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THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE by Rebecca Dzida shows us that teachers are just like actors ... the show must go on! All Miss C wants to do is teach, but situations outside the classroom keep getting in her way. The audience is the class!

John A. Adam's drama, IN THE SHADOW OF A DREAM, is a cathartic dark night of the soul as two unlikely individuals go on a road trip.

A subway platform proves a fascinating setting for this relationship comedy about the bond formed between two strangers - a struggling sitcom writer and a subway kiosk owner. After midnight, these women from different worlds connect in fascinating and poignant ways.

Deni Rutland has spent a lifetime trying to escape her dysfunctional family, with little success. Now, on the occasion of her 40th birthday, she is making one last attempt at freedom. Will an explosive family celebration finally push her through the door, or will the twisted ties that bind pull her under even further? Featuring Mimi Bessette*, Courtney Bess*, Kathleen Clancy*, Ken Perlstein*, and Joseph Rose*. (*Member, AEA)

Australia's Oldest Man by award-winning, Melbourne-based playwright, Kieran Carroll, is a black comedy about a hilariously grotesque 148 year-old man obsessed with Swedish pornography and annoying the Australian government. His long-suffering wife, 97 year old Katya, wants change, and tonight will be the night!

The 17th Annual MIDTOWN INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL, runs today, July 16, through August 7, 2016 at The WORKSHOP'S MAIN STAGE & JEWEL BOX, 312 W 36TH STREET.

The Midtown International Theater Festival (MITF) presents Insomnia with music and lyrics by Charles Bloom and book by Theo Wolf. Ovi Vargas directs a cast of seven, including Philip Skinner, Jesse Manocherian*, Anette Michelle Sanders*, Lauren Lukacek*, Chris Brick*, Tyler Milliron*, and Dennis Holland* (Bway: The Music Man, Peter Pan). Insomnia is being staged at the Main Stage, 312 West 36th Street in New York City from August 2-7, 2016.

A subway platform proves a fascinating setting for this relationship comedy about the bond formed between two strangers - a struggling sitcom writer and a subway kiosk owner. After midnight, these women from different worlds connect in fascinating and poignant ways.

Midnight on a Monday is the 2014 winner of the Playwrights Guild of Canada/Toronto Fringe Festival's Twenty-Four Hour Play Writing Contest. After a staged reading at Toronto's highly esteemed Tarragon Theatre, Midnight on a Monday will be making its world premiere in New York this July as part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival. Featuring Tania Kass and the playwright herself, Katie Housley, under the leadership of award-winning director, Kathy Gail MacGowan.

THE NOSE, a new musical by Kit Goldstein Grant, will premiere this August at the Midtown International Theatre Festival. The production runs July 16 through August 7, 2016 at The Workshop's Main Stage Theater, 312 West 36TH STREET, New York, New York 10018.

Four women explore life, love and art and re-define the archetypal bohemian modern woman and the artistic feminist revolution in this experimental musical theatre piece written in 1984 by Bronwyn Rucker, now under the direction of Jason Ellis, and featuring Evelyn Sullivan, Tatiana Gomberg*, Rachel Murdy*, Kate Ruby Klenfner, and Anna Foss Wilson.* (*AEA)

HuffPost Columnist/Award-Winning Actress & Inspirational Survivor brings one-woman autobiographical musical comedy to the Chenango River Theatre in Greene, NY on June 13th at 7:30pm

Following the advice of the White Queen in 'Through The Looking Glass,' who always tried to believe six impossible things before breakfast, magician James Warren takes the audience on a quest for the impossible - and finds it, most amazingly, in the ordinary things around us.

Deni Rutland has spent a lifetime trying to escape her dysfunctional family, with little success. Now, on the occasion of her 40th birthday, she is making one last attempt at freedom. Will an explosive family celebration finally push her through the door, or will the twisted ties that bind pull her under even further? Featuring Mimi Bessette*, Courtney Bess*, Kathleen Clancy*, Ken Perlstein*, and Joseph Rose*. (*Member, AEA)

Following her father's death, Elaine reflects on their time together. As a result, she confronts his - and her - deepest, darkest secrets through words that have stuck in her head since her Sweet 16... 'Life isn't about living. Life is about what you do before you die.' Guilt and grief now fill this once happy home, opening Elaine's eyes to an unforeseen realm of temptation.

Physical therapist Adrian Miranda brings us A CHRONIC LINE: A NEW MUSICAL ABOUT CHRONIC PAIN as part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival, August 3 & 6 at the Workshop's Main Stage and Jewel Box, 312 West 36th Street, NYC.

When an ambivalent mother visits her parents' cabin in the Maine woods, bringing along her mute daughter and her new teenage ward, an already tense reunion is interrupted by the arrival of two eerie strangers. As a storm rages outside, the group's anxieties flare, tensions erupt, and chaos encroaches, until the most vulnerable among them must choose between their responsibilities and the temptations of the unknown.

THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE by Rebecca Dzida shows us that teachers are just like actors ... the show must go on! All Miss C wants to do is teach, but situations outside the classroom keep getting in her way. The audience is the class!

IRTE: The Improvisational Repertory Theatre Ensemble invites you to a major archaeological discovery that is about to be unearthed. Will it be something amazing or something that should have remained hidden forever? Join us at the dig site to find out in this improvised adventure as we discover what lies buried below.

John A. Adam's drama, IN THE SHADOW OF A DREAM, is a cathartic dark night of the soul as two unlikely individuals go on a road trip.