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The Marsh is pleased to announce a Marsh Rising workshop performance of Angela Neff?s new solo show, Picnics at the Asylum. The play describes what it was like growing up in a large catholic family with a father who went from being the funniest Dad in Silicon Valley to the funniest street person on San Jose?s Skid Row. Neff takes us on a hilarious, outlandish and poignant journey, full of fireworks, psychedelic sunglasses and rockin' church services, as she examines the relationship of madness and love.

The B Street Theatre kicks off its 2009-2010 Mainstage Season with the Norm Foster comedy, The Foursome. Canada?s most produced playwright, Norm Foster has been a regular at B Street Theatre where five of his plays have been produced. The Affections of May (1998); The Motor Trade (1999); The Melville Boys (2000); Drinking Alone (2001), and Mending Fences (2009).

Marin Shakespeare Company is holding auditions from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Friday, May 29 at the Forest Meadows Amphitheatre in San Rafael to cast six teenage girls to play Flower Power Girls in its 2009 summer production of ?Twelfth Night, or All You Need is Love.?

Baltimore will once again host a fun party for theatre-lovers to watch the 2009 Broadway Tony Awards together. After the first huge success last June at the Hippodrome Theatre the party was going to be canceled because the venue was not available this year. But due to public demand it will happen again in a mini-version this year.

Performed by two-time Emmy® Award-winning actor and The Guiding Light star Tom Pelphrey, Joseph Gallo?s My Italy Story is a story of a young man from Hoboken, NJ who sets out to heal the rift that divides his family, and in the process traces his roots to a remote village in Italy, returning to America to face a surprising family secret.

Northwestern University's Dolphin Show, America?s largest student-produced musical, is proud to announce its 68th annual production, Parade, a powerful, daring musical from the minds of Jason Robert Brown, Alfred Uhry, and Harold Prince. This year's Dolphin Show will be directed by School of Communication rising senior, Scott G. Weinstein and will open on January 22, 2010 in Cahn Auditorium at Northwestern?s Evanston campus.

A bold, irreverent romp through 37 of Shakespeare's plays in just 99 minutes, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) is a wildly comic valentine to the Bard. Three brave actors reenact some of Shakespeare's best-known plays with blazing hilarity that promises to be a sidesplitting roller coaster ride.

As the Hackmatack Playhouse of Berwick comes back to life for the 37th summer season, so do the questions. What?s with the different color theater seats? Why is the playhouse called ?Hackmatack?? What?s playing this year?

Following its initial success at the National Theatre, Stephen Daldry?s production of An Inspector Calls transferred to the West End for two years, prior to a world tour. In 1993 the production opened on Broadway, winning an unprecedented string of awards including four Tony Awards. Winning a total of 19 major awards since it first opened, this landmark production has played in Australia, the United States, Japan and Europe, and as well as its first West End run, has completed six major UK tours and a return visit to the West End which lasted for over eight years. Well in excess of 2 million theatergoers have watched the production at nearly 5000 performances.

Queensland Theatre Company wants you to start Taking Aim ? impersonating politicians, lampooning decision-makers and throwing comic punches at pop culture ? with satire writing masterclasses lead by Australia?s favourite satirists Max Gillies and Guy Rundle.

Why do fools fall in love? Have you ever asked yourself that question? Well the folks at ShenanArts will be asking this age old question in their upcoming musical production, 'Why Do Fools Fall In Love', that will have a limited one weekend run, June 25-28 at Stage4 theatre in Verona.

Due to popular demand, When The Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell, presented as part of Sydney Theatre Company?s 2009 Main Stage Season will run until 20 June, instead of closing on 13 June as previously advertised. The extension follows Sydney critics? praise for this ?beautiful, profoundly moving drama? (Sunday Telegraph) from Adelaide?s Brink Productions, giving it ratings of ?four-and-a-half out of five? and ?nine-out-of-ten?. A new production of Bovell?s play, directed by Michael Attenborough has only just opened at London?s Almeida Theatre.

The Victoria Theatre Association has been certified with the ?Standards of Excellence? award by the Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations (OANO). The Victoria Theatre Association received its certification at a ceremony, May 12, 2009 in Columbus, OH, at the Fourth Annual Ohio Nonprofit Excellence Award Luncheon at the Ohio Statehouse, with over 250 nonprofit executives in attendance.

TheatreWorks, the nationally-acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, celebrates its 40th Anniversary season and commitment to the creation and development of new works with its New Works Festival ?09, sponsored by Microsoft. The eighth annual Festival commences July 15 with the world premiere production of Tinyard Hill, a rousing new musical by Tommy Newman and 2009 Jonathan Larsen Award-winning composer Mark Allen. This season?s festival, held in Palo Alto at the Lucie Stern Theatre, will feature workshops of new works by artists including Chris Smith, Raquel Bitton, Darrah Cloud , Kim D. Sherman, Joe DiPietro, Brendan Milburn, Valerie Vigoda, Laura Schellhardt, Rajiv Joseph, Kait Kerrigan, and Brian Lowdermilk, in addition to stunning concerts by Grammy-winning vocalist Maureen McGovern, and the nationally acclaimed singer and composer, Vienna Teng. Tickets go on sale May 29 at 650-463-1960 or theatreworks.org.

An Italian musical will be staged abroad in its original version: ?Pinocchio? ? written by Saverio Marconi and Pierluigi Ronchetti, with music by Dodi Battaglia, Red Canzian and Roby Facchinetti (famous in Italy as the pop band POOH) and lyrics by Stefano D?Orazio and Valerio Negrini ? will be on stage at the Opera Theatre of Seoul Arts Center from August 7th to 23rd 2009. The director Saverio Marconi is just working to a new edition fitted for an international audience and said in a statement ?This is a milestone in Compagnia della Rancia?s history: two turning points will happen with only a few months between them: an original Italian musical staged in Korea in August and Cats? Italian edition première in Rome in October.?

When planning your child?s summer activities, why not consider The Playmakers? summer youth productions. It offers many benefits while giving the kids a lot of fun.

The Drama Desk organization's highly regarded panel discussions are looked upon as highlights of New York theater seasons, and this latest promises to be among of the most exciting.

The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the commencement of rehearsals today for The Grand Tour, the first of three Spring 2009 Musicals in Mufti staged concert presentations, playing May 29-31.

A tribute to an extraordinary time in Queensland?s cultural history, Bille Brown?s new play The School of Arts follows a band of travelling actors to Biloela where their gun-toting version of Hamlet creates comic mayhem.

Due to scheduling conflicts and construction delays in the company?s new performance venue, Echo Theatre Company has moved its June production of ?Nerve? to July 10-25, 2009. (The show was originally scheduled to open June 5.) In the July production of Adam Szymkowicz?s dark romantic comedy about the hazards and hilarity of online dating, Charlie Barron will play Elliot and Colleen Backer will play Susan.