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20at20: Off Broadway Tickets for $20, 20 Minutes Before Showtime
The promotion 20at20 is an opportunity to purchase $20 rush tickets to Off-Broadway theater performances. What's the "rush" part? The $20 tickets are available starting 20 minutes prior to show time. You must mention “20at20” at the box office in order to get the discount, which is subject to availability.
This great discount offer runs January 18 through February 12 and includes 36 shows.
The wide-ranging selection is made up of children's musicals featuring storybook characters, dramatic plays such as Freud's Last Session, tributes to legendary singers such as Frank Sinatra and Bessie Smith, the rock opera RENT and the musical of the campaign season---NEWSical.
For more information, click see www.20at20.com.
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ManhattanFri, Aug 5, 2011 – Sat, March 24, 2012
In this Off Broadway show, Andrew Goffman takes his audience on a hilarious and self-deprecating journey into a world of video vixens, X-rated fantasies, and really dirty movies. More -
The Amazing Max and the Box of Interesting Things
Manhattan Movement and Arts Center
ManhattanSun, Oct 2, 2011 – Sat, June 30, 2012
The Amazing Max and The Box of Interesting Things is a 50-minute magic show with a mind of its own. Objects appear out of thin air, the laws of physics are defied and miracles are performed inches from spectators’ faces. Through June 30. More -
The Berenstain Bears LIVE! in Family Matters, the Musical
ManhattanSat, Jan 14, 2012 – Sat, June 30, 2012
You loved them as a kid, through all their fun, foibles and life lessons learned in their great, big tree house in Bear Country. Now it’s time to bring the magic of the Berenstain Bears to your own children through the Off Broadway staging. More -
ManhattanSat, June 5, 2010 – Sat, March 3, 2012
You don't need to see the film "Red Tails" by George Lucas to get the Tuskegee Airmen story. This play follows six of the airmen as they become pilots in the United States Army Air Force in World War II. The play explores the men's collective struggle with Jim Crow and their intelligence, patriotism, dreams of an inclusive society. More -
ManhattanSat, April 16, 2011 – Sat, March 3, 2012
Meet Charlie, a meek pushover stuck in a dead end job and a loveless relationship. After a particularly soul-squashing day at work, Charlie has an epiphany and resolves to change his life. Charlie's metamorphosis channels the characters of both Al Pacino and Kevin Spacey, triggering devastating and hilarious confrontations. More -
ManhattanWed, Jan 25, 2012 – Sun, March 4, 2012
In this exciting world premiere inspired by real events, truth becomes slippery and racial tensions reach a boiling point. CQ/CX raises difficult questions about the state of our media culture, and the meaning and price of journalistic integrity. More -
Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical
ManhattanWed, May 13, 2009 – Sat, March 31, 2012
The life and love of Sylvia and Danny Kaye are the subject of this new musical by Robert McElwaine. More -
The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith
ManhattanTues, July 5, 2011 – Mon, March 26, 2012
Suggestive and racy, blues singer Bessie Smith was the definition of a "Red Hot Mamma" and the most successful entertainer of her time. On the eve of her tragic death in 1937, Bessie takes center stage in a Memphis "buffet flat." She tells the story of her amazing life, career, her loves and losses. More -
ManhattanWed, June 29, 2011 – Sun, July 1, 2012
With book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, The Fantasticks is a captivating and simple love story musical about a boy, a girl, two fathers and a wall. More -
Manhattan Movement and Arts Center
ManhattanTues, Nov 8, 2011 – Mon, July 2, 2012
Based on the children's book by the Academy Award-nominated actress Julianne Moore, this musical is about how a young Ms. Moore learned to accept herself, freckles and all. Strawberry is teased about her freckles constantly, so she tries different ways to hide them before ultimately hiding herself. Through her journey she learns valuable lessons about love, friendship and true beauty. More -
ManhattanFri, Oct 7, 2011 – Sun, June 3, 2012
Writer C.S. Lewis is invited to the home of legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud, where he is expecting he will be called on the carpet for satirizing Freud in a recent book. Lewis soon realizes Freud has a much more significant agenda. On the day England enters World War II, Freud and Lewis clash on the existence of God, love, sex and the meaning of life—only two weeks before Freud chooses to take his own. More -
ManhattanThurs, Sept 3, 2009 – Sun, July 1, 2012
This wordless dance-theater spectacle is a rush of adrenaline and poignancy. Performers run and tumble on a raised conveyer belt, a man crashes headlong through a wall, two people try desperately to connect on a spinning sail and performers slip and slide in watery world just above the audience’s heads. More -
ManhattanThurs, Jan 8, 2009 – Sun, July 1, 2012
In this Off-Broadway production, a team of specialists create mind-blowing special effects by manipulating bubbles with lasers and light to make what can only be referred to as "bubble media." The appeal is so great that the show is selling tickets through November, 2012. More -
ManhattanMon, Jan 23, 2012 – Sun, Feb 26, 2012
Ionescopade premiered Off-Broadway in 1974. In this musical vaudeville, the York Theater Company presents a fresh look at the works of the prolific and influential absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco, famous for his plays The Bald Soprano, Rhinoceros, The Chairs and Exit the King (which recently enjoyed a hit revival on Broadway). More -
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
ManhattanSat, Oct 22, 2011 – Sat, April 28, 2012
In this theatrical adaptation of C.S. Lewis' classic, two actors give a tour-de-force performance that's sure to delight children and adults alike. More -
ManhattanFri, July 31, 2009 – Sun, April 1, 2012
This play by Nora and Delia Ephron is a collection of vignettes and monologues based on the best-selling book by Ilene Beckerman, as well as on the recollections of the Ephrons’ friends. Three different five-member casts perform the piece in four-week cycles. More -
ManhattanThurs, July 28, 2011 – Sun, Sept 2, 2012
Million Dollar Quartet is the electrifying new musical inspired by the famed recording session that brought together rock 'n' roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis for the first and only time. On December 4, 1956, these four young musicians gathered at Sun Records in Memphis for what would be one of the greatest jam sessions ever. More -
Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating & Marriage
ManhattanSat, Dec 3, 2011 – Sat, Sept 29, 2012
Here's the story of Miss Abigail, the most sought-after relationship expert to the stars (think Dr. Ruth meets Emily Post), and her sexy sidekick Paco. They travel the world teaching Miss Abigail’s outrageous "how-to's" on dating, mating and marriage. More -
ManhattanWed, Jan 18, 2012 – Sun, April 1, 2012
Cary Hoffman turns his celebrated PBS Special into a biographical, often hilarious, and poignant one-man musical play about his love and idolization for this hero Frank Sinatra and the perils of wanting to become somebody else. Hoffman authentically sings over 20 Sinatra song "Dead On!" (The New York Times). More -
ManhattanMon, Dec 13, 2010 – Sun, June 3, 2012
The Drama Desk-nominated musical revue is back lampooning current events, newsmakers, celebrities and politicians. With songs and material updated on a regular basis, composer-lyricist Rick Crom's topical musical comedy is an ever-evolving mockery of all the news that is fit to spoof. More -
ManhattanWed, June 29, 2011 – Sun, July 1, 2012
Warren Manzi's long-running Off Broadway mystery, Perfect Crime, is about a small-town detective determined to prove that an affluent psychiatrist murdered her husband. More -
ManhattanSat, April 2, 2011 – Sun, June 3, 2012
In this musical based on the children's book, Pinkalicious can't stop eating pink cupcakes. Her indulgence lands her at the doctor's office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink from head to toe. When her hue goes too far, Pinkalicious must find a way out of her predicament. More -
ManhattanTues, Jan 17, 2012 – Tues, Feb 28, 2012
Lily's fiancée Phillip blows off couples therapy and Dorian, her hot young ex-boyfriend, jumps in to fill the void. When the trio ends up on the couch together, only therapist Nancy Winston can untangle the kinks. More -
ManhattanSat, Jan 14, 2012 – Sat, March 31, 2012
The Quantum Eye is Sam Eaton's entertaining and fascinating exploration of mentalism, magic, perception and deception—where extraordinary ability and gentle humor blend with the audience to make for a different performance every time. More -
ManhattanThurs, July 14, 2011 – Sun, May 27, 2012
Set in NYC's East Village, this rock musical tells the story of a group of young artists learning to survive, falling in love, finding their voices and living for today. More -
ManhattanMon, Jan 30, 2012 – Sat, March 10, 2012
Laced with humor and intrigue, Russian Transport captures the complex layers of one very particular immigrant experience. More -
ManhattanSat, Feb 4, 2012 – Sun, April 1, 2012
Set in the industrial north of England, Rutherford and Son tells the story of a father determined to do whatever it takes to ensure the success and succession of the family glassworks business, which was started by his own father, but is now in danger of shattering. More -
ManhattanFri, June 24, 2011 – Sun, May 6, 2012
Winner of the NYCFringe's Best Musical Award, Silence! The Musical combines whip-smart dialogue and shocking songs to make a musical parody of The Silence of the Lambs for seasoned fans of the movie and FBI rookies alike. More -
ManhattanThurs, Sept 29, 2011 – Sun, April 29, 2012
After a matriarch’s death, the women in the family clean Grandma’s attic and find love and old memories packed away. In the process, they sing hit tunes that trace the history of black women from the trials of the 1930s through the girl groups of the 60s to the empowerment of the 90s and beyond. More -
ManhattanFri, July 29, 2011 – Sun, July 1, 2012
The human body is pushed to its limits as a group of friends leave their mark in a run-down warehouse through acrobatics, music and dance. Fusing the traditions of circus with the energy of street performance, TRACES is an explosive display of raw emotion and physicality in an intimate urban setting. More