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American Opera Projects, the Brooklyn-based company 'known for bringing cutting-edge vocal productions to the masses' (New York Magazine), presents the final New York workshop of Stephen Schwartz's new opera Séance on a Wet Afternoon at the end of November in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The Manhattan performance (The Angel Orensanz Center, 172 Norfolk St.)

American Opera Projects, the Brooklyn-based company 'known for bringing cutting-edge vocal productions to the masses' (New York Magazine), presents the final New York workshop of Stephen Schwartz's new opera Séance on a Wet Afternoon at the end of November in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The Manhattan performance (The Angel Orensanz Center, 172 Norfolk St.)

Today Tony Taccone, artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, announced additional dates for two solo shows that he staged in Berkeley before launching them on tours across the continent. Danny Hoch's Taking Over had its world premiere at Berkeley Rep in January and hit it big in Montreal this July; next week it starts an All City Tour featuring free performances in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx in addition to previously announced dates in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Moreover, after a record-breaking run in Berkeley last winter, Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking careened through Hartford, San Jose, Santa Fe, and Washington, DC this summer; now it adds Seattle to a list of upcoming destinations that also includes Boston.

The Civilians (Steven Cosson, Artistic Director), the award-winning New York-based innovative theater troupe, today announced their newest project: Brooklyn at Eye Level, a long-term investigation of development in Brooklyn and its effect on neighborhood and community. For this work the company will connect artists, community members and local youth using their signature creative process grounded in documentary art. Brooklyn at Eye Level will examine the surge of development in Brooklyn, with a specific focus on the controversial Atlantic Yards project and its effect on the surrounding communities of Fort Greene, Boreum Hill, Downtown Brooklyn, Crown Heights, Park Slope and Prospect Heights.

As part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival, BAM presents the U.S. debut of Iceland's Vesturport Theatre in a critically-acclaimed production of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck. With haunting original music by cult rocker Nick Cave and Bad Seeds' Warren Ellis, this U.S. premiere is directed by rising-star Gísli Örn Gardarsson and is a joint production of Vesturport and The Reykjavik City Theatre. Woyzeck premiered at The Reykjavik City Theatre in 2005 and was presented at London's Barbican Theatre in 2005 as part of their Young Genius series where its sold-out run received critical acclaim. The production returned to the Barbican in 2006, traveled to Spain in 2007, and will tour to South Korea in May 2009.

Brooklyn's Premier Off-Off Broadway Company kicks off its 42nd season with the social satire The Underpants. The Underpants, the Steve Martin adaptation from the classic German farce by Carl Sternheim, is directed by Seth Soloway (artistic director, Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts), and features an entertaining veteran Gallery Players cast.

The Classical Theater of Harlem (CTH) will present their critically acclaimed production of AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH outdoors in city parks throughout New York City. This will be the first time that Melvin Van Peebles' landmark musical will be performed in Brooklyn and the Bronx.

The Classical Theater of Harlem (CTH) will present their critically acclaimed production of AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH outdoors in city parks throughout New York City. This will be the first time that Melvin Van Peebles' landmark musical will be performed in Brooklyn and the Bronx.

In their third Celebrate Brooklyn! Engagement, Brave New World Repertory Theatre will present 'Fahrenheit 451', based on Ray Bradbury's 1953 groundbreaking science fiction masterpiece and adapted for the stage in the 1970s by Bradbury himself.

The Essentials will present 'PERFECT HARMONY,' a hit of the 2006 New York International Fringe Festival, this summer on Theatre Row.

The Essentials will present 'PERFECT HARMONY,' a hit of the 2006 New York International Fringe Festival, this summer on Theatre Row.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College closes its 2006-07 Broadway series with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on Sunday, March 18 at 2pm.

Theatergoers will have a last chance to see Dreamgirls, the celebrated award-winning musical, in a limited run at the Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts before the highly publicized release of the film version in December

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The Classical Theater of Harlem (CTH) will present their critically acclaimed production of Macbeth outdoors at Von King Park in Brooklyn and in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. Performances will be on July 28th, 29th at Von King Park, and August 1st, 4th and 5th in Marcus Garvey Park

TheatreWorks of Palo Alto and Mountain View, has announced its 2006-07 season full of world and West Coast premieres.

Tony nominees Stephen Bray, Brenda Russel and Allee Willis give us the scoop all about The Color Purple.

Nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Manoel Felciano gives us the scoop on Sweeney Todd.

Beginning June 1st, Brooklyn productions will be eligible for New York Innovative Theatre Awards

Jason Robert Brown's 13, a musical by David Mamet, and Jeff Calhoun, DeafWest and GrooveLily's musical version of Sleeping Beauty are among the 2006-2007 offerings presented by the Center Theatre Group at the Mark Taper Forum and the Kirk Douglas Theatre