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The Acting Company will present a staged reading of CHARLEY'S AUNT on December 12. The event will take place at 7pm at the Mainstage Theatre. Written by Brandon Thomas, the reading will be directed by Ian Belknap, and feature the talents of Stephen Bogardus, Santino Fontana, and Michael Urie.

EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE is coming to theaters on December 25th from Warner Brothers Pictures. The drama is directed by Stephen Daldry, written by Eric Roth and stars Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, James Gandolfini, Zoe Caldwell, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright and Max von Sydow.

At The Acting Company's Masquerade Gala on November 14 at Capitale, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Joseph Benincasa, Chairman and President respectively of The Actors Fund, will accept the Joan Warburg Humanitarian Award honoring the Fund's extraordinary legacy of providing health and human services to the entertainment community since 1882. James Bundy, Dean of Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, will receive the John Houseman Award recognizing his profound commitment to the development of classical actors and a national audience for the theater. David Hyde Pierce and Charles S. Dutton will present the awards; the Godspell cast will entertain and Acting Company Alumnus Hamish Linklater (Seminar) emcees the evening for an industry-filled audience of producers, directors, entertainers and other notables including The Honorable Thomas Kean, legendary record producer Clive Davis, New York Times writer Enid Nemy and The Broadway League's Charlotte St. Martin. For ticket Information call: 212-258-3111 .

At The Acting Company's Masquerade Gala on November 14 at Capitale, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Joseph Benincasa, Chairman and President respectively of The Actors Fund, will accept the Joan Warburg Humanitarian Award honoring the Fund's extraordinary legacy of providing health and human services to the entertainment community since 1882. James Bundy, Dean of Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, will receive the John Houseman Award recognizing his profound commitment to the development of classical actors and a national audience for the theater. David Hyde Pierce and Charles S. Dutton will present the awards; the Godspell cast will entertain and Acting Company Alumnus Hamish Linklater (Seminar) emcees the evening for an industry-filled audience of producers, directors, entertainers and other notables including The Honorable Thomas Kean, legendary record producer Clive Davis, New York Times writer Enid Nemy and The Broadway League's Charlotte St. Martin. For ticket Information call: 212-258-3111 .

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), just honored acclaimed director George C. Wolfe with the 2011 'Mr. Abbott' Award for his incredible breadth and depth of work in the American Theatre.

Write-On!, a series of new plays written by Acting Company Alumni will be performed as staged readings at 7 pm on October 3, 10, 17, 31 and November 7 at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.

The Acting Company will present a benefit staged reading of Trouble in Paradise on Monday, September 26 at the Mainstage Theater, 416 West 42nd Street, NYC (between 9th/10th Avenues) at 7pm.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting's 6th annual Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts opens tonight, bringing artists and activists together to discuss the relationship between art and social activism.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting will hold the 6th annual Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts this month, bringing artists and activists together to discuss the relationship between art and social activism.

The Acting Company will present a benefit staged reading of Trouble in Paradise on Monday, September 26 at the Mainstage Theater, 416 West 42nd Street, NYC (between 9th/10th Avenues) at 7pm.

Write-On!, a series of new plays written by Acting Company Alumni will be performed as staged readings at 7 pm on October 3, 10, 17, 31 and November 7 at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting will hold the 6th annual Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts this month, bringing artists and activists together to discuss the relationship between art and social activism.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting will hold the 6th annual Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts this month, bringing artists and activists together to discuss the relationship between art and social activism.

Luckey Charm Productions is slated to bring its popular play, He Said, She Said A Romantic Comedy, to Washington, DC on June 12th -19th. The play centers on a couple dealing with 'the seven year itch.'

Luckey Charm Productions is slated to bring its popular play, He Said, She Said A Romantic Comedy, to Washington, DC on June 12th -19th. The play centers on a couple dealing with 'the seven year itch.'

Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor Mos (formerly known as Mos Def) joins recently announced guest star Colin Hanks in the cast of the Emmy nominated SHOWTIME(R) drama series DEXTER(TM) for Season 6. Mos will appear in a multi-episode story arc in which he will play Brother Sam, a hardened ex-con who claims to have found religion, yet seems to continually find himself surrounded by violence. Production on DEXTER begins in June in Los Angeles and will premiere on SHOWTIME this fall.

Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor Mos (formerly known as Mos Def) joins recently announced guest star Colin Hanks in the cast of the Emmy nominated SHOWTIME(R) drama series DEXTER(TM) for Season 6. Mos will appear in a multi-episode story arc in which he will play Brother Sam, a hardened ex-con who claims to have found religion, yet seems to continually find himself surrounded by violence.