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James L. Larocca's 'Penang', presented by BOO-Arts, is an over-long examination of the friendship of two men during the Vietnam war.

The Keen Company delivers a finely nuanced production of five Thornton Wilder short plays, which show the playwright's concern with matters spiritual and secular.

A charming love story with a conspicuously crass title, David Eric Davis and Sam Forman's 'F#@cking Up Everything' is a delightful indie-rock musical.

Nancy Carlin and Michael Rasbury's musical "Max Understood" is quite unlike most musical theatre fare: an imagined trip into the mind of an autistic child, through new-age music and sampled sounds.

In Lucy Thurber's ostentatiously searing play 'Killers and Other Family', a young woman trying to escape her past is confronted by her brother and a man with whom she's had a complicated relationship.

Suzanne Bachner?s gripping comic drama Sex Ed examines the lives of students and cluelessness of teachers in a private school, as three performers play the teachers and the students.

The revival of Tony Sportiello's dark Internet comedy 'LOL' at his Algonquin Theater has a talented and funny cast.

'The Big Gay Musical', a movie by Fred M. Caruso, is an innocuous romp through a musicalized Eden and an idealized New York.

Richard Hoehler's new play 'Fathers & Sons' is a tour-de-force for two actors who play variations on paternal relationships.

Joshua Conkel's brilliant new play 'MilkMilkLemonade' is the hilariously absurd and moving tale of a young boy growing up Gay and artistic in a world that values neither.

Paul Schultz's new musical 'Eat, Drink & be Merry' is a confused revue of skits following Adam and Eve through centuries of food.

Daniel MacIvor's new play 'His Greatness' (according to the program, 'Inspired by a potentially true story about playwright Tennessee Williams'), is a funny and touching play about fading glory and addiction to fame and other narcotics.

Rabbit Hole Ensemble presents Stanton Wood?s Candide Americana, a brilliant new adaptation of Voltaire?s classic, which drops the optimistic hero amid the most recent American disasters.

In Louise Flory's 'Look After You', part of the 2009 FringeNYC, a photographer with a brain aneurysm has conflicts with her family while struggling with the loss of her short-term memory.

J.J. Kandel and John McCormack present 'Summer Shorts 3: Series B', the latest in their annual festival of new short American plays, with a group of plays wildly diverse in both type and quality.

BOO-Arts presents a lively production of George Bernard Shaw's classic 'Mrs. Warren's Profession' at Manhattan Theatre Source.

Shotgun Players present 'Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage', a Banana Bag and Bodice Songplay, a meta-Brechtian Weill-rock experience.

Heiress Productions presents Mark Dunn's 'Belles: a play in two acts and forty-five phone calls', about 6 sisters from Texas who keep in touch by phone.

The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) presents the first New York revival of Arthur Miller's 'Incident at Vichy' in 25 years.

Wreckio Ensemble presents 'Rooftops', a fascinating new play by Karly Maurer, set in a dystopic future where debtors are forced into sexual slavery.