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The Fox Theatre has announced that Charlie Wilson and Will Downing will perform on May 7th, 2010.

HotCity Theatre, a professional theatre company with a focus on contemporary programming and new play development announces the Mainstage world premiere presentation of THE SINKER, written by Jami Brandli, with dramaturgical help from Erica Nagel.

COCA (Center of Creative Arts) will host a reception and Artists' Talk Friday, May 14 at 6pm for their exhibit Building Community.

Star of DISNEY'S most popular and Emmy Award winning TV show, WIZARDS of WAVERLY PLACE, Bill Chott (Mr.

Black Rep to present ART by Yasmina Reza May 5 - 23, 2010, a play which takes a profound look at the nature of friendship.

Auditions for New Line Theatre's more intimate, more rock and roll take on Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's political potboiler EVITA will be held on two successive Monday nights, May 3 and 10, 2010, at 7:00 p.

I was thirteen when Star Wars came out in May of 1977, and it made quite an impression on this particular teenage boy.

Webster University's Conservatory of Theatre Arts closes its production of THE WEDDING SINGER, THE MUSICAL COMEDY, May 2 in the Browning Theatre of Webster's Loretto-Hilton Center, 130 Edgar Road.

The Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences will close its production of METAMORPHOSES, perhaps the most acclaimed theatrical work of the last decade, as its spring Mainstage production on May 2nd.

The plays of William Shakespeare have been reinterpreted many times over and set in a variety of places and times in order to use Shakespeare's words to tell other stories.

THE COUNTRY GIRL will end its run at the Avalon Theatre Company on May 2nd.

AVENUE Q is the smash-hit Broadway musical about real life in New York City, as told by a cast of people and puppets through a hilariously irreverent, Tony-winning book and score.

I was just a wee bit too old to have watched Sesame Street when it premiered on public television during the late 1960's, although I was certainly aware of its impact.

Performing a one person show would seem to be a rather daunting task to me.

The Sheldon Art Galleries presents a gallery talk with Robert Koester, founder of Delmark Records and owner of the Jazz Record Mart in Chicago, Saturday, May 1 at 11 a.

Grammy Award-winning vocalist Steve Tyrell is truly a renaissance man.

Known for both his traditional style, and eclectic combination of rockabilly, honky tonk, and country music, American country music singer and Grammy Award-winning icon Marty Stuart is considered one of the genre's most historically minded 'new' traditionalists.

AVENUE Q is the smash-hit Broadway musical about real life in New York City, as told by a cast of people and puppets through a hilariously irreverent, Tony-winning book and score.

The Erykah Badu concert originally scheduled for June 9 has been postponed.

The Friends of The Sheldon present the 11th Annual Sunset at The Sheldon Wine Tasting, Wednesday, May 26, 2010 from 6:30 p.

KETC/Channel 9 presents JEFF BECK Emotion & Commotion Tour April 29 at 8 pm Live at The Fox Theatre!

Do you sometimes just feel like running away from it all? Then come join Shirley Valentine on a hysterical adventure of a lifetime! Stray Dog Theatre is presenting Willy Russell's comedy SHIRLEY VALENTINE at the Tower Grove Abbey (2336 Tennessee Avenue) April 29 - May 15.

Webster University's Conservatory of Theatre Arts presents THE WEDDING SINGER, THE MUSICAL COMEDY, April 28 to May 2 in the Browning Theatre of Webster's Loretto-Hilton Center, 130 Edgar Road.

The Sheldon presents Sheldon Classics: Samuel Barber, featuring cellist Bjorn Ranheim, baritone James Ivey, and pianist Peter Henderson, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 8 p.

Andrew Lippa's musical adaptation of Joseph Moncure March's epic poem, THE WILD PARTY, is a brilliant work, especially if you're anything like me, and you like your entertainment on the dark side.