Rebecca Smith News

Underling Productions presents The Two Noble Kinsmen by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare at Theatre 54 in Shetler Studios (244 W. 54th Street, 12th Floor).

Disney Theatrical Productions will hold an open call audition for male dancers for both the Broadway and upcoming North American touring productions of Newsies, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical smash, in Las Vegas on Friday, January 31 at 4pm at the Alexis Park Resort Hotel (375 East Harmon Avenue, Las Vegas, NV 89169). This audition will be first come, first serve and is for technically-trained Equity and non-Equity male dancers between 16 - 22 years old of all ethnicities who can tap and sing well.

The play's the only thing when WorkShop Theater Company presents The WILL-A-THON 10th Anniversary Bard-Stravaganza! featuring Tony Award Winner, Mr. Richard Easton with three different shows performed on six nights, written by William Shakespeare, and conceived and directed by Charles E. Gerber. A Special Event in the Main Stage Theater at WorkShop Theater Company, 312 West 36 Street on the 4th floor, Monday thru Saturday, April 22 thru April 27, 2013, at 8:00 PM each night, the WILL-A-THON features the acting company of Will's Playshop, intoxicating love songs, poetry, scenes both dramatic and comedic, and culminates in "A Shakespearean Evening with Richard Easton" in the final performance, Saturday, April 27th.

Lantern Theater Company's critically acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's Henry V will be extended an additional week through Sunday, April 21 to accommodate audience demand, the fourth consecutive production of the season to be extended.

Ronnie Cohen and Jane Beale present a special staged reading of their new play Witnessed by the World tonight, October 15, 2012 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Jewel Box @ The Workshop Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, New York City. Refreshments will be served.

Ronnie Cohen and Jane Beale present a special staged reading of their new play Witnessed by the World on Monday, October 15, 2012 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Jewel Box @ The Workshop Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, New York City. Refreshments will be served.

Lantern Theater Company announces a one-week extension of its successful remount of New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656 by award-winning playwright David Ives and directed by Lantern Artistic Director Charles McMahon. New Jerusalem will now run through September 30, 2012.

The Midtown International Theater Festival presents the premiere of a new play by Jane Beale and Ronnie Cohen, CORRECTION. Are we really who we say we are? Inspired by actual events. The play is set for Monday, July 30 @ 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, August 1 @ 7:30 p.m. and Friday, August 3 @ 6 p.m. at Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor, New York City.

The Midtown International Theater Festival presents the premiere of a new play by Jane Beale and Ronnie Cohen, CORRECTION. Are we really who we say we are? Inspired by actual events. The play is set for tonight, July 30 @ 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, August 1 @ 7:30 p.m. and Friday, August 3 @ 6 p.m. at Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor, New York City.

The Midtown International Theater Festival presents the premiere of a new play by Jane Beale and Ronnie Cohen, CORRECTION. Are we really who we say we are? Inspired by actual events. The play is set for Monday, July 30 @ 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, August 1 @ 7:30 p.m. and Friday, August 3 @ 6 p.m. at Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor, New York City.

Playwright Bernard-Marie Koltes left a disclaimer: "Black Battles with Dogs is not about Africa, it is not about the blacks - I am not an African playwright - it is not about neocolonialism, not about the racial question."

Three Europeans are isolated on the construction site of a western company in the heart of Africa, surrounded by barbed wire fences. High up on the watchtowers above, African security guards call out in the night to one another in throat songs to keep awake. As evening falls, a mysterious man, Alboury, penetrates the camp. When it emerges that he has come to demand the body of his brother who died that day in unknown circumstances, the ensuing action leads to a disturbing twist of events.

Lantern Theater Company has announced a one-week extension for the romantic comedy Private Lives by British playwright Noël Coward.

Lantern Theater Company has announced a one-week extension for the romantic comedy Private Lives by British playwright Noël Coward.

Due to high demand, Lantern Theater Company announces a one-week extension for the Philadelphia premiere of New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656 by award-winning playwright David Ives.

Abandoned by their gods, their city in ruins, the women of Troy await their destiny as prisoners of the Greek army. Glyn Maxwell has drawn from two of Euripides' tragedies, The Trojan Women and Hecuba, to produce a stunning new play that is at times darkly funny, at others horrifying.

AFTER TROY, a contemporary and witty retelling of Euripides' Women of Troy and Hecuba, by award-winning poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell, will have its world premiere on 2 March 2011 at the Oxford Playhouse, followed by an extended run at London's Shaw Theatre, with a press night on 18 March, prior to a UK tour.

AFTER TROY, a contemporary and witty retelling of Euripides' Women of Troy and Hecuba, by award-winning poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell, will have its world premiere on 2 March 2011 at the Oxford Playhouse, followed by an extended run at London's Shaw Theatre, with a press night on 18 March, prior to a UK tour.