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The Palo Alto Players invite audiences to come witness the confusion and hilarity when one seemingly ordinary man tries to balance two lives and two wives in Ray Cooney's RUN FOR YOUR WIFE. Opening June 13th at the Lucie Stern Theater in Palo Alto, this popular comedy from the author of 'Funny Money' and 'Move Over, Mrs. Markham' will be sure to add some heat and humor to your summer.

Wondering where all the new talent is? Come to Scott Nevins' 'The Late Night Review' at The Rrazz Room at The Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason, San Francisco CA. Saturday, July 11 at 10:30 PM. Tickets are $25 with a few VIP tickets available at $30, and can be purchased at www.therrazzroom.com or directly through ticketweb.com or at 866 468 3399.

Berkeley Playhouse closes its highly successful inaugural season with Peter Pan the Musical this summer at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley. The show runs July 17 thru August 23, with regular Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday performances throughout the run.

Marin Shakespeare Company presents Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Set in Victorian England, Oscar Wilde's witty comedy makes fun of the British upper class as it follows the follies of two young eligible bachelors when they court two young women. One of the wittiest plays ever written. It features George Maguire as Lady Bracknell with an all Equity cast.

Fat Melon Productions premieres a new one-woman romantic comedy, THE SMOKING DIARY Off-Broadway, opening July 30, 2009 at 8:00 PM at the ATA American Theatre of Actors Chernuchin Theater, 314 W. 54th St., New York.

Free Theatre for All Ages! New York Classical Theatre runs Downtown with 'King Lear' by William Shakespeare in Battery Park, Meet at Castle Clinton. Directed by Stephen Burdman. On June 23, 24, 25, 26, 29 & 30 and July 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 & 7: All Shows are at 7pm. Additionally, free drama workshops for families with kids ages 7-12 are on Thursday, June 25, Tues, June 30, Thursday, July 2 & Tuesday, July 7 at 5pm.

Take Two Productions is the first non-professional community theatre group in the St. Louis area to present RENT. This Pulitzer Prize-winning, Broadway musical is based loosely on Puccini's opera 'La Bohème.' It follows a year in the lives of seven friends living the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village.

The Playwrights Realm presents the U.S. premiere of DOV AND ALI - a new drama by playwright Anna Ziegler, author of the critically acclaimed play BFF. Previews began June 5th prior to an official press opening of June 12th Off-Broadway at The Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan. Playwrights Realm Co-Artistic Director Katherine Kovner directs.

The Uncommon Theater Company is starting the summer off right with a phenomenal staging of 'Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays'. From the mind of Pulitzer Prize Winning playwright John Patrick Shanley, writer and director of the critically acclaimed and film 'Doubt' which was nominated for 5 Academy Awards, comes a collection of short plays that examine the full scale of the human condition.

Due to record-breaking box office demand, Lookingglass Theatre Company extends The Arabian Nights through August 9, 2009. The Lookingglass Original, adapted and directed by Ensemble Member Mary Zimmerman, is now playing at Lookingglass Theatre Company, located inside Chicago's historic Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave. at Pearson.

Rehearsals began yesterday for La Red Music Theatre's world premiere of B.R.A.T.T. Camp, by Bobby Cronin. The production is directed and choreographed by La Red Artistic Director Jessica Redish, and music directed by Keith Harrison.

In the Met's new staging of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Joseph Calleja will sing the title role, replacing Rolando Villazón, and Alan Held will sing the roles of the four villains, replacing René Pape.

Multi-talented comedian, actor and writer RODNEY CARRINGTON returns to the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines stage for one night only on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009 at 7 p.m.

On July 23, 2009, South Side Chicago writer John Hospodka and his Bohemian Pupil Press will publically launch the free on-line, multi-media 'literary picture show' South Side Trilogy at www.bohemianpupil.com, featuring a collection of fictional works which also utilizes sound and images.

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) is pleased to announce the addition of two directors to the 25th Anniversary Season celebrating the works of female playwrights: Pam MacKinnon will helm the world premiere production of A Lifetime Burning by Cusi Cram and Tony Award-winner Daniel Sullivan will stage the New York premiere of Charlayne Woodard's solo performance piece, The Night Watcher.

The U.S. premiere of the Playwrights Realm's production of DOV AND ALI - a new drama by playwright Anna Ziegler and directed by Katherine Kovner - opened at The Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street) on Friday, June 12 to enthusiastic reviews. Previews of DOV AND ALI began on June 5, and it will continue to play through June 27.

Boulder Weekly Films, Radio 1190 & Twisted Pine present BEAT THE HEAT FILM SERIES.

Award-winning classical guitarist Peter Fletcher will perform at St. Matthias Episcopal Church (1 Dundee Street in Asheville, NC), on July 26th at 3PM. The program will feature selections from Fletcher's 2008 CD release on Tower Hill Records, Music of the Baroque.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces a special edition of the unique & irreverent political commentary show, Pittsburgh Pundits. For more information regarding this event, please contact Randy Kirk at 412-325-6766, or at kirk@pgharts.org. Theater Square, 655 Penn Avenue. Saturday, June 20, 2009, doors open at 10pm, event at 10:30pm. $5.00 at the door, or free with ticket stub from any earlier show downtown (while seats last).

Signature Theatre, the recipient of the 2009 Tony Award® for Outstanding Regional Theatre, presents its Sizzlin' Summer Cabaret series July 7 through 24 - three weeks of live music and performances ranging from cabaret and show tunes to jazz, blues, and R&B.