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Rattlestick Playwrights Theater will open its 15th anniversary season with a fresh look at Killers and Other Family, the provocative play by Lucy Thurber (Monstrosity, Where We're Born, Stay) which had its world premiere as part of the company's 2000-01 season.

IN THE DAYLIGHT Written by Tony Glazer, directed by John Gould Rubin September 8 - October 11, 2009 (opening, Sunday, September 20)

Emma Hunton (*Spring Awakening*), Darryl Winslow (*Avenue Q, Evil Dead, Unlock'd - NYMF*), Jeremiah James (*Carousel* - London), Dana Aber, Christian D.

Peter Gerety, Martha Plimpton, Samantha Soule, and Adam Rothenberg will read from Kara Manning's dark romantic comedy, Killing Swans, on October 10 at Rattlesick Playwrights Theatre.

The Barrow Group Theatre Company, the birthplace of this season's Broadway hit A Steady Rain, and last season's Off-Broadway hit The Tempermentals, opens their 23rd Anniversary Season with the American Premiere of Clare McIntyre's The Thickness of Skin, directed by Jacob White in the TBG Studio Thea

The Looking Glass Theatre proudly presents the world premiere of READY, SET, STORY! HOW KATIE SAVED THE SNEAKY SPIDER'S TALES, an exciting new children's show exploring international folktales of tricksters, written by Emily Paul and directed by Rose Ginsberg, beginning Saturday, October 10.

The New School for Drama presents William Shakespeare's Richard III, adapted and directed by Stephen Fried, on Thursday, October 8 through Saturday, October 10, at The New School Drama Theater.

THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL and KIM VASQUEZ/ GRAY LADY ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

Movie stars are sainted, anti-depressants are mandatory, and a tiny computer resides in every good citizen's brain.

There's a good reason for the question mark that is included in the title of FANTASY FOOTBALL: THE MUSICAL? which was part of the New York Musical Theater Festival.

LAByrinth Theater Company (Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell & Yul Vázquez, Artistic Directors and Marieke Gaboury Producing Director) continues its fall season with two annual festivals of free staged readings, the Barn Series (October 6 - October 30, 2009) and Live Nude Plays (October 31 - Nov

Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming New York premiere of NIGHTINGALE, the new play written and performed by Lynn Redgrave and directed by Joseph Hardy, begins rehearsals today.

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

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

Albert Camus' rarely-seen 1948 play THE MISUNDERSTANDING will be performed Off-Broadway this fall, with preview performances beginning October 29 prior to an official press opening on November 2, 2009 at The Flea Theatre (41 White Street) in Manhattan.

Actress Anna Chlumsky will join the cast of Mint Theater Company's SO HELP ME GOD! Chlumsky joins Kristen Johnston for the Off-Broadway run, which will begin performances November 18th.

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

In Castillo's season opener, Negro League baseball great Josh Gibson hits yet another towering home run, but as he rounds the bases, he meets Albert Einstein (the genius), Amelia Earhart (the aviator), and Otto René Castillo (the revolutionary poet), all on third base with no way home.

Algonquin Productions presents Wide Eyed Productions' JACK AND THE SOY BEANSTALK Sept 26 - Oct 24 Saturdays & Sundays at 11 AM and 10am Sunday, Oct 25

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

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.

'All Fall Down', directed by Lonny Price ('A Class Act') and Matt Cowart (Assistant Director, '110 in the Shade'), opens this Friday, October 9th at the 45th Street Theatre.

CLOWNS EX MACHINA in CLOWN AXIOMS a gory, romantic tale (told by clowns) Clown Axioms is a poetic and preposterous all-women clown spectacle that will receive its world premiere October 9-18th at LaMaMa Club, 74A East 4th Street.

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

Veanne Cox has been announced to star in 'A Disaster Begins', a new one-woman show that's both written and directed by Obie-winner Ain Gordon.