OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1360

Theater Ten Ten announces its fall mainstage production for the 2009-2010 season, George Bernard Shaw's comedy 'Arms and The Man.

Actress, comedienne, and cabaret star Alix Korey, whose Broadway credits include ALL SHOOK UP and CHICAGO, is set to join the cast of Abingdon Theatre Company's 2009-10 season opener -- the world premiere of INVENTING AVI (and other theatrical maneuvers), a new Off-Broadway comedy by Robert Cary and

Tony Award winner Bill Irwin, Meredith Monk, John Kelly and Peggy Shaw will be featured performers at La MaMa's 'Celebrating Ellen' fundraising event benefiting the non-profit theater on November 1 in the company's Annex Theatre.

Paint Your Wagon (1951) is a Lerner & Loewe classic set in Northern California in 1853 where Ben Rumson (Paul Carlin) and his daughter Jennifer (Jillian Louis) accidentally discover gold.

Actress, comedienne, and cabaret star Alix Korey, whose Broadway credits include ALL SHOOK UP and CHICAGO, is set to join the cast of Abingdon Theatre Company's 2009-10 season opener -- the world premiere of INVENTING AVI (and other theatrical maneuvers), a new Off-Broadway comedy by Robert Cary and

Emerging Artists Theatre, Paul Adams, Artistic Director and Derek Jamison, Associate Artistic Director, present GUIDO GIRL by Marianne Ferrari, produced by Agustine Welles, at TADA Theatre, beginning October 6.

A BOY AND HIS SOUL - Colman Domingo's acclaimed play about his life growing up in Philadelphia in the 70's and 80's amid the cool, smooth sounds of soul, R&B and disco - is anticipated to return to an Off-Broadway stage in New York this season following its run at The Vineyard, it has been announced

Colman Domingo's critically acclaimed play A BOY AND HIS SOUL will conclude its extended run at the Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) as previously announced on November 1.

Michael Blevins, most widely known for his portrayal of ‘Mark' in the screen version of the Broadway hit, 'A Chorus Line', will return to the stage after several years of working on the other side, directing and teaching.

Following the final performance of The Pumpkin Pie Show: commencement at 8pm, stick around for a special Halloween edition of The Pumpkin Pie Show featuring Clay McLeod Chapman, Abe Goldfarb and Hanna Cheek performing some of their favorite scary Halloween stories from Pumpkin Pie Shows past.

Announcing the Off-Broadway transfer of the madcap comedy, Love Child, written and performed by Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton with direction by Carl Forsman and choreography by Tracy Bersley.

The New School for Drama presents The Rimers of Eldridge, written by Lanford Wilson and directed by Hal Books, on Thursday, October 29 through Saturday, October 31, at The New School Drama Theater.

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.

Simon Hammerstein and Randy Weiner, founding partners of famed downtown hotspot The Box, today announced their newest venture, Purgatorio, a nightmare fantasyland in the heart of Times Square, created especially for Halloween season.

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) continues its 25th anniversary season of new works celebrating the female playwright with the New York premiere of The Night Watcher, written and performed by Charlayne Woodar

Women's Project has canceled the preview performances scheduled for this weekend (Friday, October 30; Saturday, October 31; and Sunday, November 1) of Or, Liz Duffy Adams's three-hander comedy due to an injury sustained by one of the actors, Andy Paris, who plays multiple roles in this restoration-s

Santa's reindeer gather at their private North Pole watering hole, and as the booze flows, the scandal grows.

WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY has published an article about Theresa Rebeck titled 'Good Humor: Playwright Theresa Rebeck Pens a Comedy' by Vanessa Lawrence.

Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brother/Sister Plays have officially launched at the Public Theater.

Ashlie Atkinson, Debra Jo Rupp, Tom Pelphrey, Frank Deal and Eric Michael Gillett headline the workshop of Jennifer Lane's Psychomachia, the first presentation in The Bridge Theatre Company's 2009-2010 season.

Acclaimed choreographer Morgan Thorson teams with sublime slow core band LOW (Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker) in pursuit of ecstatic and corporeal perfection in HEAVEN - a real-time performance ritual and new ensemble work which explores emotional and physical manifestations of ecstatic perfection.

Award-winning actor William Lyon stars in A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER a play by Marie Jones, author of the Broadway comedy 'Stones in His Pockets'

American Lyric Theater (ALT) will present 11 Family Preview Performances featuring excerpts from THE GOLDEN TICKET, a new opera based on Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,' as part of the KidZone program of family events at The New York Chocolate Show, to take place at The Metropolitan

Seeing is believing - but perception can be manipulated for beauty or deception.

Human Animals, a Manhattan-based theater collective committed to 'the exploration and celebration of the idiosyncrasies of the Human Animal,' will present their inaugural production: the World Premiere of middlemen, an existential office comedy concerning adulthood, non-dairy creamer, and the collap