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Sofa Chicago 2009, the critically acclaimed Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair returning to Navy Pier?s Festival Hall this November to showcase three-dimensional masterworks from top international galleries and dealers, proudly presents A Superior Stroll: A Sofa Chicago Sneak Preview Benefitting River North Chicago Dance Company, Tuesday, Oct. 6 from 6 to 8 p.m. Proceeds from the evening benefit River North Chicago Dance Company. This exclusive preview event takes place at three galleries on Superior Street in the River North Gallery District, and includes complimentary wine and appetizers. Tickets are on sale now, and are $25 in advance at www.rivernorthchicago.com or $30 at the door.

Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) is thrilled to announce that the eighth annual Tommy Tune Awards will include 45 high schools from the greater Houston area. Developed by TUTS in 2002, the Tommy Tune Awards honor musical theatre excellence at the high school level. During the 2009-2010 school year, a team of 35 Houston-based theatre professionals will evaluate the participating high school productions and announce the winners at a Tony Awards-style ceremony to be held April 20, 2010 at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. The event will feature spotlight numbers from the nominated shows, as well as award presentations to the performers, directors, choreographers, orchestras and designers, who have defined excellence throughout 2009 - 2010.

BPAC announces a special offer for BPAC newsletter subscribers: Half price tickets ($8) are now available for Chameleon Theatre Circle's production of 'Paper Dolls' at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center's Black Box Theater. Follow the 'find tickets' link below.

A world premiere By Kristoffer Diaz Directed by Eddie Torres September 25 ? November 1, 2009 Macedonio Guerra is a middle rank pro wrestler who may have discovered his ticket to the big time: an impossibly charismatic, hip-hop-influenced Indian kid from Brooklyn. Their boss has the perfect concept for their in-ring alter egos: pair them as a team of terrorists. Diaz? smart, comic look at pro wrestling, geopolitics, and refrigerator crispers is a theatrical smack down of dazzling hip-hop language presented with a fresh, funny, high-octane flair. Set in the world of professional wrestling, Chad also raises pertinent questions about racial identity and pop culture in our society. In addition to generating major buzz last summer at Ignition, Chad Deity was a finalist for the 2008 O'Neill Playwrights Conference, and subsequently won Arizona Theater Company?s National Latino Playwriting Award. His other plays include Welcome to Arroyo's and Guernica, which have been produced and developed at American Theatre Company, The Orchard Project, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, The Lark, Summer Play Festival, Donmar Warehouse, and South Coast Rep. Diaz also was one of the creators of Brink!, the apprentice anthology show at the 2009 Humana Festival of New American Plays. He is a 2009-2010 Jerome Fellow, and a new playwright-in-residence at Teatro Vista. Read more about the making of Chad Diety at http://backstageatthebiograph.wordpress.com/ SPECIAL EVENTS Open Rehearsal September 19th, 6 pm Enjoy a behind-the-scenes peek at rehearsal, followed by a talkback. Lincoln Park Neighbors Night Wednesday, September 30th - 6pm Event, 7:30pm Show Come early for a pre-show rubdown and reception before you enter the ring, courtesy of Lincoln Park Massage Spa and Fiesta Mexicana. Humanities Nights Thursday, October 1st - 6 pm Event; 7:30pm performance and Thursday, October 8th - 6 pm pre-show event; 7:30pm performance Chicago hip-hop poet Kevin Coval, author of everyday people and co-founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, leads a pre-show talk about the convergence of hip-hop culture and live theater. Happy Hour Friday, October 16th - 6:30pm Event; 8pm show The series formerly known as Pub Night has a new name - Happy Hour! Come early to meet friends and make new ones over pre-show appetizers in our own Biograph lobby bar.

California Shakespeare Theater, the Bay Area's premier professional theater dedicated to reimagining classic works of world theater, today announced Building for the Future: The Cal Shakes Campaign, a visionary plan to renovate the Bruns Amphitheater and its surrounding campus in the first major upgrade since the company moved to Orinda's Siesta Valley from Berkeley nearly twenty years ago.

Playwright Greg Owens will teach four consecutive free workshops at Equinox Theatre at 2304 N. 7th Ste. C-1 October 11, 18 & 25, November 1 from 10am - 1pm. The workshops will involve creating, reading, and developing short one-act plays with the goal of generating material to be considered for Equinox Theatre's 6th Annual One-Acts Play Festival in January 2010. Submission deadline for the Festival is November 3 by e-mail to equinox1acts@gmail.com. People are encouraged to submit their plays before the workshop with the possibility of a reading and working of the play during the workshop. Attendance at the workshops is not mandatory for play submission. Please call 587-0737 to register for the free workshops.

The following are COCA's upcoming events.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is proud to be hosting pioneering British theater company Punchdrunk in its North American premiere. Co-created by Punchdrunk and the A.R.T., Sleep No More is an immersive multi-sensory theater installation inspired by Shakespeare?s Macbeth and Hitchcock?s classic thrillers. The Old Lincoln School in Brookline Village is being transformed into a supernatural landscape that will give audiences the experience of traveling through a hybrid theatrical-cinematic world.

The following are Laguna Playhouse's upcoming events through February 2010.

Magic Theatre, San Francisco?s premiere home for new plays, is proud to present the local premiere of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later. This groundbreaking original script focuses on the long-term effects of the murder of Matthew Shepard on the town of Laramie, Wyoming and how the crime continues to reverberate in our society.

Central Works presents Blastosphere!, a new comedy about the biological imperative written by Aaron Loeb and Geetha Reddy and directed by Molly Aaronson-Gelb. The show runs from October 24 ? November 22. It is a Central Works Method Play developed in collaboration with Molly Aaronson-Gelb, Gary Graves, Gwen Loeb, Mick Mize, Kendra Oberhauser, Cathleen Riddley, Gregory Scharpen & Jan Zvaifler.

KVPAC's Encore Players is hosting Wine Nights at the Theatre!, a special occasion to come to Katy's only adult community theater who is proudly presenting this year's fall musical, Into the Woods. Wine Nights at the Theatre! will be at KVPAC on Oct 9 & 10, 8:00 pm performances only. BYOB ... Bring Your Own Bottle ... and we will serve it to you! The $10 per bottle corkage fee includes a fruit & cheese plate to enjoy during intermission. Concession sales directly offset the show's production costs.

This weekend, beginning September 26, L.A. Theatre Works will air its production of The Paris Letter by Jon Robin Baitz, starring John Glover, Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor, Ron Rifkin and Patricia Wettig The broadcast can be heard locally in Southern California on Saturday from 10 pm to midnight on KPCC 89.3 FM, and can also be streamed on demand at http://www.latw.org/.

This October, a night out to see a play in Portland continues part of a national movement celebrating the magic of live theater. Portland Area Theatre Alliance (PATA) presents Portland?s second annual Free Night of Theater which kicks off ticket sales October 1, 2009.

StageTime Classes announces their upcoming classes.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival and Mass Street Productions/Ryan J. Davis are proud to present the World Premiere of Street Lights, a contemporary musical drama by Joe Drymala. From the creators of the Broadway-bound White Noise, which was a hit at NYMF in 2006, Street Lights features a groundbreaking score that uses modern hip hop, R&B and pop to tell a timeless story in the musical language of today's youth, while creating a bridge to earlier generations by incorporating samples of old civil rights anthems within the modern songs and beats. Ryan J. Davis directs a cast of 14 including Carla Duren* (Bway: 110 in the Shade, Hairspray),Chad Carstarphen (Off-Bway: The Conscientious Objector), Miguel Jarquin-Moreland*, Kevin Curtis* (NYMF: Twilight in Manchego, Maccabeat), Gayle Turner* (Bway: The Wiz), Jim Stanek* (Bway: Story of My Life, Lestat, Little Women), Virginia Cavaliere (Regional: High School Musical), Joy Lynn Matthews* (Bway: The Music Man; Marie Christine), Roberto Araujo, Claudeen Benoit, Geri Brown, Jay Garcia*(Off-Bway: Altar Boyz), Ejyp Johnson, and Melissa Joyner all of whom are dedicated to supporting new musicals and whose credits encompass every major regional theater in the country, along with significant achievements in film, television and cabaret. Performances will be held at American Theatre for Actors (Chernuchin), 314 West 54th Street, (bet. 8th & 9th Avenues) in New York City from October 13th-18th.

Danai Gurira?s ?Eclipsed,? which will be presented by Center Theatre Group as the first production in the 2009-2010 season at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, opened on September 20, 2009, and continuing through October 18.

Stageworks presents the adventurous narrative, Puss in Boots and other Cat Tails by Stephanie Routman at Mesa Arts Center October 30th through November 8th. Audiences are taken on a wild adventure around the world with stories of the most famous cats in history. Tickets and show times are available through the Mesa Art Center Box Office at mesaartscenter.com or by calling 480-644-6500.

Icon and legend Joan Collins, performs her one woman show, An Evening with Joan Collins, in an exclusive one night only engagement, Fri., Oct. 16, 8 p.m. at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. The internationally acclaimed actress, author and columnist, shares an intimate, playful, and entertaining evening, taking an irreverent look at the highs and lows of her remarkable roller coaster life and career. From her early pin-up model days, to her infamous you-love-to-hate-her role as ?Alexis Carrington Colby? on the hit television series, Dynasty, Joan Collins offers her unique perspective on working with some of the biggest names and legends in Hollywood. An Evening with Joan Collins at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center marks the West Coast premiere of her show and one of only two U.S. performance dates. Ms. Collins first performed her show last Fall, receiving critical acclaim for her sold out date at The Mohegan Sun.

Actor and magician Michael Carbonaro returns to The Rrazz Room, Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason, SF, in a program of wit, magic and comic absurdity called Phantazmic on Saturday, October 10 at 8:00PM. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased at www.therrazzroom.com or directly through www.ticketweb.com or 866 468 3399.