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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced its calendar of events for the months of September and October, 2010. All events are subject to change without notice. Free performances are held each evening at 6 p.m. on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.

Freelance director and playwright Christopher-Rashee' Stevenson's newest black comedy A Children's Play opens at the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute/Cultural Center and audiences are instantly thrust into a disturbingly familiar and unfamiliar domestic exploration of wealth, sex, and power.

Way_Off_Broadway_Theatre_Presents_DIRTY_ROTTON_SCOUNDRELS_Sept_10_Nov_7_20010101 The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre will once again bring an area premiere production to the Frederick-area stage. Having been the first to bring shows such as Jerry Herman's La Cage aux Folles, Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl - The Musical, Mel Brooks' The Producers, as well as a regional theatre premiere production of The Wedding Singer to western Maryland audiences, Way Off Broadway is adding the musical comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels to the list of firsts. The outrageously funny musical opens September 10th and will run through November 7th.

In conjunction with the Bountiful/Davis Art Center's 22nd Annual Summerfest International (August 2 - 7 at Bountiful City Park - 400 N. 200 W.), the Utah Cultural Celebration Center presents International folk musicians and dancers from four different countries. The musical and dance groups featured are from Nepal, Paraguay, Czech Republic, and China. This event will take place on Monday, August 9th and tickets are free.

Common Ground Theatre is a performance and teaching space located in west Durham, offering performing arts and educational groups a flexible, well-equipped alternative space. The Theatre provides a convenient venue for Triangle audiences to experience the diversity of our area's arts and educational offerings. All events listed for the Fall 2010 season will be held at Common Ground Theatre.

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (CSC) is pleased to announce the return of Tour of the Parks running August 7 through August 19. As part of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's educational outreach program, Shakespeare on Love will be touring several local parks to encourage youth and families to discover the beauty of Shakespeare's work and the magic of live theater.

The video for 'Home,' the new single from platinum selling rock band, Goo Goo Dolls, will premiere on VH1.com on Tuesday, August 3rd, followed by all other media outlets the next day. 'Home,' which has been embraced by radio and is currently in the Top 15 of Hot AC and is rising. It is the first single from the Goo Goo Dolls' upcoming ninth studio album, Something For the Rest of Us, which will be released by Warner Bros. Records on August 31st.

This new musical by writer/composer Michael V. Doane tells the story of a soon-to-be-sold Bronx diner and its spicy staff. As they learn of the owner's plans to sell, they proceed with another typical day...except on this day, they learn more about each other's perseverance, dreams and rewards than ever before.

Join Australia's leading musical theatre stars and six talented young finalists on October 4th as they take the stage for the 2nd Rob Guest Endowment Concert, presented by Her Majesty's Theatre.

The life and times of The Lusty Lady Peepshow are recounted through the eyes of a young man who worked there in My Time with the Lady, the world premiere of a new autobiographical play by Ron Richardson and John Longenbaugh.

Main Street Theater will open its 2010-2011 MainStage season with George Bernard Shaw's riff on death panels, The Doctor's Dilemma, September 9 - October 3, 2010. The show is directed by Mark Adams and previews September 4, 5 and 8.

The Rose Theatre in Kingston has announced the upcoming events for the Fall/Winter season. Featured shows include Our Town: A Kingston Story, 1984 and Twelfth Night.

Our Town: A Kingston Story runs from 9 - 12 September at the Rose Theatre and Artistic Director Stephen Unwin has called upon local businesses.

The Franklin School for the Performing Arts (FSPA) will offer three different Camp and Intensive programs for young people during the last week of August at The School, 38 Main Street.

A special, one-night only fundraiser will be presented on Saturday, August 21 at 8pm at the Broad Brook Opera House, 107 Main Street, Broad Brook ,CT. 'HEART BEHIND THESE HANDS' is an original, Cabaret-style show that weaves a story about love and money through musical numbers from Broadway shows such as Brooklyn, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, A Chorus Line, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Chicago, Mamma Mia!, and many others.

Pride Films & Plays presents their next reading series, THE GREAT PLAYS OF TERRENCE McNALLY, a survey of his works written between 1975 and 2006.

The York Shakespeare Company welcomes various esteemed guests following performances of four-time Emmy Award-winner and New York Times 'Ethicist' Randy Cohen's The Punishing Blow: An Illustrated Lecture Delivered by Order of the Orange County Criminal Court.

Coming to the Gaiety Theatre is an eagerly anticipated new production of Sebastian Barry's acclaimed 1988 play, 'Boss Grady's Boys,' which led on to the huge success of other plays including the prize-winning 'The Steward of Christendom.'

Tonight Cornelia Street Cafe features the poetry, spoken word and music of artists like Patricia Sexton, Stephanie Hart, Vicki Moss, Vaimoana Niumeitolu, La Tasha N. Nevada Diggs, Ataahua Papa. Cornelia Street Cafe will also be bidding farewell to Miss bMe, who will be temporarily returning to Aotearoa.

The RRazz room at Hotel Nikko is San Francisco's premier nightclub, offering the finest in world-class Cabaret, Jazz, Comedy and Popular music entertainment. This season's performances begin August 4th with double-Grammy nominee, Monica Mancini.