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Clay McLeod Chapman and Kyle Jarrow's new indie-rock musical 'Hostage Song' is an intense and meaningful exploration of the people involved in and affected by a hostage situation.

The selection of plays for the 2008 Summer Play Festival (SPF) is underway with an announcement of the final slate planned for May 1.

Award winning Choreographer and dancers from his company and the National Ballet of China will participate in a free talkback following the American Premiere of bahok on Tuesday, April 23, 2008 at New York City Center.

Alchemy Theatre Company presents 'Umbrella' by L.

Company XIV is proud to present the World Premiere of The Judgment of Paris, an erotically charged show with a unique fusion of dance, theater and music, choreographed and directed by Austin McCormick.

Written nearly 230 years ago, but never performed in New York City, THE WITLINGS, Frances Burney's scathingly funny satire of the foibles of 'The Enlightened,' will finally have its long overdue New York Premiere when Magis Theatre Company presents its production of THE WITLINGS at the West End Thea

Perry Street Theatre Company (David Elliott/Martin Platt, Co-Directors) is proud to present the World Premiere of A Dangerous Personality, a new play by Sallie Bingham.

'KEEP IT SHORT,' an evening of three short plays and a number of musical performances showcasing the talents of 11 young performers blossoming in the Big Apple, will be presented at The Cutting Room, 19 West 24th Street (between Broadway and 6th Avenue), on Monday, April 28, from 7 to 10 PM.

On Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at the Duplex Cabaret Theater, 61 Christopher Street at Seventh Ave.

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The John Montgomery Theatre Company presents 'We Call Her Benny', an ingeniously kaleidoscopic play by Suzanne Bachner, which makes use of bold theatrical techniques to tell the fascinating story of a woman's search for identity.

The Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater will present OUT OF MY MIND, the acclaimed one-person show written and performed by Nick Zimmerman on Wednesday, April 16th at 8pm and Wednesday, April 30th at 8pm.

The Road to Qatar!, a true new musical comedy, will have two staged readings for industry professionals at Chelsea Studios at 1pm and 4:30pm on April 18, 2007.

Timothy Findley's masterpiece finally arrives in New York courtesy of Nicu's Spoon.

Soho Think Tank will present Kirk Wood Bromley's latest play, Me, directed by Alec Duffy.

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Project Oriented Productions (POP) is proud to feature the works of playwrights Kellie Arens and Jonathan Albert in a night of two one-acts: Cornered and Transit, two plays fighting against a stagnant country with 88-hour work weeks and $8.

DJM Productions is proud to present the FEVER, a new play by Dave McCracken.

'Sweet Mama Stringbean', an entertaining jukebox musical based on the life of Ethel Waters, produced by Woodie King's New Federal Theatre, has a brilliantly talented cast that more than make up for the script's weaknesses.

Award-winning author/director Jackie Alexander's 'BIRTHRIGHT' takes place one year after Katrina in Slidell, Louisiana, fifteen miles northeast of New Orleans.

The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, a not-for-profit organization supporting the Off-Off-Broadway community, released the findings of their statistical analysis of Off-Off Broadway's budgets today.

Amas Musical Theatre's Rosetta LeNoire Musical Theatre Academy (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director; Rosetta LeNoire, Founder) will present the Tony Award-Winning musical Street Dreams: The Inner City Musical, by Eve Merriam, with a score by Helen Miller.

SHLOMO The New Musical, about the life and music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, plays a three-week limited engagement, April 22nd - May 9th at the Edmund J.

ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE (William Carden, Artistic Director, Paul Alexander Slee, Executive Director) and THE ALFRED P.

Redshift Productions' Scientist's Studio (Max Evjen, Artistic and Executive Director, Megan Halpern, Artistic and Producing Director ) will proudly present THREE ON A COUCH by Carl Djerassi, directed by Elena Araoz at the Soho Playhouse (15 Vandam Street), beginning performances on May 29 with its