Ron Bopst

On June 25, The Resident Acting Company (www.racnyc.org), a new troupe drawn from the performing ensemble of The Pearl Theatre Company, will present a staged reading of 'The Big Night' (1928) by humorist Dawn Powell, a harsh, biting comedy about a woman whose husband has been fired from an advertising agency.  The play was the author's masterpiece but failed on Broadway in a production of The Group Theatre. The version to be offered is a restoration by Michael Sexton from the author's original notes and drafts.  It retains some of the Group Theatre's 'improvements' but includes the author's original ending.  The reading will be at 7:00 PM at The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South, directed by Bradford Cover, Artistic Director of the troupe.

Wilson's play, originally produced at The Spike, was written three years before the Ramrod leather bar massacre in November 1980, in which a man armed with a machine gun shot eight people, killing two. It is a dark, comic look at the bar's patrons and their attempts to defend it from both physical attacks as well as political attempts to close it.

'Versailles' by Richard Ploetz is a dark and winding tale of a 28-year old single mother and 'party girl' fighting against desperate circumstances and dead-end relationships in a seedy North Florida community. Estranged from her family, her youth and beauty fading, she works as a pole dancer and tests her sexual powers on her boyfriend, her boss and her neighbors until a mysterious figure, Mr. Mason, appears, who may bring her deliverance or further entrap her. Her jagged story will be told February 20 to March 9 at Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave., presented by Nedworks Inc. Ian Streicher directs.

Alzheimer's casts its long shadow over an already broken family in Joe Beck's poignant drama A Homecoming. Edited by Tom Philbin, directed by Troy Miller and presented by Adam Weinstock and Creative Concept Productions as part of the 17th Annual New York International Fringe Festival (Fringe NYC), A Homecoming will be performed at the Players Theater, located at 115 MacDougal Street (between W 3rd St. & BleeckerSt. (Fringe Venue #17). The production will run Saturday, August 10 at 4:45pm; Friday, August 16 at 2pm; Tuesday, August 20 at 9pm; Thursday, August 22 at 1pm; and Friday, August 23 at 7pm.

The Hive Theatre Company has announced the third and final installment of its ongoing Exposed Series; a series of staged readings of underexposed playwrights. The next play is A Brief History of the Soviet Union, by Vladimir Zevelinsky.

The Hive Theatre Company has announced the third and final installment of its ongoing Exposed Series; a series of staged readings of underexposed playwrights. The next play is A Brief History of the Soviet Union, by Vladimir Zevelinsky.

The Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwrights Project (Kathleen Warnock, Curator) presents a FREE reading of Jane Chambers' 'My Blue Heaven' tonight, January 26 at 7pm, in The Mitchell Room, ART/NY 520 8th Ave., 3rd fl.

The Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwrights Project (Kathleen Warnock, Curator) presents a FREE reading of Jane Chambers' 'My Blue Heaven' on Saturday, January 26 at 7pm, in The Mitchell Room, ART/NY 520 8th Ave., 3rd fl.

The Hive Theatre presents WHEN MIDNIGHT STRIKES by Kevin Hammonds and Charles Miller, being performed as part of The Hive's Exposed Series; staged readings of new and underexposed plays or musicals.

The Hive Theatre presents WHEN MIDNIGHT STRIKES by Kevin Hammonds and Charles Miller, being performed as part of The Hive's Exposed Series; staged readings of new and underexposed plays or musicals.

THE PUSHING DAISY PROJECT is pleased to present the world premiere reading of PUSHING DAISY, written by Lauren Epsenhart and directed by Luis Salgado, as part of the 2nd Annual Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. The reading will take place June 23rd at 2pm at the Gene Frankel Theatre (24 Bond Street) in New York City.

The award-winning Toy Box Theatre Company wraps up its 9th season with the world premiere of The Short Fall by David Caudle (author of The Sunken Living Room).

The award-winning Toy Box Theatre Company wraps up its 9th season with the world premiere of The Short Fall by David Caudle (author of The Sunken Living Room).

Eric C. Bailey, Alex Bond, Christopher Borg, Ron Bopst, J.Stephen Brantley, Marc Castle, Johnathan Cedano, Desmond Dutcher, Rick Hinkson, Oliver Houser, Robert Locke, Nick Mathews, Jim Nugent, Aaron Tone, Chris Weikel, and Elizabeth Whitney are set for a pay-what-you-can benefit reading of Doric Wilson's THE WEST STREET GANG at ART/NY.

Eric C. Bailey, Alex Bond, Christopher Borg, Ron Bopst, J.Stephen Brantley, Marc Castle, Johnathan Cedano, Desmond Dutcher, Rick Hinkson, Oliver Houser, Robert Locke, Nick Mathews, Jim Nugent, Aaron Tone, Chris Weikel, and Elizabeth Whitney are set for a pay-what-you-can benefit reading of Doric Wilson's THE WEST STREET GANG at ART/NY.

The award-winning Toy Box Theatre Company kicks off its 9th season with the premiere of their original adaptation of Woyzeck, Georg Büchner's unfinished working-class tragedy. Colonna Sonora, 2010 New York Innovative Theatre Awards nominee for best original music, will provide a live acoustic score, and members of the critically acclaimed production team of Toy Box's 2009 'Tis Pity She's a Whore return to bring this multidisciplinary work to life. Performances will be at Choicirciati Cultural Center, 64 E. 4th Street, New York, NY beginning October 22, 2010.