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Theatre in the Square is thrilled to be bringing back the holiday favorite, Sanders Family Christmas November 22, 2010- January 1, 2012. Tickets are availableat the Box Office by calling 770-422-8369 or online at www.theatreinthesquare.com.

Atlanta's 2011 Suzi Awards for professional theatre celebrated 22 companies, hundreds of professional artists, theatre volunteers, and the Center for Puppetry Arts at a gala event Monday evening at the Conant Center on Oglethorpe University's campus. With over four hundred in attendance, the evening began as each of the casts nominated for Ensemble-Musical performed a medley of numbers from their shows. After the performances, all the casts came back on stage to await the announcement of their category's winner, reflecting Melissa McCarthy and friends at the Emmy Awards. The cast of See What I Wanna See at Actor's Express (Kylie Brown, Ingrid Cole, Dustin Lewis, Stuart Schleuse and Craig Waldrip) took home the Suzi and the congratulations of the thirty nominees on stage with them.

Replace your regular holiday tradition with a Dad's Garage tradition - kicking classic theatre in the tookus! Returning to the stage on Friday, Nov. 25th at 8pm (after three years of success) the award-winning Dad's Garage Ensemble will again be skewering the quintessential Christmas play - A Christmas Carol. You'll see your favorite characters acting in ways that might not be so familiar as our improvisers create a whole new holiday experience right before your very eyes. Every evening the audience will choose a new 'invader' (who is complete surprise to the cast and can be anything from a big purple monster to Paula Deen) to infiltrate the world of Scrooge. It's up to the cast to keep the story on track, but because this year will be bursting with even more improv flavor than last year, things are guaranteed to get even nuttier than a Cornish game hen!

The Suzi Bass Awards are proud to announce the Center for Puppetry Arts as the recipient of this year's 'Spirit of Suzi' Award. The 'Spirit of Suzi' Award is given to a person or organization that demonstrates the long-term and consistent contribution to Atlanta theatre that embodies the spirit of the late and much-loved actress Suzi Bass, for whom the Awards organization is named.

For the second time The Suzi Bass Awards will honor Atlanta's theatre volunteers with the Volunteer of the Year Award. Participating theatres nominated a volunteer, and Suzi Members will vote the winner. The 2011 season saw five nominations, each with extensive service as a board member or program and production volunteer. Full nominations can be read on the Suzi Awards website.

Can three young men attempt to honor their pledge to avoid the opposite sex, food, drink and sleep, for the sake of becoming more intellectual and contemplative? Not in Shakespeare's world and certainly not at the Shakespeare Tavern! After three young women arrive on the scene, the result is far from a blissful pondering of noble deeds and nobler thoughts. Join us for muscovites, masks and lessons about love in this lyrical comedy playing November 5 - 27 t the New American Shakespeare Tavern.

One of the best loved musicals of all time, ANNIE returns to the Fox Theatre January 14 - 22. Boasting one of Broadway's most memorable scores, including "It's the Hard-Knock Life," "Easy Street," "N.Y.C.," and the ever optimistic "Tomorrow," you can bet your bottom dollar that ANNIE will bring a smile to your face. "We are delighted that a whole new generation can experience this classic musical about never giving up hope!" says Christopher B Manos, Producer of Theater of the Stars.

On Monday, October 31st at 8pm at Dad's Garage Theatre, famous Scotland Yard detective and star of Murder, She Improvised, Sir John Holmes (aka Z. Gillispie) returns in: Monster Murder in Midtown! The Wolfman is hosting one of his famous parties in his swanky Midtown loft when his guests mysteriously start dropping left and right. It's up to Sir John Holmes and YOU to figure out who-dunnit in this improvised murder mystery.

Were you blown away by a play or musical you saw this year in Atlanta? By a particular actor or actress? By an amazing set? Now is your opportunity to let everyone know! Nominate your favorite Atlanta-area theatrical performances for the inaugural 2011 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Awards.

The Society of Educational Arts Inc. (SEA), New York City's premier bilingual arts-in-education organization and Latino Theatre Company for young audiences, presents La Cucarachita Martina at The Center for Puppetry Arts October 5 - 16, 2011. This well-known tale originated as an oral tradition and was later adapted to literary form and will have audiences laughing, singing and loving Martina!

Were you blown away by a play or musical you saw this year in Atlanta? By a particular actor or actress? By an amazing set? Now is your opportunity to let everyone know! Nominate your favorite Atlanta-area theatrical performances for the inaugural 2011 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Awards.

Witches … prophecy … greed … desire for power … a wife's yearnings … which is it that seals the tragic fate of Macbeth and his country? Journey to Scotland for this haunting tale. Macbeth is sure to thrill and to chill. See Macbeth at the New American Shakespeare Tavern, October 8 - 30, 2011.

On Monday, October 31st at 8pm at Dad's Garage Theatre, famous Scotland Yard detective and star of Murder, She Improvised, Sir John Holmes (aka Z. Gillispie) returns in: Monster Murder in Midtown! The Wolfman is hosting one of his famous parties in his swanky Midtown loft when his guests mysteriously start dropping left and right. It's up to Sir John Holmes and YOU to figure out who-dunnit in this improvised murder mystery.

The Society of Educational Arts Inc. (SEA), New York City's premier bilingual arts-in-education organization and Latino Theatre Company for young audiences, presents La Cucarachita Martina at The Center for Puppetry Arts October 5 - 16, 2011. This well-known tale originated as an oral tradition and was later adapted to literary form and will have audiences laughing, singing and loving Martina!

While energy is high at Theatre in the Square with the excitement of celebrating the 30th Anniversary Season, reality has settled on the fact that the economy has taken its toll, leaving the theatre to ask for the support of the community or risk closing its doors forever.

In its first year in the USA, Dragon Art Studio was invited to perform at the Atlanta Summer Olympics. It will return to bring five traditional and not-so-traditional fables of compassion and consideration, along with the greatest ping-pong match of all time, to life through beautiful imagery and surprising effects in this production.

A day-of-performance lottery for a limited number of orchestra seats will be held daily for WICKED, which will be performing from September 14-October 9 at The Fox Theatre as a special to the Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Atlanta 2011-12 season. Each day, 2½ hours prior to show time people who present themselves at the Fox Theatre box office will have their names placed in a lottery drum and then thirty minutes later, names will be drawn for a limited number of orchestra seats at $25 each, cash only. This lottery is available only in-person at the box office, with a limit of two tickets per person.

On Saturday, September 10, 2011, Theatre in the Square will open the doors to any who has ever thought they have what it takes to be on stage for a FREE acting class. We will be offering the free one-hour class for ages 7-15 at 10 a.m. and for ages 16 and up at 11:30 a.m. Participants are in for a real treat as the free class will take place on the Main Stage at Theatre in the Square. Anyone who attends the free class can have the $25 application fee waived for the fall classes by registering after the free class.

The Newnan Community Theatre Company, Inc., is seeking proposals for the writing of an original English language full-length play of at least ninety minutes. The subject is the 1948 murder of Wilson Turner in Coweta County, Georgia, and the trial, and events leading up to the trial, of John Wallace. Characters must include historically reasonable portrayals of John Wallace, Sheriff Lamar Potts, and Mayhayley Lancaster. The play must be able to be staged in the 1904 county courthouse in Newnan, Georgia, where the trial originally took place.

It is hard to find any theater-goer out there who isn't familiar with Frank Loesser and Jo Swerling's masterpiece of musical comedy, Guys and Dolls. When those storied gangsters from the classic musical "roll" into town at the Fox on August 16, joining them will be Atlanta native and favorite, Glen Rainey. I had the chance to talk with Glen about his career, his character and being a part of this production. Overall, I believe the interview went "Nicely Nicely, thank you." You be the judge