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TRAVIS NESBITT will be making his Off-Broadway debut in Altar Boyz, the acclaimed musical comedy at New World Stages, taking over the role of Mark, beginning Friday August 1st.

TRAVIS NESBITT will be making his Off-Broadway debut in Altar Boyz, the acclaimed musical comedy at New World Stages, taking over the role of Mark, beginning Friday August 1st.

For the first time, SPF will be held at The Public Theater on Lafayette Street in New York City. The festival will run from July 1st - July 27th.

On Tuesday, July 15th, actor Scott Porter visited the popular off-Broadway musical Altar Boyz.

On June 25th, 2008 SPF held its launch party in celebration of its fifth season. This year the Summer Play Festival will be held at The Public Theater on Lafayette Street in New York City. The festival will run from July 1st - July 27th.

The Summer Play Festival announces casting for the eagerly anticipated Summer Play Festival (SPF) now celebrating its fifth season in New York. Casts include Annie Golden, former lead singer for 'The Shirts' who has appeared in the movie HAIR; Marin Hinkle from CBS' TWO AND A HALF MEN; Annie Parisse from NBC's LAW & ORDER; Jenny Ikeda from MTC's acclaimed production of TOP GIRLS; and Dan Lauria from the long running series THE WONDER YEARS. Singer, songwriter and Tony Award winning Stew from the musical PASSING STRANGE will also be writing new music for one of the plays.

Celebrating its fifth season, The Summer Play Festival announced today that tickets are on-sale. For the first time, SPF will be held at The Public Theater on Lafayette Street in New York City. The festival will run from July 1st - July 27th.

The mundane becomes sinister for six people in a darker, deadly, nearly decimated New York City, ten years hence. Boyfriends bicker - and one of them might be sick. A young girl gets ready for school - chaperoned by her mother's bodyguard. A patient consults her doctor - who offers what kind of procedure exactly? Trapped in a hospital elevator, the characters collide almost comically and splinter apart quite tragically, grappling with the severity and confusion of life at the end. As the world falls apart, the ties that bind break, unleashing questions long avoided, resentments long ignored, and confrontations long postponed.

Theater for the New City 'New City, New Blood' Readings Series presents 'At the End' by Billy Finnegan and directed by Nela Wagman on Monday, April 28, 7:30pm.

Neil Haskell, from Fox's hit reality show 'So You Think You Can Dance,' will join the cast of Altar Boyz, the acclaimed musical comedy at New World Stages, taking over the role of LUKE, beginning Tuesday, April 22nd.

Ken Davenport and Robyn Goodman proudly announce that Neil Haskell, Fox's hit reality show 'So You Think You Can Dance,' will join the cast of Altar Boyz, the acclaimed musical comedy at New World Stages, taking over the role of LUKE, beginning April 22nd. He replaces Jesse JP Johnson.

Seventeen different stage productions were honored at the third annual Kevin Kline Awards ceremony. Ten St. Louis area theater companies - double the number of last year's recipients - were recognized with awards. Four of those ten theaters were multiple award winners.

Michael Kadin Craig will take over the role of Matthew in Altar Boyz, succeeding Chad Doreck.

Altar Boyz, the acclaimed musical comedy at New World Stages, will celebrate its third anniversary on Saturday, March 1, 2008.

The hit musical Altar Boyz, announces final extension at Drury Lane Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut Street, in Chicago, now through March 30, 2008.

Ken Davenport and Robyn Goodman, in association with Walt Grossman, Ruth Hendel, Sharon Karmazin, Matt Murphy and Mark Shacket, proudly announce that Altar Boyz, the acclaimed musical comedy at New World Stages, has recouped its investment, making it the first Off-Broadway commercial book musical to recoup in years!

Twenty-four theater companies in the St. Louis area received 118 nominations in 22 different categories. Forty-five different productions received nominations; twenty-five productions receive multiple nominations the Awards Ceremony will be held on March 31 at the Loretto-Hilton Center

Producers are seeking young men, ages 19-25, for the Chicago production of the award-winning musical comedy Altar Boyz, now playing at Drury Lane Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut St. in Chicago. All potential 'boyz' must have strong pop vocals, solid hip-hop dance ability, and excellent comedic instincts. Open auditions will be held at Lou Conte Dance Studio, 1147 W. Jackson St., Studio C, on Friday, February 1. 2008 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The Chicago cast of Altar Boyz celebrated their 100th performance at Drury Lane Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut St.) on Thursday, January 3, 2008. Altar Boyz is now playing in Chicago through March 2, 2008.