OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1048

As previously reported, Hurricane Irene is heading to the East Coast this weekend, predicted to hit New York City hard beginning Saturday night, August 27, going into Sunday, August 28.

The weekend performances of Zarkana by Cirque du Soleil at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, August 28 are cancelled due to the expected extreme weather conditions and transit service shutdown.

Due to the impending hurricane, all performances of 'The Judy Show' starring Judy Gold at The DR2 Theatre have been cancelled on Saturday and Sunday, August 27th and 28th.

Due to the impending hurricane, all performances of 'Voca People' at The Westside Theatre have been cancelled for August 27th and 28th.

The producers of the Off-Broadway smash hit ‘My Big Gay Italian Wedding' are excited to welcome legend of stage and screen Lainie Kazan for the show's Atlantic City premiere Friday, August 26th and Saturday, August 27th at the Hilton Hotel & Casino.

Roy Arias' Sex on the Beach, the new three character play that explore the sex tourist industry in the Spanish Caribbean (Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico), will conclude its acclaimed Off-Broadway premiere August 26th.

It's inevitable that The Woodshed Collective's The Tenant, a site-specific theatrical interpretation of Roland Topor's novella via Roman Polanski's film adaptation, will be compared with the downtown hit, Sleep No More.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater announced today that Vladimir Versailles has joined the cast of The Wood, a new play by award-winning filmmaker Dan Klores about the life of New York columnist Mike McAlary.

Two sold-out weeks last January for Fiasco Theater's production of Cymbeline wasn't nearly long enough to satisfy the demands of a theatre-going public hungry for, as Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote, 'the comedy, poignancy and unlikely magic of Cymbeline.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION, the runaway hit play by Mark St.

'HARRY & EDDIE: The Birth of Israel' tells the largely-unknown story of how President Harry S.

Christina Haag, author of the New York Times bestseller 'Come to the Edge' - the memoir of her lifelong relationship with John F.

'PLAY IT COOL' a new musical will be presented Off Broadway at Theatre Row - Acorn Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street.

The obligatory Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark spoof that everyone figured would be a part of the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival obviously did not benefit from a series of workshops and readings before making its debut at the Bleecker Theatre.

Due to sold out performances and audience demand The Amoralists will extend HotelMotel, their site-specific theatrical event featuring the New York Premiere of Animals and Plants, written and directed by Obie Award-winner Adam Rapp, and the World Premiere of Pink Knees on Pale Skin, written and dire

The 2nd annual United Solo, the world's largest solo theatre festival, presents a lineup of seventy-seven local and international productions invited to perform at Theatre ROW on 42nd Street in New York City between October 20 - November 20, 2011.

n August 26 and 27, Nikki Blonsky--the Golden Globe-nominated star of the 2007 hit movie musical HAIRSPRAY--will join Tony nominee Lainie Kazan in the Atlantic City premiere of the hit off-Broadway smash MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDING at the Hilton Hotel Casino Resort.

The Award-Winning Korean sensation Hero: The Musical will make its American debut on August 23, 2011 for a limited engagement at Lincoln Center.

INVASION!, Jonas Hassen Khemiri's Obie Award-winning play, returns to NY by popular demand for Off-Broadway run previews September 6 prior to opening September 13 at The Flea Theater

A CHARITY CASE, a new play about adoption by Australian playwright and director Wendy Beckett, will open Wednesday, November 2nd at the Clurman Theatre (410 West 42nd Street - between 9th and 10th Avenues).

Mint Theater today announced that Temporal Powers will extend through October 2nd at the Mint's home in the heart of the theater district, 311 West 43rd Street.

Channeling Kevin Spacey, the irreverent, whirlwind comedy currently playing Off-Broadway, has added a performance and revamped its schedule.

The steady stream of celebrity spottings continues at SILENCE! The Musical, Off-Broadway's hilarious new smash hit.

Michael Walker's new play 'Dancing in the Garden', having its New York premiere in this year's New York International Fringe Festival, explores some issues surrounding growing up Lesbian in a strict Catholic family.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) will present the first production of its 2011-2012 season, the U.