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Edmund Gaynes has announced the new comedy Hebrew School Dropout, Or: How I Converted from Judaism to Catholicism and Back to Judaism AND Lost Those Stubborn Last 10 Pounds!, by Dave Konig, the three-time Emmy Award winning comedian.

terraNOVA Collective will present their ONES AT ELEVEN series on Saturday nights at 11pm as part of the 7th Annual soloNOVA Arts Festival at Performance Space 122.

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VAGINAL DAVIS IS SPEAKING FROM THE DIAPHRAGM is an episodic series of performance that dissects the heyday of 1970s American daytime television chat and variety programs, taking the format of legendary talk shows like The Mike Douglas Show and Dinah!, which starred lesbian icon Dinah Shore.

Metropolitan Playhouse, 'theatrical archaeologist extraordinaire' (Backstage), presents a revival of Dodsworth by Sidney Howard, adapted from the novel by Sinclair Lewis.

Wide Eyed Productions will present the World Premiere of Resident Playwright, Jerrod Boggard's NOAH'S ARKANSAS, April 21-May 15 at the Wings Theatre (154 Christopher Street).

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) kicks off the 2010 AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY festival with the New York premiere of DE NOVO, written and directed by Jeffrey Solomon, with images by acclaimed photojournalist Donna DeCesare, and produced by Houses on

The American premiere of This Wide Night starring two-time Golden Globe and three-time Emmy Award-winner Edie Falco and Tony nominee Alison Pill opens this Sunday, May 16th at 6:30 PM at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (416 West 42nd Street).

Riding high from their last two wildly successful productions of Happy In The Poorhouse and The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, The Amoralists present the Off-Broadway Premiere of Amerissiah, written and directed by Derek Ahonen.

In 1999-2000, The New Group presented the premiere of Marc Wolf's solo documentary play, Another American: Asking and Telling, which won an Obie award and went on to tour the country.

The Irish Repertory Theatre continues its 22nd Season with WHITE WOMAN STREET by Sebastian Barry, author of 'Our Lady of Sligo' and 'The Steward of Christendom'.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) opened the American premiere of Olivier Award nominee Moira Buffini's award-winning play, GABRIEL, this week on May 13, which marks the final main stage production of Atlantic's 2009-2010 season.

New York's sexiest revue, EROTIC BROADWAY - Vintage Variety, will welcome Radio City Rockette Rachel Borgman, Andrew Fitch, Lynette Toomey, and Wicked's Jessica Walter for the May 27th show at 9:30PM.

New York's OBIE Award-winning Epic Theatre Ensemble (Zak Berkman, Melissa Friedman, Ron Russell, Founding Executive Directors) today announced that Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play (In The Next Room.

In celebration of the 39th performance in their new theater Off-Broadway, Alfred Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS is offering 39 tickets for $39 for every performance through Monday, May 31st.

Alexa Kelly, Artistic Director of Pulse Ensemble Theatre, announced the company will present the US Premiere of this full length version of Anuval Pal's Indian-flavored, bittersweet comedy 'CHAOS THEORY' at the TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, from May 25th through June 19th.

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell, and Yul Vázquez) has announced its 2010 Spring schedule of new works in development.

Entertainment Events Productions today announced that disco legend Gloria Gaynor will make a special one-night-only musical appearance at Off-Broadway's smash hit GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL on Sunday, May 23rd at 3PM.

June Leaf will show recent work in various media and scales.

Ken Shatz (the Obie Award-winning productions of Crowbar and Bad Penny with En Garde Arts, King Lear opposite Andre de Shields at Classical Theatre of Harlem) and Rufus Collins (seen recently in the acclaimed Manhattan Theatre Club revival of The Royal Family, other Broadway credits include To Be or

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes the New Jersey Repertory Company, by special arrangement with Pat Addiss and Vasi Laurence, to AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY with the New York premiere of THE HOUSEWIVES OF MANNHEIM, written by Alan Brody and di

John Frost, Managing Director of The Gordon Frost Organisation, has announced an invitation-only presentation of the musical An Officer and a Gentleman in New York on May 13 and 14 at the 42nd Street Studios.

As part of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, New York City's premiere eco-friendly theatre festival, the Coal Free Future Project will perform '4 1/2 Hours: Across the Stones of Fire, ' a timely and groundbreaking multimedia theatre production that brings the frontline controversies of the c

THE BILBAO EFFECT, a world-premiere play that puts contemporary architecture on trial, written by Oren Safdie (whose previous play about architecture, PRIVATE JOKES, PUBLIC PLACES, was a hit Off-Broadway in 2003) will be presented Off-Broadway with an official press opening night on May 16, 2010 at

Directed by Evan Cabnet, OLIVER PARKER! is a jet black comedy about hurting the ones you love, and loving the ones that hurt: Oliver (Michael Zegen) is 17 and Jasper (John Laroquette) is 60.