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Presented by The Culture Project at 45 Bleecker Theatre, 45 Bleecker St, NYC, Jan. 16-Feb. 18. The word 'rubato comes in handy when describing the sounds and emotions that soar [...]

Presented by and at the 42nd Street Workshop, 432 W. 42nd St., NYC, Feb. 7-25. In these days of write-what-you know immediacy, it takes guts for a male playwright to [...]

Presented by Holderness Theatre Company at Clark Studio Theatre, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza. Jan. 6-20. Despite the occasional conceptual dead end, the Holderness Theatre Company takes an intelligent, focused look [...]

Presented by and at La MaMa etc., 74A E. Fourth St., NYC, Jan. 4-28. You don't have to know 'Fiddler on the Roof' to be bored by 'FIDDLER sub-terrain,' the [...]

Without any ham-fisted attempts to tie together so many diverse works, here are some of my fonder theatrical memories of 2000: Two major Off-Off-Broadway theatre companies found great enjoyment in [...]

Presented by Synapse Productions at the Connolly Theatre, 220 E. Fourth St., NYC, Oct. 7-29. After more than 20 years, Bernard Pomerance's 'The Elephant Man' has lost little of its [...]

Presented by Tangent Theatre Company at the Sanford Meisner Theatre, 164 11th Ave., Sept. 8-24. It's not impossible to create compelling drama out of the days and nights of average [...]

Presented by Primary Stages at their theatre, 354 W. 45 St., NYC, Sept. 20-Oct. 22. Primary Stages' season begins on a surprisingly lead-footed note with Luis Alfaro's 'Straight as a [...]

Presented by Tiny Ninja Theater at Present Company Artspace, 198 Stanton St., NYC, Aug. 16-27. Mark Mitton is a hard guy to peg. His penchant or grisly sight gags notwithstanding, [...]

Presented by Neo-Futurists and Theater Oobleck at Surf Reality, 172 Allen St., NYC, Aug. 17-24. If any playwright is due for a good-natured grilling, it's Samuel Beckett. The trio doing [...]

Presented by Laura Heller, Carol Ostrow and Edwin W. Schloss at the Triad Theatre, 158 W 72nd St. Opened Aug. 19 for an open-ended run. Berlin to Broadway with Kurt [...]

Presented by Tiny Ninja Theater at Present Company Artspace, 198 Stanton St., NYC, Aug. 16-27. The members of Tiny Ninja Theater may only be 1 inch tall, but they have [...]

Presented by Network 23 and Collective: Unconscious at Charas/El Bohio, 605 E. 9 St., NYC, Aug. 17-27. The briefest of descriptions will tell most potential audience members everything they need [...]

Presented by the Ontological Theater, at St. Marks Church in the Bowery, 131 E. 10th St., NYC, June 18-July 1. Some downtown audiences might be perplexed by 'Pageant.' It seems [...]

Presented by the Open Door Theater at the Chelsea Playhouse, 125 W. 22nd St., NYC, May 31-June 24. The story of a young girl 'recovering' memories of sexual abuse is [...]

Presented by Onyx Theatre Company and New York Deaf Theatre, at the Atlantic Theater Company, 453 W. 16th St., NYC, June 1-18. Fans bowled over by the cascades of words [...]

Presented by Moonwork Theater Company, at the Connelly Theatre, 220 E. 4th St., NYC, June 11-25. Moonwork Theater Company's 'Romeo and Juliet' is exactly what discerning theatre audiences need and [...]

Presented by Weissberger Theater Group at the Dimson Theatre, 108 E. 15th St., NYC, May 21-June 4. Wit and charm are rare, commodities in musical theatre these days. So it's [...]

Presented by and at Common Basis Theatre, 750 Eighth Ave., NYC, May 4-21. So much for writing what you know. In 'Red Roses,' playwright-actor Joe Maruzzo puts on a play [...]

Presented by and at the American Place Theatre, 111 W. 46th St., April 17-May 21 (with possible extension). Fans of 'Manchild in the Promised Land,' Claude Brown's pioneering 1965 depiction [...]

Presented by Ron Kastner, at Circle in the Square, 50th Street, west of Broadway. Opened Feb. 29 for an open run. Until its still-harrowing final scene, the dispiriting 'True West' [...]

Presented at the Helen Hayes Theatre, 240 W. 44th St., NYC. Opened-Feb. 29 for an open run. 'Squonk' had the makings of becoming this year's most improbable success story. Buoyed [...]

Presented by the Frog & Peach Theatre Company, at the West-Park Church, 165 W. 86th St., NYC, Jan. 27-Feb. 20. Any discussion about the Frog & Peach production of 'King [...]

Presented by basement flat productions at HERE, 145 Sixth Ave., NYC, Feb. 4-27. With its schizophrenic tone and irredeemable male lead, 'All's Well That Ends Well' is a notoriously tricky [...]

Presented by the Pearl Theatre Company, at the Pearl, 80 St. Mark's Place, NYC, Jan. 7-Feb. 27. It's hard to tell exactly when the Pearl's no-frills 'Merry Wives of Windsor' [...]

Presented by Performance Space 122, at P.S. 122, 150 First Ave., NYC, Jan. 14-Feb. 6. 'Who Chops Foo II,' performed and directed by the Dean Street Field of Operation, defies [...]

Presented by Skye Pye, at St. Mark's Theatre (downstairs), 94 St. Mark's Place, NYC, Jan. 6-Feb. 13. Casey Fraser's experience thus far has largely been as a standup comedienne, which [...]

Presented by the Atlantic Theater Company, at the Atlantic Theater, 336 W. 20th St., NYC, Jan. 12-Feb. 6. The Atlantic Theater deserves some sort of perverse credit for turning 'Sexual [...]

Presented by David Stone, Willa Shalit, Nina Essman, Dan Markley/Mike Skipper, and the Araca Group, at the Westside Theatre (downstairs), 407 W. 43rd St., Oct. 3-Jan. 2. Midway through Eve [...]

Presented by Theatre Outrageous in association with Definite Maybe Productions, at The New 42nd Street Theatre, 348 W. 42nd St., NYC, July 21-Aug. 8. 'On the Middle Watch' sounds like [...]

Produced by the New Federal Theatre, at the Henry Street Settlement/A brons Art Center's Harry de Jur Playhouse, 466 Grand St., NYC, June 23-July 25. As the first full-length Broadway [...]

Presented by and at MCC Theater, 120 W. 28th St., NYC, June 17-July 11. The sudden departure of Lisa Gay Hamilton from Lorena Gale's 'Angelique' propelled understudy Patrice Johnson into [...]