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Weekend movie box office estimates: August 13 - August 15, 2010.

Popular with both critics and audiences, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago returns to Jacob's Pillow August 25-29 in a stirring Festival 2010 finale. Hubbard Street is recognized as one of the nation's leading contemporary dance companies, with the Chicago Sun-Times stating, 'The troupe's power has to do with far more than bravura technique; flawless dancing is simply a given at Hubbard Street. Rather, it is about mood-spinning and emotional intensity-about the preoccupations of the choreographers this company chooses to work with, and about the ability of the dancers to interpret these artists' fever dreams.'

It's 1979, and Jon and Leslie are two young, out-of-work, bachelors sharing an apartment together in New York City. To save money, Jon has been filing tax returns listing the pair as married...unbeknownst to his buddy Leslie. The day of reckoning comes when the Internal Revenue Service informs the 'couple' they are going to be investigated by a Mr. Floyd Spinner. With the help of his fiancée - Kate, Jon dresses Leslie up to masquerade as a housewife. Complicating matters further - Jon's mother unexpectedly drops in to meet her son's fiancée, and Leslie's girlfriend shows up demanding to know why he won't see her anymore. Add one unscrupulously nosy landlord to the bunch, and things quickly spiral into side-splitting confusion and chaos in this hilarious farce.

On Friday, August 27 at 8:30p.m., there will be an American Sign Language Interpretation of 'The Dictator,' produced by the Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company. Over sixty-five years before Woody Allen's film, 'Bananas,' there was Richard Harding Davis's comedy about a country in Central America where you never knew who is in charge - and whether or not you'd live until lunchtime. The delightful cast of ten has been praised by newspapers and audiences alike.

Master Concert Pianist and Broadway Conductor will perform two 30 minute concerts FREE to the public with advance reservations on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 in the Starboard Lounge at The Queen Mary (1126 Queeen's Hwy Long Beach, CA). Advance reservations are required due to limited seating available by emailing info@kmpartists.com.

Join us as we open our 2010-2011 Main Stage Season with 'The Complete History of America: Abridged.'

Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin explores a life-altering event through contemporary dance in Structure and Sadness, an evening-length work being performed at Jacob's Pillow, America's premier dance festival, August 18-22. Guerin has created a unique movement vocabulary inspired by basic engineering principles which she uses to reference the 1970 collapse of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge. Lighting and set designers Ben Cobham and Andrew Livingston have collaborated with visual artist Michaela French to create an onstage environment that is both arresting and interactive. The dancers of Lucy Guerin Inc move through the intricately constructed architecture of their surroundings to an original electronic score by Gerald Mair.

Hailing from Mazatlan, Mexico, dance company Delfos Danza Contemporánea makes its Ravinia debut on Friday, Aug. 27, with the piece When Disguises Are Hung Up (Cuando los Difraces se Cuelgan), with additional performances at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 28 and 1 p.m. on Sunday, August 29.

RICHARD SKIPPER, the 4-time MAC Award winning celebrity tribute artist, brings his critically- acclaimed show 'CAROL CHANNING' IN CONCERT to Cape Cod for a 4-Night Only Special Engagement prior to this Fall's Off-Broadway run. A portion of proceeds from each ticket will benefit The Dr. Carol Channing & Harry Kullijian Foundation For The Arts. The performances will occur Monday August 30th through Thursday September 2nd at The Madeira Room Vixen located at The Pilgrim House in Provincetown.

Signal Ensemble Theatre presents the first show of its eighth season, Tom Stoppard's comedy 'The Real Inspector Hound,' the ensemble's inaugural presentation in their permanent theater space at 1802 W. Berenice Ave., a 50-seat venue in Chicago's North Center neighborhood. Theatre critics Moon and Birdboot attend the premiere of a new murder mystery and are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. As Moon laments his status as a second-string reviewer, and Birdboot considers adultery with one of the shows actresses, they soon find themselves inside the play-within-a-play, implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman. In a hilarious send-up of Agatha Christie-style melodrama, Stoppard's 1968 work is just as rooted in absurdism as it is in satire. Kicking off Signal's 'Season of Comedy,' this play set in the theater will appropriately open Signal's new performance space. The show will run about 65 minutes with no intermission.

Rover Dramawerks is proud to announce its 11th season, which will feature shows such as SUNDAY IN NEW YORK, MORPHIC RESONANCE, and BLACK COMEDY.

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InProximity Theatre Company is proud to announce that Dorothy Lyman will be directing the upcoming production of SIGHT UNSEEN by Donald Margulies (Time Stands Still, Collected Stories, Brooklyn Boy, Dinner With Friends, God of Vengeance, Pitching to the Star, Nocturne, Luna Park, Found a Peanut, The Loman Family Picnic). The show will feature Laurie Schaefer, Jonathan Todd Ross, Brent Vimtrup, and Bryn Boice. Designers include James J. Fenton (scenic), Lisa Soverino (Lighting), Court Watson (Costumes), and Jeremy Lee (sound). The Production Stage Manager is Jasmin Sanchez.

Frank's Life is a black comedy/drama in two acts and is best described as a story about 'an Everyman who has lost title to his very life'.

Playing through August 28: Westport Country Playhouse stages Kate Baldwin and Lewis Cleale in 'I Do! I Do!,' a joyful and touching musical about a couple's 50-year marriage, written by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, directed by Susan H. Schulman.

The Ross Valley Players has announced auditions for its upcoming production of 'Pride and Prejudice.' Jane Austen's classic story, set in the Regency era, is brought to the stage in this 2005 adaptation by John Jory. Finding a husband among unsuitable suitors consumes Elizabeth Bennet's mother and sisters, while she remains independent - until she meets Mr. Darcy. Set in a society where snubs and deceit abound, the Bennet family matches pride and prejudice to reach a happy ending. Phoebe Moyer directs the production opening on Nov. 12, 2010.