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The Tony Award®-winning Old Globe is pleased to announce a casting call for male actors aged 10-13 to play the role of ?Christopher? in the World Premiere production of Duncan Sheik and Kyle Jarrow's Whisper House, directed by Keith Powell. Auditions will be held June 8, 2009 at The Old Globe (by appointment only). Please submit headshots and resumes to casting@TheOldGlobe.org or Whisper House Casting P.O. Box 122171 San Diego, CA 92112-2171. No phone calls.

The Tony Award®-winning Old Globe is pleased to announce a casting call for San Diego-based boys and girls (ages 6-15) for its 2009 production of Dr. Seuss? How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The production dates are: 1st rehearsal 10/19/09; 1st preview 11/21/10; Opening 11/27/10; Closing 12/27/09. We are searching for girls ages 6-12 for the role of ?Cindy Lou,? boys and girls ages 6-12 for ?Who Family? and ensemble roles, and boys and girls ages 13-15 for the ?Teen Ensemble.? To apply, please submit child?s picture, resume (inc. height & weight) parent name and daytime contact information (including e-mail address) to: Grinch Auditions, The Old Globe, PO Box 122171, San Diego, CA 92112-2171, casting@theoldglobe.org. Auditions will be held (by appointment only) on Saturday, July 25th and Sunday, July 26th. Callbacks will be held the following weekend.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents The Script with special guest, Parachute, on Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 9:00pm at the Crocodile.

Kelly Bishop, Maryann Plunkett, Jake Robards and Paxton Whitehead share the stage for a benefit reading of Noel Coward?s A Song at Twilight. This outstanding group of actors is being brought together by director James Glossman to raise funds for Luna Stage. The company is moving in July from its current home at 695 Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair to a new space in West Orange. Says Managing Director, Mona Hennessy, ?When James approached us with the offer of directing this reading as a Luna Stage fundraiser, we were thrilled. What better way to say goodbye to our Montclair home than by having a classic play read by wonderful actors! That is, after all, Luna is all about ? good theatre!?

Live at Seattle Center: Spotlight on Summer, a new initiative highlighting the broad spectrum of summer entertainment options on the 74-acre Seattle Center campus, goes live this week with a new Seattle Center website, advertising campaign and updated visuals.

Someone once asked Frank Sinatra how he became so successful. His response: ?Sing good songs!? Thanks to his skilled vocals and gift as a storyteller, Sinatra turned the good songs he sang into timeless treasures. Nearly 60 of those songs can be heard during the musical revue My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra that runs July 7 ? August 23 at The Laguna Playhouse. The show is directed by David Grapes, who conceived the revue along with Todd Olson.

It is the year 6000. All organic life has been destroyed except for a handful of humans. The world is ruled by ultra-sexy Robots who are mysterious, immortal, and ultra-sexy. Humans want to be like them, and this is sad. Some humans dress up like Robots, and some humans would give anything to become one. Half twisted comedy and half science-fiction fantasia, this new play is filled with desire, betrayal and ultra-sexy Robot dance.

Miracle Theatre Group, the Northwest's premier Latino arts and culture organization, will hold its general auditions on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at the Milagro Theatre (525 SE Stark St., Portland). Olga Sanchez, one of the company?s two artistic directors, says the theatre this year is particularly interested in seeing actors who sing and who can speak some Spanish, since most of the work in the nonprofit theatre?s 2009-2010 season taps those talents. Performers should prepare two contrasting monologues, totaling no more than four minutes, plus a song. Appointments are required; contact Olga Sanchez at olga@milagro.org or 503-236-7253.

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust has awarded $2.18 million in grants to Maricopa County nonprofits, including Arizona Theatre Company. Thanks to this grant, Arizona Theatre Company will purchase and implement an integrated customer relationship management software system to better serve its patrons in Arizona. Other plans include website development and hardware upgrades.

The Marsh is pleased to announce a Marsh Rising workshop performance of Angela Neff?s new solo show, Picnics at the Asylum. The play describes what it was like growing up in a large catholic family with a father who went from being the funniest Dad in Silicon Valley to the funniest street person on San Jose?s Skid Row. Neff takes us on a hilarious, outlandish and poignant journey, full of fireworks, psychedelic sunglasses and rockin' church services, as she examines the relationship of madness and love.

The B Street Theatre kicks off its 2009-2010 Mainstage Season with the Norm Foster comedy, The Foursome. Canada?s most produced playwright, Norm Foster has been a regular at B Street Theatre where five of his plays have been produced. The Affections of May (1998); The Motor Trade (1999); The Melville Boys (2000); Drinking Alone (2001), and Mending Fences (2009).

Marin Shakespeare Company is holding auditions from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Friday, May 29 at the Forest Meadows Amphitheatre in San Rafael to cast six teenage girls to play Flower Power Girls in its 2009 summer production of ?Twelfth Night, or All You Need is Love.?

Baltimore will once again host a fun party for theatre-lovers to watch the 2009 Broadway Tony Awards together. After the first huge success last June at the Hippodrome Theatre the party was going to be canceled because the venue was not available this year. But due to public demand it will happen again in a mini-version this year.

Performed by two-time Emmy® Award-winning actor and The Guiding Light star Tom Pelphrey, Joseph Gallo?s My Italy Story is a story of a young man from Hoboken, NJ who sets out to heal the rift that divides his family, and in the process traces his roots to a remote village in Italy, returning to America to face a surprising family secret.

Northwestern University's Dolphin Show, America?s largest student-produced musical, is proud to announce its 68th annual production, Parade, a powerful, daring musical from the minds of Jason Robert Brown, Alfred Uhry, and Harold Prince. This year's Dolphin Show will be directed by School of Communication rising senior, Scott G. Weinstein and will open on January 22, 2010 in Cahn Auditorium at Northwestern?s Evanston campus.

A bold, irreverent romp through 37 of Shakespeare's plays in just 99 minutes, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) is a wildly comic valentine to the Bard. Three brave actors reenact some of Shakespeare's best-known plays with blazing hilarity that promises to be a sidesplitting roller coaster ride.

As the Hackmatack Playhouse of Berwick comes back to life for the 37th summer season, so do the questions. What?s with the different color theater seats? Why is the playhouse called ?Hackmatack?? What?s playing this year?

Following its initial success at the National Theatre, Stephen Daldry?s production of An Inspector Calls transferred to the West End for two years, prior to a world tour. In 1993 the production opened on Broadway, winning an unprecedented string of awards including four Tony Awards. Winning a total of 19 major awards since it first opened, this landmark production has played in Australia, the United States, Japan and Europe, and as well as its first West End run, has completed six major UK tours and a return visit to the West End which lasted for over eight years. Well in excess of 2 million theatergoers have watched the production at nearly 5000 performances.

Queensland Theatre Company wants you to start Taking Aim ? impersonating politicians, lampooning decision-makers and throwing comic punches at pop culture ? with satire writing masterclasses lead by Australia?s favourite satirists Max Gillies and Guy Rundle.

Why do fools fall in love? Have you ever asked yourself that question? Well the folks at ShenanArts will be asking this age old question in their upcoming musical production, 'Why Do Fools Fall In Love', that will have a limited one weekend run, June 25-28 at Stage4 theatre in Verona.