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'San Jose, You've Got Grail!' Tony Award-winning Best Musical Monty Python's SPAMALOT kicks off the inaugural season for Broadway San Jose, the Bay Area's newest showcase for top Broadway shows. The musical comedy brings its quest to the South Bay for one week only, September 15 - 20, 2009 at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts, 255 Almaden Blvd., San Jose.

Back by popular demand after a critically acclaimed East Bay run, and two sold-out weeks in San Francisco, Joe Orrach's solo show -- with direction by Michael Davis -- returns to Intersection for the Arts.

Wayside Theatre Artistic Director Warner Crocker presents the second play of the season and performance schedule, The Gin Game. The Gin Game runs through August 15th. The play is a Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama by D. L. Colburn.

RIVETS, a new musical based on Rosie the Riveter & Richmond's Kaiser Shipyards, produced by Galatean Players Ensemble Theatre.

'The Blue Lagoon: A Musical,' a subversively funny take on the classic tale of shipwrecked teen cousins in lust, will open on July 22 at the Producers' Club Grand Theater in Manhattan. The show is slated for four performances as part of International CringeFest, a three-week celebration of naughtily bad plays, musicals and films.

Miss Richfield 1981 is in Asians & Homos & Jews- Oh My! on Sunday, July 19 at 8PM and Monday, July 20 at 8PM. Tickets cost $20.

The National Playwrights Conference (NPC) at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center continues its 45th year with staged readings of House of Gold by Gregory Moss on July 16 at 8:15 pm and July 17 at 3:15 pm and Spoon Lake Blues by Josh Tobiessen on July 18 at 8:15 pm and July 19 at 3:15 pm.

From July 22 to 25, 2009, Minneapolis-based Time Track Productions, headed by Paula Mann, an originator of NY's 'downtown dance,' will perform her newest evening-length work, 'I Love Tomorrow' at Dance Theater Workshop, Manhattan. The piece comes to NYC with assistance from the McKnight Foundation Fellowship program.

Yori Yanover comes to the Broadway Comedy Club on July 19 and 26 at 5:00pm with Yori Yanover: Biodegradable Hero.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE opens St. Louis Shakespeare's 25th anniversary season, directed by Jerry Vogel. MERCHANT runs July 17 through 26, 2009, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm, and Thursday at 7:30pm. At the Grandel Theatre, 3610 Grandel Square.

This autumn, join TUTS' Humphreys School of Musical Theatre as we present an exciting and diverse camp curriculum for all ages and skill levels! Beginning in September, TUTS' Humphreys School of Musical Theatre offers a variety of musical theatre classes including master series dance, and a variety of classes for adults!

Theater Talk airs Friday nights on PBS/Thirteen and 5 times weekly on CUNY TV, It also telecast every Thursday night on PBS Station NJN, which is available to all over-the-air digital and cable TV viewers in the NYC area. Check your local listings!

TAGG Students are challenged to be one hundred percent present during every class. Not just there, but there, prepared, focused and ready to collaborate.

Joe's Pub presents Nick Hallett: Man in the Matriarchy August 16; Peterson, featuring Mr. Peterson (of the Petersons) August 17; and Matt Doyle of Spring Awakening and the upcoming Bye Bye Birdie August 17.

TJMTC accepted the invitation and selected a Mexican play, The Opera Pop: 'Anjou, a tale of horror' (Guillermo Mendez and Lupita Sandoval). Inspired in a page of the French history of the XVI century during the religious wars, it is based on the historic personages and novelizes some of the most sordid events of the history to develop a musical where the politics and the passions interweave themselves for lead to an electrifying work.

Poco is coming to the Center for Arts in Natick on Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 8pm. An acoustic evening with Poco, the group known to create a new musical genre that united country with rock music. Their influence runs deep and their well-deserved reputation for well-constructed harmony and incendiary live performances has long been a staple of the band's legacy.

The South Island run by the French? Quelle Horreur! LE SUD, a new comedy by Dave Armstrong imagines what might have been, runs August 5 through 22.

Playwright Lynn Nottage and director Kate Whoriskey whose Pulitzer Prize winning play RUINED recently announced its final extension at Manhattan Theatre Club, was featured last night on 'Charlie Rose.'

On July 14, 2009, the New York Philharmonic opened the 2009 Concerts in the Parks, Presented by Didi and Oscar Schafer, Sponsored by Target and MetLife Foundation, with works by Mozart and Beethoven performed on the Great Lawn of Central Park before an estimated crowd of 80,000. Music Director Designate Alan Gilbert was at the helm.

Over the years New Voices has quietly and steadily been selling out the smaller theatre houses around Seattle. On Monday, August 3 at 8:00 p.m., in partnership with ACT's Central Heating Lab, New Voices 7 will take a huge leap forward by moving into the largest theatre space to date.