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The world premiere of The Apartment: A Play with Four Sides has sold out its opening night performance at the 15th Annual New York International Fringe Festival.

The world premiere of The Apartment: A Play with Four Sides has sold out its opening night performance at the 15th Annual New York International Fringe Festival.

The world premiere of The Apartment: A Play with Four Sides has sold out its opening night performance at the 15th Annual New York International Fringe Festival.

Kate Russo will present the world premiere of THE APARMENT: A PLAY WITH FOUR SIDES as part of the 15th Annual New York International Fringe Festival, directed by Adam Blanshay.

The Drama Desk Awards ceremony was hosted by Harvey Fierstein on May 23 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan Center. This year, for the first time, a 90-minute Highlights Special of the Drama Desk Awards Ceremony will be televised nationally on OVATION, the national cable network dedicated to presenting creative arts programming to national TV audiences. The ceremony will be given two primetime broadcasts plus four other airings between June 4 and June 19, 2011.

The Awards ceremony was hosted by Harvey Fierstein last night at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan Center! BroadwayWorld was updating the winners list live throughout the evening.

Nominations for The 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced on Friday, April 29, 2011, at 9:30 AM at the New York Friars Club, 57 East 55th Street, in Manhattan. Amongst the shows with multiple nominations were THE BOOK OF MORMON with 12, ANYTHING GOES with 10, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE with 7, BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, SEE ROCK CITY & OTHER DESTINATIONS and WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN with 6.

The 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards, hosted by Harvey Fierstein, will be held Monday, May 23, at 9:00 PM at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan Center, 8th Avenue and 34th Street. This year, for the first time, a 90-minute Highlights Special of the Drama Desk Awards Ceremony will be televised nationally on OVATION, the national cable network dedicated to presenting creative arts programming to national TV audiences. The ceremony will be given two primetime broadcasts plus four other airings between June 4 and June 19, 2011.

The discourse surrounding new play development continues within the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, as the company presents the #NewPlay Festival.

The discourse surrounding new play development continues within the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, as the company presents the #NewPlay Festival.

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell, Yul Vazquez and Managing Director, Danny Feldman), Off-Broadway's home of exhilarating and incendiary theater, has announced the full roster of actors and directors for the 11th Annual Barn Reading Series, a festival of staged readings highlighting 14 new plays.

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell, Yul Vazquez and Managing Director, Danny Feldman), Off-Broadway's home of exhilarating and incendiary theater, has announced the full roster of actors and directors for the 11th Annual Barn Reading Series, a festival of staged readings highlighting 14 new plays.

Partial Comfort Productions has added performances to its critically acclaimed production of A BRIGHT NEW BOISE by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Davis McCallum (Chuck Mee's Queens Boulevard at Signature Theater, Quiara Hudes' Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue).

Partial Comfort Productions (The Bereaved, nami, Battle of the Bards) ends its 8th seaon with the World Premiere of A BRIGHT NEW BOISE by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by David McCallum (Chuck Mee's Queens Boulevard at Signature Theater, Quiara Hudes' Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue). Previews begin September 8th at The Wild Project where Partial Comfort is in its 2nd season as a resident company.

Partial Comfort Productions has added performances to its critically acclaimed production of A BRIGHT NEW BOISE by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Davis McCallum (Chuck Mee's Queens Boulevard at Signature Theater, Quiara Hudes' Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue).

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA/YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Dean, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean, Managing Director) announce two events in connection with the 2010 YALE DRAMA SERIES, the annual playwriting competition jointly sponsored by Yale University Press and Yale Repertory Theatre and funded with generous support from the David C. Horn Foundation, on Monday, September 20.

Partial Comfort Productions (The Bereaved, nami, Battle of the Bards) ends its 8th seaon with the World Premiere of A BRIGHT NEW BOISE by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by David McCallum (Chuck Mee's Queens Boulevard at Signature Theater, Quiara Hudes' Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue). Previews begin September 8th at The Wild Project where Partial Comfort is in its 2nd season as a resident company.

Partial Comfort Productions (The Bereaved, nami, Battle of the Bards) ends its 8th seaon with the World Premiere of A BRIGHT NEW BOISE by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by David McCallum (Chuck Mee's Queens Boulevard at Signature Theater, Quiara Hudes' Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue). Previews begin September 8th at The Wild Project where Partial Comfort is in its 2nd season as a resident company.

New Feet Productions and Adam Blanshay, in association with The Present Company, present the World Premiere of the dark political comedy ALL DAY SUCKERS by playwright/author Susan Dworkin (THE NAZI OFFICER'S WIFE, THE VIKING IN THE WHEAT FIELD), directed by Jessica Bauman (MILK, INTO THE HAZARD (HENRY 5)) - as part of the 14th Annual New York International Fringe Festival with five performances only, between August 13-29 at the Robert Moss Theatre at 440 Studios (440 Lafayette Street, 3rd Floor) in Manhattan.

Partial Comfort Productions (The Bereaved, nami, Battle of the Bards) ends its 8th seaon with the World Premiere of A BRIGHT NEW BOISE by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by David McCallum (Chuck Mee's Queens Boulevard at Signature Theater, Quiara Hudes' Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue). Previews begin September 8th at The Wild Project where Partial Comfort is in its 2nd season as a resident company.