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Madison Square Garden - The Theater

Musical

Location: 4 Penn Plaza (Seventh Avenue and 31st Street)

A Broadway theatre experience for the entire family… about what it means to be a family... canine and courageous! Starring Rachel York as Cruella De Vil.

This family-friendly tale concerns Mr. and Mrs. Pongo, a pair of spotted dogs, whose puppies are dog-napped by Cruella de Vil

Running time: TBA

New World Stages - Stage 1

Comedy

Location: 340 West 50th Street
(between Eighth and Ninth Avenues)

Four actors breathlessly and hilariously reenact all of the characters, locations and famous scenes in Hitchcock’s 1935 film thriller with just a few props and a lot of theatrical ingenuity and split second quick changes.

Part espionage thriller and part slapstick comedy, the production features four actors who portray all the characters and all the action from the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film, including the chase atop the Flying Scotsman train, a bi-plane crash and the death-defying finale in London’s Palladium Theatre.

Running time: TBA

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Musical

Location: 205 West 46th Street

They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky — and they're coming to Broadway. A dream cast takes on the quirky characters in a new and original Addams Family tale.

Running time: TBA

Atlantic Theater Company/ Linda Gross Theater

Drama

Location: 336 West 20th Street

Seán McGinley and Stephen Rea star in the U.S. premiere of a gruff, poignant and funny new play written for them by Sam Shepard. Atlantic Theater Company the Abbey Theatre's production.

Byron and Ames are old friends, re-united by mutual desperation. Over bourbon on ice, they sit, reflect and bicker until fifty years of love, friendship and rivalry are put to the test at the barrel of a gun.

Running time: TBA

Henry Miller's Theatre

Musical

Location: 124 West 43rd Street

Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein join forces, and heaven knows what will happen.

Song stylist Michael Feinstin performs standards, both old and new, that he has kept a vital part of America's musical heritage, while comic royalty Dame Edna attempts to remain queen of the realm. Should be interesting.

Running time: 2 hours and 20 minutes, including intermission.

St. James Theatre

Musical

Location: 246 West 44th Street

Green Day's epic album morphs into a high-octane rock opera about war, drugs, dreams and reality.

Working-class characters — from the suburbs to the city to the Middle East — seek redemption in a world filled with frustration.

Running time: 95 minutes, with no intermission

Brooklyn Academy of Music - Harvey Theater

Comedy

Location: 651 Fulton Street (between Ashland Place and Rockwell Place)

Year two of The Bridge Project promises another stellar transatlantic lineup and an intriguing pairing of two Shakespeare plays as Mendes and company explore outcasts, power, and magical lands with their world premiering productions

Running time: 1 hour and 45 Minutes with one intermission

New World Stages Stage 3

Musical

Location: 340 West 50th Street (between Eighth and Ninth Avenues)

Sesame Street meets South Park: They may look familiar, but these puppets (and their human counterparts) have an irreverent take on the joys and travails of making it on your own. Winner of the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical.

Singing puppets and their human neighbors tackle life's most vexing issues - including love, sex, money, race and how to tell your roommate he's gay. The place is New York City, and the street is Avenue Q, the only address you can afford when you're fresh out of college, or out of a job, or just trying to find your way in life. A new musical for grown-ups.
Contains mature language and situations; not intended for children.

Running time: 2 hours and 15 minutes with one intermission

Webster Hall

Performance

Location: 125 East 11th Street

An interactive theatrical experience that takes you back to 1989. Dust off your Members Only jacket and come dance with a cheerleader! Come back to 1989 and relive your high school prom.

Running time: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Beacon Theatre

Performance

Location: 2124 Broadway (between 74th & 75th Streets)

Cirque du Soleil's modern vaudeville Banana Shpeel is a roller-coaster mix of styles that blends comedy with tap, hip hop, eccentric dance and slapstick, all linked by a hilarious narrative that ignites a succession of wacky adventures!

Shmelky, a cruel and irritable producer, dangles fame and fortune in front of Emmett, an innocent and romantic actor who has come to audition for him. Emmett soon finds himself trapped in a flamboyant, anarchic world where Shmelky sows terror and reigns supreme.

Running time: TBA

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

Dark Comedy

Location: 236 West 45th Street

Martin McDonagh transplants his Grand Guignol-style comedy from Ireland to Washington state in the world premiere of his latest play.

Take a man searching for his missing hand, two con artists out to make a few hundred bucks, and an overly curious hotel clerk, and the rest is up for grabs.

Running time: Approximately 90 minutes with no intermission

Imperial Theatre

Musical

Location: 249 West 45th St., between 8th and 9th Avenues

“Billy Elliot” reunites the team behind the award-wining 2000 film. Director Stephen Daldry, writer Lee Hall and choreographer Peter Darling plus the musical mastery of Sir Elton John turn the highly acclaimed film into an all-singing, all-dancing stage spectacular.

“Billy Elliot” is a funny, heart-warming and feel-good celebration of one young boy's dream in a gripping tale of triumph over adversity. Based on the enormously popular film, this powerful 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.

Running time: 2 hours and 45 minutes including one intermission

St. Luke's Theatre

Drama

Location: 308 West 46th Street

Winner of the 2009 NAACP Award for Best Ensemble, and a 2009 Artistic Director Achievement Award for Best Play.

Based on true events, six men explore their collective struggle with Jim Crow, their intelligence, patriotism, dreams of an inclusive fair society, and brotherhood as they become the first African-American fighter pilots in the U.S. Army Air Forces.

Running time: TBA

Rattlestick Theatre

Drama

Location: 224 Waverly Place

The blindness of two individuals. The blindness of a culture. In this contemporary re-telling of Oedipus, a woman and her younger husband slowly re-discovers the secret they thought they had buried deep within the cavities of their unconscious.

Miscellaneous:
Contains nudity. Not suitable for audiences under age 17

Running time: TBA

Public Theatre/ Newman Theater

Musical

Location: 425 Lafayette Street

After last spring's sold-out Public LAB run, the critically acclaimed rock musical--a fast-paced entertainment that takes a sharp, irreverent look at America’s seventh president--returns as part of The Public's season in a co-production with Center Theatre Group and in association with Les Freres Corbusier. , Andrew Jackson.

A "darkly funny yet historically accurate story [in which] Andrew Jackson rises from a humble frontier background to battle the British, the Spanish, Native Americans and a young nation's already calcified political system, bringing populism and the Democratic Party to the American people."

Running time: TBA

Astor Place Theatre

Performance

Location: 434 Lafayette St.

The loopy, gently avant-garde trio of silent performers continues with their long-running production at the Astor Place Theatre. The three-man new-vaudeville Blue Man Group pounds on just about anything it can get its azure little hands on.

Running time: 2 hours without intermission

Public Theatre/ Anspacher Theater

Drama

Location: 425 Lafayette St.

When a young man returns home to South Texas to confront his father, everyday life erupts into a battle for personal survival.

Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks draws a family portrait shattered by issues of rage, revenge, power and betrayal. At once fiercely intimate and explosive, The Book of Grace weaves the story of three people bound together by love and longing, passion and ambition.

Running time: TBA

Times Square Arts Center

Comedy

Location: 669 Eighth Avenue (at 42nd Street)

Come join the Teitelbaum, Grossman and Boychick families as they celebrate young Harry Boychick becoming a man. From the heart-warming ceremony to the zany reception after, you’ll not only watch, you’ll be a part of the drama and fun as it unfolds!

According to Jewish tradition, today 13-year-old Harry Boychick becomes a man. In the spirit of Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding and Grandma Sylvia's Funeral), the audience witnesses the Bar Mitzvah ceremony and attends the reception along with assorted entertainingly dysfunctional family members. So "ess ess mein kind" (eat up) and get ready to dance a celebratory hora (traditional circle dance).

Running time: TBA

Transport Group

Genre: None

Location: 37 W. 26th Street, Penthouse

Don't miss this opportunity to see one of the theatre's most groundbreaking plays re-imagined in a non-traditional theatrical venue! A group of gay men celebrate a birthday party.(Play)

Running time: TBA

Irish Repertory Theatre

Comedy/Drama

Location: 132 West 22nd Street

Two men both want Candida, but they both forget she is her own woman.

An impetuous young poet comes between a progressive-minded clergyman and his charismatic wife, who shrewdly and sympathetically puts their competing claims for her love to the test.

Running time: TBA

Ambassador Theatre

Musical

Location: 219 West 49th St., between Broadway and 8th Avenue

“Murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery--all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts."

So begins the musical Chicago--and creators John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse never back off from their bold and sinister promise. Chicago is the kiss-and-tell tale of Roxie Hart, a chorus girl who kills her lover as a career move; Billy Flynn, a sharp lawyer who turns Roxie into a celebrity; and Velma Kelly, a dancing jailbird with an ear for headlines and an eye for talent.

Running time: 2 hours; 30 minutes with one intermission

Bleecker Street Theatre
Comedy

Location: 45 Bleecker Street (between Lafayette and Mott)

An extraordinary spiritual, creative, and hilarious journey.

Yisrael Campbell takes the audience on a journey through his struggles with drugs and alcohol and his eventual salvation in the Jewish faith. Though he was born Catholic, Yisrael (who changed his name from Christopher) charts an extraordinary journey that includes three circumcisions along the way.

Running time: 75 Minutes (with no Intermission)

Playwrights Horizons/ Mainstage Theatre
Comedy

Location: 416 West 42nd Street

In 1959, a white family moves out. In 2009, a white family moves in. In the intervening years, change overtakes a neighborhood, along with attitudes, inhabitants and property values. This pitch-black comedy from Bruce Norris takes on the specter of gentrification in one of America’s most recognizable communities.

Running time: TBA

Theatre Row Theatre
Comedy/Drama

Location: 424 West 42nd Street

You’re invited to the brilliant, witty world of The Cocktail Party!

Edward and Lavinia Chamberlayne are throwing a party at their fashionable London flat. The guests arrive only to discover that their hostess is no where to be found and a rather strange man, who no one knows, seems right at home

Running time: TBA

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Drama

Location: 261 West 47th Street

Linda Lavin is Ruth Steiner, a celebrated author who becomes a mentor (and rival) to a young writer.

Running time: TBA

Marquis Theatre

Dance

Location: 1535 Broadway

Twyla Tharp matches her choreography to the mood and emotion of a host of Sinatra songs - performed by the late Chairman of the Board backed by an onstage band.

Four couples fall in and out of love in a song-and-dance filled nightclub.

Running time: TBA

St. Luke's Theatre

Musical

Location: 308 West 46th Street

Danny and Silvia features many of Danny's hit songs that are seamlessly woven into the story of Danny's rise from an improvisational comic to an international film star under the guidance of Sylvia Fine who served as mentor, manager and wife.

Running time: TBA

The Downstairs Theatre at Sofia’s

Comedy

Location: 221 West 46th Street

The longest running solo play in Broadway history comes back to NYC for a limited time only!

A solo comedy about the gender gap, the origins of male and female behavior, and a time-traveling Neanderthal. Makes us laugh at ourselves about all the ways men and women fight, laugh and love.

Running time: TBA

St. Clement's Theatre

Tragedy

Location: 423 West 46th Street

Romance turns to horror as the Duchess yearns for a forbidden love. Penned just a few years after Shakespeare's Macbeth, this brutal tale of inter-familial schemes has moments of glorious poetry.

Running time: TBA

New Victory Theater

Opera

Location: 209 West 42nd Street

Once Upon a Time, three princesses unlocked a secret door... and opened a grand adventure.

Princess Flora, the youngest of three gangly, gum-chewing sisters, learns her betrothed is a boar. Swept off to the north, she discovers (of course!) that her hoggy hubby is hexed and only she can break the spell.

Running time: TBA

Broadhurst Theatre

Drama

Location: 235 West 44th Street

Bold imagery, music, dance and video bring to life this true tale of financial skullduggery. Recommended for the economics challenged.

Enron looks at the collapse of the Texas energy company in the 1990s and casts a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself today.

Running time: 2 hours and 40 minutes, which includes a 15-minute intermission

Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage I

Drama

Location: 131 West 55th Street

Equivocation is a bold new look at the greatest playwright ever in a drama whose contemporary parallels are unmistakable and whose laughter is abundant – a work of startling revelations and vibrant theatricality.

Running time: TBA

Irish Repertory Theatre

Musical

Location: 132 West 22nd Street

Irish Rep revives the 1960 musical version of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

This sparkling and witty musical about social hypocrisy among the crème de la crème of Victorian England is a faithful adaptation of Wilde's comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest.

Running time: TBA

Algonquin Theater

Musical Revue

Location: 123 East 24th Street

A musical entertainment featuring a talented young cast and a bright, original score commenting on current events, celebrities and life and love in the Big Apple, An Evening at the Carlyle will transport you 40 blocks north to the swankiest “mecca northeast of Tribeca," Bemelmans Bar in the Hotel Carlyle.

Running time: TBA

Eugene O'Neill Theatre

Musical

Location: 230 West 49th Street

Fela! explores 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 reveals Kuti's controversial life as artist, political activist and musician.

Running time: 2 hours and 15 minutes, which includes a 15-minute intermission

Cort Theatre

Drama

Location: 138 West 48th Street

Denzel Washington stars in the first Broadway revival of August Wilson's Fences as Troy Maxson, an African-American struggling with racial barriers, betrayal and life's disappointments.

Set in 1950s Pittsburgh, the drama follows Troy Maxson, a former baseball player in the Negro Leagues, now reduced to collecting trash. Troy must deal with his headstrong football-player son, who has a chance to go so much further than he did, and with his wife, who reevaluates their marriage when Troy comes home with the baby he fathered with another woman. Winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for drama.

Running time: TBA

Daryl Roth Theatre

Special

Location: 20 Union Square East

A new extravaganza from the creators of De La Guarda.

A non-stop collision of dynamic music, visceral emotion, and kinetic aerial imagery, “Fuerzabruta” promises to be one of the most exciting events of the fall season. Having already taken South America and Europe by storm, this all new work from the creators of the revolutionary theatre spectacle De La Guarda defies easy categorization.

Featuring mind-blowing visual effects that simply need to be seen to be believed - a man running full throttle through a series of moving walls, young women frolicking in a watery world suspended just inches above the audience. “Fuerzabruta” is a theatrical experience that floods the senses.

*Please note: “Fuerzabruta” is general admission and due to the nature of the show, audience members will stand throughout the performance.

Running time: 65 minutes with no intermission

New World Stages, Stage 3

Special Event

Location: 340 West 50th St.

Bubble Artist Fan Yang brings his magnificent show to New York!

Over the past two decades, Fan Yang has explored the fragile and mysterious world of soap bubbles and emerged with a completely new medium, blending art and science to dazzle audiences around the globe. Hailed by David Letterman of The Late Show, as "The Greatest Bubble Artist in the World", Fan Yang's gorgeous and unique creations defy gravity and logic as we know it. He holds (and has broken his own) Guinness World records for the biggest bubble ever blown, the largest bubble wall ever created (a staggering 156 feet!), most bubbles within a bubble, and in May 2006, was able to encapsulate 22 people inside a single soap bubble on live television in Madrid.

Gazillion Bubble Show is the first and only interactive stage production of its kind, complete with fantastic light effects, lasers, and jaw-dropping masterpieces of bubble artistry. Children and adults of all ages are sure to be amazed, mystified and enchanted!

Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes, no intermission

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

Comedy

Location: 242 West 45th Street

The masks (and the gloves) come off in this witty dissection of bourgeois values.

Two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children. Will it be a calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave properly? Or will it turn into a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears before bedtime?

Running time: Approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission

Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Musical

Location: 302 West 45th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues

Let the sun shine: The Age of Aquarius is reborn and is profoundly relevant more than 40 years after its initial dawning. This acclaimed production played Central Park last summer.

Running Time: 2 hours 25 minutes including one 15 minute intermission

Primary Stages, 59E59 Theater A

Dark Comedy

Location: 59 East 59th Street

A chance encounter at a hotel plays upon Kitty’s mind as she struggles to balance personal freedom with family life, fidelity and a demanding job. Happy Now? dares to ask its title question, in a painfully truthful, darkly comic take on contemporary life and how to survive it.

Running Time: TBA

New York City Center - Stage II

None

Location: 151 West 55th Street

Louisa Gradgrind was trained to shun emotion, imagination, and passion. But faced with a loveless marriage and a life devoid of dreams, Louisa has begun to wonder; has something inside her been maimed? In this whirlwind adaptation of Dickens’ saga, the darkest industrial landscape fills with honesty, loyalty and joy.

Running Time: TBA

Richard Rodgers

Musical

Location: 226 West 46th St.

The immigrant dreamers in Washington Heights discover what it means to be a community. This Tony Award winner features a salsa, merengue and hip-hop-flavored score.

Running time: 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission

August Wilson Theatre

Musical

Location: August Wilson Theatre, 245 West 52nd St., between Broadway and Eighth Avenues

Jersey Boys is the story of how a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all time “Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons.” They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds, and sold 175 million records worldwide-all before they were 30!

This new musical features their beloved hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You," just to name a few. Meet Broadway's Jersey Boys this fall

Running time: 2 hours and 30 minutes including one 15-minute intermission.

Longacre Theatre

Musical

Location: 220 West 48th Street

The Menier Chocolate Factory's acclaimed revival hits the Broadway boards, starring Douglas Hodge (Olivier Award) as Albin, a drag performer with a heart of gold.

Jerry Herman's musical, based on the French film of the same name, is the story of a gay couple who must pretend to be straight -- with one of the men in drag -- for one night to dupe a conservative senator. Songs include "The Best of Times," "Song on the Sand" "I Put a Little More Mascara On" and "With You on My Arm."

Running time: 2 hours and 40 minutes, which includes one 20-minute intermission

SoHo Repertory Theatre

Drama

Location: 46 Walker Street (between Church Street & Broadway)

A striking tragedy about despair, the end of life and familial piety. An exploration of Shakespeare's famous play focuses not on the aging Lear and Gloucester, but rather on their adult children who turned their backs on their fathers' suffering

Running time: TBA

Music Box Theatre

Comedy

Location: 239 West 45th Street

Because he is presumed dead, the renowned opera singer "Il Stupendo" cannot go on, so an understudy prepares to play the part. Presiding over the door-slamming chaos is director Stanley Tucci; Anthony LaPaglia and Tony Shalhoub star.

Running time: 2 hours, including one 15-minute intermission

Acorn Theatre

Drama

Location: 410 West 42nd Street

Ethan Hawke directs a starry cast in Sam Shepard's play for The New Group.

Jake and Beth - they have damaged each other irreversibly and are camped apart with their families who close ranks, supposedly to protect them. Set against the powerful backdrop of wild Montana and California, Shepard draws a finely detailed map of domestic intimacies, tracing the threads that hold together not just an individual's identity, but the very structure of the family.

Running time: TBA

13th Street Repertory Company

Comedy

Location: 50 West 13th Street (Btwn Fifth and Sixth)

Israel Horowitz's long-running comedy. American absurdist comedy about a bunch of people waiting in a line that no one knows what its for.

Running time: 1 hour

Minksoff Theatre

Musical

Location: 200 West 45th Street

Julie Taymor's acclaimed staging of the Disney animated film has been hailed as a Broadway landmark. The story focuses on a young lion cub's personal journey toward his destiny as king.

The Lion King tells the story of the epic adventures of a young lion cub named Simba as he struggles to accept the responsibilities of adulthood and his destined role as king.

Running time: 2 hours, 40 minutes with one intermission

American Airlines Theatre

Comedy/Drama

Location: 227 West 42nd Street

Two straight couples weekending at a gay community on Fire Island misbehave, misconstrue and eventually learn something about love and life.

At a beach house on Fire Island, a brother and sister and their respective spouses attempt to celebrate the Fourth of July with a gnawing uncertainty that makes their affluent habits and petty prejudices sizzle in the summer sun.

Running time: TBA

Walter Kerr Theatre

Musical

Location: 219 West 48th Street

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury head the cast of the revival of Sondheim and Wheeler's landmark musical.

Sondheim's 1973 musical is based on the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, about an aging actress, Desiree Armfeldt. She finds herself renewing a romance with a married lawyer when she grows tired of her blustering soldier lover, and the lawyer grows impatient with his resistently virginal child-bride. Romantic subplots collide during one eventful weekend in the country. The score includes "Send in the Clowns," "Liaisons," "The Miller's Son," "Every Day a Little Death" and "A Weekend in the Country.

Running time: Two hours and 40 minutes, which includes one 15-minute intermission

Lion Theatre

Drama

Location: 410 West 42nd Street

LOADED taps into the zeitgeist of 21st century gay culture which is trying to make sense of the bewildering chasm that separates middle-aged and younger gay men.

Two men attempt to see if their casual sexual relationship has the potential for something more. Instead, the generation that separates them leads to a series of misunderstandings and assumptions. Their conversation turns from the darkly comic to the serious, ultimately leading to a tragic turn of events.

Running time: 90 Minutes with no intermission

Lyceum Theatre

Comedy

Location: 149 West 45th Street

Valerie Harper portrays Tallulah Bankhead while the seriously out-of-control stage and film actress struggles to complete her final screen role (Die, Die My Darling).

Hello, dahling. Come meet film and stage actress Tallulah Bankhead, known for her whiskey voice, innumerable affairs with men and women, outlandish exploits and outrageous wit.

Running time: 2 hours, which includes one 15-minute intermission

Westside Theatre (Downstairs)

Performance

Location: 407 West 43rd Street

All-star casts take the stage in this collection of monologues and reminiscences of clothes, memory and life. Written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on Ilene Beckerman's book of the same name.

This collection of vignettes and monologues is based on the best-selling book by Ilene Beckerman, as well as on the recollections of the Ephrons’ friends. Like the book, the show uses clothing and accessories and the memories they trigger to tell funny and often poignant stories that all women can relate to.

Running time: TBA

Theatre - TBA

Musical

Location: TBA

Love Never Dies continues the story of the Phantom of the Opera, who has moved from his lair in the Paris Opera house to haunt the fairgrounds of Coney Island, far across the Atlantic. Set 10 years after the mysterious disappearance of the Phantom from Paris, this show is a rollercoaster ride of obsession and intrigue, in which music and memory can play cruel tricks, and the Phantom sets out to prove that, indeed, “Love Never Dies."

Running time: TBA

59E59 Theater B

Solo

Location: 59 E 59th Street

Under trying circumstances Dr. King finds himself alone in Room 306, struggling with his past, anxious about his future, and coming to terms with his life.

A fictional account of the last night in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The story unfolds on the rainy, windswept evening of April 3, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Running time: TBA

Winter Garden Theatre

Musical

Location: 1634 Broadway at West 50th St.

The setting is a Greek island where 20-year-old Sophie is due to be married. Her mom, Donna (who happens to be a former singing star) is there, but her father isn't...because she's never met him. So, Sophie snoops in her mom's diary, chooses three former lovers as likely candidates and invites them to the wedding, hoping she can just figure it out when she sees them!

This musical dances to a disco beat, featuring 22 of Swedish singing sensation ABBA's greatest hits, including "Dancing Queen," "The Winner Takes It All," "Take A Chance on Me," "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and "Super Trouper". These pop songs weave together an enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship.

Running time: 2 hours and 30 minutes with one 15-minute intermission

Theatre Row Theatre

Solo

Location: 424 West 42nd Street

One man portrays six raw, flawed and beautiful lives

Six Lives yearn to change the world and sometimes themselves. A journey about transformation and embracing polarities.

Running time: TBA

New Amsterdam Theater

Musical

Location: 214 West 42nd St., between Broadway and Eighth Avenues

Based on P.L. Travers' cherished stories and the classic 1964 Walt Disney film, Mary Poppins - currently one of London's biggest sensations - features the Sherman brothers' original Academy Award-winning songs, and Oliver Award-winning director Richard Eyre leads a dream team of vision and stagecraft, bringing to life the story of the Banks family and their magical nanny.

Mary Poppins marks the first collaboration between Disney, producer of the acclaimed “The Lion King,”” Beauty and the Beast,” “and Tarzan®,” and Cameron Mackintosh, legendary producer of the record-breaking ‘The Phantom of the Opera,” “Cats,” and “Les Miserables.” The result is a new musical so extraordinarily enchanting that you'll have just one word for it: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"

Running time: 2 hours and 40 minutes, with an intermission.

The Duke Theater

Drama

Location: 229 West 42nd Street (between Seventh and Eighth Avenue)

Following last season's acclaimed Othello, director Arin Arbus returns to Theatre for a New Audience with another Shakespeare production, a dark comedy of a society out of balance. Corrupt power confronts ruthless justice, the letter of the law obscures the quality of mercy, and the noblest of spirits must reflect on the basest of appetites in this sly, bawdy, provocative and extraordinarily modern play.

Running time: TBA

Sam S. Shubert Theatre

Musical

Location: 225 West 44th Street

A music-loving mixed-race couple struggles to survive during the early Civil Rights era in Memphis. What happens when a 1950's Memphis DJ with white listeners decides to play African-American music? Is Memphis ready for it? Is America? The story was inspired by the legendary DJ Dewey Phillips and the music that became known as “rock ’n' roll.”

Running time: 2 hours and 30 minutes, which includes a 15-minute intermission

Nederlander Theatre

Musical

Location: 208 West 41st Street

When four fledgling rock and rollers — Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins — gather in Sam Phillips' Sun Records studio, there's a whole lotta shakin' going on.

Join Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash at a legendary 1956 jam session at Sun Records in Memphis.

Running time: TBA

Circle in the Square Theatre

Drama

Location: 1633 Broadway

Abigail Breslin and Alison Pill star as Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan in William Gibson's inspiring drama.

This deeply moving family drama is based on the true story of a young deaf and blind girl, Helen Keller, and her dedicated teacher Annie Sullivan, who at last succeeds in reaching into Helen's terrible isolation and bringing her into contact with the outside world.

Running time: Approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission

Bleecker Street Theatre

Performance

Location: 45 Bleecker Street (between Lafayette and Mott)

Non-stop amazement and amusement, wit and wonderment--New York's longest running Off-Broadway Magic Show!

Running time: Approximately two hours and 15 minutes with one 20-minute intermission.

Second Stage Theatre

Comedy

Location: 305 West 43rd Street (at Eighth Avenue)

John Lithgow and Jennifer Ehle are the titular gossip columnists in a new comedy by Douglas Carter Beane.

When the social circuit no longer provides juicy morsels for gossip columnists Fitch, they find that great celebrity can appear out of thin air. A scathing look at who is in, who is out and who may not even exist.

Running time: TBA

Arno Ristorante

Comedy

Location: 141 West 38th St. (Between Broadway/7th Avenue)

In this interactive comedy, mingle with mobsters and molls while enjoying a delicious dinner.

Running time: 2 hr 45 min

New World Stages, Stage 4

Musical

Location: 340 West 50th St.

This long-running musical revue stays true to its title. “Naked Boys Singing!,” now in its eighth year off-Broadway, celebrates the splendors of male nudity through comedy, song, and dance.

It is a traditional musical revue, in the vein of Vaudeville and high-camp American musical theater. The show's 16 musical numbers range from the screamingly funny and sassy opening number "Gratuitous Nudity" or the circumcision-based "Bliss of a Bris", to poignant and moving numbers like "Kris Look What You've Missed" and "Window to Window".

The NY Daily News says “Naked Boys Singing!’ is, "Bound to be a hit with gays, straights and everyone in between!" And boy are they are right! Since the original Los Angeles production and in countless international productions across the globe, the ”Naked Boys” has always attracted an extremely eclectic audience…men, women, senior citizens, mothers, fathers Rabbis, strippers, nudist groups, bachelorette parties galore and people from all walks of life.

Running time: 1 hour and 15 minutes, with no intermission.

Helen Hayes Theatre

Drama

Location: 240 West 44th Street

A witty and provocative look at faith, commitment and love, Next Fall focuses on the five-year relationship between Adam and Luke.

A Christian gives an atheist the Heimlich, and dislodges more than they bargained for.

Longacre Theatre

Musical

Location: 220 West 48th Street

A typical American family deals with love and loss as one of its members struggles with her illness.

Running time: Two hours and 20 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission

45 Bleecker, Mainstage

Musical

Location: 45 Bleecker Street

No one in the News is safe!

The Drama Desk nominated NEWSical the Musical is back lampooning current events, headlines, newsmakers, celebrities, and politicians. With songs and material being updated on a regular basis, composer-lyricist Rick Crom's topical musical comedy is an ever-evolving mockery of all the news that is fit to spoof!

Running time: 90 minutes with no intermission

Signature Theatre Company

Drama

Location: 555 West 42nd Street

Signature Theatre Company devotes its entire 2009-10 season to a world premiere production with Hartford Stage of Horton Foote's The Orphans' Home Cycle. Foote's final work is a wide-ranging, intricate work in three parts that spans the lives of three families over three decades.

Running time: TBA

Barrow Street Theatre

Drama

Location: 27 Barrow Street

Director David Cromer's acclaimed intimate staging of the Thornton Wilder classic comes to NY from Chicago's Hypocrites Theater Company

Running time: TBA

Snapple Theatre Center

Drama

Location: 210 West 50th St., on 7th Avenue

Margaret Brent is an accomplished Connecticut psychiatrist‹and potential cold-blooded killer. When her wealthy husband turns up dead, she gets caught in the middle of a terrifying game of cat and mouse with a deranged patient and the handsome but duplicitous investigator assigned to the case.

Running time: 1 hour and 55 minutes with one intermission

45 Bleecker, Mainstage

Musical

Location: 45 Bleecker Street

Is there such a thing as too much Pink!

Pinkalicious can't stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings from her parents. Her pink indulgence lands her at the doctor's office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink from head to toe - a dream come true for this pink loving enthusiast. But when her hue goes too far, only Pinkalicious can figure out a way to get out of this predicament.

Running time: 1 hour

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Drama

Location: 261 West 47th Street

Although a group of working-class British painters is celebrated for its artistry, they still toil in a coal mine each day.

The Pitmen Painters tells the story of a group of Ashington coal miners who, in 1934, hire a professor to teach an art appreciation evening class.

Running time: TBA

American Airlines Theatre

Comedy

Location: 227 West 42nd Street

Vain matinee idol Garry Essedine becomes entangled in the amusing personal crises of the people around him, which are largely of his own making.

Running time: 2 hours and 30 minutes, with two 10-minute intermissions

Lucille Lortel Theatre

Drama

Location: 121 Christopher Street

After taking London by storm last season in an Olivier Award-winning production at the Royal Court, The Pride makes its American premiere at MCC Theater. Joe Mantello directs four of Britain's most acclaimed young actors in this alternately tough and touching look at love and betrayal.

Running time: TBA

Broadway Theatre

Musical

Location: 1681 Broadway

Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes star in a revival of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David/Neil Simon tuner, based on the Billy Wilder film, The Apartment.

To get ahead, a junior executive allows bigwigs to use his apartments for trysts. But what happens when his own office crush is one of the visitors? Songs include "I'll Never Fall in Love Again." Based on the movie The Apartment by Billy Wilder.

Running time: TBA

Ethel Barrymore Theatre

None

Location: 243 West 47th Street

David Mamet + edgy material + the state of the world = Race.

Complete with an intriguing title comes provocateur David Mamet's latest play.

Running time: 100 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission

John Golden Theatre

Drama

Location: 252 West 45th Street

Pioneering artist Mark Rothko wins a commission to create murals for an elite client, which, with the aid of his assistant cum sounding board, causes him to question the very nature of art.

Running time: 90 minutes, without intermission

Brooks Atkinson Theatre

Musical

Location: 256 West 47th Street

Hair band devotees rejoice: The anthems of the '80s are back. The new musical features the hits of Journey, Bon Jovi, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar and many more.

Running time:  2 hours and 20 minutes, including one 10-minute intermission

Vineyard Theatre

Musical

Location: 108 East 15th Street

World-Premiere of a new Kander & Ebb Musical!

A stirring new musical that explores the infamous 1930's 'Scottsboro Case', in which a group of innocent African-American teenagers are falsely accused of a terrible crime -- ultimately provoking a national outrage that sparked the American Civil Rights movement.

Running time:  TBA

Madison Square Garden - The Theater

Performance

Location: 4 Penn Plaza (Seventh Avenue and 31st Street)

Get ready to sing cowboy songs, ride the rails and more with Sesame Street Live When Elmo Grows Up!

When Elmo and his Sesame Street Live friends think about growing up, it's a musical show-and-tell! Bert dreams of becoming a forest ranger, Telly longs to be a cowboy and their newest friend, Abby Cadabby, wants to be a Fairy Godmother just like her mommy. But Elmo has a hard time deciding-he wants to be anything and everything all at once! "When Elmo Grows Up" includes lessons on perseverance, teamwork and the power of imagination. Children learn that if they believe in themselves and are willing to try, the possibilities are endless.

Running time: TBA

Studio 54

Musical Revue

Location: 254 West 54th Street

Sondheim on Sondheim presents an intimate portrait of one of musical theatre's greatest exponents. Starring Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams, Michael Arden and Leslie Kritzer.

A conceptual revue featuring Sondheim's songs, the music is punctuated with interview footage of the composer, providing an intimate view of his personal life and artistic process. The musical features more than two dozen Sondheim tunes.

Running time:  TBA

Vivian Beaumont Theatre

Musical

Location: 150 West 65th St. at Lincoln Center

Kelli O'Hara stars in the first Broadway revival of this classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.

Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific is set on a tropical island in the Pacific during World War II, where US Navy nurse Nellie Forbush falls in love with local plantation owner Emile De Becque. Meanwhile, Lt. Joe Cable has fallen in love with young Liat, daughter of the irrepressible Bloody Mary. Both couples' happiness is threatened by the realities of the war and by their own prejudices. Also on the island are dozens of locals and Navy, all of whom seem to break into glorious song and dance at just the right moments.

Running time: 3 hours including one 15-minute intermission

Hilton Theatre

Musical

Location: 213 West 42nd Street

Julie Taymor (The Lion King) and Bono and The Edge (of U2) bring to life the iconic superhero Spider-Man, who as high school student Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider and develops astonishing powers.

Running time: TBA

Orpheum Theatre

Special

Location: 126 2nd Avenue

Unusual everyday objects become instruments in this rhythmic explosion of a show.

Stomp is a high-energy, percussive symphony, coupled with dance, played entirely on unconventional instruments, such as garbage can lids, buckets, brooms, and sticks. It is a movement, of bodies, objects, sounds - even abstract ideas, made completely original through the use of everyday objects in totally non-traditional ways.

Stomp creators Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas were a group of street performers commonly know as "buskers," who spent their time trying to grab people's attention in Brighton, England. They toured the world with their rhythmic antics, eventually landing full-force in downtown Manhattan, where the show has been making people of all ages tap (or stomp) their feet for over ten years. Don't miss it!

Running time: 90 minutes

New World Stages Stage

Drama

Location: 340 West 50th Street (between Eighth and Ninth Avenues)

The acclaimed play about the dawn of the American gay rights movement returns! Weaving together the personal and political, The Temperamentals tells a relatively unknown chapter in gay history, leading to the founding of the Mattachine Society in the perilous, unpredictable world of 1950s Los Angeles.

Two men--the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich--fall in love while building the first gay rights organization in the United States pre-Stonewall. An intimate portrayal of the men who created history and the epic struggles they overcame, The Temperamentals weaves together the personal and political to tell a relatively unknown chapter in gay history.

Running time: TBA

Webster Hall

Interactive Performance

Location: 125 East 11th Street.

You're gonna party like it's 1989! And this time you don't have a curfew.

The Awesome 80s Prom is a brand new blast-from-the-past party in the style of “Tony 'n Tina's Wedding” and “The Donkey Show” set at Wanaget High's Senior Prom... in 1989! All your favorite characters from your favorite '80s movies are at the prom, from the captain of the football team to the Asian exchange student, from the geek to the hottie head cheerleader, and they're all competing for Prom King and Queen. And just like on "American Idol", the audience decides who wins, all while moon walking to retro hits like "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go!" Come "Back In Time," to quote a Huey Lewis tune, and join the break dance circle or just sit back and watch the '80s drama unfold. Come on, you know you have a Members Only jacket somewhere... and if you're lucky, you'll even get to dance with a cheerleader.

Come at 7:30pm for dancing and Duran Duran. Then stay as late as you want after the prom at Webster Hall, one of NYC's legendary night spots.

Please note that ages 15 - 17 must be accompanied by an adult. Ages 14 and younger require special permission slips. Please call 212-874-8666 for more information. Anyone under 19 is not allowed to stay for the after-party at Webster Hall.

Running time: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Times Square Arts Center

Comedy

Location: 669 8th Ave. at 42nd St.

From the creator of the Off-Broadway smash-hit, “Grandma Sylvia’s Funeral”, comes a new generation of interactive comedy theatre… Be a guest at a Bar Mitzvah like no other… You are cordially invited to attend the Bar Mitzvah of Harry S. Boychick. Come join the Teitelbaum, Grossman and Boychick families as they celebrate young Harry Boychick becoming a man. From the heart-warming ceremony to the zany reception after, you’ll not only watch, you’ll be a part of the drama and fun as it unfolds!

Running time: 1 hour and 45 minutes

Snapple Theatre Center

Musical

Location: 210 West 50th St., on 7th Avenue

“The Fantasticks” tells the story of a young boy and girl who fall madly in love at the hands of their meddling fathers, but soon grow restless and stray from one another. Will their separation provide a deeper appreciation for the love they once shared—or create a permanent gulf between them? The Fantasticks is a quintessential celebration of love in all its gorgeous simplicity and heartbreaking complexities.

“The Fantasticks” originally opened at New York's Sullivan Street Playhouse on May 3, 1960, and played 17,162 performances before closing January 13, 2002, making it the world's longest-running musical. This production, directed by librettist Tom Jones includes the beloved songs "Try to Remember," "Soon It's Gonna Rain" and many more. If you've never seen this classic romantic fable—or if you've seen and loved it—now is the time to fall under the spell of “The Fantasticks” again.

Running time: 2 hours and 5 minutes with one intermission

Minetta Lane Theatre

Performance

Location: 18 Minetta Lane

Visual fireworks, visceral physicality and theatrical innovation blend to create a post-modern sensibility where anything is possible. Ground-breaking and provocative, the Flying Karamazov Brothers use their many talents to demonstrate that chaos and unexpected events in our lives is the stuff that makes us human.

The Flying Karamazov Brothers combine objects, musical instruments (both traditional and invented) and their own bodies in a unique blend of music, comedy, dance, theatre and juggling.

Running time: TBA

Minskoff Theatre

Musical

Location: 1515 Broadway

Giraffes strut, birds swoop, and gazelles leap! The entire savanna comes to life and, as the music soars, Pride Rock slowly rises out of the stage. This is The Lion King.

The winner of six 1998 Tony Awards, including Best New Musical, it is the story of a young lion cub named Simba who struggles to accept the responsibilities of adulthood and his destined role as king. To bring the classic 1994 film to life, Disney turned to the story's roots, its rich mythology, powerful human drama and primal African rhythms to create a fantastic new musical unlike anything Broadway has ever seen.

Running time: 2 hours and 45 minutes with one intermission

Majestic Theatre

Musical

Location: 247 West 44th St., between Broadway and 8th Avenues

Now the longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webber's “The Phantom of the Opera” has played to over 100 million people in 22 countries in 113 cities around the world since its first performance. The New York production alone has enchanted over 10 million audience members in it’s over 18-year run.

Running time: 2 hours and 30 minutes with one intermission

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Drama

Location: 261 West 47th Street

Laura Linney stars as a photojournalist who survived a roadside bombing but may not live through her marriage.

Sidelined by a serious injury, photojournalist Sarah Goodwin questions her personal and professional lives, and her place in the world.

Running time: 2 hours, which includes one 15-minute intermission

Vinnie Blacks Coliseum

Interactive Performance

Location: 221 West 46th St.

The Nunzio and Vitale families cordially invite you to come celebrate the nuptials of Tony and Tina.

At “Tony n' Tina's Wedding,” audience members actually play the roles of Tony and Tina's family and friends. These are roles we have all been practicing every time we go to a real wedding. This universal familiarity with the union of two individuals from two distinct families, regardless as to where you are from, will take you back and forth between fantasy and reality throughout the entire evening. For the ultimate experience... eat, drink, dance, converse and allow yourself to be caught up in the activities.

This all-inclusive evening of entertainment will be something you and your friends will be talking about for many years to come. In this hilarious interactive comedy, the audience is part of the show. As "invited guests," the audience begins the evening at Sofia's at the Edison Hotel to witness the holy nuptials. Following the ceremony, a rousing reception takes place. Dancing to a four-piece band, champagne toasts, a full pasta dinner and a slice of the wedding cake are all provided by the Nunzio and Vitale "families."

Running time: 2 hours and 45 minutes

Kraine Theatre

Performance

Location:85 East 4th Street

The New York Neo-Futurists' ever-changing race-against-the-clock attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes! Each performance features a different selection of original short plays (from over 1000) in random order-—a non-illusory collage of the comic and tragic, the political and personal, the visceral and experimental, embracing chance, change, and chaos.

Running Time: TBA

Classic Stage Company

Drama

Location:136 East 13th Street

Wes Bentley and Nina Arianda star in a new play by David Ives, directed by Walter Bobbie. A crackling exploration of sexual control and desire, the Venus in Fur is captive to David Ives’ famous combination of classic rigor and contemporary wit.

Running Time: TBA

Cort Theatre

Tragedy

Location:138 West 48th Street

Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson star in Arthur Miller's tragic story of a man who loses his honor.

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn laborer, holds family and honor above all else. He and his wife have raised a niece as their own and even now are sheltering illegal immigrants from the old country. But his possessive love of his niece drives him to actions that betray his family and his ideals.

Running Time: Two hours, which includes a 15-minute intermission.

Palace Theatre

Musical

Location: 1564 Broadway

The classic American musical returns to Broadway for the first time in more than 25 years.

The classic story of West Side Story transports the achingly beautiful tale of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to the turbulent streets of the Upper West Side in 1950's New York City. Two star-crossed lovers, Tony and Maria, find themselves caught between the rival street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds, the Jets and the Sharks. Their struggle to exist together in a world of violence, hate and prejudice is at the center of one of the most heartbreaking, relevant and innovative musicals ever written.

Directed by Tony Award-winning librettist Arthur Laurents, this new production will feature Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's legendary score, including the classics "Something's Coming," "America," "Tonight," "I Feel Pretty" and "Somewhere," as well as recreate Jerome Robbins' original choreography. The production will also make history as it weaves the Spanish language into the book and lyrics.

Featuring an onstage cast of 37 and 30 musicians in the orchestra, West Side Story opens on Broadway in March of 2009 following an out-of-town engagement at Washington D.C.'s National Theatre beginning this December.

Running Time: 2 hours and 40 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission

Gershwin Theatre

Musical

Location: 222 West 51st St

Long before Dorothy drops in, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious, and very popular. “Wicked” tells the story of how these two unlikely friends grew to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch.

This fantasy-filled musical was the winner of three 2004 Tony Awards including prizes for Best Costume Design and Best Scenic Design. From real flying monkeys to a trip to the Emerald City and a soaring, modern score by Stephen Schwartz, Wicked is a true spectacle for the eyes and ears.

Running time: 2 hours and 30 minutes with one intermission

Theatre at St. Peter's

Musical

Location: 619 Lexington Avenue (at 54th Street, Citicorp Center)

Off-Broadwday debut!

YANK! begins in the present-day with a young man who finds an old diary in a junk shop. Through the journal we learn the story of Stu, a scared kid who gets drafted in 1943, and spends Basic Training wrestling with fears of whether he “has what it takes” to make it in the Army. But unlike most guys, Stu also falls in love with a fellow Private, a handsome All-American guy named Mitch...

Running time: TBA

St. Clement's Theatre

Biography

Location: 423 West 46th Street

The famously volatile artist Zero Mostel is interviewed in this new play from the creator of The Big Voice and The Last Session.

Remembered for his definitive performances in Fiddler on the Roof, The Rhinoceros and "The Producers," actor Zero Mostel was also a target of Senator McCarthy's Hollywood blacklist of suspected communists. This solo tribute is a torrent of memory, humor, outrage and juicy backstage lore.

Running time: TBA