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This Weekend's Last Calls On and Off Broadway

The upcoming weekend is turning into a bit of a theatrical “adieu fest” for several heavy-hitters – both shows and performers. Translation: Score your tickets now, because come March 31st, these five-star productions will be off the box-office grid. Click on the show titles for tickets, theater info, and more.

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in Waiting for Godot
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in No Man's Land. Photo: KevinBerne.com

Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land bows out on Saturday, March 29th (evening) while Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot plays it final performance Sunday at 3, meaning the killer quartet of actors – Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley -- are ending their brilliant extended (and extended again and again) run at Broadway’s Cort Theatre (which will welcome Daniel Radcliffe in The Cripple of Inishmaan starting April 12th). Critically acclaimed with a reputation for theatregoer return visits, these productions (alone or in tandem) are already primed for theatre legend status.

Also closing on the 30th are two of Off-Broadway’s most talked-about sensations: Charles Busch’s The Tribute Artist and BIKEMAN: A 9/11 Play.

Charles Busch and Julie Halston in The Tribute Artist

The Tribute Artist is without question a sublimely hilarious farce in which Mr. Busch unleashes his signature drag bells, whistles and female id alongside Julie Halston, his longtime stage cohort, who matches a couple of authentic tits to his tastefully bewigged tat. In short, this comedy of befuddled errors is one of the season’s coveted laugh riots; I’m so glad I caught it and, if you act fast, you’ll be, too.

Finally, I urge you to see Tom Flynn’s haunting BIKEMAN: A 9/11 Play starring Robert Cuccioli (Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark; Jekyll and Hyde), the author’s first-hand lyric poem adapted for the stage that revisits New York’s most heart-wrenching event. It, too, closes on March 30th and, frankly, its departure marks a serious loss for the City’s Off-Broadway theatre scene. Unforgettable.

About the Author

City Guide Theatre Editor Griffin Miller moved to New York to pursue an acting/writing career in the 1980s after graduating magna cum laude from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Since then, she has written for The New York Times, For the Bride, Hotels, and a number of other publications, mostly in the areas of travel and performance arts. An active member of The New York Travel Writers Association, she is also a playwright and award-winning collage artist. In addition, she sits on the board of The Lewis Carroll Society of North America. Griffin is married to Richard Sandomir, a reporter for The New York Times.

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