OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1085

Following a sold-out world premiere engagement in Toronto and standing ovations at Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Robert Lepage's critically acclaimed The Nightingale and Other Short Fables makes its anticipated US premiere at BAM.

Affinity Company Theater and 3-Legged Dog will present the world premiere of Sheila Schwartz's "SPY GARBO," directed by Kevin Cunningham, in a multi-media production.

The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, in co-production with Red House Arts Center, will present a limited engagement off-Broadway run of Stephen Svoboda's audaciously comedic look at death in the age of AIDS, ODYSSEUS DOA (died of AIDS), March 16 - 20 at the Lion Theatre at Theatre Row (410 West

Theatre artists and productions nominated for The 27th Annual Helen Hayes Awards were announced this evening at a press conference hosted by The National Theatre in its Helen Hayes Gallery.

BAM presents the US premiere of trailblazing theater company Cheek by Jowl's stripped-down, psychologically taut Macbeth, lauded as "one of the greatest events of the international theatre season" (El Pais, Spain).

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre (Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris and Simon Jones, Co-Artistic Directors), the critically-acclaimed company "dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit," announces complete casting for Three Men on a Horse, by John Cecil Holm & George

Dan Sharkey, whose Broadway credits include The Music Man and Show Boat, will join the cast of The Fantasticks as Hucklebee on February 28, 2011.

One Night With Fanny Brice, a new musical play written, arranged, and directed by Chip Deffaa, will make its Off-Broadway debut beginning March 16th at St.

Dick Cavett and Steve Guttenberg join the cast of the 2009 Drama Desk Award winner and 2010 Bistro Award winner Celebrity Autobiography on Monday, February 28 at 7:30pm and 9:30pm at New York's Triad Theater, 158 West 72 Street The cast also includes Mario Cantone, Rachel Dratch, Eugene Pack, Rosie

Billie Holiday made her debut in 1948.

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce Manhattan Theatre Club's lineup for the Ernst C.

The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Joey Parnes Interim Executive Director) announced the line-up today for the second Public Forum event of 2011, "Too Rich To Fail: A Town Hall Meeting on Americans and Their Money," on Monday, February 28 at 8 p.

The beloved, Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes will be honored at the 2011 LOVE 'N' COURAGE Gala - a benefit for the award-winning Theater for the New City's Emerging Playwrights Program - on Monday, February 28 at 6:30 p.

Algonquin Theater Productions announces its plans to move to Pier 17 and the South Street Seaport, starting in March, 2011.

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

Rising Phoenix Repertory announces the seventh PLAY IN THE CINO NIGHTS SERIES named a new play by lucy thurber / directed by jenna worsham featuring Lila Dupree, Ronete Levenson, Katie Meister, and Sarah Tolan-Mee

From February 25-27 MARGARET- A Tyger's Heart comes to The Red Bull Theater.

On February 27, 2011, the Young Artist Performance Project, a group constructed of students and young artists focusing on theater representing the problems teens and young adults are facing in today's society, will host a benefit performance of The Laramie Project.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus; Managing Director) is pleased to announce the launch of PLAYTIME! at Playwrights Horizons, a brand new program offering affordable, professional childcare while you see a show.

The critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production of the new comedy, Mistakes Were Made, by Craig Wright will close Sunday evening, February 27 at 7:30 p.

Mother of Invention Theatre Company, under the direction of founder and Artistic Director Gina Stahlnecker will celebrate the 100th year since Tennessee Williams' birth with the seldom seen study in moral squalor, SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS.

INTERVIEWING THE AUDIENCE - a new work by the playwright and filmmaker Zach Helm and created spontaneously each night by Mr.

MIKE RUIZ, celebrity photographer and star of Bravo's "The A-List" and "RuPaul's Drag Race" guest co-hosts with Sweetie and the cast of weekly changing NYC drag sensations at the Times Square Arts Center! Mike Ruiz is known as Hollywood's 'It' man when it comes to working behind the lens.

That little guy from the Sun is making plans to land off-Broadway with an all-new family show! The world premiere engagement of Gustafer Yellowgold's Infinity Sock will take place at the DR2 Theatre, 103 E.

André Braugher and playwright Matthew Lopez will appear on NY-1's 'Onstage' to talk about Manhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere of THE WHIPPING MAN, the acclaimed new play by Lopez, directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes.