All the Indifferent Children of the Earth: A new play by Eric Bland.
Closes March 3. More Info...
An Arab in My Mirror: The American premiere of a play by Riad Gahmi and Philippe Vincent that paints an intimate picture of the many different aspects of terrorism and the relationships formed between historic events.
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An Evening of Awkward Romance: An offbeat comedy by Wendy Herlich about a collection of oddball characters on their quest to find love.
Closes February 28. More Info...
Anatol: Arthur Schnitzler's play following the amorous adventures of a charming bourgeois playboy.
Closes February 26. More Info...
Angelina Ballerina the Musical: A return engagement of the musical based on the famous dancing mouseling and her friends created by Katharine Holabird and illustrated by Helen Craig.
Closes April 22. More Info...Read the review by Matt Roberson
Artificial Afrika - A Tale of Lost Cities: This multi-discipline piece explores the Dark Continent, merging world music, hip hop, film and visual art.
Closes February 25. More Info...
Bad Kid: David Crabb's solo show based on the true story of a Texas teen who navigates his outcast adolescence in a goth-obsessed, drug-fueled haze.
Closes March 10. More Info...
Bait n' Swish: Bait n' Swish are two plays by award-winning playwright David Sisco that chronicle the story of Justin and Charlie who navigate their way through a series of hilarious situations that force them to realize what they really mean to each other.
More Info...Read the review by Martin Denton
Call Me Waldo: A new play by Rob Ackerman about what happens when an ordinary electrician begins channeling the
spirit of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
In previews; opens on February 22. More Info...
Chicago City Limits on Ice: A new improv comedy revue from the long-running troupe.
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Cinderella: A New Version of The Oldest Story Ever Told: Circle in the Square Theatre School’s classic re-telling of
Cinderella as seen through interwoven short stories and tales from China, India and Africa
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CrAzYToWn: Therapist/performer Jude Treder-Wolff's solo show.
Closes February 25. More Info...
Created Equal: An evening of short plays addressing the meaning of equality within the landscape of the 2012 election.
Closes February 12. More Info...
DC-7, The Roberto Clemente Story: A new musical celebrating the life of the legendary Puerto Rican baseball player, Roberto Clemente.
Closes April 8. More Info...
Dick & Gina: British therapist Jo Wharmby's comedy about sex.
Closes February 25. More Info...
Dog Park: A new comedy by Maura Kelley about an Upper West Side dog park that is being closed due to an evil real estate tycoon’s commercialization project.
Closes February 12. More Info...
Echoes: N. Richard Nash's play about a young man and woman who build a paradise of happiness within an asylum, only to have it shattered by the intrusion of the outside world.
Performances are this week only. More Info...
Erosion: A Fable: Loom Ensemble uses music, dance, and theater to tell a story of corporate competition, environmental catastrophe and personal transformation.
Closes February 26. More Info...
Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din: This new play draws from intimate, real-life interviews with United States veterans set against a vivid collage of physical movement culled from classic American war films.
More Info...Read the review by Ivanna Cullinan
Grapefruit: Sally Lambert began plotting her escape to New York where she met her man, fell in love with his brother, was diagnosed with cancer, told she must wait until her health insurance kicked in before she could be treated, waited for that to happen, was then informed it was too late to be saved, wrote this play about the experience of being alive on this earth and then succumbed to the cancer.
Closes March 19. More Info...Read the review by Martin Denton
Growing Up Gonzales: In this comedy by Felix Rojas, a Puerto Rican Nuyorican, who thinks he's Jamaican, who spends most of his time in The Dominican Republic, smoking Cubans, drinking Margaritas, and listening to Lady Gaga, takes the stage and crafts a masterful web of truths disguised by lies disguised by truths.
Closes February 25. More Info...
Hamlet: Shakespeare's famous play in a traditional staging, directed by James Jennings.
Closes February 12. More Info...
Henry V: TITAN Theatre Company presents Shakespeare's play.
Closes February 18. More Info...
I Killed My Mother: The world premier of Karin Conrood's play based on the true story of a Romanian orphan.
Closes March 4. More Info...
Lost on the Natchez Trace: Abingdon Theatre Company presents this play about the meeting of a slave auctioneer and a runaway slave.
Closes February 26. More Info...
Mother Tongue: Jillian Lauren's autobiographical performance piece about adoption and identity.
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My Tawny Valentine: David Drake stars as Tawny Heatherton, a lovably eccentric showbiz survivor and “one hit wonder” of the disco zeitgeist of the early 1980s.
Closes March 2. More Info...
ObJects: A dark science fiction play by Ian W. Hill, set in America about 50 years in the future.
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On the Way to Timbuktu: Actress and director Petronia Paley once again reprises her award winning performance as Dr. Selene Slater-Bernaud, a woman in crisis looking into the dark.
Closes February 12. More Info...
Perfect Catch: A Throwmantic Comedy: Canal Park Playhouse presents this comedy that uses the art of juggling to tell the story of an office romance.
Closes February 12. More Info...
Poetic License: The NYC premiere of a play by Jack Canfora about a successful poet whose daughter uncovers some long-hidden secrets that could jeopardize his career.
In previews; opens on February 15. More Info...
Professor Bernhardi: A rarely seen play by Arthur Schnitzler about a Jewish doctor trying to shield his dying patient and a priest who wants to perform last rites.
Closes February 26. More Info...
Rope: Two snooty undergraduate killers hold a dinner party around a chest containing the body of a classmate they have murdered in Patrick Hamilton's 1929 thriller, loosely inspired by Leopold and Loeb.
Closes February 13. More Info...
Rumpelstiltskin: A cast of professional children this new musical adaptation of the beloved fairy tale.
Closes March 4. More Info...
Sally and Tom (The American Way): A revival of the musical by Fred Newman and Annie Roboff about the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemmings.
Closes March 25. More Info...
Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War: A revival of the acclaimed theatre piece by The Mad Ones, which is described as
War of the Worlds meets
Prairie Home Companion.
Closes February 18. More Info...
Spark: Mythology and city life collide to explore issues of love and sex in Angela Santillo's play.
Closes February 25. More Info...
Speak Up Connie: Cindy Cheung's comedy about getting a word in edgewise.
Closes February 15. More Info...
Ted Greenberg's The Complete Performer: Emmy-winning former David Letterman writer Ted Greenberg performs one hour of boisterous, interactive comedy that ends with one audience group being whisked home in a yellow cab by Greenberg himself, who is a licensed NYC cab driver.
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The Adventures of Fishy Waters: In Bed with the Blues: Storyteller and blues singer/guitar player Guy Davis performs his original one-man show.
Closes February 26. More Info...
The Aeneid: A workshop production of Olivier Kemeid's new play which transports Aeneas’s search for a homeland into the modern world of middle-eastern revolution.
Closes February 12. More Info...
The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G: The Unrated Version: In this Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company show, Agent G returns to Vietnam 10 years after his family and friends are viciously slain there.
In previews; opens on February 14. More Info...
The Most Happy Fella: Frank Loesser's musical about the love triangle between an older wine maker, a young waitress and a handsome foreman.
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The Navigator: A play by Eddie Antar about a man whose GPS starts to give him life advice.
Closes March 3. More Info...
The Odd Couple: Christopher Romero Wilson direct Neil Simon's classic comedy.
Closes February 26. More Info...
The Rub: A site-specific original work, conceived and directed by Nessa Norich.
Closes February 12. More Info...
The Thing about Dan: Sari Caine Glickstein's warped and wistful play about two men, Paul and Zip, that are running as fast as they can away from reality.
Closes February 18. More Info...
The Threepenny Opera: A revival of the famous Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill musical.
Closes February 29. More Info...
The Thrill of the Chase: A new play by British author Philip Gawthorne, described as a brutal, uncompromising, and darkly comic exploration of masculinity and sexual politics.
In previews; opens on February 19. More Info...
The Time of Your Life: A revival of William Saroyan's fine play about the denizens of a saloon in California.
Closes February 25. More Info...
The Total Bent: Stew and Heidi Rodewald's new musical about a black gospel prodigy from down South and a white music producer from South London who meet in a recording studio.
Closes March 4. More Info...
The Ugly One: The New York premiere of Marius von Mayenburg’s darkly comic play about a man who discovers that he is unspeakably ugly.
Closes February 26. More Info...
The Vanishing Play: This new theatre piece features Woof Nova’s signature mystery noir-adventure style as they delve into an intellectual and aesthetic exploration of Freud’s
Mourning and Melancholia.
Closes February 26. More Info...
The Wild Finish: In this one–woman travelogue, Monica Hunken embarks on a bicycle journey across the vodka-soaked roads of Poland in search of Leonidas Dudarew Ossetynski, her grandfather.
More Info...Read the review by Richard Hinojosa
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: A program of 30 plays in 60 minutes, presented by the Neo-Futurists.
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Unreachable Eden: A historical musical drama by Barbara Kahn about the life of Polish Jewish lesbian Eve Adams, who ran a tearoom on Macdougal Street in 1926.
Closes February 26. More Info...
VCR Love: A new solo show by David Lawson that uses stories both personal and universal to explore, lampoon, question and celebrate the last 25 years in porn.
Performances are this week only. More Info...
Where's My Money?: A revival of John Patrick Shanley's play about marriage, presented by Animus Theatre Company.
Closes February 12. More Info...
Who Loves You Baby?: This comic lounge act celebrates the romantic musings of '70s icon Telly Savalas, who has returned from the grave.
Closes April 15. More Info...
Woyzeck: Stasz/Pruitt Productions presents a new production of Buchner's famous play.
Closes February 12. More Info...
You, My Mother: A chamber opera project in two parts, described as an elusive investigation into the ever-shifting relationships between mothers and their adult children.
Closes February 20. More Info...
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