Marvin's Tip Sheet
February 5, 2012
The Red Bull theatre will be doing a fully staged production of Genet’s The Maids March 6th to April 1st. Limited seating. Tix $40, students $20, and some pay-what-you –will Wednesdays. St. Clement’s 423 West 46 St. Tel. 212-352-3101.
Irondale is presenting the American Premiere of An Arab in my Mirror, a work developed in France and drawing upon historical events from the Algerian War to the Egyptian Revolution. The work has been performed in both France and Egypt, and will be given in French and English. Thru Feb. 11th. Tix $25, $15 rush. $20 with discount code FOI. 85 South Oxford Street. Brooklyn. www.irondale.org.
Marvell Rep’s 2012 season is devoted to “burned and banned” works. The season begins with rotating repertory productions of two banned German language classics, Brecht’s Three-Penny Opera and Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi. Running thru Feb. 14th. Each show $25, but both for $37.50 with code REP25 and either for $20 with code MARVELL20. TBG Theatre, 312 West 36 St. 3rd floor. Tel. 212-518-6085.
Theatre for a New Audience will be presenting The Taming of the Shrew at the Duke Theatre March 17th-April 21st. Tix $75, discounted to $52.50 with code TIC2757. 229 West 42 St. Tel. 646-223-3010.
The Acting Company is presenting a staged reading of Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer at the Mainstage Theatre on Monday, February 13th. Tix $35. 416 West 42 St. Tel. 212-258-3111.
Irondale Center is presenting a “Festival of Conscience” March 8th-24th featuring Karen Malpede’s recent play on torture and democracy, Another Life, along with discussion of these issues with leading human justice spokespersons. Tix. $25. 85 South Oxford St., Brooklyn.
And God Created Great Whales, work about a composer trying to create an opera based on Moby Dick, was one of the first major successes of the Culture Project, and is being revived by that group beginning Feb. 7th. Tix $55, previews $35. 45 Bleeker St. (at Lafayette), Tel. 866-811-4111.
The next offering of the Irish Repertory Theatre will be Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond the Horizon, playing Feb. 15th to April 8th. Tix $55-$65. Preview tix $25 off with code PREVIEW, $10 off all other performances with code EARLY. 132 West 22 St. Tel. 212-727-2737.
David Cromer, the director of the recent much-praised Our Town, is presenting a new comedy drama about deafness, Tribes, by Nina Raine, at Barrow Street, beginning Feb. 16th. Preview tix (Feb. 16th-March 3rd) $55, but discounted to $39.50 with code TCEN39, and $75 from March 6th-April 6th ($49.50 with same discount code). 27 Barrow St. at 7th Ave. Tel. 212-868-4444.
Tine Howe’s Painting Churches is receiving its first New York revival Feb. 14th to April 7th by Keen Company. Tix $60/ %0% off previews Feb. 14th -March 4th with code TRPREV. 10% off ay performance with code TRPCAR. $40 student tix (with ID and code TRSTUD(, Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42 St. Tel. 212-239-6200.
A revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, with a star-studded cast headed by James Earl Jones, John Larroquette, Candice Bergen and Angela Lansbury, will begin previews at the Gerald Schoefeld theatre March 6th. Box office opened Feb. 14th. Tix $76.50 to $89.50 (discounted to $59.50 to $89.50 with code BMDMX119. Tel. 212-947-8844.
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