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In the life they had planned for themselves, upscale suburbanites Mary and Ben probably never thought they'd be trading hosting duties at weekend barbeques with people like Kenny and Sharon.

After an acclaimed run at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, writer/performer Peter Michael Marino returns to NYC with his comic autopsy on his $6 million West End musical fiasco Desperately Seeking Susan in DESPERATELY SEEKING THE EXIT.

The Award winning Epic Theatre Ensemble, now in their 11th year, will present two Off Broadway shows in repertory for their Fall Season.

Nathan James' one man show "Growing Pains" will appear in the United Solo Theatre Festival 2012.

Producers Terry Schnuck, James & Catherine Berges, Crystal Beuerlein and Michael F.

Beginning tonight, September 19th, Stephen Hanna will be the new Dream Hannibal in Off-Broadway's SILENCE! The Musical at the new Elektra Theatre in the heart of Times Square.

Cougar the Musical welcomes Mary Mossberg to the cast who will take over the role of Lily beginning September 19, 2012.

Twins Paul and Robbie Rescigno produce and star in their original musical comedy variety show The Rescignos at the American Theater of Actors (314 W.

The award winning One Person show Cancer Can't Dance Like This will take the stage for one night only at Theatre Row on October 19th as a part of the United Solo Festival.

Jared Zirilli of the new off-Broadway show Hot Mess in Manhattan (also FAT CAMP, BARE, Original Broadway Cast Lysistrata Jones, Wicked, Twilight the Musical) brings you Episode 38 of the jared zirilli blog.

Actors Cara Seymour, Joe Sikora, and James Russell pictured outside The Irish Repertory Theatre where they are set to costar in Brian Friel's THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY, as part of the Off-Broadway company's 25th Anniversary Season.

Mint Theater's first-ever New York revival of Mary Broome by Allan Monkhouse will extend its run to October 21st at their home (311 West 43rd Street).

To celebrate their 10th anniversary, Partial Comfort Productions will present TEN beginning tonight, September 18th at The Wild Project.

Actress/writer/comedian NANCY REDMAN will once again join forces with director AUSTIN PENDLETON for the premiere of her one-woman show 'EMERGENCY A La Carte,' in which 'a comedian dies and finds that death is her toughest audience.

Twins Paul and Robbie Rescigno produce and star in their original musical comedy variety show The Rescignos at the American Theater of Actors (314 W.

In Cougar the Musical, book writer and lyricist Donna Moore humorously embraces the older woman-younger man dating phenomenon with the declaration that "inside the word C-O-U-R-A-G-E is Cougar," a notion that goes down as easily as the "Cougartini," the vodka and pomegranate juice cocktail the audie

Subtle British comedies of sex, morality and class like Mary Broome rarely wash up on these shores without the name George Bernard Shaw attached to them.

In a time where some theatre companies are struggling to produce even one show and many actors are- as actors often are- spending more time doing other things than acting, there is one theatre and company and an actress that are both incredibly busy.

OBIE and Drama Desk Award-winning Transport Group brings you the world Premiere of HOUSE FOR SALE, the first of any work by National Book Award novelist and Pulitzer finalist JONATHAN FRANZEN (FREEDOM, THE CORRECTIONS) to be presented on stage.

One Night Only, a part of the 2012 Araca Project, finishes its run today at the American Theatre of Actors (314 West 54th Street).

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The New Group will present the first production in its 2012-2013 season, the world premiere of The Good Mother, a new play by Francine Volpe.

Labyrinth Theater Company, the award-winning, downtown ensemble has announced their Fall lineup of free play readings for the 13th Annual Barn Series, to be held at the Bank Street Theater in Manhattan's West Village throughout the Company's 2012/13 Season.

SOUNDING BECKETT - a singular evening of theater and music that pairs three plays by Samuel Beckett from his 'ghost period' with new works by contemporary composers written expressly in response to those plays - will be presented tonight, September 14-23 at the Classic Stage Company (136 E.

When it comes to the subject of transracial adoption, it would be nice to think that any child is better off with two loving and supportive parents of a different race than with nothing permanent at all, but in Bennett Windheim's challenging play, Normalcy, which deals specifically with the issue of