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Audiences have loved Frank Loesser's musicals for years—most notably his Guys and Dolls and the Pulitzer Prize-winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. However, THE MOST HAPPY FELLA was a startling rediscovery, even for Loesser fans. Learn More »

The year is 1849. Two arch rivals—the English star William Macready and the American matinee idol Edwin Forrest—tempt fate when both perform the Scottish Play on the same night in neighboring downtown theaters. Learn More »

Both humor and pathos are present in this off-beat tale about the unlikely friendship between Mr. Gogol, a reclusive retiree, and Mr. Preen, a door-to-door salesman who falls ill during a sales call at Mr. Gogol's apartment—and winds up staying there to recuperate. Learn More »

MULE BONE had its opening night a little late. Sixty years late, to be precise. Although this comedy with music about life in an all-African-American Florida town was written in 1930, the play had never been produced before Lincoln Center Theater produced it in the winter of 1991. Learn More »

Like Sarafina!, TOWNSHIP FEVER explodes with music, passion and hope. It also reveals some of the pain and violence that are a part of Black life in South Africa. Learn More »

Like all of Gray's work, this new one-man adventure story stakes out its most fascinating territory in the mind and spirit of its storyteller. Learn More »

Ouisa and her husband Flan, a pair of affluent New Yorkers, open their door to Paul, a charming young man who claims to be the son of Sidney Poitier. And so unwittingly open Pandora’s Box. Learn More »

Ouisa and her husband Flan, a pair of affluent New Yorkers, open their door to Paul, a charming young man who claims to be the son of Sidney Poitier. And so unwittingly open Pandora’s Box. Learn More »

In Richard Nelson's comedy, SOME AMERICANS ABROAD a group of American college professors and their students is making an annual summer pilgrimage to London and indulging in an orgy of theater-going (28 plays in 28 days!) Learn More »

In Richard Nelson's comedy, SOME AMERICANS ABROAD a group of American college professors and their students is making an annual summer pilgrimage to London and indulging in an orgy of theater-going (28 plays in 28 days!) Learn More »

According to Orthodox beliefs, a quorum of ten men must be assembled before the service can begin, and Arthur, a lapsed Jew who doesn't believe in anything except his analyst, is the only person they could find as a tenth witness. Learn More »

Bobby Gould in Hell by David Mamet was presented as a double-bill with Shel Silverstein’s The Devil and Billy Markham in an evening titled OH, HELL. Learn More »

UBU is the story of the buffoon Pere Ubu and his scheming wife. The cast of 13 played all 70,000 roles, including the whole Russian army, the whole Polish army, a bear, and a disembraining machine. Learn More »

Written by Shakespeare at the height of his powers, MEASURE FOR MEASURE is filled with artificiality and absurdity, which afford the audience the necessary distance to consider some timeless questions about human behavior. Learn More »

Spalding Gray was the Narrator in Lincoln Center Theater’s production of this acclaimed revival of Thorton Wilder’s enduring American play. Learn More »

Vladimir (Steve Martin) and Estragon (Robin Williams) wait on a deserted country road to meet a person named Godot. In each act, they encounter a man called Pozzo (F. Murray Abraham) and his slave, Lucky (Bill Irwin). Learn More »

ROAD is set in a small Lancashire working class town whose inhabitants are railing against the economic hardships increasingly nipping at their heels. Learn More »

I'LL GO ON was conceived and commissioned three years prior to its performance at LCT, when Michael Colgan, artistic director of the Gate Theatre Dublin, approached actor Barry McGovern about doing a one-man show based on the works of Samuel Beckett. Learn More »

Joe Mantegna, Ron Silver, and Madonna lit up Broadway with the verbal fireworks of this classic David Mamet play, set in Hollywood. Learn More »

BOYS' LIFE is a 1980s take on much the same territory that David Mamet mined in his early one-act, Sexual Perversity in Chicago: guys who won't grow up, women who would like to kill them, the whole hilarious unhappy mess. Learn More »