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Producer Scott Rudin today announced that Steppenwolf's production of The Minutes, the new play from Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright Tracy Letts, will have its Broadway premiere in the spring of 2018 in a production directed by Tony Award-winner Anna D. Shapiro.

Denver Center for the Performing Arts Broadway/Cabaret announces today that Wesley Taylor, Broadway star and fan favorite in the NBC TV show 'Smash,' will play God through January 22. Steven J. Burge will assume the role of God starting January 24.

Actor Owiso Odera, perhaps best known for his role on The CW's THE ORIGINALS, collapsed and died onstage on Thursday, November 3rd while rehearsing a new play in Louisville, KY.

Alisha Spielmann (Universal Robots) and Ryan McCurdy (Verona Walls) will lead the first public reading of Ellie Pyle's timely new play SOURCES, which takes place the night after the 2016 election, at Manhattan Theatre Club Studios on Sunday, November 13, at 7pm, under the direction of DeLisa White.

Roberge told the LA Times that she believed the decision constituted an act of censorship, while the university's president, Jane Close Conoley, maintains the cancellation was based on academic considerations.

The Alexander Upstairs loves new writing and the 'Anthology' series is a platform for writers to play with style and material. In this edition, three writers, two actors, and one director come together to create an anthology of three new short plays on the theme AFTER THE END.

Pramila Jayapal, a Washington State Senator and candidate for Congress, will lead a post-play discussion immediately following the Sunday, June 19, matinee performance of Sorry. Sorry, by Richard Nelson, is a smart, funny and timely play that asks how we make the right choices, both at home and in the larger political world. In an election season marked with so much anger and shouting, Sorry offers instead a "lovely . . . feeling of shared citizenship,' (New York Times) where one family, trying to make the right choice in their own difficult decision, still manage, with humor and grace, to talk to one another using their 'inside voices.' Pramila Jayapal's participation makes tangible this intimate, vital connection between the personal and the political, the local and the national.

?A staged reading of "Pedro Castillo is Innocent," a new play about an innocent man in jail and the impact that experience has on his family, will debut the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Dorset Theatre Festival's 2015 New Play Reading Series concludes on Monday, August 24th with Kate Moira Ryan's Hipsterly Ever After. Ryan is a New York-based playwright whose play The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, produced off-Broadway by Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, won a GLAAD Award. She was also a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize for her play Hadley's Mistake. She has received numerous fellowships including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship to EST, the Sundance Institute, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Directing the reading is Mark Armstrong, Director of New Work for off-Broadway's Keen Company and the Executive Director for The 24 Hour Plays. Recent directing credits include Christopher Shinn's The Coming World, Lucas Hnath's Odile's Ordeal (both Williamstown) and Dan O'Brien's From Kandahar to Canada (EST).

Ricochet Collective and 59E59 Theaters present Laura Zlatos' HAPPILY AFTER EVER, directed by Sherri Eden Barber.  Performances are July 14 and 15 at 6:30pm. 59E59 Theaters is located at 59 East 59th Street between Madison and Park Avenues. All tickets are $10, available at www.59e59.org, by calling 212-279-4200 or in person at the box office.

The Onyx After Hours presents Charles Busch's cult comedy Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. The limited run begins Friday, June 12, at The Onyx in Commercial Center and plays through June 27. The show is directed by Stephen R. Sisson and features local favorites Kellie Wright and Glenn Heath as the dueling divas…with bite!

Opening Act, an innovative nonprofit that provides free after-school theater programming to New York City's most under-served public high schools, today announced that Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon (A Raisin in the Sun) will helm Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage's Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine for Opening Act's 9th Annual Benefit Play Reading at New World Stages on April 21st, 2015. Tickets are available to the public via www.telecharge.com - 1 800-447-7400.

FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade will present Concrete Drops' production of Moonlight After Midnight written by Martin Dockery and performed by Dockery and Vanessa Quesnelle, April 10-30 at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery) with performances Friday, April 10, 17, & 24 and Thursday, April 30 at 8pm. Tickets ($18) may be purchased in advance at www.horseTRADE.info. The performance runs 60 minutes, with no intermission.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) will present the world-premiere of After America: Wasteland 2015 by RLTP Ensemble member & Literary Director Jon Elston. The post-apocalyptic-themed piece will star Lisa Vitrano, Peter Palmisano, Steve Brachmann, Monish Bhattacharyya, Danica Riddick, and Kelsey Mogensen.

On the face of it, AFTER DINNER is an amusing look at 5 middle aged singletons out for a good night out but look beneath the bright makeup and power suits and the timeless truths show along with the tragedy of their situations.

The producers of THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG have announced that something has gone spectacularly right. With their advertising campaign encouraging people to 'SAVE MONEY - DON'T COME' which apparently has not worked, the show that they capitalised in the West End for £250,000 and opened at the Duchess Theatre at the beginning of September, written by and starring unknown out of work actors, has already recouped all of its production costs and is now turning a weekly profit.

BroadwayWorld has just learned from a show representative that Stockard Channing, who had been temporarily out of Broadway's IT'S ONLY A PLAY due to a knee injury, is back in the show beginning today, October 1. In her absence, the role of 'Virginia Noyes' was played by her understudy- Isabel Keating.

Following the announcement that Broadway's ROCKY will be closing at the Winter Garden Theatre next month, New York Times reporter Patrick Healy tweeted that FINDING NEVERLAND might be next up at the venue. There has been no official announcement, but BroadwayWorld will be on the look-out and bring you dates as soon as we know them!

Producers Scott Sanders and Wynton Marsalis announced today that After Midnight, the seven-time 2014 Tony® Award-nominee, and winner of the Tony® Award for Best Choreography (Warren Carlyle), will play its final performance on Sunday, June 29 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 W 47th Street). At the time of its closing, After Midnight will have run 8 months, with 19 preview performances and 272 regular performances. Conceived by Jack Viertel, and directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle, After Midnight began preview performances on Friday, October 18, 2013, and opened to the best reviews of any new musical this season on Sunday, November 3, 2013.

Actor Frank Britton, based in Washington D.C., took his opening night bow for the Forum Theatre's current production of 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.' After socializing in the lobby with fellow cast and crew members, Britton began to make his way home shortly after two o'clock in the morning. Britton was 'literally feet away from a cab' when a group of young men began to surround him. Britton says, 'Before I knew it I was sucker-punched, hit in the head, hit three or four times.'

Affordable Art Fair is a global contemporary art fair, giving people the opportunity to own their own art regardless of the size of their wallet. The event is dedicated to fostering a relaxed and enjoyable environment where a diverse array of affordable contemporary art by living artists is available. The Affordable Art Fair celebrates the idea that art is for everyone, offering original artwork priced from $100 - $10,000, with half of the work under $5,000. The Fair offers unique programming including a wide variety of artist and curator talks, panel discussions, kids' activities and more. Since its launch in 1999, over 1.4M people have visited an Affordable Art Fair, and over $316M in art has been sold at the Fairs. A global brand, the Fair now takes place in Amsterdam, Bristol, Brussels, Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Maastricht, Mexico City, Milan, New York, Singapore and Stockholm.

Multi-Platinum superstars Toni Braxton and Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds are the latest Grammy Award-winning artists to join the roster of 'Special Guest Star' vocalists in the smash hit Broadway musical After Midnight. With an impressive 16 Grammy Awards between them, Braxton and Edmonds will play their first performance tonight, March 18, 2014, marking Edmonds' Broadway debut and Braxton's return. The duo will continue performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 West 47th Street) through Sunday, March 30, 2014.

After Hours is an original work by local playwright E.M. Hodge. It will be presented by EMH Productions at The Geery Theatre, 2130 L St. from Friday, November 22nd through Sunday, December 15th, 2013.

Following a sold-out run at The Pleasance Theatre London in 2012, HAPPY NEVER AFTER will play at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival it was announced today. A new play by Hannah Rodger, HAPPY NEVER AFTER will run at The Pleasance Courtyard from Wednesday 31 July - Monday 26 August 2013. Full listings attached.

Award-winning playwright David Koteles' play After the Chairs, directed by Jason Jacobs is an official selection of the 2013 All Out Arts, Inc.'s Fresh Fruit Festival, and will be presented July 10th - 14th at The Wild Project (195 E. 3rd Street).