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John Steinbeck's timeless classic graces the New York stage for its 70th Anniversary production.

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Kathryn M. Lipuma, Executive Director) announced today that it would extend August Wilson's KING HEDLEY II one additional week since the originally scheduled run has been sold-out for weeks.

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) is pleased to announce full casting for the world premiere of LoveMusik, a new musical featuring the songs of Kurt Weill, starring Tony Awardâ winners Michael Cerveris and Donna Murphy.

Signature Theatre Company announced today that Erika Mallin has been named the company's new Executive Director

Theater for the New City will present 'Love 'N Courage,' the 4th annual benefit for Theater for the New City's Emerging Playwrights Program.

Click in for reviews of Avenue Q: The Book, The Audrey Hepburn Treasures, Mamma Mia! How Can I Resist You?, The Alchemy of Theatre, We Bombed in New London, Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, Stop The Show, In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights, Fantasia: Life is Not a Fairy Tale and The Entertainment Sourcebook 2007.

The new book In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights features dozens of portraits of great dramatists

Signature Theatre Company announced today that Executive Director Kathryn Lipuma would be leaving her position at the end of the 'August Wilson Series' in the spring

More playwrights and directors, as well as full casting, have been announced for OFF Stage: the West Village Fragments, presented by the Peculiar Works Project

OFF Stage: the West Village Fragments, presented by the Peculiar Works Project, will be a site-specific multi-venue performance that will travel along historic West Village streets in September

Gib Wallis' Solicitation will run as part of FringeNYC from August 18th through August 23rd

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Kathryn Lipuma, Executive Director) announces complete casting for SEVEN GUITARS, the first play of its 2006-2007 three-play tribute to the works of August Wilson.

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Kathryn Lipuma, Executive Director) announced today that Beth Whitaker has been promoted to Associate Artistic Director after seven years with the company. In a newly created position, Jennie Greer has joined the staff as Director of Theatre Advancement.

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Kathryn Lipuma, Executive Director) announces complete casting for SEVEN GUITARS, the first play of its 2006-2007 three-play tribute to the works of August Wilson.

Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd, and you will find Michael Cerveris winning rapturuous applause every night for the title role. Now, he's nominated for a Tony for Best Leading Actor in a Musical.

F. Murray Abraham, Penny Arcade, Joe Franklin and others will take part in the 11th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts from May 26th through 28th

Steve Moore's play Not Clown will be presented off-Broadway from March 16th through 25th

Dr. Justin Frank, author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, will lead a talkback on Friday, January 6th following the 8pm performance of the play Fear Itself, Secrets of the White House

Signature Theatre Company's acclaimed production of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful will be extended for six weeks through February 29th, 2006