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Kairos Italy Theater and KIT Italia together with NYU Casa Italiana announces a month of May celebration of In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY.

Live entertainment producer and promoter, Bernie Furshpan, formerly of the Metropolitan Room, is presenting virtual USO-style 'shows' of support to our frontline medical personnel.

NYU Tisch School of the Arts' Graduate Acting Program, in collaboration with Design for Stage & Film, will show their Zoom production of Shakespeare's As You Like It, to be streamed on Facebook Live at 4 p.

The Tank has announced a full slate of programming for their online platform CyberTank.

New York Theatre Barn will host a free live stream of its New Works Series on Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 at 7PM EDT, featuring excerpts from the new musicals Jeannette and MISS STEP.

Join the American Lyric Theater for a free online libretto reading.

DIETRICH,a?? an acclaimed one-woman play that brings iconic German actress Marlene Dietrich to life, will stream on Sunday, May 3rd to help raise money for important causes.

The Jewish Plays Project is taking its National Playwriting Contest online and is seeking dedicated theater lovers and Jewish culture aficionados to vote for a winner in the Contest.

Metropolitan will present a Virtual Playhouse Double Feature Saturday, May 2, 2020.

As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Beat by Beat Press has introduced the world's first virtual children's musical, The Show Must Go Online!, created in less than three weeks with the goal of helping theatre groups continue to perform in these times of social distance.

The Alternative Theater Company presents BELIEVEABILITY, the May 18th first Virtual Reading in a series of 10-minute original plays that take on the subject of religious freedom and faith from refreshing and eclectic points of view.

In response to the public health crisis, United Solo, host of the United Solo Theatre Festival,

For the 25th year, a handful of stars and over 100 performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and film makers will join forces May 22 to 24 in the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, available virtually on the website (www.

The second installment of Up Close, The Shed's new digital commissioning program, features Reggie 'Regg Roc' Gray and the D.

From Japan to Brazil, from the United States to Italy, from Spain to Canada: a group of young people came together to build a globally artistic community to tackle the obstacles of the current situation, by making a music video.

Cyberspace - #MayDay, an Online festival of new work, will commence on Friday 5/1 and Sunday 5/3/20 via Zoom.

Ted and Michael Read Sketches Into Microphones, a??the popular sketch comedy podcast executivea?? pa??roduced bya?? Gillian Pensavalle, creator and co-host of a??True Crime Obsesseda?? and creator and host of a??The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcasta??, a??will debut its second season on April 22nd, 202

The Tank announced today that out of continued concern for the health and safety of their audiences, artists and staff, they will not return to public programming in the 2019/20 season.

The submission deadline for Be Bold Production's 10th Annual Short Play Festival - NYC has been extended to April 30th, 2020 at 5:00pm.

Dirty Laundry Theatre, an emerging New York City-based theatre production company announces virtual 'run' of its unprecedented production of BORDERS, written by Nimrod Danishman and directed by Michael R.

United Natives presents in association with Protect The Sacred & Major Motion Pictures/ Be Of Service Where You Sit presents 'Melons' from Bernard Pomerance, (the Writer Of 'Elephant Man')

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Gordon Cox, Contributing Theater Editor for 'Variety' and host of Variety's 'Stagecraft' podcast, is featured in this episode of THEATER: All the Moving Parts, hosted by Patrick Pacheco, premiering on Friday, April 24th, 9:30PM on CUNY TV.

DEEP Arts has released this week's LIKAH video of 'Running,' a song from the new family musical  LIKAH, A Puppy Musical written by Deborah Haber and Casey Filiaci.

Boundless Theatre Company has announced the participants in this year's Boundless Exposed! Boundless Exposed is a workshop and mentoring opportunity for emerging theatre designers of color.