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Bold New Voices: Past, Present and Future, a collaboration between My Image Studios Harlem (MIST Harlem) and Voza Rivers/New Heritage Theatre Group, launches an exciting multicultural arts series with an all female concert and staged reading  of  William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar on June 8 a

In July and August, experienced stage, film and television actor, Douglas Taurel, will be bringing the debut of his powerful and passionate new solo show The American Soldier to New York and Edinburgh.

Venture into a wild woodland unlike any other! Presented by The New Victory Theater, Polyglot Theatre's Paper Planet takes root at The Duke on 42nd Street from today, May 30-June 7.

In the tradition of Facing Our Truth: Short Plays on Trayvon, Race and Privilege and HANDS UP: 6 Playwrights, 6 Testaments, The New Black Fest (guest curator playwright Dominique Morisseau) will commission five black women playwrights to write short plays entitled UN-TAMED: HAIR BODY ATTITUDE - Shor

Artistic Director Robert Lyons proudly presents the 22nd annual OBIE Award-winning Ice Factory Festival.

The second company completing their residency is Rady&Bloom Collective Playmaking, presenting the World Premiere of The Upper Room, co-written and co-directed by Jeremy Bloom and Brian Rady, with music composed and performed by Catherine Brookman (Broadway revival of Hair), running now through June

Sarah Jebian* presents her acclaimed cabaret act, Taking Flight: Songs of Hope, which combines her long-time love of music with her passion for social equality.

In this taut 2013 theatrical adaptation of Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela's award winning-book, the apartheid regime's most notorious assassin and head of its death squad, Eugene de Kock (played by Matthew Marsh), sits opposite psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (played Noma Dumezweni) in Pretoria Centra

Artistic Director, Akia, announced today that Rising Sun Performance Company will present their fourth 'Theatre Mash Up' event.

Time Stands Still is the story of James and Sarah, a journalist and a photographer, who share a passion for documenting the realities of war.

Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble, one of New York's longest-running experimental theatres, will open Ubu in Chains by Alfred Jarry in June, using an original translation by Obie-winning Medicine Show artistic director Barbara Vann.

Written and co-directed by Broadway veteran Daniel J.

From tonight, May 28 to June 14, Theater for the New City will present the U.

Filled with authentic sea chanties and idealized sailor dances of old Hollywood, Tugboat Collective's interpretation of S.

R/evolution, a new futuristic musical with dance and multimedia, begins previews tonight, May 28 at the Robert Moss Theater.

The second company completing their residency is Rady&Bloom Collective Playmaking, presenting the World Premiere of The Upper Room, co-written and co-directed by Jeremy Bloom and Brian Rady, with music composed and performed by Catherine Brookman (Broadway revival of Hair), running now through June

Between the Seas Festival is thrilled to present the North American premiere of Could You Please Look Into the Camera? by Syrian playwright Mohammad Al Attar in an English translation by Lisa Wedeen.

An Anonymous Contributor, an original solo show about the shadowy world of academic ghostwriting, is returning to Stage Left Studio (214 W 30th Street, 6th floor) this June before touring to the Edmonton Fringe Festival in Canada in August.

Throes Theater has announced New York premiere of MIKE, written and directed by Alexandra Zelman-Doring.

From Dood Paard ('Dead Horse') Theatre in Amsterdam comes 'Botox Angels,' a play about militant female sexuality which is abundant in sultry dialogue, jealousy and emotional violence.

Cosmic Jello presents 'Punk Grandpa' at the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity June 15th - July 12th / Paradise Factory Downstairs Theater 64 East 4th Street New York.

Dinner with the Boys offers U.

A staged reading of the new musical Freedom's Song will be presented June 9 at 9 PM at the Tada Theatre on 28th and Broadway in Manhattan.

Rhymes With Opera (RWO) announces its 2015 world premiere performances of Anna Meadors' one-act opera Manifesto on the Ledge in New York on May 29-31 at the 124 Bank Street Theatre.

In 1945 The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams premiered on Broadway, more than seventy years later this classic snapshot of a struggling American family holds the intimate stage at the Players Theatre with a firm grip while unfolding a gentle, fleeting vision.