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Target Margin Theater Announces 30th Anniversary Season Featuring Nine-Hour Theatrical Event
by BWW News Desk - July 20, 2021
In its most ambitious work to date, the Obie Award-winning Target Margin Theater has announced details for We Will Care for You, a massive nine-hour theatrical event that concludes the Company’s four-year exploration of The One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of classic Silk Road stories.
Joe Iconis, Robert Rokicki, Gina Naomi Baez & More to Take Part in The Argyle Theater Gala Concert
by BWW News Desk - July 20, 2021
IT’S A CELEBRATION OF JOY AND RENEWAL! Long Island’s newest year-round professional theatrical venue, The Argyle Theatre will celebrate the re-opening of live entertainment with a gala evening of song, Welcome Back! A Starry, Starry Night at The Argyle Theatre hosted by Argyle Artistic Director Evan Pappas with music direction by Ethan Andersen.
THE 24 HOUR PLAYS: NATIONALS Kicks Off Tonight
by BWW News Desk - July 20, 2021
The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, now in their tenth year, kicks off their rigorous professional experience for artists 25 and under tonight with their own production of The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues, featuring the 43 program participants and 12 guest writers from previous years of the Nationals program.
Amas Musical Theatre Announces Move and New Studio Space Available For Rental
by BWW News Desk - July 20, 2021
Amas Musical Theatre has announced they have relocated their home office to the 12th floor of the Film Center Building (630 Ninth Avenue – between 44th & 45th Streets). The company has created a state of the art rehearsal studio available for auditions, rehearsals, casting and workshops.
STOMP to Re-Open Off-Broadway Tomorrow
by BWW News Desk - July 19, 2021
STOMP will open tomorrow Tuesday, July 20 at 126 Second Avenue at 8th Street in the East Village. The next morning, Wednesday, July 21, the cast will be performing live on “Good Morning America” in Times Square; it is scheduled for the 8:30AM half hour.
Mahogany L. Browne, Milly Quezada and More Featured in August RESTART STAGES Programming
by BWW News Desk - July 19, 2021
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts today announced new artistic performances, collaborations, workshops, family programming, and more coming to Restart Stages this August—the outdoor performing arts center created to champion the revival and recovery of New York City arts.
Austin Pendleton, Gretchen Cryer, Christine Toy Johnson & Charlayne Woodard to Judge HEAR ME OUT Monologue Competition
by BWW News Desk - July 19, 2021
Hear Me Out New American Monologue Competition’s founder Roland Tec has announced this year’s Finalist Judges Gretchen Cryer, Christine Toy Johnson, Austin Pendleton, and Charlayne Woodard: all award-winning playwrights with equally masterful careers as performers.
Cherry Lane Theatre Sold to Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation
by BWW News Desk - July 19, 2021
Cherry Lane Theatre, the oldest continuously running Off-Broadway theatre in New York City, has a new owner, it has been announced by Angelina Fiordellisi, the theatre’s Executive Director since having acquired the building in 1996.  Cherry Lane is located at 38 Commerce Street in Greenwich Village.
Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre Announces 2021-22 Lineup
by BWW News Desk - July 19, 2021
Learn more about the upcoming productions, which include Ni Mi Madre by Arturo Luís Soria, In the Southern Breeze by Mansa Ra, and Addressless by Martin Boross. 
SPOILED: The Film Project, Chapter Two Will Stream Live Next Month
by BWW News Desk - July 17, 2021
A post-show conversation follows, called Giving Voice to Marginalized Girls, Women and Femmes, moderated by Shonna Trinch, Professor of Gender Studies at J Jay College of Criminal Justice, with panelists Ruchira Gupta, Emmy-award winning journalist and founder of anti-sex trafficking organization Apne Aap and Ochiro Olwoch, Ugandan writer who covers taboos of LGBTQ+ community and African Representative of Women Playwrights International. 
VIDEO: Damian Thompson Shares How His Struggles With Stuttering Led Him Into Acting On WHY I'LL NEVER MAKE IT
by BWW News Desk - July 16, 2021
Born in Kingston, Jamaica and raised in Miami, Florida, Damian Thompson (Toni Stone, Little Rock) is a performer of both stage and screen. From an early age he was his family's private entertainer, always dancing at family functions and reciting TV shows. Yet after moving to America and taking speech classes to control his Jamaican accent, he developed a chronic case of stuttering. It affected his self-confidence as well as interactions with others.
BWW Review: STATIC is a Compelling Virtual Two-Hander Presented for East to Edinburgh by 59E59 Theaters
by Marina Kennedy - July 16, 2021
We viewed Static, presented by Golden Lights.  The compelling two-hander features the talents of Daniel Amedee and Conor Kelly O’Brien.  The two performers also created the show.  It is directed by Michael Pillot. It is part of the festival presented by 59E59 Theaters to celebrate East to Edinburgh with a variety of streaming shows. 
Lee Roy Reams, Tony Sheldon, Brad Oscar, Lawrence Leritz and Gerard Alessandrini to Join Backstage Babble Trivia
by BWW News Desk - July 16, 2021
What happens when you get five theater celebrities to ask Broadway trivia to four of the biggest theater fans, experts, and professionals around? An evening of laughter, anecdotes, prizes, and of course, trivia.
VIDEO: Check Out the Trailer for BMF on Starz Featuring Da'Vinchi & More
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2021
Black Mafia Family, set to premiere on Starz, follows the Black Mafia Family, a drug and money laundering organization. The show stars Russell Hornsby as Charles Flenory, Steve Harris as Detective Bryant, Demetrius Flenory Jr. as Demetrius Flenory, Da'Vinchi as Terry Flenory, and more.
The Skivvies and Sutton Lee Seymour to Join CAMP MORNING WOOD: A VERY NAKED MUSICAL
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2021
The Off-Broadway comedy musical, Camp Morning Wood: A Very Naked Musical announced today that it will welcome the wildly popular undie-superstars, The Skivvies (Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley) as pre-show guest hosts for one-night-only performance this Saturday, July 17 at 4:15 PM (performance at 5 PM) at the Asylum Theatre (307 W 26th Street). 
VIDEO: See a Preview of Anna Deavere Smith's TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992 at Signature Theatre's
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2021
Signature Theatre has announced a 35-minute video preview of playwright, actor, and scholar Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, directed by Taibi Magar, ahead of the Fall 2021 production on the Irene Diamond Stage.
VOYEUR: THE WINDOWS OF TOULOUSE-LAUTREC To Close July 31 After 356 Performances
by BWW News Desk - July 14, 2021
Bated Breath Theatre Company has announced that the final performance of VOYEUR: THE WINDOWS OF TOULOUSE-LAUTREC will be Saturday, July 31. VOYEUR, which was conceived and directed by Mara Lieberman, began performances on September 30, 2020 and will have run 356 performances at closing.
The Public Theater to Tour MOBILE UNIT'S SUMMER OF JOY to All Five Boroughs
by BWW News Desk - July 14, 2021
The Public Theater announced today that the theater’s acclaimed MOBILE UNIT will return this summer with MOBILE UNIT’S SUMMER OF JOY, a free four-week tour to all five boroughs beginning July 31 and running through August 29 as New York City joyously returns to life.
WP Theater Announces 2021-2022 Season Featuring World Premiere of SANDBLASTED & More
by BWW News Desk - July 14, 2021
WP Theater will welcome audiences back to the theater for their 2021-2022 Season, which will continue to lift up the work of Women+ theater artists in creative new ways.The 2021-22 Season kicks off August 2 – 5 with Monica Bill Barnes & Company’s Many Happy Returns, an inventive and intimate new dance piece. 
Streamed Recording of THE WOLVES to be Presented by Lincoln Center Theater
by BWW News Desk - July 14, 2021
PRIVATE REELS: FROM THE LCT ARCHIVES, streamed recordings of outstanding LCT productions in their entirety, will continue on Thursday, July 22 with the Lincoln Center Theater production of the Drama Desk and Obie award-winning, THE WOLVES by Sarah DeLappe, directed by Lila Neugebauer.
SPEAKEASY - TIMES SQUARE at Bond 45 Extends Through the Summer
by BWW News Desk - July 14, 2021
Speakeasy - Times Square, an all-in-one immersive mixology experience that combines the worlds of burlesque, cirque, illusionists, and musical theater with a decadent cocktail, dining, and nightclub experience, will extend performances throughout the summer due to popular demand.
Katrina Lenk, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Ashley Park, Betty Gilpin & More Stars Join MOTHERHACKER and RED FRONTIER Podcasts
by BWW News Desk - July 13, 2021
With the pandemic last year shutting down Broadway and other live shows, fiction podcasts such as Motherhacker and Red Frontier provided opportunities for Broadway actors to continue performing and entertaining audiences, via an alternative medium. 
BLINDNESS Begins Final Two Weeks at the Daryl Roth Theatre
by BWW News Desk - July 13, 2021
Just two weeks remain to experience Blindness, the acclaimed Donmar Warehouse production of Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago’s dystopian novel by Tony Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens and directed by Walter Meierjohann, at the Daryl Roth Theatre (101 East 15th Street at Union Square East).
ISLANDER From Liza Birkenmeier and Katie Brook Set to Premiere in August at HERE
by BWW News Desk - July 13, 2021
Following their 2019 production of Dr. Ride’s American Beach House, playwright Liza Birkenmeier and director Katie Brook are set to premiere their next collaboration, ISLANDER, as part of SubletSeries@HERE. 
Repertorio Español to Reopen October 6 With LA BREVE Y MARAVILLOSA VIDA DE OSCAR WAO
by BWW News Desk - July 13, 2021
Repertorio Español has announced the dates for their official reopening. Performances start on the 6th of October.

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