Catch an off-Broadway show for $20 in this week's NYC-Arts top picks.

The first top picks from NYC Arts in 2012 includes a can't-miss murder mystery from the quiet Turkish countryside.

Two productions with major stars in leading roles have only a handful of performances remaining.  For one play, the tickets are free; for the other, you will probably have to pay upwards of $400. Common sense (and economics) would suggest that the former is a better deal than the latter.  Seeing Al Pacino as Shylock [...]

I used to joke that I learned all the history I knew through opera. Enlightenment? Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. The Time of Troubles, 17th-century Russia? Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. You get the picture. I’m pretty sure that as of this week, after seeing Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, a 90-minute musical in a limited run at the [...]