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The O'Debra Twins are back! For the last year, they've been quietly constructing their most ambitious work to date. On Thursday, August 15th at 7:30pm, you're invited to a free reading of The Secrets of Avondale Falls, the most absurd, over-the-top, outrageous soap opera ever conceived. It's like Dynasty meets The Power Rangers, but with a hundred times more quicksand. Do not miss this sneak peek of the first two episodes in the Dixon Place Lounge (161A Chrystie St.)! Doors at 7pm, show at 7:30.

History links the present into the far past, answering questions and painting a picture of what has been. Author Digby Asterrne takes the readers back into the 1700s when Great Britain continue to circumnavigate the world in search for new territories and the flare of Industrial Revolution was about to get started with his new publication, 60 Miles,17000 Miles.

Ars Nova announces a March and April lineup featuring exciting new comedy, music and theater programming.

Ars Nova announces a March and April lineup featuring exciting new comedy, music and theater programming.

Ars Nova has announced the following upcoming events.

Author Angela Lemanis invites her readers to join her in Contemplating Life From The Back Step. In this book, she tells an uplifting tale of the life lessons she learned from three passionate, energetic and wise Boxer dogs that popped into her life and imparted their knowledge and doggie wisdom at times when she needed it most.

Ars Nova (Jason Eagan, Artistic Director; Jeremy Blocker, Managing Director) announces its February lineup featuring exciting new comedy, music and theater programming, all part of its continuing 10th Anniversary Season.

The Boston premiere of Lo-Fi Lowdown, a double bill of epic old-timey proportions, comes to Oberon (2 Arrow Street Cambridge, MA) for one night only. This 1940's themed cabaret/radio show plays on Sunday, January 27th at 7pm. Tickets ($18) are available at the door and online.

Off-Broadway's The Play Company presents the concert-theater hybrid piece SKY-PONY: RAPTURED, created by Obie Award-winning writer and musician Kyle Jarrow (ARMLESS, A VERY MERRY UNAUTHORIZED CHILDREN'S SCIENTOLOGY PAGEANT) and singer/actress Lauren Worsham (DOG DAYS, WHERE'S CHARLEY, JERRY SPRINGER THE OPERA), starring their Brooklyn-based indie band Sky-Pony, tonight, October 25-28, at the Ukrainian National Home (140 Second Avenue). Peter James Cook (NEVER SLEEP ALONE) directs.

Off-Broadway's The Play Company presents the concert-theater hybrid piece SKY-PONY: RAPTURED, created by Obie Award-winning writer and musician Kyle Jarrow (ARMLESS, A VERY MERRY UNAUTHORIZED CHILDREN'S SCIENTOLOGY PAGEANT) and singer/actress Lauren Worsham (DOG DAYS, WHERE'S CHARLEY, JERRY SPRINGER THE OPERA), starring their Brooklyn-based indie band Sky-Pony, October 25-28, at the Ukrainian National Home (140 Second Avenue). Peter James Cook (NEVER SLEEP ALONE) directs.

Below, check out a promo video for Sky-Pony: RAPTURED, produced by The Play Company and directed by Peter James Cook, October 25-28 at Ukrainian National Home (140 Second Ave, NYC) at 8 p.m.!

Off-Broadway's The Play Company launches its 2012-13 Season with the concert-theater hybrid piece SKY-PONY: RAPTURED, created by Obie Award-winning writer and musician Kyle Jarrow (ARMLESS, A VERY MERRY UNAUTHORIZED CHILDREN'S SCIENTOLOGY PAGEANT) and singer/actress Lauren Worsham (WHERE'S CHARLEY, JERRY SPRINGER THE OPERA), to be presented as a studio production starring their Brooklyn-based indie band Sky-Pony, October 25-28, at the Ukrainian National Home (140 Second Avenue).

Ars Nova will be hosting a few new events this month. Below, find information about each show, including Travis, Uncharted: Rebekah Melocik & Jacob Yandura, Uncharted: Anna K. Jacobs and Isaac Oliver: Intimacy Idiot!

Ars Nova will be hosting a few new events this month. Below, find information about each show, including Travis, Uncharted: Rebekah Melocik & Jacob Yandura, Uncharted: Anna K. Jacobs and Isaac Oliver: Intimacy Idiot!

Ars Nova (Jason Eagan, Artistic Director; Jeremy Blocker, Managing Director) announces its August lineup featuring exciting new comedy, music and theater programming.

Dulcet Press (www.dulcetpress.com) today announced the publication of The Temporary Detective by Joanne Sydney Lessner, the first novel in a series introducing a vivacious, impulsive new amateur sleuth: aspiring actress and office temp, Isobel Spice.

Drama Desk Award Winner, GLAAD Media Award Nominee and Sundance Institute Fellow, Bradford Louryk will accept an Academy Award on Saturday evening, February 25 in Rachel Shukert and Michael Schulman's annual phenomenon, "YOU LIKE ME: AN EVENING OF CLASSIC ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES" at Ars Nova.

Ars Nova (Jason Eagan, Artistic Director; Jeremy Blocker, Managing Director) announces a jam-packed February lineup featuring exciting new comedy, music and theater programming.