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Hot on the heels of our win at the 2010 ATG Curtain Call Awards and the overwhelming success of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild is proud to present First Time Out 2010, Adumbrations. First Time Out is an experimental writing and theatre project designed to explore the infinite relationship between a piece of writing and its performance. It is a rare opportunity for student writers to write anything at all and have it interpreted and performed on stage.

Award-winning theatre companies Circus Theatricals and Not Man Apart Physical Theatre Ensemble join forces to co-produce the World Premiere of Titus Redux, an adrenaline-fueled adaptation of William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, written, conceived, and choreographed by Not Man Apart's John Farmanesh-Bocca. Starring Circus Theatricals' Jack Stehlin in the title role, the production opens Sunday, Aug. 29, 7PM, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Jeannine Wisnosky Stehlin is Executive producer.

Fountain Hills Community Theater is proud to announce the opening show of its 2010-11 Mainstage Season - the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical , Carousel.

CABARET AT THE CASTLE presents Telly Leung in Who Loves Ya Baby, with direction by Alan Muraoka and musical direction by Gary Adlr. the performance will take place Thursday, August 12 - Doors open at 6:30 with show at 8:00p at The Inner Circle at the Magic Castle® 7001 Franklin Ave., LA, CA 90028. Tickets are $25 and available through boxoffice@magiccastle.com or 323-851-3313 x303.

The Tribeca-based Oxford Shakespeare Company recently awarded veteran actor Al Pacino with The Oxford Prize, given in honor of the actor's outstanding artistic achievements in bringing Shakespeare to the public. Mr. Pacino received this honor at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park where he was performing Shylock in The Public Theater's production of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Pacino's highly-acclaimed performance and the critically acclaimed production is now bound for a Broadway run at the Broadhurst Theatre Oct 19 - Jan 9.

It's time to kick-up those high heels. The international hit show Menopause The Musical® comes to the Bay Area and will be performing at the California Theatre in San Jose six for shows only, August 18 - 22 and at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco for three shows only, August 24 - 27, 2010.

The wonderful musical comedy, Hello, Dolly! opens Wednesday, August 18 at Berwick's Hackmatack Playhouse. Hello, Dolly! features music by Jerry Herman, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and re-titled The Matchmaker in 1955. Hello, Dolly! was first produced on Broadway by David Merrick in 1964, winning 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical. It is considered one of the most enduring musicals having three Broadway revivals and success all over the world.

'Over The Rainbow' contestant Jessica Robinson will take over from fellow Dorothy Stephanie Fearon in 'Smokey Joe's Cafe' for just three nights from the 20th to 22nd of August to allow Stephanie to have an operation on her wrist.

The Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. Bartholomew's continues on Sunday, August 29 at 11 am with a service featuring choral works of Herbert Howells, including his 'Collegium Regale' Communion Service.

WaterTower Theatre Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin recently announced that Amy Corcoran will direct the Company's production of the award-winning Annie Baker play, Circle Mirror Transformation. The comedy runs November 4-21, 2010 in the Studio Theatre at the Addison Theatre Centre. WaterTower Theatre will celebrate its 15th anniversary with its 2010-2011 season.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be closing two popular exhibits, 'Picasso in the Met' and 'American Woman' on August 15. The immensly popular Picasso exhibit is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the remarkable array of works by Pablo Picasso in the Metropolitan's collection. Featuring 300 works by Picasso, this exhibition is an unprecedented opportunity to see one of the most important collections in the world of the artist's work. It reveals the Museum's complete holdings of the artist's paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics-never before seen in their entirety-as well as an extensive selection of prints.

Main Street Theater's Autumn Follies Gala will return on Friday, October 8 at Main Street Theater - Chelsea Market, 4617 Montrose Blvd. This year's celebrity-studded, one-night-only benefit performance will be the original musical send-up Fiddler on the Loop, with cameo appearances by celebrities including Mayor Annise Parker, KHOU's Len Cannon, Judge Jan Krocker, 184th District Court, Ernie Manouse, Host of PBS' InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse, Sarah Gish of Gish Creative, HoustonPBS' Doug Mueller, and Houston Chronicle Blog Theater Critic Buzz Bellmont.

On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, October 7, 8, 9, The Mabel Mercer Foundation comes of age by presenting its 21st annual Cabaret Convention at The Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Performances begin each evening at 6 o'clock, and more than forty exemplary vocalists and musicians are scheduled to appear in three diverse programs.

Wicked, London's hugely popular musical that tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz, has announced that Lee Mead is to play Fiyero at the Apollo Victoria Theatre starting Monday, May 10th.

John Douglas Thompson will be starring in the Hartford Stage production of Antony and Cleopatra, which will run October 7 through November 7. Thompson will be joining Kate Mulgrew who has been previously confirmed for the female lead. Thompson received a Drama Desk nomination for his performance in The Emperor Jones and an Obie Award for Othello. His stage credits include: Cyrano de Bergerac and Julius Caesar on Broadway.

Broadway veteran Antonio Banderas is set to star in Pedro Almodovar's newest film, 'La Piel que Habito, which translates to 'The Skin I live In'. The movie will begin production this summer in Spain. This collaboration will reunite Banderas and Almodovar, who in the past have worked together on'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,' 'The Law of Desire,' 'Tie me Up, Tie me Down' and 'Matador.' Banderas will star as a plastic surgeon's revenge on the man who raped his daughter.

Carrie Fisher, who recently appeared on Broaway in Wishful Drinking, shared her thoughts yesterday via her blog about being left of the 2010 Tony nominee list. Not without a sense of humor, Fiisher expresses 'surprise' over the snub, repeatedly poking fun at the 'stretch' involved in portraying herself in the show.

The Awesome 80s Prom now in its 6th year at the famed club Webster Hall (125 East 11th Street), will welcome Dustin Diamond, best known as Screech from the hit TV series 'Saved by the Bell,' beginning May 21st, for six weeks only, through June 26th. Davenport has been busy revising the script and creating a special role for Diamond to play, the role of Dustin Diamond, himself.

The Kennedy Center has received the largest private donation in its history - a $22.5 million gift from Dick and Betsy DeVos to endow its Arts Management Institute that trains the nation's arts leaders. Additionally, David M. Rubenstein was appointed the new Chairman for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

According to ContactMusic.com, Lee Hall, the creator of Billy Elliot will be teaming up with Pink Floyd's Roger Waters to create a stage adaption of The Wall. The rock opera album, which was released in 1979, was later turned into a movie, which starred Bob Geldof and Bob Hoskins. Waters has reportedy always been interested in turning the album into a musical.