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"Uncanny Valley," at 59E59 Theaters, is a sort of futuristic Pinocchio tale involving an android.
"Rococo Rouge" is Company XIV's flamboyant mix of fashion, opera, dance and more in the East Village.
A "Tempest" at La MaMa, starring Reg E. Cathey, is sonically lush, with music by Elizabeth Swados.
Jordan Harrison's new comedy "Marjorie Prime" premieres at the Mark Taper Forum with Lois Smith in the title role.
Mike Daisey performs "The Great Tragedies," four monologues that touch on his grave frailties in the context of Shakespeare's tragedies, at California Shakespeare Theater.
The outdoor presentation of "Everything by my side," by Fernando Rubio of Buenos Aires, is part of the Crossing the Line festival.
"Gaïa Global Circus" is a thoughtful climate-change play by Pierre Daubigny, performed almost entirely in French with English supertitles.
A production of "Uncle Vanya" at the Pearl Theater gains immediacy from its loose-limbed translation.
"Embers," a radio play by Samuel Beckett, is staged for a theater audience at the Harvey Theater as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival.
In "Imagining O," Richard Schechner meshes Shakespeare with "Story of O," depicting women as strong and defiant.
In "Juárez: A Documentary Mythology," at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, actors recite the accounts of residents who have witnessed that border's town's cycle of violence.
Poetry plays a big part in the one-man show "A Sucker Emcee," "Ndebele Funeral" and the Irish play "Boys and Girls."
Lauren Gunderson's play "Bauer" follows the trajectory of Rudolf Bauer, a 20th-century painter who came close to stardom until his patron died.
"Dead Behind These Eyes" is a karaoke play that uses video, dance and lyrics to tell a story in a small space.
The musical revival of "Red Eye of Love," by the Tony winners Ted Sperling and John Wulp, is already a victory of sorts.
Ruby Rae Spiegel, still a Yale undergraduate, will see her play "Dry Land," about a DIY abortion, produced in New York.
The revival of "Pippin" has evolved into a warmer, giddier show, but the darkness is still there, beneath the surface.
The temperance movement, undocumented immigrants and obsessive-compulsive disorder are among the theater topics in this year's New York International Fringe Festival.
The chance to put on a show cheaply in New York makes FringeNYC, known for its young artists and audiences, a lure for veteran performers, too.
Summer Shorts, an annual festival of one-act plays, includes offerings by Daniel Reitz, Neil LaBute and Albert Innaurato in its Series B.
An upbeat new musical pushes a girl-power message, casting two historical characters as strong-willed, smart, selfless heroines who choose their own destinies.
"Play/Date," a collection of short plays about love and relationships, is performed on three levels of a Lower East Side bar.
The jukebox musical "Piece of My Heart" makes the rock hits written by Bert Berns seem new again.
In "The Gig," a ragtag band of middle-age, middle-class jazz amateurs get a shot at some professional work.
Ally Sheedy returns to the stage, with her celebrity toned down, playing a mother whose son is imprisoned for rape in the Off Broadway drama "The Long Shrift."
