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Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company of Detroit presents the Michigan premiere of Last of the Boys, by Steven Dietz, directed by Frannie Shepherd-Bates (Artistic Director, Magenta Giraffe Theatre Co.). The show runs from March 11-April 2, 2011. Tickets are $15-$18, with pay-what-you-can tickets available to all performances. Tickets may be reserved by phone at 313-408-7269 or at www.magentagiraffe.org.

Cyrano's Theatre Company presents Becky's New Car from April 8, 2011 to May 1, 2011. Written by Steven Dietz, the show is described as 'a smart, comic cruise through the perils of middle-aged longing and regret is a laugh-out-loud amusement-park ride where the comedy spins out of control like a bumper car. There's more under the hood than just the comedy.

Vampires, and mummies, and werewolves...oh my! Back by popular demand, Arizona Theatre Company promises an evening of outrageous fun and wonderful entertainment with the hilarious quick-change horror spoof THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP as the grand finale of its 2010-2011 Season.

There are two productions remaining in Geva Theatre Center's 2010-2011 Season: Radio Golf, the finale of "August Wilson's American Century," and a historic production of The Music Man featuring the biggest cast ever assembled in the Geva Mainstage.

The boundaries between past and present, fact and fiction, trust and betrayal begin to break down.

Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company of Detroit presents the Michigan premiere of Last of the Boys, by Steven Dietz, directed by Frannie Shepherd-Bates (Artistic Director, Magenta Giraffe Theatre Co.). The show runs from March 11-April 2, 2011. Tickets are $15-$18, with pay-what-you-can tickets available to all performances. Tickets may be reserved by phone at 313-408-7269 or at www.magentagiraffe.org.

Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company of Detroit presents the Michigan premiere of LAST OF THE BOYS, by Steven Dietz, directed by Frannie Shepherd-Bates (Artistic Director, Magenta Giraffe Theatre Co.). The show runs from March 11-April 2, 2011. Tickets are $15-$18, with pay-what-you-can tickets available to all performances. Tickets may be reserved by phone at 313-408-7269 or at www.magentagiraffe.org.

Writers' Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw, directed by William Brown. The production runs April 19- June 26, 2011 at Writers' Theatre, 325 Tudor Court in Glencoe.

Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company of Detroit presents the Michigan premiere of Last of the Boys, by Steven Dietz, directed by Frannie Shepherd-Bates (Artistic Director, Magenta Giraffe Theatre Co.). The show runs from March 11-April 2, 2011. Tickets are $15-$18, with pay-what-you-can tickets available to all performances. Tickets may be reserved by phone at 313-408-7269 or at www.magentagiraffe.org.

This spring Arizona Theatre Company journeys to the New York boroughs and into Neil Simon's masterwork, LOST IN YONKERS, the fourth installment of ATC's AMERICA PLAYS! Celebrating Great American Stories series. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, LOST IN YONKERS is as funny as it is poignant and is certain to leave you spellbound with laughter and tears. Featuring Tony Award-winner and Arizona favorite Judy Kaye, and directed by Samantha K. Wyer, LOST IN YONKERS plays in Tucson at the Temple of Music and Art from February 26 through March 19, 2011. It continues its run in Phoenix at the Herberger Theater Center from March 24 through April 10, 2011. LOST IN YONKERS is sponsored in part by JP Morgan Chase, Shirley Estes, and The Stonewall Foundation. AMERICA PLAYS! is sponsored by The Johnson Family Foundation, and Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold Foundation. The Tucson media sponsors for the 2010-2011 season are KGUN9, MIX-FM and Tucson Lifestyle. Arizona Theatre Company's season sponsors are I. Michael and Beth Kasser.

San Jose Repertory Theatre, as part of its mission to enrich the creative life of the community, has co-commissioned a new work about the remarkable transformation of Santa Clara County from the "Valley of Heart's Delight" to the fast-paced urban center called Silicon Valley.

The 2011 season opens with the St. Louis premiere of BECKY'S NEW CAR by Steven Dietz. This comedy starring Susie Wall is about a middle-aged woman who has the chance to trade in her average life for an alternate adventure with an uber-rich elderly gentleman. Since its debut in 2008, the play has been received enthusiastically at regional theatres across the country from Sacramento to Cincinnati. BECKY'S NEW CAR will be directed by Tlaloc Rivas and runs June 9-19.

The Little River Band had one big hit entitled 'Reminiscing'. In the Everyman Theatre production of Shooting Star, baby-boomers will be reminiscing all night long as playwright Steven Dietz loves to bring a little nostalgia for those who attended college in the late sixties and early seventies. Dietz, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin, is a prolific playwright. He's penned 18 plays and is among the 'Top Ten Most Produced Playwrights in America'. After you see Shooting Star, you'll understand why.

Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company of Detroit presents the Michigan premiere of LAST OF THE BOYS, by Steven Dietz, directed by Frannie Shepherd-Bates (Artistic Director, Magenta Giraffe Theatre Co.). The show runs from March 11-April 2, 2011. Tickets are $15-$18, with pay-what-you-can tickets available to all performances. Tickets may be reserved by phone at 313-408-7269 or at www.magentagiraffe.org.

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Amphibian Stage Productions is proud to start its twelfth season with a staged reading of Inventing Van Gogh by Steven Dietz.

In Yankee Tavern, playwright Steven Dietz has created the perfect onstage mystery for the times in which we live, challenging us to consider our most closely held beliefs while reiterating our most pervasive fears. Now onstage in a richly compelling production directed by Tennessee Repertory Theatre's Rene Dunshee Copeland, Yankee Tavern transforms TPAC's Andrew Johnson Theatre into a petri dish filled with conspiracy theories and ghost stories.

Award-winning Theatre Aspen is thrilled to announce that its summer repertory season will feature the actress Sandy Duncan, in Steven Dietz's comedy Becky's New Car

Tennessee Repertory Theatre will present its production of the mind-bending dramatic thriller Yankee Tavern by Steven Dietz.