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After over two years of sold out performances, as well as acclaim from critics and audiences alike, It's Just Sex, Los Angeles' longest-running, award-winning comedy, will finally come to New York City.

Mint Theater's productin of Temporal Powers will close on October 2nd at the Mint's home in the heart of the theater district, 311 West 43rd Street.

Theatre Communication Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre has announced the seventh annual Free Night of Theater-the largest audience development program in the U.

Casting has been announced for the Fifth Annual New York One-Minute Play Festival, hosted by Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters.

The Judy Show - My Life As A Sitcom, the new comedy starring Judy Gold, will extend its limited engagement at Off-Broadway's DR2 Theatre (103 E 15th Street).

Though he did have a brief - very brief - stint on Broadway before Lemon Sky premiered in 1970 at midtown's Off-Broadway Playhouse Theatre, Lanford Wilson was still at that point regarded as a downtown playwright.

Two-Time Tony Nominee Alison Fraser and Jill Shackner join previously announced actress Alysia Reiner in A CHARITY CASE.

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Hinton Battle returns this season as a producer on SISTAS: The Musical, written by Fulbright Scholar and Columbia University Professor Dr.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) announces complete casting for the New York premiere of MAPLE AND VINE, a new play by Jordan Harrison (Doris to Darlene at Playwrights Horizons, Amazons and Their Men, Kid-Simple).

Off-Broadway Family Theatre will present its inaugural production of C.

HARRY & EDDIE: The Birth of Israel', which opened off-Broadway at St.

Preview performances begin tonight for Roundabout Theatre Company's Sons of the Prophet, by Stephen Karam, directed by Peter DuBois.

Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW presents SUPER SHAW 2011, a lively and irreverent evening of George Bernard Shaw, on Monday, October 17 at 7pm at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South) in Manhattan.

Playwright Radha Blank, currently represented Off-Broadway with the Classical Theatre of Harlem/Hip-Hop Theater Festival's production of SEED, was presented with the 2011 Helen Merrill Award in Playwrighting.

SILENCE! The Musical, which closed off-Broadway this past week, won't be shuttered for long: according to the New York Times, the show plans to re-open at the end of October.

The Red Bull Theater will present a benefit reading of Ben Jonson's Volpone on Monday, October 10th, 2011 at 7:30 pm.

The Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company's Lemon Sky opens tonight starring Keith Nobbs, Kellie Overbey and Kevin Kilner.

INTAR (Lou Moreno, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) will present Intringulis, (n.

The Acting Company will present a benefit staged reading of Trouble in Paradise on Monday, September 26 at the Mainstage Theater, 416 West 42nd Street, NYC (between 9th/10th Avenues) at 7pm.

By popular demand, performances of THE OHMIES: MORNING WISH GARDEN (www.

Tabloid theatre might be the best way of describing Dan Klores' The Wood, a drama that attempts hard-hitting, journalistic toughness in painting a somewhat nonobjective portrait of New York newspaper columnist Mike McAlary.

SILENCE! The Musical, the unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs, with book by Hunter Bell, music & lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan, and direction & choreography by Christopher Gattelli, officially opened on July 9th to unanimous rave reviews at Theatre 80 and immediately became a sold-out smas

A revised version of Joe Pintauro's 1991 play RAFT OF THE MEDUSA, being produced Off-Broadway this fall by the Barefoot Theatre Company, will kick off the 9-week Stripped Festival this fall with performances October 8 to 22 at Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce St.

Based on true events, ORSON'S SHADOW is an ingenious tale of two Hollywood giants-Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier.