Marvin's Tip Sheet

February 9, 2010

The Pearl Theatre is presenting a stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Hard Times thru March 28th.  Tix. $30-$90.  Day of performance student tix $10.  City Center, 130 West 56 St.  Tel. 212-598-9802.

Susanna Centlivre’s 1714 comedy, The Wonder, will be revived by the Queen’s Company Feb. 26th thru March 14th.   Tix $18.  At the Kirk, 410 West 42 St.  Julia Miles Theatre, 424 West 55 St.  Tel. 212-947-8844. 

The Roundabout Theatre is offering discounts up to 40% for its upcoming revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, starting previews March 5th and opening March 25th, with a run to May 30th.  Tix $70-$80 but $42.50 - $48.50 in previews and $49.25 - $56.25 later if you order with code GMTMAN.  111 West 46 St.  Tel. 212-719-1300.

Susan Glaspell’s 1916 Trifles is being revived at the Ontological-Hysteric by the Theatre of the Two-Headed Calf thru Feb. 14th.  Tix. $17.  131 East 10th St.  Tel. 3212-52-3101.

T.S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party is being presented March 7th thru April 10th at the Beckett Theatre on Theatre Row by the Actors Company Theatre.  Tix $42.50, but they are reduced up to 35% if you order with code CPHBA. 410 West 42 St.   Tel. 212-279-4200.

The Acting Company (not to be confused with the above) and the Guthrie Theater have joined forces to produce a Romeo and Juliet, which will be offered at the Baruch Performing Arts Center Feb. 19th-27th.  Tix $39.50.  East 25 St. between Lexington and 3rd Ave.  Tel. 866-811-4111.

Edward Said’s daughter Najla has created a piece called Palestine with the Twilight Theatre Company which is running Feb. 6th thru March 21st at the Fourth Street theatre. Talk-backs with the artist every Tuesday.  Tix $20.   83 East 4th St.  Tel. 212-868-4444.

Performance Space 122 is presenting Feb. 18th-March 7th a show created by Tom Murrin (the Alien Comic), a pioneer of New York Performance Art.  This is The Talking Show; the Magical Ridiculous Journey of Alien Comic. Tix $20, $15 for students.  Also coming up at PS 122 is another world premiere, the newest show from the experimental company Radiohole, Whatever, Heaven Allows, playing Feb. 20th-March 13th.  Tix $20 and $15.  You can also get a PS 11 Passport for $55, five tix, good through June 30th.  150 First Ave.  Tel. 212-352-3101.

Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind is being revived by the New Group at the Acorn Theatre.  Discount tix of $48 thru Feb. 17th are available with the code AMB4.  410 West 42 St. Tel. 212-279-4200.

The inimitable Charles Busch is back with a new show, The Divine Sister, with Busch as the Mother Superior in a send-up of Hollywood “Nun” films, a subject made for Charles.  Thru March 7th at Theater for the New City.  Tix.  $25.  155 First Ave.  Tel. 212-352-3101.

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