The musical "Next to Normal" is at the 5th Avenue Theatre and comes highly recommended (both by a psychologist and a non-psychologist). It is a rock musical about a family dealing with a bipolar mother--intriguing, right? The musical was on Broadway for three years, and won a few Tony's during its run there (for best leading actress, best orchestration, and best score, if I'm not mistaken). It also won a Pulitzer. Apparently the play is fantastically intense, emotional, and...musical. I figure it may interest the fellow psych-enthusiasts out there. Here is the link:
And, for the under-25 crowd, tickets are discounted (I'm not sure by how much) if you buy them day-of-show. Ahhh, to be young!
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For a free-er and faster form of musical entertainment, here's a really awesome and semi-psychology-related song. It uses samples from something like 37 films and spoken word records.
"Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches:
