(May. 20 7:03 PM) - Jewish Books Cooking, a new musical based on Jewish-themed children’s books and created and directed by award-winning composer and author Elizabeth Swados, premieres at The JCC in Manhattan today, May 20th and plays throughout New York City through the end of the month and into June.

(May. 20 1:09 PM) - From award-winning actor/director Carlo D’Amore, and produced by Live IN Theater, THE LOMBARDI CASE 1975is a thrilling, interactive theatrical adventure, where audience members are transported into the world of the “Hell Precinct” to solve a notorious crime. The experience begins at THE LIVING ROOM, 154 Ludlow St., between Rivington and Stanton Sts., on the Lower East Side, NYC. Subways: F or J, M, Z to Essex Street- Delancey, or the F to 2nd Avenue. www.livingroomny.com. The show runs every Sunday, 2pm, through July 29th, 2012. For tickets ($49) and more information, please visit www.liveintheater.com.

(May. 20 1:30 AM) - Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College concludes its 2011-2012 Target FamilyFun series with American Family Theater's production of Cinderella today, May 20, 2012 at 2pm.

(May. 20 1:30 AM) - Susanna Fazer (The Nerd) will direct a cast starring Paige Simunovich (Finian’s Rainbow, Mary Poppins) and Zachary Sayle (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, A Christmas Story, The Musical) with Justin Luciano, Stacey Scotte, Doug Shapiro, and Sean Patrick Folster in a reading of Jay D’Amico (last Piano-in-Residence at Windows of the World) and Pulitzer- nominated Tom Diggs’ new musical THE FAIRY HOAX in midtown Manhattan one day only today May 20, 2012 at 6 pm at Workshop Theater Company.

(May. 20 1:30 AM) - KIDS 'N COMEDY presents "THE HORRIBLE HISTORY SHOW," today May 20, in which teen comics turn history upside down. The show takes place at 1 p.m. at the Gotham Comedy Club, 208 W. 23rd Street.

(May. 19 12:30 AM) - As it continues to explore Yiddish culture in bold, new ways, the Drama Desk Award-winning National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene brings the internationally acclaimed Israeli theatre artist Mendy Cahan to New York for an exclusive three-show engagement tonight, May 19 and tomorrow, May 20.

(May. 19 12:30 AM) - Empirical Rogue (Tim Eliot, Artistic Director), a company comprised of MFA alums of the A.R.T./MXAT Institute at Harvard, teams with chashama to produce a four-actor Romeo and Juliet in a never-before-performed-in abandoned space in Long Island City (26-15 Jackson Ave.) tonight, May 19 through June 10, 2012. Tim Eliot will direct the production.

(May. 19 12:30 AM) - Celebrating the day of his birth at the place of his tragic death, Riffs on Race and War, a one-woman show with live music, honors the legacy of Malcolm X on his 87th birthday. Riffs… examines universally resounding realities such as social inequality and the need for unity across humanity.

(May. 19 12:30 AM) - SITTERS Studio Productions produces the NYC premiere of "HELP WANTED: PIRATES" at the MAGNET THEATRE starting tonight, May 19th. The production, with book and lyrics by Chris WidneY and music by J. SEBASTIAN FABAL, is a new musical for children performed by adults. This interactive children’s musical is directed by MARY Catherine Burke, choreographed by JEN LITTLEFIELD with musical direction by Andrew Wheeler.

(May. 19 12:30 AM) - Long-time collaborators Brian Rady and Jeremy Bloom introduce their inaugural summer season with The Orange Person, presented and developed in association with IRT’s 3B Development Series.

(May. 18 5:20 PM) - Katie Fabel (BELLE OF BELFAST, THE SHAUGHRAUN) will fill for actress Mia Moreland for the final two performances of Mind the Gap Theatre’s US premiere of Georgia Fitch’s ADRENALIN…HEART, on Saturday, May 19 at 8:00pm and Sunday, May 20 at 3:00pm at Space on White (81 White Street, between Broadway and Lafayette) in Manhattan.

(May. 18 5:04 PM) - Bill Connington, star of the award-winning play ZOMBIE, and Gayton Scott, of Broadway’s GYPSY (Bernadette Peters/Sam Mendes version) appeared in a special site-specific reading/workshop of THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams at Vassar College in upstate New York. It took place in the Rose Parlor, in the main building on the famed Seven Sisters campus. Also in the cast are William Connell (INDISCRETIONS) and Annmarie Benedict (ROBESON). Check out photos from the reading below!

(May. 18 2:30 PM) - Nancy Johnston will replace Allyce Beasley and co-star with Lynne Wintersteller in Kari Floren's two-hander Revisiting Wildfire about two college roommates, best friends for life, who re-unite after thirty years.

(May. 18 10:55 AM) - Our Lady J presents Beauty As God(dess), a concert "celebrating the aesthetic of the Divine. Continuing her previously explored themes of non-traditional, post-religious forms of worship, Our Lady J and special guests perform songs honoring the ever-present, yet mostly unacknowledged modern deity : BEAUTY itself. Is there anything more valued in our 21st Century society? Is there anything more sacred and desired?"

(May. 18 12:30 AM) - August Strindberg's Chekhovian comedy, "Playing With Fire" (Leka med elden, 1893), in a translation by Ulrika Brand that has been newly adapted by Obie-winner Leslie Lee, Executive Director of Negro Ensemble Company, will be presented tonight, May 18 to June 10 with an all-black cast as the inaugural production of August Strindberg Repertory Theatre, directed by Robert Greer. The play, to be staged at New School for Drama, 151 Bank Street (West Village), will be a co-production of August Strindberg Repertory Theatre and Negro Ensemble Company in association with Theater Resources Unlimited.

(May. 18 12:30 AM) - The Hound of the Baskervilles, a comedy adapted by Steven Canny and John Nicholson from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s celebrated Sherlock Holmes mystery, opens Penguin Rep Theatre’s 2012 season tonight, May 18.

(May. 18 12:30 AM) - Aporia Theater has announced the limited engagement of WOYZECK, a new adaptation by Artistic Director Sarah Elizabeth Wansley with original music by David Marenberg. Opening is tonight, May 18.

(May. 18 12:30 AM) - At midtown’s Stage Left Studio, it’s all about the writing. Producer Cheryl King has selected five critically acclaimed plays on a variety of subjects: Cuban refugees, 1930’s biracial lesbian love, surviving cancer, rent stabilization, and a solo Macbeth.