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Friday, September 17, Jeff Daniels will make his third visit to the Grand Opera House in Oshkosh, WI where he will perform original blues inspired music to celebrate the re-opening of Wisconsin's oldest operating theatre.

The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center will present the touring reinvention of the 2008 Tony Award winning musical, South Pacific. The show won seven honors including Best Musical Revival and Best Director (Bartlett Sher).

The Theater Department of Middlebury College has announced some of their upcoming events for the 2010-2011 season, including a unique discussion series which accompanies each of the featured shows. This season's events include Major Barbara, Hecuba, Eurydice and Victory.

The Middlebury Actors Workshop presents Shirley Valentine, a one-woman comedy centered around a middle-aged British woman whose disappointing life changes dramatically when an unexpected opportunity is offered to her. The show stars actress Karen Lefkoe as Shirley Valentine, and is directed by Douglas Anderson.

Lost Nation Theater presents The Complete History of America- Abridged, a comedic and family-friendly look at 600 years of American history, all presented in just 6,000 seconds. The show, described as 'the Daily Show meets the Marx Brothers' takes patriotism to a unique new level.

This September, the Saint Albans Society for the Performing Arts (SASPA) presents Camelot: The Musical. The musical, which was written by Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music) and is based on T. H. White's King Arthur legend from the novel The Once and Future King.

Vermont Stage Company, Burlington's year-round professional theatre company, has announced events for their upcoming season, featuring The Glass Menagerie, Oliver Twist and Underneath the Lintel.

Vermont's Flynn Center and Weston Playhouse Theatre Company will present 'Death of a Salesman' starring Christopher Lloyd on Saturday, October 9 at 8pm. Winner of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize, Death of a Salesman tells the story of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman who struggles with the changes of time and his failure to reach success as he and his family pursue the 'American Dream.'

The Hale Centre Theatre is currently in the middle of its run of Gilbert and Sullivan's Tony Award winning musical comedy, The Pirates of Penzance. The show, which presents a group of pirates gleefully infiltrating a small village brings the audience into a world filled with colorful costumes, clever music, mayhem and plenty of tom-foolery.

September 18th, Generation A, along with the Grand Theater, brings together some of Utah's improv comedians on one stage for the 1st annual Battle of the Improvs at the Grand Theater in Salt Lake City. The event challenges these comedians to duke it out for the title of Utah's funniest, to be decided by the audience.

Generation A is pleased to announce the 2nd annual Utah Local Festival of Arts (UTLFA). This event will provide a place where local artists will display their work while attracting visitors who have an appreciation for art. The festival will be held Saturday October 9, 2010 from 10am to 11 pm at the Salt Lake Masonic Temple, 650 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City.

The hope-filled, Depression-era musical Annie is currently playing at the Heritage Theatre in Brigham City, and has extended its run through September 18th, due to the popularity of the show.

This November the Pinnacle Acting Company will present Dancing at Lughnasa, a play by Brian Friel. The play tells the story of five unmarried sisters living in Ireland in 1936 and will be hosted at the Midvale Performing Arts Center.

September 18th at Sandy, Utah's Amphitheater, David Wilcox will perform a concert featuring his solo acoustic music. Wilcox's performances emphasize his connection to music as a way of 'navigating a life worth singing about.'

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.

Join Little Red Riding Hood as she learns all about STRANGER DANGER. This classic fairy tale comes alive when Little Riding Hood meets Wolfie and Skunk, a mischievous duo from the woods. With a little luck and some help from her friends, she might just make it to Grandmother's house while learning an important message along the way: 'Never Talk to Strangers!

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.'

Oscar de la Renta, Diane Von Furstenberg, Justin Timberlake, Tory Burch and Anna Wintour will be among the many fashion industry stars featured in FASHION'S NIGHT OUT 2010, a one-hour primetime special that takes viewers behind the scenes of the world's largest fashion celebration, to be broadcast Tuesday, Sept. 14 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The special will be hosted by Emmy Award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris, star of the CBS comedy series, 'How I Met Your Mother.'

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.