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Freshwater Theatre Company opens its 2014-2015 season with the world premiere of The Man in Her Dreams, a brand new drama by 2013 Ivey Award winning playwright Katherine Glover, honored for her work in our festival Freshwater Goes Back to High School. The play began its life as a one-woman Fringe show titled Dead Wrong, which she toured internationally, and was selected for our first Fringe Consolation Remount in 2012. Katherine has expanded and re-imagined it as the brilliant full length, multi-character production we are excited to present this October.

Freshwater Theatre Company opens its 2014-2015 season today, October 4-19 with the world premiere of The Man in Her Dreams, a brand new drama by 2013 Ivey Award winning playwright Katherine Glover, honored for her work in our festival Freshwater Goes Back to High School.

Nonstop theater, a costume competition and ballroom dancing will bewitch the East Village in Theater for the New City's 38th annual Village Halloween Costume Ball on Friday, October 31 at TNC, 155 First Avenue. This unique festival continues as a grand coming-together for everyday New Yorkers and artists alike. A carefree fall tradition, it celebrates the creativity that comes with the season.

Freshwater Theatre Company opens its 2014-2015 season with the world premiere of The Man in Her Dreams, a brand new drama by 2013 Ivey Award winning playwright Katherine Glover, honored for her work in our festival Freshwater Goes Back to High School. The play began its life as a one-woman Fringe show titled Dead Wrong, which she toured internationally, and was selected for our first Fringe Consolation Remount in 2012. Katherine has expanded and re-imagined it as the brilliant full length, multi-character production we are excited to present this October.

Celebrate the publication of Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Oxford University Press) at Barnes and Noble, 86th Street & Lexington Avenue, New York City, on Monday, September 15, 2014 at 7PM.

Freshwater Theatre Company opens its 2014-2015 season October 4-19 with the world premiere of The Man in Her Dreams, a brand new drama by 2013 Ivey Award winning playwright Katherine Glover, honored for her work in our festival Freshwater Goes Back to High School.

This past weekend CARRIE: The Musical returned to NYC for a sold out run at Baruch Performing Arts Center. Carrie was produced by the Broadway Workshop as their 2014 Main stage production. Scroll down for photos of the cast in action!

Jane Marlow is a successful model with a London home and a bright future. But now she has a problem: after a night of unbridled passion with a TV actor, she's pregnant.

Freshwater Theatre Company returns this November to present the world premiere of The Beacon From Belle Isle, a new commissioned work by local playwright and Michigan native J. Merrill Motz*, directed by Jamil Jude, Mixed Blood Theatre's National New Play Network Producer-in-Residence.

Nonstop theater, a costume competition and ballroom dancing will bewitch the East Village in Theater for the New City's 37th annual Village Halloween Costume Ball tonight, October 31 at TNC, 155 First Avenue. This unique festival continues as a grand coming-together for everyday New Yorkers and artists alike. A carefree fall tradition, it celebrates the creativity that comes with the season.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY HOLDS ITS 37th ANNUAL VILLAGE HALLOWEEN COSTUME BALL OCTOBER 31. Underground stars perform each year in TNC's Halloween Cabarets. Guests will see, be seen and vie for costume prizes. Celebrants will sink fangs into Halloween delicacies in The Witches' Cauldron.

Nonstop theater, a costume competition and ballroom dancing will bewitch the East Village in Theater for the New City's 37th annual Village Halloween Costume Ball on Thursday, October 31 at TNC, 155 First Avenue. This unique festival continues as a grand coming-together for everyday New Yorkers and artists alike. A carefree fall tradition, it celebrates the creativity that comes with the season.

Freshwater Theatre Company returns this November to present the world premiere of The Beacon From Belle Isle, a new commissioned work by local playwright and Michigan native J. Merrill Motz*, directed by Jamil Jude, Mixed Blood Theatre's National New Play Network Producer-in-Residence.

USA Today reports that former Disney star Lee Thompson Young was found dead in his Los Angeles home from an apparent suicide. The actor was 29 years old.

TNT's blockbuster drama Rizzoli & Isles returned in a big way Tuesday night as the show's fourth season premiere garnered 6.6 million viewers in Live + Same Day delivery, including 2.3 million adults 25-54 and 1.8 million adults 18-49. The show outperformed last year's season three launch by double digits, with total viewers growing by +18%, adults 25-54 by +19% and adults 18-49 by +17%. Competitively, the season premiere of Rizzoli & Isles now ranks as basic cable's #1 series telecast of the summer-to-date with total viewers and adults 25-54.

TNT is going to ramp up the drama this summer with a spectacular lineup of original series, including four brand new shows and five returning favorites.

Amaury Nolasco is set to be a guest star this summer during the fourth season of TNT's hit drama series Rizzoli & Isles, starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander. Nolasco is best known for his role on hit television series Prison Break, as well as his performance in the box-office hit Transformers.

Production is now under way on the fourth season of TNT's hit series RIZZOLI & ISLES, from Warner Horizon Television.The drama, which wrapped its third season in December ranking among the Top 3 original series of 2012, stars Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander.

TNT has locked tonight, November 27 at 9:00/8:00c as the return date for its hit drama RIZZOLI & ISLES. The five-episode run, beginning with 'Class Action Satisfaction,' will close out the show's third season with season four - ordered back in June - due next year.

Suggs and Madness saxophonist Lee Thompson led the sell-out audience at the 10th anniversary charity gala performance of OUR HOUSE in an impromptu singalong of their greatest hits last night. It brought the curtain down at the Savoy Theatre on a night that saw many original cast members both in the production and on stage in the show in a fundraiser for the Help for Heroes Charity. Suggs played Joe's dad - a role he took in the West End in 2003. Check out photos from the event's after party below!