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Friends Always Creating Theatre, a not-for-profit Theatre Company founded by Jack Dyville and David Gillam Fuller announce the transfer of Mr.

Marilyn Sokol, currently featured in the off-Broadway hit OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES is a guest on "How to Do Everything," the popular podcast created by the producers of NPR's "Wait, Wait…Don't Tell Me.

The Castillo Theatre is presenting four winning scripts from the 2012 Mario Fratti-FrEd Newman Political Play Contest, selected from over 200 entries including submissions by playwrights from around the world.

Originally directed by Cheryl Crawford, WEEP FOR THE VIRGINS' cast featured Group actors John Garfield, Phoebe Brand, Margaret Barker, Ruth Nelson, J.

Barely looking, and certainly not sounding, much older than she was over thirty years ago, when her clarion vocals and chipper charm earned her a Tony nomination for playing an unexpectedly pregnant college student in Baby, you might be surprised to know that the weekend before her Monday night conc

TRIASSIC PARQ The Musical, 2010's Best Musical winner at FringeNYC, will end its critically acclaimed limited engagement as scheduled today, August 5th.

Following two successful Off-Off Broadway runs this past year (2011), SIREN'S HEART - Norma Jean & Marilyn in Purgatory ~ Norma Jean Sings Songs Marilyn Never Sang, will begin performances today, August 5th at 2pm at Actors Temple Theatre.

Legendary dancer/choreographer Baayork Lee attended Off-Broadway's TRIASSIC PARQ The Musical last night, August 3rd at the SoHo Playhouse.

Tickets are now on sale for The Theatre Project's limited engagement of Barbicide, the new play by Sean Pomposello, which will begin performances Off-Broadway in October.

TRIASSIC PARQ The Musical, 2010's Best Musical winner at FringeNYC, will end its strictly limited engagement as scheduled this Sunday, August 5th.

With New York's mayor pushing for size limits on sugary drinks and for keeping baby formula safely locked away until new moms are reminded of the benefits of breast milk, it seems like a good time for Bill Russell and Peter Melnick's tuneful and amusing new musical, The Last Smoker In America, which

A JEW GROWS IN BROOKLYN, Jake Ehrenreich's acclaimed comedy and musical memoir, now playing Off-Broadway at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Theater (120 West 46th Street) will go on hiatus beginning Thursday, August 16th.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director, Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) will present LATINO MIXFEST, a series of free readings that will run Wednesday, August 8 - Monday, August 13 at Atlantic Stage 2 (330 West 16 Street).

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The cast of TRIASSIC PARQ The Musical, 2010's Best Musical winner at FringeNYC, will head into Sear Sound Studios on August 11th to create the cast recording, which will be available in September on iTunes, Amazon.

The producers of the raucous, irreverent, and unfiltered new Off-Broadway musical comedy The Last Smoker in America, previously announced they would host the first ever Smoke-In/Smoke-Outon the occasion of the show's opening night, tonight, August 2, 2012.

Farah-Alvin-Natalie-Venetia-and-More-to-Lead-THE-LAST-SMOKER-IN-AMERICA-20010101 The new Off-Broadway musical comedy The Last Smoker in America, with book and lyrics by Tony Award Nominee Bill Russell (Side Show) and music by Drama Desk Nominee Peter Melnick (Adrift in Macao), with direction by T

BIRD IN THE HAND-a new play by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, author of the critically-acclaimed BLIND MOUTH SINGING-will be given its world-premiere production Off-Broadway by Fulcrum Theater, with previews August 29 prior to an official press opening September 5 at Theater for the New City (155 First Av

Off-Broadway's SILENCE! The Musical will celebrate its 300th performance tonight, August 1st at the brand new Elektra Theatre in the heart of Times Square, 669 Eighth Avenue (at 42nd St.

The world's largest solo theatre festival, established in 2010 at Theatre ROW on 42nd Street in Manhattan, has grown to more than twice its original size.

Shawn Nabors's debut play CAKE begins performances tonight, August 1 and continues through August 5 at The American Theatre of Actors (314 W.

The second annual Araca Project will present six original shows today, August 1-September 29 at the American Theater of Actors (314 West 54th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).

Shawn Nabors's debut play CAKE begins performances August 1 and continues through August 5 at The American Theatre of Actors (314 W.

59E59 Theaters hosts the NY premiere of FLY ME TO THE MOON, written and directed by Marie Jones.

The brand new Elektra Theatre officially opened in Times Square this past Wednesday, July 25th.