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August Strindberg Repertory Theatre will emphasize the comedy in a remaking of August Strindberg's 'Crimes and Crimes,' to be presented August 6 to 20 at Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street.  The company's Associate Artistic Director, Whitney Aronson, is preparing a radical refashioning of the script to bring out the humor that underlies a play that is mostly known as an impressionistic study of thought.

LUNT AND FONTANNE: The Celestials Of Broadway will have its New York Premiere at The New York International Fringe Festival in August. The famous duo of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are played by real life married actor-couple Mark E. Lang and Alison Murphy, who met fifteen years ago performing in Cape May, New Jersey. They have subsequently worked together numerous times on stage in New Jersey and elsewhere. The play was written by Mark E. Lang, inspired by a comment from a theater-goer who exclaimed, 'You two are becoming the Lunt & Fontanne of South Jersey.'

Theatre 167's YOU ARE NOW THE OWNER OF THIS SUITCASE, by Mando Alvarado, Jenny Lyn Bader, Barbara Cassidy, Les Hunter, Joy Tomasko, Gary Winter, and Stefanie Zadravec, runs now through May 1, 2016 at the West End Theatre, conceived and directed by Ari Laura Kreith. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage below!

Before entering the theatre, we were asked to look at a map on the wall and mark a spot of our personal origin. I admit that I had to think a moment as to exactly how many dots to mark. So many of us come from different areas of the world and this process was fascinating to start with and put me immediately in touch with visions of my relatives past and present in my mind.

From tonight, March 12, to April 2, August Strindberg Repertory will present Strindberg's DAMASCUS II, adapted by Edgar Chisholm, directed by Robert Greer.

 From March 12 to April 2, August Strindberg Repertory will present Strindberg's 'Damascus II,' adapted by Edgar Chisholm, directed by Robert Greer. This is the second installment of the three-part work in which Strindberg first introduced true surrealism to the stage in the theatrical representation of the dream. Strindberg's tale of life in decadent artists' circles of 1890s Sweden will be brought to life in 1960s California and its leading character, an alienated writer, has been re-envisioned as an author modeled on Amiri Baraka.

From March 12 to April 2, August Strindberg Repertory will present Strindberg's DAMASCUS II, adapted by Edgar Chisholm, directed by Robert Greer.

59E59 Theaters will welcome Project Y with the New York premiere of CONNECTED, written by Lia Romeo and directed by Michole Biancosino.

MOURNING SUN, a new play by Antu Yacob slated for production by Theatre 167, sheds light on brutal traditions impacting girls and women across the world. Set in Ethiopia and New York, this remarkable love story spans continents and cultures while exploring the way our lives are our lives are shaped by trauma and recovery, dislocation and identity, and the power of human connection.

Upcoming performances of Theatre 167's World Premiere of MOURNING SUN will feature post-show discussions by activists, philosophers, and founders of human rights organizations. The play travels across two continents with its young protagonists. Culture Craver describes the piece as 'incredibly provocative and deeply moving, heart wrenching and humorous.'

The Award-Winning Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) is pleased to announce the world premiere production of CherylL. Davis's (2014 AUDELCO Playwriting Award winner for Maid's Door), CAREFULLY TAUGHT, directed by Pat Golden(Assistant Director on Emily Mann's Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams). Check out photos from the production below!

MOURNING SUN, a new play by Antu Yacob slated for production by Theatre 167, sheds light on brutal traditions impacting girls and women across the world. Set in Ethiopia and New York, this remarkable love story spans continents and cultures while exploring the way our lives are our lives are shaped by trauma and recovery, dislocation and identity, and the power of human connection.

Written by Antu Yacob and directed by Ari Laura Kreith, Theatre 167's Mourning Sun begins its World Premiere engagement on Friday, November 6 at the West End Theatre, located in the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew at 263 West 86th Street.

MOURNING SUN, a new play by Antu Yacob slated for production by Theatre 167, sheds light on brutal traditions impacting girls and women across the world. Set in Ethiopia and New York, this remarkable love story spans continents and cultures while exploring the way our lives are our lives are shaped by trauma and recovery, dislocation and identity, and the power of human connection.

When a man's house comes down, so do the layers of secrets he has built his life on in August Strindberg's BURNT HOUSE, which will be presented by August Strindberg Repertory Theatre from October 3 to 30 at Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street.

 Theatre 167 is the recipient of the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation's 2015 Caffe Cino Fellowship Award, presented to a company "that consistently produces outstanding work." Theatre 167 previously received the 2014 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Premiere Production for its world premiere of Pirira.

The Award-Winning Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Cheryl L. Davis's (2014 AUDELCO Playwriting Award winner for Maid's Door), CAREFULLY TAUGHT, directed by Pat Golden (Assistant Director on Emily Mann's Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams).