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Desperate Writers, a new comedy, will make its East Coast premiere when it begins performances next week, on Monday, May 16 at the Union Square Theater (100 East 17th Street at Park Avenue South).

New York's renowned Public Theater is pleased to host the world premiere of the 'lost play' from the acclaimed new novel The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips.

Transport Group Theatre Company, the winner of a special Drama Desk Award and two OBIE Awards, has announced casting and dates for the New York premiere of Lysistrata Jones, a new musical with a book by Douglas Carter Beane; music and lyrics by Lewis Flinn; directed and choreographed by Dan Knechtge

The New York premiere of Elan Wolf Farbiarz and Cory Terry's Channeling Kevin Spacey will officially open at Off Broadway's St.

Folksbiene's breakaway hit, 'The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer,' one of the best-reviewed shows of 2009-2010 season, returns for a special encore engagement this spring.

Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) limited engagement of The Dream of the Burning Boy will play its final performance on Sunday, May 15th at 2:30 PM.

Looking Glass Theatre, celebrating almost 20 years of productions strengthening the voice of women in theater and the arts, proudly presents Just A Reading, a new play written by Ryan Glass and directed by Chanda Calentine.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) concludes its 25th Anniversary season with a celebration of its history with 10x25, an all-commissioned one-act festival of ten-minute plays by twenty five of the extraordinary playwrights who have been produc

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

The producers behind The Complete Performer announced today that actor Michael McQuary will join the production for one-night only: Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 10:00 pm; at the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street) in New York City.

TEETH OF THE SONS concerns two brothers -- best friends as kids growing up in Brooklyn -- who find themselves at odds when one of them becomes a born-again Hassidic scholar and the other returns home in need of a place to stay with his pregnant girlfriend.

Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R.

Writer, director, and co-composer Daniel Beaty, Grammy Award-winning co-composers Jamal Joseph and Charles Mack, and the cast of Tearing Down The Walls (Dietrice Bolden, Kelechi Ezie, Rumando Kelley, Jevon McFerrin, Adrienne C.

Playwright Jenny Worton is the Artistic Associate of the Almeida Theatre in London.

Austin Pendleton will direct the first Off-Broadway revival of WOMAN BEFORE A GLASS by Lanie Robertson.

Acclaimed Off-Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional details for a second round of major items for its 2011 special online Auction.

Blue Man Group is proud to announce the winner of its Invent an Instrument National Contest held in partnership with education leader Scholastic.

Every Tony Needs a Tina! BestofOffBroadway.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes) will continue its popular series of free staged readings of new plays by the Emerging Writers Group, beginning Wednesday, June 1 and running through Tuesday, June 28 at The Public Theater.

Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R.

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

Previews begin this Thursday, May 12 at 8PM for the Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director, Tim Sanford; Managing Director, Leslie Marcus) and New York Theatre Workshop (Artistic Director, James C.

Previews begin this Thursday, May 12 at 8PM for the Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director, Tim Sanford; Managing Director, Leslie Marcus) and New York Theatre Workshop (Artistic Director, James C.

The Drama Desk and OBIE Award-winning Mint Theater Company today announced the cast for Rachel Crothers's comedy, A Little Journey, beginning May 12th and continuing through July 10th at the Mint's home in the heart of the theater district, 311 West 43rd Street

You do not have to have stretch marks to find meaning in Angela Kariotis' latest theatrical adventure - you just have to have been born.