Bonnie Gleicher

Joe's Pub presents Spencer Day, Gemma Ray w/Kurt Wolf, Gay Marshall Sings Edith Piaf, CMA Songwriter Series and more from July 12 through the 15th.

Spoleto Festival USA 2010 came to a close on Sunday with strong attendance at the Festival Finale at Middleton Place. Despite temperatures soaring in the upper 90s, more than 3,000 people attended the annual event, which featured a Carolina Chocolate Drops concert followed by fireworks over the historic Ashley River plantation.

First time Vail Jazz Festival attendees can stay 3 nights at the Vail Marriott Mountain Resort, the host hotel for the Festival; 2 nights are absolutely free. First Timer Patron Pass holders will only pay for 1 night at the group rate of $109 (a bargain rate!) and the second and third nights are absolutely free. A parton pass provides attendees with preferred seating to over 25 hours of jazz, including dinner with all of the musicians.

Blyth Festival Artistic Director Eric Coates has announced major casting for the 2010 summer season. This year's acting company includes a number of past Blythe Festival actors, as well as new. The Blyth Festival summer season runs June 23 to September 4, 2010.

Mordine & Company Dance Theater and Natya Dance Theatre, in association with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, present ENCOUNTERING THE OTHER at Chicago DCA's Storefront Theater July 29 through August 1st. The performance is co-created by leading choreographers Shirley Mordine and Hema Rajagopalan.

Tauom, a trio featuring Ricardo Gallo on piano, Satoshi Takeishi on percussion and Dan Blake on soprano and tenor saxophones, performs at Cornelia Street Cafe tonight, 8:30pm.

New York actor's Derek and Gina Roché have taken their talents from the stage to the page. With inspiration from their daughter, they have just published BELLA GOES BUMP IN THE NIGHT. Illustrated by Jonathan Ashley, this book marks the first from the Bella The Great children's book series.

The international tour of GREASE will play its first 2011 performance at the Deutschen Theater in Munich from March 22nd through April 17.

The national tour of BURN THE FLOOR will play Boston's Colonial Theatre 3/8-13 2011. The tour kicks off in Portland, OR in September 2010.

In recognition of Independence Day weekend, the free Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. Bartholomew's continues with music by great American composers on Sunday, July 4 at 11 am.

About Towns Tours' 'ComeSolveIt-Charlotte Players' presents I LOATHE A PARADE July 9 at 8pm as part of its monthly Interactive Murder Mystery Shows. The show, which will play at Story-Slam Charlotte, has a 4th of July theme and audience members will become investigators and help the Detective figure out who did it!

Alive Theatre presents FOUR CLOWNS at the Hollywood Fringe Festival June 18-19 and June 24-26th. All shows, with the exception of 2pm Saturday shows, are at 8pm.

Writer/director Fletcher Rhoden's World Premiere stage musical, REDHEAD CUBAN HAUSFRAU HUSBAND, will play at the Mt. Hollywood Theater July 9 through September 4 on Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00pm.

Multi-award winning actress Sharon Gless (Burn Notice, Queer As Folk, Cagney & Lacey) will be in Chicago for two events Saturday, June 26, Pride Weekend. She will be honored by international LGBT law enforcement members, and attend a Chicago DVD release party for Hannah Free.

Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival and the Irish Film Institute have joined forces to bring NT Live to Dublin. On June 28th at 6:45PM, the IFI will feature live via satellite the National Theatre's production of Irish playwright Dion Boucicault's LONDON ASSURANCE, starring Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell Beale, in the fourth screening at the IFI from the NT Live series. NT Live is an initiative to broadcast live performances of National Theatre plays onto cinema screens around the world.

Historic Richmond Town presents an old fashioned Father's Day on Sunday, June 20th from 1:00 to 5:00 pm. Activities include ice cream churning, quartering a log with a froe and mallet, and splitting wood with wedges.

In a last-minute substitution, David Makhateli, a principal dancer with London's Royal Ballet, will step into the role of Albrecht in the National Ballet of Georgia's upcoming production of GISELLE at Spoleto Festival USA. Makhateli replaces Irakli Bakhtadze and Davit Karapetyan, both of whom recently sustained injuries while dancing. Makhateli will dance the demanding role in the matinee performances on June 12 and 13 at Charleston's Gaillard Auditorium.

Drag star Jackie Beat premieres JACKIE BEAT: IN 3-D! at Off-Broadway's Gramercy Theater on Friday, June 25 and Saturday June 26 at 10:00 pm.

Tickets are now available online for Freeport Players' summer play: I HATE HAMLET. The show premieres July 16 and runs through August 1, with a special performance July 15.

The Northglenn Arts and Humanities Foundation (NAHF) will unveil six new sculptures-on-loan at the award-winning E.B. Rains Jr. Memorial Park on June 23, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. Artists will be on hand to answer questions about their pieces during a walking tour after the ceremony. The sculptures will remain in the park through May of 2011. The park is located at 11801 Community Center Drive; one-half mile south of 120th Avenue and Grant St. in Northglenn.