This city’s theater artists, though, know that big things happen in small and out-of-the-way places. But then a touring Egyptian band (mistakenly) winds up there, and new life blooms, shyly and unexpectedly, beneath desert skies. Tickets: thebandsvisitmusical.comBrigadoonPhotoPerhaps the ultimate “escape from New York” fantasy, this 1947 Lerner and Loewe musical drops two jaded Manhattanites into a mirage of a Scottish town that has never been tainted by urban bustle and stress. City Center has come up with a dream team to give life to this dream location. With a fresh, all-female ensemble that brims with the sap of life under the direction of Lila Neugebauer, it remains one of the most exciting debuts by an American playwright in years.

Source: New York Times November 01, 2017 12:33 UTC