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Rasta Thomas, ballet heartthrob, Gold Medal winner and Broadway star of Twyla Tharp/Billy Joel's Movin' Out brings his dynamic new company Bad Boys of Dance to present Rock the Ballet at The Joyce Theater for an extended three-week season from December 15 - January 3.

Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the Tate-LaBianca murders, EndTimes Productions present the long-awaited New York Premiere of MANSON: THE MUSICAL! A long-running 1990's cult hit in Chicago, this dark musical comedy about Charles Manson features music, book and lyrics developed through impro

Shane Bertram Baker, unquestionably the biggest star in Yiddish vaudeville today, returns in his mega-hit sensation, 'The Big Bupkis! A Complete Gentile's Guide to Yiddish Vaudeville' for the first open-run of a Yiddish-related show in twenty years.

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,' will open its 17th Anniversary season with The Late Christopher Bean, a sly 1930

Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the Tate-LaBianca murders, EndTimes Productions present the long-awaited New York Premiere of MANSON: THE MUSICAL! A long-running 1990's cult hit in Chicago, this dark musical comedy about Charles Manson features music, book and lyrics developed through impro

ALTAR BOYZ announced today that it would be closing Sunday January 10th after playing 2032 performances, making it the 9th longest running Off-Broadway musical ever!

Following its sold-out run, The Irish Repertory Theatre Co.

VITAL THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce its family holiday offering, 'THE KLEZMER NUTCRACKER,' a stunning new production with dancing, wit and magic galore.

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

One Year Lease theater company presents teaser cow, by Clay McLeod Chapman, directed by Ianthe Demos

The New York FRIGID Festival is an open and uncensored theater festival presented by Horse Trade Theater Group in association with San Francisco's Exit Theatre.

Erik Parillo, last seen as part of the cast of Mindgame at The Soho Playhouse, will join the cast of Perfect Crime, the longest-running play in New York history, on Monday, December 7, 2009.

Lynn Redgrave, whose new play NIGHTINGALE is currently playing an acclaimed engagement at Manhattan Theatre Club, will be featured on WNYC's 'The Leonard Lopate Show' today and over the weekend, she will be seen on NY1's 'On Stage.

The Drama Desk, Lortel and Obie Award-winning Mint Theater Company is pleased to announce two new EnrichMINT Events, an exciting series of post and pre-show discussions which will continue throughout the Mint's current engagement of Maurine Dallas Watkins' So Help Me God! starring Kristen Johnston a

LADY LIBERTY SINGS THE BLUES IN NEW MUSICAL REVUE 'IF THIS AIN'T IT!' Performances begin January 7 at Theater for the New City

Vineyard Theatre will end 2009 with playwright Nicky Silver and actresses Patricia Clarkson, Veanne Cox and Leslie Ayvazian in 'Nicky Silver and His Leading Ladies,' the third in the VINEYARD VOICES series of panel discussions with theatre artists on Monday, December 7 at 7 pm, and will kick off 201

Magnet Theater presents POPE! The Musical on Saturdays, December 5, 12 and 19, 2009 at 7pm at 254 W.

Save the Date! Monday March 1, 2010 AN EVENING WITH MAURICE HINES

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.

SESSIONS, the musical about the everyday life of a New York therapist and his patients, will close after the matinee (3PM) on Sunday, January 3rd at the Algonquin Theater.

Primary Stages has announced its upcoming 26th season of new works with the three productions: the New York premiere of Secrets of the Trade by Jonathan Tolins; the world premieres of a new musical, In Transit with book, music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan and S

'THE ACCIDENTAL PERVERT' Andrew Goffman's shocking and hilarious tour-de-force-of-honesty will open Off-Broadway at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal Street - btwn: West 3rd Street & Minetta Lane) on Saturday, January 23rd.

Axis Company presents its 8th annual production of SEVEN IN ONE BLOW, OR THE BRAVE LITTLE KID beginning December 4th.

Part Oklahoma soap opera, part physics experiment, the dynamic duo, Lisa D'Amour and Kate Pearl bring to NYC's PS 122 their newest collaboration, Terrible Things, which takes the audiences on a trip inside the many lives of the lead performer and director Katie Pearl (OBIE-award winner for her perfo

The Judson Memorial Church presents the 2009 revival of its wildly popular holiday show, Christmas Rappings, marking the 40th anniversary revival of Al Carmine's musical extravaganza.