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A.F.R.A.I.D
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SoHo Playhouse
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August 12-August 25
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Musical
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Be brave! Visit Dr. Delusion's Home for Disagreeable Women. Join in the weekly meeting of American Females for Righteousness Abasement Ignorance & Docility. Delight in its disruption by Women's Righters, Abolitionists, Suffragists, Spinsters, Fallen Doves, Lunatics, and Fanny Fern. Music by Susan Stoderl based on text by Fanny Fern. Tickets and info »
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Amerika
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Mazer Theatre
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August 12-August 25
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Redux Productions
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Farce
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A farcical journey through the mind of Franz Kafka as he finds himself trapped in the world of his novel, Amerika. Tired of his suffocating life in Prague with an overbearing father, sadistic coworkers, and a con artist named Zoltan, Kafka decides to start a new novel, but finds himself in over his head when he wakes up in the novel itself. Tickets and info »
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Arias For The Mundane
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The Flea Theater
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August 14-August 21
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Parenthetically Speaking Productions
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Opera
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Jon unknowingly lives a humdrum nine-to-five lifestyle. His life is regulated by his coffeemaker, which becomes his morning rooster and his nightly prayer. The arias dramatize how meaningless his existence is until one day a random glimmer of a different life appears. We all have the freewill to pursue our own dreams, but will Jon realize his opportunity when it's sitting right in his mailbox? Tickets and info »
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Beautiful
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Village Theater
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August 20-August 27
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JEM Productions
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Musical
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Don't miss David Anders (TV's Alias) and Rodney Hicks (Rent original cast) in the world premiere of the new rock musical Beautiful. Dark and edgy, Beautiful explores themes of image and celebrity, insecurity and jealousy, identity and friendship, infatuation and love through the story of a man held captive by his personal search for beauty. Pop/rock score influenced by the music of Billy Joel, the Beatles, and Ben Folds! Tickets and info »
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Beware of Dog
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P.S. 122
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August 12-August 26
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Turkar Coker / New York Ensemble Theatre
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Play
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A mysterious dog interrupts a marriage proposal, while a set of strange events and surreal characters further deepen the mystery. This absurd play examines the superficiality of human relations while exposing their inherent irony and comedy. Tickets and info »
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Beyond
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Connelly Theater
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August 12-August 21
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Fredrick Byers Productions
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Opera
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A Little Night Opera. Quirky. Lyrical. Metaphysical. A soprano hovers between life and death. Two angels guide her in the Beyond, acting as her husband, son, lover, therapist, plastic surgeon ... from the creator of '04's 9/11 -- The Book of Job ("Powerful. Haunting melodies" -- Backstage / "Promises musical beauty and delivers" -- BroadwayWorld.com) , starring Catherine Gayer ("Marvelous" -- Le Monde / "A singing actress in a million" -- Tokyo Times) Tickets and info »
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Bridezilla Strikes Back!
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The Flea Theater
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August 13-August 26
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Solo Performance
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Having agreed under false pretenses to allow a film crew to document her lavish wedding, actress Cynthia Silver became an unwitting traveler in the demoralizing landscape of reality-TV when she became branded "Neurotic Bride #2" on Fox's Bridezillas. Now in her one woman show, the "infectiously funny" (NY Times) Silver strikes back at the world of not-so-real TV, and the equally mercenary bridal industry. Tickets and info »
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Crossing Currents
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Mazer Theatre
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August 13-August 26
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2 Tilt at Windmills
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Drama
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An outspoken man's man...his 'on-fire-to-express-himself' gay teenager... A passionate community about to explode over teen's views ... Father orders his son to stop voicing his opinions 'until the waters calm.' His son refuses and the waves created take the family under. What rises to the surface won't wash away like scribbles in the sand... Tickets and info »
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Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun
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Ace of Clubs
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August 14-August 27
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Drama
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Based on "Hollywood Ten" writer Dalton Trumbo's 1939 novel and adapted for the stage by Bradley Rand Smith, Johnny Got His Gun is the inspiring story of twenty-year-old Joe Bonham, the boy-next-door sent off to war only to return grievously wounded. Cut off from the physical world, Joe has nothing left but his mind, imagination, and memory as he comes to terms with his new existence and the human cost of war. Tickets and info »
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Dark Deceptions: The Seance Experience
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Players Theatre
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August 13-August 24
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Mystery/Thriller
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Todd Robbins returns to the Fringe with Dark Deceptions: The Séance Experience. Tambourines rattle and bells ring as they float through the air, a malevolent poltergeist is exorcised and ghostly apparitions materialize and vanish as Todd creates the spine-chilling illusion that the dead have return to walk among the living. Tickets and info »
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Extraordinary
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Mazer Theatre
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August 12-August 27
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Children/Family
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After meeting his deaf cousin Hope, Lester and his imaginary friend Fred journey through the couch to search for her hearing! Their adventure takes them to "The Land of Quiet," where they discover that differences make you EXTRAORDINARY! Tickets and info »
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A Family of Women
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Access Theater
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August 12-August 16
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Skint Productions
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Drama
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London, 1950. A Mother, a birthday, four daughters and a deep dark secret.
It's Mum's Birthday. Over endless cups of tea, family ties fray and finally snap in this harrowing, deeply emotional and heartbreaking drama set in post War London, 1950. The War may be over, the scars remain. A play about 5 woman in a City recovering from the frays of constant bombings and insecurity. A sentiment which is more pertinent today than it has ever been in the last 60 years. Tickets and info »
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Fluffy Bunnies in a Field Of Daisies
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SoHo Playhouse
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August 13-August 27
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The Subtle Bliss Theater Company
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Comedy
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"SCREAMINGLY FUNNY" - LA Times. "ABSURDLY HILARIOUS"- Daily Variety "THE PERFECT SHOW FOR ANY SEASON: LIGHTWEIGHT, FUNNY, and ADORABLE"- Mu. After two years of sold out houses, the Bunnies are coming to New York! Men, Women, Sex, Dating, Virgins, Whores, Lamp Fetishes, Wild Life, and Jesus Potatoes. (NOT FOR THE KIDDIES... strong language, sexual positioning, overall bad behavior) Trust me. You'll love it. Tickets and info »
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The Friar and The Nurse
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The Players Theatre Loft
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August 13-August 20
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Epic Arts Repertory Theatre
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Drama
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Romeo's Friar and Juliet's Nurse fall into a secret love affair, finding passion isn't only for the young. Sex, celibacy and the Church collide in this award-winning play from Charlotte, NC. Tickets and info »
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Gift
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P.S. 122
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August 18-August 28
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Rising Phoenix Repertory
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Play
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The agoraphobic Sylvie is trying desperately not to celebrate her birthday. A friend shows up with a gift she can't refuse that promises redemption or devastation, and they find themselves in the dark sharing the same space, a few cigarettes, and the possibility of some cake. Tickets and info »
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God's Waiting Room
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P.S. 122
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August 12-August 28
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Performance Lab 115
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Play
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Your plane crashes into the Atlantic. You find yourself in a room with four dead Floridians. Join these four souls in limbo as they obsessively mine their former lives for meaning...until all hell breaks loose. Fulbright-winning playwright and members of New York Observer's "Best Ensemble" take you on a journey to Purgatory for the ride of your after-life. Inspired by Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. Tickets and info »
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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
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Collective: Unconscious
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August 18-August 28
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One Armed Man
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Comedy
Drama
Experimental
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A gunshot fires in Arabia, and a writer becomes an amputee. But nobody believes that his arm is missing, fracturing his entire reality. His only source of safety comes from an old stone wall supervised by a crafty elf, whose job is to tear it down. An oblique commentary on the Mideast conflict, Good Fences examines the effects that terrorism generates beyond the immediate carnage. Tickets and info »
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Half Life
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The Flea Theater
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August 13-August 27
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Play
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The junior high science teacher has served two years in prison. His wife "just wants things the way they were before." But can they be? His daughter has moved out; old friends are hard to find. Half Life looks at one of society's most persistent problems by looking at people who may be our neighbors, taking one of the first-ever looks inside the pedophile's family. Tickets and info »
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Hercules in High Suburbia
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Mazer Theatre
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August 13-August 25
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Musical
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Hercules in High Suburbia, based on Euripides' Heracles, is set in a gated community where wealth and fame are no guarantees against the power of wickedness or the malevolence of chance.
"Funny! Insightful! Intriguingly inventive!... Songs such as 'I've Got A McMansion On The Hill' and 'Because I'm God' are fresh and witty...a perfect fit for the subversive, brainy humor of the text." - Curtain Up Tickets and info »
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Hit
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Collective: Unconscious
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August 12-August 20
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a chick and a dude productions
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Drama
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The story of three hit men -- two living, one dead. The two surviving (and now estranged) arrive one night at the same place to do the same job on the same man... who isn't there. Tickets and info »
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The Information She Carried
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The Robert Moss Theater @ 440 Studios
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August 13-August 27
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Drama
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Conspiracy theorist Sharon North yearns to discover the truth behind the Challenger explosion. Will her plan to steal a baseball with a history as dark as her own finally uncover the facts she's seeking? Written by David L. Williams and directed by Ann Carroll. Tickets and info »
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Jesus in Montana
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Village Theater
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August 13-August 28
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Solo Performance
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A monologue, written and performed by award-winning humorist Barry Smith, Jesus in Montana tells the true story of Barry's surreal journey into the depths of a bizarre religious cult and his desperate quest for God's truth, or something that seems close enough, in the early 1990s. Tickets and info »
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Layla's Sahra
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The Robert Moss Theater @ 440 Studios
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August 14-August 25
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LSR Productions
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Comedy
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Tomorrow Layla is having a big Arabic wedding, but tonight she is freaking out! Layla embarks on a roller-coaster ride of emotions while dodging the well-intended but ridiculous tips offered by her cynical, high-strung, dementia-plagued and club-kid family. Worlds collide when her all-American fiancé endures the traditional haircut, five roasted lambs are misplaced, and grandma belly dances to techno. Tickets and info »
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Magician
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The Flea Theater
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August 12-August 27
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Magic Show
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Hiding bodies is easy if you know a little magic. Throughout history, magic has conventionally been a man's game. But when a woman becomes the MAGICIAN, tricks of the trade merge with mysticism in a truly hypnotic fashion. Award-winning British playwright Katherine Knowles (Loving Ophelia) makes her American debut with this seductive dark comedy of insecurity, intrigue and illusion. Tickets and info »
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Manatee
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Collective: Unconscious
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August 22-August 27
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SeaCow Productions
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Comedy
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By Alex Moggridge, directed by Patrick McNulty
Terrence and Ray aren't certain where they are. Come see this intrepid duo cling to survival in a world of disappearing llamas, suspicious syntax, and a dwindling supply of Hostess snacks. From SeaCow Productions comes a remarkably unremarkable black comedy. Beware: contains swear words and toe-tapping song and dance. Starring Karl Herlinger and Tate Ellington (from last year's award winning FringeNYC hit Dog Sees God). Tickets and info »
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The Miss Education of Jenna Bush
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Village Theater
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August 13-August 26
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Lucky Dawg Productions
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Solo Performance
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Underage drinking citations. Alleged pot smoking. Dancing in a thong. Melissa Rauch (of VH1's "Best Week Ever") stars in this hilarious one-woman show as "Miss" Jenna Bush. The President's rebellious daughter shows there is more to this First Twin than meets the eye, as she prepares for her first day as a public school teacher -rewriting history with a lesson plan you'll never forget. Tickets and info »
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The Monster Under My Bed Drank My Vodka
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Players Theatre
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August 18-August 27
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Puddytat Productions
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Solo Performance
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The Monster Under My Bed Drank My Vodka is a one-woman comedy that will entertain anyone who's ever struggled with their inner demons. Lisa David Dean's comedic romp through addiction has played to sold-out audiences in L.A. since its 2003 debut. It's a bumper-car joyride to adulthood! Tickets and info »
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Pipe Dreams
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Collective: Unconscious
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August 12-August 28
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Solo Performance
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Remember your favorite bedtime story, that kid that picked on you in 3rd grade, your first kiss, going away to college or that time your mom started smoking crack? She does. Come, laugh at her pain. Nicole Blaine's one-woman show chronicles her mother's addiction to crack, her struggle to save her mom's life, raise her little brother and follow her dreams, no matter how impossible. Tickets and info »
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A Play With Myself
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Ace of Clubs
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August 12-August 18
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Coraggio Productions
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Solo Performance
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An education in bad parenting. Dad has daughter under 24/7 surveillance from birth to age 16. Actual film, photos and audio provided. Daughter examines her life and career moves. Useful tips on sex and Santeria provided. One woman show. Written by Marina Lutz and directed by David G. Armstrong. Tickets and info »
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RatFace
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Collective: Unconscious
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August 13-August 27
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Wall St. Productions
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Comedy
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RatFace. An Extremely Serious Teenage Comedy that has the energy of a rock concert and the humanity of Philip Morris. As teenager Charlie Thompson awakens from a coma following his failed suicide attempt -- his mother, doctor and best friend have all realized how much better their lives would be he had succeeded. Now they will do anything to help. Nobody likes a quitter Charlie. Tickets and info »
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Ricardo Jamon: MasterMentalist - The Heavy Mental Tour
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Ace of Clubs
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August 18-August 28
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Play
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The Mesmerizing, the Unbelievable, the One and Only MasterMentalist is back! Capitan Ricardo and his lovely assistant La Linda Melinda are flying to Nueva York with their special twist of hypnotic lime in their newest show: The Heavy Mental Tour. Buckle up! And as the MasterMentalist himself would say: 'Sit back. Relax. And on the count of Uno Dos Tres -you will enjoy the show! Tickets and info »
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seduction...
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Players Theatre
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August 17-August 26
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Shamelessboyz Theatre Company Ltd.
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Play
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seduction… a new erotic comedy by Jack Heifner is a modern day all male interpretation of Arthur Schnitzler's scandalous nineteenth century masterpiece 'La Ronde'. In 10 interlocking scenes of seduction we see what is good, bad, sad, dangerous or hilarious in our search for human connection. ...a rent boy ... sailor ... handyman ... student ... professor ... businessman ... teenager ... writer ... actor ...
producer ... with one thing in common ... seduction... Tickets and info »
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Shakedown Street
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Village Theater
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August 13-August 25
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A2E Musicals, Ltd.
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Musical
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In 1941 San Francisco, Private Investigator Duke Bishop has been hired to foil a blackmail scheme involving a crooked judge and a sultry lounge singer. A stylish noir tale of deception, hot nights and cold-blooded murder set against high society parties, nightclubs, drunk-tanks and the boxing rings. Featuring re-orchestrated classic tunes by Grateful Dead composers Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter with new music by Robert Hunter and Greg Anton. Tickets and info »
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She Wears a Peacock Crown
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Access Theater
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August 13-August 24
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Play
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Two women. One, a "milk-cow", who sells her surplus breast-milk, is deified, and then ruined by traditional demands of motherhood. Another, while reading the diary of a dying older woman who defied tradition, experiences an epiphany. Stories about the choices women make, the consequences they face; about the sacrifices they make with their body and soul to survive in a bigoted and discriminatory society. Tickets and info »
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the silent concerto
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Connelly Theater
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August 13-August 28
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Packawallop Productions
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Play
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Packawallop Productions (Winner Best Overall Production for expat/inferno, FringeNYC 2003) returns to the Fringe. Three would-be wannabes are ensnared inside a drama stalled at Scene One. Hallucinogenic martinis, feverish infatuations, camp excesses, and impromptu production numbers hurl them towards their desired curtain call, but will they ever escape the tragedy they've made for themselves? Tickets and info »
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The Social Affair
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Collective: Unconscious
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August 12-August 22
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Comedy
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A man in a top hat takes center stage. He is singing, you are laughing. Father Patrick Fitzpatrick is interrupting him. He is taking Roll Call, you are laughing. One student is missing. He is going to Hollywood. He is auditioning! Things aren't going well but you are laughing... and more... 71 minutes (and scene.) Tickets and info »
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Soirée DADA: Neue Weltaffen
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P.S. 122
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August 13-August 20
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WNEP Theater
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Experimental
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Soirée DADA: Neue Weltaffen ran recently in Chicago to tremendous critical response. Directed by Don Hall, Soirée DADA: Neue Weltaffen is a callback to earlier, angrier days of DADA and features Jen Ellison, Emily Dugan, Bob Wilson, and Steve Zimmers as a quartet of white-faced, angry DADAists charged to espouse the ways of DADA while destroying perceptions of contemporary hypocrisy. Tickets and info »
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Sunset Bitch
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Ace of Clubs
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August 14-August 20
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Fairbank Productions UK
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Solo Performance
Musical Comedy
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Jessica Martin is 'Veronique Raymond' a self proclaimed Hollywood legend. The British daughter of a Busby Berkley 'Gold Digger' discovered selling doughnuts at the Hollywood Canteen. From Movie Star to the toast of Parisian nightlife, a Vegas lounge singer and cult TV icon. On the eve of her long anticipated comeback, Veronique tells her story of rags to riches, and back again, through songs and comical anecdotes featuring over thirty Hollywood stars. Tickets and info »
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Swimming Upstream: A Musical Sex-Ed Escapade of Genetic Proportions
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Players Theatre
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August 14-August 27
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Musical
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Dork meets Diva in this new musical chronicling the most important final project in Sex Ed class history. Todd's journey along the way includes a Gilbert and Sullivan exploration of foreplay "The Pirates of Mens-pants" and "Sacrifice" a musicalization of the first biblical circumcision. But will he be able to convince the school Queen Bee to star in his magnum opus -- Sperm! The Musical? Tickets and info »
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System Eternal
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SoHo Playhouse
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August 13-August 21
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LIVE Theater Company
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Play
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In Eternal, no one is innocent. You're either a cop or a criminal; courts don't exist and the death penalty's been banned. But someone new has arrived, and things are about to change. Where will you stand? A world-premiere play with music. Tickets and info »
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Tarot Reading: Love, Sex and Mommy
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Collective: Unconscious
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August 13-August 27
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Solo Performance
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In a post Sex in the City world, who do you turn to for advice on sex, love and relationships? How about The Fool, The Empress and The Devil??? When her boyfriend won't commit and her dad finds the perfect engagement ring, Kimberlee looks for answers from an eccentric Tarot Reader. Throughout her reading, the ancient cards spark hilarious and heartbreaking revelations. Tickets and info »
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The Three of Clubs
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Connelly Theater
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August 18-August 25
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Children/Family
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They're late. They're devious. They're falling down. Three young slapstick comedians, "The Three of Clubs" race to keep up with their show of juggling, leaping and slapstick, but can't stop getting in each other's way. Joe wants, just once, a perfect show. Julien only wants to have fun. And Dan wants -- Dan needs -- to take over the world, one bowler hat a time. Tickets and info »
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The True Tragedy of The Mortician
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13th Street Repertory
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August 13-August 20
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Odyssey Productions
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Play
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Bursting with feminine machismo, The True Tragedy of The Mortician is a cataclysmic comedy about the lives and deaths of a group of trendy, beautiful New Yorkers. Explosions of violence, sexuality, and horror will leave you howling with laughter. Tickets and info »
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Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular
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Players Theatre
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August 19-August 26
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Comedy
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Comedians! Ventriloquists! Mesmerists! Musicians!
This fast-moving pastiche modeled on vaudevillian forms takes on everything from Bill O'Reilly to America's disregard for the Geneva Convention. Award-winning playwrights Greg
Allen, Sheila Callaghan, Bridget Carpenter, Eric
Coble, Richard Dresser, Hilly Hicks Jr. and composer
Michael Friedman hit their target in this anthology
originally created for the 2005 Humana Festival of New
American Plays. Tickets and info »
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Yes, We have No Bananas!
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P.S. 122
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August 12-August 20
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Tarzan's Wife
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Solo Performance
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Yes, We have No Bananas! presents life when it's worse for three characters: A black woman gets hungry, eats her skirt and is attacked by whipped cream bombers. Decides she wants to change skincolor, becomes a news anchor who has had to have her brain separated from her body because it was exploding with information. Without brain she throws herself at men in the audience...and the last character? Come and see! Tickets and info »
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You Again: A Musical About Cloning
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Village Theater
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August 12-August 28
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The Present Company
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Musical
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You Again is the story of a substitute teacher who uncovers a scientist's desperate plan to clone the student population in the school's basement. Against this peculiar backdrop, an orphan searches for a home, a distraught madman challenges his Creator, and an impossible love survives. This straight-faced musical comedy is comprised of original songs that meet somewhere between Randy Newman and Magnetic Fields. Tickets and info »
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