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Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) will introduce New York audiences to a leading voice in Russia's contemporary theater scene with the American Premiere of award-winning playwright Ivan Viripaev's Illusions. The U.S.-born artist Cazimir Liske, who graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School and has been based in Moscow for the past decade, translated the text to English and, with significant residency and technical support from BAC, has developed a new staging of the work, a darkly comedic examination of true love.

Dorothy Fortenberry's 'Partners' is a strikingly vivid snapshot of a generation that doesn't know what to do with itself.

Crisp and witty, with an impeccable cast and sleek production values, Tom Stoppard's THE REAL THING at Studio Theatre will delight theatregoers who have long wished Stoppard would stop all his intellectual and political mind-bending and get down to the personal business of love once and for all.

The 52nd Street Project makes a difference in the lives of countless Hell's Kitchen (Clinton) kids by pairing them with theater professionals who mentor them through the creation of original theater. Perhaps the most poignant presentations made by The 52nd Street Project are those in its semi-annual Playmaking series, which features the Project's youngest Hell's Kitchen mentees-ten year-olds who have just begun their theatrical education-writing for accomplished professional actors and director-dramaturges, and revealing their work to a public audience for the first time. Reed Birney, Billy Crudup, Peter Dinklage and Myra Lucretia Taylor, along with other accomplished actors, will perform in Stand by Me: The Reliable Plays, the Project's newest Playmaking show, Stand by Me: The Reliable Plays.

This is a tender and thought provoking story that delights you and breaks your heart.

A captivating story based on what is sure to be an eventual true story, Michael Mitnick's ED, DOWNLOADED premieres at the Denver Center Theatre Company (DCTC), playing The Ricketson Theatre January 11 - February 17, 2013. A DCTC commission, this world premiere was a staged reading at the 2012 Colorado New Play Summit. Tickets may be purchased now, by calling 303.893.4100 or visiting www.denvercenter.org.

Both terribly morbid and wonderfully brilliant, Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" and "Play" are difficult at first to understand. Beckett's focus on existential themes of death and the meaning - or meaninglessness - of life make any interpretation of his work difficult to enjoy on its own.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) continues its 2011-12 season with ENDGAME and PLAY-two landmark one-act plays by modernist master Samuel Beckett, directed by A.C.T. artistic director Carey Perloff. One of Beckett's most rarely performed works, PLAY, is the abstract tale of two women and one man encased in identical funeral urns as they obsess over an affair that ended unhappily for all. This production of Beckett plays performs a limited run May 9-June 3, 2012. Check out production shots below!

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) announced two special events associated with their upcoming production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame and Play, opening May 9 at the American Conservatory Theater.

Provocative. If there was one word to describe this show it would be that; provocative. A.C.T.'s Scorched is a bizarre and powerful look into the repercussions of a drawn out war and how it changed lives in the past, as well as its continued effect on the lives of the living.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) introduces a celebrated Middle Eastern voice to the Bay Area with the West Coast premiere of Wajdi Mouawad's haunting playScorched. After receiving more than 100 productions (in several languages) worldwide, the Lebanese-Canadian writer's new play will be directed at A.C.T. by Artistic Director Carey Perloff in a beautiful translation from the original French by distinguished Canadian author Linda Gaboriau.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) introduces a celebrated Middle Eastern voice to the Bay Area with the West Coast premiere of Wajdi Mouawad's haunting playScorched. After receiving more than 100 productions (in several languages) worldwide, the Lebanese-Canadian writer's new play will be directed at A.C.T. by Artistic Director Carey Perloff in a beautiful translation from the original French by distinguished Canadian author Linda Gaboriau.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) introduces a celebrated Middle Eastern voice to the Bay Area with the West Coast premiere of Wajdi Mouawad's haunting playScorched. After receiving more than 100 productions (in several languages) worldwide, the Lebanese-Canadian writer's new play will be directed at A.C.T. by Artistic Director Carey Perloff in a beautiful translation from the original French by distinguished Canadian author Linda Gaboriau.

The Bay Area's favorite holiday tradition returns with American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.)'s acclaimed production of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, playing December 1-24, 2011.

The Bay Area's favorite holiday tradition returns with American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.)'s acclaimed production of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, playing December 1-24, 2011.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.)'s Tosca Cafe, the new incarnation of its world premiere dance-theater piece The Tosca Project, was a sold-out hit with audiences and critics at Theatre Calgary, where it played September 13-October 2.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.)'s Tosca Cafe, the new incarnation of its world premiere dance-theater piece The Tosca Project, was a sold-out hit with audiences and critics at Theatre Calgary, where it played September 13-October 2.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.)'s Tosca Cafe, the new incarnation of its world premiere dance-theater piece The Tosca Project, was a sold-out hit with audiences and critics at Theatre Calgary, where it played September 13-October 2.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Artistic Director Carey Perloff announced the complete lineup and dates for the company's 45th subscription season today. The final show of the subscription season will be the acclaimed musical The Scottsboro Boys, which just received 12 Tony Award nominations

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) concludes its 2010-2011 Studio Theatre series with the remarkable and clever In The Next Room or the vibrator play by Sarah Ruhl.