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Audience members choose their own paths through a specially designed multifloor complex in the Financial District in this all-new immersive theatrical experience from Emursive, the producers of Punchdrunk's Sleep No More. Dozens of performers evoke life in the Gilded Age through narratives loosely inspired by real New York City history as well as literary sources like the Faust legend and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Teddy Bergman directs the show, which is written by Jon Ronson and features scenic design Gabriel Hainer Evansohn and costumes by Emilio Sosa. RECOMMENDED: A guide to Life and Trust, NYC’s most intricate immersive theater experience    

Two bold Québécois theater makers, director Alix Dufresne and playwright Étienne Lepage, slip a little Freud into PAC's spring season with a darkly playful metatheatrical comedy in which four imbecilic people wander onto an empty stage and mayhem ensues. This absurdist philosophical look at accident and urges was created in French; in its New York incarnation, half of the performances are in English and half are bilingual with English surtitles.

For just four performances, the Perelman Performing Arts Center imports a musical multimedia production created by William Kentridge and Bronwyn Lace's modestly named Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg, South Africa, a space devoted to allowing artists to develop unconvential and even quixotic work. The performers employ 80 pairs of shoes in inventive ways as they chart historical journeys of African migration through speech, song and movement. The show is perrformed in a mix of English and African languages, and is preceded by a two-man rhythmic music performance called Sounds of Limpopo.