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THE CELL and THE HIVE THEATRE COMPANY are pleased to announce their gender-bender production of William Shakespeare?s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT?S DREAM, directed by Matthew A.

The award-winning York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) announces casting for Academy, the next offering in its acclaimed Developmental Reading Series.

Michael Todd Simpson will sing the role of Escamillo in The Glimmerglass Festival's production of Carmen beginning July 15, replacing Keith Miller who has withdrawn from the role.

Under new leadership, The Classical Theatre of Harlem is proud to present two gripping world premiere productions that mark the Company's return to full-scale works.

The fully improvised live sitcom, Naked in a Fishbowl, films its next six episodes with a new casting director, Katja Blichfeld (30 Rock, NBC), and a new theater, The Cherry Lane.

Famous pop star siblings Jimmy & Cherry, along with their manager Captain Leo and pet monkey Boots, have been kidnapped while leaving their recording studio and whisked into another galaxy by an Evil Alien Overlord who threatens to blow up the planet Earth unless they entertain him.

The 2011 season is marching on for the Harbor Lights Theater Company (HLTC) as it begins its preparations to bring The Music Man to the stage, complete with a variety of exceptional local talent plus Patti Mariano who was in the original production of The Music Man on Broadway with Robert Preston at

Male Matriarch - the autobiographical story of its star and creator Amir Levi - challenges postmodern gay identity through his cultural desire to create a nuclear family based on traditional values.

On Tuesday, August 9th, NAKED GIRLS READING NYC - New York's 'Best Story Hour' (The Village Voice Best of NY 2010) - celebrates the summer theatre season in the decadent boudoir setting of Greenwich Village's Madame X lounge, as the hit nude literary salon presents a special in-the-buff reading of G

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.

Eighteen of the theatre industry's highly regarded playwrights, theatrical agents and artistic directors will jury the 40 short plays featured in the 36th Annual SAMUEL FRENCH INC.

Self Fulfilling Productions will debut Welcome to Eternity, a collection of short plays about the long walk down the aisle, at the 15th Annual New York International Fringe Festival.

We often mistake the tale of Rip Van Winkle for whimsical family fare.

Barbara Feldon, best known for her Emmy-nominated work on the hit TV series 'Get Smart' and recently seen Off-Broadway in 'Love, Loss & What I Wore,' visited the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) to see Off-Broadway's MANIPULATION, a new play by Victoria E.

Mind The Gap Theatre and Early Bird Theatricals will present Jessica Fleitman's award winning comedy The Average-Sized Mermaid in August 2011 at The New York International Fringe Festival.

Colum McCann (National Book Award/IMPAC Award for Let the Great World Spin), Honor Molloy (playwright, Maiden Voyages; curator, 'Future of Working Theater' Reading Series), Susan Jonas (NYU faculty; founder, 50/50 by 2020) and Belinda McKeon (curator, 'Imagine Ireland'; novelist) will discuss the ro

In OCEAN IN A TEACUP, a broken American soldier gets a second chance at life in post-war India.

Following sold out runs of Twelfth Night and Richard II last summer, Sonnet Repertory Theatre announces their upcoming production of Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, directed by Christopher Schilder.

GHOSTS by Henrik Ibsen, the Classic Play Reading Series' Inaugural Full Production Adapted by Andrew Janet Directed by Emmy Frank With Antoinette LaVecchia, Marc LeVasseur, Nicole Rodenburg, Andrew Sellon & Timothy Warmen

The ladies are back with a brand new edition of their award-winning monthly musical comedy extravaganza, MEL & EL: OUR TIME OF THE MONTH, at 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street, NYC on Thursday, July 7th at 7:00PM.

The Drama Desk nominated, New York Innovative Theatre Award winning RadioTheatre will present the cult horror classics, REANIMATOR (A mad scientist tries to resurrect the dead) and THE CALL OF CTHULHU (The Old Ones are determined to take over the Earth), live and onstage for the first time complete

The Drilling Company will present 'The Comedy of Errors' directed by Kathy Curtiss July 7 to July 23 as the opening show of the 20th season of Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot, a summer New York institution performed free in a municipal parking lot at the corner of Ludlow and Broome Streets in Manh

Wide Eyed re-imagines Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN, antiquity's most powerful play about the eternal tragedy of war.

THE CELL and THE HIVE THEATRE COMPANY are pleased to announce the world premiere production of Terry Quinn's BAD EVIDENCE, directed by Kira Simring.

The upcoming production of BROWNSVILLE BRED at 59E59 Theaters will feature Talk Backs after every Sunday matinee performance.