OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1407

The Irish Repertory Theatre and its guests, including Marian Seldes and Frances Sternhagen, celebrated last Thursday's Off-Broadway opening of Conal Creedon's AFTER LUKE and WHEN I WAS GOD -- two short plays, set in present-day Ireland, about the powerful bond between fathers and their sons -- at Th

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THE PROCESS GROUP and PURPLE MAN THEATER in association with the 13th Annual New York International Fringe Festival present the production of the world premiere of Nicholas Gray's Population: 8 at the Soho Playhouse on Tuesday August 18th at 4pm, Friday, August 21st at 10pm, Saturday, August 22nd at

I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER: THE MUSICLOL! comes to the New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC as a production of The Present Company from August 14th to 30th.

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.

Heiress Productions will celebrate the company's third anniversary by sponsoring its first playwriting competition.

FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST will begin performances at the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) on Saturday, August 15th at 2:15pm.

Wind Up Productions' first full length play, The McCarthy Account, will be performed later this month at The Producers Club.

Tonight - Monday August 10th the hit show 'The Temperamentals' by Jon Marans continues the hit Militant Mondays, series of talk backs following the performance.

60 solo singers and vocal duos have been chosen to compete in the second annual 'MetroStar Talent Challenge,' an eight-week, jury and audience-voted elimination-round competition that begins on Monday July 13 at 7pm.

The recent trend of reality television has been taking over the airwaves and as of late Broadway with Burn The Floor, the new dance show featuring reality TV veterans Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff of ABC's hit show Dancing with the Stars.

Fat Melon Productions premieres a new one-woman romantic comedy, THE SMOKING DIARY Off-Broadway, opening July 30, 2009 at 8:00 PM at the ATA American Theatre of Actors Chernuchin Theater, 314 W.

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Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) launches its 25th anniversary season of new works celebrating the female playwright with the world premiere of A Lifetime Burning by Cusi Cram.

The New York Times is reporting that Malcolm Gets and Helen Stenborg will star in the dark comedy Vigil at the DR 2 Theatre, September 20th through November 22nd.

Live Broadcast, a play by John William Schiffbauer, will be presented at the 13th Annual New York International Fringe Festival, a production of The Present Company.

THE COLUMBINE PROJECT, a new play written and directed by Paul Anthony Storiale, will begin performances July 27th at The Actors Temple Theatre, 339 West 47th Street (between Eighth & Ninth Avenues).

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will conclude its 30th Anniversary mainstage season with the New York premiere of VANITIES, a new musical written by Jack Heifner, featuring music and lyrics by David Kirshenbaum, directed by Judith Ivey.

AL'S BUSINESS CARDS, a new comedy by Josh Koenigsberg, will be given its world-premiere this summer with previews beginning July 30 prior to an official press opening August 9 at the Lion Theater on Theater Row (410 W.

Having received its world premier production in Chicago where it received a Jefferson Award Nomination for 'Best New Play in Chicago,' Shirley Lauro's 'All Through The Night' will begin its New York engagement Thursday, October 2 (8PM) at Off Broadway's Marjorie S.

Supreme Eyeball Productions is proud to present FAR OUT- the New Sci-Fi Musical Comedy (music by Brian Breen/lyrics by Michael Chartier) as part of the 13th annual New York International Fringe Festival-FringeNYC.

America?s foremost Gilbert & Sullivan repertory ensemble, the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, proudly announces their triumphant return to New York?s historic City Center (West 55th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues).

Having received its world premier production in Chicago where is received a Jefferson Award Nomination for ?Best New Play in Chicago,? Shirley?s Lauro?s ?All Through The Night? will begin its New York engagement Thursday, October 1st (8PM) at Off Broadway?s Marjorie S.

'LOVE BEN, LOVE EMMA,' will play at the Shubert Theatre this summer! 'LOVE BEN, LOVE EMMA' is Studio Tisch's steamy drama, based on erotic letters of Emma Goldman and Ben Reitman, playing ONLY August 7-9 for the 20th Anniversary celebration.