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Due to Covid cases within the company, Theatre for a New Audience is canceling five preview performances of the Off-Broadway premiere of iconic American writer Denis Johnson's Des Moines, directed by Arin Arbus and featuring Johanna Day, Arliss Howard, Hari Nef, Michael Shannon, and Heather Alicia S

Following Award-winning engagements at the 2022 Edinburgh, Hollywood and Adelaide Fringe Festivals, Afghanistan Is Not Funny, written and performed by Henry Naylor, bows Off-Broadway this December at SoHo Playhouse.

The Obie-Award winning The Fire This Time Festival has announced the four playwrights – Kendra Augustin, Kim Brockington, Jahquale Mazyck and James Anthony Tyler –  who will be developing work in the 5th cycle of its New Works Lab program.

Audiences have just five more weeks to see Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical at Playhouse 46 at St.

Broadway veterans Julia Mattison and Joel Waggoner of Advent Carolndar are back to celebrate their greatest hits with a new, one-hour variety special, “Joel and Julia’s Haunted Holiday Singalong!,” to be released at midnight on Tuesday, December 13 and available to rent on Vimeo on Demand

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club presents: the new residency of Krymov Lab NYC, led by the renowned director Dmitry Krymov.

A Sherlock Carol, written and directed by Mark Shanahan, opens tonight, Monday, November 28, 2022, at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) in its return six-week limited holiday engagement.

The Off-Broadway League has announced that its annual Off-Broadway Toy Drive has begun and will benefit children at the Henwood Family Residence, a NYC Department of Homeless Services family shelter in the Bronx.

Following sold-out performances across North America, award-winning parody show Six Chick Flicks (.

The original musical, created and directed by Jorge B.

Broadway Sings's December 5 holiday concert, A Mariah Carey Holiday Spectacular, its first holiday show for the series, will live-stream from Sony Hall.

'Betsy: Wisdom of a Brighton Whore” is the winner of the prestigious International Fringe Encore Series Award at the Brighton (UK) Fringe 2022.

Vineyard Theatre has announced a one week extension of  Sandra, a one-woman thriller written by David Cale (Harry Clarke), starring Marjan Neshat (English and Selling Kabul) and directed by Leigh Silverman (Harry Clarke).

Cowboy, the story of Bass Reeves, will debut Off-Broadway this December.

Actor-Producer Malik Yoba and Playwright David Heron are celebrating the success of their recent staged reading production of Heron's award winning courtroom drama Against His Will, held at the world famous Apollo Soundstage in New York on Monday, November 7.

On December 3, 2022, New York City Children's Theater hit holiday production, My First Nutcracker will return live to Theatre Row for the first time since 2019.

Roundabout Theatre Company will conclude the world premiere of You Will Get Sick, by Noah Diaz directed by Tony Award nominee Sam Pinkleton on Sunday, December 11.

See photos from opening night of Vineyard Theatre's Sandra, a one-woman thriller written by David Cale (Harry Clarke), starring Marjan Neshat (English and Selling Kabul).

See photos of the New York premiere of Bruce Norris’s provocative, critically lauded play Downstate, directed by Pam MacKinnon, now extended at Playwrights Horizons to December 22.

The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture presents Christmas on Bleecker: Celebrating the Reason, on Monday, December 5, at 7:30 p.

'The Keepin' Cozy Show with Kitten Solloway' is a character-based improv show modeled after the television specials of the 1950s and 1960s.

See photos from MCC Theater's season kick-off party celebrating their current lineup of programming this year.

In the culmination of a seven-week run that featured over seventy one-person theatre productions from across the globe, the world’s largest solo theatre festival concluded its thirteenth season at Theatre Row on 42nd Street in New York on November 20, with this year’s awards gala.

Previews begin tonight, Monday, November 21, 2022, for A Sherlock Carol written and directed by Mark Shanahan (The Dingdong, A Merry Little Christmas Carol; NPR’s Ghost Light Series).

Out of the Box Theatrics will produce an Off-Broadway developmental production of Millennials Are Killing Musicals, written by Drama League songwriting contest and NAMT Challenge winner Nico Juber.