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The Broadway at Birdland concert series is pleased to welcome back acclaimed songwriter Scott Alan in "Home Again," a very special concert on Monday, October 2nd at 7pm.

Write Act Repertory's Producing Artistic Director John Lant has announced the East Coast premiere of PILLARS OF NEW YORK, a new musical with book, lyrics and music by Michael Antin, and directed by Jim Blanchette will close as scheduled on Wednesday, September 7th. The final performances are Tuesday, September 6th and Wednesday, September 7th at 7:00 pm. 

Planet Connections Theatre Festivity closed out its season on August 14 with its annual award ceremony, held at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village.

Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, New York's premiere socially conscious-eco-friendly theatre festival, caps off its latest season with its annual awards ceremony on Sunday, August 14, at 7pm, at the Cherry Lane Theatre, located at 38 Commerce Street.

Write Act Repertory presents the East Coast premiere of PILLARS OF NEW YORK, a new musical with book, lyrics and music by Michael Antin, and directed by Jim Blanchette. The production will preview tonight, July 6, at 7:30 p.m. and open on Tuesday, July 12 at 7:30 p.m. Performances then run Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. from July 13 through September 7 at St. Luke's Theatre, located at 308 West 46th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues). BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Write Act Repertory's Producing Artistic Director John Lant is pleased to present the East Coast premiere of PILLARS OF NEW YORK, a new musical with book, lyrics and music by Michael Antin, and directed by Jim Blanchette. 

Write Act Repertory's Producing Artistic Director John Lant will present the East Coast premiere of PILLARS OF NEW YORK, a new musical with book, lyrics and music by Michael Antin, and directed by Jim Blanchette.

Playwright Erik Champney looks at the extremes people will go to in the name of self-preservation with Blankets and Bedtime: 3 Restless Plays, three one-act works where the truth can be the most unwelcome element of all.  Presented by Pixie Theory Productions, and directed by Janet Bentley, the show will be performed beginning June 15 at the Downstairs Theater at The Paradise Factory, located at 64 East 4th Street, as part of Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. The press is invited to all performances.

Next up at the Washington Crossing Open Air Theatre, Dogfight presented by the Once Upon A Time Players. Set for one weekend of performances, Dogfight will be performed tonight, June 12, Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14 at 7:30 pm.

Winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, Dogfight, premiered off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre, and tells the story of three young Marines set out for one final boys' night of debauchery on the eve of their deployment. When Corporal Eddie Birdlace (Alex Ward) meets Rose (Hannah Quinn), an awkward and idealistic waitress, he enlists to win a cruel bet with his fellow recruits, but she rewrites the rules of the game and teaches him the power of love and compassion.

Next up at the Washington Crossing Open Air Theatre, Dogfight presented by the Once Upon A Time Players. Set for one weekend of performances, Dogfight will be performed on Friday, June 12, Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14 at 7:30 pm.

The Cincinnati Arts Association has announced the winners of its 2012 Overture Awards Scholarship Competition, held on Saturday, March 3, 2012 at the Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan Theater.

The first play in Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy is a portrait of the playwright as a teen in 1937, living with his family in a lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up.

Covedale Center for the Performing Arts Presents BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, 1/20-2/6

Covedale Center for the Performing Arts Presents BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, 1/20-2/6

Broadway veteran Billy Porter (upcoming Angels in America revival) stars in a reading of Christopher Marlowe's sexy and provocative Dido, Queen of Carthage, newly adapted by Jason Williamson. This rarely-performed drama is being presented with an all-male cast as part of the 'Anybody but Shakespeare Classics Festival,' presented by (re:) Directions Theatre Company.

Broadway veteran Billy Porter (upcoming Angels in America revival) stars in a reading of Christopher Marlowe's sexy and provocative Dido, Queen of Carthage, newly adapted by Jason Williamson. This rarely-performed drama is being presented with an all-male cast as part of the 'Anybody but Shakespeare Classics Festival,' presented by (re:) Directions Theatre Company.

Broadway veteran Billy Porter (upcoming Angels in America revival) stars in a reading of Christopher Marlowe's sexy and provocative Dido, Queen of Carthage, newly adapted by Jason Williamson. This rarely-performed drama is being presented with an all-male cast as part of the 'Anybody but Shakespeare Classics Festival,' presented by (re:) Directions Theatre Company.