Events for January 1st, 2010
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Friday - January 1st
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Night & Day at FIT
FIT - Seventh Avenue at 27th Street - New York
The changing rules of day and evening dress through 100-plus day and evening pieces.
Events / Performance
Ragtime
Neil Simon Theatre - 250 W. 52nd st. - New York (Midtown West)
A surprise upset in '98 had "Ragtime" lose the Best Musical Tony to "Lion King". Adapted from EL Doctorow's masterful novel, the musical shows the tumult of NYC in the first decade of the 20th century: historical figures rub shoulders with representatives from the Yiddish, black, and WASP...
Events / Theater Event
In the Next Room
Lyceum Theatre - 149 W. 45th St. - New York (Midtown West)
Sarah Ruhl is the darling of modern theater, a rare playwright whose so popular (with the in-crowd, at least) that she can write a play that opens straight on Broadway, with no tryout elsewhere! In the Next Room is a period piece about the invention of the titular instrumentused in the 19th c. to...
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A Little Night Music
Walter Kerr Theatre - 219 West 48th Street - New York (Midtown West)
Catherine Zeta-Jones plays opposite Broadway's beloved Angela Lansbury in this sophisticated romance.
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Brief Encounter
St. Ann’s Warehouse - 38 Water St. - Brooklyn (Fulton Ferry)
Theater lovers won't want to miss the New York debut of Kneehigh: a cinema-stage hybrid with script by Noel Coward and filmed by David Lean ("Bridge on the River Kwai").
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The Emperor Jones
Soho Playhouse - 15 Vandam St - New York (SoHo)
This rich, trad take on Eugene O'Neill's tragedy, mounted with theatrical gusto, gets a deserving extension in a new space.
Events / Theater Event
Romeo and Juliet
The Kitchen - 512 W 19th St. - New York (Chelsea)
This unique production asks random people to recount the plot from memory. Naturally, they come up with a few surprising twists!
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A View from the Bridge
Cort Theatre - 138 W. 47th St. - New York (Midtown West)
Scarlett Johansson is the latest ingenue to bow on Broadway in this revival of Arthur Miller's classic tragedy, starring with Liev Schreiber, arguably the best actor of his generation. The titular bridge is the Brooklyn: a Red Hook longshoreman stumbles into a tragedy of Greek proportions when he...
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The Orphan's Home Cycle
Signature Theater - 555 W. 42nd St. - New York (Midtown West)
Signature's MO is to devote an entire season to one playwright. This season, they've selected Horton Foote, a crusty writer who wrote the screenplay for "To Kill A Mockingbird", and has a warm realism that takes honest measure of life's darker moments. "The Orphan's Home Cycle" is actually a...
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Love Child
New World Stages - 340 W. 50th St. - New York (Midtown West)
This pocket-drama about a play's disastrous opening night tickled audiences enough last fall for a return engagement. Two actors take every role in the play-within-a-play as well as several audience members. Part of the fun is watching the quick changes pile up as the chaos builds!
