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Opening the 2012/13 season at Irondale is the magnificent, intense and intelligent Butoh Electra created and performed by the highly acclaimed ensemble, The Ume Group, running tonight, August 29 - September 8.

The Gallery Players' 46th season kicks off on Sept.

MeLu Communications Group and Latin Jazz USA Productions in association with OLLANTAY Center for the Arts proudly present the world premiere of the play CUBA: PUNTO X written and directed by renowned theatre and film professional Ivan Acosta.

OHIO, REVISITED, an original work from writer/director Cara Scarmack and ensemble The Roadsters, has a special one-night-only performance at Dixon Place on Thursday, September 6.

New Georges (Susan Bernfield, Producing Artistic Director; Sarah Cameron Sunde, Deputy Artistic Director; Jaynie Saunders Tiller, Managing Director) in association with Irondale Center (85 Oxford Street between Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street, Brooklyn) will present the World Premiere of Kara Lee

Opalescent Productions has announced Untying Love, a new drama about the end of life and letting go by Peggy Willens to run at TADA! Theater, 15 West 28th Street, NYC from October 13 to November 4, 2012.

Theater for the New City, Crystal Field, Executive Director, presents OPEN UP as part of the Dream Up Festival, tonight, August 28 through September 2, 2012.

Ryan Raftery returns to Joe's Pub again tonight, August 27th at 9:30pm, with his fourth solo show, "Ryan Raftery KING OF THE JEWS!".

I wrapped up the day at "Story Time with Mr.

Join us today, August 26 at 3 pm for Curse on Summit Rock, a free musical comedy in situ and alfresco on Summit Rock in Central Park.

Hybrid Theatre Works, in collaboration with CultureHub at LaMama, has announced the inaugural Global Spotlight Series.

The Confession will receive a staged reading in The Platform Group's Ladder Series: A Staged Reading Series Aimed at Getting New Plays to the Next Rung.

Spookfish Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Pornography for the People, a new political drama by Ming Peiffer about sex, surveillance and censorship, today, August 26, 2012 through Friday, September 2, 2012 - at the Theatre for the New City, (155 1st Avenue, NYC).

The Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwrights Project presents a reading of The Parade or Approaching the End of a Summer by Tennessee Williams, directed by Mark Finley and featuring Paul Caiola, Emily Hartford, Irene Longshore and Jeremy Lawrence.

Abingdon Theatre Company-which has produced 77 new American plays in its 20-year history-celebrates its 2012-2013 Season with the inaugural ABINGDON BAY RIDGE ONE-ACT FESTIVAL, an evening of three world-premiere short plays, commissioned by Abingdon Theatre Company, by Kevin Armento, Bo List, and Je

After successful runs in Los Angeles, John Cantwell's LOVE, CONNIE - a multi-media dance comedy thriller - makes its east coast debut as part of Provincetown's Afterglow Festival on September 15 with an additional show in New York City on September 17 at the newly re-opened Slipper Room on the lower

AVENUE Q's Nicholas Kohn is producing his wife Marissa Kohn's new play, DO ME A LITTLE, at FringeNYC, alongside Robert Earle Jones.

The LabRats Theater Company presents its 2012-2013 Season.

At noon tomorrow, August 25th, the final performance of James Fluhr and Company's critically acclaimed Our Lady will take place at the Living Theatre (21 Clinton Street).

Following a critically acclaimed Eastern European tour, Built for Collapse returns to New York with its award-winning, physically charged production.

The final shows of the 2012 SummerStage festival are full-length plays from two of NYC's top collectives: The Faux-Real Theater Group and Witness Relocation.

The Castillo Theatre is opening its 29th season with the American premiere of Children of Killers by award-wining playwright, Katori Hall.

Theater for the New City & Crystal Field (Artistic Director) have announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere of THE EDEN PROJECT, a new play devised by Stable Cable Lab Co.

WorkShop Theater Company, the Innovative Theatre Award-winning and Drama Desk Award-nominated theater company focused on developing new work, has announced its 19th season, featuring Gary Giovannetti's Tarragona, Scott C.

Abrons Arts Center and the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, present the world premiere of The Magic of Spectacular Theater, from FIAF artist-in-residence Gerald Kurdian, as part of the 2012 Crossing the Line festival and featuring stage design b