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Rock on Beethoven is the sequel to Roll over Beethoven, one of the longest running and most successful Barnyard Shows.

In a week, the National Youth Orchestra of Canada's (NYOC) TD Music 50th Anniversary National Tour will be underway! With Maestro Jacques Lacombe at the podium, this three-week venture commences July 24 in London, Ontario, and wraps up August 14 in Edmonton, and includes a visit to the west coast for the first time in five years. This tour follows the NYOC's training period, currently in session in London, Ontario.

Continuing a Summer Shakespeare series that began with last season's production of King Lear, called 'insanely good' by The Brooklyn Paper, The Gallery Players proudly announces casting and creative team for Shakespeare's seminal work, Hamlet. Directed by Taibi Magar and starring Broadway's Jeremy Bobb (Is He Dead?; Translations) as Hamlet, Players Shakespeare's production of Hamlet gets a limited, twelve performance engagement Thursday, July 22 - Sunday, August 1, 2010. ??

Singer/songwriter and accordionist Rana Santacruz and his band will bring his modern Mexican folk music to The Jewish Museum on Thursday evening, July 22. This concert is part of the popular SummerNights series, presenting live world music. Appearing with Santacruz will be violinist Kari Behtke, saxophonist Alejandro Berti, banjo player Hilary Hawke, guitarist Rene Hubard, trumpeter Andrew Oom, bassist John Sutton and percussionist Anthony Vanacore. The performance begins at 7:30 pm. The Jewish Museum is located at Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.

Resorts Casino Hotel and Flower Power Concerts, INC. will present HIPPIEFEST on Saturday, August 7 in the Superstar Theater. HIPPIEFEST features Jack Bruce of Cream, War, Rare Earth, Mitch Ryder and Badfinger featuring Joey Molland.

Two outdoor film screenings in July will officially launch newportFILM, a new organization that will bring film and filmmakers to the area and create a richer experience of the medium for Newport residents and visitors. On Friday, July 23, newportFILM will host an outdoor screening at the International Tennis Hall of Fame of Sam Taylor-Wood's Nowhere Boy, a feature debut that imagines the formative years of John Lennon. On Wednesday, July 28, a screening of No Impact Man will be hosted at Sweet Berry Farm; attendees will have an opportunity to watch a documentary that follows New Yorker Colin Beavan and his family as they attempt to minimize their environmental footprint by living off the grid in the middle of New York City, and to meet Beavan and his family.

Theatre Royal Bath Productions presents Alison Steadman, Hermione Norris, and Robert Bathurst in BLITHE SPIRIT by Noel Coward. The show features direction by Thea Sharrock, design by Hildegard Bechtler, and lighting design by Mark Henderson.

Theatrical Mining Company Proudly Presents, at the College of Notre Dame, as part of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival: This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, A New Play by Ken Greller and Directed by Peter Davis.

Jaradoa Theater is concluding its limited engagement of the new musical I'LL BE DAMNED this Sunday, July 18th at the Dimson Theatre at The Vineyard, 108 East 15th Street (between Union Square East & Irving Place). Performances began July 1st. I'LL BE DAMNED, by Rob Broadhurst and Brent Black, is directed by April Nickell and choreographed by Luis Salgado.

Damian Cruden's critically acclaimed production of The Railway Children today announces an extension to its run at Waterloo Station. Mike Kenny's new adaptation of E. Nesbit's novel which has been playing to packed houses since its opening earlier this week is now taking bookings to 2 January 2011.

Jim Caruso is proud to announce the return of singer Natalie Weiss in 'Deja-New: A Fresh Take on the Familiar.' The event will take place on Monday, August 23 at 7pm, as part of the long-running Broadway at Birdland concert series.

The Original SoupMan is pleased to announce its original location - the famed 55th Street and 8th Avenue soup sanctuary - will officially re-open on July 20, 2010 at 12PM.

Comic, former child star, outspoken activist, and TV Land Award winner ALISON ARNGRIM makes her Las Vegas debut with CONFESSIONS OF A PRAIRIE BITCH this August at the Onyx Theatre. Best known as acid-tongued, pre-Midol meanie Nellie Oleson from 'Little House on the Prairie', Alison Arngrim presents an uproarious evening of storytelling, stand-up, and multi media about life as everyone's favorite toxic pre-teen brat, complete with petticoats and ringlets. The live appearance also marks the release of Arngrim's book of the same title. Never afraid to dish the dirt on TV land, she let all the secrets loose of 'Little House on the Prairie', Hollywood and much more. Recalling her life and career as bitchy Nellie Oleson, Arngrim startles audiences internationally with off-color jokes about child stars and TV icons of the 1970's and 80s.

In a land far, far away, Queen Aggravain has decreed that no one shall marry until her son finds a bride - and she thwarts every princess who comes along. Princess Winnifred brashly defies the odds in this rollicking spin on 'The Princess and the Pea.' Once Upon a Mattress is full of side-splitting shenanigans and toe-tapping tunes for the entire family.

Barrington Stage Company's Musical Theatre Lab, under the mentorship of Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist William Finn, kicks off its fifth season with the world premiere of Pool Boy, a splashy new musical with music and lyrics by Nikos Tsakalakos and book and lyrics by Janet Allard.

The reviews are in and the critics are raving about the Music Circus production of Monty Python's 'Spamalot.'

Four Rogers Park area theatres, Lifeline Theatre, Raven Theatre, the side project, and Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, join together for the third year to offer a flexible subscription pass to see a variety of Rogers Park productions throughout the season, running from August 1, 2010 to July 31, 2011. Dubbed 'Chicago's answer to off-Broadway' by the Chicago Sun-Times, the foursome garnered ten non-Equity Jeff Awards out of 30 nominations during the 2009-2010 season and wanted to share their neighborhood commitment to excellence with the entire community, by offering this discounted pass with up to 35% savings over regular single tickets.

On July 15, 2010, some of Huntsville's finest musicians will come together for a summer concert to honor the life of Jack David Couch. All proceeds from the event will benefit the new Jack David Couch III Memorial Fund. Featuring Toy Shop, along with local teenage performers.

The Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute (JCOI), which brings together 35 jazz composers chosen from a national pool of applicants to explore the challenges of writing for the symphony orchestra, will culminate in two performances. On Friday, July 23 at 8pm, the Wet Ink ensemble, conducted by Carl Bettendorf, will perform works by Leroy Jenkins, Bernhard Lang, Katharina Rosenberger, Eric Wubbels, and Richard Barrett. On Saturday, July 24 at 8pm, American Composers Orchestra, conducted by Gil Rose, with guest artists J.D. Parran and Earle Howard, will perform works by Anthony Davis, Roscoe Mitchell, Earle Brown, Errollyn Wallen, and John Zorn.

WHO: The University of Montana School of Theatre & Dance WHAT: COMMUNITY AUDITIONS FOR HAIR WHEN: August 29, 2010, beginning at 5 pm: no appointment necessary WHERE:Montana Theatre, PARTV Center, UM-Missoula