OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1371

Ordinary Days is in previews at the Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street).

August Schulenburg's new play, The Lesser Seductions of History, follows ten characters through each year of the 1960's.

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.

Following sold-out runs at Performance Space 122 in 2008 and 2009 Temporary Distortion return and climb back inside one of their signature box structures to unspool a theatre-cinema hybrid so new it can only be called bleeding-edge as they delve into the world of Japanese ghost stories.

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

'The Raw and the Cooked with Leyna Marika Papach and Chikako Bando' Wednesday, October 21, 2009; 9:30pm - $5 Location: The Tank at 354 W.

The Manhattan Theatre Club production of NIGHTINGALE, the new play written and performed by Lynn Redgrave and directed by Joseph Hardy, begins previews tonight at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I in preparation for a Tuesday, November 3 opening night.

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.

No one in the news is safe! The Drama Desk nominated NEWSical the Musical is back lampooning current events, headlines, newsmakers, celebrities, and politicians.

Musicals Tonight presents Silk Stockings 11/3-15 @ McGinn/Cazale Theatre Silk Stockings (1955) is Cole Porter's final Broadway musical and is based upon the Greta Garbo classic Ninotchka.

Edwin Cahill, Jason Danieley, Anita Gillette, Piper Goodeve, and Bert Michaels will appear in a reading of 'Blue Roses', hosted by the York Theatre Company's Developmental Reading Series, on Thursday, October 15, at 3pm and 7:30pm.

Queens Theatre in the Park will present AGAINST THE RISING SEA by Kelly Masterson from October 15th-25th.

Algonquin Theater Productions will present the New York premiere of Mike Folie's drama Slave Shack, the second production in Algonquin's 2009 Intimate Theater season, directed by Debra Whitfield.

With a big bang before a live audience, New York's Naked Angels (Geoffrey Nauffts, Artistic Director; John Alexander, Managing Director; Andy Donald, Associate Artistic Director; Brittany O'Neill, Producer) is launching a new weekly podcast series, Naked Radio, at the Cherry Pit (155 Bank Street at

The Play Company, one of New York's leading Off-Broadway theatre companies dedicated to new plays with an international perspective, will kick off its 10th anniversary season with an evening to benefit the company that includes a performance of the new play by Keith Huff, A STEADY RAIN starring Dani

Theatre League's Fund for New Musicals is proud to announce its newest recipients, David Eric Davis and Sam Forman's F#@KING UP EVERYTHING, as it gears up to premiere at the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival.

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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.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) and The Group Theatre Too (GTT) present the original tap musical Count to Ten.

On Saturday, October 10, HUMAN ANIMALS celebrated the opening of its inaugural production - the World Premiere of middlemen, an existential office comedy concerning adulthood, non-dairy creamer, and the collapse of the American workplace.

New York's Naked Angels (Geoffrey Nauffts, Artistic Director; John Alexander, Managing Director; Andy Donald, Associate Artistic Director; Brittany O'Neill, Producer) has announced full casting for the launch of their new podcast series, Naked Radio, at The Cherry Pit (155 Bank Street in the West Vi

As previously reported, My Girl's Anna Chlumsky and Kristen Johnston are set to headline the Mint Theater Company's SO HELP ME GOD! The Off-Broadway run, which will begin previews November 18th, opens officially at the Lucile Lortel Theatre Dec.

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.

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.

Get a first look at TADA!'s 25th Anniversary Season of Musicals at their delightful Sneak Peek Musical Revue, November 13 and 14.