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Ravinia's 2012 Gala Benefit Evening, entitled "Leading Ladies" and featuring celebrated stars Patti LuPone and Patricia Racette, honors the 50th anniversary of the festival's Women's Board at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 21.

ICT artistic director caryn desai directs the West Coast premiere of the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award-winning Ghost-Writer, an intimate spine-tingler from playwright Michael Hollinger(Opus). Performances take place Aug. 24 through Sept. 16 at International City Theatre in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center, with low-priced previews beginning August 21.

Prospect Theater Project and the Gallo Center for the Arts are joining again to bring Tartuffe, the comedy by French playwright Molière, to the Gallo Center stage July 27-29, 2012. Tartuffe follows two highly successful past partnerships between the Prospect Theater Project and the Gallo Center for the Arts; To Kill A Mockingbird in 2011 and The Grapes of Wrath in May 2012.

Six Flags Great Adventure celebrates JERSEY BOYS DAY with the Broadway cast of the hit musical on Friday, July 20th. The celebration will last throughout the day and will feature giveaways and a live performance featuring members of the cast at Adventure Alley at 2pm.

Table 8 Productions presents the World Premiere of the 'raunchy, rockin' comedy' Summer Camp! The Musical, with book by Troy Heard, music by Angela Chan, and lyrics by Heard and Chan. The run begins Friday, August 10, 2012, at The Onyx Theatre in Commercial Center and plays weekends through August 26. The production is directed by Heard with musical direction by Chan.

TinyRhino is UglyRhino's take on the ten-minute play evening. Each month we commission six short plays each including the same five dramatic elements.

Mad Cow Theatre has announced the cast and directing team for Billy Bishop Goes to War, the award-winning musical drama written and composed by John Gray in collaboration with Eric Peterson.

Opera New Jersey's tenth anniversary continues when Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore docks in the Matthews Theater of the McCarter Theatre Center for its first performance on July 15 at 2 p.m. Additional performances will take place on July 19 at 7:30 p.m. and July 21 at 7:30 p.m. also at the Matthews Theatre.

Teddy's Bar & Grill will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie's birthday with the Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration, a marathon concert features performances by local Williamsburg bands and artists, on Friday, July 20th at 8:00 PM. A portion of the night's proceeds will benefit O.U.T.R.A.G.E., Williamsburg / Greenpoint Organizations United for Trash Reduction And Garbage Equity.

The Amoralists announced today that the group will be presenting a post-show talkback on Sunday, July 15 with playwright Derek Ahonen. Joe Meyers of the Connecticut Post will moderate the discussion, which follows the 2pm performance. The Amoralists are currently presenting the critically acclaimed World Premiere of Ahonen's The Bad and the Better, directed by Obie Award winner Daniel Aukin.

The economy is the worse it's been in fifty years and a bunch of Delawareans decide to cheer things up by staging a musical at Longwood Gardens. Sound familiar? This is how The Brandywiners got their start in the Great Depression when Frances Tatnall and W.W. (Chick) Laird staged Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirate of Penzance way back in 1932. Of course, it didn't hurt that Pierre du Pont, owner of Longwood Gardens at the time, was Lairds's uncle and had just built Longwood's beautiful Open Air Theatre. Now, 80 years later, and in the midst of another economic turndown, The Brandywiners are doing it again with Hello, Dolly! , one of the greatest American musicals of all time. Opening in 1964, Hello, Dolly! set a record for Tony Awards (10) and performances (2,844). The title role of Dolly was originated by the legendary Carol Channing, and has been played by a who's who of female stars including Barbra Streisand, Mary Martin, Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, Pearl Bailey, Ethel Merman and even Phyllis Diller. Hello, Dolly! is a lavish Broadway-style musical that is as humorous as it is heart warming. Based on Thorton Wilder's The Matchmaker, it tells the story of Dolly's matchmaking mis-adventures in New York City just before the dawn of the 20th century. In keeping with the times, Director Cal Bracken has given The Brandywiners' production a feminist twist to an otherwise over-the-top sexist plot line. The women in this show do more than "clean out the stables" as they join the budding suffragettes demanding respect and equal rights. In another timely line, two of the characters sing "JP Morgan scrapes and bows to us" as they try it impress their girl friends. In true Brandywiners' fashion, this production brings eye-catching costumes, a professional orchestra and a cast of nearly sixty talented performers singing and dancing their hearts out. The Brandywiners' shows come as close as you can get to touring Broadway show quality and at less than half the price. Hello, Dolly! is playing July 26-28 and August 2-4 at Longwood Gardens Open Air Theater. Tickets are available by calling 800 338 6965 or through www.brandywiners.org.

The William Inge Theatre Festival has a long rich history of honoring great living playwrights, acknowledging these too-often underappreciated creative heroes of the stage. But the 32nd annual Inge Festival in 2013 changes pace: honoring its namesake American icon William Inge, to celebrate the centennial of his birth.

Kids Week, London theatre's annual initiative for children, has broken all its own records in the year of its fifteenth birthday. As of today an extraordinary 74,187 tickets have been sold, with over seven weeks of booking left. In 2011 Kids Week sold 73,426 tickets over the entire booking period.

Jim Bredeson has announced a concert presentation of excerpts from his new musical EVEN FOR ONE NIGHT as part of the Dixon Place Hot! Festival - The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture. The event will take place on Monday, July 16th at 7:30 PM at Dixon Place (161A Chrystie Street btw Rivington and Delancey). Tickets for the event are $12 in advance, $15 at the door and ticketing links and more information can be found at www.evenforonenight.com.

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park has announced that the Board of Trustees has unanimously elected Ms. M. Elizabeth Brothers as its first Trustee Emerita.

Casting has been announced for the St. Louis engagement of Disney's THE LION KING. St. Louis's most eagerly awaited stage production ever will leap onto the Fox Theatre stage from Wednesday, August 15 to Sunday September 2. The press opening night is Thursday, August 16 at 8:00pm.

Actors' Equity Association (Equity) announced today that the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE has been selected as the recipient of its Extraordinary Excellence in Diversity on Broadway Award for the 2011-2012 Season. The Diversity Award will be presented at a reception prior to Equity's National Council Meeting at the Equity headquarters in New York City on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 12:30PM EST.

For the first time ever, Cape May Stage presents two-time Tony-winning Christine Ebersole and jazz violinist Aaron Weinstein on Monday, July 30 at 8 p.m. for an evening showcasing new arrangements of classic songs by Fats Waller, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, and Cannonball Adderley.

In this 1965 musical, Don Quixote and his faithful servant Sancho Panza go on their thrilling ride to battle evil, rescue maidens and right all wrongs. The score includes 'The Impossible Dream,' 'Dulcinea,' and 'I, Don Quixote.'

The Broadway community mourns the loss of Martin Pakledinaz, who passed away from brain cancer on July 8th at age 58. The marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be dimmed in his memory on Thursday, July 12th, at exactly 8:00 p.m. for one minute.