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ImagiNe You're in Washington DC watching your father receive the National Medal of Arts, but you're more exited about dad's co-honoree, the man who helped turn your life in a direction away from your father, Stephen Sondheim. That was the unique experience of Dan Guerrero, star and author of ¡Gaytino!, the very funny and informative solo play about his personal clashing of Mexican and gay cultures that recently closed a two-night run as one of the final productions seen at the beloved Zipper Factory.

The guys are gambling, the dolls are dancing, and the audience will come up a winner when Cabrillo Music Theatre launches its 2009-2010 season with Guys and Dolls. Returning is Director Nick DeGruccio, whose previous Cabrillo production of Jekyll & Hyde led to three Ovation Awards, including Best Director. Returning with DeGruccio is Choreographer Roger Castellano, Ovation-nominated for Jekyll. Musical Direction is by Darryl Archibald, and the production will be overseen by Artistic Director Lewis Wilkenfeld. Cabrillo?s production of Guys and Dolls, created exclusively for the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, will open on Friday, October 16th, 2009 and run through Sunday, October 25th, for Cabrillo Music Theatre in the 1,800-seat Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, located at 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks.

The hit rock musical comedy that entertained sold-out houses in L.A. for over four months arrives in San Diego this September. Get ready for the Divas of Domesticity! Corinne Dekker, Jamey Hood and Jayme Lake ('Megawatt performances' - Coast to Coast Newspapers) reprise their roles as The Housewives, three young homemakers who form a band for their PTA talent show - then go on to become bigger than Brillo with their hilarious brand of 'domestic' rock 'n roll. The limited 4-week engagement opens September 4 at the Tenth Avenue Theatre in San Diego.

If you liked Hank Williams - Lost Highway, you will love Barter Theatre's acclaimed production of Keep on the Sunny Side: the Songs and Story of the Carter Family being presented at Electric City Playhouse in Anderson, SC.

If you liked Hank Williams - Lost Highway, you will love Barter Theatre's acclaimed production of Keep on the Sunny Side: the Songs and Story of the Carter Family being presented at Electric City Playhouse in Anderson, SC.

The hit rock musical comedy that entertained sold-out houses in L.A. for over four months arrives in San Diego this September. Get ready for the Divas of Domesticity! Corinne Dekker, Jamey Hood and Jayme Lake ('Megawatt performances' - Coast to Coast Newspapers) reprise their roles as The Housewives, three young homemakers who form a band for their PTA talent show - then go on to become bigger than Brillo with their hilarious brand of 'domestic' rock 'n roll. The limited 4-week engagement opens September 4 at the Tenth Avenue Theatre in San Diego.

If you liked Hank Williams - Lost Highway, you will love Barter Theatre's acclaimed production of Keep on the Sunny Side: the Songs and Story of the Carter Family being presented at Electric City Playhouse in Anderson, SC.

A Theatre Planners Production invites you to ECSTASY, THE MUSICAL- Take a TRIP with me... The Groovy ?70s Musical: A World Premiere

On paper, Catherine Schreiber has attained success, both as a writer and as an actor, since leaving her home town of Great Neck, New York. 'I have had an adventure-filled career,' Schreiber admits. 'But there have also been some frustrating mis-adventures along the way.' With writing partner Joshua Grenrock, Schreiber has chronicled many of these jaundiced milestones in the stage play, Desperate Writers: The Final Draft, starring Brian Krause (Charmed) and British actress Kate Hollinshead (Emerdale).

The production premieres Saturday, April 4 at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica.

The production premieres Saturday, April 4 at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica.

Filled with colorful criminals, biting social satire and a brilliant score, The Threepenny Opera opens International City Theatre's 2009 Season at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Jules Aaron directs Michael Feingold's translation of the trailblazing musical by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill that became one of the most influential plays of the 20th Century. Darryl Archibald is musical director and Kay Cole choreographs the five-week run February 20 through March 22; low-priced previews begin February 17. First performed in 1928, Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera was a revolutionary musical theater masterpiece that mocked the bourgeois political movement of pre-Hitler Germany. Brecht's brittle, sardonic tale of beggars, thieves and prostitutes, adapted from the 1728 play The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, was a fierce social and political critique, and Weill's innovative score that fused American jazz with German cabaret captured the ironic tone of the lyrics. Part acid social criticism, part bittersweet romance, the now eighty-year old saga of 'Mack the Knife' and his entourage of criminals and whores has never lost its theatrical punch. 'It's a satire on capitalism and corruption told from the viewpoint of the 'little people',' notes Aaron. 'If there was ever time to revive this show, it's now. Michael [Feingold]'s translation is earthy, gritty and very funny. I think it's going to strike a chord with audiences.'

Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Wednesday, January 21, 2009.

Filled with colorful criminals, biting social satire and a brilliant score, The Threepenny Opera opens International City Theatre's 2009 Season at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Jules Aaron directs Michael Feingold's translation of the trailblazing musical by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill that became one of the most influential plays of the 20th Century. Darryl Archibald is musical director and Kay Cole choreographs the five-week run February 20 through March 22; low-priced previews begin February 17. First performed in 1928, Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera was a revolutionary musical theater masterpiece that mocked the bourgeois political movement of pre-Hitler Germany. Brecht's brittle, sardonic tale of beggars, thieves and prostitutes, adapted from the 1728 play The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, was a fierce social and political critique, and Weill's innovative score that fused American jazz with German cabaret captured the ironic tone of the lyrics. Part acid social criticism, part bittersweet romance, the now eighty-year old saga of 'Mack the Knife' and his entourage of criminals and whores has never lost its theatrical punch. 'It's a satire on capitalism and corruption told from the viewpoint of the 'little people',' notes Aaron. 'If there was ever time to revive this show, it's now. Michael [Feingold]'s translation is earthy, gritty and very funny. I think it's going to strike a chord with audiences.'

It's The Housewives! - The hit rock musical comedy that played to sold-out houses last fall re-opens for a 12-week run January 10 through March 29. Move over 'Spinal Tap.' Three young moms get their humble start at the PTA talent show, then go on to 'clean up' as the most celebrated, yet unlikely girl group in history with their 'domestic' brand of rock 'n roll. The sidesplitting songs in this world premiere comic rock musical, with titles like 'In Sink And At Your Disposal,' 'Ironing Bored' and 'I've Been Defrosting All Day,' are by two-time Grammy winning guitarist Laurence Juber (Paul McCartney's Wings) and his Emmy-nominated wife, television writer Hope Juber. Get ready for the Divas of Domesticity!

It's The Housewives! - The hit rock musical comedy that played to sold-out houses last fall re-opens for a 12-week run January 10 through March 29. Move over 'Spinal Tap.' Three young moms get their humble start at the PTA talent show, then go on to 'clean up' as the most celebrated, yet unlikely girl group in history with their 'domestic' brand of rock 'n roll. The sidesplitting songs in this world premiere comic rock musical, with titles like 'In Sink And At Your Disposal,' 'Ironing Bored' and 'I've Been Defrosting All Day,' are by two-time Grammy winning guitarist Laurence Juber (Paul McCartney's Wings) and his Emmy-nominated wife, television writer Hope Juber. Get ready for the Divas of Domesticity!

Cabrillo Music Theatre kicks off the new 2008-2009 season by announcing that Deborah Gibson, whose successful career spans the worlds of Broadway and Pop Music, will star in Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic, THE KING AND I.

Cabrillo Music Theatre kicks off the new 2008-2009 season by announcing that Deborah Gibson, whose successful career spans the worlds of Broadway and Pop Music, will star in Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic, THE KING AND I.

The Falcon Theatre presents Richard Alfieri's Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, the second production in its 2008-2009 'Bringin' the FUNNY' All-Comedy subscription season. Constance Towers, star of Broadway and the popular soap opera General Hospital, and Jason Graae, award-winning musical theater and TV actor, star in this revival of the Broadway and international hit play, directed again by Arthur Allan Seidelman and choreographed by Kay Cole.

Cabrillo Music Theatre of Thousand Oaks, Calif proudly kicks off the new 2008-2009 season by announcing that Deborah Gibson will star in Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic, 'The King and I'. Cabrillo Music Theatre's Artistic Director Lewis Wilkenfeld will direct, while Darryl Archibald will serve as Musical Director and Conductor. The production will feature the original Jerome Robbins choreography of the 'Small House of Uncle Thomas' Ballet, recreated by Irene Cho, who performed the piece under Robbins' supervision in 'The King and I' and 'Jerome Robbins' Broadway'.