OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1059

FUERZA BRUTA: LOOK UP makes an even bigger splash beginning Monday, July 11 with its first summer Monday performance at 8 p.

Saturday evening July 2nd, Joan Rivers was spotted in the audience at SILENCE! The Musical, the unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs, at Theatre 80, located at 80 St.

'A Strange and Separate People' by Jon Marans announces casting of Jonathan Hammond, Tricia Paoluccio and Noah Weisberg.

Love, Loss, and What I Wore alumnae Anita Gillette ('30 Rock') and Aisha de Haas (Caroline, Or Change) will return to the hit Off Broadway show, completing the cast that begins today (Wednesday, July 6) and runs through Sunday, August 7, 2011 at the Westside Theatre (407 W 43rd Street).

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TRYST is a riveting romantic thriller set in Edwardian London.

Lincoln Center and Park Avenue Armory announced today a $25 rush ticket program - RSC Rush - to give budget-minded theater-goers a chance to see the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in New York this summer.

Former 90s club kids nostalgic for theme nights at Limelight should get a kick out of director David Esbjornson's frequently flashy and enjoyable mounting of Shakespeare's Measure For Measure; a production where, under a simple, but austere cathedral-like setting, the antics straddle the line betwee

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced casting and complete details for the New York premiere of COMPLETENESS, a new play by Itamar Moses (The Four of Us, Bach at Leipzig).

Classic Stage Company's acclaimed production of UNNATURAL ACTS, a new play created by members of the Plastic Theatre, conceived and directed by Tony Speciale, will extend by popular demand for one additional week through Sunday, July 17 at CSC (136 East 13th Street).

Fox Theatricals (Kristin Caskey & Mike Isaacson), Tom Gabbard, Amanda Dubois, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Nassib El-Husseini, and Thomas Lightburn announced today that they will bring TRACES, the acclaimed show by the Montreal-based troupe 7 Fingers, to New York's Union Square Theatre

"The Banana Monologues" is being presented by Gregory Taft Gerard in association with Jason C.

Court Theatre's production of the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, directed by Artistic Director Charles Newell, with Artistic Consultant Ron OJ Parson and Music Direction by Doug Peck, will close on July 3.

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Classic Stage Company's acclaimed production of UNNATURAL ACTS, a new play created by members of the Plastic Theatre, conceived and directed by Tony Speciale, will extend by popular demand for one additional week through Sunday, July 17 at CSC (136 East 13th Street).

Cause Celebrè (Susan Charlotte, Founding Artistic Director) in association with Mary J.

Harlem Stage, one of the country's leading producers and presenters of performances by artists of color, announced today its Fall 2011 lineup, anchored by premieres and new editions of dance, music and multidisciplinary programs that showcase issues of global and local import.

Hot off a national tour of Ireland, Dermot Bolger's highly acclaimed new play 'The Parting Glass' transfers to New York's Barrow Street Theatre beginning Wednesday July 20 for a limited engagement.

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A memorial service will be held for long-time production stage manager Beverley Randolph Thursday, June 30 at 2:00 pm at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street).

Culture Project's Women Center Stage will present the New York premiere of MoLoRa, the stunning Farber Foundry production based on the ancient Oresteia Trilogy, adapted and directed by Yael Farber.

Channeling Kevin Spacey, the hilarious two-person tour de force comedy which began its Off Broadway run on April 17 after three "Best of Fest" wins at the Toronto, Edmonton and Winnipeg Fringe Festivals, has released a new block of tickets for sale for performances through December 31, 2011.

'You've Got Hate Mail,' the off-Broadway comedy about sexting, lies and laptops, will offer a special performance to benefit the Actors Fund.

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Abingdon Theatre Company - which has produced more than 60 new American plays in its 18-year history - launches its 2011-2012 Season of three world premieres, beginning this fall with BLAME IT ON BECKETT by John Morogiello, author of the recent Abingdon hit ENGAGING SHAW, set to begin previews Octob