Theater Next 30 Days
Then She Fell
Theater: Off-Off BroadwayTuesdays-Sundays, 7:30 & 10 p.m. Continues through June 30
Based on the life and work of Lewis Carroll and his disturbing relationship with Alice Liddell, the young girl he loved and for whom he wrote Alice in Wonderland, this is the opposite of passive theatergoing: it's a real adventure through the proverbial looking-glass. Performed in a 100-year-old institutional building that has been dressed to look and feel like an old asylum, crammed with all kinds of creepy Carroll ephemera, it viscerally arrives at is the awful standoff between a little girl and an older man who loved her inappropriately and made something beautiful for her to salve his pain—and also to ensnare her forever. It gets across the full horror of what that meant for her, and also what that means for us. $95-$125
The Greenwich Village Follies
Theater: Off-Off BroadwaySun at 7pm
Covering 400 years with 18 songs, this musical revue revisits milestones of Village history with raunchy music and dance. $35
The Lion King
Theater: BroadwayTue at 7pm, Wed-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 3pm, Wed, Sat at 2pm
212-307-4100
Take a little Hamlet, mix with some Elton John music, some crazy costumes and Julie Taymor over-seeing it all, and you've got Disney's Lion King, one of the longest-running and most successful Broadway musicals ever. $51.25 - $121.25
Rent
Theater: Off BroadwayMon, Wed-Sat at 8pm, Sat, Sun at 2pm, Sun at 7:30pm
212-239-6200
Three years after its hugely successful Broadway run ended, the AIDS musical's producers and creative team have remounted it (with a new, younger cast, of course) Off Broadway. $65-$89.50
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Theater: BroadwayTue at 7:30pm, Wed at 1:30pm, 7:30pm, Thu at 7:30pm, Fri at 8pm, Sat at 2pm, 8pm Sun at 3pm
212-307-4100
You know all about this already, presumably, but just in case: a $75 million musical spectacle with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge, originally directed by Broadway auteur Julie Taymor but deemed too confusing and ambitious, dumbed and dulled down, now with more flying! Oh, it's also about a nerdy boy from Queens who gets bitten by a spider and becomes a Spider-Man who can fight evil, but risks losing those he loves. $67.50-$140
Sister Act
Theater: BroadwayMon-Sat at 8pm, Sat at 2pm
212-239-6200
You know the story: nightclub diva Deloris Van Cartier, joining the witness relocation program following a murder, must become a nun. In doing she livens up the church choir with observantly rewritten soul and Motown classics, helps timid sisters come out of their shells and, eventually, must face her would-be killers. $51.50-$126.50
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Theater: BroadwayTue-Sat at 8pm, Wed, Sat at 2pm, Sun at 3pm
212-239-6200
This revival of the 1961 Pulitzer-winning musical stars Harry Potter as a fast-ascending window washer who quickly becomes an exec at the World-Wide Wicket Company shortly after starting in the mail room. $52-$132
Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical
Theater: Off BroadwayWed, Sat, Sun at 2pm, Sat at 8pm
After runs in London and D.C., this backstage musical about the creative and romantic relationship between Danny Faye and Sylvia Fine comes to New York. From their first meeting at an audition through their often tumultuous relationship to Faye's film stardom, this showbiz story is retold with many favorite Faye tunes. $56.50/$31.50
Billy Elliot the Musical
Theater: BroadwayTue at 7pm, Wed-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 3pm, Wed, Sat at 2pm
Set during the miners' strikes in Thatcherite Britain in the 1980s, the musical based on the movie based on the book about a boy who becomes a ballet dancer took an armful of Tonys. $81.50 - $351.50
Avenue Q
Theater: Off BroadwayMon, Wed-Sat at 8pm, Sat at 2pm, Sun at 3pm, 7:30pm
The puppet parody that ran for so many years on Broadway has returned to its Off-Broadway roots, although presumably the production of foul-mouthed muppets will retain those high production values in its latest incarnation. $66.50-$86.50
Jersey Boys
Theater: BroadwayTue at 7pm, Wed - Sat at 8pm; Wed, Sat at 2pm; Sun at 3pm
212-239-6200
This behind-the-scenes musical about Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons is surprisingly compelling and deservedly won the 2006 Tony Award. $26.25 - $121.50
245 W 52nd St., between Broadway and Eighth Ave (map)
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212-239-6200
Mamma Mia
Theater: BroadwayWed-Sat 8pm; Wed, Sat, Sun 2pm; Sun 7pm
212-239-6200
A whimsical musical weaving 22 ABBA songs into the modern-day tale of a single mom and her soon-to-be-married daughter. $56.25 - $100
Love, Loss and What I Wore
Theater: Off BroadwayWed-Sat at 8pm, Wed, Sat at 2pm, Sun at 3pm, 7pm
A rotating all-star cast (including Samantha Bee, Rosie O’Donnell, Jane Lynch and Rita Wilson) performs this set of vignettes inspired by the titular book by Ilene Beckerman and the stories adapted and organized by Nora and Delia Ephron. $75
The Fantasticks
Theater: Off BroadwayMon, Thu, Fri 8pm; Wed 2pm; Sat 2pm, 8pm; Sun 3pm, 7:15pm
212-307-4100
Tells the story of a young boy and girl who fall in love because of their meddling fathers, but become restless and stray from each other. $51-$76
Chicago
Theater: BroadwayTue 7pm; Wed-Sat 8pm; Sun 6:30pm; Wed, Sat 2pm
After a decade on Broadway, this bare-bones revival of Kander and Ebb's dark musical comedy is still way better than the movie, and continues to pack 'em in. $58.75-$111.25
