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Loneliness Was a Pandemic, which is running at Theaterlab this month. Photo by Danny Bristoll.
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Theaterlab, 357 West 36th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin November 1. Opens November 2. Closes November 24. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Considering how we are grappling with the ethics of AI, it's no wonder there are so many shows about sentient androids right now. While the musical rom-com Maybe Happy Ending and the quirky We Are Your Robots lean into whimsy, Olivia Haller's one-act is a much darker work of speculative fiction. Set in a future when humans have all but been wiped out by robots, Loneliness Was a Pandemic finds an artist being forced to teach an android how to tap into the divine spark of creativity. But can inspiration be learned? Alex Kopnick directs this thought-provoking play.
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Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in Chelsea
Previews begin November 2. Opens November 8. Closes November 23.
Five disparate workers at a coffee chain considerer unionizing in Genevieve Kingston's interactive comedy about workplace protections and staff satisfaction. The actors often break the fourth wall to ask theatregoers to share their union experiences in this exploration of the accomplishments of the 20th-century labor movement that are now being undone by 21st-century big business. Note: members of all unions can see the show for FREE!
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Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets in the East Village
Begins November 7. Closes November 24. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $11 tickets.
For the five middle-aged men in John Mark Lucas' outrageous comedy Diva Therapy, life is literally a drag. As Vegas impersonators of Cher, Diana Ross, Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand and Liza Minnelli, they worry their glory days are over. But perhaps group therapy will give these divas the audience they crave.
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Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street between Ninth and Dyer Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin November 8. Opens November 10. Closes November 23. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Father-son team Jeff and Jacob Foy are behind The Z Team, a wacky comedy about the head of a struggling ad agency who tasks his worst staffers with creating a commercial for a dreadful product: The Bend and Blend, a yoga mat-blender hybrid. Broadway vet Jeff Whiting directs.
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A.R.T./New York Theatres, 502 West 53rd Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin November 8. Opens November 13. Closes November 24.
TDF teaching artist Gina Femia wrote this queer love triangle spin on Romeo and Juliet. BFF drama geeks Ellie and Britt can't wait to be cast as the leads in their all-girls Catholic school's mounting of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy. But when a cheerleader unexpectedly lands the role of Juliet across from Britt's Romeo, sweet sorrow ensues.
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The Brick, 579 Metropolitan Avenue near Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Begins November 8. Closes November 20. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $12 tickets.
Corey Allen's multimedia meditation Methods in Madness uses the work of his favorite artists, including James Baldwin and Nina Simone, to explore the line between art and mental health. This ever-evolving experience is equal parts theatrical experiment and art installation.
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The Barrow Group Performing Arts Center, 520 Eight Avenue 9th Floor between 36th and 37th Streets in Midtown West
Previews begin November 8. Opens November 9. Closes December 8.
The Barrow Group presents the world premiere of John Yearley's Triptych about a couple trying to find a way forward after the death of their child. Will grief bond them or tear them apart? A powerful play about mourning and mortality.
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The Tank, 312 West 36th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Begins November 12. Closes November 23.
In Emile Aslan Lacheny's dystopian play, four people seek shelter from the apocalypse in a cave. Once there, they discover a little girl protecting a massive egg that she claims can save humanity. Is it a fantasy? Or does she know something they don't?
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La MaMa's The Downstairs, 66 East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village
Begins November 14. Closes November 24. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Theatre-maker Rafika Chawishe makes her US debut with this contemporary reimagining of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, as the title war hero's wife, Clytemnestra, contemplates loss, the patriarchy and cycles of violence. Performed in English, Greek and Arabic with English subtitles, this harrowing solo show connects the ancient Greek tragedy to today's seemingly endless bloodshed in the Middle East.
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59E59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street between Madison and Park Avenues in Midtown East
Begins November 15. Closes December 1.
Cyndy A. Marion's Thistles centers on a young woman hiding out in her family's run-down farmhouse during the pandemic. Surrounded by history and secrets, she grapples with the past as well as anxious relatives arguing about the future. Should they sell the house or mend it and their broken relationships? Dev Bondarin, the former artistic director of Astoria Performing Arts Center, helms the production.
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The Tank, 312 West 36th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Begins November 16. Closes November 26. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $12 tickets.
Aaron Mauck stars in Ben Firke's one-man comedy about an aspiring entrepreneur who pitches his high-tech energy drink concept to investors with disastrous results. Expect audience interaction, puppets and surreal imagery in this takedown of capitalism.
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La MaMa's The Club, 74A East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village
Begins November 21. Closes December 1.
Stand-up comedian Susan Jeremy practically made a career out of being fired. In her solo romp Robert Will Show You the Door, she chronicles all her lost day jobs and how professional instability helped her land her craziest gig ever as a substitute teacher in a psych ward.
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Under St. Marks Theater, 94 St. Marks Place between First Avenue and Avenue A in the East Village
Begins November 22. Closes December 7. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $12 tickets.
Mark Blane's contemporary riff on Euripides' Medea is told from the husband's point of view, as he discovered his movie star wife killed her brother in self-defense years earlier. That revelation sparks a media firestorm and a messy affair in this solo tragedy.
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La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village
Begins November 22. Closes December 8. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
The venerable Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre transforms the 12th-century Persian poem The Conference of the Birds into a puppet rock opera. The aesthetic is inspired by Peter Sis' illustrated book adaptation of the ancient epic, about a flock of birds traveling through seven valleys in search of their true king. A puppet show for grown-ups!
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Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets in the East Village
Begins November 27. Closes December 15.
Ever hear the one about the Hasidic Jewish woman who became a comedian, came out of the closet, was shunned by her sect and turned into a social media sensation? That's Leah Forster's story and she shares it in her solo show That's Yentatainment!, a mix of sketches, songs and funny videos in the tradition of her popular "Tichel Tuesday" series. New Yiddish Rep produces this world premiere.
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