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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.

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.

The Ensemble Studio Theatre and Going to the River have lined up some of the most gifted women playwrights of color - some new, some established - for a three-week presentation of nine short, under 10-minute plays in return of the series The River Crosses Rivers, a three-week festival of short plays

City Parks Foundation brings the SummerStage theater program to East River Park from August 27 until September 2.

Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director / Melissa Huber, Managing Director) is pleased to announce the following subscription opportunities for their upcoming 2011-12 Season, which includes a new production of the original musical comedy, Iron Curtain (book by Susan DiLal

Thom Fogarty will direct DESDEMONA: A Play About A Handkerchief, by PAULA VOGEL, which will be, presented September 21 through October 2, 2011 by Other Side Productions and Thom Fogarty.

The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) launches its 24th Season with the American premiere of the new Irish dance performance piece NOCTÚ, an Èriu Dance Company production, with previews set to begin September 6 on the Irish Repertory's Francis J.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes) starts the 2011-2012 season with the return of NEW WORK NOW!, the popular reading series that allows audiences an opportunity to experience new work by a diverse selection of established and emerging theater

Knife Edge Productions, in association with Swinestars Productions, will present a revival of Stephen Belber's acclaimed play, Tape, directed by Sam Helfrich.

Borrowing myth and storytelling from east and west to fuse Japanese Bunraku-inspired puppetry with magical realism, Jen Silverman's odyssey of a Japanese-American girl's quest to rescue her brother's soul from the Land of the Dead, Crane Story directed by Katherine Kovner, will have its world premie

After sold-out midnight runs, the popular comedy concert Thin Skin Jonny - The Farewell Reunion Tour, is back at The Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre NY for twospecial shows in August.

Crosshatch Theatre Company (formerly known as The Collective Theatre Company), under the leadership of Stephen F.

The award-winning solo comedy Miss Magnolia Beaumont Goes to Provincetown, written and performed by Joe Hutcheson, will have a limited engagement run at the Triad Theater (158 West 72nd St.

The international theatre company BITE (Brooklyn Innovative Theatre Experience) will present its first independent full-length production Prom Night of the Living Dead -- an interactive horror play equal parts John Hughes and George Romero - opening Thursday, August 18 at 8pm and running three weeks

Rehana Lew Mirza's play BARRIERS is about a South Asian family's loss from the 9/11 attacks and the backlash they endure, featuring a cast that includes Pooja Kumar (Miss India USA 1995, 'Flavors') and Sunkrish Bala (ABC-TV's 'Notes from the Underbelly') and directed by Colette Robert.

American Lyric Theater (ALT) announces that eight new Resident Artists have been selected for the company's nationally acclaimed Composer Librettist Development Program (CLDP) in New York City.

Galli Theater has children's favorite fairy tales coming up this fall at Galli Midtown.

Join Elevator Repair Service on Saturday, September 10 for the New York premiere of 'The Select (The Sun Also Rises),' a staging of Hemingway's classic novel, 'The Sun Also Rises.

SPICA 8 PRODUCTIONS announces the production of James Haigney?s THE WOMAN STANDING ON THE MOON, directed by Benard Cummings.

Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions (Jake Lipman, Artistic Director and Producer) today announced its 2011 production of Books on Tape by William Missouri Downs in The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC).

Abingdon Theatre Company is hosting our 19th Anniversary Gala honoring Charles Busch, Julie Halston and Timothy P.

New Haarlem Arts Theatre, Eugene Nesmith, Founding Artistic Director, presents: 'It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues' by Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor, and Dan Wheetman

Seattle-based playwright and performer Dawson Nichols brings his internationally celebrated solo show VIRTUAL SOLITAIRE to the 15th Annual New York Fringe Festival.

Symphony Space brings the Tony-nominated cabaret singer and author of Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels, to the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater for a special evening of reading, music and performance hosted by writer and performer Mike Albo.