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The United Solo Festival presents MADMAN, written and performed by Jake Austin Robertson, on September 23 at 7:30pm, October 14 at 4pm and October 17 at 9pm, The Studio Theater at Theatre Row, 410 W. 42nd Street, NYC, 10036. The one-man play is directed by Sara Morgulis. Already a Festival Bestseller, MADMAN has sold out its first three shows and now has added a fourth performance on November 1. 

Hamlet Machine, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Henrikh Muller's Hamletmachine by Ani Vardanyan, will officially start performance Off-Broadway on October 24th, 2018 at Theatre Row (410 W 42nd St.)

ONE GOOD EGG is a poignant mash-up of comedy, storytelling, and theater featured at the prestigious United Solo Theatre Festival on October 19 & 20.

Step back in time with vocal powerhouse Big Mama Thornton, the blues singer, songwriter and entertainer known for her top Billboard hits. This musical comedy shows her experience with racial and sexual tensions in the music industry. Join us on her fearless journey of musical strife and success. What you know as HIStory is truly HERstory. Explicit language.

African Tree Productions brings to United Solo Theatre Festival 2018 a theatre production titled "BE A BETTER DOG" performed by the Ellen Steward International Award 2018 Nominee Seiphemo Motswiri, all the way from South Africa.

ONE GOOD EGG is a poignant mash-up of comedy, storytelling, and theater featured at the prestigious United Solo Theatre Festival on October 19 & 20.

Actor, Monette McLin, has written a one-woman show 'Phoenix Payne' as a way to explore her admiration of the infamous Doris Marie Payne. Monologues delivered by fictional characters, and some from Payne herself, allow the audience to choose whether Doris should be vindicated, or continue to be vilified for her actions.

Greek contemporary comic tragedy, THE PROSTITUTE UPSTAIRS, makes its English language debut in New York, at the 2018 United Solo Theatre Festival.

BBC has acquired the second series of the critically acclaimed female-led spy thriller Killing Eve. Series one made its debut on BBC One and as a boxset on BBC Three on BBC iPlayer last month and has become a massive hit with audiences - there have been over 26 million requests for the series so far.

Hamlet Machine, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Henrikh Muller's Hamletmachine by Ani Vardanyan, will officially start performance Off-Broadway on October 24th, 2018 at Theatre Row (410 W 42nd St.)

Oregon-based writer/performer Gigi Rosenberg is taking her solo show, Firstborn, to New York City, as an official selection of the United Solo Theatre Festival.

Richarda Abrams is an award-winning actress/singer/playwright, and daughter of the late Dr. Muhal Richard Abrams musician/composer/visionary/co-founder of the Association For The Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).

Acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Janis Brenner will appear in the world premiere of the full-length dance/voice/theatre solo work, Inheritance: A Litany presented by the acclaimed United Solo Theatre Festival, October 4 & 11, 2018 at 7:30pm Off-Broadway at Theater Row, Off- NYC, at 410 W. 42nd St. Tickets are $45 in advance or at the door, and are available at 212-239-6200, at the theater, or at www.unitedsolo.org/us/inheritance-2018.

ONE GOOD EGG is a poignant mash-up of comedy, storytelling, and theater featured at the prestigious United Solo Theatre Festival on October 19 & 20.

On Friday 25th January 2019 Heresy Records will release Testament, an album of eleven compositions by Mel Mercier (b. 23. December, 1959), Composer/Percussionist/Professor and Chair of Performing Arts at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Mel was first introduced to music by his father, Peadar Mercier, a member of the Chieftains, who taught him to play the Irish traditional percussion instruments, the bodhrán and bones. As one of the world's leading Irish percussionists He has performed and recorded with many of the leading artists in this genre including, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Donal Lunny, Pallé Mikkleborg, Martin Hayes, Liam Ó Maonlaoi, Alan Stivell, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Caitríona O'Leary and Bill Whelan.

Israeli writer, actor, and director Niv Petel is debuting his award-winning one man show 'Knock Knock' at United Solo Festival at Theatre Row on Monday, November 12 at 7:30pm.

The tortured and tragic life of Frida Kahlo, famous Mexican painter & feminist icon, comes to life in Susan Rybin's powerful one-woman show.

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a psychic medium? DonnaD Lipari shows you through a reading she gives herself. You get the chance to look through the eyes of a medium, as she shares her personal journey which is unique, and at the same time, universal. She reveals secret spiritual truths that will uplift and enlighten all present.

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a psychic medium? DonnaD Lipari shows you through a reading she gives herself. You get the chance to look through the eyes of a medium, as she shares her personal journey which is unique, and at the same time, universal. She reveals secret spiritual truths that will uplift and enlighten all present.

Art school, modern womanhood, hilarious moments from comi-tragic relationships that almost existed…followed up with, "what's next, world?" Lanessa Long's, "Nobody's Really Helped Me", one-woman musical comedy filled with songs and stories about the melodramas that make up being 22 and on cliffs of severe unknowns.