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Fans 'Come Together' at a Beatles Festival to celebrate the greatest band of all time. First, second, and third impressions can be deceiving, but one thing you can count on... The Beatles. Factory Theater's Artistic Director Scott OKen takes a humorous look at fan culture and The Beatles in his new comedy, Mop Top Festival. Various bands and fans converge on the Hyatt Regency O'Hare to celebrate the Fab Four, but will it be for the last time? Will the new guy score a lunchbox? What about 'The Magical Mystery Tour'? Will 'The Beatles Mentalist' provide the answers? Find out in Mop Top Festival, the first show of the Factory Theater's 17th season.

Fans 'Come Together' at a Beatles Festival to celebrate the greatest band of all time. First, second, and third impressions can be deceiving, but one thing you can count on... The Beatles. Factory Theater's Artistic Director Scott OKen takes a humorous look at fan culture and The Beatles in his new comedy, Mop Top Festival. Various bands and fans converge on the Hyatt Regency O'Hare to celebrate the Fab Four, but will it be for the last time? Will the new guy score a lunchbox? What about 'The Magical Mystery Tour'? Will 'The Beatles Mentalist' provide the answers? Find out in Mop Top Festival, the first show of the Factory Theater's 17th season.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced casting for its production of RAGTIME in the Eisenhower Theater April 18 - May 10, 2009. Based on a 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow, the production features book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and will be directed and choreographed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge. The musical is part of the Kennedy Center's Broadway: The Third Generation, a series celebrating the current generation of Broadway musical composers. The official press night will take place on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.