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  • Must-See Shows On and Off-Broadway
Memphis If you like blues and rock n roll combined with a heartbreaking but still funny story, this is exactly the kind of musical you will love. The story is set in Memphis during the 1950s and follows the life of Huey Calhoun (Chad Kimball), a white radio DJ and 'the music of his soul' played by black people. This leads to several problems, as due to racial segregation white people don't approve this kind of music. When Huey falls in love with a black singer, Felicia Farrell (Montego Glover), their struggle for acceptance and whether or not their love will survive in a world full of racial hate become a major topic of this musical. Felicia ...

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  • Rock of Ages
rock Rock of Ages, a musical about the 80's in Hollywood, authentically presents the Rock'n Roll era's fashion and music by staging some of the most famous rocks songs released back then - including songs from Journey, Night Ranger, Styx, Reo Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Poison, Asia, Whitesnake, and many more. The story revolves around a small town girl and a rocker who meet in a bar in L.A. I was captivated by what was happening on stage, not only because of the fascina...

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  • Hair
What's the symbolic meaning of long hair in the late 60s??? That's a question I had when I went to see the Broadway show, Hair, a musical very different from Rock of Ages, which I had seen before. Unlike Rock of Ages, this show did not direct a spotlight on only the main characters but on the interaction and stories of all characters. I thought the show did a great job in expressing the worldview of the flower-power generation by having an amazing cast, which fascinated the audience with their great vocal performance and convincing acting. Also, the fact that the audience got embraced in the story made me feel like I was actually in the 60s. ...

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  • Where the fun is guaranteed: Mamma Mia!
Are you thinking about going to see a Broadway show? If your answer is 'yes' and you have the opportunity to venture to this famous strip in New York, I recommend experiencing Mamma Mia! After falling in love with the film version last year, I couldn't wait to see the Bro...

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  • Jan 19, 2009 - Dec 27, 2010: Monday Night Magic Magical Nights, Inc. presents New York's longest-running Off-Broadway Magic Show, Monday Night Magic. Each week a different array of the finest stage magicians perform world-class magic in an intimate theatrical setting.
  • Jan 20, 2009 - Apr 10, 2011: Jersey Boys Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice's award-winning Broadway musical tells the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons through the groups' hits, including Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry and My Eyes Adored You.
  • Sep 03, 2009 - Oct 31, 2010: Fuerzabruta: Look Up Performers in this spectacle run and tumble across a vertical wall of technicolor cloth, a man runs headlong through a wall, two people try desperately to connect from opposite sides of a huge spinning and whirling sail and performers dance in watery world just above the audience’s heads.
  • Oct 19, 2009 - Jan 02, 2011: Fela Fela!, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones, welcomes audiences into the extravagant, decadent and rebellious world of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Using his pioneering music (a blend of jazz, funk and African rhythm and harmonies), the musical explores Kuti's controversial life as artist, political activist and revolutionary musician.
  • Mar 08, 2010 - Nov 21, 2010: The Addams Family: A New Musical Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth star in this new musical based on the bizarre and beloved characters created by Charles Addams. The freaky family—including Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Fester, Grandmama and Lurch—are changed forever when outsiders, a "normal" family, comes to dinner.
  • Mar 17, 2010 - Nov 14, 2010: ImaginOcean This blacklight musical for the entire family is chock-full of puppets, special effects and an original score that ranges from motown to swing. It tells the story of three best fish friends—Tank, Bubbles and Dorsel—and their journey through the ocean to find a secret, hidden treasure.
  • Mar 24, 2010 - Jan 30, 2011: American Idiot In this musical, a generation of young Americans struggle to find meaning in the post-9/11 world. Musical group Green Day's rock opera album, American Idiot, provides the score, with direction by Michael Mayer, the Tony Award-winning director of Spring Awakening.
  • Mar 25, 2010 - Jan 02, 2011: The Thirty-Nine Steps Yet another Broadway show transitions to an Off-Broadway run—the puppet-musical Avenue Q underwent a similar metamorphosis. Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller gets a theatrical touch in this production about an intelligence officer in London who is beset on all sides by dastardly murders and beautiful women. A cast of four play over 150 characters.
  • Mar 28, 2010 - Dec 26, 2010: La Bete A rollicking comedy, La Bête is a showdown between Elomire (David Hyde Pierce), a high-minded classical dramatist who loves only the theater, and Valere (Mark Rylance), a low-brow street clown who loves only himself.
  • Mar 28, 2010 - Dec 26, 2010: Promises, Promises Based on the Billy Wilder film The Apartment, this Broadway musical revival stars Sean Hayes as an enterprising associate on the way up and Kristin Chenoweth as a cafeteria waitress whose romantic troubles have got her down. Book by Neil Simon, music by Burt Bacharach and lyrics by Hal David.
  • Apr 06, 2010 - Dec 19, 2010: La Cage aux Folles Five-time Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer makes his Broadway musical debut in this tale of one family's struggle to stay together, stay fabulous and—above all else—stay true to themselves.
  • Jun 05, 2010 - Oct 31, 2010: Dietrich and Chevalier Marlene Dietrich and Maurice Chevalier were world superstars in 1932. Married to others, they fell in love and remained friends for life. Set against the backdrop of World War II, this new musical tells the true story of their complicated relationship. Includes many of the duo's signature songs.
  • Jul 05, 2010 - Sep 12, 2010: Viagara Falls With the help of one loopy lady of the evening and some black market blue pills, war buddies and widowers Charley and Moe are in for the 77th birthday party of their lives.
  • Jul 12, 2010 - Oct 04, 2010: Another American: Asking and Telling Actor and playwright Marc Wolf created this solo show from interviews conducted with straight, gay and lesbian military personnel (from World War II veterans to anonymous soldiers serving today). Interviews were transcribed and used as monologues to construct this theatrical exploration of sexual politics, the American military, sanctioned discrimination and its human fallout.
  • Jul 31, 2010 - Sep 30, 2010: Eyewitness: Black Brooklyn Five black Brooklyn photographers capture Brooklyn during the 1960s-80s through its people, spiritual life, community events, protests and legislative leaders. This is life in black Brooklyn at the height of the tumultuous Civil and Human Rights Movements.
  • Aug 13, 2010 - Oct 10, 2010: An Error of the Moon An Error Of The Moon is a fictional portrait of the brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, the rock star actors of their day. Edwin tells his tale of a man consumed by jealousy, bitter sibling rivalry and the mad obsession that sparked the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
  • Sep 08, 2010 - Oct 17, 2010: Orlando Meet Virginia Woolf's Orlando, your typical Elizabethan Man: a favorite of the Queen, madly in love with a Russian princess, fleeing an Archduchess and waking up one fine day in Constantinople to find he has become, of all things, a woman.
  • Sep 09, 2010 - Sep 19, 2010: Fallen Fallen, a new and original work by playwright Kyle Spidle, shines a light on our modern day society and questions why we value the things we do. We journey with Rob, a former international celebrity turned recluse, who is forced to choose between submitting to what he sees as an unjust and broken society or rage against it.
  • Sep 09, 2010 - Sep 25, 2010: The Revival The Harvard educated son of a Southern Baptist preacher returns to his Arkansas hometown to rebuild his father’s congregation. Under pressure to grow the congregation to compete with neighboring mega-churches, the young pastor seizes an opportunity to cleanse a mysterious stranger of his homosexuality, becoming an overnight evangelical superstar.
  • Sep 13, 2010 - Sep 15, 2010: Free Lunchtime Concerts: Music by Samuel Barber Miller's free, midday music series returns. These September performances feature the Voxare String Quartet performing Samuel Barber String Quartet, Op. 11. The composer is one of the four founding fathers of modern American music that Miller is featuring this season with works for voice, strings and piano.
  • Sep 13, 2010 - Nov 21, 2010: The Ride The Ride is literally a trip along a 4.2-mile route through New York City streets in a large, bus-like vehicle with stadium-style, sideways seating and massive windows. From Grand Central to Central Park, The Ride gives spectators front row seats to the big city, providing a new way to look at New York and its people.
  • Sep 13, 2010 - Sep 13, 2010: Swimming Upstream Eve Ensler (writer of The Vagina Monologues) directs this theatrical production written by 16 New Orleans’ women who survived Hurricane Katrina. Proceeds benefit women of the Gulf and New Orleans who continue to struggle in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
  • Sep 14, 2010 - Dec 12, 2010: The Pitmen Painters In 1934, a group of Ashington miners hired a professor to teach an art appreciation evening class. Rapidly abandoning theory in favor of practice, the pitmen themselves began to paint. Within a few years the group befriended avant-garde artists and sold their work to prestigious collectors; but every day they worked, as before, down the mine.
  • Sep 16, 2010 - Oct 02, 2010: Home Across the Ocean Connor and his boyfriend think they're ready to start a family; Connor's recently widowed Mother thinks she needs to re-start a family herself. When a 13-year-old foster child and a poet from London arrive into their lives, they'll find out exactly how ready they are.

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Broadway

South Pacific
Rediscover musical theater paradise at this enchanting Tony®-winning revival. Set on a tropical island in the Pacific during World War II, a U.S. Navy nurse falls in love with a local plantation owner. This classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, the winner of seven 2008 Tony® Awards, features one of the most romantic scores of all time.   More
WICKED
This hit musical is about the Wizard of Oz, and how two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch.   More
WEST SIDE STORY
The classic American musical returns to Broadway. The story of Romeo and Juliet is transported to the turbulent streets of New York City in the 1950s, when star-crossed lovers are caught between rival street gangs.   More
LEND ME A TENOR
This revival of Ken Ludwig's popular farce about a missing opera singer marks the directing debut of Stanley Tucci, who has assembled an expert cast led by Anthony LaPaglia, Tony Shalhoub, Brooke Adams, Justin Bartha, and Jan Maxwell.    More
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein's award-winning musical about a French nightclub owner (to be played by Emmy® Award winner Kelsey Grammer) and drag performer (to be played by Olivier Award winner Douglas Hodge) who are trying to impress their son's conservative soon-to-be-in-laws gets a second recent Broadway revival courtesy of British director Terry Johnson.   More
SPIDER-MAN, TURN OFF THE DARK
Drawing from over 40 years of Marvel comic books for inspiration, this new musical follows the story of teenager Peter Parker, whose unremarkable life is turned upside-down—literally—when he’s bitten by a genetically altered spider and wakes up the next morning clinging to his bedroom ceiling.   More
ROCK OF AGES
In 1987 on the Sunset Strip, a small town girl met a big city rocker and in LA’s most famous rock club, they fell in love to the greatest songs of the 80s.   More
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Andrew Lloyd Webber's award winning musical set in 19th-century Paris featuring spectacular special effects. The longest running production in Broadway history, with more than 7,400 performances.   More
COME FLY AWAY
Celebrating love and life, this is a new musical with Frank Sinatra songs, choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp. It follows four couples falling in and out of love. The show shares the full spectrum of emotion we all know as “this thing called love.”   More
NEXT TO NORMAL
Michael Greif directs this moving new musical by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, which explores how one suburban household copes with crisis.   More
MAMMA MIA!
A huge hit in London and all over the world, this musical “"with a disco beat"” is filled with almost two dozen delicious hits from the pop sensation, ABBA. Book by Catherine Johnson. Great pop-culture nostalgia for the whole family.   More
LION KING
One of the most extraordinary and sought-after shows in town. Songs by Elton John & Tim Rice. Winner of six Tonys®, including Best Musical.   More
JERSEY BOYS
A new musical based on the life story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.   More
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
An electrifying new musical inspired by the famed recording session that brought together rock 'n' roll icons Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley for the first and only time.   More
MARY POPPINS
Based on P.L. Travers' cherished stories and the classic 1964 Walt Disney film, this new musical, currently one of London's biggest sensations, features the Sherman brothers' original Academy Award-winning songs, and superb stage craft, bringing life to the story of the Banks family and their magical nanny.   More
MEMPHIS
A hot new Broadway musical with heart, soul and energy to burn. She’s a black singer whose career is on the rise, but who can’t break out of segregated clubs. He’s a white radio DJ named Huey Calhoun, whose love of music transcends race lines and airwaves.   More
IN THE HEIGHTS
A new musical about three days in the life of Washington Heights, a vibrant and tight-knit community at the top of the island of Manhattan.   More
FELA!
Based on the life of groundbreaking African composer, performer and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti, this critically acclaimed musical is directed and choreographed by Tony® Award-winner Bill T. Jones (Spring Awakening), and has a book by Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones.   More
AMERICAN IDIOT
Tony-winning director Michael Mayer teams up with rock music supergroup (and Grammy® Award winners) Green Day for this evocative new musical, which follows a group of working-class characters on a journey towards redemption.   More
CHICAGO
Bob Fosse’s slinky musical about celebrities gets a knockout revival. It is a loving look back at vaudeville, and a timely satire of the justice system.    More
THE ADDAMS FAMILY
The creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky clan of cartoon fame is brought to life in Andrew Lippa's new musical, which boasts the estimable talents of Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth, Carolee Carmello, Terrence Mann, Kevin Chamberlin, and Jackie Hoffman.   More
Billy Elliot
Based on the enormously popular film, this new musical is the story of a boy who discovers he has a special talent for dance, while the boys all around him are more interested in boxing.   More

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PROMISES, PROMISES
Two of our most dynamic stars, Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes, team up for the first Broadway revival of the 1968 Neil Simon-Burt Bacharach-Hal David musicalization of the Oscar-winning film The Apartment.
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Off-Broadway

Stomp
Derived from the underground music clubs of Britain and influenced by its urban streets, this eight-member cast conjures up rhythms out of unusual objects.   More
Our Town
David Cromer directs this classic play by Thornton Wilder. Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of Our Town’s Broadway premiere, this new production of Wilder’s play involves a complete redesign of the Barrow Street Theatre’s space, with the residents of the fictional town of Grover’s Corners presenting their story in, among and around the audience.   More
Gazillion Bubble Show
This amazing 4D effects extravaganza experience is not to be missed, using soap bubbles as a new medium.   More
Fuerza Bruta - Look Up
A dazzling new theatrical experience from the creators of the international sensation De La Guarda, this heart-pounding, 70-minute event floods the senses with a nonstop collision of dynamic music, visceral emotion, and kinetic aerial imagery.   More
New York City Ballet
Solely responsible for training its own artists and creating its own works, the New York City Ballet was the first ballet institution in the world with two permanent homes, the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.   More
Apollo Amateur Night
Amateur night, the world’s most original and enduring amateur talent competition, continues in its 75th year every Wednesday night at 7:30 PM. Apollo Wednesday night alumni are an impressive, ever-expanding roster of world class talent including such legends as such as Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, the Isley Brothers, Michael Jackson, Fat Joe, Lauryn Hill, and many others discovered on our stage!   More
AVENUE Q
The Tony®-winning musical moves Off-Broadway. There’s no easy way to describe it, except as one of the funniest shows you’re ever likely to see. It is the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and a tiny bank account. He soon discovers that the only neighborhood in his price range is Avenue Q, and moves in. Together, Princeton and his new found friends struggle to find jobs, dates, and their ever-elusive purpose in life.   More
NAKED BOYS SINGING
Celebrating 10 years, this fun show has been delighting audiences for several years, delivering musical numbers and nudity with humor and sophistication.   More
OUR TOWN
David Cromer directs this classic play by Thornton Wilder. Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of Our Town’s Broadway premiere, this new production of Wilder’s play involves a complete redesign of the Barrow Street Theatre’s space, with the residents of the fictional town of Grover’s Corners presenting their story in, among and around the audience. Closing June 27th.   More
JOHN TARTAGLIA’S IMAGINOCEAN
A one-of-a-kind live black-light puppet show, John Tartaglia's ImaginOcean is a magical undersea adventure for kids of all ages. Tank, Bubbles and Dorsel and three best friends who just happen to be fish, and they're about to set out on a remarkable journey of discovery. And it all starts with a treasure map.   More
LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE
An intimate collection of stories by Nora and Delia Ephron. This collection of vignettes and monologues is based in the best-selling book by Ilene Beckerman, as well as on the recollections of the Ephron’s friends.   More
Tony N'Tina's Wedding
Get invited to the wedding of the decade in this fun interactive dinner theatre experience, where you join the happy couple as they tie the knot.   More
The 39 Steps
The Tony®-winning play moves Off-Broadway. Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have this fast-paced whodunit, for anyone who loves the magic of theatre!   More
BLUE MAN GROUP
This trio of "postmodern clowns" brazenly stretches, in this long-running East Village hit, the limits of comic performance art with outrageous innovations of art and sound.   More
Awesome 80's Prom
Dig out your best 80's outfit, mousse up your hair and get ready to vote for the King and Queen, because you have been invited to this fun interactive show.   More
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