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Patricia Marjorie and Monique Vukovic in Mrs. Loman, an intriguing riff on Death of a Salesman running Off-Off Broadway this month. Photo by Mari Eimas-Dietrich.
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Adventurous audiences know that some of the biggest theatrical thrills are found on NYC's smallest stages. These shows are also great for theatregoers on a budget. In fact, TDF members can see dozens of Off-Off Broadway productions for as little as $11! Not a TDF member? Consider joining our Go Off-Off and Beyond program, which gives you access to discount tickets to indie theatre, music and dance performances for a one-time fee of five bucks.
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Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street between Ninth and Dyer Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin January 31. Opens February 5. Closes February 15. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
One of many new plays responding to the work of Arthur Miller, Barbara Cassidy's Mrs. Loman reconsiders Death of a Salesman from the perspective of the title character's widow. Beginning on the day her husband Willy commits suicide, this drama imagines what his devoted wife does next and how, in some ways, his death frees her. The Tank artistic director Meghan Finn helms this thought-provoking, feminist riff on an American classic.
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A.R.T./New York Theatres, 502 West 53rd Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in Midtown West
Begins February 1. Closes February 22.
Broadway vets Fred Weller (To Kill a Mockingbird, Take Me Out, TV's In Plain Sight) and Kate Arrington (Grace) portray lifelong, on-again, off-again lovers in this new play from Obie-winning octogenarian dramatist Len Jenkin (The Dream Express, My Uncle Sam). A pair of slippery narrators shares their intertwined tale, which explores the passion, purpose and priorities of two ordinary folks forever drawn to each other.
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The Bushwick Starr, 419 Eldert Street between Covert and Halsey Streets in Bushwick, Brooklyn
Previews begin February 5. Opens February 8. Closes February 22.
Multimedia artist Ian Andrew Askew explores the intersection of punk and Blackness in this solo musical performance at The Bushwick Starr's sleek new Brooklyn home. SLAMDANCE garage incorporates the words of Nina Simone, Audre Lorde, Drexciya and other icons into a high-tech, history-filled concert. Though there is limited seating, most of the audience will need to stand and masks are required. All performances feature open captioning, and live audio description will be offered on February 13 and 22.
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La MaMa's The Downstairs, 66 East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village
Begins February 6. Closes February 23. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Elizabeth Hess may be best recognized for her stint as the title character's mother on the 1990s sitcom Clarissa Explains It All, but she's also a celebrated multidisciplinary artist who writes and directs boundary-pushing theatre. Her world-premiere performance piece NO RESERVATION takes inspiration from classic second-wave feminist artworks such as Caryl Churchill's play Top Girls and Judy Chicago's installation The Dinner Party, as a group of frustrated goddesses rise up and demand to have seats at the table.
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Chain Theatre, 312 West 36th between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Begins February 6. Closes March 2. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $13 tickets to select performances.
The Chain Theatre presents more than four dozen new one-acts by both emerging and established playwrights on two separate stages. Highlights include the New York debut of By the Look of Her by Tony Award winner David Rabe; the world premiere of Brothers by Orphans playwright Lyle Kessler; and The Robot, the Spy and the Love of AI by John Arthur Long, which fuses robotics, AI and live theatre. Each of the 25 programs features two to five playlets, so peruse the schedule and take a chance!
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Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street between Avenues A and B in the East Village
Previews begin February 7. Opens February 10. Closes March 1. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Indie singer-songwriter Jill Sobule scored an enduring hit at the Wild Project with her musical memoir F*CK7THGRADE. Now the venue is presenting the evolutionary tale of another underground music artist, the mononymic Bitch, in B*TCHCRAFT: A Musical Play. Find out how Karen Mould, a shy kid from Detroit's burbs, transformed into a queer, feminist, self-described "electric violin poet rocker" with a controversial moniker. Margie Zohn cowrote the book and directs.
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Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street in Soho
Previews begin February 11. Opens February 15. Closes March 8. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
From stand-up sets to strategic setups, punch lines to pawns, Kevin James Doyle chronicles his life as a comedian and chess instructor in this autobiographical solo show. After a well-received run at last year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, After Endgame moves to Soho Playhouse where he'll share his humorous tale of what he learned teaching chess to billionaires in Singapore.
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The Flea, 20 Thomas Street between Broadway and Church Street in Tribeca
Previews begin February 13. Opens February 14. Closes February 22. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $11 tickets.
Acclaimed director Tea Alagić (The Brothers Size at The Public Theater) directs this new play by noted journalist, lawyer and academic Benjamin W. Heineman Jr. about the tumultuous French Revolution and its equally violent aftermath. An ensemble cast conjures Danton, Desmoulins, Robespierre, Marat and other key figures in this thrilling and timely exploration of a pivotal moment in history.
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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 February 14. Closes March 2. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Inimitable character actor Paul Lazar directs Jerry Lieblich's poetic meditation on the power of language and how plays and politicians use words to seduce audiences. But what happens when words fail? An ensemble cast stars in this experimental romp.
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INTAR, 500 West 52nd Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues
Previews begin February 15. Opens February 24. Closes March 16.
Playwright-composer Julián Mesri, whose bilingual Comedy of Errors was a hit for The Public Theater's Mobile Unit two summers in a row, penned The Irrepressible Magic of The Tropics, a surreal satire exploring capitalism, colonialism and economic imperialism. When a multinational corporation opens a plant in the small forest town of Buenos Cruces, the wife of the MIA VP is forced to confront oppression past and present in this riff on magical realism and Latin American history. Kathleen Capdesuñer directs this world premiere for lauded Latine troupe INTAR.
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Under St. Marks, 94 St. Marks Place between First Avenue and Avenue A in the East Village
Begins February 16. Closes February 27.
Veteran Moth storyteller Brad Lawrence is keeping the details of his new solo show a big secret. But the premise—that at age 14 a friend in his Evangelical youth group revealed something that Lawrence never shared until politics in our country became so polarized he could no longer hold his tongue—implies it's about growing up queer in a homophobic community. In development for two years, Lawrence promises expanded anecdotes and a new ending.
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Theaterlab, 357 West 36th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Begins February 20. Closes March 2. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Director Lita Lofton adapts short, undersung pieces by Anton Chekhov, including the title one-act, into an evening of incisive contemporary theatre performed by an all-Black cast. If you only know the Russian playwright's big four (Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters and The Seagull), come discover his lesser-known but equally powerful works.
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The Tank, 312 West 36th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Begins February 20. Closes March 16.
Lori Goodman's new comedy takes place in Florida, where widows and widowers and their divorced adult children grapple with life, loss and the prospect of finding love again. A reminder that romance and renewal is possible at any age.
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The Tank, 312 West 36th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Begins February 25. Closes March 12.
Inspired by the 2004 book Maria Chabot—Georgia O'Keeffe: Correspondence 1941-1949, this new play examines the relationship between the renowned artist and the rancher and Native American arts advocate through nine years of letters. Were they friends, mentor-mentee or, as playwright Carolyn Gage and others believe, lovers? This play let's their words and art speak for themselves.
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59E59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street between Madison and Park Avenues in Midtown East
Previews begin February 26. Opens March 2. Closes March 15.
Danny Tieger's new comedy is a sweet confection of history and fantasy inspired by the real recipes and imagined life of Mary Eales, who wrote the 1718 cookbook Mrs. Mary Eales' Receipts. While she's known for inventing ice cream, her biography remained a mystery... until now. The actors use authentic ingredients onstage so those with nut allergies beware.
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The Brick, 579 Metropolitan Avenue near Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Begins February 27. Closes March 15.
Chad Kaydo's meta meditation on the little things that pile up and block our way to love stars the playwright as himself—although other actors take on variations of his persona, too. A look at family, romance, mortality, queerness and porn.
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