Laura Butler News

terraNOVA Collective, now in their 10th year, has announced its season for 2012-2013. Producing Artistic Director, Jennifer Conley Darling says, "This is terraNOVA's biggest and most daring season yet. The line-up of new work by Robert Askins, Adam Szymkowicz and Ken Urban, as well as partnering with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and One-Eighth. From a new comic book superhero story to a steak-eating tyrant to a ghost inhabiting another's body, this season promises to spark imagination and push boundaries!" For more information visit http://www.terranovacollective.org.

Caborca Theatre and Magic Futurebox has announced their upcoming co-production, Open up, Hadrian, playing at Magic Futurebox (55 33rd St. 4th Floor, Brooklyn 11232) from September 13th to September 30, 2012. Written byJavierantonio González and directed by Meiyin Wang, Open up, Hadrian is an immersive promenade production that jumps more than 2,000 years and 20,000 square feet, transforming the Sunset Park warehouse into Ancient Rome by way of an excavated film set not so long abandoned.

Rabbit Island is a comedy about what it takes to become a real New Yorker. Coming to the city to fulfill your destiny can be as perilous as riding the Cyclone. And dating people here? Forget it. The ones who haven't become crazy are so wrapped up in weird stuff it's hard to have something genuine. The city can grip you and shake you for all you're worth. Some days it seems the only choice you have is between losing your focus and losing your mind. It all turns into a Shoot the Freak game…and guess who the freak is?

Rabbit Island is a comedy about what it takes to become a real New Yorker. Coming to the city to fulfill your destiny can be as perilous as riding the Cyclone. And dating people here? Forget it. The ones who haven't become crazy are so wrapped up in weird stuff it's hard to have something genuine. The city can grip you and shake you for all you're worth. Some days it seems the only choice you have is between losing your focus and losing your mind. It all turns into a Shoot the Freak game…and guess who the freak is?

Celebrating its 10th anniversary Odalys Nanin's Garbo's Cuban Lover, in its third revival, currently at the Macha Theatre in WeHo, still copiously exudes the passion of Cuban writer Mercedes de Acosta (in Hollywood from 1931 until her tragic illness & death in 1968) for her art and the supposed love of her life, Greta Garbo. Based on the rumored lesbian relationships that de Acosta had with Garbo, Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Eva Le Gallienne and others, Lover is Nanin's lovingly woven fictional account of how she believed it happened.

Brown Bear Productions presents the world premiere Actors' Equity Showcase production of To Protect the Poets, an "elegant, humorous and inspirational" new play by John Doble.

Brown Bear Productions presents the world premiere Actors' Equity Showcase production of To Protect the Poets, an "elegant, humorous and inspirational" new play by John Doble.

Brown Bear Productions presents the world premiere Actors' Equity Showcase production of To Protect the Poets, an "elegant, humorous and inspirational" new play by John Doble.

Brown Bear Productions presents the world premiere Actors' Equity Showcase production of To Protect the Poets, an "elegant, humorous and inspirational" new play by John Doble.

Brown Bear Productions presents the world premiere Actors' Equity Showcase production of To Protect the Poets, an 'elegant, humorous and inspirational' new play by John Doble. Olivia Harris directs a cast of nine including Elizabeth Alice Murray*, John Isgro*, Laura Butler*, Keet Davis, Elizabeth Dilley, Jillie Simon*, Kiat-Sing Teo, Craig Anthony Grant, and Stewart Villilo.

Brown Bear Productions presents the world premiere Actors' Equity Showcase production of To Protect the Poets, an "elegant, humorous and inspirational" new play by John Doble.

Brown Bear Productions presents the world premiere Actors' Equity Showcase production of To Protect the Poets, an "elegant, humorous and inspirational" new play by John Doble.

SEPTIMUS AND CLARISSA, a new play based on Virginia Woolf's novel 'Mrs. Dalloway,' will be produced at New York's 13th Street Theater on June 25 and 26. This workshop production will be co-produced by the Red Bull Theater and Ripe Time.

SEPTIMUS AND CLARISSA, a new play based on Virginia Woolf's novel 'Mrs. Dalloway,' will be produced at New York's 13th Street Theater on June 25 and 26. This workshop production will be co-produced by the Red Bull Theater and Ripe Time.

SEPTIMUS AND CLARISSA, a new play based on Virginia Woolf's novel 'Mrs. Dalloway,' will be produced at New York's 13th Street Theater on June 25 and 26. This workshop production will be co-produced by the Red Bull Theater and Ripe Time.

Due to an overwhelmingly positive response, and sold-out performances every evening, The Directors Studio's presentation of Marion Bridge has been extended.

Due to an overwhelmingly positive response, and sold-out performances every evening, The Directors Studio's presentation of Marion Bridge has been extended.

R.Evolución Latina, New York City's non-for-profit collective of artists and activists committed to inspiring growth within the Latino Community, is pleased to announce the formation of Nueva Escena (New Scene), a new theater company created by young Puerto Rican artists living and working in New York City. Nueva Escena's premiere production is SALSA GORDA, a play with music written by José Luis Ramos Escobar.

On Monday September 21, 2009, the IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, and host Julie Halston, announced the 2009 recipients at the Fifth Annual IT Awards Ceremony at New World Stages. Those unable to attend joined the OOB theatre community's biggest night of the year online, and also followed theatre critic Aaron Riccio's (Theater Talk's New Theater Corps, That Sounds Cool) live-blogging at www.nyitawards.com/live.

Comedic actress Julie Halston hosts the 2009 IT Awards, which honor the best of Off-Off Broadway, tonight at New World Stages at 7:00pm.