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Auditions have been set for Sunday, November 15, for the Amun Ra Theatre production of Nashville playwright Carolyn German's Signs of a New Day: The Z.

An open call will be held at the theatre (230 Franklin Rd.

un Ra Theatre will hold auditions for its 2010 season, which will include the company's fifth annual production of Langston Hughes' Black Nativity and all of the plays to be presented in the soon-to-be-announced 2010 season, featuring two world premiere dramas and several local premieres.

Amun Ra Theatre's jeff obafemi carr came off the roof and hit the ground running, with the fifth anniversary production of the company's Black Nativity by Langston Hughes as the first offering in the 2010 season.

An open call will be held at the theatre (230 Franklin Rd.

Written by artistic director Trish Crist, The Nashville Monologues 'explores the dark side of diversity through Halloween season performances of frightening, dramatic, revealing and (yes) comic monologues inspired by public submission' of those personal accounts.

THE MAGIC WORD Featuring New Work by Jared Freihoefer runs November 7-28, 2009 Opening Reception: First Saturday Gallery Crawl; November 7; 6-9pm Artist Talk: Saturday, November 21; 1-2pm

This holiday season, Mannheim Steamroller will celebrate a quarter-century of being America's favorite Christmas music artist with a 58-city, 25th Christmas Anniversary Tour of their spectacular and beloved holiday show.

Opening weekend of the Roxy Regional Theatre's production will feature two very special evenings: opening night is 'Pay What You Can' night, where each audience member decides their own ticket price.

Nashville Opera's upcoming production of Phillip Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher seamlessly melds contemporary opera, bold cinematic effects, and the 'undead.

Celtic Thunder, the hit Irish and Scottish male pop vocal group that has been dazzling audiences worldwide, makes is first Nashville appearance November 19 at TPAC's Andrew Jackson Hall.

The Boiler Room Theatre (BRT), Williamson County's residentprofessional theatre company, will present two Christmas shows in repertory for theupcoming holiday season.

What do great cities like Sante Fe, Los Angeles, Miami, and Nashville have in common? They all have internationally-acclaimed opera companies, and they now share in the distinction of hosting an Opera Volunteers International (OVI) Focus Meeting.

If there are a million stories in the Naked City, then surely there have to be at least half a million in the Music City - and a couple dozen of those stories are recounted in The Nashville Monologues, the new play onstage through next weekend at Darkhorse Theatre.

Roles are available for actors, dancers and singers of all ages (children, teens, and adults).

Opening weekend of the Roxy Regional Theatre's production will feature two very special evenings: opening night is 'Pay What You Can' night, where each audience member decides their own ticket price.

Jean Shepherd's classic memoir of growing up in the 1940s Midwest - A Christmas Story - will usher in the holiday season at Tennessee Repertory Theatre, as the venerable Nashville professional company presents the stage adaptation of the film cult classic for a November 21-December 19 run at TPAC's

AUDREY II, the people-eating plant who stars in Little Shop Of Horrors, the frightfully freaky rock musical, has invaded Donelson's Senior Center for the Arts (SCA), for a run through November 15 at Nashville Dinner Theatre.

Actor Jay Doolittle and three accomplices will bring to life favorites such as 'The Cask of Amantillado,' 'The Masque of the Red Death,' 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Raven,' allowing audiences to 'descend iinto the macabre madness of murderers, merry-makers and haunted souls described in grosteque

Roles are available for actors, dancers and singers of all ages (children, teens, and adults).

Country and pop music icon Kenny Rogers is the latest addition to the Nashville Symphony's 2009/10 concert season as the Symphony announces a special performance with Rogers at Schermerhorn Symphony Center on Friday, February 5, 2010, at 8 p.

Written by artistic director Trish Crist, The Nashville Monologues 'explores the dark side of diversity through Halloween season performances of frightening, dramatic, revealing and (yes) comic monologues inspired by public submission' of those personal accounts.

OF SPECIAL NOTE IN NOVEMBER: Thursday, November 5 Lecture 6:30 p.

As a special bonus to this impressive season, Nashville Ballet will present Emergence: The Studio Series, at the Nashville Ballet Martin Center for Dance November 13 - 14 at 7:30 pm.

Even the presence of Melissa Gilbert - who so memorably played 'Half-Pint' in the Little House TV series of the 1970s and '80s and now is cast as Caroline Ingalls - can't save this musical from mediocrity.