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The Irish Arts Center is set to present the US premiere of 'I Heart Alice Heart I' by the Dublin-based Irish theatre-makers HotforTheatre, from February 29th to March 17th, 2012.

Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of André Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) will present its LCT3 production of 4000 MILES, a new play by Amy Herzog, directed by Daniel Aukin beginning Thursday, March 15 in the Mitzi E.

The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) continues its 24th Season with BEYOND THE HORIZON - Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about two brothers in love with the same woman - with previews set to begin February 15, prior to its official opening on February 26 on the Irish Repe

Justin Kirk took advantage of his first night off since joining the Broadway cast of Other Desert Cities to catch SILENCE! The Musical this past Monday, January 16th.

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Tonight, January 19th is LGBT NIGHT at SILENCE! The Musical - The Unauthorized Parody of The Silence of the Lambs.

The 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs has just been selected for preservation on the National Film Registry's annual list of 25 "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant films.

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre (Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris and Jenn Thompson, Co-Artistic Directors), the critically-acclaimed company "dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit," will present the American premiere of Noel Coward's Semi-Monde in a one-night

Beginning January 18th The Off Broadway Alliance will again sponsor 20at20, the bi-annual celebration of Off Broadway.

Lincoln Center Theatre will bring back Amy Herzog's 4000 MILES, which ran at the Duke on 42nd Street last summer.

It's all about perspective.

Signature Theatre will present the new production of BLOOD KNOT, written and directed by Athol Fugard.

The Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Ma-Yi Theatre Company - one of the country's leading Asian-American theater companies - in association with the Obie Award winning Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company present the Off-Broadway debut of Qui Nguyen's critically acclaimed comedy THE INEXPLICABLE REDEMPT

Studio 42 will present the new play BILLY WITCH by playwright Gregory S.

I've heard it said that there was this Australian fellow playing the Broadhurst recently who regularly had his audiences whipped up into quite a frenzy.

The Red Bull Theater presents an 'In the Raw' workshop of THE AENEID, by Oliver Kemeid, a powerful new play inspired by Virgil that transports Aeneas's search for a homeland into the modern world of middle-eastern revolution.

CALL ME WALDO -- a new play by Rob Ackerman (TABLETOP) -- will debut Off-Broadway in a production by The Working Theater with preview performances starting February 14 prior to its official opening night on February 22 at the June Havoc Theatre (312 W.

Thursday, January 19th is LGBT NIGHT at SILENCE! The Musical - The Unauthorized Parody of The Silence of the Lambs.

"The PICTURE BOX" by Cate Ryan will be presented by The Negro Ensemble Company Off Broadway* at Theatre Row - Beckett Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street.

La MaMa will present the World Premiere of You, My Mother, a production by the Obie Award-winning performance group Two-Headed Calf.

Vineyard Theatre and Naked Angels present the world premiere of OUTSIDE PEOPLE, written by Zayd Dohrn and directed by Evan Cabnet; with Matthew Dellapina, Nelson Lee, Li Jun Li and Sonequa Martin-Green, at Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street).

By my count, Outside People is the third theatre piece about a white American in contemporary China to hit town this season.

Sex therapist, Dr.

Off-Broadway's Page 73 Productions has announced playwright Max Posner as the recipient of the 2012 P73 Playwriting Fellowship.

Barbara Ligeti and Wishing Well Productions by special arrangement with The Cherry Lane Theatre are presenting the world premiere production of Frank Strausser's PSYCHO THERAPY - a new play about couples therapy…for three.