A sold-out hit at the 2006 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, this new musical comedy follows the adventures of the Central Riverdale Amateur Players as they stage a new adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. With a clueless director, a jealous diva and the world's best stage manager, bad theater has never been so good!

The heartwarming untold story of World War II British war brides and the American soldiers they loved. Back Home follows these women?s two-year struggle to be reunited with their husbands. Cited by The Norwich Bulletin as "Best of the Year" and "the little musical that could" by The Philadelphia Enquirer.

A redneck teenage girl leaves her mom?s trailer for Little Rock, Arkansas, only to find that the city life isn?t all it?s cracked up to be! Bernice?s rich, spoiled cousin and her bratty, catty friends conspire to send her packing, but she worms her way into the hearts of Little Rock?s teenagers?and gets swept up in the glamour. This heartwarming musical comedy teaches us the hard way that you shouldn't let popularity go to your head.

After playing to standing room only crowds, BROADWAY IDOL, NYMF's scintillating showtune flavored answer to American Idol, returns this summer for round 2! Joins us for 3 nail biting rounds as our dueling divas, sassy sopranos, and bragging baritones battle for your votes and the coveted crown. Last year's judges included such theater stars as Marin Mazzie, Lilias White, Cheyenne Jackson, and Stephen Schwartz. Admission is $10 and includes a free drink. Who could ask for anything more?

All his life, Ari Hoffman has dreamed of being the Welter-Weight Boxing Champion of the World. After years of being sheltered and trained by his father in the basement of their synagogue, Ari finally turns pro, taking the boxing world by storm. However, when his promoter orchestrates a title fight on the eve of Yom Kippur, Ari chooses to fight, defying his faith and his family. With an exciting Hip-Hop/R&B-influenced score, Cutman chronicles the story of a young Jewish boxer's struggle between his ambition and his religion.

Armed with a dizzying array of shadow, bunraku and hand puppets, plus a veritable smorgasbord of gripping musical numbers, we bring you the epic tale of New York cop John McClane as he blows stuff up, befriends a local cop with a weakness for snack cakes and kicks some serious terrorist ass to save the puppet he loves. Yippee-ki-yay, Motherf***er!

Jane Austen's novel comes to life in this delightful musical comedy. In the town of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse sets about matchmaking her prot?g? to the town's vicar, but the scheme backfires. Mistaken notions of who loves whom turn Emma?s world upside-down until she finally discovers what she has long denied: Cupid's bow is pointed at herself, and love can be found from an unexpected source.

What happens when you take physical comedy?dance?musical theatre?and mix them all together? Find out as curators Wendy Seyb (School Daze, NYMF 2006) and Mark Lonergan bring together some of New York?s most exciting artists in search of the next evolution of musical theatre comedy.

Sex, guilt and opera make for a hot summer in South Philly! When Francis Geminiani comes home from Harvard to his working-class neighborhood, he faces his biggest challenge yet: coming out to his macho father, Fran. Based on the long-running Broadway comedy, Gemini the Musical features the a cast of unforgettable characters, with a score as tasty as good South Philly gravy.

It's 1956, and cad crooner Dean Newhouse's once-successful radio variety show is facing a dangerous new foe: Television. As Dean struggles to keep his show afloat, his bitter and double-crossed cast plots his come-uppance, in this sexy and swingin' reinvention of Don Giovanni!

When brainy ad exec Gina is dumped for a bimbo on her 35th birthday, her universe starts to crumble. Haunted by a trio of singing lingerie models, she's shocked to find herself falling for the dim-but-smoldering poster boy for her agency's most salacious campaign. In this fast-paced, scantily-clad musical comedy, seven colorful characters drag Gina to the brink of insanity and back on a round-the-globe search for love, happiness and an underwear ad that just might change the world.

A babysitting stint sparks a comedic avalanche of disinformation when an eight year old boy misinterprets his babysitter?s cell phone conversation. Assuming the worst, he calls her friends for help, uniting the jocks, thespians, and academics to stage a needless intervention. Rumors inflate and accusation s fly as these disparate personalities ultimately learn how to put their differences aside and work together in this hilarious new musical comedy.

The U.S. Army had a simple plan: Breed a battalion of Jesus Christ clones and turn them into elite super-soldiers. But something went wrong and one of the six million dollar messiahs escaped. Now, they must do the unthinkable: bring him home or take him down.

He meets She. He likes She. She likes He. They meet regularly for Great Sex, then Love enters the picture. Things get...complicated. Revisit love in all of its joys and sorrows in this fascinating, intimate three-hander with a sensual, jazz-influenced score.

A shy mall security guard woos an even shyer waitress in this tragicomic tale of geek love set in Little Egypt, Illinois in the early 1980s. Pushed together and then pulled apart by their brash, oversexed relatives and their own crippling insecurities, will misfit knight Victor win damsel Celeste?s heart? Little Egypt follows the full ride of love: funny, sad and, when you least expect it, magical.

Charleston, South Carolina. 1822. Ex-slave Denmark Vesey strives to buy the freedom of his enslaved wife and two young children. But his plan is complicated when their love-obsessed master thwarts him and the Charleston police shut down his independent Black church. Will Denmark secretly escape with his family to the safety of the North, or stay to lead his church members and slaves in an insurrection against their oppressors? A powerful work with a gospel-influenced score.

Nebraska, 1958: the world is closing in on Charlie Starkweather and Caril Fugate, teenage lovers charged with committing eleven cold-blooded murders. As both are pressured to confess by dawn, facts blur. Loyalties shift. But the question remains: how far will you go for someone you love? Based on the true story that inspired the films Badlands and Natural Born Killers, this world-premiere emo rock musical by OBIE Award-winning playwright Kyle Jarrow (?Children's Scientology Pageant and Gorilla Man) explores the intersection of love and desire.

Shakespeare Goes Gonzo as Love?s Labour?s Lost is transported to the burgeoning punk scene of the 1970s East Village. Two competing rock bands, The [All-Guy] Molotovs and The [All-Girl] Gutter Snipes, swear off love in order to stay focused on their music. But their ?best-laid? plans go awry upon meeting?each other.

Hebrew hottie Judah Maccabee is torn between Judaism and the allure of the modern world around him. Join him on his quest for answers as he tries out for the Olympics, falls for a Greek ?goddess? and discovers his destiny, with a little help from his crew and the world's first Valley Girl. Forget everything you?ve heard about the oil lasting eight nights: THIS is the true story of Hanukkah, sort of.

When 19-year old tap-dance whiz kid Jack Donahue runs away from home in 1910 to join a small-time New England vaudeville tour, he comes face to face with floozies, flossies and show people. What plain-speaking, God-fearing Irish mother wouldn?t be upset? Meet Mother ?Mud? Donahue and son Jack in this charming, taptastic new two-hander!

Helen Keller sings, Peter Rabbit curses, Beaver Cleaver comes out of the closet, and a blues singer leaves her thalidomide lover for a double amputee! Watch four actors take on 42 roles from seven of Emmet Taylor Farkas's 46 outrageous musicals. Never heard of Emmet Taylor Farkas? Well, now you'll never forget him.

When the Big Bad Gator spies plucky duckling Petite Rouge heading down the bayou to Grand-mere?s house, Petite and her quick-witted cat Tejean lead him on a wild duck chase through the New Orleans Mardi Gras, all the way to a surprise ending. A saucy Swamp Chorus sings backup in the Zydeco-driven score to this spicy new family musical from the writer/composer of Junie B. Jones and the Miss Nelson musicals.

Through a combination of dance, music and dialogue as diverse as the city itself, Platforms unfolds as a midwestern couple is separated on a crowded New York subway platform. Now, they'll each find new adventures, friends, and perspectives before they find each other.

On the road in 1972, a brash young rookie from New York City's mean streets takes on the sport's beloved but aging star in a battle royal for the title of Roller Derby Queen. Rockin' and rollin' with the ten decidedly colorful gals and guys on their team, along the way the rivals meet their match, discovering more than they ever dared to dream about life, love and how the game is played. Five-time Tony Award nominee Donald McKayle (Golden Boy, Raisin) directs and choreographs to a lively pop/rock score by award-winning composers John Braden & Harold Wheeler (Orchestrator: Dreamgirls, Hairspray), with lyrics by Braden and Barry Arnold, who also created the book.

The streets of London are dark and foggy as Sherlock Holmes broods on the rise of a new criminal mastermind. But everything changes when the Blunt diamond is stolen and Holmes must rouse himself to investigate. Is handsome Doctor Watson the key, or is it the mysterious Nurse Mary? Thrilling adventures abound in this mysteriously-romantic comedy complete with dancing bobbies! This musical romp will keep you laughing all the way to 221B Baker Street and back again. The game is afoot!

The clap of the hand. The stomp of the foot. For over a century, step dancers have used their bodies as musical instruments to create a new physical language. STEP brings this explosive art form to the stage in an exciting new musical, where dance, music, and Afro-urban rhythms and rhymes relay the cultural and personal stories of a new generation? and their link to the past.

The early days of television come to life in this new musical comedy chronicling the trials and tribulations of three old friends ? an actress, a writer and a director ? as they scramble to churn out a weekly network variety show. But when a boldly political sketch lands them in front of the House for Un-American Activities Committee, the strength of old bonds are tested, and personal and professional relationships are endangered.

Meet Sympathy Jones, a receptionist at an intelligence agency with big dreams of becoming a super spy. After being passed over for a promotion one time too many, she steals a top-secret file and sets out to stop villainess Kitty Hawk. From gadgets to goons, our quirky heroine braves it all and discovers there's more to being a spy than donning a catsuit!

A brilliant female painter moves through a series of troubled relationships with reckless abandon, joie de vivre and a compulsive need to laugh at life in this new musical about the seductive tug-of-war between art and love, and the quest for honest art.

Nitzberg and Neill's subversive Gilbert-and-Sullivan-style comic operetta about two white supremacist and two Al Qaeda terrorists who become sidetracked by love after trying to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge has already been dubbed "the first great work of comedy to emerge from the post-9/11 little planet of horrors." Outrageously irreverent and a must-see new satire! Winner, "Best Musical of the Year," L.A. Weekly Awards.

David lives in his bathroom. He never comes out. His mother feeds him thin, flat items she can slide under the door. He has everything he needs. David has obsessive-compulsive disorder and he?s not going anywhere? until he meets Julie? and discovers that there just might be something?or someone?on the other side of the door that will make it worth

An affectionate and hilarious send-up of bad 50s sci-fi movies, The Brain From Planet X tells the story of an alien invasion circa 1958. A Brain and its two alien cohorts, Zubrick and Yoni, land on Planet Earth and plot to take over the San Fernando Valley?starting with one happy nuclear family. Tuneful, toe-tapping, terrifying fun!

Jackie and Leon Grimm are faced with the task of adapting their ancestors? canon?this time, with an added queer sensibility. Watch The Cousins Grimm navigate their way through The Brothers? beloved fairytales, learning quite a bit about themselves and their relatives in the process! A finalist for the 2006 O'Neill Music Theatre Conference and Stages 2007 in Chicago.

The Fiorelli Vineyard, Long Island: home to winemaking, lovemaking...and vowbreaking. Also home to a 9-year-old wine prodigy who talks to saints, a 13-yr-old karate kid with cerebral palsy and a vintner?s wife undergoing a serious mid-life crisis that is about to take her fellow Fiorellis on one wild ride. This tart, oaky new musical comedy will have you laughing, crying and reevaluating your beliefs about the definition of family.

What makes a hero? This new Australian musical drama follows the epic journey of two young men?one a national icon, the other a mere soldier?caught between their own personal beliefs and those of their war-mongering government. The Good Fight takes us from the battlefields of World War I to the boxing rings and music hall stages of Australia and America and features graduate students from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

As introduced on NBC's TODAY show, The Kids Left, The Dog Died, Now What? follows a group of baby boomers standing at life?s crossroads ? empty nests, waning marriages, aging bodies and the arrival of the AARP membership card! Who (or what) lurks in the divorcee dating scene? How many great loves do you really get? What exactly is Botox? And how could you possibly be related to your grandchildren? Find the answers to these questions and more in this warm, witty new revue.

From Jonathan Betuel's screenplay to the beloved 1984 film comes the story of 18-year-old Alex Rogan, stuck in a tiny trailer park with nothing much to do but master his favorite video game. Little does he know that the video game has been placed on Earth by Centauri, a con man from another galaxy desperate to save his people and (more importantly) make a buck or two, in this cosmically-entertaining sci-fi fantasy romance.

A strangler lurks in Boston?s shadows. Jordan, a courageous young innkeeper and former prostitute, tries desperately to keep her friends and daughter as far away as possible from the mysterious killer, only to find that he might just be her new boarder. The Piper follows The Strangler and his victims through the brothels, inns, pubs and alleyways of late-19th century Scolley Square and boasts a dynamic Celtic-influenced score by Grammy Award-winner Marcus Hummon.

Not-so-normal 17-year old Adam takes a fantastic, unpredictable journey as he struggles to accept all the parts of himself: his ADD, his Korean heritage and his complex relationships with friends and family. A vibrant musical kaleidoscope exploring the angst, joy and highly imaginative state of one teen's amazing brain. Directed by Tony Award Winner BD Wong.

Tully has lost his memory. But a past of passionate affairs, murder, and countless betrayals is not easily forgotten. A lifetime's worth of writings will force their author to confront the terrible cost of his actions and the formidable fate which awaits him in this daring new musical drama inspired by the poems of Catullus.

Classical meets pop in this funny, screwball musical set in a world where beauty is everything! In lavish Hampton Court, surrounded by mischievous spirits, feisty young Clarissa fights to win the heart of The Baron from her gorgeous step sister, Belinda. Chaos ensues and teacups shatter when The Baron's geeky brother, Edwin enters the fray. Everyone grab your scissors and prepare to become ... UNLOCK'D.

Child prodigy, pianist extraordinaire, businesswoman, mother of seven, composer and muse to the great geniuses of the Romantic era, Clara Schumann was the original Superwoman. This one woman, one pianist play examines the power of art to sustain us and the sacrifices we are willing to make.

An old fashioned, new musical comedy about five maladjusted, eccentric, isolated, awkward, sweet, naive, nerdy little boys, who are sent away to boarding school in Maine, where they ultimately find acceptance, friendship and even some normalcy.