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Baby It's You!, a new musical, will have its world premiere at The Coast Playhouse (8325 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood) with performances from July 18 ? August 30. American Pop Anthology (co-producers of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, still running in Chicago after nine months, and heading for Broadway) will present the new musical written by Colin Escott (Million Dollar Quartet) and Floyd Mutrux (Million Dollar Quartet and the award-winning film American Hot Wax). Directed by Mutrux, Baby It's You! is about the passion and determination of New Jersey housewife Florence Greenberg, who in the 1960?s built one of the most successful-ever independent record companies with such discoveries like The Shirelles and found forbidden love.

To say goodbye to 'Blithe Spirit,' Theater Talk is reairing its conversation with Tony-winning actress Angela Lansbury, this weekend on CUNY TV (channel 75 in NYC): Sat, July 11 at 8:30 PM; Sunday at 12:30 PM; Monday, at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM.

It's Pilates for the Playhouse! Joe's Place-True Pilates loves the Cape Playhouse they decided to do a benefit! The benefit is set to take place on Saturday, July 18 from 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. at Joe's Place-True Pilates in East Dennis!

The following is news from A Class Act NY.

Equivocation, Bill Cain's dazzling new play, is the hot ticket at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland this season, and is featured in MTC?s 2009?10 season.

At the Annual General Meeting held this evening in the Mainstage lobby, Gerry Couture, Chair of the MTC Board of Trustees, announced that the Manitoba Theatre Centre was able to positively exceed its 2008-09 budget by $82,307.

Showcasing some of the hottest talent in Houston's vibrant contemporary art community, DiverseWorks once again joins forces with Artadia to present $TIMULUS. The exhibition features new work by the 2008 recipients of the Artadia Awards. Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue offers substantial artist awards in five cities including Houston. The most recent round of Artadia Awardees, who were selected following an open application call to all visual artists living and working in Harris County, include artists working in video, painting, sculpture, site-specific installation, photography, and collage, and represent the range and depth of Houston's creative force. Artists in $TIMULUS are Mequitta Ahuja, Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Katy Heinlein, Lauren Kelley, El Franco Lee II, Lynne McCabe, Delilah Montoya, Katrina Moorhead, Floyd Newsum, and Stephanie Toppin.

An anti-social piece about friends, intuitive storytelling, comedy capers and more are being offered this summer by CoHo Productions in its first ever summer programming: Endless Summer. This is our ambitious endeavor to co-produce at least one performance in the CoHo Theater every night beginning Thursday, July 9, until August 29! They're cheap too! Every production has at least one performance in which ticket prices start at $5.

Be part of a first-of-its-kind live and virtual gathering of journalists, innovators and media entrepreneurs for an all-day summit exploring the future of arts journalism, Friday, October 2. Five inspired and promising arts journalism models will be showcased at the Summit in front of a live studio audience and a national web audience of concerned journalists, cultural leaders, artists, and media entrepreneurs.

This summer, TheatreWorks New Milford is proud to showcase the riveting, Tony Award-winning drama, Doubt: A Parable, by John Patrick Shanley.

Cape Playhouse invites you to to partake in a Musical Cocktail Party with such guests as George Gershwin, Claude Debussy, the fiery Cuban Ernesto Lecuona, American adventurer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and Johann Strauss, the 'Waltz King' among others. The event will take place on Sunday, July 12 6:30 p.m. Tickets cost $25 & $20. Call 877.385.3911 or visit www.capeplayhouse.com to get more information.

Ford's Theatre Society and the National Park Service announced that the Ford's Theatre Museum will reopen to the public on July 15, 2009. Located below the newly restored Ford?s Theatre (511 10th Street NW), the Museum uses 21st-century technology to transport visitors to 19th-century Washington. The museum?s remarkable collection of historic artifacts are supplemented with a variety of narrative devices?environmental recreations, videos and three-dimensional figures, bringing to light Abraham Lincoln?s presidency and life in Washington, D.C.

On Monday, June 29, Goodman Theatre Outgoing Board Chairman Shawn M. Donnelley and Artistic Director Robert Falls were honored with stars bearing their names as part of the Goodman's 'Walkway of Stars.' The stars were presented in appreciation and gratitude for their achievements and service to the theater, and commemorated Donnelley's leadership gift of $1 million to Goodman Theatre's endowment. A ribbon cutting and unveiling of the two stars followed brief remarks by Executive Director Roche Schulfer during an afternoon ceremony on the theater's black granite entryway beneath the 73-foot Goodman marquee at 170 North Dearborn Street. Present were members of the Goodman's Board of Trustees as well as friends of the theater, including: Chairman-Elect Patricia Cox; Goodman Resident Artistic Associate Henry Godinez; Academy Award-nominated playwright José Rivera; Goodman Trustees Sherry Barrat of Northern Trust, Ruth Ann Gillis of Exelon Corporation, Vikki Hood of Kirkland & Ellis; Goodman Scenemakers Council members Shannon Kinsella and Cheryl McPhilimy; Premiere Society Donors Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett; and classics scholar Dr. Christopher Kelly, Donnelley's husband.

Olympia Theatre announces its upcoming events.

There?s not a seat to be had through July 27th, so Portland Center Stage is once again extending Storm Large?s Crazy Enough through August 16th.

The Human Race Theatre Company will present three new shows during a Musical Theatre Workshop/Weekend July 17-19?staged readings of The Trimble Wars, mayhem behind the scene of a soap opera, and right next to me, about the distances between people, as well as Superpowerless, a full production of a show created by area teens under the aegis of The Lovewell Project. The Trimble Wars and right next to me will be at the Caryl D. Philips Creativity Center, 115 N. Jefferson, and the Lovewell show at The Loft Theatre, 126 N. Main.

Everyman Theatre and Urbanite invite you to toast the new season. Join them in celebration of our 2009-2010 season. This free event will be taking place on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 from 6 - 8 p.m..

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre is looking for tap-dancers who sing between the ages of 16 and 96 for 2 of its professional productions! All auditioners must not be members of Actors? Equity Association and must supply their own tap-shoes.

The new musical Girls Vs Boys, a developmental production of the American Music Theatre Project at Northwestern University (AMTP) and The House Theatre of Chicago, begins performances Friday, July 10, in the Hal and Martha Hyer Wallis Theater on Northwestern University's Evanston campus.

Rev your Vespa engine and take a trip back to sixties Britain at the height of the Mod era. Experience the iconic rock opera Quadrophenia in a new stage adaption of the legendary double album by the Who. Follow Jimmy, a hedonistic, style conscious young mod, as he embarks on a life changing journey from London to Brighton searching for a place to belong and a girl to love. Music, lyrics, and concept are by Pete Townsend.