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Sinking Ship Productions delivers ingenious new stage adaptations of three science fiction tales, using elements of story theatre, puppetry, and video. Part of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival.

In Rose Courtney's 'CYCLE - A Vaudeville Comedy', an unsure young woman goes in search of The Secret of Success, helped by an itinerant vaudeville troupe flung to our age from the 30s. Part of the New York International Fringe Festival.

Summer Shorts 2nd annual Festival of New American Plays includes 4 impressive one-act plays. Review of Series A.

Carol Lempert's one-woman show about Dorothy Parker naturally sparkles with wit, presented by Artistic New Directions as part of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival.

On an island in hell, Andromeda, Cleopatra, Heloise, Queen Victoria, and Joan of Arc all sit and wait, unchanging. And then comes erotica writer Anaïs Nin to turn their afterlives upside down, in David Stallings' fascinating play Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell, part of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival.

A silly romance novel comes amusingly to life in Katherine Heller's play 'The Boy in the Basement', part of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival.

When a wood nymph marries a stolid banker, she becomes sex-starved and ends up becoming a pimp as she learns about sexual commerce in Stanton Wood's new Fairy Tale Satire 'Big Thick Rod', presented by Rabbit Hole Ensemble as part of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival.

Aztec Economy presents the one-man multimedia piece 'Bring Me the Head of John Ford' as part of The Brick's 'The Film Festival: A Theatre Festival'.

Bated Breath Theatre Company presents a nontraditional adaptation of Ibsen's classic 'A Doll's House', in a new version by Helene Kvale.

Ars Nova presents 'Jollyship the Whiz-Bang', an hilarious 'Pirate Puppet Rock Odyssey', now through June 28th!

James Carmichael's brilliant new play 'Stomp and Shout (an' Work It All Out)', based on the true story of the FBI investigation of the dirty lyrics of 'Louie Louie', is given a terrific production by Babel Theatre Project.

T. Schreiber Studio presents impressive realizations of two comedic one-acts that examine theatre; Christopher Durang's 'The Actor's Nightmare' paired with Tom Stoppard's 'The Real Inspector Hound'

Theatre Ten Ten's production of 'A Grand Night for Singing' is an entertaining but rather tepid revue of songs extricated from Rodgers and Hammerstein's oeuvre.

'Colorful World', the new play by James Comtois, presented by Nosedive Productions, is a sometimes confused - sometimes intriguing look at the neuroses of former costumed superheroes in an alternate world.

Astoria Performing Arts Center presents a diverting production of 'Triumph of Love', the much-maligned Marivaux musical.

Emerging Artists Theatre's annual Spring EATfest presents 4 new one-act plays.

Emerging Artists Theatre's annual Spring EATfest presents 5 new one-act plays.

Clay McLeod Chapman and Kyle Jarrow's new indie-rock musical 'Hostage Song' is an intense and meaningful exploration of the people involved in and affected by a hostage situation.

Alchemy Theatre Company presents 'Umbrella' by L. Pontius, a nihilistic look at the ways people try to deaden the pain of living in the city.

Mark J. Chaney's play 'Thirty-Seven Stones, or the Man Who Was a Quarry', produced by Working Man's Clothes Productions, is a black comedy about kidney stones and dysfunctional families.