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The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust culminates Black History Month with its regular Showcase Noir: African American Artist and Designer Exhibit and Sale and the special presentation of Grammy-award-winning South African a cappella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Showcase Noir opens at 11am on Sunday, February 28, in the Byham Theater lobby. Ladysmith Black Mambazo performance closes the evening with their 7 p.m. performance in the theater. Cohen & Grigsby is the season sponsor of the 2009-2010 Trust Presents series.

The third year of The Human Race Theatre Company's Stephen Schwartz Musical Theatre Scholarship competition is going to be bewitched, as The Victoria Theatre Association joins in the presentation and members of the touring cast of Wicked take part in the show.

Jamie Baum has announced upcoming gigs in Canada, New York, and Portugal.

Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Artistic Director, Mark W. Jones-Executive Director) is proud to announce an open call audition for their mainstage production of Peter Pan. Peter Pan will run at the Millburn Theater from June 2 through June 27.

What do you get when you put a veteranarian, a banker, and a teacher on stage? We really don't know, but we'll be finding out when the NITWITS return on February 20th to Newnan Community Theatre Company (NCTC).

Lori Bookstein Fine Art presents Antonakos: Whites, an exhibition of the artist's white work in various media and different scales, focusing on the interaction of light with particular surfaces and edges beginning February 17th through March 20th.

Tony Award winner Faith Prince returns to the Center to close the 2009-10 Cabaret Series April 8 - 11 in Samueli Theater. Prince has been dazzling Broadway audiences since she swept the theater awards, winning the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance as Ms. Adelaide in the critically-acclaimed revival of Guys and Dolls. In 2008, she was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for A Catered Affair. This is Prince's second visit to the Center, following her debut here in February 2008. She replaces Paulo Szot who is unable to appear due to his extended run in South Pacific at Lincoln Center.

Produced by CAPA and the OSU Department of Theatre, Pearl Cleage's A Song for Coretta will play the Lincoln Theatre (21 E. Main St.) March 5-7. Inspired by the long line of mourners at Ebenezer Baptist Church paying their respects to Mrs. Coretta Scott King, this play introduces five fictional African-American women, aged 17 to 57, who find laughter and hope while waiting in the rain to say goodbye. A Song For Coretta explores the impact Mrs. King had on the lives of these women, and the connections they build with one another through her memory and legacy.

Go Tigers! is an improvised play about the sideline drama between parents at a junior rec soccer game. Sarcasm, mid life crisis and poignant moments collide in this show about being an adult. Every performance the cast will take suggestions from the audience to create a funny, smart and rowdy comedy that is different every time.

The real monsters, dragons, and basilisks are back! More than 60 live lizards and snakes from five continents in exquisitely prepared habitats. In addition to the live animals, the exhibit uses interactive stations, significant fossils, and an award-winning video to acquaint visitors with the world of the Squamata, the group that includes lizards and snakes. Vistors can learn about ballistic tongues of chameleons, how a basilisk escapes from predators by running across water, amazing camouflage of Madagascar geckos, the 3-D thermal vision of rattlesnakes and boas, spitting cobra fangs, blood-squirting Horned Lizards, flying snakes and lizards, and other gravity-defying squamates.

The authors of the new musical 'Buddy's Tavern,' winner of Curtain Call's 2010 American Harmony Prize, are going to have to clear a little more room on their mantles. Yesterday, it was announced that 'Buddy's Tavern' has also been named by the Acardemy of Arts and Letters as the winner of the 2010 Richard Rodgers Award, one of the most prestigious honors given to developing works of musical theater. In addition to recognition, the Richard Rodgers Award carries with it funding for reading and productions of the winner musical. 'Buddy's Tavern' was written by Raymond DeFelitta, Alison Louise Hubbard and Kim Oler. A concert reading of songs and scenes from the show will be presented at Curtain Call's next Musical Mondays evening, scheduled for Monday, February 22, starring Broadway performer Michael Iannucci (Fiddler on the Roof) in the title role.

February 23, 2010, the opening night for THE WIZARD OF OZ, will be the Artist Series Broadway in Jacksonville's annual Family Night on Broadway! There will be kid friendly games and events centered on the Wizard of Oz theme taking place in the lobby before and after the performance. A Family Night on Broadway Ticket Special is available for purchase. Buy a full priced adult ticket, receive the child's ticket for ½ price. Families are encouraged to come, as is anyone else who enjoys the food, fun and games of our Annual Family Night on Broadway on Opening Night, February 23, 2010!

Lookingglass Theatre Company proudly announces the addition of a 7-person high wire pyramid as part of its popular circus-inspired production, Hephaestus: A Greek Mythology Circus Tale. Lookingglass Theatre Company's Hephaestus: A Greek Mythology Circus Tale will be held at Goodman Theatre's Owen Bruner Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn.

In preparation for the opening of the winter games, Elmo from Sesame Street Live will visit one of the top figure skating facilities in the world, the international Detroit Skating Club (DSC) on Thursday, February 11th at 4:45pm. Home of National Champions Jeremy Abbott, Meryl Davis and Charlie White, who will all represent team U.S.A. during the 2010 Olympic Games, Elmo will join DSC's Olympic coaches and youngsters of the Learn to Skate program in hopes of finding the next Detroit Olympian.

MODELINIA, a multi-platform media brand, from the producers of Project Runway, that connects women to fashion, beauty and lifestyle through the experiences of the world's supermodels, will broadcast a daily television fashion and entertainment news program on NYC life (channel 25), the official television network of the City of New York.

Athletic bodies and contemporary costumes meet explosive traditional taiko drumming and innovative choreography on the Jorgensen stage on Tuesday, March 16, at 7:30 pm. 'Tao: The Martial Art of Drumming' has critics waxing lyrical about the group's extraordinary precision, energy, and stamina. Time Out calls the show 'powerful, dynamic and unique,' and the Chicago Tribune says the performers are 'extraordinarily talented ...[with] incomparable muscular zeal' as they bring a non-traditional flair to the heritage of Japanese drumming.

On Tuesday, February 16, Beowulf Alley Theatre Company's Old Time Radio Theatre will present two rousing productions. The first is a very funny November 17, 1950 episode of The Life of Riley: The Riley's First Date followed by the December 12, 1937 presentation of The Shadow: The Death Triangle.

Lantern Theater Company continues its 2009/10 season with the Philadelphia Premiere of The Breath of Life, a gripping story about intimacy and betrayal penned by influential British playwright David Hare.

Drinking, dressing up in lavish costumes and partying till you drop are all considered good deeds and must-do's on this most joyous of Jewish Holidays. For this reason, the founders of four new, young and progressive Jewish organizations: Isramerica, Kinky Jews, Artists4Israel and the creators of the off- Broadway hit, 'Sex and the Holy Land' have joined forces to create CRAZY KINKY PURIM EXTRAVAGANZA, a night of fun and fantasy reminiscent of those good old days at Studio 54.

Go Comedy! Improv Theater is set to give away $1000 during BITS, the largest cash prize ever awarded for an improv tournament in Detroit.