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New York Theatre Workshop is a remarkable off-Broadway theatre noted for its acclaimed and innovative productions... a workshop where artists create new work, hone their craft and collaboratively explore theatre... all rooted in our cozy East Village digs located in the heart of New York's downtown arts scene. NYTW is committed to the development of innovative theatre by supporting theatre artists at all stages of their careers, providing an environment where work can be created free from the artistic compromise and forbidding financial demands often associated with commercial ventures. Over the past two decades, NYTW has evolved to become a significant force in New York City's vibrant cultural landscape and is now recognized as one of the leading producing theatres of original work in the United States. The Workshop places the artist at the center of its mission, and, as a result, the work developed and produced here is aesthetically, thematically, and methodologically diverse. During the course of a season, audiences can engage with an eclectic mix of theatre, including full-scale musicals, bare-bones readings, and multimedia productions. NYTW is renowned for producing intelligent and complex plays that expand the boundaries of theatrical form and in some new and compelling way address issues that are critical to our times. The Workshop boasts a long list of acclaimed work that includes Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul, Martha Clarke's KAOS and Vienna: Lusthaus (revisited), Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away and A Number, Jonathan Larson's Rent, Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa!, John Guare's Lydie Breeze, Doug Wright's Quills, Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde, and Ivo van Hove's productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Hedda Gabler. Will Power’s hip-hop Greek tragedy The Seven will be seen around the country in upcoming years.

We are Rapid Fire Theatre, and we are proud to be Edmonton’s premiere destination for improvised comedy! We aim to provide affordable, high-energy improvisation and alternative theatre to our audiences, while providing exciting opportunities for our participants. Our Theatresports show is the third-longest-running Theatresports offering on the planet, and has been produced regularly since 1988. Rapid Fire's other programming includes CHiMPROV (weekly, long form), MAESTRO (monthly, short form), Northern Alberta Improv League (monthly, high school programming), WILDFIRE (our high school festival), BONFIRE (long form experimental festival), and IMPROVAGANZA (Edmonton's alternative comedy festival). We offer shows every Friday and Saturday at 7PM & 9:30PM. We offer monthly public improv classes, as well as corporate training, team building, and event entertainment. We received a Canadian Comedy Award in 2013 for our video "Internet Search History Revealed", and we were nominated in 2014 as "Best Improv Troupe". We have been voted "Edmonton's Best Theatre Company" two years in a row by VUE Weekly readers, and we have been honoured with an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Excellence in Theatre. www.rapidfiretheatre.com

Short Story Theatre - About - A storytelling troupe of local Chicago-area writers/performers. 10-minute entertaining personal stories. 10-minute breaks in between to eat, drink, talk.