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Cowboy Mouth

  7/18/2008 - 8/30/2008  •  Tickets: $25  •  45th Street Theatre

Michael Chekhov Theatre Company presents a revival of Sam Shepard's early play.     more...
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It's the Economy Stupid!, or The Turning Point

  8/2/2008 - 9/14/2008  •  Tickets: FREE

The annual street theater protest musical by Crystal Field; performed at venues in all five boroughs for free.     more...
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Twelve Ophelias (a play with broken songs)

  7/10/2008 - 8/22/2008  •  Tickets: FREE

A site-responsive produciton of the play by Caridad Svich, at McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn; admission is free.     more...
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Comic Book Club

  12/5/2006 -   •  Tickets: $5  •  Peoples Improv Theatre

A weekly comic book talk show featuring NYC comedians talking shop with industry professionals from all corners of the comic book world.     more...
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Radiotheatre's Summer Fright Fest

  6/3/2008 -   •  Tickets: $20  •  Players Theatre

Radiotheatre presents aural stage play versions of King Kong and The Island of Dr. Moreau. Tuesday nights.     more...
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HOT!

  6/16/2008 - 8/30/2008  •  Dixon Place

The 17th annual celebration of Queer Culture, featuring theatre, dance, literature, and homoeroticism for the whole family.     more...
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Noon Day Sun

  8/14/2008 - 8/30/2008  •  Tickets: $18  •  Beckett Theatre

A new play by Cassandra Medley about a negro-identified woman who is passing for white. Presented by Diverse City Theater Company.     more...
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Lake

  8/21/2008 - 8/24/2008  •  Tickets: $12  •  Zipper Factory

Three Sciences Productions presents this theatre piece that combines text, original choreography, and multimedia installation the explore the ever-evolving ways and reasons we go about documentation.     more...
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Conversations with Barthelme

  8/8/2008 - 8/23/2008  •  Tickets: $20  •  Center for Remembering and Sharing

An evening of dance, theatre, and film adaptations of the short stories of Donald Barthelme.     more...
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Twelfth Night

  8/7/2008 - 8/24/2008  •  Tickets: FREE

Pulse Ensemble Theatre presents a free outdoor production of Shakespeare's comedy, set in contemporary NYC; at Riverbank State Park in Harlem.     more...
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Cat and the Moon

  7/31/2008 - 8/29/2008  •  Tickets: $18  •  13th Street Repertory

A revival of Tom O'Neil's comedy, which is based on a short play by William Butler Yeats.     more...
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Pericles

  8/7/2008 - 8/31/2008  •  Tickets: FREE

Hudson Warehouse presents a free outdoor revival of Shakespeare's play. Performances are at the North Patio of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Riverside Park.     more...
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Everything Must Go (Invisible Republic #2)

  8/6/2008 - 8/23/2008  •  Tickets: $15  •  Brick Theatre

A play about a day in the life of an advertising agency, in dance and fragmented businesspeak. Created and directed by Ian W. Hill.     more...
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A Brush with Georgia O'Keeffe

  6/14/2008 -   •  Tickets: $31.50 - $56.50  •  St. Luke's Theatre

A new play by Natalie Mosco about the life of the famous American painter.     more...
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A Day In Dig Nation

  8/13/2008 - 8/23/2008  •  Tickets: $20  •  P.S. 122

A one-man show about a man so consumed by technology that he forgets how to communicate with actual people.     more...
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National Pastime

  8/21/2008 - 8/24/2008  •  Tickets: $15  •  Algonquin Theater

A play by Tony Sportiello about a small 1930s radio station which cannot compete for the rights to broadcast a real baseball team's games, so it creates its own team.     more...
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Victory at the Dirt Palace

  8/20/2008 - 8/23/2008  •  Tickets: $15  •  Ohio Theatre

A new play written and directed by Adriano Shaplin about a rivalry between father-and-daughter news anchors. This is part of Ice Factory 2008.     more...

The Taming of the Shrew

  8/21/2008 - 8/31/2008  •  Tickets: $18  •  Gene Frankel Theatre

EndTimes Productions presents a revival of Shakespeare's rowdy romantic comedy.     more...
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Arias with a Twist

  6/12/2008 - 12/31/2008  •  Tickets: $35 - $50  •  HERE Arts Center

A collaboration between drag diva Joey Arias and puppeteer Basil Twist to celebrate the reopening of HERE.     more...
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Meat

  8/21/2008 - 9/6/2008  •  Tickets: $12 - $15  •  Dixon Place

A new performance work by Jack Ferver that explores America's over-saturation with sex and the impossible standards it demands. This is part of the HOT! Festival.     more...
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Hamlet

  8/7/2008 - 8/31/2008  •  Tickets: FREE

A free outdoor production of the classic play by William Shakespeare, presented by Gorilla Rep. At the Cloisters Lawn in Fort Tryon Park.     more...
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Kerouac

  7/31/2008 - 8/31/2008  •  Tickets: $20  •  13th Street Repertory

A revival of Tom O'Neil's play about the life and work of the famous beat writer.     more...

Suspicious Package

  8/2/2008 -   •  Tickets: $20  •  Brick Theatre

An interactive "iPod noir" in which audience members play a character in a mystery that unfolds around them in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.     more...
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Summer Shorts & Other Literary Briefs

  8/2/2008 - 8/20/2008  •  Tickets: FREE

Xoregos Performing Company presents a program of three one-acts, including the stage premiere of a play by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Performances are free at various libraries and parks in Manhattan.     more...
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Misalliance

  7/31/2008 - 8/24/2008  •  Tickets: FREE

A free outdoor production of Bernard Shaw's play, presented by New York Classical Theatre.     more...
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Maritess Queen of Magic

  7/7/2008 - 8/22/2008  •  Tickets: $26 at door  •  Gene Frankel Theatre

A program of magic by Maritess Zurbano and dance by DynamiQ Faction.     more...
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Alphabet City V

  8/13/2008 - 8/24/2008  •  Tickets: $15  •  Metropolitan Playhouse

Short solo performances based on interviews with residents of the Lower East Side.     more...
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House Sketch Teams at the PIT

  7/10/2008 - 9/25/2008  •  Tickets: $8  •  Peoples Improv Theatre

New sketch comedy from two different house teams, each performing alternate weeks.     more...
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Spell

  8/1/2008 - 8/24/2008  •  Tickets: $15  •  Brick Theatre

A new play written and directed by Ian W. Hill about a woman who has committed a horrible terrorist act in the name of patriotism.     more...
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What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends

  7/19/2008 - 8/23/2008  •  Tickets: $25  •  Lion Theatre

A new "anti-social comedy" by Larry Kunofsky about a guy who hates all his friends. Presented by Four Chairs Theatre.     more...
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One Nation Under

  8/21/2008 - 9/13/2008  •  Tickets: $18  •  Theatre 54 @ Shetler

A play by Andrea Lepcio, described as an "explosive modern political tragedy." Presented by Three Chicks Theatre.     more...

Line

  2/1/1976 -   •  Tickets: $18  •  13th Street Repertory

Israel Horovitz's one-act dark comedy about a group of people who are waiting on line, though they don't know for what. Now in its 32nd year.     more...
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Fire! New Play Festival

  8/6/2008 - 8/21/2008  •  Tickets: FREE

New plays by Sharon Bridgforth, Harrison Rivers, and Aurin Squire, each featuring a protagonist who is black and lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.     more...
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Sporknotes

  7/27/2008 - 11/23/2008  •  Tickets: $12  •  Under St. Marks

A comic improv show where the cast improvises the "plot" of a famous literary work.     more...
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Harry in Love: A Manic Vaudeville

  7/31/2008 - 8/24/2008  •  Tickets: $15  •  Brick Theatre

A revival of Richard Foreman's comedy from 1966, directed by Ian W. Hill     more...
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The Dinner Table

  8/9/2008 - 8/30/2008  •  Peoples Improv Theatre

A new sketch comedy show by Secret Hospital, with all material based around the concept of the dinner table.     more...
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[WHAT WE SHOULD JUDGE WHEN WE JUDGE...]?

  8/20/2008 - 8/23/2008  •  Tickets: $15  •  Ontological Theatre

A solo performance by Jake Hooker that takes the form of a lecture on poetry and art that goes somewhat awry; this is part of the Ontological's Summer Series.     more...
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Last Tango in Paris

  8/22/2008 - 9/6/2008  •  Tickets: $15

A new multimedia adaptation of Bernardo Bertolucci's famous film, created by Doris Mirescu. At Paradise Factory.     more...
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Much Ado About Nothing

  8/16/2008 - 9/28/2008  •  Tickets: FREE

Curious Frog Theatre Company presents a free outdoor production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, at various parks throughout the city.     more...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

  8/14/2008 - 8/30/2008  •  Tickets: $20  •  Under St. Marks

A revival of the popular parody, in which three actors attempt to perform all of the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare in less than 2 hours. Presented by No Jacket Required.     more...
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Summer and Smoke

  8/20/2008 - 8/31/2008  •  Tickets: $18  •  Clurman Theatre

A revival of Tennessee Williams's play, presented by Big Sky Theater Company .     more...
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Tambourines to Glory

  8/1/2008 - 9/14/2008  •  Tickets: $10

Harlem Repertory Theatre presents a revival of Langston Hughes's tragicomedy about two women who start a gospel church in Harlem.     more...
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Elizabeth Rex

  8/13/2008 - 9/6/2008  •  Tickets: $50  •  Center Stage

A play by Canadian author Timothy Findley about the relationship between Elizabeth I of England and the Earl of Essex. This production from Nicu's Spoon was seen earlier this year in an off-off-Broadway mounting.     more...
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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

  1/20/2006 -   •  Tickets: $10  •  Kraine Theatre

A program of 30 plays in 60 minutes, presented by the Neo-Futurists.     more...
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BINGE Olympiad

  8/15/2008 - 8/23/2008  •  Tickets: $5  •  Wings Theater

Working Man's Clothes Productions presents a late-night program of new short plays and other kinds of theatre.     more...
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All the Rage

  7/30/2008 - 8/23/2008  •  Tickets: $18  •  Manhattan Theatre Source

The New York premiere of Keith Reddin's revenge tragedy that starts when a man shoots a burglar.     more...
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Veni Vidi Vici

  8/17/2008 - 8/19/2008  •  Tickets: $10  •  Access Theatre

A Clown theatre piece written and performed by Deborah Kaufmann about a sprite who gets trapped inside a chalk outline.     more...
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Cake and Plays But Without the Cake

  8/6/2008 - 8/24/2008  •  Tickets: $20  •  Gene Frankel Theatre

A night of plays by Jono Hustis, presented by At Hand Theatre Company.     more...
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