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Come join Snorks and Piñs productions as we follow Shakespeare’s most delightful characters as they escape, either by force or by choice, into the forest of Arden. Usurping younger brothers and oddly hateful older ones can’t stop these joyful characters from their witty word play or from falling in love, no matter who they try to kill! Come see Shakespeare’s delightful comedy, a night of theater exactly “As You Like It”.

Falling for Eve offers an enchanting second look at the world’s first love story. Creation is going perfectly.  Eve, curious about what lies beyond the Garden of Eden, and obsessed with the notion that something is forbidden, bites the infamous apple.  Then Adam doesn’t.  How exactly they’ll get together to create the human race is anybody’s guess.  Falling for Eve is a fresh and unconventional retelling of the most famous romance of all time, filled with unexpected twists and turns as Eve and Adam realize that “paradise” may not be a place after all.

The cast of Falling for Eve features Krystal Joy Brown (Hair), Celina Carvajal (The Toxic Avenger, Tarzan), Nehal

Theater for the New City's award-winning Street Theater Company opens its 34th annual tour July 31 with GONE FISSION, OR ALTERNATIVE POWER, an Operatta for the Street.  The rip-roaring production will tour City streets, parks and playgrounds throughout the five boroughs through September 12. The production, free to all New Yorkers, will have book, lyrics and direction by Crystal Field and musical score composed by Joseph Vernon Banks.

When an out-of-work Account Executive takes a survival job as a Census Taker, he visits a fish restaurant.  A hurricane transforms the place to a Louisiana Bayou, where Father Neptune is conducting a summit with the creatures of the sea.  Our hero's job is to count, but he also listens.

Continuing a Summer Shakespeare series that began with last season's production of King Lear, called "insanely good" by The Brooklyn Paper, The Gallery Players proudly announces casting and creative team for Shakespeare’s seminal work, Hamlet. Directed by Taibi Magar and starring Broadway’s Jeremy Bobb (Is He Dead?; Translations) as Hamlet, The Gallery Players’ production of Hamlet gets a limited, twelve performance engagement Thursday, July 22 - Sunday, August 1, 2010.

A ghost story; a tale of fratricide; a saga of moral, political and sexual corruption. Hamlet is an epic tale about a man catapulted into revenging his father’s murder. But Hamlet’s journey is complicated by his doubts concerning the afterlife; “the undiscovered country.

YAY!  Directors and writers have been lined up for International CringeFest '10, which opens on Monday, July 19, and closes on Sunday, August 8, in the Grand Theatre at the Producers' Club, 358 W. 44 St.  These are REALLY GOOD & HILARIOUS works that are irreverent, politically incorrect, politically satirical, naughty, and utterly zany -- don't you want some of that?!  The schedule is M-F @ 8 pm, Sat. @ 5, 8 & 10:30 pm, Sun. @ 4 & 7 pm.  Plays are arranged in theme evenings and given quirky titles by artistic director Melba LaRose.  Themes rotate, so check the definitive schedule:  www.NYartists.orgor www.Theatermania.com.

THE DRILLING COMPANY'S SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK(ING) LOT SETS "JULIUS CAESAR" IN A MODERN SCHOOL BOARD.
Do we really govern ourselves through plurality or charisma? Staging Shakespeare's historical drama in the modern setting of a school system may shed some light.

The second and final production this summer of The Drilling Company's Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot will be Julius Caesar, directed by Hamilton Clancy (Artistic Director) July 29 to August 14.  In an unusual adaptation, Shakespeare's drama about the nature of ambition and politics is set in a contemporary urban school system.

The Drilling Company's two-part Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot season also includes "Love's Labours Lost," directed by Kathy Curtis, July 8 to 24.

An edgy, sexy contemporary two-person musical scored with an original array of contemporary punk, pop, rock, and infused jazz, LOVERS, explores the darker side of a relationship.

Chip and Jolie thought they found an unlikely love.  In a relationship spanned over 8 years from carefree impulses to increasing uncertainties, their story is set against human rhythms, harmonies and ultimately, the discords of Manhattan dreams versus Brooklyn realities…where dreams go deferred and sacrifices are made...or not...with tragic results.

For more information visit www.loversmusical.com

LOVERS, book, lyrics, and music by newcomer playwright/composer Christopher Massimine.  Direction by Christopher M.

Diversity Players of Harlem aka DPOH Entertainment and J’Nointed Entertainment join forces to bring you the inspirational stage play Love’s Gonna Get Ya! by James and Michele Woodson, with Music by Germono Toussaint and directed by Dwight Ali Williams. Performances will be at the Roy Arias Theatres for one week only, July 28 – August 1, 2010.

Love's Gonna Get Ya! is based on the true story of eight singles and their passionate search for true love. So focused on pursuing his career goal, Nate is too busy to stop and smell the roses. Heart broken from past relationships, Jasmine comes to realize that her search for true love will only happen when she learns to let go.

In “SWEET, SWEET MOTHERHOOD” Shelley McCann (Caroline Cooney) is a bitingly intelligent undergraduate student at a top university. Although Shelley covets a spot in a top graduate program, she would rather party than build up a respectable GPA. Professor Henry Stein (Michael De Nola) is an eminent biotechnology researcher and professor at Shelley’s university. One afternoon, Shelley stumbles into Stein’s office to propose a senior thesis. No ordinary research proposal, Shelley’s ideas lay bare the ethical and moral quandaries associated with biotechnology today.

The play is the hybrid child of its own experiment, the Two-Headed Challenge, where the Guthrie Theater and the Playwrights Center commissioned playwright Jeremy Kareken to collaborate on a play with molecular biologist Lee M.

Off-Broadway's acclaimed Irish Repertory Theatre presents a special engagement of Frank McCourt's THE IRISH…AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY, honoring the one-year anniversary of the passing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Angela's Ashes," with previews to begin July 14, prior to its official press opening July 22.

Frank McCourt's THE IRISH…AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY is an irreverent but affectionate history of the Irish in America that mingles laughter and sentiment in a tapestry of classical songs and stories. The production encapsulates the most tumultuous times of the past century with the vibrant humor and bitter irony that had become the trademark of the author of the critically acclaimed biographies "Angela's Ashes," "'Tis," and "Teacher

The Sonnet Repertory Theatre presents William Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST.

Following their sold out run of Richard II, Sonnet Repertory Theatre proudly presents Twelfth Night at The Theatre at St. Clement’s this July. Director Michael Lluberes brings a new vision of Twelfth Night to the Sonnet Rep stage. By turns sad and hilarious, this Twelfth Night is an exploration of love in all its forms: obsessive, beautiful, sexy, manic and mad. 

Featuring: Yaya DaCosta, Jolly Abraham, Nick Choksi, Ted Schneider, Phillip Christian, Lucas Hall, Ian Lowe, Jennifer Lyon, Brynne Morrice, and Paul Whitty.