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Get Your Tickets to Pilgrims of the Night

Get Your Tickets to Pilgrims of the Night

Into zombies? Adultery? Gold-digging? Len Jenkin’s Pilgrims of the Night has it all! 90 Square Arts, the arts collective comprised of Great Performances employees, is presenting their 3rd Annual benefit production for The Sylvia Center this February. Len Jenkin, a professor of playwriting at NYU, is the author of the play, which is a tale of seven people trapped overnight […]

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Tackling Life: Ugly Is A Hard Pill

Tackling Life: Ugly Is A Hard Pill

Written and co-produced by Andrea Fulton, Ugly Is A Hard Pill is offering a comical, and sometimes emotional, glimpse into the lives of those looking for love in all the wrong places. The play centers on a scandalous, African American couple, Keef and Lena, who both are on the ‘down low.’ But as the couple’s realities are shattered, their sexual […]

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Is Your Past Coming Back to Haunt You This Christmas?

Is Your Past Coming Back to Haunt You This Christmas?

Radio Theatre’s Ghosts of Christmas Past, performed by Horse Trade Theater Group, is running through January 12, 2014. This family friendly show is playing at the Kraine Theater in the East Village, which is a great show for a wonderful Christmas Gift. Ghosts of Christmas Past is based on the traditions starting since the Charles Dickens era. The traditions of […]

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Squonk: A Real Musical Trip

Squonk: A Real Musical Trip

Music is something that everyone enjoys, and while not all have the taste for the weird and utterly wacky, you will probably still enjoy Squonk: Mayhem and Majesty. The show, which originally debuted in 2000, has made its grand return to New York City with a new performance. The show features some outstanding musical performers, who play everything as ordinary […]

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When Thoughts Attack — Life in NYC

When Thoughts Attack — Life in NYC

Between the sky-high rent, jam-packed subway cars (that run frequently on delay) and 9am-9pm work hours, to say New York is stressful place to live is an understatement. And while we do our fair share of complaining and vent sessions over a round of craft cocktails on the weekly (not to mention daily), we rarely speak about the crazy thoughts, […]

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Cocktales – Confessions of a Nymphomaniac

Cocktales – Confessions of a Nymphomaniac

Yes, the pillow above is exactly what you’re imagining. Cocktales – Confessions of a Nymphomaniac, written by and starring Slovenian-born, award-winning actress Tjasa Ferme, is an exuberant new play portraying Eve as a modern woman who has escaped from the Garden of Eden and is struggling with her brazen sexuality. The piece examines the conflicting messages regarding dating and sexual desire thrown at […]

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How The French Saved Jazz!

How The French Saved Jazz!

Did you know the French saved jazz music? We learned that they did at Le Jazz Hot at the 59E59 Theaters! This uniquely educational jazz show takes you on a journey back in time when jazz music was beloved by the French and how they kept it alive. In France, jazz was a way of life, a culture, and a way […]

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All That Fall

All That Fall

Following its critically acclaimed, sold out run in London’s West End, All That Fall has now come to New York City. The show, originally commissioned by the BBC as a radio play, was first broadcast in 1957. The premise is set in rural Ireland and tells the tale of Mrs. Rooney, struggling with age on her way to meet her […]

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Jericho: A Look Into the Aftermath of September 11th

Jericho: A Look Into the Aftermath of September 11th

The collective memory of the September 11th attacks and how individuals cope with such tragedy is the focus for Jericho, a new play at the 59E59 Theaters. Jack Canfora’s play is a thoughtful and provoking meditation on a family destroyed by such a catastrophe. Beth (Eleanor Handley) is the central character who is still grappling with her former boyfriend’s death […]

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Locombia: A Compelling Story Of Life In Colombia

Locombia: A Compelling Story Of Life In Colombia

Locombia is a complex and dramatic story of a man who lives in New York City as an artist, falls in love with a Colombian woman, and makes her his wife. This woman is smart, free, and full of spunk, but she has her political activist side that shows throughout the performance. This story is about how J. Anthony, an American […]

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