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The Australian Pink Floyd returns to the Benedum Center with their biggest show yet, Big Pink Greatest Hits World Tour2009, for one night only Monday, October 5, 2009, at 8 p.m. The new tour features music from Wish You Were Here, Animals, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall and more. In December 2007, The Australian Pink Floyd Show Dark Side of the Moon played the Benedum Center to a sell-out crowd. The Australian Pink Flood also launched The Wall tour in October 2008, selling it out as well.

Idiots of Ants make a welcome return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with their third brand new full-length show. In the few short years that they have been working together Ben, James, Andrew and Elliott have been at the forefront of the new wave of contemporary sketch comedy shows.

The Alchemy Theatre, in association with LAByrinth Theater Company, are presenting ?Sweet Storm? by Scott Hudson, who was recently awarded the Daryl Roth 2009 Creative Spirit Award, Off Broadway at The Kirk Theatre (Theatre Row), 410 West 42nd Street, NYC. Padraic Lillis directs the new play that features Jamie Dunn and Eric T. Miller. The opening is next Wednesday, June 17 at 7 pm and the show has now been extended an additional week until July 12. The Scenic & Costume Designer is Lea Umberger; the Lighting Designer is Sarah Sidman and the Sound Designer is Elizabeth Rhodes. The Casting Director is Judy Bowman Casting and Production Supervisor: La Vie Productions. Running time = 75 minutes with no intermission.

Indiana University's 2009 Summer Music Festival will include a diverse series of piano recitals highlighted by a July 3 performance by international soloist and chamber musician Jonathan Biss, who was raised in Bloomington and studied with IU Jacobs School of Music professors Karen Taylor and Evelyne Brancart.

Come give your happy feet a chance and jump, jive and wail at Pittsburgh CLO's production of Swing!, playing June 20 through 26 at the Benedum Center in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh's Cultural District.

If you like musicals, you will like the latest show (and for that matter the whole summer season) to debut on the stage of the Butte Theater in Cripple Creek. Godspell, a 1970?s classic, is a series of parables based on the Gospel of Matthew interspersed with a variety of modern music set primarily to lyrics from traditional hymns.

Bailiwick Repertory Theatre's Artistic Director David Zak recently announced that a delightful new musical of GLTB fairy tales, The Cousins Grimm, will be featured in Bailiwick's 2009 Pride Series, playing July 10 to August 23 at Hoover-Leppen Theater at Center on Halsted, 3656 North Halsted, Chicago, Illinois.

Edge of The Creek Productions, a production branch of Beavercreek Community Theatre, has scheduled open auditions for David Nehls? ?The Great American Trailer Park Musical,? based on a book by Betsy Kelso.

Innervation Dance Cooperative (IDC), a Chicago non-profit, hits the stage again with Everyman, the classic rock ballet based on the medieval morality play, set to music by Led Zeppelin (listed below), running June 18-21 at Chicago's Vittum Theater. Enter into Everyman's world of debauchery just before she receives a visit from Death. Audiences will crack up, tear up, and rock out as our heroine desperately seeks a companion for her inevitable journey. IDC's collaborative creative process yields an athletic and eclectic, yet cohesive, movement quality that is the IDC signature. Music lovers will note the perfect marriage of the lyrics and themes of Led Zeppelin's songs to Everyman's plot and message. The meticulously chosen songs tell the story of a journey to death via denial, elation, and depression. There is nary a dull moment (or movement) in this 90-minute, evening-length show. The choreography of Everyman was created collaboratively by ensemble members Molly Beck, Elisa Carlson, Gwendolynn Gonwa, Amy Russell, Michael Sherman, and Amy Williams. The original staging of Everyman (in April 2008 at Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater) was so successful that IDC wanted to take another crack at it and expose the work to a wider audience. This remount boasts newly honed choreography, with new talent and casting, coming together to create an even more crowd-pleasing show.

Once the ashes have settled from Columbus? annual Independence Day celebration ?Red, White, and Boom!,? make plans to see another kind of fireworks ? the ones onstage at Shadowbox. The troupe will present their summer review, The Best of Shadowbox with a special 4th of July menu option for patrons.

South Side Chicago writer John Hospodka and his Bohemian Pupil Press will publically launch the free on-line, multi-media ?literary picture show? South Side Trilogy at www.bohemianpupil.com, featuring a collection of fictional works which also utilizes sound and images. The public is asked to click in to read and experience the internet content, then purchase a PDF of the text (available to the media on request), and/or other items in support of the site, if desired. Hospodka defines the ?literary picture show? as a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound, images, and a sequence of literary techniques, giving the illusion of continuous movement.

With a crash of drums and a flash of light, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns by popular demand to Chanhassen Dinner Theatres? Main Stage for a limited run from June 26 ? September 26.

Alison Carey, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival?s director of American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle, and Artistic Director Bill Rauch announced today the second round of theatre artists to be commissioned for the 37-play, 10-year History Cycle, the largest commissioning and production project in the Festival's 74-year history.

A private reading of the new rock musical ?US?; US tells a universal story about relationships, loss and love. The show includes the smash hits ?In Your Eyes', ?Sledgehammer? and ?Solsbury Hill?. Gabriel?s innovative concert productions also serve as a major influence for the show?s gritty fantasy world.

Theatre Tulsa Presents Laundry & Bourbon and Lone Star By James McClure. The shows are directed by W. Bryan Thompson. The shows are performed July 9, 10, 11 at 8:00pm at the Liddy Doenges Theatre, Tulsa PAC. Tickets are only $5.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents Tegan and Sara on Friday, July 3, 2009 at 8:00pm at Showbox at the Market.

The Imaginary Invalid: By Prescription Only, based on Le Malade Imaginarie by Molière and written and directed by NYIT award winner Aliza Shane, will be presented as part of the world premiere of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. The Festivity will take place June 9th through the 28th at the newly renovated 440 Theatres at Astor Place and Lafayette in New York City. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased at www.planetconnectionsFestivity.com. The production will benefit Hospice of New York.

Working side-by-side rubbing elbows with pros in a professional theater plunges college students headfirst into just what it means to build and stage a professional theater production in two weeks time.

Liberty Performing Arts Theatre announces upcoming events.

Fela!, the critically acclaimed musical that had audiences on their feet during its world premiere last summer at Off-Broadway's 37 Arts, will arrive on Broadway this fall where it begins performances at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 West 49th Street) on Monday, October 19. The official opening is set for Monday, November 23. This new musical, based on the life of groundbreaking African composer, performer and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti, is directed and choreographed by Tony® Award-winner Bill T. Jones (Spring Awakening), with a book by Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones. Sahr Ngaujah will return in the title role for which he received universal acclaim, while the world renowned Antibalas and other members of the NYC Afrobeat community, under the direction of Aaron Johnson, will again perform Kuti?s rousing music live onstage. Winner of this year?s Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, Fela! was conceived by Bill T. Jones, Jim Lewis and Steve Hendel.