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Oakland?s historic Rotunda Building, its foyer transformed into a tree-lined boulevard opening to a Spanish-style fountain, provided an elegant and dramatic setting for California Shakespeare Theater?s Gala Flamenco on Saturday, March 14, 2009.

Traveling Jewish Theatre (TJT) continues its 30th Anniversary Season with a production of The Floating Light Bulb running from Thursday, April 16 ? Sunday, May 24. TJT's current production of The Model Apartment by Obie and Pulitzer Award-winning playwright Donald Margulies continues until Sunday, April 5, and The Floating Light Bulb marks the final production of their 2009 season.

Winner of the prestigious Olivier Award, David Hare's Skylight wrestles with the complexity of modern romance. Can two people salvage their passion without sacrificing their ideals? Which is ultimately more important? The best love stories aren't clean and simple. They're the ones that make it hurt so good. Skylight opens Friday, March 27th at 8PM and runs Thursday through Sunday through April 26th at The Ashby Stage in Berkeley.

Join Arts for All, Inc. at the renowned Flea Theater, located at 41 White Street, between Broadway and Church Street, on Sunday, April 26th, and Monday, April 27th, at 7:00pm, to benefit New York?s in-need youth.

The Off-Broadway hit ?Back to Bacharach and David? will have a short 23 performance engagement at The Music Box @ Fonda April 15 to May 17 (opening April 19). ?Back to Bacharach and David? is a night of amazing voices, comedy, and a tribute to the brilliant songs that Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote from 1960 to 1970.

Since it?s inception in 1993, The NZ Fringe Festival has hosted 16 seasons and given countless artists the opportunity to take their art to a wider audience. This has propelled many into professional careers and some to amazing heights.

On Sunday, the hit Canadian premiere of High School Musical 2 closed after 12 sold out performances at the Studio Theatre in the Toronto Centre for the Arts.

Broadway In Chicago and producers Cameron Mackintosh and Thomas Schumacher are delighted to present Mary Poppins at the Cadillac Palace Theatre through July 12, 2009. Individual tickets for performances are available for as low as $25. In addition,Mary Poppins will have special Sunday evening performances at 6:30 p.m. throughout the Chicago engagement.

A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed repertory theatre company, concludes its 18th Season with Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal, which opens Saturday, April 18 and closes Sunday, May 24, 2009 (previews begin Saturday, April 11). One of the celebrated French playwright's most critically acclaimed plays, it is directed by ANW Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, and the cast includes Steve Coombs (Villebosse), Susan Angelo (Countess), Robertson Dean (The Count), Jill Hill (Hortensia), Mitchell Edmonds (Damiens), ANW Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director Geoff Elliott (Hero), Lenne Klingaman (Lucille) and Chris Roessner (Footman).

Steppenwolf celebrates its 33rd season with Gala 2009: A Celebration of the Season of the Imagination on Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 1650 N. Halsted St. in Chicago.

Goodspeed Musicals, the only two time Tony Award winning theatre in the country, is proud to announce that Lucky Guy, a new musical comedy, will be the spring production at The Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, Connecticut. This heartfelt musical comedy will play May 14 through June 14. Lucky Guy is sponsored by Essex Savings Bank.

An overflow crowd of friends, colleagues, and fans packed the Actors Equity Audition Center this past Monday, May 16th, 2009 to pay tribute to the late Broadway actor/singer George Best Costacos. The memorial, right in the heart of Broadway, was a moving, magical tribute to a multitalented artist who passed away a few months ago at the age of 44 of complications from a brain tumor. His untimely death left a big void but George?s talent, passion and spirit filled the room as his friends and colleagues performed works they had collaborated on, as well as pieces dedicated specifically to him. Among these was Broadway cabaret legend Steve Ross, composer and pianist Seth Weinstein and singer Lynn Manuel. Noted actress/director Fotini Baxevani and novelist, author, screenwriter and Fulbright Scholar Gianni Scaraga, both from Greece, recited some of George?s poems and prose in Greek and in English. They were joined by actress Carina Gregorio. Video clips of George?s performances and life filled the screen and mesmerized those present.

Rebecca Stenn and Ben Munisteri: Chopped and Screwed will be performing a special New York City engagement June 11 ? 14, 2009 at The Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, NYC. For the program the music is by Mirah and the Spectratone International, with lighting design by Kathy Kaufman, sound by Jay Weissman and costumes to be announced.

John Lithgow's Stories By Heart is a touching and funny meditation on the art and essence of storytelling. Invoking memories of his grandmother and father before him, Lithgow traces his own history as an actor and storyteller, a history spanning three generations.

In this new American era of hope, fresh with the promise of new beginnings, The Actors' Gang is pleased to present Our Town by Thornton Wilder. Wilder's evocative play with its timeless themes of love and loss opens on Saturday, April 25 with performances continuing through May 30. Low-priced previews begin April 18.

The Katy Visual & Performing Arts Center's (KVPAC) Company, proudly presents Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Come see the magic revealed in this moving musical adaptation inspired by the Academy Award winning animated feature with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Asan and Tim Rice. This beloved story includes favorite musical numbers ?Be Our Guest', ?Human Again' and ?Beauty and the Beast'. Directed by Amy Barrineau, this production features Adam Turner as the Beast. Adam, doing double duty for this show as the choreographer, was previously seen in Encore Player's production of Something's Afoot last fall.

'reasons to be pretty' confronts America's obsession with physical beauty headlong. In Neil LaBute's new play, Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his off-handed remarks about a female co-worker's pretty face (and his girlfriend's lack thereof) get back to said girlfriend. But that's just the beginning.

Mary Poppins, A Chorus Line, Cirque Dreams Illumination, In the Heights, and Young Frankenstein will all be a part of Houston's Hobby Center for the Performing Arts' 2009-2010 Broadway Across America season.

Dixie's Tupperware Party, the hilarious show starring Dixie Longate which turned Off-Broadway into a Tupperware-mania celebration and garnered the prestigious 2008 Drama Desk Award Nomination rolls into the Booth Playhouse on Tuesday for a strictly limited engagement of six performances. Written by Kris Andersson, the production is playing at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center as part of a 20-city national tour.

Burn the Floor, a thrilling dance tribute and part of the Broadway Lights Series, opens at the Belk Theater Tuesday, March 24, 2009 and runs through Sunday, March 29. Tickets start at $20 and are still available online at BlumenthalCenter.org, by phone at 704-372-1000 or in person at the Performing Arts Center box office in the Belk Theater.