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Sir Michael Parkinson will soon arrive to tour Australia in Parky The One - Man Show, an evening with Michael Parkinson live on stage, when he will relive the best of his guests and their greatest moments on screen.

Wayland Pickard is headlining his award-winning solo Liberace show, 'The Wonderful World of Liberace', on Friday, Sept 25th in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at the Mitchell Hall Auditorium, a 1,500 seat theatre.

In 1996 the folks at the Shelterbelt Theatre came up with the idea of putting together a Halloween-themed presentation of original short plays. They called it Shelterskelter. The show was a hit, and this year Shelterskelter returns for installment number fourteen with ten original short plays dealing with horror, murder, mystery and the macabre.

'The Girl Singers of the Hit Parade' is a truly entertaining show jam-packed with hit after hit from some of the best-loved female vocalists of all-time. You'll not only hear fantastic music performed by an outstanding cast, Colleen Raye, Jennifer Grimm, Debra O'Keefe and Sophia Grimm, but also take a nostalgic trip back to a simpler time. Accompanied by three extraordinary musicians under the Direction of Norton Lawellin, the music has a 'true to the era' sound with background vocals and instrumentals.

New Theatre, Cardiff is set to present We're Going on a Bear Hunt from Wednesday 30 September - Saturday 3 October. The show will be performed Wednesdays - Fridays at 10.30am and Saturdays at 10.30am & 12.30pm.

Spotlighters Theatre brings Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, the classic fairy tale to life on their intimate stage.

A noteable, benefit staged reading of the new play Coffee Stains from playwright Scott Damian, will be presented September 27th and 28th at 7:30 p.m. at the Zephyr Theatre, 7456 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, California, 90046. The proceeds will be going to The Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation. The benefit is being produced by Tony Nominated Producer Heather Provost (Reasons To Be Pretty, [title of show], ?Reality Check?).

The following are SARTA's announcements and upcoming events.

The following are Green Country Area Theatre updates.

Don?t take the upcoming Playmaker production about Dracula too seriously. The vampire in ?Dracula: the Musical?? is bumbling and inept, more like The Count in the films 'Love at First Bite' or 'Dracula: Dead and Loving It.' Neither has he any similarity with the current heartthrob, Edward, in the Twilight series. This Dracula loses track of time and fails to return to his castle before sunrise. He spends several days in a sanitarium, interacting with its doctors and patients.

Sofa Chicago 2009, the critically acclaimed Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair returning to Navy Pier?s Festival Hall this November to showcase three-dimensional masterworks from top international galleries and dealers, proudly presents A Superior Stroll: A Sofa Chicago Sneak Preview Benefitting River North Chicago Dance Company, Tuesday, Oct. 6 from 6 to 8 p.m. Proceeds from the evening benefit River North Chicago Dance Company. This exclusive preview event takes place at three galleries on Superior Street in the River North Gallery District, and includes complimentary wine and appetizers. Tickets are on sale now, and are $25 in advance at www.rivernorthchicago.com or $30 at the door.

Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) is thrilled to announce that the eighth annual Tommy Tune Awards will include 45 high schools from the greater Houston area. Developed by TUTS in 2002, the Tommy Tune Awards honor musical theatre excellence at the high school level. During the 2009-2010 school year, a team of 35 Houston-based theatre professionals will evaluate the participating high school productions and announce the winners at a Tony Awards-style ceremony to be held April 20, 2010 at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. The event will feature spotlight numbers from the nominated shows, as well as award presentations to the performers, directors, choreographers, orchestras and designers, who have defined excellence throughout 2009 - 2010.

BPAC announces a special offer for BPAC newsletter subscribers: Half price tickets ($8) are now available for Chameleon Theatre Circle's production of 'Paper Dolls' at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center's Black Box Theater. Follow the 'find tickets' link below.

A world premiere By Kristoffer Diaz Directed by Eddie Torres September 25 ? November 1, 2009 Macedonio Guerra is a middle rank pro wrestler who may have discovered his ticket to the big time: an impossibly charismatic, hip-hop-influenced Indian kid from Brooklyn. Their boss has the perfect concept for their in-ring alter egos: pair them as a team of terrorists. Diaz? smart, comic look at pro wrestling, geopolitics, and refrigerator crispers is a theatrical smack down of dazzling hip-hop language presented with a fresh, funny, high-octane flair. Set in the world of professional wrestling, Chad also raises pertinent questions about racial identity and pop culture in our society. In addition to generating major buzz last summer at Ignition, Chad Deity was a finalist for the 2008 O'Neill Playwrights Conference, and subsequently won Arizona Theater Company?s National Latino Playwriting Award. His other plays include Welcome to Arroyo's and Guernica, which have been produced and developed at American Theatre Company, The Orchard Project, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, The Lark, Summer Play Festival, Donmar Warehouse, and South Coast Rep. Diaz also was one of the creators of Brink!, the apprentice anthology show at the 2009 Humana Festival of New American Plays. He is a 2009-2010 Jerome Fellow, and a new playwright-in-residence at Teatro Vista. Read more about the making of Chad Diety at http://backstageatthebiograph.wordpress.com/ SPECIAL EVENTS Open Rehearsal September 19th, 6 pm Enjoy a behind-the-scenes peek at rehearsal, followed by a talkback. Lincoln Park Neighbors Night Wednesday, September 30th - 6pm Event, 7:30pm Show Come early for a pre-show rubdown and reception before you enter the ring, courtesy of Lincoln Park Massage Spa and Fiesta Mexicana. Humanities Nights Thursday, October 1st - 6 pm Event; 7:30pm performance and Thursday, October 8th - 6 pm pre-show event; 7:30pm performance Chicago hip-hop poet Kevin Coval, author of everyday people and co-founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, leads a pre-show talk about the convergence of hip-hop culture and live theater. Happy Hour Friday, October 16th - 6:30pm Event; 8pm show The series formerly known as Pub Night has a new name - Happy Hour! Come early to meet friends and make new ones over pre-show appetizers in our own Biograph lobby bar.

California Shakespeare Theater, the Bay Area's premier professional theater dedicated to reimagining classic works of world theater, today announced Building for the Future: The Cal Shakes Campaign, a visionary plan to renovate the Bruns Amphitheater and its surrounding campus in the first major upgrade since the company moved to Orinda's Siesta Valley from Berkeley nearly twenty years ago.

Playwright Greg Owens will teach four consecutive free workshops at Equinox Theatre at 2304 N. 7th Ste. C-1 October 11, 18 & 25, November 1 from 10am - 1pm. The workshops will involve creating, reading, and developing short one-act plays with the goal of generating material to be considered for Equinox Theatre's 6th Annual One-Acts Play Festival in January 2010. Submission deadline for the Festival is November 3 by e-mail to equinox1acts@gmail.com. People are encouraged to submit their plays before the workshop with the possibility of a reading and working of the play during the workshop. Attendance at the workshops is not mandatory for play submission. Please call 587-0737 to register for the free workshops.

The following are COCA's upcoming events.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is proud to be hosting pioneering British theater company Punchdrunk in its North American premiere. Co-created by Punchdrunk and the A.R.T., Sleep No More is an immersive multi-sensory theater installation inspired by Shakespeare?s Macbeth and Hitchcock?s classic thrillers. The Old Lincoln School in Brookline Village is being transformed into a supernatural landscape that will give audiences the experience of traveling through a hybrid theatrical-cinematic world.

The following are Laguna Playhouse's upcoming events through February 2010.

Magic Theatre, San Francisco?s premiere home for new plays, is proud to present the local premiere of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later. This groundbreaking original script focuses on the long-term effects of the murder of Matthew Shepard on the town of Laramie, Wyoming and how the crime continues to reverberate in our society.