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  • Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)

    Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)  Recommended

    8:00 p.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until June 2

    No one really believed Richard Foreman when he said in 2009 that Idiot Savant would be his last play, did they? The 75-year-old avant-garde auteur ...

  • Old-Fashioned Prostitutes

    Old-Fashioned Prostitutes

    8:00 p.m. every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until June 2 | 6:30 p.m. every Sun. until June 2

    The Ontological-Hysteric Theater presents this expressionistic chamber play about a coquette who takes hold of one man's life. 212-967-7555.

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  • <i>Neva</i>: Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Neva: Sunday Bloody Sunday

    What to do when your husband is dead, a revolution is raging in the streets—and your new monologue just isn’t working? In Neva—written and directed by Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón, and now playing at the Public—we travel to politically... More »

  • <i>Detroit ’67</i>: Get Ready

    Detroit ’67: Get Ready

    For a comedy-drama about an African-American brother and sister trying to run an after-hours joint out of their basement, Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit ’67, at the Public Theater, requires a surprising amount of stage blood. Every scene takes... More »

  • Detroit \'67

    Detroit '67

    “Detroit could be some kinda Mecca,” says a character in Dominique Morrisseau’s play. “Colored folks moving this city forward.” Unfortunately, this lyrical drama takes place on the eve of the ’67 riots and knows that promise will never be... More »

  • STAGE TRACKER

    STAGE TRACKER

    It’s all Chinese to us. And Australian, Belarusian, Hungarian, Japanese, Iranian, and yes, a little American, too. This year’s Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater, a cavalcade of experimental performance curated by Mark Russell, takes... More »

  • LONE STAR

    LONE STAR

    When the composer-lyricist Michael John LaChiusa was approached with the idea to do a musical adaptation of Edna Ferber’s Giant by her great-niece Julie Gilbert, he was more than a little daunted. After all, how does one stay true to a... More »

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  • 2012 | Best Playwright

    You miss people most when they're gone--no news there. But every once in a while, you get lucky, and, well, they come on back. A few years ago, this New York playwright--who has rightly been called a genius--said he was pretty much finished with plays. Because he'd made them, and often brilliantly, for more than 40 years, it was hard to fault his decision. But he'd written and directed so obsessively through the decades that when he declared "no more," some of us didn't really... More »

  • 2012 | Best Theater Actress

    Like we said with actors, in a theater town as big as NYC, there's really no one single best actress. But you know who we've been thinking is pretty damn great these days? Well, the Voice gave her an Obie Award last year for her ensemble work in an Off-Broadway show, and she was just as good in a revival of a difficult Edward Albee play. There's something a little frightening about her, something in her strong presence and sculpted looks, something a shade unnatural about her onstage. But... More »

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