OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1144

The Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced the complete cast for its upcoming production of Persephone.

The Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company (Carl Forsman, Artistic Director/Wayne Kelton, Executive Director) today announced their 10th anniversary season celebrating the work of Michael Frayn, author of such acclaimed hits as Noises Off and Copenhagen.

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) announce that Henry Wishcamper (Graceland, Port Authority) will direct the upcoming Manhattan Theatre Club world premiere of Beau Willimon's new play SPIRIT CONTROL.

Gap in the Wall Productions presents "The Last Castrato" by Guy Fredrick Glass, Off Broadway at the Connelly Theater, 220 East 4th Street (Bet Avenue A & Avenue B; subway: F to 2nd Ave.

Queens Theatre in the Park (QTP) presents One Ride on October 29-30 and November 3-6 at 8pm, and October 30-31 and November 4-6 at 2pm, and November 7 at 3pm, at Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, NY.

Playwrights Horizons Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director will begin previews for AFTER TE REVOLUTION on Thursday, October 21 at 7:30 PM.

The Athena Theatre Company proudly presents A Staged Reading of Waking Up 'Love is not an inevitability.

THE FLYING KARAMAZOV BROTHERS, now playing at off-Broadway's Minetta Lane Theatre (18 Minetta Lane, NYC), will be featured today, Monday, October 25th between 5:30-6:00 p.

PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF Cosmin Manolescu & Serial Paradise Company's SUPERGABRIELA

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes the Waterloo East Theatre to the 2010 Brits Off Broadway festival with the US premiere of BEING SELLERS, written by Carl Caulfield, directed by Simon Green and starring David Boyle as Peter Sellers.

ELECTRA IN A ONE-PIECE a new play by Isaac Oliver, directed by David Ruttura, and presented Off-Broadway by Good Company plays the Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street) in Manhattan.

Kids all ages will await a spooky and fun version of Galli's Little Red Riding Hood this Halloween weekend.

The same time The Public Theater is in previews for Daniel Sullivan's acclaimed production of The Merchant of Venice on Broadway, The Public Theater announced it would expand its Shakespeare Initiative to include a new platform for the production of Shakespeare's works: THE MOBILE UNIT.

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell, Yul Vazquez and Managing Director, Danny Feldman), Off-Broadway's home of exhilarating and incendiary theater, has announced the line-up for the 2010-2011 season featuring the 11th Annual Barn Reading Series, as w

Manhattan Theatre Club's (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) world premiere production of Beau Willimon's SPIRIT CONTROL will open tomorrow, October 26 at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street).

Alfred Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS welcomes additional guests for special talk backs in October & November following the performance.

Off Broadway Close Up presents a lively overview of the great legacy of Off-Broadway musicals, including The Fantasticks, Jacques Brel .

National Asian Artists Project (NAAP) and Nikole Vallins presents New York's first fully staged-reading of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! with a professional all Asian-American cast on Monday, October 25th.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) has announced the line-up for their Fall 2010 PlayLab play readings of three new plays by members of the company's Playwrights' Coalition: Jason Chimonides, A

Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW presents George Bernard Shaw's comedy about wild pirate tales, the high seas and one intrepid woman CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND'S CONVERSION

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 The Memorandum, by Vaclav Havel, the first produc

Perhaps not content with merely being the best comic actress on the New York stage, Jan Maxwell follows her hilarious turns in last season's revivals of The Royal Family and Lend Me A Tenor by refreshing her dramatic chops a with a riveting, edge of your seat performance in John Doyle's senses-tingl

Broadway Sessions is thrilled to welcome cast members from the Broadway smash hit Wicked on Tuesday, October 26th.

Noted comedian Reno will host Theaterlab's fifth anniversary fundraiser Sunday, October 24, 2010 from 6:00 pm until 9:00 pm at the arts organization's downtown Manhattan complex (137 West 14th Street).

David Cote, theater editor and chief drama critic at Time Out New York, will moderate the VINEYARD VOICES panel "LAW & ORDER AND THE STAGE" on Sunday, October 24 at 6:30 p.