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Degeneration X Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street  4/19/2012 to 5/25/2012

Please visit www.perfproductions.com for a full synopsis and additional photos! Degeneration X uses live performance, film, motion graphics, illustration, and music to chronicle the different pockets of one man’s neurosystem. Degeneration X experiments with the light, the dark, the absurd, and the unexplainable aspects of the human condition as the audience takes front seat on ... view full listing details

 

ALICE in Wonderland Players Theatre & Players Loft, 115 MacDougal St.  2/12/2012 to 5/20/2012

Alice in Wonderland at The Players Theatre! Tumble down the rabbit hole with the wonderfully, wild, wacky and whimsical cast of characters in the new musical and world premiere of ALICE in Wonderland by Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell. Frolic with Alice as she dances her way through Lewis Carroll’s legendary tale. Meet the White rabbit – if... view full listing details

 

The Secret Garden Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 30-44 Crescent St  5/3/2012 to 5/19/2012

This enchanting classic of children's literature is reimagined in brilliant musical style by composer Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of ‘night Mother. Orphaned in India, 11 year-old Mary Lennox returns to Yorkshire to live with her embittered, reclusive uncle Arc... view full listing details

 

Southern Baptist Sissies June Havoc Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 1st Floor  5/11/2012 to 5/27/2012

Southern Baptist Sissies Southern Baptist Sissies follows the journey of four gay boys in the Baptist Church. Storyteller Mark Lee Fuller tries to create a world of love and acceptance in the church and clubs of Dallas, Texas, while desperately trying to find a place to put his own pain and rage. The world Mark creates also... view full listing details

 

King's River Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 3rd Floor  5/22/2012 to 6/10/2012

King King's River is an original play chronicling the intertwining individuals that live in King's River, a fictitious town set in the Deep South. ... view full listing details

 

You are in an open field HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  4/26/2012 to 5/19/2012

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Pratfalls Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36 Street  4/29/2012 to 5/19/2012

An award-winning new comedy set on a rooftop in Brooklyn, which explores the lives of four mismatched characters and the ups and downs of 5th floor walk-ups, city-wide blackouts, stand-up comedy, and perhaps even love. Starring Ground UP's own Kate Middleton, Victor Verhaeghe, and Amelia White. Jenn... view full listing details

 

adrenalin...heart Space on White, 81 White Street  4/26/2012 to 5/20/2012

adrenalin...heart cast 'I'd eat glass for you.' On meeting Angel, Leigh's life is turned upside down. Sex, race, drugs and verbals collide in this terrifying roller-coaster account of an intense affair between a single mum and a reluctant drug dealer on a north London estate. Erotic infatuation leads to addiction of a... view full listing details

 

Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  3/2/2012 to 12/29/2012

Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind With its ever-changing “menu” of plays, Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes—an original concept by Greg Allen and the Neo-Futurists. The audience is fully part of the act, deciding the order that these plays are performed. Each week, these plays shi... view full listing details

 

Die: Roll to Proceed The Red Room, 85 E. 4th St.  3/30/2012 to 10/19/2012

Imagine, if you will, a world unencumbered by the stress of decision-making; a world where you never have to wonder if you made the ‘right decision.’ In this existential comedy, two roommates make this a reality by letting the roll of a DIE decide for them. But is life really carefree when the r... view full listing details

 

The 3rd H.P.Lovecraft Festival Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  4/19/2012 to 5/20/2012

Two programs of six terror tales by Grandmaster of Horror, H.P.Lovecraft adapted by Dan Bianchi. Includes: The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Moon Bog, The Lurking Fear, The Horror At Martins Beach, The Evil Clergyman, The Statement of Randolph Carter... view full listing details

 

neat & tidy Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street  5/15/2012 to 5/27/2012

When a child is brutally murdered, the seismic aftershocks ripple throughout a small town. At its center, a marriage is crippling under the weight of the tragedy. With its cast tackling multiple characters, neat & tidy speaks about grieving and learning to live alone.... view full listing details

 

The Comedy of Errors Cranberry Street Theater, 55 Cranberry Street  5/4/2012 to 6/2/2012

Puppet Courtesan! The Comedy of Errors is a lively situation comedy about mistaken identity, love and marriage. This unique version, a fast paced 90 minutes featuring ten actors and five puppets is particularly suitable for the whole family. Director David Fuller has assembled a multi-talented team of actors and desi... view full listing details

 

The Comedy of Errors Brooklyn Bridge Park, 334 Furman Street  6/9/2012 to 6/10/2012

The Comedy of Errors is a lively situation comedy about mistaken identity, love and marriage. This unique version, a fast paced 90 minutes featuring ten actors and five puppets is particularly suitable for the whole family. Director David Fuller has assembled a multi-talented team of actors and desi... view full listing details

 

Wonderful Town Gallery Players of Park Slope, 199 14th Street (btw 4th & 5th)  4/28/2012 to 5/20/2012

This delightful staple of the musical theatre canon is about the adventures and misadventures of two sisters who move from small-town Ohio to the bohemia of 1935 Greenwich Village. Eileen is gorgeous, sweet and an aspiring actress with men falling at her feet. Ruth, while a gifted writer, is average... view full listing details

 

The House of Mirth Metropolitan Playhouse, 220 E 4th Street  4/21/2012 to 5/20/2012

Edith Wharton's novel of Society heart and heartlessness, adapted with the author by the master of the turn-of-the-century stage, Clyde Fitch. Lily Bart is radiant, witty, and admired--but nearly destitute. Her refusal to marry without love or return 'favors' for the support of married men leaves h... view full listing details

 

East of the Sun, West of the Moon Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W. 57th St.  4/14/2012 to 5/20/2012

A Scandinavian version of "Beauty and the Beast" You know about Beauty and the Beast… but do you know about the Trolls, Hags and Winds? To save her father and mother, a young daughter makes a promise to live with a beastly bear, whose palace is secretly filled with nasty, bumbling trolls. I... view full listing details

 

Jack's Back! Gloria Maddox Theatre, 151 W. 26th St.  5/9/2012 to 6/22/2012

Experience Jack the Ripper like never before in this mad cap musical romp. Has one of history's most notorious men finally met his match? JACK'S BACK! answers the question as Herbert Wingate, an audacious cockney sausage stuffer, struggles to make the gas-lit streets of Whitechapel safe from the rut... view full listing details

 

In the Meantime Under St Marks, 94 St Marks Place  5/3/2012 to 5/19/2012

Lauren Berst, Eddie Boroevich and Jillian LaVinka. Photo by Alanna Wilson Sitting in a bar watching a football game are Gretchen, her boyfriend Edgar, and Astor, a woman by herself. Before the game ends, time stops, and the three of them have the ability to play out new reality after new reality until they choose one that fits (if they ever do). As the variations play on,... view full listing details

 

Museum PaintCan Studios, 10-10 44th Avenue  5/12/2012 to 5/20/2012

Absurdist comedy set at an art museum on the raucous final day of an exhibition. 18 actors play 44 characters in Obie-winning playwright Tina Howe's play.... view full listing details

 

Protected The WorkShop Theater | Mainstage, 312 West 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  4/26/2012 to 5/19/2012

Graphic by Michael Selkirk "New home, new neighbors, new life and all Langley has to give up is himself."... view full listing details

 

Stabilized Not Controlled Stage Left Studios, 214 W 30th Street, 6th floor  5/6/2012 to 6/24/2012

Stabilized Not Controlled at Stage Left Studio on Sundays Solo edgy comedy. Landlord vs. tenants in a war for the building... view full listing details

 

INGENIUS 2012: THE FOURTH ANNUAL ONE ACT PLAY FESTIVAL Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street  5/7/2012 to 5/22/2012

INGENIUS 2012: Secrets Concealed/Secrets Revealed at the Kraine Theater are five one-acts by a group of Indie theater veterans, all members of the critically-acclaimed Writers’ Forum. This years’ festival is a cornucopia of family drama, political intrigue, high ideals, pop culture gone awry and fun... view full listing details

 

Empanada For A Dream The New Ohio Theatre, 154 Christopher Street  4/21/2012 to 6/6/2012

Fresh from a sold out run with Ballybeg at the Barrow Group Theatre, EMPANADA FOR A DREAM is a haunting love song to the Lower East Side. Juan Francisco Villa's return to the neighborhood of his childhood is a dangerous and hilarious tale about growing up by getting out. ... view full listing details

 

NightoftheLivingDead the Musical Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 E. 26th St.  5/31/2012 to 6/10/2012

As a perfect afternoon darkens into night, six strangers find themselves trapped in a world forever changed – witness a new interpretation of the classic George A. Romero horror film. Remember: No one is safe. ... view full listing details

 

In the Company of Jane Doe New York Theatre Workshop's 4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street  5/17/2012 to 6/2/2012

Nathan Johnson Photography A suitcase full of halibut? Snow shoes couriered to her office? Is Jane losing it or is the universe trying to tell her something? When she consults with the wrong doctor, the results could push her further over the edge, or they might just save her life. It's all In The Company of Jane Doe. www.ca... view full listing details

 

Body Language The WorkShop Theater | Mainstage, 312 West 36th Street, Fourth Floor East  5/25/2012 to 6/10/2012

Artwork by David Tracy Mary has spent the better part of her two year relationships with Mike trying to become the person she thinks he wants her to be. Now, with a marriage proposal looming, she is desperate to reveal her true self to him, yet fears his rejection if all her secrets are exposed. Her journey to share herse... view full listing details

 

Doubles Crossed Robert Moss Theater, 440 Lafayette Street  6/1/2012 to 6/13/2012

Image design by Nick Dransfield A gangster noir comedy thriller... view full listing details

 

Letter To My Father Magic Futurebox, 55 33rd St., 4th Floor  5/11/2012 to 5/27/2012

Michael Guagno. Photo by Eileen Meny. In 1919, an ailing Franz Kafka writes a letter to his father. In it he puts his anger, his fear, his guilt, his loneliness, his ingratitude, his debt, his despair, his joy, his pride, his confusion, his laughter, his hate, his memories, his shame, his tears, his disgust at everything his father rep... view full listing details

 

4.48 Psychosis Magic Futurebox, 55 33rd St., 4th Floor  5/11/2012 to 5/27/2012

Emily Gleeson. Photo by Eileen Meny. A career of horrible-gentle and violent-funny work comes to a close with Sarah Kane's magnum opus, written on the eve of her tragic suicide. In it she tells the inner drama of a mind at the point of combustion. In her hospital room she becomes patient, disease and doctor. She is the Victim of une... view full listing details

 

unFRAMED The New Ohio Theatre, 154 Christopher Street  6/4/2012 to 6/16/2012

Iyaba Ibo Mandingo unFRAMED invites audiences into the studio of the artist where poetry and painting ignite. Using canvas, paint, poetry, prose, and song, Antigua-born Iyaba Ibo Mandingo tells his story of life as an immigrant in America, from "Mommy Me No Wanna Go Merrica" - a prophetic piece that hints at the many ... view full listing details

 

The Bowery Wars, Part 2 Downtown Art, 61 East 4th Street  4/28/2012 to 5/20/2012

The Bowery Wars, Part 2 Downtown Art presents The Bowery Wars, Part 2 a rock musical on the streets, parks and vacant lots of the East Village/Lower East Side, April 28 - May 20. The Bowery Wars, Part 2, an original rock musical, based on ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and the history of the Lower East Side, performed outdoors, w... view full listing details

 

Up To You TADA! Theater, 15 West 28th Street  4/28/2012 to 5/20/2012

Who will be elected to the student council? The cheerleader who promises a disco homecoming or the girl who wants to stop the Pirate pranks? Is it bullying or innocent fun? It's Up To You. ... view full listing details

 

Demonology Magic Futurebox, 55 33rd St., 4th Floor  6/8/2012 to 6/23/2012

The Dreams in the Witch House, as workshopped at The Brick's Tiny Theater Festival 2011. Demonology is theater from Hell, an hour for AntiMatter to employ the theatrical arts in the service of Dark Powers. The Dreams in the Witch House is adapted and directed by Will Fulton from a 1932 H.P. Lovecraft novella of the same name. A fragile-minded graduate student is slowly driven insane by ... view full listing details

 

The Empress of Sex Bleecker Street Theatre, 45 Bleecker Street  6/4/2012 to 6/22/2012

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WHEN THOUGHTS ATTACK The New Ohio Theatre, 154 Christopher Street  5/30/2012 to 6/6/2012

Kelly Kinsella - When Thoughts Attack Never has the act of ordering lunch been so entertaining! In this uproarious tragic new show, Kelly is caught in a whirlpool of anxiety. Armed with a good sense of humor, she goes to battle with her mind.... view full listing details

 

I Light Up My Life: The Mark Sam Celebrity Autobiography The New Ohio Theatre, 154 Christopher Street  6/4/2012 to 6/16/2012

Mark Sam Rosenthal At long last! The world's first preemptive celebrity autobiography! Attempt to stomach this smut-fueled, casually offensive road-to-success story of a celebrity who has succeeded nowhere - but in his own mind. From the creators of Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire.... view full listing details

 

HUMAN FRUIT BOWL The New Ohio Theatre, 154 Christopher Street  6/8/2012 to 6/17/2012

Harmony Stempel - Human Fruit Bowl A tub, a scarf, a stool and a naked woman. Structured as a live fine art modeling session, Human Fruit Bowl (WINNER Creative Award for Best Production at Prague Fringe Festival, 2011), investigates the relationship between artist and model. Part story, part mystery, part lecture-demonstration, this ... view full listing details

 

Goliath Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street  5/23/2012 to 6/3/2012

A visionary, lyrical, heartbreaking tale of one young man’s Iraq War story, from home to the front and back again.... view full listing details

 

The Electric Lighthouse Flea Theatre, 41 White Street  5/1/2012 to 5/15/2012

A jet-black comedy about trying to hang onto yourself in a city that wants to re-write you.... view full listing details

 

The Wundelsteipen (and Other Difficult Roles for Young People) Flea Theatre, 41 White Street  5/2/2012 to 5/23/2012

An evening of dark comedic pieces which are nasty, brutal, and short.... view full listing details

 

A Letter From Omdurman Flea Theatre, 41 White Street  5/5/2012 to 5/27/2012

A personal response to the photographs of Abu Ghraib, the deluge of images and (mis)information thrown up by our military (mis)adventures in the Muslim world, and the idea of patterns of history.... view full listing details

 

Symphony of Shadows Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street  6/7/2012 to 6/23/2012

Photo by Michael Blase. Graphic Design by Sean Gill. This movement-based spectacular tells the story of a woman combating a variety of sleep disorders, phantasmagorical night terrors, hypnotic horrors, and other, visually stunning conjurings from the subconscious depths of her own disturbed mind. Symphony of Shadows merges striking elements of circus ... view full listing details

 

CONVERGENCE The New Ohio Theatre, 154 Christopher Street  6/8/2012 to 6/17/2012

Convergence How far would you go to protect your family from harm, or to ensure them a spot in the Kingdom of Heaven? A haunting story of fear and love, faith and reason, Convergence explores the intersection of seemingly opposed forces, and the explosive consequences of their collision.... view full listing details

 

Bubby's Shadow Bleecker Street Theatre, 45 Bleecker Street  6/3/2012 to 6/23/2012

An unexpected knock on the door, and Jonny’s home again…to his sister, his niece, and the past he left behind. Join the Cohens on their mystical journey, traversing darkness, finding light -- and ultimately themselves. For when it comes to family bonds, not even death can stand in the way.... view full listing details

 

Olives And Blood HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue  6/8/2012 to 6/24/2012

It is said in Spain that the dead are always more alive than the day they were born. So it is for the presumed murderer of Federico Garcia Lorca, Juan Luis Trescante Medina. Sixty years after Lorca's death, the aging fascist, Trescante, fights to hold onto the myth of a murder that defined his life.... view full listing details

 

Leaving IKEA: a play in two cantos Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue  6/8/2012 to 6/24/2012

Marcus (Jason Carden) and Roy (Shane Taylor) begin their journey through the IKEA forest. Two couples, at the crossroads of their relationship, are trapped in a Swedish superstore purgatory. They must solve the problems of their relationships in order to escape this blue and yellow inferno. Will they find the arrows that lead them out of IKEA's maze? Performs June 7 through 24 (Thursd... view full listing details

 

The Bad Date Project Culture Project, 45 Bleecker Street  6/2/2012 to 6/23/2012

Who hasn't had a bad date? Not even your Grandma! “Who hasn’t had a bad date? No one. Not even your grandma. The Bad Date Project takes two lonely singles on a rocky treasure hunt for love…or fun…or just some kind of connection. Created from true stories, it’s a sexy, hilarious and tragic look at dating in the new millennium.”... view full listing details

 

From White Plains Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center,   5/31/2012 to 6/10/2012

Just because it gets better doesn't mean it didn't happen. After a shocking announcement on international television, 30 year old Ethan Rice finds himself finally having to confront who he was and whom he hurt as a teenager. The story follows four men, both gay and straight, as they attempt to take responsibility for their past and move beyond it.... view full listing details

 

Love Song The Access Theater, 380 Broadway, 4th floor   6/9/2012 to 6/24/2012

Flyer Logo by Justin Dodd Love Song by John Kolvenbach An offbeat comedy. Beane is an exile from life-an oddball. His well-meaning sister, Joan, and brother-in-law, Harry, try and make time for him in their busy lives, but neither can get through. Following a burglary on Beane's apartment, Joan is baffled to find her brot... view full listing details

 

Unplugged In The Lion @ Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd St.  5/25/2012 to 6/9/2012

UNPLUGGED IN, Brian Pracht’s new drama about three friends trying to connect at the end of the world, will receive its world premiere at New York City’s Theatre Row in a production directed by Michelle Bossy, the Associate Artistic Director of Primary Stages. Performances begin May 25. It's Dece... view full listing details

 

Miss Hope's American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, 4th Floor  5/23/2012 to 6/23/2013

Nylon Fusion Collective presents “Miss Hope’s” A 3 Act Play by Writers Collective Jack Karp, Alisha Silver, and Joseph Samuel Wright- A march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice reminding us that with broken promises come broken dreams... view full listing details