative Theatre Award-winnning playwright Bekah Brunstetter has a new piece at the Sanford Meisner Theatre called Mine. Read David Gordon's review.

NEW IN NYTHEATRE VOICES

Meet Chisa Hutchinson, author of the forthcoming new play She Like Girls. Chisa's interview, now posted in nytheatre voices, is a fascinating introduction to this young playwright's work. Read the interview.

CYRANO

The Queens Players are currently presenting Rostand's famous romance Cyrano de Bergerac at their brand new venue in Long Island City. Read Sophia Bushong's delightful review. Cyrano tells the story, as you probably know, of a soldier and poet with an oversized nose who falls in love with a beautiful young woman but fears his looks will keep her from loving him.

WHERE'S THE SNOW?

Holiday fare is already popping up all around NYC. At the WAMU Theatre at Madison Square Garden, Cirque du Soleil's Wintuk has returned once more. This spectacle of acrobatics, clowns, and aerialists is wrapped around a tale of a boy searching for a magical land of snow. Read Jason Grossman's review.

THE VERGE

Performance Lab 115 presents a rare revival of Susan Glaspell's 1921 play. It's about a botanist trying to create new forms of life. Our reviewer Fred Backus calls this production bold and disturbingly unique. Read Fred's rave review.

THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN

The Actors Company Theatre is presenting a rare revival of Sidney Howard's 1932 comedy, which is about a middle class family who suddenly find themselves pursued by art critics and collectors because they own paintings by a now-deceased and very fashionable artist. Read Kimberly Wadsworth's review.

THEATRE FOR THE ADVENTUROUS

Take a look at some of the best in unusual, inventive, out-of-the-ordinary, under-the-radar indie theater on INDIETHEATER.ORG. Currently featured: The Lily's Revenge and Brecht on Brecht.