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The Actors Studio Drama School 2017 Repertory Season opened Week 6 of its seven-week series of exciting and challenging theatre with scenes from PIZZA MAN and TAPE.

One of the first and most time-honored FREE Summer Festivals in NYC each year – the LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL – will take place this year for the 22nd year in a row – Memorial Day Weekend, May 26 – 28th at Theater for the New City (155 First Ave.

Ducdame Ensemble will bring Victoria Benedictsson's Swedish classic, THE ENCHANTMENT, to North America for its first full production.

Improbable Stage will debut That Which Remains, a vibrant devised adaptation of William Shakespeare's divinely fraught Titus Andronicus.

Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America returns to Theater for the New City (TNC) June 2 to 18 to present the New York premiere of '401[GONE]' by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, the prize-winning author of 'The World of Extreme Happiness' (Manhattan Theater Club, 2015).

The Navigators are pleased to announce the New York premier of The Aurora Project by Bella Poynton.

Piehole is one of the companies completing its residency this year, presenting the world premiere of SKI END, created by Piehole and directed by Tara Ahmadinejad, running now through May 19, 2017 and opening tonight, May 2.

Wheelhouse Theater Company has announced their unique rendition of the Henrik Ibsen classic, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, directed by Jeff Wise.

The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's only comedy set in or around London, is now modernized in the setting of an Upper West Side cooperative by Drilling Company Shakespeare.

Brave New World Rep, the Brooklyn-based theatre company that first won acclaim with To Kill a Mockingbird staged on the front porches of Victorian Flatbush in 2005, has announced its next site-specific production - the world premiere of Ms.

A LONG TIME AGO, IN A COMEDY THEATER SURPRISINGLY NEARBY.

In the near future, a sexually transmitted disease called APiD (Affected Pulmonary Immune Disorder) has wiped out 85% of the world's heterosexual population.

"It Happened in Key West," the new musical by 'A Tale of Two Cities' writer Jill Santoriello, Jason Huza (Book, and Additional Lyrics), and Jeremiah James (Book & Original Concept), will receive an August developmental lab culminating in 4 public performances at The Fulton Opera House in Lancaster,

Theater for the New City Executive Director Crystal Field has announced the cast of 'Nowhere Man,' a new play about a man hired as a double for one of the Fab Four.

'Composure' by Scott C.

Under the Bodhi Tree, a musical adaptation on the life of Siddhartha, his search for enlightenment and his transition into the Buddha, will open for a limited run engagement on May 2 - 14 at The Royal Family Performing Arts Space (145 W 46th Street, NYC).

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Co.

The 50th season of The Negro Ensemble Company, a year-long retrospective of some of the troupe's signature works, continues May 24 to June 10 at Theatre 80 St.

Following an acclaimed site-specific run this past winter in NYC, SIOBHAN O'LOUGHLIN brings her intimate solo theatrical event to a permanent venue for the first time ever!

Group Of The Arts has announced the world premiere of 'Otra historia' (Another Story), a Spanish play by Pedro Monge Rafuls with the staging and direction of J.

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The Playwrights Realm, led by Katherine Kovner, Founding Artistic Director, and Roberta Pereira, Producing Director, will celebrate its tenth anniversary with the annual Writers Block Party honoring Realm Board Member and award-winning playwright and actor, Anna Deavere Smith.

The Actors Studio Drama School 2017 Repertory Season opened Week 5 of its seven-week series of exciting and challenging theatre with scenes from THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT.

Welcome to America - A Caribbean Musical, has extended its limited run due to sold out performances and overwhelming audience demand during its first run of shows last weekend.

KIDNAP ROAD - a new play by Catherine Filloux, based on the real-life story of a female presidential candidate held in captivity for six years by terrorists in Colombia - will be given its world premiere production this spring, presented by La MaMa at its First Floor Theatre (74 E.