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Casting has been announced for the off-Broadway premiere of the ZINA GOLDRICH and MARCY HEISLER musical, DEAR EDWINA.

The limited engagement of ROMANTIC POETRY celebrated opening night on Tuesday, October 28.

Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Itamar Moses' BACK BACK BACK begins performances Thursday, October 30 at MTC at New York City Center - Stage II (131 West 55th Street) in preparation for a Tuesday, November 18 opening night

Things To Ruin, an incendiary collection of songs by Joe Iconis returns for a limited, four-performance run at The Zipper Factory in New York.

My Fair Heathen Productions continues their foray into the dark and irreverent with the fall show, 'Memoirs of Madness'.

Thanks to my BroadwayWorld colleague Adrienne Onofri for sending me this video of a showtune singin' hockey mom making her political preference known.

Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group strikes Greenwich Village like a lightning-bolt with URBAN DEATH - their ultimate and timely theatrical horror production.

Members of BroadwayWorld can now purchase special $29.

On October 31st, 2008 at the 7:00 & 10:00 PM performances of ROCK OF AGES, Off-Broadway's newest hit featuring 80s rock classics by Journey, Bon Jovi, Styx, Reo Speedwagon, Pat Benatar and more,there will be a special costume contest with a $500 cash prize to the winner (two winners will be named -

Henning Rübsam: SENSEDANCE performs a special engagement for its 2008 season with the premiere of 'Cloudforest' at The Ailey Citigroup Theater (The Joan Weill Center for Dance), 405 West 55th Street at 9th Avenue.

On Friday, October 31 at 6:00PM, free tickets will be handed out to the first 25 guests who arrive dressed in their best 80's fashion to the BOYS' LIFE box office.

At Play Productions presents five stories about some of the freakiest, bloodiest, most bizarre jobs in America in Work, a new collaboratively written play debuting at Ars Nova on the 10th of November as part of the A.

The National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) presents a revival of the Tennessee Williams classic OUT CRY -- a play about theatre, writing, and acting -- with previews set to begin November 29, prior to an official press opening December 4 at Abingdon Theater (312 West 36th Street), starring

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents The Language of Trees, a new play by Steven Levenson, directed by Alex Timbers, featuring Maggie Burke as 'Kay Danley,' Natalie Gold as 'Loretta Trumble-Pinkerstone,' Michael Hayden as 'Denton Pinkerstone,' Gio Perez as 'Eben Trum

The Directors Company production of Irena's Vow, the new play by Dan Gordon, starring four-time Tony nominee, and three-time Drama Desk Award-winner Tovah Feldshuh and directed by Michael Parva, has added 20 encore performances to its current Off Broadway schedule, by popular demand.

New York Theatre Workshop announces that TIM ROBBINS, JAN MAXWELL, KERRY WASHINGTON, CARRIE PRESTON, ADRIANE LENOX, AND MARGO MARTINDALE will lead the cast in a reading of Gore Vidal's WEEKEND on Monday, November 3rd, at 7PM.

The Directors Company production of Irena's Vow, the new play by Dan Gordon, starring four-time Tony nominee, and three-time Drama Desk Award-winner Tovah Feldshuh and directed by Michael Parva, will be recorded for posterity by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Theatre on Film a

West Coast Ensemble presents the West Coast Premiere of Christopher Durang's MISS WITHERSPOON, directed by Joel Swetow (The Cherry Orchard, Twelfth Night).

CAPTURE NOW, a new play by Josh Jonas officially opened on October 22 at The Theaters at 45 Bleecker Street (45 Bleecker Street) in Manhattan.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (David Van Asselt, Artistic Director and Sandra Coudert, Managing Director) has announced a change in casting for the World Premiere production of Geometry of Fire, by Stephen Belber.

Transport Group, the winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award and a 2007 Obie Award, has announced a series of talkbacks and special events for its production of the first major New York revival of Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead, directed by Joe Calarco.

Manhattan Theatre Club will present the upcoming world premiere of ROMANTIC POETRY, a new musical by John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D.

This fall, Tony Award nominated actor Keith Carradine (The Will Rogers Follies, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 'Nashville,' 'Dexter') returns to the New York stage in the New York premiere of Anthony Horowitz's acclaimed thriller, MINDGAME.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D.