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Rob Sedgwick and Randy Kovitz will join the cast of Perfect Crime, the longest-running play in the history of New York theater, now playing at Times Square's Snapple Theater Center.

TAKE Dance Company, a contemporary dance ensemble known for its gentle blend of eastern and western sensibilities led by artistic director and choreographer Takehiro Ueyama, presents a program filled with exuberant play, human dancescapes and structural patterns that overflow the stage.

Carousel Theatre Company (Kelly Feustel, Artistic Director; Kevin Feustel, Managing Director) is proud to present Pierre Corneille's LE CID, directed by Richard Pepio.

The Toxic Avenger is a charming love story and laugh-out-loud musical that has it all -- an unlikely hero, his beautiful girlfriend, a corrupt New Jersey mayor and two guys who play.

The stars of the new Off-Broadway hit 'Girls Night: The Musical' will preside over the closing bell at NASDAQ MarketSite Friday, July 24th at 4 p.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) kicks off its 2009/2010 Season with the World Premiere of THE RETRIBUTIONISTS, a new play by Daniel Goldfarb (Modern Orthodox, Adam Baum and the Jew Movie).

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.

Up a River/Down the Aisle, a new solo show written and performed by Jake Lipman (developed with Mark Hoverman), will be premiering in the 2009 Midtown International Theatre Festival, directed by Brian W.

Celebrated theater and film actor Jack Gilpin is signing on to the Edinburgh-bound cast of Couples Counseling in the role of Dr.

This weekend, The Tin Pan Alley Rag's Michael Boatman and Michael Therriault, will appear on NY1's 'On Stage' beginning Saturday, July 25th on channel 1 and WCBS 2 News on Sunday, July 26th between 8:30AM-9AM on channel 2.

Ars Nova announces upcoming events for the month of August, including Remember the Time: The Music of Michael Jackson, Showgasm, and Break of Reality.

Theatreworks USA (Barbara Pasternack, Artistic Dir.

'Dance of the Seven Headed Mouse,' a new play by Carole Gaunt, will conclude its limited Off-Broadway engagement this Saturday, July 25th at The Beckett at Theatre Row.

Compassion Theater Company, sponsored by Primary Research Group, will stage Ibsen's classic play A Doll's House, July 23-July 26 at Shetler Studios in Manhattan.

A reading of 'ON THE WAY TO O'NEILL'S: JFK IN IRELAND', a new drama by ANN G.

Deadline Productions presents THE IMAGINARY INVALID by Molière, and directed by Matthew A.

WE ARE BEING HELD plays as part of the undergroundzero festival @ Performance Space 122 A man named Peter finds himself without a memory on a lone subway car.

Producers Philip Morgaman, Emily Miller and Frankie Grande announce the kickoff of a yearlong celebration of prolific playwright and director Garson Kanin beginning July 30th with Dreyfus in Rehearsal.

Danielle Karliner proudly presents the FringeNYC debut of Ether Steeds, a new play by Jason Williamson.

This fall, the sexy, soulful new musical comedy DIAL 'N' FOR NEGRESS will have its world premiere engagement for 16 performances only -- Thursday, September 10 through Saturday, September 26, 2009 -- at the Clurman Theatre on Theatre Row (410 W.

GRAVEYARD SHIFT, a new musical-action-comedy written and directed by Ren Casey (Save the Goondocks!, winner FringeNYC 'Outstanding Ensemble') will be receiving its world premiere at the Minetta Lane Theatre as part of the 13th annual New York International Fringe Festival.

MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) has announced casting for two productions of its 2009-10 season.

The 2009 New York International Fringe Festival, Bay Bridge Productions and Laura Wagner present Union Squared, (www.

Gorilla Rep presents The World Première of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt with New Translation/Adaptation by Laura Lynn MacDonald, directed by Christopher Carter Sanderson with original music by Andre-Philippe Mistier

Gorilla Rep presents William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar directed by Stephen Fried Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599.