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Shirley Knight, the Tony and Emmy Award winner (and two-time Academy Award nominee) will play Clarissa "Babe" Foxworth, heroine in the World Premiere of IN MASKS OUTRAGEOUS AND AUSTERE, the final full length play by Tennessee Williams, it was announced today by Producers Victor Syrmis, Carl Rumbaugh

Li'l Abner will run from March 20 to April 1 at The Lion Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street, New York.

Grammy nominated recording artist and Broadway performer, Marty Thomas (Xanadu, Secret Garden, Wicked) hosts a nightclub act weekly at midtown hotspot Industry Bar every Monday night called Marty Thomas presents DIVA.

Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Brian Kulick, Artistic Director, will present the seventh year of its popular YOUNG COMPANY, which creates classical works specially tailored for young audiences.

The first public presentation of Wilson's new show, called YES! THE MUSICAL, will be given a single showcase salon performance on Monday, March 5, at 8 PM -- one year and one day later from the day he started it -- at the Rose Nagelberg Theater at the Baruch Performing Arts Center on 25th Street, j

The Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography returns with its new edition, Celebrity Autobiography: The Next Chapter, to the Triad Theater Monday, March 5 at 7pm.

Following their concert readings of Johnny Johnson, the ReGroup Theatre Company will present the next in their series of 'lost' Group Theatre Plays, THUNDER ROCK on March 5th.

The Stage Managers' Association (Jon Goldman, Chairman) announced today that it will hold its annual look at life from the other side of the curtain, Theater: A View From the Wings, on Monday, March 5 at Connolly's Irish Pub (121 West 45th Street) from 10:00 am until 6:00 pm.

Mad Dog Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of THE THRILL OF THE CHASE a new play by British playwright Philip Gawthorne, whose play "Modern Life is Rubbish" was nominated for a NY Innovative Theatre Award in 2008.

The Flea Theater today announced a second extension of the New York Premiere of THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES, a 5-hour marathon of all seven of Sophocles' plays re-envisioned by playwright Sean Graney, directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, and starring The Bats.

Nutshell Productions has announced the New York premiere of Robert Cartwright's drama Jose Antigo at the American Theater of Actors February 20th through March 4th.

Breathe Love Repeat: a near-life experience will be presented at Under St.

FRIGID New York will present Orange Wine Productions': Afternoon Tea With Jane Austen.

59E59 Theaters will welcome The Directors Company in association with New Jersey Repertory Company with the New York City premiere of POETIC LICENSE, written by Jack Canfora and directed by Evan Bergman.

Keep It Movin Productions presents LOL: The End Written by Michi Ilona Osato, Una Aya Osato, and Yoshimasa Osato and directed by Moises Belizario as part of the FRIGID New York Festival.

The Rope in Your Hands, written & performed by Siobhan O'Loughlin and directed by Danielle Skraastad will play as part of the 2012 FRIGID New York Festival through March 4, 2012.

Horse Trade Theater Group (Erez Ziv, Managing Director, Heidi Grumelot, Artistic Director) will present the 6th Annual FRIGID New York Festival, an open and uncensored theatre festival that gives artists an opportunity to let their ingenuity thrive in a venue that values freedom of expression and ar

Scott Kelly (of Neurosis) will perform Sunday, March 4, 2012 at 8:00 PM at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn.

IRT presents THE NAKED SIDE OF GRACE: THE FINAL CONCERT of GRACE FULLEST & VIOLET TENDENCIES through March 4 at 7:30pm(Wednesday and Thursday) or 8pm(Friday and Saturday).

Chekhovek, a new comedy adapted and directed by Melania Levitsky from nine of Anton Chekhov's best known short stories, is given its New York premiere at the ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street.

Following its acclaimed U.

Josiah Theatre Works have announced a world premier drama with music called MORE THAN A DREAM at the Iguana Dinner Theatre, 240 W.

The 'invaluable' and 'indispensable' Metropolitan Playhouse--2011 Obie Award winner--presents a revival of Deep Are the Roots, by Arnaud d'Usseau and James Gow.

Frigid New York will present, FEAR FACTOR: CANINE EDITION at The Kraine Theatre from Feb.

Boomerang Theatre Company (Tim Errickson, Artist Director; Sue Abbott, Managing Director) will revive their hit park production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing for encore performance indoors, March 1-18 as part of BFG Collective's six month long residency at The Secret Theatre (44 02