OFF-OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 791

The Civilians (Steven Cosson, Artistic Director), the award-winning New York-based theatre company known for projects investigating real life topics, presents Let Me Ascertain You: Occupy Wall Street.

John Darrian, a junior-level advertising associate terrified of everything, is charged with saving the world from aliens, zombies, and Satan himself in a hilarious comedy about the tragic end of all life on Earth.

Action Philosophers is in its Final Weekend! There is a crazy new thing called Livewriting and a New Play Reading Series - The Oven and Puppetsburg Entertains Brooklyn Babies.

Abingdon Theatre Company launches its 2011-2012 Season with the world premiere of BLAME IT ON BECKETT, a new comedy by John Morogiello, author of the recent Abingdon hit 'Engaging Shaw,' set to open Sunday, October 16, at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex's Dorothy Strelsin Theatre (312 West 36th St

Odyssey Theatrical, LLC presents Odyssey - The Epic Musical, a thrilling musical adventure that follows Odysseus' epic journey home after the Trojan War, written by Matt Britten and Dimitri Landrain.

Frances Black Projects, in association with The Room (theatre company), presents Zack Fine's Walled In at IRT Theater, located on the third floor of the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, NYC.

terraNOVA Collective announces six new playwrights for the 2012 season of their Groundbreakers Playwrights Group which will include Krista Knight (2011 KCACTF Musical Theater Award for Salamander Leviathan), Jennifer Lane (Harlowe at 3LD), Andrea Lepcio (NEA Outstanding New American Play Award final

NEIGHBORHOOD PRODUCTIONS has announced the world premiere production of Austin Flint's PRISON LIGHT, directed by Alice Reagan.

Stage Left Studio will present the remaining performances of THE VEGAS PROJECT, on October 22 and October 23.

Theater for the New City & AML Entertainment present Silence, by Anthony M.

Project: Theater will present the World Premiere of a modern cyber-thriller MANGELLA.

ENNIO: The Living Paper Cartoon, returns to New York for the first time in over a decade.

John Faustus, in his soul-consuming quest for knowledge and power, conjures up the most hellish spirits of the underworld, and strikes a bargain with the devil that's just too good to be true.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) will welcome Darbourne Luff and Upstart Theatre to Brits Off Broadway with THE MADDENING RAIN, written by Nicholas Pierpan, directed by Matthew Dunster and featuring Felix Scott.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) is set to open the 2011 Brits Off Broadway festival with SHADOW BOXING, written by James Gaddas, directed by Donald Pulford and featuring Jonny Collis-Scurll.

Theater for the New City presents world premiere of Shulman's first puppet play November 10 to December 4.

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work, it has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater.

Lincoln Center's upcoming White Light Festival (October 20-November 19, 2011), in its second season, will include two outstanding theater productions among the range of works of music, film, dance, art and discussion to be presented.

I LOVED SAM STONE - winner of the SLAM Playwriting Competition - follows two college freshmen through the boundaries of friendship and the consequences of confronting the truth.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club has announced that the New York premiere of Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws by Tennessee Williams and directed by Jonathan Warman, will begin performances Thursday, October 27, at 10pm, at The Club at La MaMa, (74A E 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).

TWEED TheaterWorks presents UNITARD: LEAVE THE KIDS AT HOME: a night of amazingly un-PC stuff, at Theatre 80 (80 St.

Producing Artistic Director David Norwood announces the formation of Musically Human Theatre Productions (MHTP), a new company devoted to introducing and nurturing the composers and writers who bring contemporary societal problems to the forefront, while evolving the art of musical theatre.

As part of HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2011, Mimi Stern-Wolfe's Downtown Music Productions and HOWL! Arts Project present Harold Rome's topical revue 'Pins and Needles' for two performances only -- on Friday, October 14 and Saturday, October 15 at 8:00pm -- at Theater 80 (80 St.

Untitled Theater Company #61 is set to present Pangs of the Messiah.

The Flea Theater presents Kurotama Kikaku's production of KUTSUKAKE TOKIJIRO conceived, adapted, and directed by Jun Kim (The Flea's Obie Award-winning Benten Kozo) based on the popular 1928 Japanese play by Shin Hasegawa.