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Broken Watch Theatre (Drew DeCorleto, Artistic Director) will celebrate its tenth season by unveiling its newest and most ambition project to date: The Final Draft Production Series.

At Hand Theatre Company (Justin Scribner, Executive Director) will present Dan Horrigan's MY AIDS a comedy February 13 - March 1.

James Roday, star of the hit television series 'Psych,' and Michael Weston of TV's 'House' will play two friends on a reckless weekend in Gabe McKinley's new play EXTINCTION, previewing Off-Broadway on Feb 13, 2010 prior to its official press opening February 17 at the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commer

Arin Arbus, the director of last season's Theatre for a New Audience production of Othello, will direct the Bard's provocative, funny and modern comedy, Measure for Measure, for a limited engagement that begins previews Saturday, February 6, for an opening Sunday, February 14, at 7:00pm.

Amid the diffusion of the term 'post black black,' in American society and art, seven up-and-coming playwrights of African descent including Deborah Asiimwe, Radha Blank, Kelley Girod, Katori Hall, Derek Lee McPhatter, Germono Toussaint, and Pia Wilson have come together to answer these questions.

Soap stars Bree Williamson, Jason Tam, Chris Stack and BethAnn Bonner will be returning to the the Laurie Beechman Theater in New York on Tuesday February 9th and Saturday February 13th in the new musical comedy, 'Queen Bea: A Soapsical!' which had its sold-out concert premiere last November.

DOG AND WOLF - a new play by Catherine Filloux about the unlikely relationship between a political refugee in the U.

14 Companies boasting over 100 artists and collaborators, and spanning theatre, dance, multi-media, gothic storytelling, live art, cinema, glove puppetry, not to mention an interactive self-help focus group will take part in this year's COIL festival at Performance Space 122.

The Gingold Theatrical Group -- the first company to present every play written by George Bernard Shaw -- begins their fifth year with Shaw's farcical romantic comedy from 1894, ARMS AND THE MAN.

Off-Broadway's acclaimed Irish Repertory Theatre announces a two-week extension of its latest hit ERNEST IN LOVE - a musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST -- with performances now scheduled to run through February 14 at the Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street)

White Sand Entertainment (Ken Denison, executive producer) announces GOOD OL' GIRLS, a new musical set to open Off-Broadway, at the Black Box Theatre at The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues) on Sunday, February 14th.

THE ONION and A.

Jim Brochu, author and star of 'ZERO HOUR,' Off-Broadway's newest hit, is set to do a live interview on WBAI Radio (99.

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming staged readings of WANDA'S WORLD taking place at The Gerald W.

Mothers, protect your sons! And don't miss Cougar, The Musical this month when it plays New York's Theatre at Saint Peters.

The OBIE-winning HERE Arts Center's annual CULTUREMART festival, set for January 11th through January 31st, 2010, will feature 12 works that blur the lines between dance, theatre, music, new media, puppetry and visual art.

The 92nd Street Y opens its 40th anniversary season of Lyrics & LyricistsTM with Babalu-The American Songbook Goes Latin: Featuring the Music of the Desi Arnaz Orchestra.

Creation Production Company will present WILD MAN, an explosive new autobiographical performance from two-time Obie Award-winner Matthew Maguire.

Princes of Waco, Youngblood playwright Robert Askins's deeply personal, viciously funny Texas tale of a fatherless boy learning to drink, fight and steal in a bloody, forgotten West, will be given its world premiere on the mainstage of the Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, when it begin

Two-time Emmy Award-winning comedy writer Rachel Axler will make her off Broadway playwriting debut at the NEA-rejected Women's Project with Smudge, a dark comedy directed by Pam MacKinnon about the changing face of the American family and the limits of love and cheesecake.

FLANAGAN'S WAKE, The Hilarious, Interactive Irish Wake that has been running 16 smash years in Chicago, will finally open in the Big Apple, Off-Broadway!

AMONG ROSES AND THE ASH by Ms.

Partial Comfort Productions presents THE WELCOME MAT SERIES, its 8th annual series of new play readings.

Yorktown Stage Presents Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast'from January 8 to January 10 at the Yorktown Stage in New York.

Ken Davenport, producer of the off-Broadway staple Altar Boyz, has announced today that the show will play its final performance on January 10, 2010 at 7:30pm at its home, New World Stages after playing 2023 performances.