Seat Filler: NYC Theater Guide for May 2012

Taking advantage of the lull in Broadway openings leading up to the Tony Awards on June 10, our man on the New York theater scene grabs a seat at the greatest and gayest new offerings off-Broadway, including Cock, February House, and a redressed Naked Boys Singing!

BY Brandon Voss

May 22 2012 3:01 PM ET

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With spartan staging and stylized movement, director Ianthe Demos and the One Year Lease Company tackle out British playwright Mark Ravenhill’s darkly penetrating 2006 play about five miserable visual artists who resent a successful peer. After this wealthy woman falls into a coma, her frenemies exploit her suffering as a work of art, much as she found mainstream fame by putting an AIDS victim’s blood and condoms on display.
9^th Space, Through May 26.