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Slouching Towards Bethlehem, PA by Stephen Karam - September 22nd, 2011 This is my first time blogging. Ever. I'll do my best. The first week of rehearsals has just ended and its been the usual rush of adrenaline, nerves, excitement, discovery, fear, joy. Sons of the Prophet had a production at the Huntington Theater Company this past spring, and I was able to take what I learned from that first run and do a series of big rewrites this summer at the MacDowell Colony (where I worked in a cottage whose previous inhabitants include James Baldwin and Spalding Gray and María Irene Fornés!)

The Public Theater announced complete casting today for KING LEAR, directed by James Macdonald, beginning preview performances on Tuesday, October 18. Kristen Connolly (Cordelia), Bill Irwin (The Fool), and Frank Wood (Cornwall) will join the company that includes the previously announced Che Ayende (Duke of Burgundy/Knight/Servant), Craig Bockhorn (Doctor), Michael Crane (Oswald), Herb Foster (Old Man/Knight), Seth Gilliam (Edmund), Enid Graham (Goneril), Michael Izquierdo (King of France), Michael McKean (Gloucester), Arian Moayed (Edgar), Kelli O'Hara (Regan), John Douglas Thompson (Kent), Richard Topol (Albany), and Sam Waterston (Lear).

Victory Gardens presents An Evening With Greg Walloch, a one-night only solo performance written and performed by Greg Walloch as part of Crip Slam, a component of Victory Gardens Access Project.

Beginning September 13, 2011 atop the Gawker Media Roof, Performance Space 122 launches the first half of a 2 year walkabout with a focus on site-responsive work. Local presentations in the 2011-12 season include performances created by more than 20 artists from NYC, Chicago, Brasil, Argentina, Spain, Belgium, Croatia and Lebanon during the Fall Season, 7th Annual COIL Festival, and Spring Season.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) will present the first production of its 2011-2012 season, the U.S. premiere of Simon Stephen's play BLUEBIRD, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch and starring Olivier Award winner and Tony Award® nominee Simon Russell Beale, Tobias Segal and Atlantic Theater Company members Kate Blumberg, Mary McCann, and Todd Weeks.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce the first production of its 2011-2012 season, the U.S. premiere of Simon Stephen's play BLUEBIRD, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch and starring Olivier Award winner and Tony Award® nominee Simon Russell Beale, Tobias Segal and Atlantic Theater company members Kate Blumberg, Mary McCann, and Todd Weeks.

Celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy will kick off her 21st Anniversary Season of her multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends, with an unforgettable cabaret evening filled with song, humor, and fun on Wednesday, July 27th (7PM) at the intimate cabaret hot-spot Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~ btw. 5th & 6th Avenues).

Celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy will kick off her 21st Anniversary Season of her multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends, with an unforgettable cabaret evening filled with song, humor, and fun on Wednesday, July 27th (7PM) at the intimate cabaret hot-spot Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~ btw. 5th & 6th Avenues).

The New School for Drama has announced that Drama Desk Award-winning actor Kathleen Chalfant will be the distinguished Artist-in-Residence for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Award-winning show tells outrageous true story of a former teenage fundamentalist-and how he was saved from being saved.

The Ohio State University Arts and Humanities and University Libraries' Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute has announced that it will present the prestigious 2011 Margo Jones Award to Lincoln Center Theater dramaturg Anne Cattaneo. The award, which will be presented to Ms. Cattaneo in a ceremony in the Vivian Beaumont Theater lobby on Monday, July 11 beginning at 5:30, is given annually to a 'citizen-of-the-theatre who has demonstrated a significant impact, understanding and affirmation of the craft of playwriting, with a lifetime commitment to the encouragement of the living theatre everywhere.'

Celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy will kick off her 21st Anniversary Season of her multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends, with an unforgettable cabaret evening filled with song, humor, and fun on Wednesday, July 27th (7PM) at the intimate cabaret hot-spot Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~ btw. 5th & 6th Avenues).

Over the next 12 months, Performance Space 122 will leave our 30-year home temporarily while our building undergoes a much-needed interior transformation initiated and funded by the City of New York, the Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City Council. Designed by Deborah Berke and Partners, renovations to the interior will be aimed at bringing the building up to meet current code requirements and LEED silver standards.

Meredith Vieira Productions announces dates for the national tour of James Braly's LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION (20 Years of Monogamy In One Terrifying Hour).

Performance Space 122's 30th Anniversary Season has included contemporary performance hits such as Hotel Savoy, THEM, Rumble Ghost, The Escape Artist, The Green Surround and Radio Play as well as a monumental COIL Festival and Spring Gala.

Performance Space 122's 30th Anniversary Season has included contemporary performance hits such as Hotel Savoy, THEM, Rumble Ghost, The Escape Artist, The Green Surround and Radio Play as well as a monumental COIL Festival and Spring Gala.