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A San Francisco native who has taken New York by storm, an established New York Diva, two irresistible cabaret concerts, one unforgettable day and one beautiful venue. Such is the recipe that Bay Area Cabaret has created for the send-off of its most successful season to date. Bay Area Cabaret concludes its 5th season on Sunday, May 17 at 2pm with Judy Butterfield followed by a 5pm performance by Ann Hampton Callaway; both shows are at the Marines Memorial Club Commandants Room (609 Sutter Street@ Mason). Individual tickets to these shows are available at www.bayareacabaret.org or City Box Office (415) 392-4400. Tickets to Ms. Callaway?s show are $45 general admission/$40 for subscribers. Judy Butterfield tickets are $35 general admission/$20 for subscribers and Callaway ticketholders.

Boxcar Theatre announces the final performance venues for their upcoming production of Euripides? Ion. Performed as part of Boxcar Theatre?s Free Theatre Initiative, all nine performances are free of charge to all audiences. Featuring three Boxcar company members, Peter Matthews (also one of the Artistic Directors of Boxcar), Stephanie Maysonave, and Sarah Savage, Ion pushes all three actors to test their limits as they all share all seven characters.

The weather's not the only thing that's been heating up the Altarena Playhouse lately. Final rehearsals for our production of Tennessee Williams' white-hot drama A Streetcar Named Desire are underway, and it looks like there will be more than a few sparks onstage when the show opens next Friday, May 8th and runs until June 7th. Tickets for this Sue Trigg-directed show cast $20 (general admission), and $17 (students under 18 and seniors 62+). Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.altarena.org/ or by phone at 510-523-1552 (1:00 - 6:00pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays).

The Traveling Jewish Theatre just added some new dates to the production of The Floating Light Bulb by Woody Allen. The play runs until Sunday, May 24. The have also teamed up with Coffee Bar for a package deal of dinner and a show.

San Jose Repertory Theatre is proud to conclude its 2008-2009 season with the smash hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The Tony® award-winning musical comedy ? one of Broadways most talked about hits ? is in attendance at San Jose Rep. This hilarious tale of six adolescent outsiders vying for the Spelling Bee title is directed by Timothy Near. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee begins previews on May 9, opens on May 15 and closes June 7.

23 Elephants proudly presents The Unspeakable Act, a hilariously twisted fairytale you won?t be telling your children anytime soon. Inspired by an ancient Japanese fairytale, The Unspeakable Act follows an empress on her journey of sexual discovery with an unlikely lover: a hermit-monk turned demonic sex stud. Through the use of improvisation, dance and 80?s music 23 Elephants has created a show rife with physical comedy and throbbing with innuendo.

Jazz singer Diane Schuur comes to The Rrazz Room at The Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason, San Francisco CA. with a brand new show for a five day run, opening May 20 through May 24. Performances are at 8 PM with the Sunday, May 24 show at 7 PM. Tickets are $45-$49.50, and can be purchased at www.therrazzroom.com or directly through ticketweb.com or by calling 866 468 3399.

The Dramatists Guild of America announces the deadline to select the next group of young writers to participate in the Dramatists Guild Fellowship Program. The deadline for submissions to the 2009-1010 Fellowship program is Friday, May 9, 2009. Application requirements can be found on the Dramatists Guild website, www.dramatistsguild.com.

Theatre Works is set to present Tom Dudzick's Over the Tavern. This Connie Anderson-directed show will be performed May 15 at 8:00pm, May 16 at 8:00pm, May 17 at 2:00pm, May 22 at 8:00pm, May 23 at 8:00pm, and May 24 at 8:00pm. Tickets are $18 (general admission) and $15 for seniors 62 and older and children 12 and under. A season subscription costs $48 (just $12 per show).

The Cult singer Ian Astbury will be hitting the stage with his new project The Soft Revolt to raise money for Apollonia Players' production of Savage in Limbo by John Patrick Shanley (a silent auction will also be held). The Bowery Electric will be hosting a run of the play from June 12th to the 28th. Shanley is best known for his work Doubt, which was made into an Oscar-nominated film last year starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The New Conservatory Theatre Center is pleased to announce auditions for their 2009-2010 Pride Season production of Good Boys and True, by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and directed by John Dixon.

Diversionary Theatre's 2009-2010 season of two gender-bending musicals and four provocative plays includes two West Coast Premieres, dynamic local actors and directors, and a reading of a new queer opera. The six-show mainstage season includes: the new musical Twist by Gila Sand and Paul Leschen, based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, directed by James Vasquez; Bent, the seminal play by Martin Sherman, in a co-production with ion theatre company; Paul Rudnick's big gay comedy The New Century, directed by Igor Goldin; same-sex marriage gets a comic nod with The Marriage Bed by Nona Shepphard, directed by Rosina Reynolds; laugh out loud with teenage angst in Speech and Debate by Steven Karam, directed by Jason Southerland; and filled with melancholy and lust, the musical play Moscow, by Nick Salamone and Maury R. McIntyre, rounds out the season.

MotorCity Casino Hotel presents Melissa Etheridge 'Live and Alone' Friday June 26th at 8:00 pm.

Tickets are available from www.intiman.org or 206.269.1900. Tickets range in price from $40 to $55, with discounts available for youth, seniors and groups. All patrons who were 12 years old in 1962 will receive $12 off the adult-ticket price, with proof of age. Patrons 25 and under can purchase tickets to any performance for $10. Pending availability, rush tickets will be sold 15 minutes before curtain for $20. Intiman will offer a pay-what-you-can performance (with a $5 suggested minimum per ticket) on Friday, May 22 at 8 pm. This production is recommended for ages 12 and up.

TheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, has announced that Meredith McDonough will fill the role of Director of New Works. She replaces Kent Nicholson, who left in late 2008 to become the Director of Musical Theatre Development at Playwrights Horizons. An ideal candidate, McDonough has been actively developing new works for the past ten years at theatres including Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Round House Theatre, The Public Theatre, LABryinth Theatre Company, Ars Nova, Women?s Project and Productions, New Georges, and the Drama League. She spent two years as the New Works Program Director at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and three seasons as a resident director at Actors Theatre of Louisville, famed for its annual Humana Festival of New American Plays. She has personally directed over twenty world premiere plays and musicals. McDonough holds an M.F.A. in Directing from University of California, San Diego, and a B.S. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, on the verge of turning the big 3-0, is excited to announce the lineup of plays for the 30th Season (2009-10). Featured are a World Premiere by Danai Gurira (In the Continuum), exciting new works from Mike Daisey (If You See Something Say Something), Rajiv Joseph (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo), and Bruce Norris (The Unmentionables), and a large-scale work by Charles L. Mee (Big Love). In addition, Woolly Mammoth?s favorite out-of-town troupe, The Neo-Futurists, returns to DC for an unprecedented fourth engagement of their hit show, Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind in December.

The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport is pleased to present Tony Award nominee Michael McGrath and Broadway veteran Jim Poulos in Neil Simon's hilarious comedy The Odd Couple.

With Bated Breath, a new play by Bryden MacDonald opened last week to an enthusiastic standing ovation. See for yourself why Montrealers are talking about this highly theatrical, poetic and provocative play!

On Thursday, May 21, TheatreWorks New Milford will present a free staged reading of the classic film, All About Eve, at 8:00 pm, at the Theatre, 5 Brookside Ave, in New Milford. The reading will be followed by a wine and cheese reception.

Disney Theatrical Productions and Broadway/San Diego ~ A Nederlander Presentation announced today that tickets for the long-awaited return engagement of Disney?s The Lion King will go on sale to the public on Thursday, May 14 at 10AM. San Diego?s most eagerly awaited return will once again leap onto the Civic Theatre stage on Tuesday, October 13 for a limited engagement of four weeks through Sunday, November 8. The opening night is Thursday, October 15 at 7:30PM. This North American National Tour is currently one of seven productions running worldwide along with New York, London, Hamburg, Tokyo, Paris, and Fukuoka. A new sit-down production will begin in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Theatre on May 5.