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Previews begin tonight for Roundabout Underground's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) The Dream of the Burning Boy, a new play by David West Read directed by Evan Cabnet.

No, dear playgoers, the fact that you've ventured into an unmarked building on a dark SoHo street, walked down a long hallway draped in red and are now in an open loft sitting mere inches away from a young couple enthusiastically going at it in a standing position up against one of the building's pi

Theatre East presents 'The Soldier Dreams' by Daniel Macivor, Off Broadway at The Lion Theatre (Theatre Row), 410 West 42nd Street, NYC.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College presents legendary Broadway performer Betty Buckley in her show Broadway by Request, featuring Seth Rudetsky at the piano,on Saturday April 9, 2011 at 8pm.

For the first time in its 11 year history, Manhattan Theatre Source - called "one of the top Off-Off Broadway theatres in New York" by New York Magazine - will present an open-ended run of a theatre piece - THE GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES - that has been developed through the company's development pro

The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) continues its fifth season of the New Works Reading Series, supporting new plays and emerging playwrights, with a free reading of Rosemary Jenkinson's THE WINNERS on Friday, March 25 at 3 p.

The Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company (Carl Forsman, Artistic Director/Wayne Kelton, Executive Director) today announced the cast for the 25th Anniversary production of Benefactors.

With a solidly funny book by Larry Gelbart and Bert Shevelove and a clever, under-appreciated score by Stephen Sondheim (It remains Broadway's only Best Musical Tony-winner with eligible music and lyrics that were not even nominated for Best Score.

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

Veteran actress, singer and comedienne Andrea Wolff will star in "Loose Screws," an original musical comedy beginning on Friday, May 6th (7PM) at the Laurie Beechman Theatre (407 West 42nd Street, located in the lower level of the West Bank Cafe on Theatre Row).

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes) will present post-show discussions following select performances of URGE FOR GOING, written by Mona Mansour and directed by Hal Brooks.

Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff/Producing Artistic Director), by special arrangement with Chase Mishkin, will present free performances of "Me and Miss Monroe", a new musical with book and lyrics by Charles Leipart, music by William Goldstein, directed by John Rando, starring Rachel York as Mar

On March 18th, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre celebrated the opening night of Vietnam Project II: Past and Present at the West End Theatre.

Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director / Melissa Huber, Managing Director) celebrates April Fool's Day with a one-night-only concert presentation of founding member Peter Mills' comic song cycle Lonely Rhymes, on Friday, April 1st at 9:30pm.

Pace University presents The Acting Company's production of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, April 9 - 17, at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

The Broadway Beauty Pageant is TONIGHT, Monday, March 21st, 2011 at 8:00 PM, benefiting The Ali Forney Center, NYC's primary housing resource for homeless LGBT youth.

The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director; W.

The Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) World Premiere production of KIN, a new play by Bathsheba Doran (Living Room in Africa, her adaptation of Great Expectations at The Lortel) will officially open On March 21.

Svoboda's questionable blocking of the set and actors was frenetic, halting the momentum of the story as well as dissipating energy.

Theatre East presents 'The Soldier Dreams' by Daniel Macivor, Off Broadway at The Lion Theatre (Theatre Row), 410 West 42nd Street, NYC.

Play Dead,the new off-Broadway comic thriller co-written and directed by Teller (of Penn & Teller) and co-written & performed by Todd Robbins, will mark its 150th performance on Sunday, March 20 at 7pm at Off-Broadway's Players Theater (115 MacDougal Street at Minetta Lane).

Gallagher's Steak House, a long-standing supporter of Theater for A New Audience, will host the Opening Night Celebration of the company's production of MacBeth on Sunday night, March 20.

The sound of Carnival carousing and swordfights will fill the World Financial Center this March when it hosts Aphra Behn's seminal play The Rover, the prototypical bawdy feminist romp that was written by the first professional female playwright in the English language.

Woodie King Jr's New Federal Theatre will kick off its 40th season by presenting the Off-Broadway premiere of Cool Blues by Bill Harris at their home at Henry Street Settlement's Abrons Arts Center/Recital Hall (466 Grand Street).

For the first time in 60 years, the first fully-staged, full-length revival of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a musical based on Betty Smith's iconic American novel of the same name, will open in New York City March 20, 2011.