OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1493

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) have announced that, in order to accommodate ticket demand, they will extend the New York Premiere of Charles Busch's The Third Story.

The New York Times is reporting that, MCC Theater has announced a bit of unconventional casting news for its stage adaptation of the graphic novel by Neil Gaiman.

'I'm a retired businessman,' the title character of Richard Krevolin and Joseph Bologna's new solo play, Lansky, keeps insisting.

rimary Stages (Casey Childs, Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) presents the Shipwrecked! An Entertainment - The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself) by Donald Margulies, a story-telling adventure suitable for all ages from t

John Leguizamo, last seen in the ill-fated Broadway revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo, is returning to his downtown roots with a new one man project, 'WORK IN PROGRESS' which he'll debut at the Barrow Street Theatre beginning February 27th.

The Toxic Avenger will begin performances on Wednesday, March 18, 2009, at New World Stages.

NYC's Barefoot Theatre Company will present THE 70/70 HOROVITZ PROJECT, a worldwide celebration of the 70th birthday of internationally-acclaimed playwright ISRAEL HOROVITZ.

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Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) New York premiere production of Distracted begins previews tomorrow Saturday, February 7th at 2:00 PM.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is proud to announce the full cast for the upcoming New York premiere of Distracted, by Lisa Loomer, directed by Mark Brokaw.

MIRACLE HOUSE ANNOUNCES EXCLUSIVE BROADWAY BENEFIT FEATURING TONY WINNER Joan Allen ON TUESDAY, MARCH 17 Miracle House has a speciAl Block of orchestra tickets reserved for the new play, Impressionism, by Michael Jacobs, featuring Tony winners Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons.

Rhoda Herrick has just announced that Garden of Earthly Delights will be extending its run for the second consecutive time, continuing through Sunday, May 31 at the Minetta Lane Theatre (18 Minetta Lane).

When Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft heard that playwright Eric Sanders was adapting fellow horror writer Algernon Blackwood's supernatural tale, THE WENDIGO for the stage, they just had to come back from beyond the grave to see it.

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VITAL THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce its weekday performances for Washington's Birthday and Midwinter Recess for its production of 'THE PRINCESS OF RIVERSIDE DRIVE,' with book by LINDSAY JOELLE, music and lyrics by JUSTIN S.

Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) New York premiere production of Distracted begins previews tomorrow Saturday, February 7th at 2:00 PM.

Jean Cheever and Tom Polum, producers of The Toxic Avenger, announced today that casting is complete for the upcoming new musical about New Jersey's first superhero.

TICKETS NOW ON SALE for 'AVOW' OFF BROADWAY at 45th STREET THEATRE Previews begin February 19 Opening Wednesday, February 25 The Cardinal Group (D.

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The National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) presents the world premiere of LEAH'S TRAIN, Karen Hartman's play about three generations of women from a Jewish family whose lineage spreads from Russia to present-day San Francisco, previewing February 6th prior to opening February 10th Off-Broa

The National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) -- whose revivals of western classics performed by all Asian-American casts since 1989 include such acclaimed productions as BERNARDA ALBA, OTHELLO, A LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, OUR TOWN, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU and IVANOV -- will expand it

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) continues its 2008/2009 Season with the New York premiere of THE SAVANNAH DISPUTATION, a new play by Evan Smith (Psych and The Uneasy Chair at Playwrights Horizons, Remedial English for the Young Playwrights Fest

Although operetta wasn't completely on its way out when Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II brought Music In The Air to Broadway in 1932, the popularity of the genre was indeed waning a bit as jazzy and witty scores by the likes of George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter dominated

EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE, Paul Adams, Artistic Director, and Derek Jamison, Associate Artistic Director, present the 2009 Spring EATFest, for a two-week limited engagement at TADA Theatre.

Opening Doors Theatre Company announces the first two productions in their 3rd season of Closing Notice productions for 2009: FADE OUT, FADE IN (1964) - First ever NYC revival! Music by Jule Styne Book and Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green Directed by Suzanne Adams Choreographed by Chri