Jessikah Hackett

Here's a story... of a lovely family... with a very different twist. Laura and Todd Bruce, and their seven children were a happy blended American family, living a lavish life of vacations, expensive dinners, summer homes and more money than they could spend. Fast forward four years to a crippling recession, and you'll see the Bruce's flat broke with two homes in foreclosure, a collapsed contracting business and a daily struggle to make rent. The Bruce family's challenge of living life with nine people on a poverty-level budget is the focus of WE tv's riveting new one-hour, eight episode-series, DOWNSIZED, premiering Saturday, November 6 at 9:00PM ET/PT. Witness a modern day 'Brady-bunch' use love, humor and discipline to navigation the very real stresses of life in modern America.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced its calendar of events for the months of September and October, 2010. All events are subject to change without notice. Free performances are held each evening at 6 p.m. on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.

John Mellencamp and his band are set to embark on the first leg of the No Better Than This Tour in late October following the August 17 release of his Rounder Records debut album, No Better Than This. The tour, designed as a uniquely formatted 'evening with,' brings Mellencamp's music to theater-sized venues, a rare opportunity to experience one of America's most iconic songwriters and performers in an intimate setting, highlighting all phases of his artistry.

After the highly successful engagement preview performances at Carrollwood Cultural Center in June, The Salerno Theatre Co. is thrilled to return with the full-length production version of SERIOUSLY SINATRA. The same, enhanced and lengthened version of the show that is currently touring the State of Florida, Salerno has updated and retooled SERIOUSLY SINATRA with more of your favorite songs, video interviews and additional footage by and about 'Old Blue Eyes.'

Join Australia's leading musical theatre stars and six talented young finalists on October 4th as they take the stage for the 2nd Rob Guest Endowment Concert, presented by Her Majesty's Theatre.

After the highly successful engagement preview performances at Carrollwood Cultural Center in June, The Salerno Theatre Co. is thrilled to return with the full-length production version of SERIOUSLY SINATRA. The same, enhanced and lengthened version of the show that is currently touring the State of Florida, Salerno has updated and retooled SERIOUSLY SINATRA with more of your favorite songs, video interviews and additional footage by and about 'Old Blue Eyes.'

The Hartt School has announced their upcoming events for September of 2010, including their Freshman Vocal Recitals, Faculty Recital Series, the Hartford Piano Society and their Hartt Costume Shop Sale. For more information about these and other events at the Hartt School, please visit www.hartford.edu/hartt

September 23 at the Patterson, Bashi Rose, Rain Pryor, Marc Steiner, Mama Kay of WombWork Productions, and Doc Cheatham from the NAACP read excerpts from former political prisoner Eddie Conway's memoir.

The Cock Tavern Theatre of Kilburn, North London, has announced their upcoming Edward Bond Season, a nine-week program celebrating the work of one of Britain's most celebrated living playwrights.

The producers of BURN THE FLOOR, Broadway's Latin and Ballroom dance spectacular, announced today that ANYA GARNIS and PASHA KOVALEV of TV's 'So You Think You Can Dance' will join the touring company of BURN THE FLOOR, at Seattle's Paramount Theatre Sept. 14-19, 2010. Anya and Pasha come to the tour after performing in the London production now playing at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

Monday, September 13, the Sandy Arts Guild presents Inspired by Broadway, a showcase of Broadway hits at the Amphitheater in Sandy, Utah. Performers from past Sandy Arts Guild musicals will present a series of popular showtunes.

Monday, September 13 at the Lucky Strike Bowling Alley, Broadway talent will appear in Inappropriate: The Concert. The featured performers include Stephen Bienskie (Chess, Cats), Lisa Brescia (Wicked, Woman in White), Kristy Cates (Wicked), Ali Ewold (Les Mis, West Side Story), Zachary Prince (Jersey Boys), Steven Stofford (Spamalot) and Lee Zarett (Hair, Spelling Bee).

Our Town: A Kingston Story runs from 9 - 12 September at the Rose Theatre and Artistic Director Stephen Unwin has called upon local businesses.

Monday, September 13, the Sandy Arts Guild presents Inspired by Broadway, a showcase of Broadway hits at the Amphitheater in Sandy, Utah. Performers from past Sandy Arts Guild musicals will present a series of popular showtunes.

ENGINE is a highly charged theatrical event about family, friends and cars - of fixing what's broken and celebrating life. Bob Baines (Home and Away) and Melanie Zanetti (The Little Dog Laughed) join a host of young performers from three Brisbane high schools in this compelling production.

Our Town: A Kingston Story runs from 9 - 12 September at the Rose Theatre and Artistic Director Stephen Unwin has called upon local businesses.

After the highly successful engagement preview performances at Carrollwood Cultural Center in June, The Salerno Theatre Co. is thrilled to return with the full-length production version of SERIOUSLY SINATRA. The same, enhanced and lengthened version of the show that is currently touring the State of Florida, Salerno has updated and retooled SERIOUSLY SINATRA with more of your favorite songs, video interviews and additional footage by and about 'Old Blue Eyes.'

On September 7th, First Lady Michelle Obama will invite world renowned dance companies to perform at the Administration's first event celebrating dance. The White House Dance Series: A Tribute to Judith Jamison will honor Jamison for her outstanding career as an American dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for the past 20 years. The event, featuring American dance from ballet, modern and contemporary dance, hip hop and Broadway will be held in the White House's East Room at 5:00 PM and will be pooled press.

Our Town: A Kingston Story runs from 9 - 12 September at the Rose Theatre and Artistic Director Stephen Unwin has called upon local businesses.

Viagra Falls, a new comedy which held its Off-Broadway opening night on Wednesday, July 21 at the Little Shubert Theatre, will be closing on August 29th.