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Pumpkin Theatre is hosting their Family Fun Day this Saturday, May 19, at CENTERSTAGE. From 10 am to 1 pm, Pumpkin will present performances, arts and crafts, face painting, and more. The Iced Gems Baking Cupcake Truck will be on site, and Pumpkin's Creative Drama classes will present special performances. There will be a live announcement of Pumpkin Theatre's 45th Anniversary Season, and a special subscription series offer as part of the season announcement.

The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, which opens at the Ivoryton Playhouse on June 6th and runs through June 24th, introduces audiences to Barney Cashman, a 47-year-old restaurateur, who decides he needs to take a break from his 23-year-old marriage. On three different afternoons, he brings women to his mother's apartment while she's at the hospital volunteering. Behind plentiful laughs is a tender portrayal of a decent fellow who just can't succeed in sinning.

The Hole will present a one night only photo exhibition on Tuesday May 29th by iO Tillett Wright. The evening will be hosted by Terence Koh, Venus X, Slava Mogutin, Eve Ensler, Lauren Flax and James Lecesne of the Trevor Project with performances by Cavemen, Bianca Casady of CocoRosieand JD Samson and MEN. Prints will be on sale off the wall for $10 and all funds will go to the continuing efforts of Self Evident Truths.

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 will be held at Common Ground Theatre.

To celebrate Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday, the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse will present a concert production of Woody Guthrie's American Song, an award-winning musical based on the life and music of the iconic American folk singer, written and directed by Peter Glazer, and performed by a cast of talented actor/musicians running from July 11 to July 22.

Kabbalah is touring the U.S. for the first time, dashing through New York, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Santa Rosa, and Santa Cruz in May/June, 2012.

This month the Theatre Artists Studio presents HOT. The dancers of 'Burns It Up' take the stage, followed by TML Arts' Shana Bousard, who burns bright with the vocal styles of Broadway, Jazz and Blues starting May 18th.

Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL) announces its 2012/2013 concert season-the first with Principal Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado performing in both its summer series at Caramoor International Music Festival and orchestra series at Carnegie Hall.

Penobscot Theatre Company is pleased to present the musical I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE from May 30 to June 17th.

Playwright Matthew Freeman and director Kyle Ancowitz (The Theater Accident) return to The Brick with CONFESS YOUR BUBBLE. Their previous appearances include the much-ballyhooed productions of Glee Club and An Interview with the Author and That Old Soft Shoe.

The Williamston Theatre will be offering 4 workshops this summer for teens (12-18 years old) starting June 18. The classes will be taught by Dana Brazil, a professional actress who has been seen onstage at Williamston Theatre, BoarsHead Theatre and Purple Rose Theatre Company.

The Mall at Partridge Creek continues its tradition to engage and entertain its community with the launch of its 2012 Motor City Co-op Credit Union Summer Sounds concert series Memorial Day weekend. Now in its fifth year, Motor City Co-op Credit Union Summer Sounds is quickly becoming a much-anticipated tradition featuring the area's most popular bands, such as Sun Messengers, Boogie Dynomite, Parrots of the Caribbean, Square Pegz, and Big Will and the 360 Degree Band. The series starts May 26 when the Randy Brock Group takes the stage and will feature free daily concerts through Labor Day.

Kathy Evans, Founder and Executive Director of the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, announced the eighteen writers who were selected for residencies this July and August. Each week, for eight weeks, one musical theatre writing team will work on their musical in a home in Rhinebeck, New York.

The Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces the opening of FOREVER SUNG, A celebration of age in song, May 18-26, 2012, in the Frank & Katrina Basile Theatre. A co-production of the University of Indianapolis Center for Aging & Community and The Phoenix Theatre, FOREVER SUNG is a live musical concert that celebrates every age of our lives.

THE ASTORIA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (APAC) has just announced a new closing date of May 26th for its production of THE SECRET GARDEN. The show reunites the creative team behind their The Human Comedy and Children of Eden with THE SECRET GARDEN, musical staging by Christine O'Grady, musical directed by Jeffrey Campos and directed by APAC Artistic Director Tom Wojtunik.

In Seussical: The Musical, playing June 1-17 at The Rose Theater, Horton the elephant attempts to save JoJo and the Whos and protect Mayzie La Bird's egg, in this production of the Broadway show.

Heather Orth and Samantha Bruce will return to Sierra Repertory Theatre this summer as cousins Nettie Fowler and Julie Jordan in Sierra Rep's production of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Carousel, opening June 29 at the Fallon House Theatre.

Panache Booking Showcase will perform at the Knitting Factory Brooklyn on June 16th at 9 p.m featuring Grass Widow, Turbo Fruits, and The Black Belles.

After over ten years of being known as downtown theatre's most-loved purveyor of live B-Movie mayhem and stage adaptations of cinema's most notorious cult classics, DMTheatrics director Frank Cwiklik is indulging in what may be the most audacious and ambitious numbskull idea he's yet had - a binge-and-purge festival of five Ed Wood messterpieces adapted for the stage.

The San Pedro Playhouse will present THE DROWSY CHAPERONE Russell Hill Rogers Theater from May 18-June 17.