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Roundabout Theatre Company has just announced full casting for the world premiere of Bernhardt/Hamlet

October 19th- 21st LA Femme International Film Festival will hold its twelfth annual presentation honoring women's work and fostering relationships for women in the industry. Ms. Copeland's science fiction TV Pilot, TALATRICS is one among ten Finalist scripts being honored.

Regina Taylor (I'll Fly Away, The Unit) and David Pittu (House of Cards, The Spanish Prisoner) will read Cecilia Copeland's TALATRICS, Directed by Amir Arison (NBC's The Blacklist) for New York Women in Film & Television's New Works Lab.

The 52nd Street Project makes a difference in the lives of countless Hell's Kitchen (Clinton) kids by pairing them with theater professionals who mentor them through the creation of original theater. Perhaps the most poignant presentations made by the Project are those in its semi-annual Playmaking series, which features the Project's youngest Hell's Kitchen menses - 9- and 10-year-olds who have just begun their theatrical education - writing for accomplished professional actors and revealing their work to a public audience for the first time. 

In response to critical acclaim and popular demand, Labyrinth Theater Company extends the world premiere of Homos, Or Everyone in America by Jordan Seavey to December 11. Homos, Or Everyone in America, directed by Mike Donahue and featuring two-time Tony nominee Robin De Jesus (In The Heights, La Cage Aux Folles) and Drama Desk Award winner Michael Urie (Buyer and Cellar, Ugly Betty, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying), is a bitingly tender new play about trying to live and love in New York. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

LAByrinth Theater Company presents the world premiere of Homos, Or Everyone in American (tonight, October 20, through November 27) by Jordan Seavey. Homos, Or Everyone in American, directed by Mike Donahue and featuring two-time Tony nominee Robin De Jesus (In The Heights, La Cage Aux Folles) and Drama Desk Award winner Michael Urie (Buyer and Cellar, Ugly Betty, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying), is a bitingly tender new play about trying to live and love in New York.

Labyrinth Theater Company presents the world premiere of Homos, Or Everyone in American (October 20-November 27) by Jordan Seavey. Homos, Or Everyone in American, directed by Mike Donahue and featuring two-time Tony nominee Robin De Jesus (In The Heights, La Cage Aux Folles) and Drama Desk Award winner Michael Urie (Buyer and Cellar, Ugly Betty, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying), is a bitingly tender new play about trying to live and love in New York.

Second Stage Theatre begins the 2016 Uptown Series with the world premiere of Sofia Alvarez's FRIEND ART, opening today, Thursday, May 26 at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre.

Second Stage Theatre will begin the 2016 Uptown Series with the world premiere of Sofia Alvarez's FRIEND ART, directed by Portia Krieger. FRIEND ART will feature ZOE CHAO, AARON COSTA GANIS, ANABELLE LEMIEUX and Tony Award nominee CONSTANTINE MAROULIS (Rock of Ages, 'American Idol'). FRIEND ART will officially open on Thursday, May 26th.

Second Stage Theatre will begin the 2016 Uptown Series with the world premiere of Sofia Alvarez's FRIEND ART, directed by Portia Krieger. FRIEND ART will feature ZOE CHAO, AARON COSTA GANIS, ANABELLE LEMIEUX and Tony Award nominee CONSTANTINE MAROULIS (Rock of Ages, "American Idol"). FRIEND ART will begin previews on Tuesday, May 17th and will officially open on Thursday, May 26th. 

There's no mistaking who's in charge in the Williamstown Theatre Festival's crackling production of A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN now running through August 23. As Eugene O'Neill's indomitable Josie Hogan, six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald stomps, kicks, shoves and brandishes a big stick as she asserts her dominance over her father Phil (Glynn Turman), her landlord and wannabe love interest James Tyrone (Will Swenson), and anyone else who gets in her way.

Small-town life is anything but a picnic in William Inge's newly discovered, previously unproduced play OFF THE MAIN ROAD currently receiving its decades-delayed world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the Berkshires. This dense and diffuse melodrama meanders through a forest of darkness and despair only to return its three generations of hapless women back to the starting point with little to show for their travels.

Williamstown Theatre Festival presents the first Main Stage production of its 61st season, OFF THE MAIN ROAD, featuring Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Kyra Sedgwick in the World Premiere of a play by Pulitzer Prize-winner William Inge. Performances begin tonight, June 30.

 Williamstown Theatre Festival (Mandy Greenfield, Artistic Director) kicked-off rehearsals for the first two productions of its 61stseason. Rehearsals are in full swing for the first two shows, Off the Main Road on the Main Stage, featuring Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Kyra Sedgwick in the World Premiere of a play by Pulitzer Prize-winner William Inge, and Legacy 0n the Nikos Stage, with Tony Award nominee Jessica Hecht and Drama Desk Award-winner Eric Bogosian in Daniel Goldfarb's World Premiere. Both casts arrive in the Berkshires ahead of performances that begin on June 30.

For 48 Hour Forum, Noor invited five playwrights and directors and about 20 actors to create five short plays based on the headlines of the day. And they have 48 hours to do it!

Artistic Director Mandy Greenfield has announced additional casting for Williamstown Theatre Festival's Main Stage and Nikos Stage productions for the upcoming summer Season, which kicks off on June 30 and runs through August 23, 2015.

Studio 42's annual reading series returns this fall with four new Unproducible works. The first reading, The Doppelganger by Matthew-Lee Erlbach (Eager to Lose) and directed by Studio 42 Artistic Director Moritz von Stuelpnagel (Hand to God), will take place October 5th at A.R.T/NY. Remaining readings will be announced soon.

Studio 42 will present a reading of the political farce THE DOPPELGÄNGER, by Matthew-Lee Erlbach (Handbook for an American Revolutionary, Eager to Lose), directed by Moritz Von Stuelpnagel (Hand to God, and the upcoming Verite at LCT3) on Sunday, Oct 5 at 7p.

Is network news appointment television for you? I didn't think so. Are you constantly angered that ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT only talks about theatre when a Hollywood star joins a cast or someone falls 30 feet to the stage floor? Me too. Well, I have an alternative that just might satisfy your news and theatre cravings; podcasting. Isn't that just what hipsters do between their shift at Starbucks and another trip to the thrift shop? Well, yes and no. I'm sure there is a barista in Portland who is currently recording a missive bemoaning mass media's attempt to co-opt the indie subculture, but most people who do podcasts well are incredibly informed and passionate about their specific topics.

Naked Angels announced that Naked Radio Live, the company's annual holiday bash version of its popular Naked Radio podcast series, will be held Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 7:30 pm at The New School for Drama Theater (151 Bank Street, 3rd Floor, just west of Washington Street).