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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.

Now in previews, the Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director, Tim Sanford; Managing Director, Leslie Marcus) and Vineyard Theatre (Artistic Director, Douglas Aibel; Executive Director, Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell) co-production of the New York premiere of the new musical THE BURNT PART BOYS began perf

MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) announced today that Playwright-in-Residence Neil LaBute's three special benefit staged readings of his previously unseen ‘shorts' series, Filthy Talk for T

New York's OBIE Award-winning Epic Theatre Ensemble (Zak Berkman,Melissa Friedman, Ron Russell, Founding Executive Directors) presents the New York premiere ofSarah Ruhl's Passion Play (In The Next Room.

The award-winning actor PETER FRANCIS JAMES ('Stuff Happens') has joined the cast of PROPHECY, Karen Malpede's play which will begin previews Off-Broadway on May 29 prior to an official press opening on June 8 at the East Fourth Street Theatre (83 E.

To celebrate New York's Upper West Side newest theatrical production, Banana Shpeel from Cirque du Soleil, famed Magnolia Bakery has renamed its beloved banana pudding to ‘Banana Shpeel Pudding!' throughout the run of the show.

Peculiar Works Project (the OBIE Award-winning company founded in 1993; Co-Artistic Directors Ralph Lewis, Catherine Porter, and Barry Rowell), will present a revival of the Depression Era play 'CAN YOU HEAR THEIR VOICES? (A Play of Our Time)' by Hallie Flanagan and Margaret Ellen Clifford.

John Chatterton Presents Captain Marbles And His Acting Squad is now moving to Off-Broadway.

The West Coast premiere of writer-performer David Cale's 'Palomino' opens Thursday, May 13, 2010, at 8 p.

'DANNY and SYLVIA: THE DANNY KAYE MUSICAL' will celebrate its 1st anniversary on May 13th at off-Broadway's St.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce casting, dates and a director for the American premiere of Olivier Award nominee Moira Buffini's award-winning play GABRIEL, which will mark the final main stage production of Atlantic's 2

New Perspectives Theatre Company (Melody Brooks, Artistic Director) announced today that the company will produce Hamlet, its first main stage Shakespeare play since losing its Pelican Studio Theatre four years ago.

The Milk Can Theatre Company presents its seventh season production of two new works in which eccentric behavior and mental illness are often separated by little more than a razor's edge.

In Redbeard & Domicella, two high school sweethearts deliver a bold retrospective of their young marriage in 'he said, she said' fashion.

Obie Award-winning Clubbed Thumb proudly presents Summerworks 2010, their 15th annual festival of new plays, from June 2 to 26, 2010, at the Ohio Theatre, located at 66 Wooster Street, between Spring & Broome, in Soho, NY.

The Gallery Players proudly announces its line up for The 13th Annual Black Box New Play Festival.

Resonance Ensemble's 2010 season entitled 'Building Characters' will open on Sunday, May 16.

Alexa Kelly, Artistic Director of Pulse Ensemble Theatre, announced the company will present the World 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 24th through June 19th.

Theatre Talk's Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins recently sat down with BLOODY BLOODY Andrew Jackson creators Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman to discuss the show's recent success and the genesis of the Emo music used in the piece.

Cynthia Hopkins, creator of the critically acclaimed 'Accidental Trilogy' at St.

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 previews starting May 12 prior to an official press

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The Tony Award-winning actor BILLY CRUDUP will star in the world-premiere of Adam Rapp's play THE METAL CHILDREN, which begins previewed May 4 prior to opening May 19, 2010 at the Vineyard Theatre (108 E.

Immediate Medium presents the World Premiere of Doesn't Everybody Do It In Paris?, a multi-media dance theater piece inspired by Flaubert's Madame Bovary, from June 9-26, 2010 at the IRT, 154 Christopher Street #3B, NYC.

The York Shakespeare Company presents Eugene O'Neill's LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at the Lion Theater (410 West 42nd Street) Friday, May 28 - June 12.