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A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG
March 14-June 15
American Airlines Theatre, 227 West 42nd Street, 212-719-1300

photo: Sylvia Plachy

See my show, seats still available: playwright David Greenspan.

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The fabulous Eddie Izzard displays his serious-actor side in this Broadway revival of Peter Nichols's play about two parents' struggle over their mute, handicapped child.

DON JUAN
March 18-April 20
Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, 212-239-6200

Bartlett Sher, who mounted Cymbeline for Theatre for a New Audience last season and the Obie-winning Waste in 2000, returns to TFNA to helm Christopher Hampton's translation of the Molière classic.

Good vibrations: Heiner Goebbels's Hashirigaki photo: Mario del Curto

HASHIRIGAKI
March 19-23
BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Street, 718-636-4100

Gertrude Stein meets Brian Wilson in Heiner Goebbels's postmodern Kabuki. The German director melds The Making of Americanswith Pet Sounds—a curious combo to be sure, but with sound design by a man named Willi Bopp, it's gotta be pleasing to the ear.

PEOPLE ARE WRONG!
March 20-30
P.S.122, 150 First Avenue, 212-477-5829

David Herskovits directs this Loser's Lounge production, about a cult-leading landscape artist. The evening is described as a cautionary tale about wedding planners, music festivals, acid, alien visitation, and the sixth dimension. Simon Russell Beale not listed in the cast.

SATURN'S WAKE
March 20-April 13
HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue, 212-627-0202

In Deke Weaver and Michael Farkas's dark, vaudevillian play, two orphaned brothers cut a swath through a New York haunted by Saturn (the old-school god, not the faux-rootsy but generally agreeable GM division).

LAST OF THE SUNS
April 18-May 11
Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, 212-971-4863

The Ma-Yi Theater Company, recipient of an Obie grant last season, presents the New York premiere of Alice Tuan's 1995 play. The satirical piece combines Chinese folklore and American consumerism, in a production directed by Chay Yew.

WRITER'S BLOCK
April 23-June 29
The Atlantic Theater, 336 West 20th Street, 212-645-8015

Some gentleman named Woody Allen has set pen to paper or finger to key and mustered up a couple of one-acts, Riverside Drive and Old Saybrook, about which we know nothing, since Mr. Allen ain't saying. Such crypticness is not likely to deter ticket buyers.

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
May 1-25
P.S.122, 150 First Avenue, 212-475-5288

No connection to Dostoyevsky, claims writer Eric Bogosian. "I just steal titles I like." Bogosian's one-man piece does have a connection to another writer, though: Jonathan Ames, who'll be performing this monologue about an urban recluse "sinking into madness." (Why always "sinking" into madness? Why not "dismounting" or "schussing"?)

I AM MY OWN WIFE
May 2-June 8
Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street, 212-279-4200

Doug Wright's newest is a one-man piece inspired by an East German transvestite named Charlotte von Mahlsdorff, who lived through almost 100 years of European history and survived both Nazi and Communist regimes.

RAIN DANCE
May 6-June 29
Signature Theater, 555 West 42nd Street, 212-244-7529

The Signature concludes its Lanford Wilson season with the New York premiere of Rain Dance. In 1945 Los Alamos, four nuclear scientists struggle with their responsibility for the atom bomb as the project approaches its "successful" conclusion. First produced at Jeff Daniels's impressive Purple Rose Theater in Chelsea, Michigan, a town otherwise notable as the home of Jiffy Mix and actor Bill Coelius.

MOLLY'S DREAM
May 12-June 7
Soho Rep, 46 Walker Street, 212-206-1515

Maria Irene Fornes premieres a play she wrote in 1968. Staged by Soho Rep's Daniel Aukin, who won an Obie last year for his direction of Melissa James Gibson's [sic], Molly's Dream concerns a waitress in an isolated saloon and the dreams engendered by her encounter with a passing stranger.

PORTRAIT
May 17-June 7
HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue, 212-647-0202

Described as a surreal, Orwellian fairy tale, Patricia Eakins's play takes place in a post-apocalypse wasteland (though apparently it has nothing to do with New York Rangers hockey).