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MTV Icon and Performer Julie Brown (MTV's Just Say Julie, Earth Girls Are Easy) joined a slew of downtown, cabaret and Broadway artists at the St.

Erica Watson - 'big, bold and beautiful' actor, comedian, director and commentator for the Oxygen Network and BET - returns to her hometown Chicago with the solo show 'Fat Bitch!' This five-night only run is a funny yet thought-provoking look at how society's obsession with weight, race and class ha

STOMP, the international sensation, welcomed The Tomorrow Show with Mo Rocca backstage to learn the secrets of the 'stomp.

The Pearl Theatre Company has announced the casting for their upcoming production of George Bernard Shaw's MISALLIANCE.

Drama at the Wedding! According to a report in the New York Times this morning, Local 802 - the union representing professional musicians - has filed charges against the producers of the long-running Tony N' Tina's Wedding with the National Labor Relations Board for replacing contracted musicians w

Following enthusiastic reviews, The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D.

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell, Yul Vázquez and Producing Director Marieke Gaboury) enters the arena to crank up the stakes at the seventh annual benefit featuring Celebrity Charades: Jackpot on Monday December 7th.

'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.

On November 9, The League of Professional Theatre Women will be present a New Play Festival on at the Cherry Lane Theatre in downtown Manhattan.

Theater for the New City, Crystal Field, Artistic Director, presents 'Raising the Roof,' an evening of 'green' entertainment to benefit its green roof garden project.

Acclaimed theater company Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced nine initial performers who will participate in the return of its unique benefit evening STORIES ON 5 STORIES on Monday, November 9.

The Shakespeare Society will host an evening entitled MARLOWE VS.

Theater for the New City, Crystal Field, Artistic Director, presents 'Raising the Roof,' an evening of 'green' entertainment to benefit its green roof garden project.

Acclaimed theater company Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced it will present the return of its popular benefit evening STORIES ON 5 STORIES on Monday, November 9.

20 new stage works, including plays by John Patrick Shanley and Daphne Rubin-Vega, will be featured as part of the upcoming fall reading series offered by the LAByrinth Theatre Company and hosted by The Public Theatre.

Charles Busch and Julie Halston will host this year's Primary Stages 25th Anniversary Gala Benefit to be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel (109 East 42nd Street) on Monday, November 9, 2009.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is proud to present the New York premiere of Theresa Rebeck's new comedy The Understudy, directed by Scott Ellis featuring Mark-Paul Gosselaar (TNT's 'Raising the Bar') as 'Jake', Justin Kirk (Showtime's 'Weeds') as 'Harry' and Tony Award w

Mind The Gap Theatre returns with their sixth series of new short plays by, for or about the British, November 6-8, 2009 at Manhattan Theatre Source in the West Village.

Due to popular and critical demand, EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE has announced a 1-week extension of the Off-Broadway Premiere of PENNY PENNIWORTH by Chris Weikel.

The Joyce Theater will present a one-week engagement of The Han Tang Yuefu Music and Dance Ensemble, a special guest company of the China Festival at Carnegie Hall, from November 3-8.

The Joyce Theater will present a one-week engagement of The Han Tang Yuefu Music and Dance Ensemble, a special guest company of the China Festival at Carnegie Hall, from November 3-8.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) will launch its 31st season this fall with the New York premiere of Anna Deavere Smith's LET ME DOWN EASY.

Following revelatory sell-out seasons at La Mama Melbourne and Malthouse Theatre Melbourne, 'A Quarreling Pair' by Australia's Aphids returns to its inspirational and intellectual source, New York City, to be presented by La MaMa E.

Producer John Breglio and the Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc.

Magnet Theater presents the first annual New York Musical Improv Festival from November 6-7, 2009 at 254 W.