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While he might be best recognized as the ruthless vampire king on HBO's True Blood, Dennis O'Hare is no stranger to the theatre community. A Tony award winner for 2003's TAKE ME OUT, O'Hare has also recieved Tony nomination for the 2004 revival of ASSASSINS. Other notable stage credits include: SWEET CHARITY, INHERIT THE WIND, and HAUPTMANN.

Join us for a night you will never forget as four powerful American voices come together for one important cause ~ to support active military members and American veterans and honor their sacrifices through song. 4TROOPS is coming for one night only ~ Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 7:30PM, at the historic Balboa Theatre.

The Little Yellow Diary, set in 1977, is a one-woman musical following a young girl's journey through Girl Scout Indian dancing, record collections, Gone With the Wind, the experience of being cast in her first show, and the discovery of love. This charming story uses the author's actual diary entries from 1977 - when she was 12 years old - and reminds us of innocence, endless possibilities, and hope for the future. The production stars Hobe Sound resident Emily Rynasko, 12.

Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Theatre Company, Inc. are proud to announce that, due to popular demand, they are extending the final engagement of the national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA by two weeks. Added performances October 19th through 31st will go on sale to the public on Sunday August 29th at 10am. The national tour of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, known as The Music Box Company has been running continuously for 17 years, and will play its farewell performances in Los Angeles at the Pantages Theatre. This national tour remains the most successful and longest continuously-running tour in U.S. history. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA began performances in Los Angeles in May 1989 (Christine Company), and played for over 4 years. Performances of this farewell engagement will begin September 23rd, 2010.

Filmmaker Art Holliday is hosting a September 19th fundraising concert 'Johnnie's Jam: A Tribute to Johnnie Johnson' at The Sheldon for his music documentary JOHNNIE BE GOOD, the story of St. Louis native and Rock-n-Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson. This film is also featured on the site IndieGoGo where people can 'buy' various tax deductible items from the film while helping Mr. Holliday build up the funds needed to finish the film.

Theater for the New City's award-winning Street Theater Company is perfroming its 34th annual tour with 'Gone Fission, or Alternative Power,' an Operatta for the Street. The rip-roaring production is touring City streets, parks and playgrounds throughout the five boroughs through September 12. The production, free to all New Yorkers, has book, lyrics and direction by Crystal Field and musical score composed by Joseph Vernon Banks.

The Gallery at REDCAT is pleased to present the first Los Angeles presentation of two influential contemporary artists who pioneered the field of video art in China: Hangzhou-based artist Zhang Peili and Beijing-based artist Zhu Jia. Coming out of a generation that witnessed the ramifications of the Cultural Revolution, the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre and the infamous 1989 China/Avant-Garde exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art and its subsequent closing by state authorities, Zhang and Zhu use video to navigate the complex and shifting terrain that characterizes contemporary China.

An upcoming Elton John tribute show produced by Rock Nation School will be as much a tribute to late band member Guy Babylon as to the Rocket Man, himself. Three members of John's band-lead guitarist and music director Davey Johnstone, drummer Nigel Olsson and percussionist John Mahon-will perform 'Goodbye Superman,' a song written in Babylon's memory by his 12-year-old son, Ben Babylon. Johnstone and Mahon will also play Elton John songs with Ben and other student musicians. The concert will take place September 26 at the famed Canyon Club near Los Angeles.

Tickets for California Musical Theatre's production of the musical comedy Suds, will go on sale on Monday, August 23, at 10 a.m. Suds, the rocking '60s musical soap opera, will play at The Cosmopolitan Cabaret at 1000 K Street (between 10th and 11th), September 24 through January 9, with preview performances September 21-23. Tickets are available online through Tickets.com and through the Wells Fargo Pavilion box office at 1419 H Street or by phone at (916) 557-1999.

According to a report by the LA Times, Mark Kennedy will be taking the place of respected Associated Press Theatre critic Michael Kuchwara, who recently passed away as a result of complications with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts celebrates its tenth year and continues to gain prominence as a major center for art exhibitions with the 2011 Ingram Gallery exhibition schedule that includes the Frist-organized Vishnu: Hinduism's Blue-Skinned Savior, Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol's Work and the stunning exhibition of Egyptian antiquities, To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum.

The annual gala benefit for Landmark on Main Street will take place on Saturday evening, November 6, 2010 with a special performance by Broadway's leading lady Sutton Foster and a post-concert celebration in the tented Spotlight Club. Larry O. Tietz and Frank C. Ullman will be honored for their contributions to the organization and the community. The Gala Leadership includes Chairs Leslie and Andrew Abramowitz and Ellen and Marvin Makofsky and Honorary Chairs Angela Susan Anton, Jane and Robert Harding, Eric Krasnoff, Pall Corporation, Lillian McCormick, and Dot and Ed Slade.

The Prescott Fine Arts Association opens it's 2010 - 2011 (41st season) season with the heart-warming comedy, DIXIE SWIM CLUB written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, directed by PFAA veteran director, Linda Miller.

Galleries, shops, and dining areas at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be open to the public Monday, September 6 (Labor Day), the next 'Met Holiday Monday.' The special viewing day is also the last opportunity for the public to see the popular exhibition Tutankhamun's Funeral, which explores the materials and rituals associated with the burial of the pharaoh. Also on view will be: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú (weather permitting, through October 31), a monumental site-specific bamboo structure that bridges the realms of sculpture, architecture, and performance; Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein (through October 17), 44 photographs by a master of classic American street photography; and Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania (through January 23), more than 50 traditional-and often unique-percussion, wind, and string instruments of the Pacific.

Emily Bergl will make her NY musical debut in her cabaret, 'Kidding on the Square' beginning August 26. Ms. Bergl, accompanied by acclaimed musical director G. Scott Lacy, will perform at NY's Metropolitan Room for four nights. She is currently starring on ABC's 'Desperate Housewives' as a new housewife on Wisteria Lane, and on TNT's 'Southland,' as Tammi Bryant, the troubled artist and wife to Detective Sammy Bryant. She most recently appeared on the New York stage in Second Stage's 'Becky Shaw,' a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Florence Henderson continues to be one of the entertainment industry's most active individuals. Highlights from her strictly current active resume, which is too long to include here, includes her stage appearance in 'Love. Loss and What I Wore,' serving as a rep for Bausch + Lomb, to her self titled 'The Florence Henderson Show,' now running on both Direct TV and Comcast for RLTV, as well as the rumors of both an autobiography in the works and potential consideration for 'Dancing With The Stars.'

Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions in association with Weinstein Live Entertainment announced today that Chicagoan Susie McMonagle, currently playing the role of 'Mum,' will take over the role of 'Mrs. Wilkinson' in the Chicago production of Billy Elliot the Musical beginning September 21, 2010. Emily Skinner will play her final performance as Mrs. Wilkinson on September 19, 2010. Billy Elliot is now playing through January 15, 2011 only at the Ford Center/Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph Street, Chicago).

According to a report by Stage-entertainment.com, Zodwa Zewele has been chosen to lead the upcoming German production of Sister Act. The final casting decision was made by Whoopi Goldberg and West End Director Carline Brauwer. 'Both girls were incredible.' Zodwa was thrilled with the outcome: 'I was so nervous before the audition. But Whoopi in her kind way really managed to calm me down. Now I'm thrilled to death!'

Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents its 6th annual First Look Repertory of New Work-three developmental productions of new plays presented in rotating repertory playing October 27 - November 14, 2010 in Steppenwolf's Merle Reskin Garage Theatre, 1624 N. Halsted St. The 2010 festival will also include three free readings by emerging playwrights presented November 5-7, 2010. Tickets for all productions are currently on-sale.

The cabaret version of the world's most successful showcase event, Short+Sweet, has been rejuvenated with the appointment of a new Festival Director and the launch of submissions for its 2010 season.