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Theatre Tulsa's 2010-2011 season, entitled Transitions, will end with Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse's Life With Father, directed by Billie Sue Thompson, and Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters, directed by Vern Stefanic.

After a successful and well attended first performance last month, Loring Theater Live returns to the Loring Theater stage. Echoing the theater's vaudeville roots, the monthly modern day variety show brought the 90 year old theater space to life with an artists' market place, belly dancers, live music and art, comedy performances, dancing and aerial artists.

This March, The Straddler will present its second theatrical production, Trousers by Dan Monaco. A bruisingly comic play that pits two men against one another-one wearing a fifteen-foot pair of trousers, one not wearing any trousers at all-the piece explores some of the more desperate corners of our society and aims to answer the question: just what does it mean to wear a pair of pants?

After a brief hiatus, the Amsterdam Marionette Company will resume performances of The Amazing Journey of Doctor Faust on Mar. 20. The play, which uses music by Gounod, Marenco, Wagner and Offenbach, started on Jan. 23 and continued until Feb. 13. Faust will now close on May 28.

Hartford Stage will celebrate the artistic partnership among director Michael Wilson, set designer Jeff Cowie, and sound designer John Gromada in Working with Michael, a multi-media exhibit in 'room,' Hartford Stage's new function space. At the same time, the theatre will unveil Part II of Capturing the Moment, a season-long retrospective of the work of company photographer T. Charles Ericson, commemorating his 25 years with Hartford Stage. The Ericson installation will be in the theatre's upper lobby. The exhibits coincide with the run of Divine Rivalry, a world premiere play by noted political journalist Michael Kramer, which is the last MainStage production Wilson will be directing as Hartford Stage Artistic Director. Cowie designed the sets for the production, and Gromada the sound and original music. Official opening of both exhibits is Wednesday, March 2 at 6:00 p.m., directly before the 7:30 performance of Divine Rivalry.

Chicago actors join the cast of Belarus Free Theatre's (BFT) acclaimed production of Being Harold Pinter for a one-night-only encore benefit performance on February 21 at 7:30pm. Tony-and Emmy Award-winning John Mahoney (Frasier, The Seafarer), Karen Aldridge (The Trinity River Plays, The Cook), Phillip James Brannon (The Brother/Sister Plays, Richard III), Joseph Foronda (Pacific Overtures, Miss Saigon), Ora Jones (Animal Crackers, The Brother/Sister Plays), Sandra Marquez (Boleros for the Disenchanted, Anna in the Tropics) and Teatro Vista Artistic Director Edward F. Torres (Electricidad, Elliot (A Soldier's Fugue)) join the Belarusian company on stage during the moving climactic moments of Being Harold Pinter, concluding an historic theatrical event for the City of Chicago. Two additional Chicago actors are still to be announced.

Celebrating the first 15 years of the Musical Theatre program, Missouri State University will present FOOTNOTES, a joint showcase of graduating students and alumni on Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 9:30 pm at Joe's Pub in New York. The cast includes Kyle Dean Massey (Next to Normal), Kendra Kassebaum (Wicked) and Andrew C. Call (American Idiot). The evening spotlights alumni instrumental in developing the musical theatre degree, as well as recent graduates and a handful of graduating seniors.

A day-of-performance lottery for a limited number of orchestra seats will be held daily for WICKED, which will be performing from February 23 through March 27, 2011 at The Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre. Each day, 2½ hours prior to the show, people that present themselves at The Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre box office will have their names placed in a lottery drum. 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.

Whatever it is, you'll find your music in March at the Palladium! Blues legends Rory Block, Roy Book Binder, Paul Geremia and Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes will raise the roof with our first concert of the month on March 5, The Greatest Blues Show on Earth! The timeless jazz of Peggy Lee, Duke Ellington, Anita O'Day, Joni Mitchell, Carmen McRae, Nancy Wilson, Shirley Horn and Ella Fitzgerald graces the stages of Hough Hall and the Side Door in numerous concerts throughout the month.

Rock and pop legends Ronnie Spector (of The Ronettes) and Jon 'Bowzer' Bauman (of Sha Na Na) team up to host a celebration of the best-loved songs from the late 1950s and early 1960s in an all-new MY MUSIC concert event. Recorded in May 2010, this special offers emotion-packed performances from iconic voices singing songs that have remained popular for over forty years. ROCK, POP & DOO WOP (MY MUSIC) is part of special programming premiering on PBS stations beginning March 5, 2011 and airing throughout March (check local listings).

Theatre Downtown will present the Central Floriday premiere of Tracy Letts' Tony-winning play August: Osage County. The production, directed by Frank Hilgenberg, will play weekends from Mar. 4th through Mar. 27th.

Last night, Run of the Mill Theater unveiled its latest production, RUR: Reboot, a world premiere adaptation by Debbie Harbin of the 1923 classic RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots). This play continues through Sunday, Feb. 27 and coincides with the readings of the Variations on Chaos submissions on Sunday, Feb. 20.

Legendary rock star Bret Michaels and the leading media and event company in the endurance sports industry, Competitor Group, have announced plans to join forces at four Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series events in 2011, beginning Sunday, March 27 at the Rock 'n' Roll Dallas Half Marathon benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Other shows are scheduled for Philadelphia (Sept. 18), Los Angeles (Oct. 30) and a fourth city yet to be announced.

The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts has announced the rest of its shows for February and March. The lineup includes Stephen Sondheim classics, Broadway tours, Beethoven concerts, ballet, jazz performances and more. Visit thehobbycenter.org for tickets and more information.

The Flomenhaft Gallery is excited to exhibit Mira Lehr's newest paintings in the series Burnt Offerings, running from Mar. 3 - Apr. 16 with an opening reception on Mar. 3. These works truly relate to the past, present and future. They have been created with all the beauty of the works that we know and love, but something has now been added; they are created with the additional element of gunpowder.

Manhattan Movement & Arts Center presents The Playground, a workshop series for professional dancers from Monday, February 28, 2011 through Friday, March 25, 2011 at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center at 248 W. 60th Street, NYC (between Amsterdam and West End Avenues) in the Lincoln Center area. The workshop will be held every weekday from 1-3pm. The entry fee is $5, payable at the door in cash only.

The second new musical in Village Theatre's 5-show season is the outrageous commie-dy, Iron Curtain, directed by Steve Tomkins, named one of Seattle Magazine's 'Most Influential of 2010.' From the writing team who brought the 2007 production of Once Upon a Time in New Jersey to the Mainstage, the new musical Iron Curtain is chock-full of talent, and some of Seattle's funniest, funny people are set to appear.

Westport Country Playhouse will host its second annual open house, "Playhouse Community Day," on Saturday, March 19, 1 to 5 p.m., offering a wide variety of family activities, backstage tours, displays and historic artifacts, insight on the upcoming 2011 season and ticket discounts throughout the afternoon. Admission is free and open to the public. Complimentary snacks and beverages will be available.

Hungarian Echoes: A Philharmonic Festival conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, will take place March 10-26, 2011. Program III, which will be performed Friday and Saturday, March 18-19, 2011, at 8:00 p.m., and Tuesday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m., will feature Bartok's opera, Bluebeard's Castle, starring mezzo-soprano Michelle De Young, bass Gabor Bretz - making his New York Philharmonic debut - and actress Marthe Keller, who will recite the Bard's Poem at the beginning of the work. The program opens with Ligeti's Concert Romanesc and Haydn's Symphony No. 7, Le Midi.

The Civilians (Steven Cosson, Artistic Director), the award-winning New York-based theatre company known for projects investigating real life topics, presents Let Me Ascertain You: Pretty Filthy, a one-night-only cabaret performance at Joe's Pub on March 4, 2011 at 9:30 PM. Back by popular demand after sold-out evenings in both NY and LA, the March cabaret offers even more enticing interviews from the company's unique exploration into the adult entertainment industry. Civilians' artists have been out in Vegas and California's San Fernando Valley talking to directors, performers, agents, and producers about the ins and outs of the dirty movie biz: how they do it and what it takes to make it. New excerpts from interviews with well-known adult entertainment figures, as well as new songs by Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson composer and lyricist, Michael Friedman will be performed by the talented cast. Come spend the night with The Civilians - maybe you'll get lucky and win a prize! Seriously, there will be prizes (porn charades anyone?).