OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 905

With a cast of over 200 combining professionals and clients from the city's social service organizations, The Tempest rejoices in New York's cultural diversity.

The Little Italy Merchants Association and Little Italy, NYC has announced its first in a series of live performances featuring some of Broadway's very best shows and brightest stars.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS continues off-Broadway, with Gary Littman & Matt Lutz having just stepped into the roles of Passepartout & Detective Fix, respectively, and Guy Lemonnier heading the cast as the phlegmatic Phileas Fogg, with Shirine Babb and Jimmy Ray Bennett rounding out the ensemble.

New Worlds Theatre Project has announced that it will present the English language premiere of Peretz Hirshbein's Yiddish play, Carcass, beginning tonight, September 7 at 7pm at HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presents Lucy Thurber's The Hill Town Plays, a cycle of five plays--Scarcity, Ashville, Where We're Born, Killers and Other Family, and Stay-- whhich opened last night, September 5, 2013; the closing date is Saturday, September 28, 2013.

ATLANTIC FOR KIDS announces the World Premiere of Molly Shannon's Tilly the Trickster, based on the book Tilly the Trickster by Molly Shannon.

The Flea Theater will present the limited Off-Broadway engagement of FAMILY FURNITURE by A.

The Velocity of Autumn, a new two-character play from Cleveland-based playwright Eric Coble, opens at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater under the direction of Artistic Director Molly Smith and by special arrangement with HOP Theatricals, LLC.

Producers Meredith Lucio and Sarah Hancock in association with Perry Street Theatricals present the critically acclaimed Bedlam productions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet and George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, directed by Eric Tucker.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) has announced the final production of its 2013-2014 season - the US premiere of celebrated Irish writer Nancy Harris' play OUR NEW GIRL, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch and starring Mary McCann.

Her fourth show is such a hit, it's been extended to September 8 and resumes October 27 for 9 weeks.

A User's Guide to Hell, featuring Bernard Madoff is produced by the award-winning Project Y Theatre Company at Atlantic Stage II, 330 West 16th Street, previewing Today, September 5, at 8:00pm for an opening Saturday evening, September 7, at 8:00pm and a run through September 28.

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for Natural Affection by William Inge, the first production of the company's 21st Season.

The Obie and Drama Desk Award-winning Ma-Yi Theater Company -- one of the nation's leading theaters dedicated to developing and producing new and innovative plays by Asian American writers -- will celebrate its 25th anniversary season in 2013-14, beginning with the New York premiere of BIKE AMERICA

Playwrights Horizons presents the New York Premiere Production of Mr.

INTAR (Lou Moreno, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) today announced the first production of its 2013 - '14 season: UBU, with text by Adam Szymkowicz and directed by Daniel Irizarry.

59E59 Theaters welcomes The Active Theater with the NYC premiere of TWO POINT OH, written by Jeffrey Jackson and directed by Michael Unger.

Rachel Reiner Productions will present the World Premiere of Victor L.

American Games, a new play written by Kevin Slack and directed by Phil Blechman, opens tonight, September 3, 2013 at The American Theater of Actors (314 West 54th Street, New York).

Critically acclaimed theatre company The Playwrights Realm presents the New York premiere of Lauren Yee's new play The Hatmaker's Wife, directed by recent OBIE Award winner Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812).

The Austin Shakespeare Theatre Company will present the New York premiere of Ayn Rand's novel ANTHEM.

NYC & Company, New York City's official marketing, tourism and partnership organization, and The Off-Broadway League today announced Off-Broadway Week two-for-one tickets are on sale for 42 participating shows.

In today's New York Times 'In Performance' video, AWAKE AND SING!'s Jon Norman Schneider, who plays Ralph Berger, the young brother of a Jewish family living in the Depression-era Bronx, considers his options for the future.

Producer Cedric Yau has announced that Gary Littman & Matt Lutz will step into the roles of Passepartout & Detective Fix (respectively) in Around the World in 80 Days, beginning today, September 3rd.

The Pearl Theatre Company kicks off its 30th anniversary season-the second season in its new home on West 42nd Street-with the first New York revival in 15 years of George Bernard Shaw's You Never Can Tell in a co-production with the Gingold Theatrical Group that is directed by David Staller.