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Once the ashes have settled from Columbus? annual Independence Day celebration ?Red, White, and Boom!,? make plans to see another kind of fireworks ? the ones onstage at Shadowbox. The troupe will present their summer review, The Best of Shadowbox with a special 4th of July menu option for patrons.

South Side Chicago writer John Hospodka and his Bohemian Pupil Press will publically launch the free on-line, multi-media ?literary picture show? South Side Trilogy at www.bohemianpupil.com, featuring a collection of fictional works which also utilizes sound and images. The public is asked to click in to read and experience the internet content, then purchase a PDF of the text (available to the media on request), and/or other items in support of the site, if desired. Hospodka defines the ?literary picture show? as a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound, images, and a sequence of literary techniques, giving the illusion of continuous movement.

With a crash of drums and a flash of light, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns by popular demand to Chanhassen Dinner Theatres? Main Stage for a limited run from June 26 ? September 26.

Alison Carey, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival?s director of American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle, and Artistic Director Bill Rauch announced today the second round of theatre artists to be commissioned for the 37-play, 10-year History Cycle, the largest commissioning and production project in the Festival's 74-year history.

A private reading of the new rock musical ?US?; US tells a universal story about relationships, loss and love. The show includes the smash hits ?In Your Eyes', ?Sledgehammer? and ?Solsbury Hill?. Gabriel?s innovative concert productions also serve as a major influence for the show?s gritty fantasy world.

Theatre Tulsa Presents Laundry & Bourbon and Lone Star By James McClure. The shows are directed by W. Bryan Thompson. The shows are performed July 9, 10, 11 at 8:00pm at the Liddy Doenges Theatre, Tulsa PAC. Tickets are only $5.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents Tegan and Sara on Friday, July 3, 2009 at 8:00pm at Showbox at the Market.

The Imaginary Invalid: By Prescription Only, based on Le Malade Imaginarie by Molière and written and directed by NYIT award winner Aliza Shane, will be presented as part of the world premiere of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. The Festivity will take place June 9th through the 28th at the newly renovated 440 Theatres at Astor Place and Lafayette in New York City. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased at www.planetconnectionsFestivity.com. The production will benefit Hospice of New York.

Working side-by-side rubbing elbows with pros in a professional theater plunges college students headfirst into just what it means to build and stage a professional theater production in two weeks time.

Liberty Performing Arts Theatre announces upcoming events.

Fela!, the critically acclaimed musical that had audiences on their feet during its world premiere last summer at Off-Broadway's 37 Arts, will arrive on Broadway this fall where it begins performances at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 West 49th Street) on Monday, October 19. The official opening is set for Monday, November 23. This new musical, based on the life of groundbreaking African composer, performer and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti, is directed and choreographed by Tony® Award-winner Bill T. Jones (Spring Awakening), with a book by Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones. Sahr Ngaujah will return in the title role for which he received universal acclaim, while the world renowned Antibalas and other members of the NYC Afrobeat community, under the direction of Aaron Johnson, will again perform Kuti?s rousing music live onstage. Winner of this year?s Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, Fela! was conceived by Bill T. Jones, Jim Lewis and Steve Hendel.

The Alchemy Theatre, in association with LAByrinth Theater Company, are presenting ?Sweet Storm? by Scott Hudson, who was recently awarded the Daryl Roth 2009 Creative Spirit Award, Off Broadway at The Kirk Theatre (Theatre Row), 410 West 42nd Street, NYC. Padraic Lillis directs the new play that features Jamie Dunn and Eric T. Miller. The opening is next Wednesday, June 17 at 7 pm and the show has now been extended an additional week until July 12. The Scenic & Costume Designer is Lea Umberger; the Lighting Designer is Sarah Sidman and the Sound Designer is Elizabeth Rhodes. The Casting Director is Judy Bowman Casting and Production Supervisor: La Vie Productions. Running time = 90 minutes with no intermission

Disneyland Resort glows like never before this summer with the exciting, after-dark entertainment of Summer Nightastic!: a new fireworks spectacular, 'Magical,' starring Dumbo the flying elephant; Tinker Bell's 'pixie magic' in 'Disney's Electrical Parade'; sensational new characters and special effects in 'Fantasmic!' - and more.

Jesus Christ Superstar, the first masterpiece from the legendary writing team of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, exploded onto the scene in 1971 changing the world of musical theatre forever. With a score of amazing songs - ?I Don?t Know How to Love Him?, ?Hosanna?, ?Everything?s Alright?, ?What?s the Buzz?, ?Superstar?, and ?Heaven on Their Mind?, this original groundbreaking production stars Ted Neeley in the title role. This Broadway/San Diego ~ A Nederlander Presentation will return for five performances only, at San Diego Civic Theatre, January 15 ? 17, 2010.

This summer the Tony Award®-winning Signature Theatre, one of the nation?s leading forces in musical theater, launches 21/24 Signature Lab, a new initiative for the creation of musical theatre works by emerging young composers which gives audiences a first look at new musicals.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents Dance This on Saturday, July 11, 2009 at The Paramount Theatre at 7:30pm. The annual performance features local teen artists and professional choreographers collaborating through cross-cultural Dance. Dance This 2009 includes over 120 performers featuring step, modern, acrobatics and traditional Dance from Mexico, Africa, the Middle East and Asia - all set to live music.

Actress/singer/jewelry designer Shana Farr will make her long awaited cabaret debut at The Laurie Beechman Theatre at The West Bank Café in a thrilling new musical show, Pure Imagination? in which the beautiful and talented soprano will interpret imaginative songs by composers ranging from Harold Arlen to Carly Simon, Jule Styne to Francesca Blumenthal, Paul Williams to Rachmaninoff, and others.

The Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Theatre Company, Inc. production of Andrew Lloyd Webber?s The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Harold Prince, returns to the Fox Theatre in St. Louis beginning Wednesday, September 30 through Sunday, October 25. The first performance is Wednesday, September 30 at 8pm. Tickets go on sale this Sunday, June 14 at the Fox Theatre box office (527 N Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO), all MetroTix outlets, online at www.metrotix.com or call 314-534-1111. Group orders of 20 or more may be placed by calling 314-535-2900.

Tony Award-winning Broadway star, Brian Stokes Mitchell will headline an evening of celebration, titled ?A New Stage for the Moonlight Amphitheatre,? located at Brengle Terrace Park, 1200 Vale Terrace Drive, on Saturday, June 27 from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30pm. The cocktail attire event also includes an hors d?oeuvres and dessert reception and a special tribute by stars of the Moonlight Stage, all for the ticket price of $50, reserved seating only, which can be purchased at VisTix Ticket Office starting on June 15 by calling (760) 724-2110 or online at www.vistixonline.com.

Susan Claassen, who stars as legendary Hollywood designer Edith Head in ?A Conversation With Edith Head? will be appearing in California in June. Following her engagement in London last summer, Ms. Claassen began her US tour by opening the 16th season at Houston?s Theater LaB with a sold out 5-performance engagement. Her US tour also included appearances in Tucson at the Invisible Theatre, at Arizona?s Tubac Center of the Arts, and, most recently, at the 35th Annual Symposium of the Costume Society of America in Tempe and Phoenix, AZ where she, once again, received rave review's. Symposium attendee Nena Ivon, Manager, Special Events, Saks Fifth Avenue, Chicago, said: ?A Conversation With Edith Head was outstanding and a fitting finale to the symposium?.