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This weekend, the Cornelia Street Cafe will host an open mic poetry series. Featured poets and readers include Pandora Scooter, Jennifer Gugliemo, Clare Ultimo and Karen Taylor.

There will be several events being hosted in Tulsa for the rest of August and September.

There will be several productions and exhibits presented in New York City in September.

The Grove Theatre will be introducing two new productions, 'Tuesdays with Morrie' and Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' to its lineup this month. 'Tuesdays with Morrie' opens on August 13. 'The Little Mermaid' opens August 21.

Linda Griffiths' play 'Age of Arousal', directed by Jackie Maxwell, opens at the Canadian Shaw Festival's Court House Theatre on August 13. Previews for the play started on July 23. The play is booked until October 10.

Theatre for the New City will host EGO ACTUS presents BROWNSTONE BREAKDOWN from August 12 until August 22. The play is written by Carol W. Berman and directed by Joan Kane. It will feature William Allgood, Debby Brand, Alfred Gingold*, Cat Migliaccio, Shai Trichter*, Viet Vo, and Richard Zekaria.

As a centerpiece of the Morrisville Business Association's borough-wide celebration of a 'Revolutionary Weekend,' Aug. 20 - 22, the nonprofit Actors' NET of Bucks County presents an encore production of the award winning musical 1776. With activities ranging from tours of Historic Summerseat, a colonial era home once owned by two signers of the Declaration of Independence (Robert Morris, for whom the borough is named, and George Clymer), to a special Saturday afternoon program Aug. 22 featuring actor/interpreters discussing the Revolutionary War effort, the weekend promises to be its own historic event. Many businesses and restaurants are offering discounts to residents and visitors to the picturesque community located just across the Delaware River from Trenton, NJ.

The Manhattan Theatre Club will be hosting a free live staged reading of select scenes from the feature film screenplay 'Wonder Drug' on Tuesday, August 17, from 5:30-6:30 PM. This will include the reading and a brief question and answer period. Doors open at 5PM.

Variety reports that Marc Anthony will be guest starring in TNT's hit show 'HawthoRNe', which also stars Jada Pinkett Smith. Anthony will portray a New York Detective, Nick Renata, who is in Richmond investigating a kidnapping and also falls for Smith's character.

EW.com's Ausiello Files reports exclusively today that Tony and Emmy Winner Judd Hirsch will guest star on Syfy's Warehouse 13 in a special holiday episode later this year, according to EW.com. Hirsch will play Artie's (Saul Rubinek) estranged father. According to the report, Paul Blackthorne (The Gates) also guest stars in the episode, playing 'a workaholic who runs afoul of a thief with a Santa fetish.'

GLEE star Mark Salling, who plays Puck on the hit show, will be releasing his new solo album, 'Pipe Dreams,' on October 12 under the banner of his own label, Pipe Dreams Records. The album, reports USMagazine, will have a 'classic rock 'n' roll, alternative music and a '60s folk-beat era sound.' Salling is said to be writing performing and producing each track on the disc. The first single, 'Higher Power,' was released on August 10.

he third annual Los Angeles Festival of New American Musicals will close with a special concert honoring one of LA's greatest musical theatre composers, Tony Award-winning Jason Robert Brown. The FNAM closing party will be held on August 21, at 4PM. The concert will feature Jason Robert Brown on the piano, accompanied by special guests Adam Pascal, Lara Pulver, Graham Phillips, Nita Whitaker, and The Theatre Geeks of America singing to several of Brown's works.

Fortyfive Downstairs will be hosting several events during the 2010-11 Season, including the play 'Do not go gentle...', the 'Unrepresented' exhibit, readings of a new play, and much more. For complete listings, go to www.fortyfivedownstairs.com.

According to Dress Circle, a special 25th anniversary two-disc edition of 'Les Misérables Live!' will be released in the UK on September 13. The recorded cast includes Madalena Alberto, Ashley Artus, Earl Carpenter, Gareth Gates, Katie Hall, Rosalind James, and other members of the 2010 UK Tour. The tour will play at the Barbican Theatre in London for 22 performances, beginning on September 14.

The Juke Joint is back this October with three big shows over two nights, including its first regional show, all climaxing with multiple WAMi Award-winning blues-rock siren Abbe May. Now in its third year, The Juke Joint has become one of SA's most loved homegrown music events because of its simple philosophy: plate up a feast of the best blues talent that this city and this country have to offer for undernourishedAdelaide music fans and let the high times roll.

Matthew Lutton directs a cast of seven diverse performers including John Gaden, Ewen Leslie and Belinda McClory in Louise Fox's new adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel, The Trial. The indefinable, elusive and mysterious power of Kafka's wit, clowning, farce and obsession with the erotic is mined to the full in Sydney Theatre Company's partnership with Malthouse Melbourne and Perth's ThinIce. Performances at Sydney's Wharf 1 commence on 9 September 2010, opening 14 September.

Goodman Theatre announces the 12-member cast for Robert Fall's intimate new production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (rehearsals begin August 24, tickets go on sale August 13). This 19th century masterpiece is brought to life by a company including Francis Guinan (August: Osage County; The Grapes of Wrath) in his Goodman debut as the retired judge Peter Sorin and Mary Beth Fisher (Rock 'N' Roll; The Year of Magical Thinking) as his sister, Irina Arkadina, a beautiful, selfish actress. Also joining the cast are Janet Ulrich Brooks (Polina); Rebecca Buller (Maid); Cliff Chamberlain (Boris Trigorin, Irina's young lover), Dietrich Gray (Yakov); Stephen Louis Grush (Konstantin Trepliov, Irina's twenty-five year old playwright son); Scott Jaeck (Dr. Eugene Dorn); Kelly O'Sullivan (Masha); Steve Pickering (Ilia Shamrayev, Sorin's estate manager); Demetrios Troy (Simon Medvendenko); and Heather Wood (Nina Zarietchnaya). The Seagull runs October 16 - November 14, 2010 in the Owen Theatre; tickets are $10 - $45. Kirkland & Ellis LLP is the Contributing Sponsor of The Seagull.Artistic Director Robert Falls returns to the work of Anton Chekhov following previous productions of Three Sisters at the Goodman (1995, with a cast including Calista Flockhart, Susan Bruce and Jenny Bacon) and Orchards: Seven American Playwrights Present Stories by Chekhov (1986, adaptations by Maria Irene Fornes, Spalding Gray, John Guare, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein, Michael Weller and Samm-Art Williams-The Acting Company/New York, tour with off-Broadway opening).

Pumpkin Theatre is very excited to be opening our 43rd season with the show Hansel and Gretel. We believe in providing quality children's theater that the whole family can enjoy. Hansel & Gretel runs September 25 - October 3. Performances take place at St. Timothy's School, 8400 Greenspring Avenue Saturday's and Sunday's at 1 and 3pm. Tickets are $12 in advance, $14 at the door and subscriptions are available by calling the box office at 410 828 1814 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              410 828 1814      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              410 828 1814      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              410 828 1814      end_of_the_skype_highlighting or visiting our website at www.pumpkintheatre.com.

The Seattle Theatre Group (STG) will start to sell tickets for several concerts this week, including Angus & Julia Stone, Sufjan Stevens and Mumford & Sons. More details can be found on their website at www.stgpresents.org.

New York City's Department of Parks & Recreation is pleased to announce White Ghost, an exhibition of two new sculptures by Yoshitomo Nara to be featured on the Park Avenue Malls at East 67th Street and East 70th Street from September 6 through November 5, 2010. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Art Production Fund and The Sculpture Committee of The Fund for Park Avenue.