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Red Bull Theater has announced the Revelation Readings 2009-2010 schedule.

Red Bull Theater has announced the Revelation Readings 2009-2010 schedule.

The National Playwrights Conference (NPC) at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center continues its 45th year with staged readings of House of Gold by Gregory Moss on July 16 at 8:15 pm and July 17 at 3:15 pm and Spoon Lake Blues by Josh Tobiessen on July 18 at 8:15 pm and July 19 at 3:15 pm.

The Village Voice, the nation's largest alternative weekly newspaper 54th Annual OBIE awards took place on Monday, May 18,2009 at the newly landmarked Webster Hall in the East Village.

The 54th Annual Drama Desk Awards were held, Sunday, May 17, 2009 in the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. Drama Desk nominees received their official Nomination Certificates at a cocktail reception on Friday, May 1st at Il Bastardo restaurant, 191 Seventh Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Streets).

13P, the OBIE-winning company comprising 13 playwrights presented its spring benefit The First (and Last) Annual 'THIRTINI AWARDS' at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, for one performance only on Monday, May 11.

13P, the OBIE-winning company comprising 13 playwrights, will present The First (and Last) Annual 'THIRTINI AWARDS' at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, for one performance only on Monday, May 11 at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:00 p.m.) The coveted awards will be presented by 13P to the mentors and heroes who have inspired them with their seminal contributions to new American plays: Craig Lucas, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, and Mac Wellman

Academy Award-nominee Edward Norton and Award-winning actor/director Tim Blake Nelson co-hosted Soho Rep SPRING GALA '09 on Monday, May 4th at at The Park (118 10th Avenue btw. 17th &18th Streets).

13P, the OBIE-winning company comprising 13 playwrights, as previously announced, will present its spring benefit The First (and Last) Annual 'THIRTINI AWARDS' at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, for one performance only on Monday, May 11 at 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:00 p.m.) The coveted awards will be presented by 13P to the mentors and heroes who have inspired them with their seminal contributions to new American plays: Craig Lucas, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, and Mac Wellman.

Academy Award-nominee Edward Norton and Award-winning actor/director Tim Blake Nelson set to co-host SOHO REP SPRING GALA '09 on Monday, May 4th at 6:30 p.m. at The Park (118 10th Avenue btw. 17th &18th Streets)

Academy Award-nominee & Golden Globe-winner Edward Norton ['American History X,' 'Primal Fear'] and Soho Rep board member Tim Blake Nelson ['The Incredible Hulk,' 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?'] - who worked together on 2008's 'The Incredible Hulk' and 'Leaves of Grass,' set to be released in 2009 - will co-host the biennial Spring Gala for the nine-time Obie Award-winning Soho Rep on Monday, May 4th starting at 6:30 p.m. at The Park (118 10th Avenue btw. 17th & 18th Streets) in Manhattan.

Nominations for the 54th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this morning at the New York Friars Club by Faith Prince and Jim Dale, multi-award winning stage stars. They were joined for the announcement by William Wolf, Drama Desk President, Barbara Siegel, Chairperson of the Drama Desk Nominating Committee, Robert R. Blume, Executive Producer of the Drama Desk Awards ceremony, and Randie Levine-Miller, Director of Special Events for the Drama Desk.

Due to popular demand, Soho Rep - the nine-time OBIE Award-winning, Off-Broadway theatre company - will extend its critically acclaimed production of Nature Theater of Oklahoma's RAMBO SOLO by one week - through April 19th, it has been announced by Soho Rep's Artistic Director Sarah Benson.

FUTURITY a Musical by The Lisps Saturdays, May 9 and 16 at 9:30 PM, Friday, May 22 at 8:00 PM, Sunday, May 24 at 7:30 PM 'A rebellion of sincerity in the sea of cold-shouldered, indie irony.' - Paper Magazine

13P, the OBIE-winning company comprising 13 playwrights, will present The First (and Last) Annual 'THIRTINI AWARDS' at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, for one performance only on Monday, May 11 at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:00 p.m.) The coveted awards will be presented by 13P to the mentors and heroes who have inspired them with their seminal contributions to new American plays: Craig Lucas, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, and Mac Wellman

Due to popular demand, Soho Rep - the nine-time OBIE Award-winning, Off-Broadway theatre company - will extend its critically acclaimed production of Nature Theater of Oklahoma's RAMBO SOLO by one week - through April 19th, it has been announced by Soho Rep's Artistic Director Sarah Benson.

Our series on 'women who run the show' concludes with MTC's artistic director, Lynne Meadow, and associate AD, Mandy Greenfield.

As her company celebrates its 25th anniversary, Hill chats with BWW for our Women's History Month series.

Academy Award-nominee Edward Norton and Award-winning actor/director Tim Blake Nelson set to co-host SOHO REP SPRING GALA '09 on Monday, May 4th at 6:30 p.m. at The Park (118 10th Avenue btw. 17th &18th Streets)

Our special series for Women's History Month continues with a profile of Irish Rep's artistic director and cofounder.