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TACTA Productions recently what's on the board for this week. It is as follows:

From September 24 to 26, 2009, the Joan B. Kroc Institute of Peace & Justice is presenting a three-day event to highlight the ability of the arts to transform individuals and reconcile communities who have suffered conflict and violence. Titled Bearing Exquisite Witness, the festival will showcase playwrights, filmmakers, poets, musicians, visual artists and academics from the fields of theater arts and conflict resolution who are using the creative power of art to raise awareness, prevent violence, help communities recover, change policies of exclusion and heal trauma.

Jessica Chang of Channel 4 San Diego devoted a full episode of her weekly TV Show, Shades of San Diego, to Mo`olelo! She revisits Mo`olelo's past productions of Since Africa (2006), Permanent Collection (2007) and Good Boys (2009), and takes a sneak peek at Mo`olelo's next production, Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire. The episode features performances by Walter Murray and Dre Slaman.

This September, REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) transforms its flexible performance space into an immersive visual and sonic environment for the world premiere of AH!, a co-production of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts and the CalArts Center for New Performance. AH! opens Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at REDCAT and runs for a limited engagement through Friday, September 18, 2009.

The Strand is holding auditions and wants you! [sic] By Melissa James Gibson is directed by Jayme Kilburn and will run from November 20th - December 13th, 2009.

We are thrilled to present one of the hottest performance events of the year, Rain - A Tribute to the Beatles, states Christopher B. Manos, Producer of Theater of the Stars.

Novelist George Sand said, ?No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.? From August 13 ? 23, 2009, more than 550,000 local, national, and international visitors came together in Edmonton and brought about a revolution like no other at the 28th annual Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival.

Auditions for Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church's Thanksgiving play are set to take place on Sunday, August 30 from 3-5 pm.

Registration is now open for the Fall Session of Adult Acting Classes, beginning September 13th, 2009 at Actor's Theatre of Charlotte. Taught by professional actor/director Martin Thompson, these classes are appropriate for both aspiring actors and professionals who would like to improve their skills. Class registration is limited and will be accepted one week prior to the first class of each session.

Street Theatre Company of Nashville, TN announces four encore performances of Parallel Lives: The Kathy and Mo Show, back by popular demand, Upstairs at Bongo Java (2007 Belmont Blvd), September 10-13, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.

The 2009 Theater District Open House at Alley Theatre is set to take place on Sunday, August 30 from 12:00pm - 4:00pm. Activities include Back-Alley Garage Sale, Stage Combat Demonstrations and Backstage Tours.

Attic Playhouse is set to present Norm Foster's The Affections of May. The show runs from September 11 - October 18.

Write and perform your own material with other funny women at Sketchfest Seattle's Women Only Sketch Comedy Intensive, a six-day series of two and a half-hour workshops held during SketchFest Seattle (Sept. 21-26), which will culminate in a performance on the final Saturday of the fest (Sept. 26). All women are welcome, regardless of experience level in theater or comedy.

Bill Borst's The Last Memory of an Ol' Brownie Fan hits Sound Stages Theater (214 Crestwood Mall Art Space) on September 25. Charly Kelly as the Ol' Brownie Fan in this Jim Meady-directed show. Tickets cost $15.00 (general admission) and $12.00 (seniors and students).

Robert Louis Stevenson?s masterful adventure story is set to come to life onstage in Ken Ludwig?s brand new adaptation of Treasure Island, opening September 4 on the Los Altos stage. Bus Barn Stage Company presents the Bay Area premiere of this rollicking pirate tale that runs through October 3.

Today, August 23rd, the Drama Desk, Lortel and Obie Award-winning Mint Theater Company continued its EnrichMINT Events, an exciting series of post and pre-show discussions throughout the Mint's current engagement of Lennox Robinson's Is Life Worth Living? starring Jordan Baker and Kevin Kilner.

The Strand opens its second season with Neil LaBute's Mercy Seat, directed by Danielle Young. Mercy Seat runs September 11th to October 4th, 2009. Set on September 12, 2001, The Mercy Seat continues Neil LaBute?s unflinching fascination with the often-brutal realities of the war between the sexes. In a time of national tragedy, the world changes overnight. A man and a woman explore the choices now available to them in an existence different from the one they had lived just the day before. Can one be opportunistic in a time of universal selflessness?

Rover Dramawerks opens the musical My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, conceived by David Grapes and Todd Olson on Thursday, September 10. Performances will be at the Cox Building Playhouse, 1517 H Avenue in Plano (next to the Courtyard Theater), continuing through October 3, 2009, with shows on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., and an additional matinee performance on Saturday, September 19 at 2:00 p.m.

Cape Rep Theatre announces the final addition to the 2009 Indoor Theatre Season. A Class Act, the Broadway musical features music and lyrics by Edward Kleban and book by Linda Kline and Lonny Price. A Class Act will open September 17 and run for 5 weeks through October 18. Performances will take place Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at 8pm with Sunday matinees at 2pm. There is no performance on September 20. Tickets are $28-$35 and are available by calling 508.896.1888 or visiting www.caperep.org.

New Line Theatre, 'the Bad Boy of Musical Theatre,' closed its 18th season of alternative musical theatre this month and is proud to report the most financially and critically successful season in its entire history, with more than 6,000 people seeing New Line's performances. Despite the difficult economic times, St. Louis audiences filled New Line's intimate theatre night after night, and more than ever before, all three shows in the season enjoyed many repeat customers who came back to the see the same show multiple times. Excerpts from this season's many rave reviews can be found on the company's website at www.newlinetheatre.com/review.html.