OFF-OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 813

The Bower Group announces its original production 'This Is For You,' performing at the New York Theater Workshop's 4th Street Theater (83 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003) on August 29th-September 3rd.

Co-Op Theatre East and Project Girl Performance Collective debuts Ten Years Later, a cutting-edge, ensemble-devised play, created by youth between the ages of 9 and 23.

The fourth annual 1st Irish Festival, the world's only all-Irish theatre festival, opens on Monday September 5 with the first of 21 performances of 'A Night with George,' the Aisling Award-winning comedy from Belfast.

The New York Innovative Theatre Awards announced on Monday that Flux Theatre Ensemble is to be awarded this year's 2011 Caffé Cino Fellowship Award, presented annually to an Off-Off-Broadway theatre company that consistently produces outstanding work.

POINT OF DEPARTURE is written by The Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative and directed by Jonathon David Martin

Bryna Wasserman, who led the Segal Centre for Performing Arts in Montreal through a period of impressive growth, begins as the new executive director the award-winning National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene.

Composer Lisa Bielawa's The Houri and the Poet will have its world premiere on Sunday, September 25 at 7pm in a free concert performed by soprano Mary MacKenzie, cellist Andre Emelianoff, and pianist Vicky Chow at the Tenri Cultural Institute (43A W.

Japan Society presents the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) production of Medea as the launch to its Fall 2011/Spring 2012 Performing Arts Season.

Performances begin tonight - Monday (8/22) for Revolve Productions 'Elysian Fields' by Chris Phillips at The Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street (bet Bowery & 2nd Ave - this is Venue # 11).

After a successful run earlier this summer at the PIT (People's Improv Theatre), ALKY: only the luckiest victims die is back! ALKY is a real teen drinking drama workshopped in Christian schools in the 80s in Texas and we perform it with twistedly funny adults who are 'under the influence'.

Revolve Productions presents 'Elysian Fields' by Chris Phillips at the New York International Fringe Festival at The Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street (bet Bowery & 2nd Ave - this is Venue # 11).

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Coryphaeus Theatre Company presents Jose Rivera's REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALI MAKE ME HOT, a transformative play about love, lust & longing.

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: Best Of.

After an award-winning run during the 2010 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, playwright Mark Jason Williams will mark his New York International Fringe debut with the his comic Drama RECOVERY, directed by Andrew Block.

One man's sanity and several people's futures hang in the balance in Banshee, a drama about family relationships, ghostly warnings, second chances and letting go.

John Amos returns to the stage for the world premiere of FELONY FRIDAY by Scott Decker as part of the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes the return of Firework Theater (formerly Kids with Guns) with the NYC premiere of THE PILLOW BOOK, by Anna Moench and directed by David F.

Following two sold-out runs, The Flea Theater is proud to announce Cycle 3 of #serials@theflea, the raucous late night play competition featuring The Bats and some of NYC's hottest young playwrights.

The Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC), 2011 IT Award Nominee for last season's The Human Comedy, announces their 11th Season featuring Ashlin Halfnight's A Hard Wall at High Speed and the musical The Secret Garden.

This summer, the students in Site-Specific Directing at Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) have staged theatre all over New York City: from Shakespeare in Central Park to Chekhov on the Staten Island Ferry.

Porpentine Theatre Company is presenting its inaugural production of THE TEMPEST starting August 19th at The Roof in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (242 Green St).

BRAVE DUCKS, a compelling and comedic drama of courage and hope in the aftermath of disaster, written by Andrew Belcher and directed by Simón Adinia Hanukai, will receive its World Premiere in the 15th Annual New York International Fringe Festival.

Fishamble: The New Play Company from Dublin, Ireland will perform the American premiere of 'Noah and the Tower Flower' by Sean McLoughlin, winner of the 2007 Irish Times Best New Play Award, September 7 to October 2, 2011 at The Drilling Company Theater, 236 West 78th Street, Manhattan.

Michael O'Donnell (Cabaret, Spamalot, The Pajama Game, Victor/Victoria, Carousel) will direct Chris Dall'au, Jake Keefe, Lucy Sheftall (Project Shaw), and Danny Skinner.