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FREUD’S LAST SESSION, a new play by Mark St. Germain, will have its Off-Broadway premiere at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater.  Performances will begin July 9th, following a second return engagement at Barrington Stage Company (MA), where the play had its world premiere in June 2009.  FREUD’S LAST SESSION stars Mark H. Dold as C.S. Lewis and Martin Rayner as Sigmund Freud, under the direction of Tyler Marchant.  The official opening night is set for Thursday, July 22nd.

"Over 5,000 patrons have attended Freud's Last Session, making it the most popular play in BSC history," said Barrington Stage Artistic Director Julianne Boyd.

  The Brick Theater, Inc., presenter of the first festival of Clown Theatre in New York in over 20 years in 2006, brings the festival back this fall as the 2010 New York Clown Theatre Festival, performing September 3-26 at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This year’s festival will feature diverse clown theatre artists from the Ukraine, Israel, Wales, Mexico, Canada, and across the United States from California, Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Oregon, Chicago and New York City.  

ONE ARM AND A LEG

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ONE ARM AND A LEG is an interdisciplinary piece of theater combining dance, theater, music, video and image. This two-part devised, original work brings together artists from all over the world—from Romania to Boston, from Japan to Toronto and is helmed by a collaboration between a choreographer and theater director specializing in original, devised theater. The piece begins with a set of encounters in which a woman decides to give parts of herself—her arm, her phone number, her identity—to a stranger, a man. Her act incites a search for things given, received, and lost and what follows is an exploration of cultural translation, personal agency, sexuality, and self-sacrifice through text, movement, and image.

Do you love horror films?  Sixteenth-century dramatic literature?  Tragic irony?  ALL OF THE ABOVE?  So do we!

Pipeline Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Shakespeare the Dead-- a funny play about a horror movie.  The first day on the set of Hollywood’s newest film of Macbeth seems promising, with a hot young star as the title role.  The producer publicly vows to cast aside the superstitions commonly associated with Shakespeare's darkest tragedy, but when a mysterious stranger assumes control and changes the project entirely, things get frighteningly out of hand.  

World premiere as part of Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival!  

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