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(The original cast of Simius, l.-r.: Patrick Horn, Elyse Knight*, Peter McCabe*, Nancy Kimball, Stephen Bracco, Alyssa Simon*, Noel MacDuffie (Director) *Member of Actors' Equity Association)

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Artist/Playwright Marylou DiPietro will perform her original solo play In Love with Cancer at the prestigious United Solo Theatre Festival next month.

In this sometimes bizarre, often uproariously funny and heart-wrenching story, a woman’s worst fear becomes reality. Wh...

On Sunday, June 2nd, at The Gallery Players Theatre in Park Slope, members and supporters of the company gathered to enjoy complimentary refreshments and snacks, an evening of music and live performances, and the highly anticipated announcement of this coming season's...

After many months of soliciting submissions, reading hundreds of plays, conducting interviews, and planning a big move to one of the most recognizable Off-Broadway venues in New York City’s Theatre District, Theatre Row on 42nd Street,  Broadway Bound Theatre Festival...

Fine performances, accentuated by strong direction and beautiful, minimalist set design come together to create a clean and memorable production of Steven Dietz’s THE NINA VARIATIONS at the newly opened Chain Theatre on Manhattan’s West 36th Street.

The production is ru...

The first time I met Playwright, Heather Jeanne Violanti, she was performing at a Heights Players production in Brooklyn. Sometimes, we forget that playwrights are actors, actors are directors, and generally theatre folks have many related skills. For this young lady,...

Great theatre rarely "just happens." And sometimes a great idea isn't timely until, well, it's the right time. For playwright Robert Rosenbaum, the right time is now and the play is BASEMENT, which will offer it's debut at Theatre 54 (Shetler Studios) this weekend begi...

Lynn Nottage’s play, RUINED, is one of those scripts that’s so good, and so engaging that you can sit around a table, just reading it cold and you won’t ever forget it. It’s so powerful, in fact, that it won a Pulitzer Prize for the playwright, the second for Ms. Notta...

The individual in isolation is a dangerous creature. The perusal of this animal sparked Nikolai Gogol’s short story in 1835 and now provides the raw material for Ilia Volok’s exploratory one-man show. After a critically acclaimed run in Los Angeles, “Diary of a Madman”...

Imagine this: A powerful self-made man with more money than he can ever spend, with a warped, one-track ego the size of New Jersey, an intellect perhaps not as big, and a super sexy "dumb bimbo," trophy-girl on his arm. Now, imagine that they’re headed to Washington, D...