OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 895

Four original productions have been announced for the 2014 New York Children's Theater Festival.

The New York premiere of Becoming Dr.

Wallace Shawn spends most of his three and a half hour play talking about his penis.

NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 will host an elegant and enticing masquerade ball for its Halloween performance this Thursday, October 31st at 8pm, featuring a costume contest and an exclusive after-party at Kazino (45th Street between Times Square and 8th Avenue).

Irish Repertory Theatre will continue its current season with a revival of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, The 1946 Live Radio Play, adapted by Anthony E.

Year of the Rooster by Youngblood playwright Eric Dufault, directed by John Giampietro, opens tonight at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street.

By overwhelming popular demand, what began as a one-night-only engagement has ballooned into a full-fledged 64-performance Off-Broadway run! Now, RuPaul's Drag Race favorite Jinkx Monsoon announces a sixth and final extension of her New York theater debut in THE VAUDEVILLIANS, a musical comedy co-st

Colt Coeur's Play Hotel series presents staged readings of a boy put this girl in a cage with a dog and the dog killed the girl by Clare Barron, directed by Stella Powell-Jones & Umma Lappa Soon by Claire Kiechel, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt.

Do you know what a knish is? Can you pronounce Houston Street the way New Yorkers do? How about the way we say 'forget about it'? If you are the member of the audience picked to answer these questions on stage in the newly-opened Screen Room Theater at Planet Hollywood Times Square , you will win a

Isaiah Johnson (Broadway: Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino; Peter and the Starcatcher; Off-Bway: Far from Heaven with Kelli O'Hara) steps into the title role of OTHELLO, produced by the New York Shakespeare Exchange and directed by Cristina Lundy.

Producer and Writer Robbie Robertson talks about his stage adaptation of 'Satan in High Heels.

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced that Dinner with Friends by Pulitzer Prize winnerDonald Margulies, directed by Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon will open on February 13, 2014.

FUERZA BRUTA NYC, currently playing at the Daryl Roth Theatre, just celebrated its 6th anniversary off-Broadway.

The Play Company (PlayCo) will launch their season of new theater with the world premiere of American writer Andy Bragen's This Is My Office, November 5-December 8.

Urban Stages will continue its celebrated family programing with three Sundays filled with puppets, poetry and endless fun for the whole family.

Roundabout Theatre Company's Underground production of Too Much, Too Much, Too Many, a new play by Meghan Kennedy, begins previews tomorrow Friday, October 25th at 7:00PM.

For its 99th season, the National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene will present one of the largest productions in its history, the American premiere of a new musical based on the 1975 Academy-Award-nominated film Lies My Father Told Me adapted from the works of Ted Allan.

The Flea Theater invites you to the World Premiere of FAMILY FURNITURE by A.

Margaret Copeland, currently starring in Off-Broadway's hit comedy HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER, is featured in the Faherty's Brand's spring catalogue.

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced a special talkback at Bad Jews featuring NYC faith leaders, playwright Joshua Harmon and actor Michael Zegen following the 7:30pm performance tonight, October 24.

SiriusXM radio host and producer/performer Seth Rudetsky will host a talk back at UNBROKEN CIRCLE after its penultimate performance Off-Broadway on Thursday, October 24th at 7 PM.

Playwrights Horizons World Premiere production of THE PATRON SAINT OF SEA MONSTERS, a new play by Blackburn Prize winner Marlane Meyer (The Chemistry of Change and Moe's Lucky Seven for PH; Etta Jenks), is currently in previews off-Broadway.

ANTHEM, presented by The Austin Shakespeare Theatre Company based on the acclaimed Ayn Rand novel, announced that Jonathan Hoenig, founding member of the Capitalist Pig hedge fund and contributor to The Fox News Channel will be participating in a talkback following the 8pm performance on Saturday, O

My Big Gay Italian Wedding, by Anthony J.

Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori's adaptation of Alison Bechdel's graphic novel demands to be seen by anyone who takes musical theatre seriously.