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R&B singer Freddie Jackson comes to The Rrazz Room at the Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason, San Francisco CA. for five shows, Aug 5-9. Performances are at 8 PM with the Sunday Aug 9 show at 7 PM. Tickets are $40-$45, and can be purchased at www.therrazzroom.com or directly through ticketweb.com or at 866 468 3399.

The ninth annual Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights (AFPP) returns to Barter Stage II in historic Abingdon, Va., July 27-August 9, 2009. Cultivating plays and playwrights with a distinctly Appalachian voice, Barter's AFPP presents six readings and one mini-production of exciting new works.

Katherine McGrath (A Tale of Two Cities) will replaced Tony winner Marian Seldes (Deuce) in the upcoming Williamstown Theatre Festival production of The Torch-Bearers. Seldes has withdrawn from the production for personal reasons.

Fort Wayne Civic Theatre presents the Civic Theatre Premiere of Mel Brooks' THE PRODUCERS, July 25 through August 9, 2009 at the Arts United Center.

Village Theatre's KIDSTAGE SummerStock produces The Wiz, August 1-9, 2009 at the Francis J. Gaudette Theatre in Issaquah.

Water Works Theatre Company will open the ninth annual Shakespeare In The Park in Royal Oak with Macbeth July 23rd for a three week run in Starr Jaycee Park. Tickets ($15) are available online at www.waterworkstheatre.com and one hour prior to performances at the Starr Jacyee Park box office located at 1101 West 13 Mile Road, Royal Oak MI 48073.

Find out what happens after 'happily ever after' when Pittsburgh CLO presents Into the Woods. Once Upon a Time, a Baker and his wife embarked on a quest to break a witch's spell. On their journey 'into the woods' they cross paths with Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Cinderella and a host of other hysterically flawed fairy tale characters.

HAIRSPRAY will play the MUNY from August 3rd thru the 9th, it will be directed by Matt Lenz with choreography by Michele Lynch. It features a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, and a score by five-time Academy Award nominee Marc Shaiman (who co-wrote the music and lyrics for the acclaimed animated musical, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut) and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

The Lex-Ham Community Theater will present Hugh Leonard's one-act comic gem, Pizzazz, August 6-9, 2009. The play is directed by Mishia Burns Edwards.

Neck and neck (or other appropriate appendages) in the race for the International CringeFest's coveted Golden Pineapple at the Grand Theatre, Producers' Club, are: SWAMP HO (by David C. Hayes, dir. Tom Amici) in the theme evening of Sex Encounters of the Absurd Kind, playing two more performances, August 2 & 7 at 8 p.m.

The Iridium Jazz Club is pleased to present soul, jazz and R&B diva Ms. Freda Payne in a very special Tribute To Ella Fitzgerald Thursday through Sunday, August 6 through 9.

Buck Creek Players, the award-winning all volunteer community theater on Indianapolis' southeast side, is set to honor the memory of Jack Peek with the third biannual Buck Creek Players Play-A-Part Fundraiser production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic Broadway musical, The Sound of Music.

AL'S BUSINESS CARDS, a new comedy by Josh Koenigsberg, will be given its world-premiere this summer with previews beginning July 30 prior to an official press opening August 9 at the Lion Theater on Theater Row (410 W. 42 St.). The play is directed by Lauren Keating.

Signal Ensemble Theatre opens its seventh season with Edward Albee's take on the Carson McCullers novella 'The Ballad of the Sad Café,' directed by Co-Artistic Director Ronan Marra. Albee's signature piercing dialogue propels this 1963 dramatic adaptation that centers on the question: is it better to be the loved, or the beloved?

Gorilla Rep presents William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar directed by Stephen Fried Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator of the same name, his assassination and its aftermath.

Buck Creek Players, the award-winning all volunteer community theater on Indianapolis' southeast side, is set to honor the memory of Jack Peek with the third biannual Buck Creek Players Play-A-Part Fundraiser production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic Broadway musical, The Sound of Music.

Enjoy the classic story of tolerance with Robert Mulligan's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD as Victoria Theatre Association and Heidelberg Distributing Company present the ninth film of the Michelob Ultra Cool Film Series, August 7-9, 2009 at the historic Victoria Theatre in downtown Dayton.

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 Center for the Arts at Natick (TCAN) presents THE WAYBACKS on Friday, August 7, 2009 at 8:00pm.

Bailiwick's Jeff Recommended musical homage to Broadway Musicals BOMBS AWAY! will return for three weekends August 7 to 23 at the Hoover-Leppen Theatre at the Center on Halsted. The original cast of Kate Garassino, Anna Stevens, Eric Martin, and Rus Rainear again are featured.