Ask the City
tell me your night, I'll build it from the listingsMay 2025
← agendaThorton Wilder's The Emporium
Wed Apr 30 · all day · Classic Stage Company
As a young man journeys through the city and beyond, he encounters a world of wonder, meaning, and the elusive truths of life itself. Wilder's long-unseen masterpiece is finally ready to be discovered.
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Indian Princesses
Wed Apr 30 · all day · Linda Gross Theater at The Atlantic
In the summer of 2008, five young girls of color and their white fathers attend a program designed to bond families through handmade activities, camp-like adventures, and a heavy dose of cultural appropriation. But where can these girls turn when the program sparks questions that their fathers are unable – or unwilling – to answer?
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Animal Wisdom
Mon May 5 · all day · Signature Theatre
A journey into the haunted spaces of memory and loss, this transporting experience comes to Signature in a thrilling new production helmed by director Keenan Tyler Oliphant, diving deep into the relationship between the soul, the seen and the unseen.
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VANESSA
Mon May 12 · all day · Baruch Performing Arts Center
In Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, Vanessa waits, along with her niece Erika and her mother the Baroness, in her shadowy estate for the arrival of her long-lost lover. When their visitor appears—though not as they expect—he launches the family into psychological turmoil, sends Erika spiraling, and unleashes a reckoning of desire, illusion, and longing.
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Mon May 12 · all day · The Vineyard
During an unforgettable summer at a girls' music program in Berkeley, California, these four teenagers school each other in identity and intimacy, forging connections through passionate explorations of sound. As the world around them thrums with disaster, their relationships crack under the weight of the unexpected–and demand that they improvise new ways of being themselves.
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Girl, Interrupted
Tue May 13 · all day · The Public
When Susanna admits herself to a psychiatric hospital, following a 15-minute session with a doctor she'd never met, she forms unexpected bonds with the young women inside as they search for connection and a way forward. Raw and unapologetic, this new play with music reveals that the people who witness our darkest moments are often those who truly see us.
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Jerome
Thu May 15 · all day · Playwrights Horizons
Jerome, a ghost town in the secluded Arizona backcountry, is home to Con and Doane, an aging gay couple who've built a quiet life far from the chaos of cities and other people—until a stranger arrives, fleeing his damaged past, and falls into their arms.
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A Woman Among Women
Fri May 16 · all day · Claire Tow Theater
It's a summer day in Northampton, Massachusetts and Cleo, founder of the local women's wellness center, holds court in her backyard. As friends, family and neighbors pass through, the air hums with a tension that may destroy the community she's worked so hard to build.
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And Then The Rodeo Burned Down
Mon May 19 · all day · Ars Nova
The rodeo is the best place in the world. Why would anybody burn it down? Dale, a rodeo clown with a big dream (and a mischievous shadow), certainly wouldn't. After all, Dale wants to be a cowboy. So, if we're going to find out who burned the rodeo down, we'll have to finish the play.
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