OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 951

Musicals Tonight has just announced its spring 2013 season at The Lion Theatre, featuring Strike Up the Band!, Same Time, Next Year - The Musical and Leave It to Jane.

Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Talley's Folly returns in a joyful and moving new production starring Tony Award nominee Danny Burstein (Golden Boy, Follies) and Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Sarah Paulson ('American Horror Story,' Roundabout's Crimes of the Heart).

Women's Project Theater's widely-acclaimed and packed-house production of Laura Marks's world premiere dark comedy Bethany, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, will close as scheduled Sunday, February 17, after the 2:30pm matinee to make way for Tina Benko in the North American Premiere of Jackie by N

Forever Dusty, the hit new musical about the life and times of legendary British pop star Dusty Springfield, will celebrate its 100th performance with a one-night-only Sing-A-Long performance on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 7:00 PM.

Playwrights Horizons begins accepting entries today, Friday, February 8, for its popular LIVEforFIVE online lottery for $5 tickets to the World Premiere of THE FLICK, a new play by Obie Award winner Annie Baker (Circle Mirror Transformation at Playwrights Horizons/PH, The Aliens, her recent adaptati

Today, Donna Moore's surprise Off-Broadway hit, Cougar the Musical, will celebrate its 100th performance.

MUSIC: MY FREEDOM will play a limited off-Broadway run at The Tank, tonight, Feb.

The Attic Theater Company will present THE MNEMONIST OF DUTCHESS COUNTY, a new comedy written by Josh Koenigsberg (Herman Kline's Midlife Crisis, Al's Business Cards) and directed by Laura Savia, which will be performed at The Beckett Theatre -Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street, at 9th Avenue) from t

Reading about the new Lanford Wilson revival makes me wonder if the weekly grosses for the last Stephen Sondheim Broadway revival were known as Follies' Tally.

Join Abingdon Theatre this Friday night, February 8th, at 8pm for a benefit performance of Bodega Bay, complete with a champagne reception and an opportunity to meet the cast after the show.

"Channeling Kevin Spacey" will perform its last show off-Broadway on Sunday, February 17, 2013, at the Roy Arias Theatre at the Times Square Art Center.

Culture Project's Women Center Stage (Allan Buchman, Founder & Artistic Director) will present the Off-Broadway premiere of the acclaimed Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto written and performed by Anna Khaja and directed by Heather de Michele beginning Friday , March 8, 2013 at Culture

The New Group has announced that Brooks Ashmanskas, Vincent D'Onofrio and Zoe Kazan have joined the cast of Clive, up next in the company's 2012-2013 season.

Film, television, and stage actress Jen Ponton will kick off a new series of performances of the timely comedy show Missed Connections: An Exploration into the Online Postings of Desperate Romantics at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, located inside the West Bank Cafe at 407 West 42nd St at 9th Ave.

SIREN'S HEART - Norma Jean & Marilyn in Purgatory, presented by Primal Scenes Productions, continues the seventh month of its open run in February, with one performance a week, Saturdays at 5pm.

Atlantic Theater Company has announced The Strand Series, a new partnership with the legendary Strand Book Store.

Proof, the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play by American playwright David Auburn will be presented for 8 performances only at the Gene Frankel Theatre (24 Bond Street - between Lafayette & Bowery).

Bowing to public pressure over the use of the word 'f#@king' in its title, the producer of the hit rock musical comedy F#@KING UP EVERYTHING, which last week announced plans for its off-Broadway debut in March at the Elektra Theatre, announced today that the name of the show has been changed.

The Flea Theater will extend the production of THE VANDAL through March 3.

The Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company today announced that Tom Riis Farrell will join the cast of their production of the newly revised version of A.

The York Theatre Company will continue its winter NEO Reading Series with the new pop-rock musical, Jasper in Deadland with Book, Lyrics, & Music by Ryan Scott Oliver.

Mint Theater (Jonathan Bank, Artistic Director) is presenting the first-ever American Production of Katie Roche by Teresa Deevy.

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre (Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris and Jenn Thompson, Co-Artistic Directors), the critically-acclaimed company 'dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit,' and named '2012 Company of the Year' by Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Jour

With the popularity of her Fanny performances in the Off-Broadway solo show One Night with Fanny Brice and in Ghostlight (NYMF), Kimberly Faye Greenberg has now created an intimate new "Fanny Brice" solo show, Fabulous Fanny: The Songs and Stories of Fanny Brice.

Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of THE MADRID, the new play by Liz Flahive, directed by Leigh Silverman begins previews tomorrow, February 5 at 7 PM at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street) in preparation for a Tuesday, February 26 opening night.