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Off-Broadway shows that go outside the box

- By JOE DZIEMIANOW­ICZ

OFF-Broadway has always been a safe bet for seeing innovative, exciting, talked-about shows on New York stages.

Case in point: “Oh, Mary!” at the Lucille Lortel, Cole Escola’s rollicking comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln (Abe’s troubled wife) which leaves you aching from laughter.

There are more bright stars to see in production­s running now or starting soon:

“Here There Are Blueberrie­s,” at New York Theatre Workshop, is a play conceived and directed by Moisés Kaufman (“The Laramie Project”). It tells the true — and truly unsettling — story of an album of photograph­s that was sent to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007.

In “Sally & Tom” at the Public Theater, Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks casts her unblinking gaze on history in this spiky play about a company putting on a play about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.

Also at the Public, “Jordans,” by Ife Olujobi, takes on race, ambition and appearance­s in a plot about a put-upon receptioni­st in this workplace button-pusher.

“Billions” star Maggie Siff leads the cast of Alexis Scheer’s “Breaking the Story” at Second Stage Theater, a contempora­ry drama about a war correspond­ent battling to determine where she’s headed. Geneva Carr (“Bull”) and Julie Halston co-star.

Jukebox musical “A Sign of the Times,” at New World Stages, pours on ’60s hits to tell the tale of a woman with plus-sized dreams who lands in 1965 NYC.

Virtual reality and actual relationsh­ips collide in “Scarlett Dreams,” a drama at Greenwich House by S. Asher Gelman that blurs the lines between the digital and real worlds.

 ?? ?? Sheria Irving and Gabriel Ebert play dual roles in “Sally & Tom.”
Sheria Irving and Gabriel Ebert play dual roles in “Sally & Tom.”

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