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A mixed experience awaits at the Flea Theater's retrospective of plays by the influential Mac Wellman.

In Gina Femia's new comedy, girls in a Catholic high school wrestle with the conflicting rights and wrongs of the Church, the permissive society outside, and their own developing minds.

Welsh villagers are pressured to leave their ancestral homes when the government suspects their mountain may collapse.

Magnificently acted, beautifully written, and claustrophobically staged in the round with a pile of dirt in the center, the cast running and slinking in circles behind the audience, 'Wolf in the River' is a jolt of dark energy.

In its first NYC revival since its 1986 debut, the play mingles passages of naturalistic dialogue with fanciful poetic flowerings to expose depths of passion and self-doubt. And for long swaths of the 90-minute one-act, the Attic Theater Company cast carries this difficult material off with a crazed, sparkling bravado.

A couple's surface sheen hides serious interpersonal, perhaps psychological problems - and Matt's bathroom is a gateway to much more than innocuous pipes and sewers. Or is it?

This taut, anxiously intellectual drama baffles expectations and boasts marvelous performances.

The Flea presents the world premiere of a twisted and artfully entertaining comedy with a shocker of an ending.

A fuzzy image the near future nevertheless offers an amusing and well-played take on the state of the union.

Infused with modern and ancient techniques, this vivid retelling of some of the most famous Greek/Roman myths proves those myths remain not only relevant but alive.