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The Metropolitan Room NYC will host a CD release concert for Mike Herriott & Sean Harkness' new album, H2, on August 8, with two sets at 7PM and 9:30PM. There is a $20 cover and 2 drink minimum.

Theatre for the New City will host EGO ACTUS presents BROWNSTONE BREAKDOWN from August 12 until August 22. The play is written by Carol W. Berman and directed by Joan Kane. It will feature William Allgood, Debby Brand, Alfred Gingold*, Cat Migliaccio, Shai Trichter*, Viet Vo, and Richard Zekaria.

Now an aging soldier and world leader, Antony is enthralled by the legendary Egyptian queen's charms in this sweeping, passionate love story about a powerful man derailed by the enchantment of an extraordinary woman. Featuring Marcia Pizzo as Cleopatra and Marvin Greene as Mark Antony. Directed by Lesley Schisgall Currier.

Burning Coal's 2010/2011 season will include: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Christopher Sergel from the novel by Harper Lee directed by Randolph Curtis Rand (September 9 - 26, 2010), ST. NICHOLAS by Conor McPherson, directed by Randolph Curtis Rand (November 4 - 21, 2010), CROWNS by Regina Taylor, directed by Rebecca Holderness (December 2 - 19, 2010), BLUE by Kelly Doyle, directed by Mark Sutch (January 13 - 30, 2011) and THE SHAPE OF THE TABLE by David Edgar, directed by Jerome Davis (April 7 - 24, 2011).

In partnership with the Burns Archive, publishers of the award-winning photo book 'Sleeping Beauty,' the Merchant's House Museum will present an in situ exhibition of 19th-century post-mortem photographs and modern art inspired by the iconography of these historic images.

The Hennepin Theatre Trust is holding special and student offers for The Twin Cities' Drinking Play, BYE BYE LIVER, and Glamorama 2010 featuring Macy Gray and Eric Hutchinson. For more information about the events and/or about the offers, visit http://www.hennepintheatretrust.org/.

The Alchemical Theatre, the resident theater company at Theaterlab, will present THREE SISTERS COME AND GO, a piece conceived and directed by Orietta Crispino, September 29 through October 10, 2010 at Theaterlab.

From Saturday, September 4, 2010 to Monday, September 6, 2010, the Kennedy Center will host its ninth annual Page to Stage new play festival, featuring more than 40 theaters from the D.C. metropolitan area, all with a mission to produce and support new work.

Real life New Jersey couple, 27 year olds Sharyn Krum and Paul Fontana, to live out their Broadway fairytale by getting married on stage at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. They found common ground over their shared love of Rock of Ages and will be married by the newly ordained, and their favorite, ROA character 'Lonny' (played by Mitchell Jarvis).

Corita will play their catchy songs about subjects like wanderlust, boyfriends and alcoholic beverages at Williamsburg's Spike Hill on Thursday, August 26th at 10:00 PM. Named in homage to silkscreen artists Sister Corita Kent, the Brooklyn-based band is inspired by femme-powered post-punk bands like The Raincoats and Delta 5, 90s indie rock and shoegaze.

Mary Higgins Clark, regarded as the 'queen of suspense' and Thomas H. Cook, known for his 'piercing thrillers', will appear at Cape Rep Theatre on August 22, from 3:30 to 5 pm. Both nationally-acclaimed authors will share the stage with moderator Julie Allen Hamilton to chat with audience members about their novels.

The sixties are back! Beckie Menzie & Tom Michael celebrate the 50th anniversary of the decade that forever revolutionized popular music. From the idyllic early Motown sound and British invasion to the free love and angst of Woodstock, 'That 60's Show' will feature songs by many of the decades favorite performers including The Beatles, The Supremes, The Everly Brothers, Elvis Presley, Petula Clark, Janis Joplin and many more, all done in Menzie & Michael's unique award-winning style at The Metropolitan Room.

The Cadre, an emerging theater company, today announced that Alex Lenderman, renowned Grandmaster chess player, will lead a fundraiser for Art of Attack, the company's upcoming original play about two Russian brothers' addiction to chess. The event will take place on Saturday, August 21st, from 2 PM - 6 PM, at Holley Plaza in Washington Square Park and will give attendees the opportunity to compete against Lenderman for $10 per game. Prizes include tickets to see Art of Attack as well as chess sets and free lessons courtesy of the New York Chess and Game Shop.

For the first time ever, the Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble will produce all three plays from their epic, original undertaking, back to back to back. Acknowledging and embracing that war is more than shock and awe and the strategy on the battlefield, THE WAR CYCLE views war's effects on the American people on the most intimate of levels. Beginning with interviews with men and women wounded in battle, widows, and soldiers, the Ensemble has compiled years of research and development into a weekend of theatre that tells relevant, important, and emotional stories covering all aspects of war and its often messy aftermath. From politics to religion, from love to grief, from Afghanistan to the home front, this collection of plays poses difficult, divisive questions that are critical to the American experience of modern war. THE WAR CYCLE tells stories that affect its audiences in a way that should not be missed. THE WAR CYCLE opens August 19th at the Powerhouse Theatre and runs through September 11th.

New World Stages will present KARAOKE IDOL 2010 for five consecutive Thursday nights, with weekly eliminations, beginning this Thursday August 5th, 10 pm - midnight. After the resounding success of their pilot 'season' last summer, New World Stages has upped the ante this year with bigger cash prizes, hotter themes and even more fabulous celebrity judges. Audience votes determine who will move on in the competition and who will be this year's 'Idol' winning over $1000 in prizes!

The West Allis Players will be holding auditions for their fall show, 84, Charing Cross Road, on August 23-24 from 7-9PM both nights. The play will be directed by David Dombrowski. Auditions will be held at the West Allis Central Auditorium, 8156 W. Lincoln Ave., West Allis, WI. The play will be performed October 8-9 and 15-16 at 7:30 PM all nights.

The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC), will be hosting a party to mark the closing of Field Transitions | Memory Screens, a solo exhibition of new video work by Sean Capone, on Thursday, August 5, from 6:30-11PM. The Center is located on 30 Washing Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

Of Mythic Proportions, the educational outreach program of B. Someday Productions was nominated for a Barrymore Award for Excellence in Theatre Education and Community Service on Monday, August 3, 2010. The nomination was announced at the Press Conference at the general meeting for the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia at the New Freedom Theatre, Philadelphia. This is the second nomination for B. Someday, resident at Walking Fish Theatre and the only professional producing and performing theatre company in their Fishtown/Kensington community.

B.B. King Blues Club and Grill, one of the nation's most respected music venues and New York's premier home for Broadway stars and cabaret, presents its schedule of performances, with recently added or altered shows.

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