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Fox Concerts presents RETURN TO FOREVER IV at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on August 25th at 8 p.

Award Winning playwright, filmmaker and author David E.

Fox Concerts presents THE AUSTRALIAN PINK FLOYD SHOW WORLD TOUR 2011 PINK FLOYD'S GREATEST HITS, featuring music from Wish You Were Here, Animals, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall & much more.

Laurel Little Theatre's OZ adds another HOLDOVER PERFORMANCE! The theater will add four final shows this week with a matinee just added for this Saturday at 2:00PM

The first thing that might strike you about the very concept of this show, DEAD MAN WALKING is: why an opera? It's already been made into a movie that treated the foreboding subject matter with respect.

MISTAKES WERE MADE is a very funny play, full of in-jokes for those in the know of theatre and the Hollywood scene for sure, but also for those who are aware of the history of the French revolution.

HIROMI KANDA is a unique talent, casting her lot among the bevy of performers proffering up classic standard recordings, while contributing her own original lyrics to some tunes as well with her newest collection Days of Yesterday (2011), and with 2010's Hiromi in Love.

The Fantasticks opened in 1960 and when the show closed in 2002 it had seen 17,162 performances in its original location, the Sullivan Street Playhouse, a small off-Broadway theatre in Greenwich Village, making it the longest running show in the history.

Since winning the International Jugglers Championship in 1990, Mark Nizer has emerged as the quintessential juggler's juggler, combining deft comedic wit with new tricks and invented technologies that seem to make the impossible suddenly possible.

Before receiving this detailed biography, Jeffrey Spivak's BUZZ, my knowledge of Busby Berkeley was limited to some articles I'd read in a few fan magazines as well as an old trade paperback from 1973 (The Busby Berkeley Book).

Written, directed, and musical score composed by three mothers of children with autism THE VIOLINIST also stars a child with autism in a lead role.

The Repertory Theatre of St.

On August 15, 2011, STAGES ST.

Union Avenue Opera (UAO) prepares to raise the curtain on its 17th Festival Season.

Rehearsals are underway for Union Avenue Opera's (UAO) final production of the 2011 Summer Season.

Kia Motors presents Yo Gabba Gabba Live! It's Time to Dance! at the Fabulous Fox Theatre for two performances on Saturday, September 17th at 2 p.

The Repertory Theatre of St.

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming national tour of THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a new musical based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams.

Playwright Edward Bond parodies, skewers, and otherwise upends the restoration comedies so familiar to theatre-goers with his work RESTORATION.

Brooke Edwards, Kevin Kline winner and founding member of The Orange Girls, will direct two up-and-coming musical theatre professionals in THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD & LOEB STORY, a provocative, intoxicating two-man musical about Chicago's infamous 'thrill killers.

The Repertory Theatre of St.

Audiences will probably be more familiar with the 1963 film version of BYE BYE BIRDIE from its innumerable screenings on television, with Dick Van Dyke, Ann Margaret, Janet Leigh, Maureen Stapleton and Paul Lynde all making vivid impressions under George Sidney's direction.

The story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb has been written about and filmed on a few separate occasions, most notably with Alfred Hitchcock's version of Patrick Hamilton's play, Rope (shot in single film reel length takes as an added novelty), and with Meyer Levin's more fictionalized account Com

Rehearsals are underway for Union Avenue Opera's (UAO) final production of the 2011 Summer Season.

Debbie Does Dallas was a ground-breaking bit of sordid celluloid that ushered in an era of amateur pornography, where a pimply ass was not something to be ashamed of, but something to be celebrated, sort of.