OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1352

Alternative Theatre Company (Joe Marshall, Founder/Artistic Director; Adrian Maynard, Managing Director) and The Actors' Playhouse present the much anticipated THE GAYEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER! written and directed by Joe Marshall.

Shakespeare's comic tale of star-crossed lovers, strolling players and magical beings is lovingly re-imagined in an all-new interpretation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, set in present-day New York City.

Following a bestselling week at the box office, Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce a two-week extension of Theresa Rebeck's new comedy The Understudy, directed by Scott Ellis.

Sarahbeth Grossman and Craig Zehms today announced that they would present the Off-Broadway premiere of Martin Casella's acclaimed comedy THE IRISH CURSE at the Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street (between Avenue of the Americas & Varick Street) beginning an open-ended run on St.

The government is bailing out theater.

The Play Company - the Off-Broadway theatre company whose most recent production was Lloyd Suh's acclaimed play 'American Hwangap' last spring in New York - announces its 2009-2010 season offerings, including the world-premiere of Kia Corthron's A COOL DIP IN THE BARREN SAHARAN CRICK starting March

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Welsh actor Geraint Wyn Davies will portray the legendary Welsh poet, playwright and author of 'Under Milk Wood,' Dylan Thomas in Leon Pownall's play DO NOT GO GENTLE, previewing Off-Broadway starting November 19 prior to opening December 6, 2009 at Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre (410 West 42 Street)

The Flea Theater invites you to the World Premiere of THE GREAT RECESSION, an evening of short plays that explore the impact of the current economic crisis on the younger generation.

The Irish Repertory Theatre continues its 22nd Season with 'Ernest in Love,' a musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Ernest'

Accidental Repertory Theater is currently presenting, as its first public production, the international classic 'BRECHT ON BRECHT,' adapted and translated by George Tabori, and directed by the company's Artistic Director John Strasberg.

EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE, Paul Adams Artistic Director, presents: WONDER WOMAN! A CABARET OF HEROIC PROPORTIONS! WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY ELIZABETH WHITNEY DIRECTED BY PETER MICHAEL MARINO

Columbia Stages presents the Acting class of 2010 in Euripides' Phoenician Women, adapted and directed by Karin Coonrod.

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EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE, Paul Adams Artistic Director, presents: WONDER WOMAN! A CABARET OF HEROIC PROPORTIONS! WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY ELIZABETH WHITNEY DIRECTED BY PETER MICHAEL MARINO

Historically, English adaptations of Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon' have rendered its ancient Greek poetry into proven English poetic forms.

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater will perform 'Twelfth Night (or What You Will),' the timeless Shakespearean tale of mistaken identity and misplaced matrimony, November 12 to 29, 2009 as part of La MaMa Puppet Series 3.

Solo and SoloShow, two new dance works by Maria Hassabi, premiere consecutively this fall at Performance Space 122 as part of Crossing the Line, and a month later as part of Performa 09.

In celebration of Black History Month 2010, The Working Theater (Mark Plesent, Producing Director) will present award-winning Broadway star André De Shields performing his solo work-in-progress entitled Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: From Douglass to Deliverance for 12 performances only from Thursd

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.

PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE / NOV 12 - DEC 6 By Steve Martin Directed by Dana Case Featuring NVA Ensemble Members Sandra Ellis-Troy, Kristianne Kurner, Amanda Morrow, Tim Parker & Tom Zohar with Brian Abraham, Kyle Lucy, Greg Wittman and Eddie Yaroch

For the past 10 weeks, an intrepid group of writers of various ages and backgrounds have participated in a theater workshop organized by the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center.

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Italy's Dario D'Ambrosi, a radical innovator of the theater and founder of the movement called Teatro Patologico (Pathological Theater), will stage a novel version of 'Romeo and Juliet' at La MaMa December 3 to 13.

Anna Deavere Smith's new play, LET ME DOWN EASY, currently playing off-Broadway, evolved from an original set of interviews done by Smith.