OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 971

HERE presents the World Premiere of CHRIS MARCH'S BUTT-CRACKER SUITE! Written, directed, and designed by Chris March ('Project Runway' and Bravo's 'Mad Fashion'), previews begin November 24.

Off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre, which was had been closed during the blackout, has added performances of Julian Sands in A CELEBRATION OF HAROLD PINTER on Tuesdays, November 6 and 13 at 7pm in its W.

Culture Project, in association with Innocence Project, Marc & Steven Kaplan, and Cheryl Wiesenfeld, welcomes Anthony Arkin (I'm Not Rappaport), Keir Dullea (Butterflies Are Free; 2001: A Space Odyssey) and Carol Kane (Wicked, Hester Street) to the rotating cast of the 10th anniversary production of

Vital Theatre Company and HIT Entertainment have announced the return of the yuletide hit, Angelina Ballerina™ The Very Merry Holiday Musical, to the McGinn/Cazale Theatre at 2162 Broadway from November 17 - January 13.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) has announced a two week extension of Bad Jews through Sunday, December 30th.

Irish Repertory Theatre continues its 25th Anniversary Season with Grammy-nominee Phil Coulter in THE SONGS I LOVE SO WELL, with previews set to begin November 29, prior to its official Off-Broadway opening on Thursday, December 6 on The Irish Repertory Theatre's Francis J.

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The cast of HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER, Off-Broadway's newest hit comedy, is set to preside over the closing bell at NASDAQ MarketSite today, November 5th at 4 PM.

Joe Orton's ENTERTAINING MR.

Transport Group, the Drama Desk and OBIE award-winning theatre company, and terraNOVA Collective, creator of the longest-running solo performance festival in NYC, the soloNOVA Arts Festival, will collaborate to produce Dark Nights: Highs & Family Ties during the dark nights of Transport Group's run

Playwrights Horizons' production THE WHALE, the New York premiere of a new play by Obie Award winner Samuel D.

The 2012 United Solo Festival presents the world premiere of "The Echoes Off The Walls Underground Are Louder Than Your Footsteps Above Me" at the world's largest solo performance festival at Manhattan's off-Broadway Theatre ROW.

After five days in the dark the lights are once again on at the Players Theatre.

The Vineyard Theatre (108 E.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long have announced that its productions of the world premiere of Through the Yellow Hour, written and directed by Adam Rapp, and the American premiere of A Summer Day, written by Jon Fosse, and directed a

Super Storm Sandy sidelined the Off-Broadway hit, The Other Josh Cohen now at the SoHo Playhouse which lost power earlier in the week along with most of downtown New York.

Ann Morrison (Merrily We Roll Along, LoveMusik, Goblin Market), is the author of "Linda Lovely Goes to Broadway" a solo play in which she performs with direction by Blake Walton and "Trevor's Fire" performed by Blake Walton under Morrison's direction.

Columbia Stages presents JOAN OF ARC: VOICES IN THE FIRE, the 2012/13 MFA Actors' Thesis Production conceived and directed by Kristin Linklater and Rebecca Wright.

Today the cult Off-Broadway hit 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche announced that it will be standing with its fellow SoHo Playhouse, Inc.

My Big Gay Italian Wedding, by Anthony J.

The Irish Repertory Theatre, which has been dark since the blackout following Hurricane Sandy, has announced that performances of A CELEBRATION OF HAROLD PINTER are set to resume as of Friday, November 2 at 8pm in its W.

The Off-Broadway premiere of Falling will resume performances Saturday evening, November 3rd, following a shut down caused by Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath.

HOMO: THE MUSICAL will resume performances tomorrow, Saturday, November 3, with performances at 8 PM and 10 PM.

The Gazillion Bubble Show will not let Sandy burst their bubble.

The Irish Rep hopes everyone has remained safe and is doing well in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.