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Merit Theater and Film Group announces a festival of world-premiere one-act plays, Thicker Than Water, opening today, June 26 for a limited run at 13th Street Repertory Company.

The Skinny with Peter DeGiglio: The Great Climate Change Debate is set for tonight, June 26, 2013 at 9 p.

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Artistic Director Robert Lyons presents the 20th annual Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival.

The Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH) (Producing Artistic Director, Ty Jones), presents the Shakespeare classic A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Artistic Associate Justin Emeka this summer in Harlem's Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park.

'Round Midlife - A New Musical, with Book, Music, and Lyrics by David Brown, Lydia Gaston, Dave Hall and direction and additional material by Tim Connell will receive a staged reading for two nights only tonight, June 25th and Wednesday June 26th at 7:30pm at the Abingdon Theater Arts Complex - The

Actor/Playwright Megan Phillips brings her story of broken dreams turned triumph to the Manhattan Repertory Theatre Summer Festival this year in the astonishing one-woman musical drama Breaking Velocity.

The bestselling children's book series Thumperino - Diary of a Superbunny recently won the 2013 Book of the Year Award from Creative Child magazine, but even more exciting is the fact that it's been turned into a new musical for children called The Adventures of Superbunny and will be premiering at

Actor Khalil Kain, who is known for edgy character roles on film and for the TV series 'Girlfriends,' will make his stage directing debut with Sam Shepard's 'Buried Child,' to be presented by Aaron Davis Hall as an Equity LORT/LOA production from July 11 to August 3.

'White Noise' is the first play by Washington, DC artist Tom Block (www.

A public memorial for actress Helen Hanft will be held on Sunday, July 14 at 7 PM in the Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza, 400 W.

Barbarous Productions will present the New York premiere of Sam Creely's Barbarous Nights, a sharp and surreal play inspired in part by the love letters of Lorca and Dali on Friday, July 5, 2013 through Saturday, July 13, 2013 at Invisible Dog (51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn).

Expiration Date, a serio-comic play that explores what it means to be human by Rose-Marie Brandwein, will be presented by Picaresque Players Theatre Company as part of the East to Edinburgh Festival at 59 E 59 Theaters starting July 11 prior to its engagement at the Edinburgh Fringe in August.

Theatre East presents the last installment in the 2012-2013 season of NEIGHBORHOOD READING SERIES - 'Lilies' by Michael Marc Bouchard, upstairs at O'Lunney's, 145 West 45th Street (bet.

After a wildly successful workshop production, Daniel Neiden and Peter O'Connor will present AnTony Raymond's comedy Elsinore County.

Arts Nova presents a handful today, June 24-29.

Screen and stage actress, Reena Shah, will direct and star in the staged reading of Seth Freeman's short play, IMPERFECTLY FRANK, tonight, June 24th at 7pm, part of The Puzzle-a new play festival at the historic Marble Collegiate Church in New York City.

Theatre East presents the award winning play LILIES as the next installment in its NEIGHBORHOOD READING SERIES upstairs at O'Lunney's, 145 West 45th Street (bet.

#UntitledPopMusical, the new musical conceived and written by Michael Kimmel (The Last Goodbye), with music and lyrics by Drew Gasparini (Smash) will have it's debut concert at (Le) Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, between Thompson and Sullivan), tonight, June 24th 2013 at 7pm.

After 25 years as a professional critic, Peter Filichia has seen, heard, and written about it all.

Rising Sun Performance Company will host a one-night-only event Shhh.

Merit Theater and Film Group announces a festival of world-premiere one-act plays, Thicker Than Water, opening this coming Wednesday, June 26 for a limited run at 13th Street Repertory Company.

IRT Theater will be hosting an adult clowning workshop in support of The Westside Experiment.

The Shades of Gray presents the world premiere of Rayka Kobiella's Vestiges, August 1 - 4 at The Secret Theatre (4402 23rd St, Long Island City).

Starcatcher Productions is a new, daring, innovative and commercially provocative theatre company on the New York skyline whose mission is to create new works and produce existing pieces that profoundly move people, challenge deeply-entrenched stereotypes, promote the stories of women, and contextua