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Living Room Productions NYC will present a staged reading of TWELFTH NIGHT: 1941, a world-premiere play inspired by actors who performed Shakespeare during the London Blitz, at El Barrio's Artspace in New York.

Living Room Productions and the Shakespeare Forum will present a free staged reading of Twelfth Night: 1941, a new work set during the London Blitz, at El Barrio Artspace in New York City.

Laila Robins, Abbey Lee, and Maria Habeeb will star in an industry reading of AMERICA'S MOM, Joe Calarco's play about family estrangement, directed by Hannah Ryan at Open Jar Studios.

An invited industry reading of Trad, a new play about the controversial Tradwife movement, will be held in Manhattan on Friday, May 8. Learn more about the reading here!

Trad, a stirring 90-minute drama about the controversial Tradwife movement, will receive an industry presentation in NYC. Trad leaps back and forth through time exploring the nature of grief, purpose, and faith in a future America. 

A private industry reading of Hannah Benitez's new play with music, Gray Mare, will be held this month. Learn more about the upcoming industry presentation here!

In our tightknit theatre community, word of mouth matters most. Local shows live and breathe on it. Some shows can sell themselves—especially big musicals with falling chandeliers or anti-Nazi von Trapp singers.

For Closure! by acclaimed playwright Hannah Benitez arrives on the freeFall stage for its world premiere on April 11. This contemporary farce set in the small Florida coastal town of Gulfpalm is a hilarious and satirical look at the foibles and hypocrisies of modern life.

Rehearsals start this week for the world premiere of For Closure! by acclaimed playwright Hannah Benitez. This contemporary farce set in Florida's Gulf Coast is a hilarious and satirical look at the foibles and hypocrisies of modern life.

Get a first look at EMILY D—STAR-CROSSED EMPLOYEE, now running at The Tank’s 56 Seat Theater (312 West 36th Street). See photos from the production.

The Tank is presenting Melissa Maney's new play, Emily D - Star-Crossed Employee, as a part of their 'The Tank Presents' series. This marks Maney's second collaboration with The Tank after Emily D was selected for The Tank's 2023 'LimeFest'.

freeFall Theatre has revealed the cast of Ken Ludwig's Moriarty: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure.

Pride Plays, the initiative launched in 2019 and returning to New York this summer, has announced the cast and creative teams for their Pride Plays 2024 Celebration kickoff event on June 24, 2024.

It's the final week left to vote for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Tampa Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

There's just two weeks left to vote and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 18th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Tampa Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

It's December, and the first standings of the month have been announced as of Tuesday, December 5th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Tampa Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Happy Holidays! The latest wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 27th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Tampa Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

The latest wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 20th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Tampa Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Get your deerstalker cap on — the play's afoot! Comedic genius Ken Ludwig (Lend me a Tenor) transforms Arthur Conan Doyle's classic The Hound of the Baskervilles into a murderously funny adventure.

Jay is trapped in a toxic home environment. Taking care of her drug-addicted mother and lonely and misunderstood younger brother, she dreams of escaping into a better world. She is presented with the chance-of-a-lifetime when winning a nation-wide essay contest to be the new writer of the final book in a beloved series left incomplete by the death of the author. However, Jay's 'dream ending' of the story is threatened when she has to collaborate with an additional, surprise contest winner. Set in the American Midwest, Jay and the Contest explores what it means to make it out of our hometown, no matter the consequences.