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BATS Improv is pleased to present their 19th Annual Summer Improv Festival. Five weeks of amazing improv from the BATS Main Stage Company featuring a new show every weekend, including the annual SF vs. LA Theatresports Grudge Match on Saturday, August 17!

VALUE NIGHT at the Meroney Theater, tonight, July 31st at 7:30pm.

Professional theaters from across Michigan will share the spotlight August 19 when The 2013 Wilde Awards are presented at The Berman Center for the Performing Arts in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield. Presented by EncoreMichigan.com, the most comprehensive resource for news and information about the state's professional theater industry, The Wilde Awards were established by Pride Source Media Group in 2002 to honor the excellent work produced by Michigan's professional theaters.

The heat wave may be over, but it's still sizzlin' hot at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center. If you thought July was on fire, wait until you see what August is cooking up! From classic country to bayou blues, superhuman dancers to tall toe-tappers, uproarious comedians to family friendly fun, the WHBPAC invites everyone to experience the magic of live performance!

Midwest New Musicals presents NORTH SHORE B & B (BOATS AND BEACHES), the 2013 Mini-Musicals Project today, July 21, 3:00 PM at Light Opera Works Second Stage at McGaw YMCA Children's Center Auditorium, 1420 Maple (at Lake) in Evanston.

The Donkey Show's glittery world gets a little more glitter with "Queen Night!" The Queens will be in the disco booth and all over the dance floor shaking their groove thang before and during the show, and highlighted by a disco diva inspired performance.

Award-winning Off Broadway playwright Monica Bauer's new solo show makes its American premiere at the East to Edinburgh Festival, at 59E59 Theaters.

The High Plains Comedy Festival, brought to you by Illegal Pete's,Denver Relief, Sexy Pizza, and Odell Brewing Co., is excited to announce the second wave of festival performers, the locals representing Denver! The Denver comedy scene has exploded onto the national comedy consciousness, leaving many comics and comedy fans alike to wonder, 'What's going on in Denver that they're churning out such great comedians?' These performers working their butts off is what. From local legends to current heavy-hitters to up-and-coming performers who you may not know about but should, the comedians here represent the best of what Denver comedy is all about. These talented locals performing at the festival can be found on the website, national headliners below.

Set in rural Mississippi, this coming-of-age ghost story revolves around a small Southern family on the verge of transformation. The unrelenting July heat presses in on seventeen-year old Ace and his mother Lily as they dig their way out of the past.

The Lake Worth Playhouse celebrates Hispanic culture with In The Heights, a musical that is sure to have everyone singing and dancing with contemporary dance including salsa, jazz and freestyle hip hop.

newportFILM 2013 Summer Schedule. Visit newportfilm.com to RSVP/purchase tickets and for more information

Set in rural Mississippi, this coming-of-age ghost story revolves around a small Southern family on the verge of transformation. The unrelenting July heat presses in on seventeen-year old Ace and his mother Lily as they dig their way out of the past.

Four short plays based around the theme of Boom and all set at the St. James Tavern, A Tale Oft Told by Christopher Lockheardt, Boom by Doug Powhida, This is Boombastia by Chris Morris, and We Read Together by Scott Tobin

All summer and into the fall, Fox Valley Repertory brings nostalgic musicals and relatable comedies to the Pheasant Run Mainstage. The summer includes: the rocking '60s musical, Why Do Fools Fall In Love, FVR Youth Ensembles journey across the famous yellow brick road, The Wizard Of Oz, the insightful and comical play, Defending the Caveman, Mike Toomey's multimedia comedic recollection of television in TV & Me, Chicago's finest improv troupe performing The Best of The Second City, and a classic tribute to the legendary composer Cole Porter, Let's Misbehave , at Pheasant Run Resort (4051 E. Main St., St. Charles, IL; 630-584-6342).

Soprano Sarah Joy Miller, star of the upcoming U.S. premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage'sAnna Nicole - a co-production of BAM and New York City Opera - will appear as Anna Nicole Smith atop a float in this year's Heritage of Pride Parade.

Soprano Sarah Joy Miller, star of the upcoming U.S. premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage'sAnna Nicole - a co-production of BAM and New York City Opera - will appear as Anna Nicole Smith atop a float in this year's Heritage of Pride Parade.

Attic Theatre Company and Sixteenfeet Productions are set to bring a little sunshine to South London this summer, as they join forces to present TWELFTH NIGHT or What You Will in two magical outdoor locations. Morden Hall Park and Brockwell Park will by turns host this exciting new staging of Shakespeare's bittersweet comedy, between today, 27th June and 14th July.

Trinayan Dance Theater proudly presents DanceFest INDIA! Kicking off today, June 25th until June 30th, the six-day festival celebrates the eternal beauty and zest for life of classical Indian dance. The events will take place in downtown Brooklyn's ever-burgeoning cultural district (home of BAM and the new Barclays Center), continuing to make Brooklyn a cultural destination.

Brooklyn's acclaimed Brave New World Repertory Theatre is taking Elmer Rice's 1929 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Street Scene to the streets--literally...in a special multicultural interpretation.

A new memoir by Robert Atwan has begun in Believer magazine from the perspective of Thomas Buchanan, Daisy's husband and the villain of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. The memoir, which is titled “That Summer, 1922: A Counter Memoir by Thomas Buchanan,” is one of a few new versions of Fitzgerald's novel to be written recently. Since the release of Baz Luhrmann's movie of The Great Gatsby has caused a spike in sales of the novel, imitations are likely on the horizon.