OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 908

To coincide with Cougar The Musical's one year anniversary this August, the original Cougar, creator and writer, Donna Moore will join the cast as Clarity for four performances only.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes 15th Oak with the US premiere of THE LIFE AND SORT OF DEATH OF ERIC ARGYLE, written by Ross Dungan and directed by Dan Herd.

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

The producers of Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play, starring Tony Award winner Amanda Plummer (Agnes of God, Pulp Fiction, Hunger Games: Catching Fire) and Academy Award nominee Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Deadwood), currently playing at New Wor

One of two plays about LBJ aiming for Broadway, 'The Great Society' is a three-hour history lesson about the Johnson Presidency, from the shot that killed JFK, giving Johnson the office he'd always wanted, to LBJ's televised speech five years later announcing that he would not run again.

EINSTEIN, a new play by Jay Prasad, is set to open today (Sunday) at 3 PM.

Now, almost 20 years later, Avi Hoffman's Still Jewish After All These Years will have its highly anticipated New York premiere tonight, Saturday, August 10th at 7pm at Stage 72 (formerly known as the Triad-158 W 72nd St).

Tickets will go on sale for the new musical Lady Day about Billie Holiday, starring Tony and multiple Grammy Award-winner Dee Dee Bridgewater today, August 9th at 12noon at the Little Shubert Theatre (422 West 42nd Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues) .

Why schlep to the Mojave Desert for Richard Branson's expensive and stuffy trip to space?! The Orion Experience, an intergalactic space journey meets theatrical live electro-pop concert, conveniently takes flight from midtown-Manhattan three nights a week.

TAMAR OF THE RIVER will star Margo Seibert (Saving Aimee, Circus in Winter at Playwrights Horizons, Next to Normal at the Weston Playhouse) as Tamar with Ako (Throne of Blood), Noah Galvin (Burnt Part Boys), Erik Lochtefeld (February House), Mike Longo (Hair) and Vince B.

Ars Nova presents the world premiere of the burlesque farce Eager to Lose in a limited Off-Broadway engagement, Wednesday, October 9 through Saturday, November 2 at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street).

Peter Van Wagner, star of this summer's DANCING ON NAILS at Theatre 80, will be this week's special guest on the popular WPKN (89.

MCC THEATER has announced the line-up for their upcoming PlayLabs reading series, featuring new plays by members of the company's Playwrights' Coalition.

EINSTEIN, a world premiere of a new play by Jay Prasad, is set to open this Sunday, August 11th at 3 PM.

The producers of Off-Broadway's sellout sensation HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER today announced that the hit comedy is set to move to The Screening Room Theater at Planet Hollywood Times Square, with performances beginning September 20th.

The York Theatre Company, launches the NEODevelopmental Reading Series with the workshop presentation of the new musical, A Girl Called Vincent, based on the poetry of Edna St.

ALBERT PODELL and THE YORK SHAKESPEARE COMPANY are pleased to announce the world premiere production of Alexander Harrington's The Great Society, directed by Seth Duerr.

Alexis Molnar stands out in Chad Beguelin's stumbling family dramedy.

Actors, writers and directors know that to succeed in theater, it is necessary to master the art of survival.

Seth Rudetsky and Mary J.

THE WEIR by Conor McPherson, directed by Ciaran O'Reilly, has announced its third extension through September 15th at the Irish Repertory Theatre.

EINSTEIN, a world premiere of a new play by Jay Prasad, began Off-Broadway performances on August , with the official opening set for this Sunday, August 11th at Theatre at St.

My Name Is Asher Lev (www.

Baseball, girls, high school, and getting out: of course, these are the normal pressures of every fourteen-year-old boy.

Edmund Gaynes today announced the formation of Gaynes Theatrical Booking, based in New York City, representing current and recent New York plays and musicals.