OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 993

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 on Sunday, August 5th at 2pm at Actors Temple Theatre.

Ars Nova presents, as part of the Out Loud series, a free reading of: LITTLE BOY BLUE by Michael Mitnick, directed by Sam Buntrock.

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All Out Arts, with license from the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) and Broadway Impact, is proud to announce as part of the Fresh Fruit Festival a one-night only reading of 8, a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8,

The raucous, irreverent, and unfiltered 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 Tony Award winning producer and director Andy San

Jared Gertner (THE BOOK OF MORMON) and Colin Hanlon (SUBMISSIONS ONLY) attended Off-Broadway's newest hit, TRIASSIC PARQ THE MUSICAL, this past Friday, July 20th at the SoHo Playhouse.

Theatreworks USA presents the Off-Broadway premiere of the new children's musical SKIPPYJON JONES, the featured production of its 24th Annual Free Summer Theatre Program.

The brand new Elektra Theatre officially opens in Times Square tomorrow evening, July 25th.

THE IMPROVISED PLAY is a spontaneously generated, original, often hilarious work of "instantly important theatre" created in the moment by a team of eight actors every Saturday evening at 10:00pm at the Soho Playhouse (15 Vandam Street) in Manhattan.

Irish Repertory Theatre continues its 24th Season with Bob Merrill and George Abbott's NEW GIRL IN TOWN - a musical based on Eugene O'Neill's ANNA CHRISTIE in its first full production in New York City since its 1957 Tony-nominated Broadway run - with an official press opening Thursday, July 26 at O

Performances of NEW GIRL IN TOWN are running now through September 9, 2012 at The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues).

Women's Project, the 35-year-old non-profit theater dedicated to producing plays written and directed by women, will present its 2012-2013 season of new plays featuring women theater artists at a new home, New York City Center Stage II, 131 West 55th Street, January 11 to May 19, Julie Crosby, Produ

This past weekend on July 21, Tony-nominated Hank Azaria (The Simpsons, The Birdcage, Spamalot) brought his son Hal to see the Off-Broadway musical, The Berenstain Bears LIVE! Check out a photo of the pair with the cast below!

Listen to director James MacDonald and cast members Jason Butler Harner and Amanda Quaid from Mike Bartlett's new hit play COCK as they speak with WNYC Radio's Leonard Lopate about the play.

Hear co-creator Daniel Okrent and cast members Todd Susman and Audrey Lynn Weston from the off-Broadway hit OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES as they visit WNYC Radio's Leonard Lopate.

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) launches its 28th season tonight, July 24 when HARRISON, TX: THREE PLAYS BY HORTON FOOTE begins performances.

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 September 14-23 at the Classic Stage Company (136 E.

Due to popular demand and critical acclaim, one of the best reviewed Off-Broadway shows of the year, CLOSER THAN EVER, with Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.

Revolve Productions presents "PIECES" by Chris Phillips at the 16th New York International Fringe Festival this August.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION, the runaway hit play by Mark St.

America may have abruptly lost its Camelot on the afternoon of November 22nd, 1963, but in the extraordinarily rich and tender new musical Dogfight, it was the night before that a pair of drops in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea began to sparkle.

Daniel "Dan" Clarkson and Jefferson "Jeff" Turner, creators and stars of smash parody "Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience," recently sat down for an exclusive interview with BroadwayWorld Philippines, where they talked about the impending premiere of "Potted Potter" in Manila, which is

FRANK announces the production of Love in the Seventh Kingdom of Wrath, a new play by Kenneth Prestininzi, presented by Theater for the New City and artistic director Crystal Field as part of the Dream Up Festival.

Signature Theatre presents the New York premiere of THE TRAIN DRIVER written and directed by Athol Fugard.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION, New York's smash hit play by Mark St.