IVES LEAGUE

Lee Blessing’s “Going to St. Ives” is the final production in Primary Stages’ 20th anniversary season. The two-person drama follows the mother of a sub-Saharan African dictator. Maria Mileaf directs. Through Sunday, April 24, Tuesday, 7 p.m., Wednesday-Friday, 8 p.m., Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday, 3 p.m., 59E59 Theaters, 59th Street between Madison and Park avenues, 212-840-9705 for information, 212-279-4200 for tickets, $55. Note: Additional 2 p.m. matinees take place Wednesdays, April 13 and April 20. The 8 p.m. performances are cancelled on those days.

PLASTIC PLAY

The new play “Tupperware Orgy,” about a group of women in a small Southern town, treats sex, religion, and violence with equal irreverence. The playwright and director, John DeVore, is an associate editor at Maxim magazine. Friday through Saturday, April 30,Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m., Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave., between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 718-907-3457, $10.

DRAMA ON BOARD

Six playwrights, six directors, and 15 actors collaborate on “Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry,” an evening of theater written and rehearsed last weekend in under 24 hours. For inspiration, the Sundog Theatre troupe did some of the preperatory work aboard the ferry – the result, a fully staged production, takes place on dry land. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m., Sundays, 3 p.m., Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Veterans Memorial Hall, Chapel Road near the intersection of Tysen Street and Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, 212-868-4444, $15 general, $13 seniors, members, and students.

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