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Beginning February 3rd, The Balboa Park Puppet Theatre will be presenting Chu Chu the Dragon, inspired by two Asian folk tales. The performance is appropriate for children ages 3-10 and based off of Millie Paterson's Weaver's Tales. Shows take February 3rd-14th on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 10AM and 11:30AM and Saturdays and Sundays at 11AM, 1PM and 2:30PM. For additional information, visit www.balboaparkpuppets.com.

Santa Barbara City College Theatre Group will be presenting a student showcase production of The Suicide, a dark comedy written by Nikolai Erdman and translated by John Freedman. The production is directed by Katie Laris and will take place beginning March 11th at the Interim Theatre of SBCC West Campus (800 block of Cliff Drive).

Tony Award Winning composer and lyricist William Finn will speak at Kean University on March 1st at 3:30 in the University Center Little Theatre, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ, as part of the 2010 Premiere Stages Artists Series. Premiere Stages, the professional theatre in residence at Kean invites the public to this candid conversation about writing and composing for Broadway.

The Middlebury Community Players will present an expanded version of Noel Coward's 'Still Life' at Town Hall Theater from February 18 through the 21st. The piece was originally written to be included in Coward's cycle of short plays 'Tonight at 8:30.' However, in 1945 Coward joined forces with film director David Lean to create the full length, heart rending love story, 'Brief Encounter.' For MCP's production, director Joann Langrock has adapted scenes from the film to the original one-act, taking her cue from the recent British revival of a staged version of 'Brief Encounter' currently touring the United States.

James Anthony Zoccoli, in association with Chicago DCA Theater, presents the world premiere of Wiggerlover [white boy + black dad = grey areas]. The autobiographical production by James Anthony Zoccoli comes to Chicago DCA Theater's Studio Theater in the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Street, from February 5 - 22, 2010. Members of the press are invited to the opening performance on Friday, February 5, at 7:30 pm.

Lakeview's island-themed and live-music hotspot Uncle Fatty's Rum Resort (2833 N Sheffield Ave) will host its Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras culmination party, 'Fatty Tuesday', on Tuesday, February 16th. Wedding Banned will perform high-energy covers live on stage starting at 10pm during the 'Fatty Tuesday' party.

Jia Zhangke: A Retrospective is the first complete U.S. retrospective of this internationally celebrated contemporary filmmaker who, in little more than decade, has become one of cinema‘s most critically acclaimed artists and the leading figure of the sixth generation of Chinese filmmakers. The exhibition screens in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters from March 5 through 20, 2010, and includes Jia Zhangke‘s (Chinese, b. 1970) entire oeuvre: eight features and six shorts, dating from 1995 to 2008. The retrospective is organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art.

Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises and Coney Island Polar Bear Club are teaming up on Saturday, February 27th to host the second annual 'Naked' Polar Bear Cruise (bathing suit required) to benefit the Wildlife Conservation Society. Participating passengers are encouraged to strip down to their bathing suits and enjoy a frosty ride while they raise money to help WCS save wildlife and wild places around the globe.

The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) will be presenting the 2010 Overture Awards Scholarship Competition - the largest locally run arts scholarship competition in the country. The Overture Awards annually provides a $2,500 scholarship to six area high school students for education and training expenses, with 18 finalists each winning a $500 scholarship.

Emerging playwrights Jon Kern, Kristine Haruna Lee and Harrison David Rivers have been chosen for New Dramatists' 2010-11 Van Lier Playwriting Fellowship.

Monty Python's Spamalot, the musical pardody based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, is to begin its tour of the UK at New Wimbledon Theatre in southwets London. Performances are set to run from May 29th through June 5th. Additional tour dates and locations have yet to be released.

Brooklyn-born playwright Lynn Nottage will deliver the annual 'Starting from Paumanok' lecture on American literature and culture, which will be held on February 24 at 6:30 p.m. at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts. The event is free and open to the public.

Beginning January 28th, O'Connell & Company Productions has been entertaing Buffalo audiences with their production of The Wiz. The Tony Award winning musical version of Frank L. Baum's 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', tells the story from a modern perspective with a book by William F. Brown and music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre will be performing Broke-ology February 19th through March 21 as a part of the Sprint Copaken Stage Series. Written by Nathan Louis Jackson and directed by Kyle Hatley, this family drama will feature Shamika Cotton, Larry Powell, and Postel Pringle.

Beginning February 5th, Cleveland Public Theatre will be presenting G.S., written by Jonathan Wilhelm and directed by Jenna Messina. In G.S., Gertrude Stein finds herself sharing a flat in Paris with George Sand, along with their respective lovers, Alice B. Toklas and Alfred de Musset.

Vermont Theatre Company will bring Samuel Beckett's first professionally produced and immediately controversial play, 'Waiting for Godot,' to the Hooker Dunham theatre on Main Street in Brattleboro. The play opened on January 29, with remaining performances on February 5th-6th at 7:30 pm, and February 7th at 3:00pm.

The Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine will be performing two classic children's tales to life in the upcoming months: Cinderella and The Emperor's New Clothes.

Beginning March 20th, Maine State Ballet will be performing A Midsummer Night's Dream, originally choreographed by George Balanchine in 1962. With incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn, the performance incorporates Shakespeare's classic story of fairies and magic with enchanting dancing appropriate for the whole family.

New Yorkers and tourists alike are well aware of the recent pedestrian and vehicular traffic pattern changes Mayor Bloomberg instituted last year. Considered one of the most drastic civic experiments in decades, the city closed off two sections of Broadway to New York City drivers in Times Square and Herald Squares in an effort to reduce congestion in these pedestrian-heavy intersections, largely due to the presence of the Broadway Theatre houses drawing in hundreds of thousands each night. The aim of the project was to improve flow of traffic along Seventh Avenue and Avenue of the Americas, making the trip down Seventh Avenue, from 59th to 23rd Street, up to 17 percent faster than before.

As problems for residents of Haiti continue to grow at an unprecedented rate, Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth has expressed interest in adopting one of the many children who have been affected by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake. Adopted as a child herself, Chenoweth took to the toptic on her Twitter.