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Horse Trade Theater Group brings back full performances of the critically acclaimed Hostage Song, The Pumpkin Pie Show: commencement, and Radiotheatre's Frankenstein for a limited engagement as part of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference.

The off-Broadway hit, Love, Loss and What I Wore will welcome a new cast on February 3, including funny-women Janeane Garofalo, Carol Kane, June Diane Raphael and Caroline Rhea, The New York Times reports.

Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R.

HERE Arts Center continues its exciting 2009-2010 season with Aunt Leaf, the first residentartist production in StartHERE: Innovative Theater for Young People, a series dedicated tohighly imaginative multi-disciplinary performances aimed at children and families.

Come warm yourself up with a dose of 'Hot Toxic Love' as The Toxic Avenger cast makes an appearance at The Pond at Bryant Park (40-42nd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenue).

ALTAR BOYZ will hit the 2000 performance mark on Sunday December 13th at the 7:30pm performance, making it the 9th longest running Off-Broadway musical ever!

Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Lynn Redgrave's NIGHTINGALE is currently in its final week.

The Active Theater Company proudly presents TWO ROOMS, by Lee Blessing, the company's first show for their 2009-1010 season.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D.

DANCES PATRELLE's 'THE YORKVILLE NUTCRACKER' will have its 14th annual production, at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College (68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues) NYC; December 10th - 13th.

The Invisible City Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of FAULT LINES - a new play by Invisible City company member Rebecca Louise Miller inspired by the infamous Polly Klaas kidnapping that rocked the United States in the 1990's.

Broadway's Beth Fowler (THE BOY FROM OZ, SWEENEY TODD, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST) and Noah Racey (CURTAINS, NEVER GONNA DANCE) set for The Irish Repertory Theatre's upcoming revival of 'Ernest in Love,' a musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Ernest'

Algonquin Theater Productions, producers of Sessions, An Evening at The Carlyle and The Devil and Billy Markham will be having an industry only reading of their proposed new musical National Pastime, scheduled to open in 2010.

Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here.

The Invisible City Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of FAULT LINES - a new play by Invisible City company member Rebecca Louise Miller inspired by the infamous Polly Klaas kidnapping that rocked the United States in the 1990's.

Company XIV, a Black Book Magazine ‘Icon Of The Future', presents an Apple Triptych featuring the World Premiere of their family holiday show Snow White, a revival of Le Serpent Rouge and a revival of The Judgment of Paris.

TheaterThe presents: Radio Purgatory Oct 9, Oct 23, Nov 13, Dec 4, 10 pm, $15 Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, Manhattan

TheaterThe presents: Radio Purgatory Oct 9, Oct 23, Nov 13, Dec 4, 10 pm, $15 Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, Manhattan

Final casting has been announced for The New Group's revival of Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, directed by Ethan Hawke.

In RED NOIR, which opens at The Living Theatre on Thursday, December 10, writer Anne Waldman combines metaphors of the film noir genre and reflections on modern life in our economically and ecologically trouble ridden war culture.

Broadway vet Julia Murney is set to star in the staged reading of Joe Keenan and Brad Ross' THE TIMES.

The limited engagement of Patrick Marber's acclaimed play Closer, presented by Four Dreamers Theater Company, begins performances tonight at the historic Gene Frankel Theatre in New York.

Clout in Mug Productions presents Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Johnson, directed by Heidi Handelsman, December 9 - 20, 2009 at Theaterlab (137 West 14th St.

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) concludes its 25th anniversary season of new works celebrating the female playwright with the New York premiere of Happy Now? by Lucinda Coxon.