http://www.theatermania.com/ RSS to find theater listings for any show, including news, reviews, photos and more at TheaterMania.com! Get discount tickets too! en-us Copyright 2009 TheaterMania.com Inc. http://www.theatermania.com/images/rss.gif http://www.theatermania.com/ 1/5/2011 - 1/10/2011. Riverdance, the thunderous celebration of Irish music, song and dance that has tapped its way onto the world stage thrilling millions of people around the globe, will play eight farewell performances in San Diego . The Washington Post calls it "A phenomenon of historic... 2009-01-13T13:52:53+00:00 2011-01-05 2011-01-10 Civic Theater, 202 C Street, San Diego, CA, 92101 Children/Family.Dance Theater. http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/riverdance_151263/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/riverdance_151263/ 12/31/2010 - 3/13/2011. The Chicago regional premiere of Spamalot, the side-splitting musical comedy "lovingly ripped off" from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, will preview December 31, open January 6, and run through March 13, 2011. With a book and lyrics by Eric Idle and an entirely new score... 2009-08-12T13:07:43+00:00 2010-12-31 2011-03-13 Drury Lane Oakbrook/Terrace, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL, 60181 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/spamalot_158499/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/spamalot_158499/ 12/5/2010 - 12/6/2010. Experience The Living Christmas Tree, our traditional "kick-off" of the holiday season, now in its 21st year! Reminisce as our choir takes you back to your childhood with some of your favorite Christmas songs sung by the many talented children and adults of the Glades. 2009-08-04T09:55:06+00:00 2010-12-05 2010-12-06 Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center, 1977 College Drive, Belle Glade, FL, 33430 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/the-21st-annual-living-christmas-tree_158241/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/the-21st-annual-living-christmas-tree_158241/ 12/4/2010 - 12/20/2009. Orson Wells meets the Not Ready For Prime Time Players. Set on Christmas Eve in a small radio station (WHAM) in Georgia (circa 1940,), a group of actors await the arrival of Orson Wells who is scheduled to make a guest appearance on their broadcast. An unexpected snow storm impedes Mr. Well's... 2009-09-17T18:09:29+00:00 2010-12-04 2009-12-20 6th Street Playhouse, 52 West 6th Street, Santa Rosa, CA, 95401 6th Street Playhouse Play. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/ham-for-the-holidays_159660/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/ham-for-the-holidays_159660/ 12/3/2010 - 12/18/2010. When she's cast as the "last girl" in a low-budget slasher flick, Sheena thinks it's the big break she's been waiting for. But news of the movie unleashes her malingering mother's thwarted feminist rage, and Mom is prepared to do anything to stop filming...even if it kills her. 2009-08-19T16:49:07+00:00 2010-12-03 2010-12-18 The Kranzberg Arts Center, 501 N Grand Blvd, St Louis, MO, 63103 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/st-louis/shows/slasher_158732/ http://www.theatermania.com/st-louis/shows/slasher_158732/ 12/1/2010 - 12/19/2010. It's Christmas at Radio station WOV in New York. The Station takes to the air at the beginning of World War II, this time to record a broadcast for the troops overseas. The harassed producer whose leading singer is often drunk, the delivery boy who wants a chance in front of the mic, the second... 2009-07-10T08:58:52+00:00 2010-12-01 2010-12-19 Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, 1935 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Redondo Beach, CA, 90278 Civic Light Opera Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/the-1940s-radio-hour_157239/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/the-1940s-radio-hour_157239/ 11/17/2010 - 1/2/2011. America's most spunky and beloved orphan visits Olney during the holidays. Based on the popular Harold Gray comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, and winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, Annie captures hearts and spirits with its infectious songs and touching story of hope. ... 2009-08-07T13:04:09+00:00 2010-11-17 2011-01-02 Olney Theatre Center, Olney-Sandy Spring Rd., Olney, MD, 20832 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/annie_158348/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/annie_158348/ 11/5/2010 - 12/26/2010. Inspired by the beloved American holiday classic, in this special production of It's a Wonderful Life, you'll become a part of WVL Radio's live broadcast as actors bring the fateful story of George Bailey to life. Take your seat in the studio audience to relive the beloved tale of... 2009-10-04T15:27:05+00:00 2010-11-05 2010-12-26 Pheasant Run Resort and Spa Mainstage Theater, 4051 E. Main Street, St. Charles, IL, 60174 Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/its-a-wonderful-life-a-live-radio-play_160277/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/its-a-wonderful-life-a-live-radio-play_160277/ 10/15/2010 - 11/14/2010. A gleefully gruesome comedy from Oscar winner Martin McDonagh, The Lieutenant of Inishmore tells the story of a merciless Irish terrorist and his obsessive love for the thing that matters most to him: his precious black cat, Wee Thomas. Turn off your political correctness meter and... 2009-08-20T12:22:01+00:00 2010-10-15 2010-11-14 ACT - The Falls Theatre, 700 Union Street, Seattle, WA, 98101 ACT Comedy.Play. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-lieutenant-of-inishmore_158774/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-lieutenant-of-inishmore_158774/ 10/14/2010 - 12/19/2010. Set in Oregon in 1850, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is the story of Adam Pontipee, a man who simply goes to town looking for a bride. He finds Milly working in a restaurant and convinces her to marry him. Milly's ecstasy quickly sours when she finds she is to also take care of... 2009-08-12T13:05:24+00:00 2010-10-14 2010-12-19 Drury Lane Oakbrook/Terrace, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL, 60181 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/seven-brides-for-seven-brothers_158498/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/seven-brides-for-seven-brothers_158498/ 10/9/2010 - 10/31/2010. A Lighted Match Theatre Company presents its premiere production, Jane Martin's edgy, insider comedy about life in the world of arts and entertainment. Industry Performance - Monday, October 19, 8pm Special Halloween Event - Saturday, October 31, 8pm 2009-09-29T18:00:33+00:00 2010-10-09 2010-10-31 Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 West Belmont, Chicago, IL, 60657 A Lighted Match Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/anton-in-show-business_160100/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/anton-in-show-business_160100/ 9/29/2010 - 10/24/2010. On a beautiful Saturday afternoon, wealthy underwear merchant John Tarleton, his wife, and his two adult children host a small party at their country estate. His daughter Hypatia brings her prospective husband, a wimpy yet well-meaning son of an aristocrat. When an airplane crash brings unexpected... 2009-08-07T12:49:25+00:00 2010-09-29 2010-10-24 Olney Theatre Center, Olney-Sandy Spring Rd., Olney, MD, 20832 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/misalliance_158347/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/misalliance_158347/ 9/24/2010 - 10/23/2010. When a bedraggled bride is found stranded at an East Texas bus station in 1942, the determined ladies of the Eufala Springs Garden Club leap into action! Lemonade, wedding cake and a gown are easy enough to come by... but where's the groom? This side-splitting comedy overflows with love, laughter and... 2009-08-14T15:25:31+00:00 2010-09-24 2010-10-23 Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th Street, Seattle, WA, 98103 Taproot Theatre Company Comedy.Play. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/wedding-belles_158587/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/wedding-belles_158587/ 9/15/2010 - 10/3/2010. Remember when hair was hard and life was easy! This Major Musical will have you dancing in your seat as we learn the journey of women through the girl groups that spoke for a generation. The Shirelles, Brenda Lee, The Chiffons, Lesley Gore, The Supremes, Connie Francis, Petula Clark, Lulu, Dusty... 2009-07-10T08:52:24+00:00 2010-09-15 2010-10-03 Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, 1935 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Redondo Beach, CA, 90278 Civic Light Opera Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/beehive-the-1960s-girl-group-musical_157238/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/beehive-the-1960s-girl-group-musical_157238/ 9/10/2010 - 9/25/2010. One night a young stable hand attacks six horses in their stable, systematically putting their eyes out. Why? Winner of the 1974 Tony Award, Equus transports the audience into a world where questions have no easy answers, pain has no easy cure, and the line between aberrance and... 2009-08-19T16:48:09+00:00 2010-09-10 2010-09-25 The Kranzberg Arts Center, 501 N Grand Blvd, St Louis, MO, 63103 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/st-louis/shows/equus_158731/ http://www.theatermania.com/st-louis/shows/equus_158731/ 9/10/2010 - 11/7/2010. David Rambo's The Lady With All the Answers/b> invites audiences to spend an evening of home truths and delicious dish with renowned advice columnist Ann Landers, as she shares some of her favorite letters and memories while struggling to write the toughest column of her life. An... 2009-08-20T12:11:15+00:00 2010-09-10 2010-11-07 ACT - The Bullitt, 700 Union Street, Seattle, WA, 98101 ACT Play. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-lady-with-all-the-answers_158772/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-lady-with-all-the-answers_158772/ 9/9/2010 - 10/10/2010. Based on the popular 1988 MGM film, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels centers on two con men living on the French Riviera - the suave and sophisticated Lawrence Jameson, who makes his lavish living by talking rich ladies out of their money; and a small-time crook named Freddy Benson, who, more... 2009-09-02T15:26:53+00:00 2010-09-09 2010-10-10 Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, IN, 46321 Theatre at the Center Musical Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/indiana/shows/dirty-rotten-scoundrels_159186/ http://www.theatermania.com/indiana/shows/dirty-rotten-scoundrels_159186/ 9/2/2010 - 10/24/2010. Three love stories, a murder mystery, and a nuclear espionage...oh my! In Red Herring, it's 1952: America's on the verge of the H-bomb, Dwight Eisenhower's on the campaign trail, and I Love Lucy's on Monday nights. Meanwhile, Senator Joe McCarthy's daughter just got engaged to... 2009-10-04T15:22:20+00:00 2010-09-02 2010-10-24 Pheasant Run Resort and Spa Mainstage Theater, 4051 E. Main Street, St. Charles, IL, 60174 Noble Fool Theatricals Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/red-herring_160276/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/red-herring_160276/ 8/31/2010 - 9/12/2010. The 101 Dalmatians Musical hits The Buell, when one of the world's most beloved stories comes to life on the national stage for the first time. Based on the book by Dodie Smith, The 101 Dalmatians Musical is a one-of-a-kind adventure for the entire family, all about what it... 2009-07-28T08:44:55+00:00 2010-08-31 2010-09-12 Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1245 Champa Street, Denver, CO, 80204 Musical.Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/the-101-dalmatians-musical_157952/ http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/the-101-dalmatians-musical_157952/ 8/27/2010 - 9/19/2010. We conclude our season with a newly commissioned work from José Cruz González, the author of The Heart's Desire, inspired by Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and set in 19th century rancho California. Our story begins sadly - with love turned to obsession and destruction wrought by... 2009-08-05T12:59:14+00:00 2010-08-27 2010-09-19 Marian Theatre, 800 South College, Santa Maria, CA, 93454 PCPA Theaterfest Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/invierno_158276/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/invierno_158276/ 8/25/2010 - 9/26/2010. This Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores what happens to decades of friendship between two married couples when one couple is on the verge of divorcing. Who's to blame, who's to be believed, and who takes sides? Olney continues to provide a regional home to Margulies, producing or co-producing... 2009-08-07T12:15:11+00:00 2010-08-25 2010-09-26 Olney Theatre Center, Olney-Sandy Spring Rd., Olney, MD, 20832 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/dinner-with-friends_158345/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/dinner-with-friends_158345/ 8/13/2010 - 9/12/2010. Yankee Tavern is an astutely funny dramatic thriller brimming with edge of your seat intrigue. Set in a New York dive bar five years after 9/11, a young couple find themselves face to face with a mysterious stranger who turns what seems like harmless conspiracy theories into a... 2009-08-20T12:09:14+00:00 2010-08-13 2010-09-12 Allen Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle, WA, 98119 ACT Drama. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/yankee-tavern_158771/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/yankee-tavern_158771/ 8/12/2010 - 10/3/2010. Since its opening, thousands of audiences have enjoyed the hilarious Broadway musical Hot Mikado, which is an adaptation of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan tale, The Mikado set in the 1940s. This production will be directed by the writer of the book and lyrics himself, multi-Jeff... 2009-08-12T12:57:28+00:00 2010-08-12 2010-10-03 Drury Lane Oakbrook/Terrace, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL, 60181 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/hot-mikado_158496/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/hot-mikado_158496/ 8/7/2010 - 9/5/2010. When their young son is away on his first sleepover, a married couple has their first night alone together in years. Will they renew a vital spark that's been nearly smothered - or will provisional civility explode into fiery chaos? An expansive look at modern marriage that is alternately funny and... 2009-09-24T15:03:23+00:00 2010-08-07 2010-09-05 GableStage at Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Ave, Miami, FL, 33134 Comedy.Drama. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/fifty-words_159903/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/fifty-words_159903/ 8/6/2010 - 8/21/2010. It's all about the music in this gorgeous song cycle from Jason Robert Brown, one of the rising voices of the musical theater. Each song transports us through different stories, humorous and moving, of our American identity and experience - our community and isolation, our desire for the immaterial... 2009-08-05T12:49:17+00:00 2010-08-06 2010-08-21 Marian Theatre, 800 South College, Santa Maria, CA, 93454 PCA Theater Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/songs-for-a-new-world_158275/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/songs-for-a-new-world_158275/ 8/5/2010 - 8/22/2010. When Cb's dog dies from rabies, he begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best friend is too stoned to provide any coherent speculation. His sister has gone goth. His ex-girlfriend has recently been institutionalized, and his other friends are too inebriated to give him any sort of... 2009-04-09T22:49:40+00:00 2010-08-05 2010-08-22 Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa, FL, 33602 Jobsite Theater Play. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/dog-sees-god-confessions-of-a-teenage-blockhead_154117/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/dog-sees-god-confessions-of-a-teenage-blockhead_154117/ 7/28/2010 - 8/22/2010. In this contemporary comedy, a Pentecostal missionary gets more than she bargains for when she drops in on two Catholic spinsters and sparks a crisis of faith. To counter, the sisters enlist the help of their naïve parish priest, setting the stage for a theological showdown about what it means... 2009-08-07T11:36:35+00:00 2010-07-28 2010-08-22 Olney Theatre Center, Olney-Sandy Spring Rd., Olney, MD, 20832 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/the-savannah-disputation_158342/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/the-savannah-disputation_158342/ 7/27/2010 - 8/1/2010. With an amazing cast, incredible dancing and a gripping story of hope and self-discovery, In The Heights is your ticket into a world where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of... 2009-01-13T13:44:18+00:00 2010-07-27 2010-08-01 Civic Theater, 202 C Street, San Diego, CA, 92101 Children/Family.Musical Play.Dance. http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/in-the-heights_151262/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/in-the-heights_151262/ 7/27/2010 - 8/15/2010. The classic Mel Brooks movie is ALIVE...and it's headed here! You'll have a monstrously good time at this spectacular new production, winner of the 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award and the Broadway.com Audience Award for BEST MUSICAL! Don't miss the sensational cast delivering all your favorite... 2009-05-10T13:56:06+00:00 2010-07-27 2010-08-15 Pantages Theatre, 6233 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA, 90028 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/young-frankenstein_155077/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/young-frankenstein_155077/ 7/23/2010 - 7/29/2010. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a retelling of the biblical story of Joseph, his incredible abilities and his fantastic coat. 2009-05-18T12:15:24+00:00 2010-07-23 2010-07-29 Bass Performance Hall, 525 Commerce Street at Fourth Street, Fort Worth, TX, 76102 Casa Manana Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/joseph-and-the-amazing-technicolor-dreamcoat_155307/ http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/joseph-and-the-amazing-technicolor-dreamcoat_155307/ 7/20/2010 - 8/1/2010. Lincoln Center Theater's triumphant reinvigoration of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific comes to The Buell Theatre stage. South Pacific swept the 2008 Tony Awards, winning seven honors including Best Musical Revival and Best Director for Bartlett Sher. This breathtaking new... 2009-07-28T08:32:56+00:00 2010-07-20 2010-08-01 Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1245 Champa Street, Denver, CO, 80204 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/south-pacific_157951/ http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/south-pacific_157951/ 7/19/2010 - 8/22/2010. Written by Piven Theatre alum, Pulitzer Prize finalist and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Sarah Ruhl, the story of one woman's education and her search to find true love outside the box. Piven Theatre is pleased to reunite this remarkable team of Piven Theatre alumni: Sarah Ruhl, Jessica Thebus and... 2009-06-30T14:55:39+00:00 2010-07-19 2010-08-22 Piven Theatre, 927 Noyes St., Evanston, IL, 60201 Piven Theatre Workshop Season. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/late-a-cowboy-song_156990/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/late-a-cowboy-song_156990/ 7/19/2010 - 7/24/2010. What fun you will have in the Jungle of Nool, with the Cat in a Hat and Horton the Elephant, too. Gertrude McFuzz and Mayzie La Bird will be there, working together to save all of Whoville, including the Mayor. It's singing and dancing and fun from beginning to end. So, join us for all the... 2009-06-15T09:50:47+00:00 2010-07-19 2010-07-24 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell Street, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005 Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/seussical-jr_156369/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/seussical-jr_156369/ 7/15/2010 - 8/15/2010. By A.R. Gurney, directed by Billie Cox The brilliant social comedy. Set in the trophy room of a men's club from World War II through the late 1970s, this brilliant social comedy illustrates the conflict between longstanding traditions and the need for change. We first meet Barney when... 2009-09-17T17:42:13+00:00 2010-07-15 2010-08-15 Ross Valley Players Barn Theatre, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross, CA, 94957 Ross Valley Players Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/the-middle-ages_159648/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/the-middle-ages_159648/ 7/14/2010 - 7/18/2010. A coming-of-age, coming-out cocktail with a twist of terror. Thirteen-year-old Franklin Robertson is trying to survive adolescence. His parents don't understand him, he has no friends, and he's more interested in the high school quarterback than any girl. The one bright spot in his life is the glow... 2009-09-05T13:34:01+00:00 2010-07-14 2010-07-18 Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90049 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/doctor-cerberus_159261/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/doctor-cerberus_159261/ 7/12/2010 - 8/1/2010. The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) expands to The Beckett and The Clurman Theatres, Theatre Row, 410 W. 42nd Street, NYC, in addition to current theatres on 36th Street, for its eleventh season, to run from July 12 - August 1, 2010. Script submissions will be accepted... 2009-08-07T12:26:53+00:00 2010-07-12 2010-08-01 Theater Row Studios, 412 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036 Midtown International Theatre Festival Event. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/midtown-international-theatre-festival-2010-season_158346/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/midtown-international-theatre-festival-2010-season_158346/ 7/11/2010. Upright is taking their brand of new generation cabaret to La Mirada with the 'American Icon Series.' Four rising stars of stage and screen will pay homage to musical idols like Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, Joni Mitchell and Johnny Cash in a Cabaret Lounge created in the La Mirada Theatre lobby.... 2009-11-02T16:04:45+00:00 2010-07-11 2010-07-11 La Mirada Theatre, 14900 La Mirada Blvd., La Mirada, CA, 90638 Cabaret. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/upright-cabaret-country-roads_161158/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/upright-cabaret-country-roads_161158/ 7/10/2010 - 8/8/2010. This darkly caustic comedy follows the idiosyncratic members of one very broken family in search of wholeness again. Both a viciously funny satire and poignant meditation on forgiveness, Escape from Happiness offers a unique and hilarious perspective on the many familial ties that bind. 2009-07-05T12:24:48+00:00 2010-07-10 2010-08-08 Infamous Commonwealth Theatre, 4845 North Harding #1, Chicago, Illinois, 60625 Comedy.Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/escape-from-happiness_157121/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/escape-from-happiness_157121/ 7/9/2010 - 8/1/2010. It's the summer of 1955, and Natalie is a young woman in a small town in the American Midwest with dreams of hitting the road. Chad, a black-jacketed, rock-and-roll-loving motorcyclist who's bike is in need of repair stops at the town's garage - where Natalie works as the local mechanic. Having... 2009-09-14T17:12:07+00:00 2010-07-09 2010-08-01 Tacoma Musical Playhouse, 7116 Sixth Avenue, Tacoma, WA, 98406 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/all-shook-up_159510/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/all-shook-up_159510/ 7/9/2010 - 8/23/2010. Doug is a newly released petty criminal, forced to take reluctant residence with his sister's husband, their teenage son, and a tank of tropical fish. 2009-04-12T01:19:02+00:00 2010-07-09 2010-08-23 Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre, 2433 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60614 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/a-guide-for-the-perplexed_154168/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/a-guide-for-the-perplexed_154168/ 7/9/2010 - 8/7/2010. Don Quixote is mad... mad enough to dream an impossible dream while tilting after windmills with his trusty sidekick, Sancho Panza. Taproot's adventurous new staging of Cervantes' immortal classic reunites you with a story and songs that will capture your imagination and set you dreaming again.... 2009-08-14T15:22:31+00:00 2010-07-09 2010-08-07 Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th Street, Seattle, WA, 98103 Taproot Theatre Company Musical.Musical Play. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/man-of-la-mancha_158586/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/man-of-la-mancha_158586/ 7/9/2010 - 7/25/2010. In this triumphant legend, love transcends language, time and place. While Manhattan's west side rumbles with the clash of Jets and Sharks, Maria and Tony seek "a somewhere" their romance can thrive. In their revolutionary work that changed the course of the American musical, Bernstein,... 2009-08-05T12:04:23+00:00 2010-07-09 2010-07-25 Marian Theatre, 800 South College, Santa Maria, CA, 93454 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/west-side-story_158273/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/west-side-story_158273/ 7/8/2010 - 8/1/2010. Boasting a toe-tapping rock 'n roll score, The Full Monty is a musical endowed with big laughs, big heart and a jaw-dropping finale that just might charm your pants off! When the local mill experiences massive layoffs, six unemployed steelworkers are out of luck, out of cash and... 2009-04-23T15:18:57+00:00 2010-07-08 2010-08-01 WaterTower Theatre, 15650 Addison Road, Addison, TX, 75248 Water Tower Theatre Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/the-full-monty_154439/ http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/the-full-monty_154439/ 7/8/2010 - 8/8/2010. The first collaboration between Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to be performed on the professional stage, Jesus Christ Superstar illuminates the transcendent power of the human spirit with a passion that goes straight to the heart. The production features a stirring score including... 2009-09-02T15:23:21+00:00 2010-07-08 2010-08-08 Phoenix Theatre, 749 N. Park Avenue, Indianapolis, IN, 46202 Theatre at the Center Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/indiana/shows/jesus-christ-superstar_159185/ http://www.theatermania.com/indiana/shows/jesus-christ-superstar_159185/ 7/7/2010 - 7/19/2010. From the matriarch of exploratory French theater comes a truly visionary play that, at its root, asks life's ultimate question: What would you do if the end of the world were imminent? With Les Ephémères, based not on text but on the ordinary circumstances of our... 2009-06-20T16:23:10+00:00 2010-07-07 2010-07-19 Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10021 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/les-andeacutephandeacutemandegraveres_156601/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/les-andeacutephandeacutemandegraveres_156601/ 7/6/2010 - 8/15/2010. Comprising workshops, readings and late night events, ClassicsFest 2010 brings audiences a different project almost every night of the week for six weeks. Over 100 theater artists gather for a refreshing and invigorating summer splash of the classics, any way you like 'em. Experience... 2009-07-28T10:21:05+00:00 2010-07-06 2010-08-15 Deaf West Theatre, 5112 Lankershim Blvd., N. Hollywood, CA, 91601 Antaeus Company Festival. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/classicsfest-2010_157968/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/classicsfest-2010_157968/ 7/6/2010 - 8/15/2010. Time: 1718. Place: the high seas. Captain McGovern is pursuing the famous female pirate and treasure hunter, Captain Freely, when a modern boy, Jim, magically finds himself in the middle of their battle. As Jim finds himself first captured by the pirates, then rescued from the deep by sailors from... 2009-06-11T13:16:46+00:00 2010-07-06 2010-08-15 Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave, Bethesda, MD, 20814 Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/pirates-a-boy-at-sea_156296/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/pirates-a-boy-at-sea_156296/ 6/30/2010 - 8/22/2010. Set on a tropical island during World War II, the musical tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples - U.S. Navy nurse Nellie Forbush and French plantation owner Emile de Becque, and Navy Airman Joe Cable and a young local native girl, Liat, and how their happiness is threatened by the... 2009-02-13T12:07:28+00:00 2010-06-30 2010-08-22 Ahmanson Theatre, 135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90012 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/south-pacific_152646/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/south-pacific_152646/ 6/30/2010 - 7/25/2010. Back by "Popular" Demand. The New York Times calls Wicked "Broadway's biggest blockbuster," and when it played Houston in 2005 and 2007, it broke house records and sold out in record time. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards,... 2009-03-25T14:15:07+00:00 2010-06-30 2010-07-25 Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby, Houston, TX, 77002 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/wicked_153587/ http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/wicked_153587/ 6/28/2010 - 6/29/2010. ... 2009-07-06T14:47:04+00:00 2010-06-28 2010-06-29 Rep Stage at Howard Community College, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, MD, 21044 Rep Stage Reading. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/american-dream_157148/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/american-dream_157148/ 6/28/2010 - 7/10/2010. On the Levee is based on a true story and is set in 1927 in Greenville, Mississippi on a levee during an almost forgotten flood. 2009-10-28T13:52:55+00:00 2010-06-28 2010-07-10 The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/on-the-levee_161000/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/on-the-levee_161000/ 6/26/2010 - 8/8/2010. At the center of ClassicsFest 2010 will be Antaeus' much-anticipated first full production of a Shakespearean play, and will feature the renowned scholar, actor, and founding Artistic Director, Dakin Matthews, in the title role. Considered one of Shakespeare's great tragedies, King... 2009-07-28T10:17:50+00:00 2010-06-26 2010-08-08 Deaf West Theatre, 5112 Lankershim Blvd., N. Hollywood, CA, 91601 Antaeus Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/king-lear_157966/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/king-lear_157966/ 6/26/2010 - 7/25/2010. In this theological courtroom drama rationalist philosopher and accused apostate Baruch de Spinoza, played by Alexander Strain, faces excommunication from the Jewish community of 1656 Amsterdam. Spinoza is considered to be one of Western philosophy's most important philosophers, laying the... 2009-06-18T15:24:47+00:00 2010-06-26 2010-07-25 Theater J, District of Columbia Jewish Community Center1529 16th St. NW, Washington, DC, 20036 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/new-jereusalem_156545/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/new-jereusalem_156545/ opens 6/24/2010. In 1948, playwright A.R. Gurney, then a young boarding school student, traveled to New York where he attended a performance of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, going backstage afterwards to meet the production's star, the great stage actress Katharine Cornell, who was dubbed "The... 2009-09-08T14:10:24+00:00 2010-06-24 1900-01-01 Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, 150 West 65th Street, New York, NY, 10023 Lincoln Center Theater Play. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/the-grand-manner_159292/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/the-grand-manner_159292/ 6/23/2010 - 8/15/2010. Imagine Jeremy Jacob's surprise when he's accosted on the beach by a motley crew of pirates. They need a digger to bury their treasure and Jeremy, clutching his little sand spade, is recruited. At first, the pirate life is all fun: swabbing decks, counting ducats and singing shanties. But when night... 2009-06-11T13:12:06+00:00 2010-06-23 2010-08-15 Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave, Bethesda, MD, 20814 Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/how-i-became-a-pirate_156295/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/how-i-became-a-pirate_156295/ 6/22/2010 - 6/27/2010. Dreamgirls tells the rags-to-riches story of a 1960's Motown girl group, and the triumphs and tribulations that come with fame and fortune. With music by Academy-Award nominee Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tony and Grammy-winning Tom Eyen, Dreamgirls features the... 2009-04-04T18:20:24+00:00 2010-06-22 2010-06-27 Kimmel Center, 260 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/dreamgirls_153939/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/dreamgirls_153939/ 6/22/2010 - 7/11/2010. In the Heights, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL!, is a sensational new show about chasing your dreams and finding your true home. With an amazing cast, incredible Tony Award-winning dancing and a thrilling Tony Award-winning score, In the Heights is an... 2009-05-10T13:54:50+00:00 2010-06-22 2010-07-11 Pantages Theatre, 6233 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA, 90028 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/in-the-heights_155076/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/in-the-heights_155076/ 6/19/2010 - 7/25/2010. His woman has left him, he's flat broke, and it's almost five o'clock in the morning. Suddenly Nomax finds Big Moe, Four-Eyed Moe, Eat Moe, No Moe, and Little Moe emerging from his 1930s style radio to comfort, cajoles, wheedle and jazz him with the hit songs of songwriter and saxophonist, Louis... 2009-04-29T19:18:47+00:00 2010-06-19 2010-07-25 The Ensemble Theatre, 3535 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77002 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/five-guys-named-moe_154753/ http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/five-guys-named-moe_154753/ 6/19/2010. Jerry Herman, recipient of the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Tony Award, wrote the music for Hello, Dolly!, Mame, La Cage Aux Folles, Dear World, Mack & Mabel, The Grand Tour and Milk & Honey. His songs will be performed by three top cabaret and... 2009-09-10T14:37:53+00:00 2010-06-19 2010-06-19 Jeanne Rimsky Theater, Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main Street, Port Washington, NY, 11050 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/hello-jerry-songs-of-jerry-herman_159362/ http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/hello-jerry-songs-of-jerry-herman_159362/ 6/18/2010 - 6/20/2010. Avenue Q is about trying to make it in NYC with big dreams and a tiny bank account. Called "one of the funniest shows you're ever likely to see" by Entertainment Weekly, Avenue Q features a cast of people and puppets who tell the story in a smart, risque and downright... 2009-04-05T19:33:01+00:00 2010-06-18 2010-06-20 Kimmel Center, 260 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/avenue-q_153948/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/avenue-q_153948/ 6/18/2010 - 7/18/2010. Loosely based on a true story, The Female of the Species is a hilarious satire that follows the plucky, obstinate, and opinionated feminist writer Margot Mason on her descent into the tortuous territory of writer's block and the misadventures of a day gone wrong. No feminist doctrine... 2009-08-20T12:06:35+00:00 2010-06-18 2010-07-18 ACT - The Falls Theatre, 700 Union Street, Seattle, WA, 98101 ACT Play. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-female-of-the-species_158770/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-female-of-the-species_158770/ 6/18/2010 - 6/27/2010. Join two unpredictable madcap doctors, Hawkey and Duke, as they campaign to get a young Korean to the United States and into a good school. 2009-08-21T15:15:15+00:00 2010-06-18 2010-06-27 Kimball Street Theater, Kimball Street and Dundee Avenue, Elgin, Il, 60120 Elgin Theatre Company Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/mash_158830/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/mash_158830/ 6/17/2010 - 7/3/2010. Our title character is the bone of contention between Greg and his wife Kate in this howlingly funny domestic comedy. This summer we'll unleash this hilarious and touching tale that takes the term "animal lover" to a whole other level. 2009-08-04T11:44:35+00:00 2010-06-17 2010-07-03 Marian Theatre, 800 South College, Santa Maria, CA, 93454 PCPA Theaterfest Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/sylvia_158247/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/sylvia_158247/ 6/16/2010 - 8/1/2010. Adapted by Ensemble Member and Artistic Director David Catlin from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lookingglass Alice is a muscular, acrobatic, and dizzyingly playful show for all ages. This Alice falls, floats, flies,... 2009-10-22T09:26:05+00:00 2010-06-16 2010-08-01 Lookingglass Theatre, 821 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60611 Lookingglass Theatre Company Play.Experimental.Circus. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/lookingglass-alice_160811/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/lookingglass-alice_160811/ 6/16/2010 - 6/20/2010. Love, lies, and dysfunctional families. Sound like your last family gathering? Charles and George set out to woo the alluring and upper-crust Kate and Constance. But inexperienced Charles is shy and clumsy around upper-class ladies, so it's the barmaid who catches his eye. But is she really who she... 2009-09-05T13:22:04+00:00 2010-06-16 2010-06-20 Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90049 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/she-stoops-to-conquer-or-the-mistakes-of-a-night_159260/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/she-stoops-to-conquer-or-the-mistakes-of-a-night_159260/ 6/15/2010 - 6/27/2010. No other musical has so magically woven music, dance, poignancy and laughter into such an electrifying and unforgettable experience. In what is a huge theatrical feat, audiences will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Chaim Topol, star of the original motion picture, in his farewell... 2009-04-29T14:23:42+00:00 2010-06-15 2010-06-27 Palace Theatre at PlayhouseSquare, 1615 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44115 KeyBank Broadway Series Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/fiddler-on-the-roof_154713/ http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/fiddler-on-the-roof_154713/ 6/15/2010 - 6/27/2010. Mel Brooks is at it again, following up his smash hit The Producers with the stage adaptation of Young Frankenstein, playing The Buell Theatre. The classic movie is ALIVE in a spectacular new production, winner of the 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award and the Broadway.com... 2009-07-28T08:26:23+00:00 2010-06-15 2010-06-27 Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1245 Champa Street, Denver, CO, 80204 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/young-frankenstein_157950/ http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/young-frankenstein_157950/ 6/14/2010. DirectorsLabChicago presents Directors on Directing, a frank and in-depth conversation with some of the city's most prominent stage directors as they discuss their varied approaches to their work. 2009-10-30T14:19:59+00:00 2010-06-14 2010-06-14 Chicago Cultural Center, 78 East Washington Street, Chicago, IL, 60602 DirectorsLabChicago Event. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/directors-on-directing_161101/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/directors-on-directing_161101/ 6/12/2010 - 7/11/2010. This fiercely funny comedy with music asks: what do a high school debate team, predators in cyberspace and a musical version of Arthur Miller's The Crucible have in common? The answer: three teenagers who are wrestling with sex, lies and YouTube videos in this off-Broadway comic hit. 2009-09-24T15:02:10+00:00 2010-06-12 2010-07-11 GableStage at Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Ave, Miami, FL, 33134 Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/speech-and-debate_159902/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/speech-and-debate_159902/ 6/11/2010 - 7/18/2010. Three teenage misfits in Salem, Oregon discover they are curiously connected by a sex scandal that's rocked their hometown. When the trio (a "drama geek," a "queeny boy," and a budding school newspaper reporter) form an unlikely alliance to seek out and disclose the truth,... 2009-04-01T14:54:43+00:00 2010-06-11 2010-07-18 Aurora Theatre, 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, 94704 Aurora Theatre Company Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/speech-and-debate_153856/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/speech-and-debate_153856/ 6/10/2010 - 6/27/2010. Where can a playwright find an outlet? Where can an audience see new works? The Gallery Players provides both of these in The 13th Annual Black Box New Play Festival.Over the years of producing the Festival, The Gallery Players developed works by countless playwrights, many of whom... 2009-07-21T13:14:36+00:00 2010-06-10 2010-06-27 Gallery Players, 199 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11215 Gallery Players Festival. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-13th-annual-black-box-new-play-festival_157719/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-13th-annual-black-box-new-play-festival_157719/ 6/9/2010 - 7/18/2010. In this world premier thriller written by Ben Viccellio, each staff member of the Dead Letter Office communicates in his or her own special manner. While examining the changing nature of language in our digital culture, the play surveys the staff sorting the backlog of the postal... 2009-10-30T13:34:11+00:00 2010-06-09 2010-07-18 Storefront Theater, 66 E. Randolph, Chicago, IL, 60601 Dog & Pony Theatre Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/dead-letter-office_161094/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/dead-letter-office_161094/ 6/9/2010 - 6/27/2010. Andrew Lloyd Webber's international award-winning phenomenon directed by Harold Prince has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide. The Phantom of the Opera, the longest running show in Broadway history, now returns to Dayton to take... 2009-02-15T14:57:19+00:00 2010-06-09 2010-06-27 Victoria Theatre, 138 Main Street, Dayton, OH, 45402 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/the-phantom-of-the-opera_152673/ http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/the-phantom-of-the-opera_152673/ 6/9/2010 - 7/4/2010. The year is 1858 and Charles Darwin struggles to complete his theory of natural selection while coping with his daughter's fatal illness and his own loss of faith. Meanwhile, halfway around the world, an unknown explorer is about to come up with the exact same theory. Vibrantly comic and deeply... 2009-08-06T13:06:31+00:00 2010-06-09 2010-07-04 Olney Theatre Center, Olney-Sandy Spring Rd., Olney, MD, 20832 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/trumpery_158316/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/trumpery_158316/ 6/8/2010 - 6/20/2010. The beloved classic novel comes to life on the stage in this brand new musical sure to delight the whole family, directed by Broadway legend Jerry Zaks. Pongo and Mrs. Pongo are loving the good life in London with their 'pets" roger and Anita. When their 15 puppies go missing, the canines learn they... 2009-05-10T13:53:12+00:00 2010-06-08 2010-06-20 Pantages Theatre, 6233 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA, 90028 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/the-101-dalmatians-musical_155075/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/the-101-dalmatians-musical_155075/ 6/8/2010 - 6/13/2010. Little House on the Prairie The Musical takes the inspirational stories of the television classic on a brand new frontier in an uplifting new musical starring Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura for 10 years in the much-loved television series, as "Ma." 2009-05-18T12:14:37+00:00 2010-06-08 2010-06-13 Bass Performance Hall, 525 Commerce Street at Fourth Street, Fort Worth, TX, 76102 Casa Manana Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/the-little-house-on-the-prairie_155306/ http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/the-little-house-on-the-prairie_155306/ 6/8/2010 - 7/11/2010. Originally banned from the stage, Mrs. Warren's Profession scandalized audiences upon its debut. The world of the idealistic Vivie is turned upside down when she learns that her family's considerable wealth comes from her mother's management of a chain of brothels. Is Mrs.... 2009-02-18T11:27:32+00:00 2010-06-08 2010-07-11 Shakespeare Theatre Company - Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F Street NW, Washington, DC, 20004 The Shakespeare Theatre Company Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/mrs-warrens-profession_152744/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/mrs-warrens-profession_152744/ 6/6/2010 - 6/27/2010. As Martin turns 50, his libido takes a confounding turn in Pulitizer Prize-winner Edward Albee's outrageously funny confrontation between irrational rapture and the status quo, and the boundaries of passion and appetite. Kasi Campbell is a Helen Hayes Award-winning director, whose recent Rep... 2009-07-06T14:15:25+00:00 2010-06-06 2010-06-27 Rep Stage at Howard Community College, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, MD, 21044 Rep Stage Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/the-goat-or-who-is-sylvia_157140/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/the-goat-or-who-is-sylvia_157140/ 6/6/2010. Upright is taking their brand of new generation cabaret to La Mirada with the 'American Icon Series.' Four rising stars of stage and screen will pay homage to musical idols like Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, Joni Mitchell and Johnny Cash in a Cabaret Lounge created in the La Mirada Theatre lobby.... 2009-11-02T16:01:19+00:00 2010-06-06 2010-06-06 La Mirada Theatre, 14900 La Mirada Blvd., La Mirada, CA, 90638 Cabaret. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/upright-cabaret-the-mighty-mississippi_161156/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/upright-cabaret-the-mighty-mississippi_161156/ 6/5/2010. The soft rock duo that brought you such hits as "The One that You Love," "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" and "All Out of Love" will be making a one night appearance full of nostalgia for the 80's romantic in all of us. These talented mates from down under will be performing a mix of new numbers... 2009-07-27T14:22:54+00:00 2010-06-05 2010-06-05 Lewis Family Playhouse @ Victoria Gardens Cultural Center, 12505 Cultural Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91739 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/air-supply_157913/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/air-supply_157913/ 6/5/2010 - 6/20/2010. The story is not just a thoughtful study on divorce, but a turbulent meditation on the minefield of middle age. Gabe and Karen, a happily married couple, have been friends with married couple Tom and Beth for many years. While having dinner at Gabe and Karen's home one night, Beth tearfully reveals... 2009-04-27T18:40:53+00:00 2010-06-05 2010-06-20 La Mirada Theatre, 14900 La Mirada Blvd., La Mirada, CA, 90638 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/dinner-with-friends_154623/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/dinner-with-friends_154623/ 6/5/2010 - 7/3/2010. Northlight presents the world premiere of Low Down Dirty Blues, by Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman, with direction by Myler and music direction by Wheetman. From the very birth of the Blues, great musicians have captivated audiences with their Dirty Blues--music filled with... 2009-04-07T13:42:01+00:00 2010-06-05 2010-07-03 Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Boulevard, Skokie, IL, 60076 Musical.Revue. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/low-down-dirty-blues_154020/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/low-down-dirty-blues_154020/ 6/4/2010 - 6/26/2010. When four strangers are stranded at a Catholic parish on the edge of an Indian reservation, everyone, including the priest and a local young doctor, are forced to face their demons and make some changes. First produced in 1982, Angels Fall is an emotional, funny, and timely play that... 2009-08-02T09:41:33+00:00 2010-06-04 2010-06-26 Theater Off Jackson, 409 Seventh Avenue South, Seattle, WA, 98104 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/angels-fall_158184/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/angels-fall_158184/ 6/4/2010 - 6/12/2010. A rib-tickling Neil Simon comedy. After a 6-day honeymoon, conventional lawyer Paul Bratter and his free spirited wife Corie move into the new, high-rent apartment that she has chosen for them in New York City. They discover that the 6th floor walkup has no furniture, a skylight with a hole in it... 2009-10-17T11:24:22+00:00 2010-06-04 2010-06-12 William Brosnan School Theater, temp reserved, , , Township Theatre Group Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/barefoot-in-the-park_160669/ http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/barefoot-in-the-park_160669/ 6/4/2010 - 6/27/2010. Boeing-Boeing, the high-flying, Tony award-winning comedy that had London and Broadway audiences airborne with laughter, is taking off on the Alley's Hubbard Stage. Bernard, a successful American architect living in a posh Paris apartment, has been deftly juggling three... 2009-05-27T16:53:36+00:00 2010-06-04 2010-06-27 Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue, Houston, TX, 77002 Alley Theater Season. http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/boeingboeing_155666/ http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/boeingboeing_155666/ 6/4/2010 - 6/19/2010. The Life tells the story of Queen, a prostitute who works 42nd Street in the 1980's to support her man, a Vietnam Veteran, named Fleetwood. After years of being on the street, Queen finally manages to save enough money for her and Fleetwood to escape The Life. Circumstances... 2009-04-29T18:12:31+00:00 2010-06-04 2010-06-19 4th Wall Theatre, Franklin & Fremont Sts., Bloomfield, NJ, 07003 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/the-life_154749/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/the-life_154749/ 6/4/2010 - 6/20/2010. Leave it to the Minneapolis Musical Theatre to put a new twist on this musical classic when co-founder Kevin Hansen (recently Albin/ZaZa in Jerry Herman's La Cage aux Folles) assumes the title role in Mame! When ten-year-old Patrick is sent to live with his larger-than-life... 2009-04-16T19:30:05+00:00 2010-06-04 2010-06-20 Illusion Theater, 528 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN, 55401 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/mame_154296/ http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/mame_154296/ 6/4/2010 - 6/20/2010. Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and Elvis walk into a bar... see what happens in this hysterical Steve Martin comedy! 2009-05-21T21:57:04+00:00 2010-06-04 2010-06-20 Porch Light Productions, 555 Broad Street, Glen Rock, New Jersey, 07452 Porch Light Productions Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/picasso-at-the-lapin-agile_155460/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/picasso-at-the-lapin-agile_155460/ 6/4/2010 - 6/13/2010. This wonderful, uplifting musical--the final collaboration between Rogers and Hamerstein--has been a "favorite thing" of audiences worldwide for decades. A free-spirited aspirant nun restores music and love to the Von Trapp family--but they're all forced by the Nazi Anschluss to flee their beloved... 2009-09-24T12:19:10+00:00 2010-06-04 2010-06-13 Garage Theater, temp reserved, , , Musical.Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/the-sound-of-music_159886/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/the-sound-of-music_159886/ 6/3/2010 - 6/20/2010. "Sex to change the course of the world..." A grad student's personal ad lures a randy journalism coed to his subterranean lab, where he studies the sleep cycles of fish for signs of the apocalypse. Will their "intensely significant coupling" lead to another big bang, or is... 2009-04-09T22:13:15+00:00 2010-06-03 2010-06-20 Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa, FL, 33602 Jobsite Theater Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/boom_154115/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/boom_154115/ 6/3/2010 - 6/20/2010. An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man -- with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man's Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist,... 2009-04-09T22:48:33+00:00 2010-06-03 2010-06-20 Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa, FL, 33602 Jobsite Theater Play. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/dead-mans-cell-phone_154116/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/dead-mans-cell-phone_154116/ 6/3/2010 - 6/27/2010. On the barren, diamond-diving coast of South Africa, Johan and Thami, an ex-cop and a gardener from starkly contrasting backgrounds, maintain a beachfront guest lodge during the off-season while looking for a way out. When Smith, a retired businessman, shows up one foggy night, the two men think... 2009-08-06T12:41:00+00:00 2010-06-03 2010-06-27 Mosaic Theatre, American Heritage Center for the Arts, 12200 W. Broward Blvd, Building 3000, Plantation, FL, 33325 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/groundswell_158312/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/groundswell_158312/ 6/3/2010 - 8/27/2010. Loot is Joe Orton's edgy farce about greed, hypocrisy and police incompetence. On the eve of his mother's funeral, Hal robs a bank while his mother's nurse, who has a penchant of murder, plots her eighth marriage. Mayhem and anarchy reign in this hilarious and shocking comedy. USA... 2009-08-05T18:13:54+00:00 2010-06-03 2010-08-27 Alhecama Theatre, 914 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/loot_158295/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/loot_158295/ 6/3/2010 - 8/1/2010. Sugar originally debuted as the widely known film Some Like it Hot, starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and the blonde goddess, Marilyn Monroe. The film then was transformed into the musical Sugar, which opened at the Majestic Theater in 1972, running for 505 performances and... 2009-08-12T12:53:36+00:00 2010-06-03 2010-08-01 Drury Lane Oakbrook/Terrace, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL, 60181 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/sugar_158495/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/sugar_158495/ 6/3/2010 - 6/27/2010. This radically original dance-theater event explores 100 years in the life of North Beach nightspot Tosca Café, conjuring a world in which love, betrayal, and hope emerge from the shadows and disappear with the clink of a glass. The Tosca Project brings world-renowned dancers... 2009-07-28T14:12:35+00:00 2010-06-03 2010-06-27 American Conservatory Theater, 415 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102 American Conservatory Theater Dance Theater. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/the-tosca-project_157996/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/the-tosca-project_157996/ 6/2/2010. Celebrating its 12th season, The Lab is St. Ann's Warehouse's experimental haven for artists developing interdisciplinary projects for puppet and object theater. Under the direction of Lab Directors Matthew Acheson and Tom Lee, participating artists and their collaborators meet weekly over nine... 2009-06-24T11:10:32+00:00 2010-06-02 2010-06-02 St. Ann's Warehouse, 38 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201 Festival. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/labapalooza-mini-festival-of-new-puppet-theater-from-the-lab_156762/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/labapalooza-mini-festival-of-new-puppet-theater-from-the-lab_156762/ 6/2/2010 - 6/27/2010. "You Can Fly" to magical Neverland at Paper Mill Playhouse for this swashbuckling epic that delivers non-stop action, spellbinding music and stunning choreography. Join Peter Pan and the lost boys as they battle the despicable Captain Hook and his diabolical pirates aboard the Jolly Roger... 2009-07-24T13:07:02+00:00 2010-06-02 2010-06-27 Paper Mill Playhouse, Brookside Drive, Millburn, NJ, 07041 Paper Mill Playhouse Musical.Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/peter-pan_157823/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/peter-pan_157823/ 6/2/2010 - 7/4/2010. Sondheim's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical was inspired by Georges Seurat's stunning masterpiece, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Brimming with beauty and light, Sunday in the Park with George celebrates the power of creation. Jeffrey Coon (Seurat) and Kristine... 2009-06-22T15:14:24+00:00 2010-06-02 2010-07-04 Arden Theatre Company, 40 North 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106 Arden Theatre Company Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/sunday-in-the-park-with-george_156651/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/sunday-in-the-park-with-george_156651/ 6/1/2010 - 6/6/2010. 101 Dalmatians The Musical is an experience for the entire family about what it means to be a family, canine and courageous. More than a simple story about good versus bad, the family bands together to overcome every hurdle and hardship in the most difficult times. Led by the creative... 2009-01-16T19:30:47+00:00 2010-06-01 2010-06-06 Civic Theater, 202 C Street, San Diego, CA, 92101 Broadway/San Diego Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/the-101-dalmatians-musical_151460/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/the-101-dalmatians-musical_151460/ 6/1/2010 - 6/27/2010. The landmark production that put Book-It on the national theatre map is the icing on the 20th Anniversary cake. Part of the company's repertory of adaptations, The Cider House Rules is the story of orphan Homer Wells' life in a Maine orphanage and his education under the tutelage of... 2009-04-30T21:29:56+00:00 2010-06-01 2010-06-27 Center House Theatre at Seattle Center, 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA, 98109 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-cider-house-rules-part-one-heres-in-st-clouds_154803/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-cider-house-rules-part-one-heres-in-st-clouds_154803/ 6/1/2010 - 6/13/2010. The one that you want is back! Grease, Time Magazine's 2007 pick for "#1 musical of the year," is rockin' across the country in this new production direct from Broadway. Take a trip to a simpler time of poodle skirts, drive-ins, and T-birds. "Bad boy" Danny and "the girl next door"... 2009-06-24T11:41:49+00:00 2010-06-01 2010-06-13 Boston Opera House, 539 Washington Street, Boston, MA, 02111 BROADWAY ACROSS AMERICA Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/grease_156766/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/grease_156766/ 5/28/2010 - 6/12/2010. By Tobias Picker Tobias Picker's unabashedly Romantic score sets Judith Rossner's retelling of the Oedipus story from Jocasta's point of view. Thirteen year-old Emmeline is sent to work in the mills to help support her family, who have fallen on hard times. Though circumstance is not kind,... 2009-09-17T17:56:37+00:00 2010-05-28 2010-06-12 Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd. North, Petaluma, CA, 94952 Cinnabar Theater Play. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/emmeline_159653/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/emmeline_159653/ 5/28/2010 - 6/26/2010. Directed by KDT Co-Artistic Director Christopher Carlos The play: A young Mexican couple is trapped at a way station when they can't pay off their debts to the American coyotes who smuggled them across the border. The playwright: Playwright of KDT's 2008 hit Sick, Zayd Dohrn received... 2009-08-10T13:51:55+00:00 2010-05-28 2010-06-26 Kitchen Dog Theater, The MAC3120 McKinney Ave., Dallas, TX, 75204 Kitchen Dog Theater Play. http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/long-way-go-down_158408/ http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/long-way-go-down_158408/ 5/28/2010 - 6/27/2010. ... 2009-09-17T18:14:29+00:00 2010-05-28 2010-06-27 6th Street Playhouse G.K. Hardt Theatre, 52 West 6th Street, Santa Rosa, CA, 95401 6th Street Playhouse Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/spring-musical-tba_159663/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/spring-musical-tba_159663/ 5/27/2010 - 6/27/2010. What do you see when you look at an artist's ultra-modern canvas? After Serge, a dermatologist, buys an expensive all-white painting, he is astounded by the reaction of his buddies Yvan and Marc. There's more than meets the eye in this smart and stylish comedy about male friendships by Yasmina Reza.... 2009-06-15T18:21:39+00:00 2010-05-27 2010-06-27 Pittsburgh Public Theater, O'Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/pittsburgh/shows/art_156417/ http://www.theatermania.com/pittsburgh/shows/art_156417/ 5/26/2010 - 6/20/2010. Václav Havel, renowned playwright and former President of the Czech Republic, crafts his first play in 20 years, and Wilma audiences will be the first to see it in the U.S. Leaving is an epic story of a recently retired Chancellor who struggles with his family and... 2009-05-13T13:18:38+00:00 2010-05-26 2010-06-20 Wilma Theater, 265 South Broad, Philadelphia, PA, 19107 Wilma Theater Play. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/leaving_155168/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/leaving_155168/ 5/25/2010 - 6/27/2010. Rounding out the season is a hilarious tale of overacheiver's angst from the author of Falsettos and A New Brain. This unlikeliest of hit musicals draws the audience directly into the action, bringing 4 nerdtastic audience members onto the stage each night to compete alongside some of... 2009-05-16T11:43:55+00:00 2010-05-25 2010-06-27 Gerding Theater at the Armory, 128 NW 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209 Portland Center Stage Musical.Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/oregon/shows/the-25th-annual-putnam-county-spelling-bee_155288/ http://www.theatermania.com/oregon/shows/the-25th-annual-putnam-county-spelling-bee_155288/ 5/25/2010. Let's Salute America is inspired by America's love of the Yellow Ribbon as a symbol of freedom, hope, homecomings and of course, Tony's number one recording of 1973, "Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Ole Oak Tree." It was number one for that year, became Orlando's theme song... 2009-04-27T18:46:02+00:00 2010-05-25 2010-05-25 La Mirada Theatre, 14900 La Mirada Blvd., La Mirada, CA, 90638 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/lets-salute-america_154624/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/lets-salute-america_154624/ 5/25/2010 - 6/6/2010. The classic Mel Brooks movie is ALIVE...and it's headed here! You'll have a monstrously good time at this spectacular new production, winner of the 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award and the Broadway.com Audience Award for BEST MUSICAL! Don't miss the sensational cast delivering all your favorite... 2009-03-25T14:09:12+00:00 2010-05-25 2010-06-06 Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby, Houston, TX, 77002 Musical.Musical Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/young-frankenstein_153586/ http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/young-frankenstein_153586/ opens 5/24/2010. Directed by Amon Miyamoto, a new production of this much-loved musical will invigorate and illuminate the show with fresh visual, emotional and musical energy. The Fantasticks tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play The Romancers (Les Romanesques) by Edmond... 2009-11-06T08:48:54+00:00 2010-05-24 1900-01-01 Duchess Theatre, Catherine Street, London, England, WC2B 5LA Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/london/shows/the-fantasticks_161285/ http://www.theatermania.com/london/shows/the-fantasticks_161285/ 5/23/2010 - 6/13/2010. Plaza Theatrical Productions, Long Island's largest touring theatre company, in association with The Show Place, is proud to present Annie Get Your Gun! Annie Oakley, the best shot around, takes one glance at shooting ace Frank Butler and falls head over heels in love! This rousing,... 2009-10-21T16:20:38+00:00 2010-05-23 2010-06-13 The Showplace at the Bellmore Movies, 222 Pettit Avenue, Bellmore, NY, 11710 Plaza Theatrical Productions Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/annie-get-your-gun_160800/ http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/annie-get-your-gun_160800/ 5/23/2010 - 7/18/2010. When dirty meets clean, everything gets messy. Raven closes the season with the side splitting comedy, Neil Simon's The Odd Couple. The play that inspired a movie and a television sitcom hilariously explores the social and cultural revolution of the 1960's. Felix Unger, the neat freak... 2009-06-29T10:30:14+00:00 2010-05-23 2010-07-18 Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL, 60660 Raven Theatre Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-odd-couple_156913/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-odd-couple_156913/ 5/23/2010 - 6/6/2010. Set on the UW Campus and infused with real-life stories, this adaptation, based on the classic tale of two cousins who fall in love with the same woman, is joyously performed by diverse UW student populations. Join student athletes, ROTC, Early Entrance, Returning, and First Generation Students as... 2009-08-01T13:12:06+00:00 2010-05-23 2010-06-06 University of Washington's Playhouse Theatre, 4045 University Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98105 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-two-noble-kinsmen_158176/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-two-noble-kinsmen_158176/ 5/22/2010. During his 37-year career, Jonathan Edwards has recorded 15 albums and penned such notable hits as "Shanty" and "Sunshine," one of the most recognizable folk protest songs of the early '70s. His natural ability to sing and compose as well as produce has garnered him a reputation as a... 2009-07-13T17:03:24+00:00 2010-05-22 2010-05-22 Emelin Theatre, 153 Library Lane, Mamaroneck, NY, 10543 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/westchester-rockland/shows/jonathan-edwards_157333/ http://www.theatermania.com/westchester-rockland/shows/jonathan-edwards_157333/ 5/21/2010 - 6/13/2010. Qu'est-ce que c'est l'amour? What is love? In this charming and theatrical romantic comedy, Vincent stands up his girlfriend at a café and travels to an apartment in Paris, carrying only a suitcase filled with the surprising love letters of his late grandparents. When he begins receiving... 2009-04-07T20:13:06+00:00 2010-05-21 2010-06-13 Seattle Public Theatre, 7312 W Greenlake Drive.N., Seattle, WA, 98103 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-13th-of-paris_154050/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-13th-of-paris_154050/ 5/21/2010 - 6/20/2010. Set in a 1920s Chicago recording studio where real-life blues legend Ma Rainey and her band have assembled along with Rainey's white agent and producer, Ma Rainey explores issues of art, religion, and race, delving deeply into the very architecture of racism. Featuring Barrymore Award-winner E. Faye... 2009-05-29T13:42:07+00:00 2010-05-21 2010-06-20 Philadelphia Theatre Company, 480 S. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA, 19146 Philadelphia Theatre Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/ma-raineys-black-bottom_155758/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/ma-raineys-black-bottom_155758/ 5/21/2010 - 6/20/2010. Inspired by a childhood memory of etiquette class, playwright Jeffrey Hatcher conjures up the world of a seven-year-old studying manners from the title character. Mrs. Mannerly is a demanding teacher, and no student in her 36 years of etiquette classes has achieved a perfect score. But when he... 2009-05-27T16:52:55+00:00 2010-05-21 2010-06-20 Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue, Houston, TX, 77002 Alley Theater Season. http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/mrs-mannerly_155665/ http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/mrs-mannerly_155665/ 5/21/2010 - 5/22/2010. On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of... 2009-07-27T14:20:37+00:00 2010-05-21 2010-05-22 Lewis Family Playhouse @ Victoria Gardens Cultural Center, 12505 Cultural Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91739 Black Box Productions Drama. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/proof_157912/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/proof_157912/ 5/21/2010 - 5/25/2010. London 's Longest Running Comedy! All 37 Plays in 97 Minutes! An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard's plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) was London's longest running comedy--ten years at the Criterion Theatre. Praised by the Los Angeles Times as "wildly... 2009-08-21T13:52:13+00:00 2010-05-21 2010-05-25 Wells Theatre, 101 E Tazewell, Norfolk, VA, Reduced Shakespeare Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/virginia/shows/reduced-shakespeare_158815/ http://www.theatermania.com/virginia/shows/reduced-shakespeare_158815/ 5/21/2010 - 6/20/2010. By Caryl Churchill, directed by Cris Cassell The groundbreaking work of modern women. Set at the Top Girls Employment Agency in 1980s London, this groundbreaking play tells the story of an ambitious career woman who has just been appointed head of the firm. But her story of success... 2009-09-17T17:37:51+00:00 2010-05-21 2010-06-20 Ross Valley Players Barn Theatre, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross, CA, 94957 Ross Valley Players Play. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/top-girls_159647/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/top-girls_159647/ 5/20/2010 - 6/13/2010. Black Pearl Sings is the powerful, honest, and wryly funny story of two women from radically different backgrounds and the music that unites them. In the midst of the Great Depression, Susannah Mullally travels the country, recording lost traditional songs for the Library of... 2009-04-23T15:14:45+00:00 2010-05-20 2010-06-13 WaterTower Theatre, 15650 Addison Road, Addison, TX, 75248 Water Tower Theatre Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/black-pearl-sings_154438/ http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/black-pearl-sings_154438/ 5/19/2010 - 9/11/2010. A compelling story of forbidden love, loyalty, guilt and the corrupting power of greed, All My Sons stars David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker and will be directed by Howard Davies. Joe Keller (David Suchet) is alleged to have supplied World War II fighter planes with defective engines, leading to the... 2009-11-02T10:58:46+00:00 2010-05-19 2010-09-11 Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, England, SW1Y 4QL Play. http://www.theatermania.com/london/shows/all-my-sons_161127/ http://www.theatermania.com/london/shows/all-my-sons_161127/ 5/18/2010 - 7/18/2010. This multi-award-winning musical has captured the hearts of people all over the world and finally makes its highly anticipated debut on the Walnut stage in this all-new production. As Tevye tries to hold on to his religion, his family, and his home, he learns that life is "as shaky as a fiddler... 2009-01-06T16:09:06+00:00 2010-05-18 2010-07-18 Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107 Walnut Street Theatre Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/fiddler-on-the-roof_150994/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/fiddler-on-the-roof_150994/ 5/18/2010 - 5/23/2010. Based on the timeless stories of Sholom Aleichem, Fiddler on the Roof has been heralded as one of the great masterpieces in American musical theatre, weaving music, dance, poignancy and laughter into an electrifying and unforgettable experience. See this farewell production featuring... 2009-08-10T16:16:29+00:00 2010-05-18 2010-05-23 Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 950 13th Street, Denver, CO, 80204 Denver Center Attractions Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/fiddler-on-the-roof_158424/ http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/fiddler-on-the-roof_158424/ 5/18/2010 - 6/6/2010. Modern Art meets Modern Thought! It's Paris, 1904. Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein meet one magical, mythical night at the Lapin Agile ("Nimble Bunny") Bar. The air crackles with sexuality, artistry, and metaphysical madcap comedy. Witness the dawning of the 20th century as it could only... 2009-07-28T10:46:38+00:00 2010-05-18 2010-06-06 Two River Theater, 21 Bridge Avenue, Red Bank, NJ, 07701 Two River Theater Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/picasso-at-the-lapin-agile_157973/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/picasso-at-the-lapin-agile_157973/ opens 5/18/2010. From Britain's fastest-rising young playwright comes this shattering and darkly funny new drama about a family at the breaking point. Mia and Henry have long been dealing with their mother's addictions, but after a prank goes wrong at Mia's boarding school, their situation goes from comically bad to... 2009-06-09T15:39:54+00:00 2010-05-18 1900-01-01 New York City Center - Stage I, 131 West 55th Street, New York, NY, 10019 Manhattan Theatre Club Drama.Play. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/that-face_156136/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/that-face_156136/ 5/17/2010 - 5/29/2010. Graceland is a comedic drama about two estranged siblings who are reunited when they try to make sense of their father's recent suicide. 2009-10-28T13:50:25+00:00 2010-05-17 2010-05-29 The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036 LCT3 Comedy.Drama.Play. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/graceland_160999/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/graceland_160999/ 5/17/2010 - 6/13/2010. WTwo eight-year-olds' lives collide in the nurse's office: Doug rode his bike off the roof and Kayleen can't stop throwing up. As they mature from accident-prone kids to self-destructive adults, their broken hearts and broken bones draw them ever closer. These two rebels may only be fit for one... 2009-09-02T14:04:35+00:00 2010-05-17 2010-06-13 Woolly Mammoth Theatre - Main Stage, 641 D Street , NW, Washington, DC, 20004 Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/gruesome-playground-injuries_159175/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/gruesome-playground-injuries_159175/ 5/16/2010 - 6/27/2010. This is a rollicking musical adventure through the pages of Robert Louis Stevenson's most beloved novel Treasure Island. Join Jim Hawkins as he takes the journey of a lifetime. While seeking buried pirate treasure, he comes to find the real treasure - within himself. This is a tale... 2009-08-06T16:34:09+00:00 2010-05-16 2010-06-27 Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street, New York, NY, 10012 Literally Alive Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/treasure-island_158332/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/treasure-island_158332/ 5/15/2010. Athena Lorenzo has been slimed and she doesn't think it's very funny. Someone in Ms. Gleason's class is playing practical jokes. Theodore "Jigsaw" Jones claims to be the very first detective in the whole school. It's up to Jigsaw and his friend Mila to investigate the sliming and track... 2009-10-29T14:52:40+00:00 2010-05-15 2010-05-15 Tribeca Performing Arts Center @ Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York, NY, 10007 An ArtsPower National Touring Theatre Production Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/jigsaw-jones-and-the-case-of-the-class-clown_161063/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/jigsaw-jones-and-the-case-of-the-class-clown_161063/ 5/15/2010. When we heard Red Molly cover Susan Werner's May I Suggest, we thought there could be no better 'suggestion' than these artists together for an evening of lovely songs and harmonies. 2009-09-10T14:25:36+00:00 2010-05-15 2010-05-15 Jeanne Rimsky Theater, Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main Street, Port Washington, NY, 11050 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/susan-werner-and-red-molly_159360/ http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/susan-werner-and-red-molly_159360/ 5/14/2010 - 5/16/2010. There's no better way to introduce your family to the wonders of live theater than with the magic, the mystery, the memory of Cats. What began as a musical about cats after Andrew Lloyd Webber picked up a book of poems in an airport bookshop has become one of the longest running shows... 2009-07-13T14:55:34+00:00 2010-05-14 2010-05-16 Orpheum Theatre, 910 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN, 55403 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/cats_157310/ http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/cats_157310/ 5/14/2010 - 6/12/2010. By George! This is splendid! A quiet afternoon luncheon turns into a hilarious masquerade when college chums attempt to woo a pair of charming young ladies. After persuading a classmate to impersonate their missing aunt (and chaperone), mischief, high jinks and shenanigans ensue. This hilarious... 2009-08-14T15:17:34+00:00 2010-05-14 2010-06-12 Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th Street, Seattle, WA, 98103 Taproot Theatre Company Comedy.Play.Farce. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/charleys-aunt_158585/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/charleys-aunt_158585/ 5/14/2010 - 5/23/2010. In The Butterfly Garden, Italian theater company T.P.O. experiments with computer graphics and digital technologies to create a thrilling new experience in participatory theater. With the children's cheering carpet -- a ground-breaking device that uses touch sensors -- a stage is... 2009-07-01T11:39:01+00:00 2010-05-14 2010-05-23 New 42nd Street Studios, 229 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036 Scottish Theater Festival Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/farfalle-the-butterfly-garden_157028/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/farfalle-the-butterfly-garden_157028/ 5/14/2010 - 5/30/2010. Often called a neglected masterpiece, Fiorello! is a classic Broadway musical that features heartbreaking ballads, rousing chorus numbers and melodic showstoppers to tell the story of one small, honest man's struggle against corruption in big-city politics. 2009-08-18T13:34:02+00:00 2010-05-14 2010-05-30 Heights Players, 26 Willow Place,, Brooklyn, NY, 11201 The Heights Players Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/fiorello_158673/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/fiorello_158673/ 5/14/2010 - 6/27/2010. At a time when everyone's looking for answers, Berkeley Rep and Center Theatre Group present Five Questions, a powerful world premiere from the creators of Broadway's Well. After an idyllic Thanksgiving filled with food, football, family and friends, a woman discovers how one... 2009-05-09T11:07:00+00:00 2010-05-14 2010-06-27 Berkeley Rep's Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, 94704 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/five-questions_155035/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/five-questions_155035/ 5/14/2010 - 6/20/2010. Jack Shore, a well-known television personality, is appearing for one night only in a tribute to his grandfather, Jacob Shemerinsky, great star of the Yiddish Theatre. 2009-04-12T01:11:58+00:00 2010-05-14 2010-06-20 Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre, 2433 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60614 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/jacob-and-jack_154167/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/jacob-and-jack_154167/ 5/14/2010 - 6/27/2010. It's a family affair! Thirty years of marriage, divorce, heavy drinking, mental illness and death - all blended in a theatrical cocktail of irony, dark humor and satirical brilliance, by one of America's most gifted comic playwrights. Thought by many to be Mr. Durang's best play, this dark comedy... 2009-09-30T12:46:02+00:00 2010-05-14 2010-06-27 Village Players Theatre, 1010 W. Madison Street, Oak Park, IL, 60302 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-marriage-of-bette-and-boo_160129/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-marriage-of-bette-and-boo_160129/ 5/14/2010 - 6/13/2010. Prelude to a Kiss is the modern classic by Tony Award winner Craig Lucas and will be directed by Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois. After a whirlwind courtship and a storybook wedding, a young couple's life is abruptly changed by a mysterious elderly man's kiss. This... 2009-05-13T13:38:18+00:00 2010-05-14 2010-06-13 Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington, Boston, MA, 02115 Huntington Theatre Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/prelude-to-a-kiss_155172/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/prelude-to-a-kiss_155172/ 5/14/2010 - 4/23/2010. Dynamic performer and author E. Patrick Johnson seamlessly inhabits the many interviewees who comprise this fascinating oral history of black, gay southern life. The acclaimed book is brought to life in a co-production with the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the... 2009-09-18T11:31:17+00:00 2010-05-14 2010-04-23 About Face Theatre, 3656 N. Halsted, Chicago, IL, 60613 About Face Theatre Solo Performance. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/sweet-tea-black-gay-men-of-the-south_159682/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/sweet-tea-black-gay-men-of-the-south_159682/ 5/13/2010 - 6/20/2010. "Dear readers..." the season closes with the New England Premiere of The Lady With All The Answers by David Rambo, drawn from the life and letters of Ann Landers, with the cooperation of Margo Howard. The Nora Theatre Company stages Rambo's riotous and touching play about... 2009-06-04T11:14:03+00:00 2010-05-13 2010-06-20 Central Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139 The Nora Theatre Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/the-lady-with-all-the-answers_155993/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/the-lady-with-all-the-answers_155993/ 5/13/2010 - 6/19/2010. Empty-nests and proctology exams, morning aches and gray hair... In your ears. Middle age has never been so much fun. This musical comedy goes where most people dare not venture - and takes you on an incredibly touching, joyous and hysterical ride through it all. There's something for everyone -... 2009-06-15T09:48:21+00:00 2010-05-13 2010-06-19 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell Street, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/midlife-the-crisis-musical_156368/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/midlife-the-crisis-musical_156368/ 5/12/2010 - 6/6/2010. It's the best possible time to be alive, when everything you thought you knew is wrong." In Tom Stoppard's time-traveling masterpiece, Arcadia, the time is 1809, as the Coverly gardens are being transformed to the Gothic picturesque and the young genius Thomasina is forming a... 2009-06-23T17:24:39+00:00 2010-05-12 2010-06-06 Main Street Theatre at Times Boulevard, 2540 Times Blvd., Houston, TX, 77005 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/arcadia_156739/ http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/arcadia_156739/ 5/12/2010. James Bagwell will conduct George F. Handel's Israel in Egypt, featuring Brian Asawa, alto; Sari Gruber, soprano; and Rufus Müller, tenor. Darkness over the earth, water turning to blood, plagues of jumping frogs, buzzing insects, and hailstones, an oncoming mighty storm, and the... 2009-09-23T18:39:30+00:00 2010-05-12 2010-05-12 Skirball Center for the Performing Arts @ NYU, 566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, 10012 Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Performance Art. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/israel-in-egypt_159864/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/israel-in-egypt_159864/ 5/12/2010 - 5/16/2010. The critics say it best: "An atmospheric memory play, Side Man spans three decades in the life of a Manhattan musician. Playwright Warren Leight, whose father was a sideman, incisively captures the pulse and climate of the New York jazz scene, with crisp dialogue and clearly drawn... 2009-09-05T11:59:15+00:00 2010-05-12 2010-05-16 Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90049 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/side-man_159258/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/side-man_159258/ 5/11/2010 - 5/23/2010. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying started out in 1952 as a best selling satirical novel by Shepherd Mead, and in 1961, with book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert and music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, became a smash Broadway musical, winning not only... 2009-04-28T10:11:26+00:00 2010-05-11 2010-05-23 Freud Playhouse, Macgowen HallHilgard Avenue, Los Angles, CA, 90024 Reprise Theatre Company Season. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/how-to-succeed-in-business-without-really-trying_154641/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/how-to-succeed-in-business-without-really-trying_154641/ 5/11/2010 - 5/23/2010. Nominated for 2008 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, the one that you want is back!  Grease, Time Magazine's 2007 pick for "#1 Musical of the year," is rockin' across the country in this new production direct from Broadway starring American Idol winner Taylor Hicks as... 2009-04-29T14:16:45+00:00 2010-05-11 2010-05-23 Palace Theatre at PlayhouseSquare, 1615 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44115 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/keybank-broadway-series-presents-grease_154712/ http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/keybank-broadway-series-presents-grease_154712/ 5/11/2010 - 5/23/2010. Moonlight and Magnolias is set in 1939, where producer David O. Sezlnick is given just five days to turn the disastrous script of Gone with the Wind into a blockbuster or his career will be ruined. In desperation, Selznick locks himself in his office with director Victor Fleming and... 2009-02-15T14:49:38+00:00 2010-05-11 2010-05-23 Victoria Theatre, 138 Main Street, Dayton, OH, 45402 Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/moonlight-and-magnolias_152672/ http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/moonlight-and-magnolias_152672/ 5/10/2010 - 5/15/2010. The SKALD 11 Storytelling Festival is a week-long event celebrating the art of storytelling and includes workshops and competitions for children (KIDSKALD), adults (MAELSTROM), and professionals (SKALD 11). The schedule is as follows: MAELSTROM Friday, May 14, at 7:30... 2009-10-30T14:15:35+00:00 2010-05-10 2010-05-15 Chicago Cultural Center's Studio Theatre, 77 East Randolph, Chicago, IL, 60602 WNEP Theater Festival. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/skald-11-storytelling-festival_161100/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/skald-11-storytelling-festival_161100/ 5/9/2010 - 5/24/2010. A giddy romp, Oscar Hammerstein II's script takes the old "barn musical" plot and turns it on its head. This time, the show in the barn is an avant-garde musical being rehearsed by a bohemian bunch led by an eccentric director. Equally strange is Winnie Spofford, the amiably screwball... 2009-04-15T15:32:42+00:00 2010-05-09 2010-05-24 Eureka Theatre, 215 Jackson, San Francisco, CA, 94111 42nd STREET MOON Season. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/very-warm-for-may_154244/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/very-warm-for-may_154244/ 5/8/2010 - 5/30/2010. Everyone has a story about the day Rhonda, a desperate housewife, went berserk at the mall in a raging crime of passion. One actress transforms onstage into all the characters as each new voice reveals more twists to this comic tour-de-force of love, mistaken identity, and revenge. A runaway hit in... 2009-05-09T12:28:06+00:00 2010-05-08 2010-05-30 City Theatre, 1300 Bingham, Pittsburgh, PA, 15203 Solo Performance.Play. http://www.theatermania.com/pittsburgh/shows/the-blonde-the-brunette-and-the-vengeful-redhead_155041/ http://www.theatermania.com/pittsburgh/shows/the-blonde-the-brunette-and-the-vengeful-redhead_155041/ 5/8/2010. As featured on PBS Sprout, the Dream Jam Band delivers a vibrant and diverse musical performance of original songs for the whole family. Their influences range from The Beatles to Mozart and from Duke Ellington to Woody Guthrie. The Dream Jam Band won four 2008 Children's Music Web awards... 2009-06-24T17:10:31+00:00 2010-05-08 2010-05-08 Playhouse Square Center, 1501 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Playhouse Square Season. http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/dream-jam-band_156831/ http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/dream-jam-band_156831/ 5/8/2010. Kevin Spirtas, star of television's Days of Our Lives and Broadway's A Chorus Line and Hairspray, brings a great collection of Broadway and pop standards in an evening of song and dance. 2009-09-10T13:58:15+00:00 2010-05-08 2010-05-08 Jeanne Rimsky Theater, Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main Street, Port Washington, NY, 11050 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/kevin-spirtas-night-and-day_159358/ http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/kevin-spirtas-night-and-day_159358/ 5/8/2010 - 6/19/2010. With an elegant, haunting interpretation of Strindberg's classic chamber play The Ghost Sonata opening May 15. This mesmerizing and complex narrative portrays a world where two families are imprisoned in their legacy of greed, duplicity and manipulation. Truax's vision highlights the play's... 2009-09-02T14:33:32+00:00 2010-05-08 2010-06-19 Oracle Theatre, 3809 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL, 60613 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/termen-vox-machina_159179/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/termen-vox-machina_159179/ 5/8/2010 - 5/22/2010. Whether revisiting it or discovering it for the first time, young people and adults alike will be enthralled by Stevenson's gripping pirate story in this fast-paced production! Set out to sea with young Jim Hawkins on an adventure of a lifetime to the mysterious Treasure Island - where pirate... 2009-07-27T14:16:42+00:00 2010-05-08 2010-05-22 Lewis Family Playhouse @ Victoria Gardens Cultural Center, 12505 Cultural Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91739 MainStreet Theatre Company Children/Family.Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/treasure-island_157910/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/treasure-island_157910/ 5/8/2010 - 6/13/2010. The Old Globe is excited to present an emerging young voice, Matthew Lopez, with his acclaimed new play, The Whipping Man, set in the days following The Civil War in Virginia when American slaves were set free throughout the South. A Jewish soldier returns to his childhood home, only... 2009-05-10T11:17:44+00:00 2010-05-08 2010-06-13 Old Globe Theatre, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, 92101 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/the-whipping-man_155057/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/the-whipping-man_155057/ 5/7/2010 - 6/5/2010. Psychic mediums, séances gone awry, and celestial visitors are a recipe for amusement in Noel Coward's classic comedy. When Charles and Ruth Condomine invite their friends over for a séance with the eccentric Madame Arcati, they unearth more than they bargained for when Charles' late... 2009-09-23T12:21:51+00:00 2010-05-07 2010-06-05 Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA, 02116 Lyric Stage Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/blithe-spirit_159829/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/blithe-spirit_159829/ 5/7/2010 - 5/22/2010. Bunny Watson is the head librarian of the reference department at the Federal Broadcasting Company, and her team of librarians. Besides being equipped with an encyclopedic knowledge and whip-smart wit, these hilarious working girls know how to have a good time while getting the job done in 1950s... 2009-09-14T15:37:40+00:00 2010-05-07 2010-05-22 Spoon Theater, 38 West 38th St., 5th Floor, New York, NY, 10018 Retro Productions Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-desk-set_159498/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-desk-set_159498/ 5/7/2010 - 5/23/2010. ... 2009-05-03T23:24:08+00:00 2010-05-07 2010-05-23 Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue S, Minneaplis, MN, 55415 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/my-fair-lady_154869/ http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/my-fair-lady_154869/ 5/7/2010 - 5/8/2010. This 70+ year-old, world renowned company displays skillful dancing that takes years to perfect. Their artistic, authentic, and action-packed performances include live Russian music, sword play, and a sea of bright, beautiful costumes. 2009-06-24T15:33:26+00:00 2010-05-07 2010-05-08 State Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 Dance. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/nalmes-folk-dance-spectacular_156824/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/nalmes-folk-dance-spectacular_156824/ 5/7/2010 - 5/23/2010. Mozart, Chopin, Pachebel, and even U2 take on a new tenor when Armenian virtuoso Ara Malikian and a wacky trio of gifted artists make musical mockery in PaGAGnini. With twists on symphonic treasures and modern tunes, this wordless concert is a splendid marriage of music and comedy... 2009-07-01T10:51:57+00:00 2010-05-07 2010-05-23 New Victory Theater, 209 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036 Scottish Theater Festival Season. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/pagagnini_157025/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/pagagnini_157025/ 5/7/2010. Founded in 1996 by Kenneth & Nerissa Jackson, Street Beat Inc. (SBI) is critically-acclaimed for its efforts to train youth to become self-reliant, by focusing on personal development through discipline and the arts. Based in South Bay, FL, the group has been featured on the Trinity... 2009-08-04T09:51:34+00:00 2010-05-07 2010-05-07 Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center, 1977 College Drive, Belle Glade, FL, 33430 Dance. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/street-beat-inc_158240/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/street-beat-inc_158240/ 5/7/2010 - 6/6/2010. The Trip to Bountiful takes place in 1947 Houston, as the elderly Carrie Watts dreams endlessly of visiting her childhood home one last time before it is too late. But first, before she embarks on a sentimental journey home, she must find a way to escape the suffocating confinement of... 2009-08-20T12:02:08+00:00 2010-05-07 2010-06-06 Allen Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle, WA, 98119 ACT Play. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-trip-to-bountiful_158769/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-trip-to-bountiful_158769/ 5/7/2010 - 5/22/2010. Josh is an attractive and charming fledgling novelist who's just signed a deal to publish his first novel. George, his childhood friend, and Liz, his literary agent and old college friend "with benefits" both love Josh. Love him. George and Liz are tested when Candi, Josh's sexy and... 2009-08-19T16:45:30+00:00 2010-05-07 2010-05-22 The Kranzberg Arts Center, 501 N Grand Blvd, St Louis, MO, 63103 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/st-louis/shows/world-premiere-currently-titled-andquotthe-sinkerandquot_158730/ http://www.theatermania.com/st-louis/shows/world-premiere-currently-titled-andquotthe-sinkerandquot_158730/ 5/6/2010 - 5/30/2010. Trapped in limbo, three gay men stage a musical production of Chekhov's The Three Sisters. A compelling fusion of music, emotion, melancholy and lust. 2009-05-10T11:15:02+00:00 2010-05-06 2010-05-30 Diversionary Theatre, 4545 Park Boulevard, San Diego, CA, 92116 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/moscow_155056/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/moscow_155056/ 5/6/2010 - 6/12/2010. In The Parents' Evening, Mother and Father confront conflicted views about parenting and the boundaries of love. Ms. Doran plays include, among others, Fifteen Minutes, Odes and Gameshows, The War Play and Feminine Wash. She has been produced at the... 2009-08-10T13:49:54+00:00 2010-05-06 2010-06-12 The Flea Theater, 41 White Street, New York, NY, 10013 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-parents-evening_158407/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-parents-evening_158407/ 5/5/2010 - 6/5/2010. Inside the secretive world of the ritual bath, eight women's stories unfold in this sensitive depiction of religious observance and evolving feminist consciousness. When Shira, a new bath attendant, arrives, she opens a Pandora's box of issues, revealing long kept secrets. A knowledgeable and... 2009-06-18T15:19:44+00:00 2010-05-05 2010-06-05 Theater J, District of Columbia Jewish Community Center1529 16th St. NW, Washington, DC, 20036 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/mikveh_156544/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/mikveh_156544/ 5/4/2010 - 5/16/2010. Direct from Broadway, August: Osage County stars Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons as Violet Weston, a pill-popping, deeply unsettled woman caught in the grip of addiction. When Violet's alcoholic husband mysteriously disappears, her extended clan reunites at their rural Oklahoma... 2009-06-24T11:37:44+00:00 2010-05-04 2010-05-16 Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 02116 Broadway Across America Play. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/august-osage-county_156765/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/august-osage-county_156765/ 5/4/2010 - 5/9/2010. Burn the Floor is a dazzling display of ballroom dance that forever blurs the line between the frenetic energy of an electrifying rock and roll arena show and the seductive glisten of Broadway-style theater. Featuring a high-voltage, superbly executed blend of Rumba, Cha-Cha, Samba,... 2009-04-25T01:24:06+00:00 2010-05-04 2010-05-09 Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Boulevard, West Palm Beach, FL, 33401 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/burn-the-floor_154541/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/burn-the-floor_154541/ 5/4/2010 - 5/23/2010. by John Patrick Shanley Tony and Pulitzer winner about a priest suspected of misconduct. In this brilliant and powerful drama, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male... 2009-10-08T09:38:24+00:00 2010-05-04 2010-05-23 Venice Theatre, 140 West Tampa Avenue, Venice, Florida, 34285 Venice Theatre Drama. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/doubt_160391/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/doubt_160391/ 5/4/2010 - 7/10/2010. One of the theatre's foremost directors takes on one of the country's greatest plays. After staging last season's nationally acclaimed production of Picnic and being hailed a "genius" by The Wall Street Journal, David Cromer returns to Writers' Theatre from his Broadway debut to... 2009-07-02T12:03:01+00:00 2010-05-04 2010-07-10 Writers' Theatre at Tudor Court, 325 Tudor Court, Glencoe, IL, 60022 Writers' Theatre Drama. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/a-streetcar-named-desire_157083/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/a-streetcar-named-desire_157083/ 5/3/2010 - 5/30/2010. The Rhode Island premiere of an extraordinary theatrical event from four-time Tony Award winner Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties, The Real Thing, The Coast of Utopia). It's August 1968, and Russian tanks are rolling into Prague. Jan, a... 2009-07-16T15:12:37+00:00 2010-05-03 2010-05-30 Gamm Theatre, 172 Exchange Street, Pawtucket, RI, 02860 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/rhode-island/shows/rock-n-roll_157555/ http://www.theatermania.com/rhode-island/shows/rock-n-roll_157555/ 5/2/2010 - 5/22/2010. In the mythical village Titi-Pu, where flirting is illegal, a young rocker on the run from his over-eager fiancée is searching for the woman who stole his heart. Unfortunately, she has already been promised to her much older guardian. A series of seemingly fool-proof plans are hatched, only... 2009-06-05T11:34:20+00:00 2010-05-02 2010-05-22 Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA, 02472 New Repertory Theatre Play. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/hot-mikado_156017/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/hot-mikado_156017/ 5/2/2010 - 6/6/2010. An American and his young Greek bride escape to an island and plant a small vineyard. Their harvest ripens, and a fractious American woman arrives uninvited to stir up passions at their first tasting. 2009-09-10T15:43:00+00:00 2010-05-02 2010-06-06 Julia Miles Theater, 424 West 55th Street, New York, NY, 10019 Women's Project Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/lascivious-something_159384/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/lascivious-something_159384/ 5/2/2010. Michael Amante is one of the most talked about American tenors on either side of the pop/classical divide. Amante has been hailed as "The next Mario Lanza" by Tony Bennett. Amante's musical tribute captures the heart and soul of pure romance and backed by a 9-piece ensemble, his performance... 2009-06-23T14:53:11+00:00 2010-05-02 2010-05-02 Queensborough Performing Arts Center (Q-PAC), 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY, 11364 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/michael-amante-from-italy-with-love_156721/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/michael-amante-from-italy-with-love_156721/ 5/2/2010. Children who were educated at the Main Street School one hundred years ago would have enjoyed a show just like this one - complete with Tin Pan Alley show tunes and a trouble-making Villain! 2009-09-10T13:26:32+00:00 2010-05-02 2010-05-02 Jeanne Rimsky Theater, Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main Street, Port Washington, NY, 11050 Puppet Theater. http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/the-villians-mustache_159355/ http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/the-villians-mustache_159355/ 5/1/2010 - 5/23/2010. City of Angels is two shows in one. It is the interweaving of two plots, one dealing with the writing of a screenplay in the legendary Hollywood of the '40's; the other, the enactment of that screenplay. The movie scenes appear in shades of black and white, and the real life scenes are... 2009-07-21T12:54:08+00:00 2010-05-01 2010-05-23 Gallery Players, 199 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11215 Gallery Players Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/city-of-angels_157716/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/city-of-angels_157716/ 5/1/2010. Lesley Gore - "It's My Party" Joey Dee and The Starliters - "Peppermint Twist," "Shout Part 1," " What Kind Of Love Is This" Lenny Welch -"Since I Fell For You," "Ebb Tide," "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" The Dubs - "Could This Be Magic," "Don't Ask Me To Be Lonely," "Be Sure My Love"... 2009-06-24T15:30:04+00:00 2010-05-01 2010-05-01 State Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/richard-naders-solid-gold-rock-and-roll-show_156823/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/richard-naders-solid-gold-rock-and-roll-show_156823/ 5/1/2010 - 5/2/2010. Ahoy mateys! Jump aboard the Hispaniola with young Jim Hawkins and sail away to Treasure Island. In its 2nd annual spring production, SOPA puts its students to the test, as they learn about swordplay and on-stage action for this classic coming of age tale. Join Captain Flint, Long John Silver,... 2009-06-15T09:46:28+00:00 2010-05-01 2010-05-02 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell Street, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005 Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/treasure-island-metropolis_156366/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/treasure-island-metropolis_156366/ 5/1/2010 - 6/6/2010. Tony and Olivier Award-winner Roger Rees brings his tour-de-force performance about all things Shakespeare for this limited Old Globe engagement. This historical and sometimes hysterical account of Rees' stage experiences - from the Bard's great soliloquies performed by the man who has played Hamlet... 2009-05-10T11:02:49+00:00 2010-05-01 2010-06-06 Old Globe Theatre, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, 92101 Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/what-you-will_155051/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/what-you-will_155051/ 4/30/2010. A Grammy-nominated, Emmy-winning guitarist-composer, one of the most versatile and compelling guitarists performing today. "Frederic Hand is a tremendously skilled and expressive guitarist. But what makes him unique is that he is also one of today's most fascinating composers, able to weave... 2009-08-24T10:09:35+00:00 2010-04-30 2010-04-30 Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, 10010 NYC Classical Guitar Society Live Music. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/frederic-hand_158862/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/frederic-hand_158862/ 4/30/2010 - 5/30/2010. Abandoned as an infant on a pile of vegetables, a Chinese girl is adopted by an American and grows up in America with only half a jade heart as a clue to her identity. Is she Chinese, American, or Chinese-American? Through dreams and remembrances, she seeks to find out why she was denied the life... 2009-06-18T16:28:10+00:00 2010-04-30 2010-05-30 Chicago Dramatists, 1105 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60622 CHICAGO DRAMATISTS Season. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/jade-heart_156547/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/jade-heart_156547/ 4/30/2010 - 6/20/2010. When Richard Mayhew stops to care for an injured girl on the street, he is drawn into a nightmare shadow world beneath the city of London. To return to his normal life, Richard must brave countless trials, uncover the truth behind a dark conspiracy, and face the indomitable Great Beast. Journey to... 2009-04-04T17:07:37+00:00 2010-04-30 2010-06-20 Lifeline Theatre, 6912 North Glenwood, Chicago, IL, 60626 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/neverwhere_153932/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/neverwhere_153932/ 4/30/2010 - 5/16/2010. 1930's Chicago. Depression grips the Windy City. Business is bad and the members of The Cauliflower Trust bemoan their losses because no one has any money to pay rent, let alone buy vegetables. Enter Arturo Ui... 2009-09-29T14:37:44+00:00 2010-04-30 2010-05-16 Professional Theatre Training Program and the Resident Ensemble Players, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716 Resident Ensemble Players Play. http://www.theatermania.com/delaware/shows/the-resistible-rise-of-arturo-ui-by-bertolt-brecht_160073/ http://www.theatermania.com/delaware/shows/the-resistible-rise-of-arturo-ui-by-bertolt-brecht_160073/ 4/30/2010 - 5/23/2010. Direct from Broadway! A richly melodic musical about two childhood friends, how time tested their bonds, and how their relationship surprised and defined them. Nominated for four Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics. A moving tribute to the power of friendship and... 2009-06-02T13:28:16+00:00 2010-04-30 2010-05-23 Act II Playhouse, 56 East Butler Avenue, Ambler, PA, 19002 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/the-story-of-my-life_155909/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/the-story-of-my-life_155909/ 4/30/2010 - 5/23/2010. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare is one of the Bard's most beloved Comedies! This riotous romp of love and mistaken identity is set in Elizabethan times with sumptuous costumes by Deborah Houston and Set and Lighting by Resident Lighting and Set Designer Giles Hogya. The show will... 2009-08-31T12:04:13+00:00 2010-04-30 2010-05-23 Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028 Theater Ten Ten Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/twelfth-night_159055/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/twelfth-night_159055/ 4/29/2010 - 5/2/2010. In Carnival, a young girl (Lili) leaves her French village to join a small, traveling circus which has fallen on hard times. She meets a puppeteer trying to overcome a tragic past, as well as a suave but womanizing magician and his long-suffering girlfriend and assistant. Music... 2009-11-04T12:18:31+00:00 2010-04-29 2010-05-02 Concordia University Saint Paul - E.M. Pearson Theatre, 312 Hamline Avenue, St. Paul, MN, 55104 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/carnival_161225/ http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/carnival_161225/ 4/29/2010 - 6/20/2010. To Life! Set in Tsarist Russia in 1905, this nostalgic favorite and enormously beloved story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters and his attempts, in a life of uncertainty and imbalance, to maintain his family and religious traditions while outside influences encroach upon their lives. 2009-02-02T09:42:59+00:00 2010-04-29 2010-06-20 John W. Engeman Theater at Northport, 250 Main Street, Northport, NY, 11768 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/fiddler-on-the-roof-northport_152131/ http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/fiddler-on-the-roof-northport_152131/ 4/29/2010 - 5/9/2010. The hilarious and heartbreaking story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, once bright names on the social register who became East Hampton's most notorious recluses. 2009-06-19T17:58:02+00:00 2010-04-29 2010-05-09 Virginia Samford Theatre, 1116 26th Street South, Birmingham, AL, 35205 Dane Peterson's Theatre Series Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/alabama/shows/grey-gardens-the-musical_156585/ http://www.theatermania.com/alabama/shows/grey-gardens-the-musical_156585/ 4/29/2010 - 5/23/2010. Librarian Norman channels Casanova in his fervent attempts to seduce his two sisters-in-law as well as his estranged wife during a weekend family gathering. In this brilliantly calibrated comedy, famed British playwright Alan Ayckbourn applies his rollicking wit and charmed affection to a cast of... 2009-07-28T13:50:03+00:00 2010-04-29 2010-05-23 American Conservatory Theater, 415 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102 American Conservatory Theater Comedy.Play. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/round-and-round-the-garden_157994/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/round-and-round-the-garden_157994/ 4/29/2010 - 5/16/2010. Jake Semple is always in trouble. After getting kicked out of yet another school, his last hope is a home school run by the bizarre Applewhite family. Based on the New York Times bestselling book, Surviving the Applewhites is an unforgettable tale of love and transformation. 2009-07-10T15:05:55+00:00 2010-04-29 2010-05-16 Howard Conn Fine Arts Center, 1900 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 55403 Youth Performance Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/surviving-the-applewhites_157265/ http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/surviving-the-applewhites_157265/ 4/29/2010 - 5/2/2010. Tracie Thoms, a Baltimore native and School for the Arts graduate, appeared in Centerstage's 2007-08 First Look reading of Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark and the 2001-02 production of A Raisin in the Sun. Tracie is known for her recurring role on Cold Case,... 2009-06-16T12:33:00+00:00 2010-04-29 2010-05-02 CENTERSTAGE, 700 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD, 21202 Cabaret. http://www.theatermania.com/maryland/shows/tracie-thoms-and-friends_156444/ http://www.theatermania.com/maryland/shows/tracie-thoms-and-friends_156444/ 4/29/2010 - 5/23/2010. Henry and Abe can't stand each other, but like magnets the elderly duo is drawn to the same park bench every day. Having once jockeyed for the love of the same woman, their cantankerous rivalry has grown through the years. Now, in the twilight of their lives, they find themselves more intertwined... 2009-05-14T14:50:44+00:00 2010-04-29 2010-05-23 Penumbra Theatre, 270 N. Kent Street, St. Paul, MN, 55102 Penumbra Theatre Play. http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/two-old-black-guys-just-sitting-around-talking_155241/ http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/two-old-black-guys-just-sitting-around-talking_155241/ 4/28/2010 - 5/23/2010. Tony-nominated, this scorching compilation of full-out blues songs interweaves stories of life and love through the unrivaled tunes and lyrics of Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen and more. 2009-05-14T13:13:08+00:00 2010-04-28 2010-05-23 Theatrical Outfit, 84 Luckie Street, Atlanta, GA, 30303 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/georgia/shows/blues-in-the-night_155230/ http://www.theatermania.com/georgia/shows/blues-in-the-night_155230/ opens 4/28/2010. Tony Award winner Linda Lavin and director Lynne Meadow, who collaborated on MTC's The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, reunite for a new production of Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies' celebrated drama. Collected Stories chronicles the relationship between two female... 2009-04-30T12:34:21+00:00 2010-04-28 1900-01-01 Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 West 47th St., New York, NY, 10036 Manhattan Theatre Club Play. http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/collected-stories_154781/ http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/collected-stories_154781/ 4/28/2010 - 5/16/2010. Philadelphia artists-and DTC favorites-Anthony Lawton (A Murder, A Mystery & A Marriage, Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie) Matt Pfeiffer and Aaron Cromie (both in Picasso at the Lapin Agile) return to complete the 31st season with Lawton's playful and creative comedy,... 2009-06-20T11:40:36+00:00 2010-04-28 2010-05-16 Delaware Theatre Company, 200 Water Street, Wilmington, DE, 19801 Children/Family.Puppet Theater. http://www.theatermania.com/delaware/shows/the-foocy_156596/ http://www.theatermania.com/delaware/shows/the-foocy_156596/ 4/28/2010 - 5/9/2010. Winner of four 2008 Tony Awards and the 2008 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album, In the Heights dances into The Buell Theater. In the Heights tells the universal story of a vibrant community in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood--a place where the coffee from... 2009-07-28T08:21:28+00:00 2010-04-28 2010-05-09 Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1245 Champa Street, Denver, CO, 80204 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/in-the-heights_157949/ http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/in-the-heights_157949/ 4/28/2010 - 5/9/2010. Laura Ingalls Wilder's inspirational stories take on a brand new frontier in an uplifting new musical! Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura for 10 years in the much loved television series, continues her legacy by starring as Ma. Families will continue to fall in love with these life affirming stories... 2009-07-31T02:20:17+00:00 2010-04-28 2010-05-09 Theatre Under the Stars at Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby, Houston, TX, 77002 Season. http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/little-house-on-the-prairie_158137/ http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/little-house-on-the-prairie_158137/ 4/28/2010 - 5/9/2010. If the golden age masters of stand-up comedy had a one-night stand with the irreverent liberal pundits of today, their love child might have been monologist Mike Daisey. Victory Gardens Fresh Squeezed is delighted to host Daisey in his raucous return to the city for two consecutive Chicago... 2009-10-01T14:32:07+00:00 2010-04-28 2010-05-09 Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre, 2433 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60614 Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/mike-daiseys-how-theater-failed-america-and-the-last-cargo-cult_160197/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/mike-daiseys-how-theater-failed-america-and-the-last-cargo-cult_160197/ 4/28/2010 - 5/10/2010. Here, a father finds himself being phased-out of his son's life while we watch the extraordinary lengths used to hold on to him. Together on a bare stage, trapped in a 'cage', actors and spectators will face the challenge of Bartlett's sharp, fast-paced dialogue. 2009-04-12T01:24:27+00:00 2010-04-28 2010-05-10 Mainline Theatre, 3997 Boulevard St-Laurent, Delorimier, QC, H2W Play. http://www.theatermania.com/canada/shows/my-child_154170/ http://www.theatermania.com/canada/shows/my-child_154170/ 4/28/2010 - 5/10/2010. Riverside Drive by Woody Allen offers up Allen's continuing preoccupation with people who rationalize their actions, hide what they're doing and inevitably slip into sexual deception. 2009-04-12T01:19:38+00:00 2010-04-28 2010-05-10 Mainline Theatre, 3997 Boulevard St-Laurent, Delorimier, QC, H2W Play. http://www.theatermania.com/canada/shows/riverside-drive_154169/ http://www.theatermania.com/canada/shows/riverside-drive_154169/ 4/27/2010 - 5/2/2010. August: Osage County tells the story of the Westons, a large extended clan that comes together at their rural Oklahoma homestead when the alcoholic patriarch disappears. Forced to confront unspoken truths and astonishing secrets, the family must also contend with matriarch Violet, a... 2009-04-04T18:08:15+00:00 2010-04-27 2010-05-02 Kimmel Center, 260 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/august-osage-county_153938/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/august-osage-county_153938/ opens 4/27/2010. It's 1987 and the final countdown is on for a legendary Hollywood rock club facing its demise at the hands of eager developers. When a young rocker hungry for his big break and a small town girl chasing her dreams land on the scene at this infamous venue, how far will ambition drive them? And will... 2009-10-22T11:45:50+00:00 2010-04-27 1900-01-01 Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5V1H9 Musical Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/canada/shows/rock-of-ages_160826/ http://www.theatermania.com/canada/shows/rock-of-ages_160826/ 4/26/2010 - 5/10/2010. Classic Stage Company continues its new Books On Stage Series, which launched last season with their sold out readings in The Proust Project. This season they will tackle Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina. 2009-09-14T14:07:33+00:00 2010-04-26 2010-05-10 Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th Street, New York, NY, 10003 Reading. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/books-on-stage-war-and-peace-and-anna-karenina_159490/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/books-on-stage-war-and-peace-and-anna-karenina_159490/ 4/26/2010 - 4/27/2010. ... 2009-07-06T14:42:23+00:00 2010-04-26 2010-04-27 Rep Stage at Howard Community College, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, MD, 21044 Rep Stage Reading. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/dark-rapture_157147/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/dark-rapture_157147/ 4/26/2010 - 5/23/2010. A year after the death of her son, Claire checks into a recovery center in the desert, searching for a way to cope. When her mother, daughter and sister arrive to participate in "family week," long-dormant traumas collide with recent tragedies in surprisingly comical, shocking and deeply moving... 2009-06-16T12:42:50+00:00 2010-04-26 2010-05-23 Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street, New York, NY, 10014 MCC Theater Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/family-week_156448/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/family-week_156448/ 4/25/2010 - 5/9/2010. An international hit wherever it's played, Bat Boy is a quirky, musical tragi-comedy following the adventures of the half-bat, half-human Edgar. After being discovered in a cave and adopted by a well meaning family, townsfolk begin to blame troubles on the pointy-eared newcomer.... 2009-08-01T13:08:20+00:00 2010-04-25 2010-05-09 University of Washington -- Meany Studio Theatre, 4001 University Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98105 Musical.Musical Play. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/bat-boy-the-musical_158175/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/bat-boy-the-musical_158175/ 4/25/2010 - 5/2/2010. Plaza Theatrical Productions, Long Island's largest touring theatre company, in association with The Show Place, is proud to present Chapter Two! Neil Simon's comedy focuses on a recent widower, George Schneider, who is encouraged by his younger brother Leo to start dating again,... 2009-10-21T16:32:34+00:00 2010-04-25 2010-05-02 The Showplace at the Bellmore Movies, 222 Pettit Avenue, Bellmore, NY, 11710 Plaza Theatrical Productions Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/chapter-two_160802/ http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/chapter-two_160802/ 4/25/2010. Thrilling audiences in all 50 states, 65 countries and 5 continents, the Golden Dragon Acrobats are now bringing their show full of contortion, amazing juggling and award winning acrobatics to our very own Lewis Family Playhouse. Watch as these masters of their craft perform the longest... 2009-07-27T14:13:16+00:00 2010-04-25 2010-04-25 Lewis Family Playhouse @ Victoria Gardens Cultural Center, 12505 Cultural Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91739 Performance Art. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/golden-dragon-acrobats_157907/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/golden-dragon-acrobats_157907/ 4/25/2010. Winner of nine MAC Awards, Karen Mason "has few peers when it comes to ripping the roof off with her amazing voice that knows no bounds!" (TheatreScene.net) And after sharing the stage with amazing performers from Liza Minnelli to Rosemary Clooney to Luciano Pavarotti, Mason comes to the... 2009-06-15T09:45:04+00:00 2010-04-25 2010-04-25 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell Street, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005 Cabaret. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/karen-mason_156365/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/karen-mason_156365/ opens 4/25/2010. Based on the 1960 Academy Award-winning Billy Wilder film The Apartment that starred Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, Promises, Promises tells the story of the Consolidated Life Insurance Company and Chuck Baxter, one of its charming young employees. In an effort to advance at... 2009-10-26T11:49:50+00:00 2010-04-25 1900-01-01 Broadway Theatre, 1681 Broadway, New York, NY, 10036 Musical.Musical Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/promises-promises_160876/ http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/promises-promises_160876/ 4/25/2010. 9-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune teams up with The Manhattan Rhythm Kings for a Broadway biography in song and dance. Tune is 50 years into a triumphant career and Steps in Time is a casual retrospective of his stagestruck life and work. Often referred to as a latter-day Fred... 2009-06-23T14:39:40+00:00 2010-04-25 2010-04-25 Queensborough Performing Arts Center (Q-PAC), 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY, 11364 Dance Theater. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/tommy-tune-steps-in-time_156720/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/tommy-tune-steps-in-time_156720/ 4/25/2010 - 5/29/2010. Chekhov's classic about a country doctor's forbidden love for his brother's beautiful wife gets a smoldering translation from former Steppenwolf Associate Artistic Director and current Artistic Director of Trinity Rep Curt Columbus. 2009-06-08T10:31:40+00:00 2010-04-25 2010-05-29 Strawdog Theatre, 3829 North Broadway, Chicago, IL, 60613 Strawdog Theatre Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/uncle-vanya_156049/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/uncle-vanya_156049/ 4/24/2010 - 5/15/2010. You know the story, you adore the music. The seductive and tempestuous gypsy, Carmen, captures the heart of a young soldier, Don José. He sacrifices everything to be with her. Now a fugitive on the run, his life is in ruins. Unfortunately, she is drawn to the dashing matador, Escamillo, and... 2009-09-02T12:02:21+00:00 2010-04-24 2010-05-15 Various Locations, , , FL, 33146 Florida Grand Opera Opera. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/carmen_159160/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/carmen_159160/ 4/24/2010. All day long Farmer Brown hears "click clack moo, clickety clackety moo..." The cows are typing and protesting their working conditions! A hilariously "moo-ving" new musical about compromise, based on the award-winning book by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin. 2009-10-02T16:16:35+00:00 2010-04-24 2010-04-24 Duncan Theatre, 4200 Congress Avenue, Lake Worth, FL, 33461 Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/click-clack-moo_160252/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/click-clack-moo_160252/ 4/24/2010. American folk-singer and songwriter Judy Collins has been serenading audiences with the stunning purity of her soprano since the release of her first album, A Maid of Constant Sorrow, in 1961. Classically trained in piano as a child and inspired by the political activist of the 60's as a... 2009-07-27T14:09:22+00:00 2010-04-24 2010-04-24 Lewis Family Playhouse @ Victoria Gardens Cultural Center, 12505 Cultural Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91739 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/judy-collins_157906/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/judy-collins_157906/ 4/24/2010. Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell have both performed to sold-out audiences at Landmark. To help celebrate the 100th anniversary of Landmark's home, they return to share an evening of fabulous folk. 2009-09-10T13:01:59+00:00 2010-04-24 2010-04-24 Jeanne Rimsky Theater, Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main Street, Port Washington, NY, 11050 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/lucy-kaplansky-and-richard-shindell_159353/ http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/lucy-kaplansky-and-richard-shindell_159353/ 4/24/2010. The Missoula Children's Theatre returns to the Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center for its 16th annual production! Join Pinocchio as he dances with Geppetto's charming toys, travels the road to Pleasure Isle with Candlewick and his Crew, and is swindled by the unsavory Fox and Cat. After escaping the... 2009-08-04T09:48:01+00:00 2010-04-24 2010-04-24 Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center, 1977 College Drive, Belle Glade, FL, 33430 Missoula Children's Theatre Musical Play. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/pinocchio_158239/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/pinocchio_158239/ 4/24/2010 - 5/30/2010. Stanley is really a good dog. Really. He listens, does what he's told and never makes a mess. Well, almost never - It's just that he's dying for excitement and temptation is around every corner. All ages will love to test the boundaries with Stanley and his friends as they realize that being on... 2009-08-26T12:15:31+00:00 2010-04-24 2010-05-30 Manhattan Children's Theatre, 52 White Street, New York, NY, 10013 Manhattan Children's Theatre Musical.Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/stanleys-adventures_158934/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/stanleys-adventures_158934/ 4/24/2010 - 5/29/2010. Meet Walter Griffin, who, on the best day of his life, built a flying lawn chair that managed to carry him 16,000 feet in the air. He's never quite come down from his 15 minutes of fame, and he's spent the last 16 years trying to invent new ways to fly while his wife keeps the family afloat.... 2009-02-17T13:05:27+00:00 2010-04-24 2010-05-29 Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver, CO, 80204 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/up_152711/ http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/up_152711/ 4/24/2010 - 5/29/2010. Come on down! Winners, losers and cash prizes play their part in this interactive spring show. Inspired by the styles of classic televised game shows, return contestants defend their titles and winners take home cash prizes up to a third of the night's door sales. Games are mixed with short plays... 2009-06-24T15:29:10+00:00 2010-04-24 2010-05-29 Neo-Futurarium, 5153 North Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60640-2831 The Neo-Futurists Season. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/a-very-neofuturist-game-show_156822/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/a-very-neofuturist-game-show_156822/ 4/23/2010 - 5/2/2010. Elephant, both a poignant theatrical work and a visual feast of African song and exultant tribal dance, is a co-production between Dodgy Clutch of the UK and Johannesburg's Market Theatre, creators of the Broadway hit musical Sarafina (1988 Tony® Award nomination for Best... 2009-06-30T19:55:33+00:00 2010-04-23 2010-05-02 New Victory Theater, 209 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036 Scottish Theater Festival Season. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/elephant_157015/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/elephant_157015/ 4/23/2010 - 5/4/2010. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. New BLO production based on scenery and costumes owned by Glimmerglass Opera. Sung in Italian with projected English translation. Idomeneo, King of Crete, makes a promise to Neptune, God of the Sea. When the king realizes the terrible price it will... 2009-10-08T11:49:23+00:00 2010-04-23 2010-05-04 Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, 02116 Boston Lyric Opera Opera. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/idomeneo-re-di-creta_160406/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/idomeneo-re-di-creta_160406/ 4/23/2010 - 4/24/2010. Meet Bobby. He's a confused guy... and let's face it, what guy isn't confused, especially when it comes to women? And like most other guys, Bobby turns to his friends for advice. The problem is that Bobby's friends, who include a French womanizer, a retired army colonel and an elderly fisherman,... 2009-06-15T09:42:31+00:00 2010-04-23 2010-04-24 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell Street, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005 Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-male-intellect-an-oxymoron_156364/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-male-intellect-an-oxymoron_156364/ 4/23/2010 - 6/13/2010. An old woman reflects on her youth, marriage, and estrangement from her gay son with a mixture of satisfaction and regret. Albee's third, and perhaps most deserved, Pulitzer Prize winning play explores the challenges of living and dying. 2009-05-29T12:54:27+00:00 2010-04-23 2010-06-13 Palm Beach Dramaworks, 322 Banyan Boulevard, West Palm Beach, FL, 33401 Palm Beach Dramaworks Play. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/three-tall-women_155749/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/three-tall-women_155749/ 4/22/2010 - 6/13/2010. In the Tony Award-winning new musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, six of Putnam County's quirkiest and nerdiest spelling titans want nothing more than to be the B-E-S-T. These loveable spellers, played by adults, fiercely battle it out for the title only to... 2009-10-04T15:16:34+00:00 2010-04-22 2010-06-13 Pheasant Run Resort and Spa Mainstage Theater, 4051 E. Main Street, St. Charles, IL, 60174 Noble Fool Theatricals Musical Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-25th-annual-putnam-county-spelling-bee_160275/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-25th-annual-putnam-county-spelling-bee_160275/ 4/22/2010 - 5/23/2010. The World Premiere of Annie Baker's The Aliens focuses on two angry young men as they sit outside a Vermont coffee shop and discuss music and Bukowski. When a lonely high school student arrives on the scene, they decide to teach him everything they know. The Aliens is a play... 2009-08-04T13:08:13+00:00 2010-04-22 2010-05-23 Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, 224 Waverly Place, New York, NY, 10014 Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre Musical Play. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/the-aliens_158252/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/the-aliens_158252/ 4/22/2010 - 5/8/2010. Set in a remote corner of Africa, Battle of Black and Dogs is a politically, sexually, and culturally charged tale of psychological warfare that erupts on an isolated construction compound. When a local man arrives to claim the body of his brother, the site manager, his... 2009-04-28T10:57:58+00:00 2010-04-22 2010-05-08 Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06505 YALE REPERTORY THEATRE Play. http://www.theatermania.com/connecticut/shows/battle-of-black-and-dogs_154645/ http://www.theatermania.com/connecticut/shows/battle-of-black-and-dogs_154645/ 4/22/2010 - 5/16/2010. With bobrauschenbergamerica, writer Charles L. Mee and Anne Bogart take the viewer on a wild road trip through the American landscape, as Robert Rauschenberg might have conceived it had he been a playwright instead of a painter. More than an autobiographical portrait, this... 2009-08-26T14:20:33+00:00 2010-04-22 2010-05-16 Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, New York, NY, 10011 Siti Company Play.Experimental. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/bobrauschenbergamerica_158940/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/bobrauschenbergamerica_158940/ 4/22/2010 - 5/2/2010. In an empty theatre, on a bare stage, casting for a new Broadway musical is almost complete. For 17 dancers, this audition is the chance of a lifetime. It's what they've worked for - with every drop of sweat, every hour of training, every day of their lives. It's the one opportunity to do what... 2009-02-15T14:40:09+00:00 2010-04-22 2010-05-02 Victoria Theatre, 138 Main Street, Dayton, OH, 45402 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/a-chorus-line_152671/ http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/a-chorus-line_152671/ 4/22/2010 - 5/9/2010. Elizabeth Mozer and Vincent Sagona star in one of the most celebrated plays of this generation: Doubt received the Pulitzer-Prize for Drama, the Drama Desk Award and the Tony Award for Best Play. Acadamy Award-winner John Patrick Shanley wrote this searing drama of a Bronx Catholic... 2009-09-24T11:37:00+00:00 2010-04-22 2010-05-09 Garage Theatre Group, 960 River Road, Teaneck, NJ, 07666 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/doubt-a-parable_159881/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/doubt-a-parable_159881/ 4/22/2010 - 5/23/2010. I Do! I Do! was the first two-person musical ever performed on Broadway, written by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, the creative duo behind The Fantasticks and 110 In the Shade. This remarkably intimate, thoroughly romantic piece, allows audiences into the bedroom of Agnes... 2009-09-02T15:17:38+00:00 2010-04-22 2010-05-23 Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, IN, 46321 Theatre at the Center Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/indiana/shows/i-do-i-do_159184/ http://www.theatermania.com/indiana/shows/i-do-i-do_159184/ 4/22/2010 - 4/24/2010. With music by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, this musical of fractured fairy tales dares to wonder what happens "Ever After?" 2009-07-23T15:03:36+00:00 2010-04-22 2010-04-24 Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, 02116 Emerson Stage Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/into-the-woods_157800/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/into-the-woods_157800/ 4/22/2010 - 4/25/2010. Inspired by Theatre/Created through Dance. Peter G. Kalivas, project artistic director, engages local choreographers to bring past Diversionary productions to life through new dance pieces. Underwritten by California Institute for Contemporary Arts. 2009-05-10T11:28:18+00:00 2010-04-22 2010-04-25 Diversionary Theatre, 4545 Park Boulevard, San Diego, CA, 92116 Performance Art.Dance. http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/queer-theater-program-dancetheatre_155059/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/queer-theater-program-dancetheatre_155059/ 4/22/2010 - 6/13/2010. Sondheim on Sondheim is a high-tech multimedia inside look at Stephen Sondheim's personal life and artistic process, with exclusive interview footage. It features brand-new arrangements of over two dozen Sondheim songs. Directed and conceived by frequent Sondheim collaborator James... 2009-10-15T13:28:24+00:00 2010-04-22 2010-06-13 Studio 54, 254 West 54th Street, New York, NY, 10019 Musical.Revue.Multimedia. http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/sondheim-on-sondheim_160619/ http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/sondheim-on-sondheim_160619/ 4/21/2010 - 4/22/2010. The lush, romantic Broadway musical for all generations! "Tale as old as time, ture as it can be..." Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the smash hit Broadway musical, is coming to Tallahassee! Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature film, this eye-popping spectacle has... 2009-06-04T17:40:24+00:00 2010-04-21 2010-04-22 Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center, 505 West Pensacola Street, Tallahassee, FL, 32301 Musical.Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/disneys-beauty-and-the-beast_156008/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/disneys-beauty-and-the-beast_156008/ 4/21/2010 - 6/6/2010. Haunted by his father's ghost, Prince Hamlet seeks truth--and revenge. In arguably the greatest play of the English language, Shakespeare paints an enigmatic portrait of a man grappling with life, love, and the specter of death. 2009-06-03T12:32:39+00:00 2010-04-21 2010-06-06 Folger Shakespeare Theatre, 201 East Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 20003 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/hamlet_155966/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/hamlet_155966/ 4/21/2010 - 5/9/2010. This is the Buffalo premiere engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award winning hit musical Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. 2009-09-30T13:55:35+00:00 2010-04-21 2010-05-09 Shea's Performing Arts Center, 646 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202 Musical Play. http://www.theatermania.com/western-new-york/shows/jersey-boys_160143/ http://www.theatermania.com/western-new-york/shows/jersey-boys_160143/ 4/21/2010 - 5/9/2010. Andrew Lloyd Webber fills the stage with his most loved musical! From the party in the pyramids to the Elvis Style Pharaoh this jammed packed, upbeat Biblical romp will have you reading the Old Testament a new way. From 9 to 90 you'll love Joseph! 2009-07-10T08:49:27+00:00 2010-04-21 2010-05-09 Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, 1935 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Redondo Beach, CA, 90278 Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/joseph-and-the-amazing-technicolor-dreamcoat_157237/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/joseph-and-the-amazing-technicolor-dreamcoat_157237/ 4/21/2010. The duo of Mark Beckwith and Obediah Thomas have been delighting children with their hokey-pokey-turn-yourself-around-banjo-pickin'-rip-roarin'-show full of education and entertainment for the past eight years. With roots in award winning songwriting, Razzle Bam Boom will dazzle children and... 2009-07-27T14:06:10+00:00 2010-04-21 2010-04-21 Lewis Family Playhouse @ Victoria Gardens Cultural Center, 12505 Cultural Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91739 Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/razzle-bam-boom-all-that-trash_157905/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/razzle-bam-boom-all-that-trash_157905/ 4/21/2010 - 5/1/2010. Based on Puccini's classic opera La Boheme, Rent is a revolutionary rock opera Rent that tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent in the gritty background of New York's East Village. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving... 2009-08-21T15:17:43+00:00 2010-04-21 2010-05-01 University of Miami Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, 1312 Miller Dr. Coral Gables, Miami, FL, 33146 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/rent_158831/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/rent_158831/ 4/21/2010 - 5/23/2010. Another 20th Anniversary celebration! Zooma Zooma is one of the most successful world premiere musicals ever created at MusicalFare. Starring Norm Sham and the entire original cast, this production promises to "blow the roof off the joint" with an onstage band and a shimmy... 2009-07-13T18:00:52+00:00 2010-04-21 2010-05-23 MusicalFare Theatre, Daemen College, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, NY, 14226 MusicalFare Theatre Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/western-new-york/shows/zooma-zooma_157342/ http://www.theatermania.com/western-new-york/shows/zooma-zooma_157342/ 4/20/2010 - 5/2/2010. There's never been a better time to experience Chicago, Broadway's razzle-dazzle smash. This triumphant hit musical is the recipient of six Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards, a Grammy and thousands of standing ovations. A sensational tale of sin, corruption and all that jazz, it's no... 2009-05-10T13:51:07+00:00 2010-04-20 2010-05-02 Pantages Theatre, 6233 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA, 90028 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/chicago_155074/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/chicago_155074/ 4/20/2010 - 5/2/2010. St. Ann's Warehouse has co-commissioned (with the Manchester International Festival) and presents the American Premiere of End of the Road, the third piece in a musical theater "road" trilogy, created in collaboration by No Theater and the legendary Young@Heart Chorus, whose... 2009-06-24T10:22:39+00:00 2010-04-20 2010-05-02 St. Ann's Warehouse, 38 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201 No Theater Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/end-of-the-road_156755/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/end-of-the-road_156755/ 4/20/2010 - 5/23/2010. Direct from Off-Broadway in New York City, Girls Night: The Musical, written by Louise Roche and directed by Jack Randle, makes its Philadelphia premiere at the Kimmel Center's Innovation Studio. A touching and hilarious 'tell-it-like-it-is' look at the lives of a group of female... 2009-10-22T15:28:27+00:00 2010-04-20 2010-05-23 Kimmel Center, 260 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/girls-night-the-musical_160840/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/girls-night-the-musical_160840/ 4/20/2010 - 4/25/2010. Hairspray, winner of eight Tony Awards, will sweep Riverside away to 1960's Baltimore in this mega-hit, piled bouffant-high with laughter and romance - and enough deliriously tuneful songs to fill a nonstop platter party. In Hairspray it's 1962--the '50s are out and... 2009-05-29T18:30:17+00:00 2010-04-20 2010-04-25 Fox Performing Arts Center, 3801 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/hairspray_155794/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/hairspray_155794/ 4/20/2010 - 5/30/2010. Mike directs a Neil Simon play in India. Life crisis ensues. In 1999 Mike Schlitt accepted an offer to direct Neil Simon's They're Playing Our Song on a four-city tour across India. The sheer incongruity of it all - Mahatma Gandhi and "Doc" Simon singing and dancing their way through the... 2009-05-16T11:25:32+00:00 2010-04-20 2010-05-30 Gerding Theater at the Armory, 128 NW 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209 Portland Center Stage Solo Performance.Play. http://www.theatermania.com/oregon/shows/mikes-incredible-indian-adventure_155287/ http://www.theatermania.com/oregon/shows/mikes-incredible-indian-adventure_155287/ 4/20/2010 - 5/2/2010. The classic Mel Brooks movie is ALIVE...and it's headed to Boston! You'll have a monstrously good time at this spectacular new production, winner of the 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award and the Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Musical! Don't miss the sensational cast delivering all your favorite... 2009-06-24T11:20:19+00:00 2010-04-20 2010-05-02 Boston Opera House, 539 Washington Street, Boston, MA, 02111 Broadway Across America Musical Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/young-frankenstein_156763/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/young-frankenstein_156763/ 4/19/2010. Who says women don't have balls? In April, Fresh Squeezed will partner with the stalwarts of late-night Chicago theater, The Neo-Futurists, to send you on a brazen date with some of the most prolific female writers this side of the Kennedy Expressway. For the first time in the company's 20-year... 2009-10-01T14:11:56+00:00 2010-04-19 2010-04-19 Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre, 2433 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60614 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-neofuturists-too-much-lady-makes-the-baby-go-blind_160196/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-neofuturists-too-much-lady-makes-the-baby-go-blind_160196/ 4/18/2010. In 1963 Rydell portrayed Hugo Peabody in the movie version of Bye Bye Birdie with Ann Margret and Dick Van Dyke securing his "teen idol" status. Rydell had 19 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart including Wild One, Volare, Swingin' School, Kissin' Time,... 2009-06-23T14:27:12+00:00 2010-04-18 2010-04-18 Queensborough Performing Arts Center (Q-PAC), 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY, 11364 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/bobby-rydell-and-the-shangrilas-in-concert_156719/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/bobby-rydell-and-the-shangrilas-in-concert_156719/ opens 4/18/2010. Direct from London's West End! Can a camp man (and his lover) pretend not to be gay just to meet his son's prospective parents-in-law? This delightful tale of an unusual night club and the extraordinary characters whose lives and relationships revolve around it, La Cage Aux Folles is a... 2009-08-06T13:08:23+00:00 2010-04-18 1900-01-01 Longacre Theatre, 220 West 48th Street, New York, NY, 10036 Menier Chocolate Factory Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/la-cage-aux-folles_158317/ http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/la-cage-aux-folles_158317/ 4/18/2010 - 5/2/2010. Three Victorian ladies time-travel through the Terra Incognita of man's recent recognizable universe in Overmyer's comedic adventure filled with cultural references, wordplay, and looming possibilities. As one traveler says, "I have seen the future and it is slang." Jackson Phippin's regional... 2009-07-06T14:01:29+00:00 2010-04-18 2010-05-02 Rep Stage at Howard Community College, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, MD, 21044 Rep Stage Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/on-the-verge-or-the-geography-of-yearning_157136/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/on-the-verge-or-the-geography-of-yearning_157136/ 4/18/2010 - 5/2/2010. As the hard fist of British regulation imposes itself on local tradition, residents in 1833 rural Ireland struggle to adjust to a quiet yet radical change. When Irish place names begin to be translated into proper English by a group of British soldiers, tragic misunderstandings occur in this funny... 2009-08-01T13:04:33+00:00 2010-04-18 2010-05-02 University of Washington-Penthouse Theater, 4001 University Way NE, Seattle, Washington, 98105 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/translations_158174/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/translations_158174/ 4/18/2010. Upright is taking their brand of new generation cabaret to La Mirada with the 'American Icon Series.' Four rising stars of stage and screen will pay homage to musical idols like Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, Joni Mitchell and Johnny Cash in a Cabaret Lounge created in the La Mirada Theatre lobby.... 2009-11-02T15:01:06+00:00 2010-04-18 2010-04-18 La Mirada Theatre, 14900 La Mirada Blvd., La Mirada, CA, 90638 Cabaret. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/upright-cabaret-motor-city_161148/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/upright-cabaret-motor-city_161148/ 4/17/2010. When Baby Bird emerges from her shell, she expects to be greeted by her mother's song - but mother is not there. With the help of Dog, Cat, and Hen, Baby Bird sets out in search of her Mom in this musical adventure based on P.D. Eastman's whimsical and well-loved picture book. 2009-09-10T12:55:07+00:00 2010-04-17 2010-04-17 Jeanne Rimsky Theater, Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main Street, Port Washington, NY, 11050 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/are-you-my-mother_159352/ http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/are-you-my-mother_159352/ 4/17/2010 - 5/2/2010. Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story tells the incredible story of the three years in which Buddy Holly became the world's top recording artist with a show that features over 20 of Buddy Holly's greatest hits including "Peggy Sue," "That'll Be The Day," "Oh Boy,"... 2009-04-27T18:24:45+00:00 2010-04-17 2010-05-02 La Mirada Theatre, 14900 La Mirada Blvd., La Mirada, CA, 90638 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/buddy-the-buddy-holly-story_154622/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/buddy-the-buddy-holly-story_154622/ 4/17/2010 - 5/23/2010. Known for sexy, witty, and politically-charged numbers, Cabaret is also a backdrop for one of the darkest moments in world history. Set in Weimar Berlin just prior to Nazi rule, the play highlights the impact of global conflicts on the lives of everyday people. The Hypocrites,... 2009-10-29T15:47:41+00:00 2010-04-17 2010-05-23 Storefront Theater, 66 E. Randolph, Chicago, IL, 60601 The Hypocrites Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/cabaret_161071/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/cabaret_161071/ 4/17/2010 - 5/15/2010. Oompa - Loompas, Golden tickets, and candy bars! Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a magical fantasy where dreams really do come true. Travel through the wacky (and top secret, shhh!) world of jelly bean stalks, chocolate rivers and hair toffee. Join Charlie, Willy... 2009-06-23T18:26:08+00:00 2010-04-17 2010-05-15 The Main Street Theater Kids , temp reserved, , , Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory_156744/ http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory_156744/ 4/17/2010 - 5/15/2010. Weaving a rich tapestry of dreams, desires, and regrets, the narrator Michael travels back in time to the summer of 1936, when he lived with his unwed mother and her four sisters and their wireless radio. 2009-09-29T14:27:06+00:00 2010-04-17 2010-05-15 Professional Theatre Training Program and the Resident Ensemble Players, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716 Resident Ensemble Players Play. http://www.theatermania.com/delaware/shows/dancing-at-lughnasa_160067/ http://www.theatermania.com/delaware/shows/dancing-at-lughnasa_160067/ 4/17/2010 - 5/10/2010. ShawChicago returns to the Studio Theater with a staged reading of Bernard Shaw's tale of Doctor Colenso Ridgeon. The newly knighted doctor has discovered a cure for tuberculosis but has only one slot left for the clinical trial. Should he choose a kindly medical colleague who ministers to the poor... 2009-10-30T13:30:39+00:00 2010-04-17 2010-05-10 Chicago Cultural Center's Studio Theatre, 77 East Randolph, Chicago, IL, 60602 ShawChicago Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-doctors-dilemma_161093/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-doctors-dilemma_161093/ 4/17/2010 - 6/13/2010. From Aaron Sorkin, the creator of A Few Good Men and The West Wing comes this fascinating new play direct from Broadway. It's the story of two ambitious visionaries -- Philo T. Farnsworth, an Idaho farmboy, and David Sarnoff, head of RCA -- battling each other for the rights to one of... 2009-05-21T12:42:21+00:00 2010-04-17 2010-06-13 TimeLine Theatre, 615 W. Wellington Ave., Chicago, IL, 60657 TimeLine Theatre Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-farnsworth-invention_155441/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-farnsworth-invention_155441/ 4/17/2010 - 5/30/2010. Who thought that one cookie could lead to so much chaos? Laura Joffe Numeroff's bestselling book comes to life when an innocent boy generously offers a cookie to a demanding little mouse. This singular action triggers a series of escalating requests that result in mayhem - and a lot of fun! Arden... 2009-08-11T08:51:24+00:00 2010-04-17 2010-05-30 Arden Theatre Company, 40 North 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/if-you-give-a-mouse-a-cookie_158428/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/if-you-give-a-mouse-a-cookie_158428/ opens 4/17/2010. Junie B. Jones is finally graduating from kindergarten and is ready for first grade, at last! But getting used to a whole new group of friends, a new teacher, and new glasses is challenging, even for irrepressible Junie B. Follow her adventures as she writes everything down in her... 2009-06-24T17:06:59+00:00 2010-04-17 1900-01-01 Playhouse Square Center, 1501 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 TheatreworksUSA Season. http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/junie-b-jones_156829/ http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/junie-b-jones_156829/ 4/17/2010 - 12/19/2010. Based on the classic novel by Gaston Leroux, this heart-racing musical unravels the mystery of a passionate man living deep beneath the grand Paris Opera House. Was he a madman? A musical genius? Or just a lonely soul yearning to be loved? The answer carefully unfolds in a beautiful and intimate... 2009-08-05T10:28:18+00:00 2010-04-17 2010-12-19 Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street, New York, NY, 10012 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/phantom-of-the-opera-players-theatre_158268/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/phantom-of-the-opera-players-theatre_158268/ 4/17/2010 - 5/22/2010. William Butler Yeats called it "picturesque, poetical, fantastical, a masterpiece of style and of music, the supreme work of our dialect theatre..." John Millington Synge, one of Ireland's most beloved playwrights skillfully weaves a multi-colored, prism-like romantic comedy, set in the remote bogs... 2009-08-19T18:22:43+00:00 2010-04-17 2010-05-22 A Noise Within Theatre, 234 South Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA, 91204 A Noise Within Theatre Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/the-playboy-of-the-western-world_158743/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/the-playboy-of-the-western-world_158743/ 4/17/2010 - 5/16/2010. Based on the Yiddish story My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner by Chaim Grade, this play tells the story of two friends, an Orthodox rabbi and a Jewish poet who has lost his faith - both Holocaust survivors from Bialystok. When they meet unexpectedly years later, it sparks a fierce battle of wits... 2009-09-24T15:00:40+00:00 2010-04-17 2010-05-16 GableStage at Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Ave, Miami, FL, 33134 Drama.Play. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/the-quarrel_159901/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/the-quarrel_159901/ 4/17/2010 - 5/23/2010. Before there was Junie B. Jones, there was Ramona Quimby! The exasperating but lovable third-grader, sometimes known as Ramona the Pest, is facing many issues that touch the lives of families today. Ramona and her teacher do not see eye to eye, her Dad has lost his job, and her older... 2009-07-23T17:40:21+00:00 2010-04-17 2010-05-23 Orlando Repertory Theatre, 1001 Princeton Street, Orlando, FL, 32803 Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/ramona-quimby_157811/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/ramona-quimby_157811/ 4/17/2010. Toshi Reagon, daughter of the renowned Bernice Johnson Reagon, is known for energetic performances and an exemplary gift for writing engaging songs that provoke listeners to think and have fun at the same time. Backed by BIGLovely, a who's-who of NYC artists, Toshi draws... 2009-07-13T17:09:26+00:00 2010-04-17 2010-04-17 Emelin Theatre, 153 Library Lane, Mamaroneck, NY, 10543 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/westchester-rockland/shows/toshi-reagon-and-biglovely_157337/ http://www.theatermania.com/westchester-rockland/shows/toshi-reagon-and-biglovely_157337/ 4/16/2010 - 5/9/2010. Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre. This two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 eccentric characters... 2009-05-27T16:52:24+00:00 2010-04-16 2010-05-09 Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue, Houston, TX, 77002 Alley Theater Season. http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/the-39-steps_155664/ http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/the-39-steps_155664/ 4/16/2010 - 5/2/2010. Equus, the 1974 play by Peter Shaffer (Amadeus), recently was revived to rave reviews on Broadway starring Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame. In this intense thriller, a boy blinds six horses in a fit of passion. To his family, it is a hideous mystery, but to his psychiatrist it... 2009-08-22T10:33:17+00:00 2010-04-16 2010-05-02 Playhouse on the Green, 177 State Street, Bridgeport, CT, 06604 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/connecticut/shows/equus_158841/ http://www.theatermania.com/connecticut/shows/equus_158841/ 4/16/2010 - 5/9/2010. "To create something new, we must first love what is old," claims Mei-Li in Tony Award-winner David Henry Hwang's new adaptation of this Rodgers and Hammerstein jewel. The sentiment is obviously shared by the author himself, who has created something dazzlingly new while honoring the original... 2009-09-14T17:08:49+00:00 2010-04-16 2010-05-09 Tacoma Musical Playhouse, 7116 Sixth Avenue, Tacoma, WA, 98406 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/flower-drum-song_159509/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/flower-drum-song_159509/ 4/16/2010 - 5/30/2010. A "spirited," timeless classic set in the 1940's. Not only is Joe Pendleton's soul accidentally plucked from his body and sent to heaven sixty years too early, but the angelic messengers are too late to restore him. Solution: take up residence in Jonathan Farnsworth's body, a rich business tycoon... 2009-08-19T11:51:20+00:00 2010-04-16 2010-05-30 Attic Playhouse, 410 Sheridan Road, Highwood, IL, 60040 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/heaven-can-wait_158702/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/heaven-can-wait_158702/ 4/16/2010 - 5/2/2010. The biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to vibrant life in this delightful musical parable. Joseph is his father's favorite son and a boy blessed with prophetic dreams. When he is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers and taken to Egypt, Joseph endures a series of... 2009-07-02T11:41:32+00:00 2010-04-16 2010-05-02 Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Avenue, Lake Worth, Florida, 33460 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/joseph-and-the-amazing-technicolor-dreamcoat_157076/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/joseph-and-the-amazing-technicolor-dreamcoat_157076/ 4/16/2010 - 4/18/2010. Program IV will feature Dances at a Gathering, Jerome Robbins' masterpiece. Ten dancers, live Chopin piano music, endlessly beautiful and original invention - a celebration of dance, dancers...and life. Also on this program is Balanchine's breezily romantic Who Cares? set to music by Gershwin. 2009-10-06T15:00:47+00:00 2010-04-16 2010-04-18 Kravis Center, temp reserved, , , Miami City Ballet Dance. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/miami-city-ballet-presents-program-iv_160333/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/miami-city-ballet-presents-program-iv_160333/ 4/16/2010 - 4/17/2010. Enjoying unprecedented popularity following appearances on the 2007 Academy Awards® and in 2008 on OPRAH, Pilobolus has developed from an ad hoc dance collective into a unique American arts organization that is dedicated to the choreography and performance of dance-theater works at the... 2009-10-02T16:08:55+00:00 2010-04-16 2010-04-17 Duncan Theatre, 4200 Congress Avenue, Lake Worth, FL, 33461 Dance. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/pilobolus_160251/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/pilobolus_160251/ 4/16/2010 - 5/1/2010. Set in snowbound London of 1483, and inspired by Shakespeare's Richard III, six noblewomen battle - using lies and innuendo couched in elegant, poetic language - to win the favour of the new monarch. 2009-08-28T14:08:03+00:00 2010-04-16 2010-05-01 Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley St., Toronto, Ontario, M5A 2W6 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/canada/shows/the-queens_159001/ http://www.theatermania.com/canada/shows/the-queens_159001/ 4/16/2010 - 4/25/2010. First performed amid the social upheaval of the late 1960s, Peter Barnes' black comedy The Ruling Class centers around a prominent British family's schemes to control the family fortune. 2009-05-29T15:53:30+00:00 2010-04-16 2010-04-25 College of Southern Nevada, 3200 E. Cheyenne, North Las Vegas, Nevada, 89115 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/las-vegas/shows/the-ruling-class_155783/ http://www.theatermania.com/las-vegas/shows/the-ruling-class_155783/ 4/16/2010. One of the hottest, most entertaining young bands on the bluegrass circuit, the Rangers were nominated for 2 IBMA awards in 2008 (including Album of the Year, Lovin' Pretty Women) and the 2006 IBMA Emerging Artist of the Year. The group has been regularly featured on the Grand Ole... 2009-07-13T16:56:06+00:00 2010-04-16 2010-04-16 Emelin Theatre, 153 Library Lane, Mamaroneck, NY, 10543 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/westchester-rockland/shows/steep-canyon-rangers_157329/ http://www.theatermania.com/westchester-rockland/shows/steep-canyon-rangers_157329/ 4/15/2010 - 5/2/2010. by Richard Kalinoski Beginning with the arrival of a mail order bride into the life of a young Milwaukee photographer in the 1920's, Beast on the Moon traces this young couple's marriage through their elder years, as both come to grips with their horrific experiences in the... 2009-10-08T09:35:40+00:00 2010-04-15 2010-05-02 Venice Theatre, 140 West Tampa Avenue, Venice, Florida, 34285 Venice Theatre Drama. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/beast-on-the-moon_160390/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/beast-on-the-moon_160390/ 4/15/2010 - 5/9/2010. Revived on Broadway in 2008 in a Tony-winning production, this 1960's French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage features self-styled Parisian lothario Bernard, who has French, German and American fiancées, all beautiful airline hostesses with frequent "layovers." He keeps "one up,... 2009-08-06T12:39:01+00:00 2010-04-15 2010-05-09 Mosaic Theatre, American Heritage Center for the Arts, 12200 W. Broward Blvd, Building 3000, Plantation, FL, 33325 Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/boeing-boeing_158311/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/boeing-boeing_158311/ 4/15/2010 - 5/9/2010. In this hilarious collision of the traditions of Agatha Christie and 42nd Street, Kander and Ebb's Tony-winning musical celebrates the backstage "whodunnit." It's a toe tapping, gun slinging, wise cracking cavalcade in which Boston Detective Lt. Frank Cioffi has to drag his net to... 2009-07-31T14:11:45+00:00 2010-04-15 2010-05-09 Marian Theatre, 800 South College, Santa Maria, CA, 93454 PCPA Theaterfest Musical Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/curtains_158153/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/curtains_158153/ 4/15/2010 - 5/2/2010. Set in New York, this romantic comedy uses a series of dramatic flashbacks to follow the relationship of two fifty-somethings and the difficult truths they must face. Obie Award winner Stephanie Berry presented The Last Fall as a reading at the 2009 Crossroads' Genesis Festival where... 2009-08-14T13:09:58+00:00 2010-04-15 2010-05-02 Crossroads Theatre, 7 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/the-last-fall_158573/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/the-last-fall_158573/ 4/15/2010 - 4/25/2010. When was the last time you revisited an old friend in the pages of a beloved novel from your childhood? In Alan Knee's Tony-award-winning musical adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's timeless novel, the battles on the home front take center stage in spectacular melodic form. While Father is away... 2009-09-21T20:06:23+00:00 2010-04-15 2010-04-25 Kathleen Mullady Memorial Theatre, 1125 W. Loyola, Chicago, IL, 60626 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/little-women_159773/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/little-women_159773/ 4/15/2010 - 5/29/2010. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1938, this iconic giant in American drama spans almost thirty years in the town of Grover's Corners, a quintessential small community with characters reflecting the hopes and dreams, the failures and successes, of people everywhere. 2009-07-01T09:43:28+00:00 2010-04-15 2010-05-29 The Purple Rose Theatre Company, 137 Park Street, Chelsea, MI, 48118 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/michigan/shows/our-town_157023/ http://www.theatermania.com/michigan/shows/our-town_157023/ 4/15/2010 - 5/8/2010. A dark comedy about one family's attempts to keep out the "sickness" of the world by isolating themselves in a house where all the windows are covered with plastic, where the air-purifiers hum constantly, and where visitors are unwelcome. Sick, a Philadelphia premiere, is... 2009-09-21T10:03:41+00:00 2010-04-15 2010-05-08 Luna Theater Company at Walnut Street Theater Studio 5, 825 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, 19107 Luna Theater Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/sick_159735/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/sick_159735/ 4/15/2010 - 5/16/2010. When the Strattons meet at their favorite restaurant, they are hoping for a good time. But for playwright Alan Ayckbourn, time is relative - and wildly funny. While parents Gerry and Laura reminisce in the present, son Glyn and his wife are viewed in the future, and son Adam and his girlfriend are... 2009-06-15T18:16:04+00:00 2010-04-15 2010-05-16 Pittsburgh Public Theater, O'Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/pittsburgh/shows/time-of-my-life_156415/ http://www.theatermania.com/pittsburgh/shows/time-of-my-life_156415/ 4/15/2010 - 5/16/2010. Can one man stop an empire? In 1936, Czech-born Karel Capek wrote a spooky, fantastical novel about the discovery of an intelligent race of giant salamanders, which humanity enslaves for profit and national advantage. This highly-anticipated adaptation comes to us from Artistic Director Emeritus... 2009-04-11T02:24:19+00:00 2010-04-15 2010-05-16 Next Theatre, 927 Noyes Street, Evanston, IL, 60201 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/war-with-the-newts_154150/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/war-with-the-newts_154150/ 4/14/2010 - 4/18/2010. There's something Constance Middleton's friends are dying to tell her: her husband is having an affair - with her best friend! Despite their hints, Constance remains ever cool, and seemingly oblivious. Or is she? In this biting comedy of manners, marriages and mistresses, Constance - a... 2009-09-05T11:46:52+00:00 2010-04-14 2010-04-18 Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90049 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/the-constant-wife_159257/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/the-constant-wife_159257/ 4/14/2010 - 5/30/2010. Set in the Roaring '20's, the show is a new musical take on the old Grimm's tale. After the death of his beloved Queen, a grief-stricken King banishes dance from all the land, much to the distress of his people, including his two daughters, Lara and Lena. But the girls find their way to a magical... 2009-06-11T13:10:08+00:00 2010-04-14 2010-05-30 Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave, Bethesda, MD, 20814 Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/the-dancing-princesses_156294/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/the-dancing-princesses_156294/ 4/14/2010 - 5/23/2010. Academy Award-winning actress Dianne Wiest returns to CSC in Alexander Ostrovsky's The Forest, adapted by Kathleen Tolan. Before Chekhov, there was Ostrovsky, Russia's first great theatrical reformer, who forged comedy and drama into a remarkably rich theatrical mix, paving the way... 2009-09-14T13:31:59+00:00 2010-04-14 2010-05-23 Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th Street, New York, NY, 10003 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/the-forest_159483/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/the-forest_159483/ 4/14/2010 - 5/9/2010. The handsome and sheltered Prince Agis has been raised by his Spartan uncle and aunt to follow one rule: renounce love! Logic prevails until the charming and beautiful Princess Leonide arrives with her heart set on wooing the unsuspecting Prince. Three seductions, four disguises, and fifteen... 2009-08-06T13:02:17+00:00 2010-04-14 2010-05-09 Olney Theatre Center, Olney-Sandy Spring Rd., Olney, MD, 20832 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/triumph-of-love_158315/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/triumph-of-love_158315/ 4/13/2010 - 4/25/2010. Steppenwolf's August: Osage County is a grand, gripping new play which tells the story of the Westons, a large extended clan that comes together at their rural Oklahoma homestead when the alcoholic patriarch disappears.  Forced to confront unspoken truths and astonishing secrets, the... 2009-04-29T14:09:25+00:00 2010-04-13 2010-04-25 Palace Theatre at PlayhouseSquare, 1615 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44115 KeyBank Broadway Series Drama. http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/august-osage-county_154710/ http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/august-osage-county_154710/ 4/13/2010 - 4/18/2010. There's no better way to introduce your family to the wonders of live theater than with the magic, the mystery, the memory of Cats. What began as a musical about cats after Andrew Lloyd Webber picked up a book of poems in an airport bookshop has become one of the longest running shows... 2009-06-24T10:52:18+00:00 2010-04-13 2010-04-18 Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 02116 BROADWAY ACROSS AMERICA Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/cats_156760/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/cats_156760/ 4/13/2010 - 4/18/2010. Cirque Dreams Illumination is a bustling city of incredible dreamers set in a landscape of towering buildings and infinite possibilities. Ablaze with lights and activities, objects and shapes transform into windows and stairways that lead beyond imagination. Everyday occurrences... 2009-01-13T13:06:47+00:00 2010-04-13 2010-04-18 The Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Avenue at E Street, San Diego, CA, 92101 Children/Family.Event. http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/cirque-dreams-illumination_151258/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/cirque-dreams-illumination_151258/ 4/13/2010 - 4/20/2010. "I live in a crazy time," Anne notes in her beloved diary, but "I don't think of all the misery but the beauty that still remains." It is this strength of character and positive spirit that guided Anne and her family during all the turmoil of World War II. Metropolis begins a new annual tradition... 2009-06-15T09:36:34+00:00 2010-04-13 2010-04-20 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell Street, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005 Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-diary-of-anne-frank_156361/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-diary-of-anne-frank_156361/ 4/11/2010. A celebration of the church basement kitchen and the women who work there, Church Basement Ladies is a new musical comedy featuring four distinct characters and their relationships as they organize the food and solve the problems of a rural Minnesota church about to undergo changes in... 2009-08-04T09:42:27+00:00 2010-04-11 2010-04-11 Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center, 1977 College Drive, Belle Glade, FL, 33430 Troupe America Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/the-church-basement-ladies_158238/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/the-church-basement-ladies_158238/ 4/11/2010 - 5/30/2010. The grand finale is a Porchlight favorite, Into the Woods. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's fairy tale musical first played at Porchlight in 2000-2001 and received 4 Jeff Nominations, 1 Jeff Citation and 1 After Dark Award. When a Baker and his Wife learn they've been cursed with... 2009-04-01T17:57:13+00:00 2010-04-11 2010-05-30 Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 West Belmont, Chicago, IL, 60657 Porchlight Music Theatre Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/into-the-woods_153864/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/into-the-woods_153864/ 4/11/2010. Neil Berg's widely acclaimed 100 Years of Broadway; a musical revue of Broadway's most celebrated shows features a dazzling cast of five Broadway stars accompanied by an all-star New York band. 100 Years of Broadway recreates the greatest moments from the finest shows of the... 2009-06-04T17:27:06+00:00 2010-04-11 2010-04-11 Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center, 505 West Pensacola Street, Tallahassee, FL, 32301 Revue.Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/neil-bergs-100-years-of-broadway_156006/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/neil-bergs-100-years-of-broadway_156006/ 4/10/2010 - 4/18/2010. See the classic story in brand NEW ADAPTATION by Wendy Kesselman. No other story captures the poignant voice of a young girl's journey so beautifully. A perennial favorite, BCT is honored to be presenting a story so touching and compelling. 2009-11-01T12:42:11+00:00 2010-04-10 2010-04-18 Grand Lodge of Masons, 186 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, 02109 Boston Children's Theater Drama.Play.Season.Tragedy.Documentary Theater. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/the-diary-of-anne-frank_161119/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/the-diary-of-anne-frank_161119/ 4/10/2010. ... 2009-08-03T12:30:38+00:00 2010-04-10 2010-04-10 State Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/dick-foxs-golden-boys_158197/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/dick-foxs-golden-boys_158197/ 4/10/2010 - 5/20/2010. This rollicking new musical follows young cabin boy Jim Hawkins as he fights to survive while shipwrecked on a mysterious island. Accompanied by the singing shenanigans of a raucous band of pirate ghosts, Jim races to find notorious Captain Flint's fabled treasure before mutinous shipmates steal the... 2009-05-18T14:51:50+00:00 2010-04-10 2010-05-20 Adventure Stage Chicago, 1012 N. Noble Street, Chicago, IL, 60622 Adventure Stage Chicago Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-ghosts-of-treasure-island_155314/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-ghosts-of-treasure-island_155314/ 4/10/2010. The Holmes Brothers are an equal measure of roadhouse rock, gospel, and moving harmonies. 2009-09-10T12:38:04+00:00 2010-04-10 2010-04-10 Jeanne Rimsky Theater, Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main Street, Port Washington, NY, 11050 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/the-holmes-brothers_159349/ http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/the-holmes-brothers_159349/ 4/10/2010 - 5/9/2010. In 2006, this forgotten treasure of musical theatre was rediscovered in New York, and now it returns triumphantly to Los Angeles where it hasn't been seen in years. The genius of Jacques Brel is beautifully captured in this brilliant collection of timeless songs, songs of passionate desire and... 2009-04-29T20:13:20+00:00 2010-04-10 2010-05-09 Colony Theatre, 555 North Third Street, Burbank, CA, 91502 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/jacques-brel-is-alive-and-well-and-living-in-paris_154758/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/jacques-brel-is-alive-and-well-and-living-in-paris_154758/ 4/10/2010. This triumphant story of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play professional major league baseball, chronicles the young athlete's nonviolent struggle to integrate what was then considered a "white man's game." Most Valuable Player chronicles Jackie's courageous journey from... 2009-10-29T13:52:56+00:00 2010-04-10 2010-04-10 Tribeca Performing Arts Center @ Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York, NY, 10007 A Dallas Children's Theater Production Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/most-valuable-player_161056/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/most-valuable-player_161056/ 4/10/2010 - 5/16/2010. Elena and Reed were full of peace, love, and homemade soup in the 70s when their relationship bloomed in college, but then they split up and the decades moved on. Now, twenty-five years later, they find themselves in an accidental reunion at a snowed-in airport. She's still the idealistic hippy, but... 2009-05-09T12:15:25+00:00 2010-04-10 2010-05-16 City Theatre, 1300 Bingham, Pittsburgh, PA, 15203 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/pittsburgh/shows/shooting-star_155040/ http://www.theatermania.com/pittsburgh/shows/shooting-star_155040/ 4/10/2010. Classic Ennio Morricone! The Spaghetti Western Orchestra rides into town, with a wagon train of instruments, to perform all the classic Ennio Morricone music including, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Once Upon A Time In The West and For A Few Dollars More. With a fistful of humor and a... 2009-10-02T16:06:34+00:00 2010-04-10 2010-04-10 Duncan Theatre, 4200 Congress Avenue, Lake Worth, FL, 33461 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/the-spaghetti-western-orchestra_160250/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/the-spaghetti-western-orchestra_160250/ 4/10/2010. Relive the incredible excitement of the most influential rock group in the history of pop music. The #1 Beatles tribute act in the world, Yesterday, recreates the historic performances of the Beatles from 1964 to 1974 on The Ed Sullivan Show, at The Hollywood Bowl and at Shea Stadium... 2009-06-23T14:21:39+00:00 2010-04-10 2010-04-10 Queensborough Performing Arts Center (Q-PAC), 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY, 11364 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/yesterday-a-tribute-to-the-beatles_156718/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/yesterday-a-tribute-to-the-beatles_156718/ 4/9/2010 - 5/2/2010. Set in Akron, this powerful drama tells the amazing and inspiring story of the two men who pioneered Alcoholics Anonymous and their wives who founded Al Anon. Written by Stephen Bergman and Janet Surrey, and directed by Artistic Director Michael Bloom. Bill W. and Dr. Bob is the... 2009-09-23T17:16:56+00:00 2010-04-09 2010-05-02 Cleveland Play House - Drury Theatre, 8500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/bill-w-and-dr-bob_159853/ http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/bill-w-and-dr-bob_159853/ 4/9/2010. Along with outstanding athleticism and beauty in their dance, Cedar Lake is renowned for the extraordinary artistic environment each performance creates. Striking lighting, music, projection design, live video, and interaction incorporate audience members right into the exciting progressive nature... 2009-06-24T15:28:07+00:00 2010-04-09 2010-04-09 State Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 Dance. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/cedar-lake-contemporary-ballet_156821/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/cedar-lake-contemporary-ballet_156821/ opens 4/9/2010. WINNER OF 2008 NATIONAL LATINO PLAYWRITING AWARD The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity is a dynamic, theatrical, funny and provocative new play that examines America's fears through a comic look at geopolitics, pro wrestling, and raisin bread. Fueled by urban language and... 2009-08-26T12:56:03+00:00 2010-04-09 1900-01-01 Mixed Blood Theater, 1501 S 4th St., Minneapolis, MN, 55454 Mixed Blood Theatre Play. http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/the-elaborate-entrance-of-chad-deity_158937/ http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/the-elaborate-entrance-of-chad-deity_158937/ 4/9/2010 - 5/9/2010. Romance unfolds in a new musical wound around the tender love songs of Matthew Sweet's landmark album, Girlfriend. Meeting in homeroom. Cruising through town. Holding hands. Cheering from the stands. That awkward first kiss. In the world premiere of Girlfriend at Berkeley Rep,... 2009-05-09T10:58:05+00:00 2010-04-09 2010-05-09 Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2025 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, 94704 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/girlfriend_155034/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/girlfriend_155034/ 4/9/2010 - 5/16/2010. Tony Award-winning actor Denis O'Hare stars in this new take on one of history's most famous and exciting tales. Pulling stories from The Iliad, Homer's sweeping fable of gods, goddesses and the Trojan War. O'Hare takes the audience on an unforgettable trip. 2009-04-07T00:09:25+00:00 2010-04-09 2010-05-16 Seattle Repertory Theatre - Leo K. Theatre, 155 Mercer St., Seattle, WA, 98109 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/an-iliad_154002/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/an-iliad_154002/ 4/9/2010 - 4/11/2010. Program IV will feature Dances at a Gathering, Jerome Robbins' masterpiece. Ten dancers, live Chopin piano music, endlessly beautiful and original invention - a celebration of dance, dancers...and life. Also on this program is Balanchine's breezily romantic Who Cares? set to music by Gershwin. 2009-10-06T14:35:24+00:00 2010-04-09 2010-04-11 Adrienne Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL, 33130 Miami City Ballet Dance. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/miami-city-ballet-presents-program-iv_160321/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/miami-city-ballet-presents-program-iv_160321/ 4/9/2010 - 4/25/2010. A haunting, intriguing psychological thriller, first performed in 1935, the story remains relevant and will keep audiences in suspense throughout the show. 2009-08-18T13:33:11+00:00 2010-04-09 2010-04-25 Heights Players, 26 Willow Place,, Brooklyn, NY, 11201 The Heights Players Season. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/night-must-fall_158672/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/night-must-fall_158672/ 4/9/2010 - 5/8/2010. Directed by KDT Artistic Company Member Cameron Cobb. The play: Written in 1896, Chekhov's tragicomedy of life and art astonished the old century as it heralded the birth of modern drama. Dreams born and shattered, loves won and lost - The Seagull paints a rich and tumultuous portrait of the... 2009-08-10T13:39:51+00:00 2010-04-09 2010-05-08 Kitchen Dog Theater, The MAC3120 McKinney Ave., Dallas, TX, 75204 Kitchen Dog Theater Play. http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/the-seagull-by-anton-chekhov_158403/ http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/the-seagull-by-anton-chekhov_158403/ 4/9/2010 - 4/25/2010. Two men meet as doctor and patient in a small office in Dublin. The patient, John, is being haunted by visions of his wife for whose accidental death he feels inexplicably responsible. The psychiatrist, Ian, has his own ghosts since leaving first the church and then his new family. Both men move... 2009-08-11T13:33:28+00:00 2010-04-09 2010-04-25 Plays and Players Theater, 1714 Delancey street, Philadelphia, PA, 19103 Theater Exile Play. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/shining-city_158450/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/shining-city_158450/ 4/9/2010 - 5/9/2010. When John and Nettie Cleary welcome their son home after World War II, they're eager to resume the old roles and routines--and the old battles and silences. But an innocent bouquet of roses and a well-meaning lie sends their small world reeling. Past mistakes and misunderstandings catch up with them... 2009-05-27T12:32:37+00:00 2010-04-09 2010-05-09 New York City Center - Stage II, 131 West 55th Street, New York, NY, 10036 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-subject-was-roses_155634/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-subject-was-roses_155634/ 4/9/2010 - 5/2/2010. Long before Bernie Madoff, there was Monsieur Tartuffe! The play takes place in the home of the wealthy Orgon, where Tartuffe--a fraud and a pious imposter--has insinuated himself. He succeeds magnificently in winning the respect and devotion of the head of the house and then tries to marry... 2009-09-17T18:05:45+00:00 2010-04-09 2010-05-02 6th Street Playhouse G.K. Hardt Theatre, 52 West 6th Street, Santa Rosa, CA, 95401 6th Street Playhouse Play. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/tartuffe_159658/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/tartuffe_159658/ 4/9/2010 - 4/18/2010. Fusing the tap stylings of Astaire and Kelly with the classic comedy of Chaplin and Keaton, New York's own Parallel Exit creates a "rhythmic symphony of percussive sounds that proves riotously funny" (Backstage). Shuffling in time between past and present, the dancers and musicians tell... 2009-06-30T19:47:47+00:00 2010-04-09 2010-04-18 New Victory Theater, 209 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036 Scottish Theater Festival Season. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/time-step_157014/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/time-step_157014/ opens 4/8/2010. Two-time Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth star as Gomez and Morticia in The Addams Family, a new musical based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams. The musical features an original book by Marshall Brickman and... 2009-05-11T16:51:33+00:00 2010-04-08 1900-01-01 Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 West 46th Street, New York, NY, 10036 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/the-addams-family_155109/ http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/the-addams-family_155109/ 4/8/2010 - 4/11/2010. Anyone Can Whistle, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents' 1964 experimental satire of any and every target on the American cultural scene of the moment - conformity, psychology, race relations, greed, religion and politics - divided the critics, thrilled the emerging counter-culture,... 2009-10-15T13:56:58+00:00 2010-04-08 2010-04-11 New York City Center, 130 West 55th Street, New York, NY, 10019 Musical.Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/anyone-can-whistle_160624/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/anyone-can-whistle_160624/ 4/8/2010 - 5/2/2010. The great American classic, Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, will be presented in an all-new production. In this lyrical and haunting memory play set in the Great Depression, a young writer yearns to break free from his demanding mother, his emotionally crippled sister and a... 2009-08-05T18:07:34+00:00 2010-04-08 2010-05-02 Alhecama Theatre, 914 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/the-glass-menagerie_158294/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/the-glass-menagerie_158294/ 4/8/2010 - 5/15/2010. In 1950 in the desert of Northern Mexico, a daughter returns home to make peace with her dying father. Her mother, Mariela, must navigate the thorny relationships she has with her daughter and husband, both accomplished painters. What is the shrouded painting that is the only artwork in their house?... 2009-06-16T16:27:44+00:00 2010-04-08 2010-05-15 Denver Center for International Studies, 574 West Sixth Avenue , Denver, CO, 80204 Denver Center Theatre Company Drama. http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/mariela-in-the-desert_156478/ http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/mariela-in-the-desert_156478/ 4/7/2010 - 4/25/2010. The 101 Dalmatians Musical follows Dalmatians spouses Pongo and Missis Pongo who are living the good life in London with their "pets" Charles and Catherine Dearly. When their 10 puppies are suddenly "dognapped" by the villainous Cruella de Vil, they summon the help... 2009-07-09T11:48:17+00:00 2010-04-07 2010-04-25 WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden, 4 Penn Plaza, New York, NY, 10001 Musical.Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-101-dalmatians-musical_157214/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-101-dalmatians-musical_157214/ 4/7/2010 - 5/23/2010. The world's elite circus performers, including veteran members of the Wallenda Family, Ringling Bros. and Cirque du Soleil, return to Chicago for Hephaestus: A Greek Mythology Circus Tale. A Silverguy Entertainment and Lookingglass Original sold-out hit in 2005 and 2008, Hephaestus is... 2009-10-22T09:15:40+00:00 2010-04-07 2010-05-23 Owen Bruner Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL, 60601 Lookingglass Theatre Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/hephaestus-a-greek-mythology-circus-tale_160810/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/hephaestus-a-greek-mythology-circus-tale_160810/ 4/7/2010. Emcee and WJJG Radio Personality Kevin Moore and his cadre of Chicago's best cabaret artists return to their home away from home with an entirely new show. Featuring the greatest from Lloyd Webber, you'll hear the soaring songs of The Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Joseph... 2009-06-15T09:40:23+00:00 2010-04-07 2010-04-07 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell Street, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005 Cabaret. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/kevin-moore-presents-scorebyscore-an-evening-of-andrew-lloyd-webber_156362/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/kevin-moore-presents-scorebyscore-an-evening-of-andrew-lloyd-webber_156362/ 4/7/2010 - 5/2/2010. 1950's America is glorified in this rock 'n' roll, pop, rhythm and blues musical. "Love Potion #9," "Hound Dog," "Jailhouse Rock," and "Spanish Harlem" are featured among nearly 40 of the greatest songs ever recorded that will electrify your emotions. Leiber... 2009-07-24T13:04:48+00:00 2010-04-07 2010-05-02 Paper Mill Playhouse, Brookside Drive, Millburn, NJ, 07041 Paper Mill Playhouse Musical.Revue. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/smokey-joes-cafandeacute-the-songs-of-leiber-and-stoller_157822/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/smokey-joes-cafandeacute-the-songs-of-leiber-and-stoller_157822/ 4/6/2010 - 5/2/2010. This award-winning adaptation from the award-winning novel is the coming-of-age story of two boys growing up in two very different Jewish communities--"five blocks and a world apart"--in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the 1940s. In it, Danny, the brilliant and curious son of a Hasidic rabbi,... 2009-05-16T11:05:52+00:00 2010-04-06 2010-05-02 Gerding Theater at the Armory, 128 NW 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209 Portland Center Stage Play. http://www.theatermania.com/oregon/shows/the-chosen_155286/ http://www.theatermania.com/oregon/shows/the-chosen_155286/ 4/6/2010 - 4/18/2010. In the Heights, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL and the Grammy Award for Best Show Album, is a sensational new show about chasing your dreams and finding your true home. With an amazing cast, incredible Tony Award-winning dancing and a thrilling Tony... 2009-03-25T14:05:20+00:00 2010-04-06 2010-04-18 Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby, Houston, TX, 77002 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/in-the-heights_153585/ http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/in-the-heights_153585/ 4/6/2010 - 5/23/2010. "All the world's a lie, and all the men and women merely liars." Dorante is charming, handsome...and a compulsive liar! When he arrives in Paris, Dorante's outlandish tales amaze and convince all who hear them, but for each problem his clever lying solves, it creates two new... 2009-02-18T11:21:39+00:00 2010-04-06 2010-05-23 Shakespeare Theatre Company - Lansburgh Theatre, 450 Seventh St. NW, Washington, DC, 20004 The Shakespeare Theatre Company Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/the-liar_152743/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/the-liar_152743/ 4/3/2010 - 4/18/2010. Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation? And what are the costs mobilizing world opinion? Inspired by her travels with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, Winter Miller's impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan centers on three intertwined lives at a... 2009-06-18T15:06:47+00:00 2010-04-03 2010-04-18 Theater J, District of Columbia Jewish Community Center1529 16th St. NW, Washington, DC, 20036 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/in-darfur_156542/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/in-darfur_156542/ 4/3/2010 - 5/9/2010. The LeVays, an affluent African American family, gather in their vacation home on Martha's Vineyard. Dr. LeVay, a respected neurosurgeon and hopeless philanderer, has two sons: one has followed in his footsteps, and the other is a struggling novelist. Each son brings along his girlfriend to meet the... 2009-04-29T19:18:40+00:00 2010-04-03 2010-05-09 The Ensemble Theatre, 3535 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77002 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/stick-fly_154752/ http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/stick-fly_154752/ 4/3/2010. Simply one of the greatest classical ballets of all time, Swan Lake (with magnificent music by Tchaikovsky) is based on a German fairy tale and follows the heroic young Prince Siegfried as he labors to free the delicately beautiful swan maiden, Odette, from an evil sorcerer's spell. ... 2009-06-23T14:18:32+00:00 2010-04-03 2010-04-03 Queensborough Performing Arts Center (Q-PAC), 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY, 11364 Dance. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/swan-lake_156717/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/swan-lake_156717/ 4/2/2010. A unique violin concept founded in Calgary, Canada and enjoyed by the likes of presidents, prime ministers and princes is now making its way to the Lewis Family Playhouse. The fiddle-fest is filled with ferocious energy of violin virtuosity for the entire family. Pulling music from all genres; be... 2009-07-27T14:02:34+00:00 2010-04-02 2010-04-02 Lewis Family Playhouse @ Victoria Gardens Cultural Center, 12505 Cultural Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91739 Performance Art.Concert.Dance. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/barrage_157902/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/barrage_157902/ 4/2/2010 - 4/25/2010. A Fox on the Fairway opens as underdog Quail Valley Country Club prepares to take on arch-rival Crouching Squirrel in this year's Annual Inter-Club Golf Tournament. With a sizable wager at stake, the contest plays out amidst three love affairs, a disappearing diamond, objectionable... 2009-07-22T17:43:30+00:00 2010-04-02 2010-04-25 George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 George Street Playhouse Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/a-fox-on-the-fairway_157777/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/a-fox-on-the-fairway_157777/ 4/2/2010 - 5/9/2010. This is Henrik Ibsen's chilling, fiercely relevant John Gabriel Borkman. Written in 1896, and recently revived in a new version by David Eldridge at London's Donmar Warehouse to great critical acclaim, Ibsen's penultimate play is a pointed indictment of capitalism, selfish ambition,... 2009-04-01T14:46:30+00:00 2010-04-02 2010-05-09 Aurora Theatre, 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, 94704 Aurora Theatre Company Drama. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/john-gabriel-borkman_153855/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/john-gabriel-borkman_153855/ 4/2/2010 - 4/11/2010. PlayFest is a ten-day theater event packed with dynamic new plays and new play programming for anyone who loves great theater. In 2009, Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis was our special guest. PlayFest, It's What's Next! 2009-05-19T16:05:21+00:00 2010-04-02 2010-04-11 Orlando Shakespeare Theater, 812 Rollins St., Orlando, FL, 32803 Festival. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/playfest-the-harriett-lake-festival-of-new-plays_155378/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/playfest-the-harriett-lake-festival-of-new-plays_155378/ 4/2/2010 - 4/18/2010. This season marks 50 years since Lorraine Hansberry's play premiered on Broadway, a first for a black, female playwright. A fiercely moving story of hope, A Raisin in the Sun is a major American masterpiece that is just as relevant today as when it was written. From their tenement apartment, the... 2009-08-20T15:02:58+00:00 2010-04-02 2010-04-18 Wells Theatre, 101 E Tazewell, Norfolk, VA, Virginia Stage Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/virginia/shows/a-raisin-in-the-sun_158790/ http://www.theatermania.com/virginia/shows/a-raisin-in-the-sun_158790/ 4/1/2010 - 4/25/2010. A wheat farm in Alfalfa County, OK is the setting for Lans Traverse's raw and gripping play Driftwood. Moving between 1933 and 1954, the play exposes the gritty underbelly of a family torn apart by greed. Orville, the son who was given a medical education while his sisters went to... 2009-06-23T17:21:31+00:00 2010-04-01 2010-04-25 Main Street Theatre at Times Boulevard, 2540 Times Blvd., Houston, TX, 77005 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/driftwood_156738/ http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/driftwood_156738/ 4/1/2010 - 4/25/2010. Written in 1898, but adapted for the stage by David Ives, Is He Dead? is the newly discovered Mark Twain comedy filled with mistaken identities, crazy complications and mischievous fun! French painter Jean Francois Millet desperately wants to marry his girlfriend Marie, but he... 2009-04-23T15:09:02+00:00 2010-04-01 2010-04-25 WaterTower Theatre, 15650 Addison Road, Addison, TX, 75248 Water Tower Theatre Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/is-he-dead_154436/ http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/is-he-dead_154436/ 4/1/2010 - 5/1/2010. When the Moor Othello weds the beautiful Desdemona in 16th-century Venice, he does not bargain for the invidious betrayal of his aide Iago. Power plays and poisonous gossip come to a terrible end in this Shakespearian tragedy as Othello is consumed by love, rumor, deception and a fatal desire for... 2009-06-16T16:25:58+00:00 2010-04-01 2010-05-01 Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1245 Champa Street, Denver, CO, 80204 Denver Center Theatre Company Drama. http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/othello_156477/ http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/othello_156477/ 4/1/2010 - 4/12/2010. Once upon a time, there was a boy named Peter Pan who decided never to grow up. So he flew off to Neverland and entered a world of pirates, Indians and lost boys. Now you can join Peter, Wendy, John and Michael on their adventures as they battle Captain Hook and rescue Princess Tiger Lily. It's a... 2009-06-15T09:32:52+00:00 2010-04-01 2010-04-12 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell Street, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005 Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/peter-pan_156359/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/peter-pan_156359/ 3/31/2010 - 5/2/2010. Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, Underground Railway Theater's science theater initiative with MIT, presents the world premiere of From Orchids To Octopi by award-winning playwright Melinda Lopez. Commissioned by the National Institutes of Health to celebrate the 150th Anniversary... 2009-06-04T11:09:38+00:00 2010-03-31 2010-05-02 Central Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139 Catalyst Collaborative@MIT Play. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/from-orchids-to-octopi_155992/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/from-orchids-to-octopi_155992/ 3/31/2010 - 5/2/2010. The final production on the main stage for the 2009-10 Season defies logic - and gravity - in a topsy-turvy, timeless tale of a little girl who journeys through the looking glass to become a queen. Lookingglass Alice is based on Lewis Carroll's popular Alice's Adventures in... 2009-08-11T15:37:35+00:00 2010-03-31 2010-05-02 Alliance Theatre, 1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA, 30309 Performance Art.Children/Family.Play. http://www.theatermania.com/georgia/shows/lookingglass-alice_158466/ http://www.theatermania.com/georgia/shows/lookingglass-alice_158466/ 3/30/2010 - 4/18/2010. In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and always hilarious. Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves together for their father's funeral, the Turpin's other problems keep overshadowing the solemn... 2009-10-08T09:32:19+00:00 2010-03-30 2010-04-18 Venice Theatre, 140 West Tampa Avenue, Venice, Florida, 34285 Venice Theatre Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/dearly-departed_160389/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/dearly-departed_160389/ 3/30/2010 - 4/1/2010. Jesus Christ Superstar, the groundbreaking theatrical masterpiece by legendary writing team Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and their first collaboration to be performed on the professional stage, is one of the most popular and enduring works ever created for the musical theatre. As... 2009-05-29T17:39:22+00:00 2010-03-30 2010-04-01 Fox Performing Arts Center, 3801 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/jesus-christ-superstar_155793/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/jesus-christ-superstar_155793/ 3/30/2010 - 4/4/2010. Underestimated blonde sorority star Elle Woods doesn't take "no" for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone "serious," Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law. Along the way, Elle proves that being... 2009-01-13T11:38:45+00:00 2010-03-30 2010-04-04 Civic Theater, 202 C Street, San Diego, CA, 92101 Comedy.Children/Family.Musical Play. http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/legally-blond-the-musical_151253/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/legally-blond-the-musical_151253/ opens 3/30/2010. After almost two decades, Michael Feinstein will be coming back to Broadway in a new musical production tentatively titled All About Me. All About Me will feature a small orchestra accompanying Michael as he performs the standards for which he is known plus songs he has... 2009-11-04T15:34:17+00:00 2010-03-30 1900-01-01 TBA, , , , Musical.Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/michael-feinsteins-all-about-me_161240/ http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/michael-feinsteins-all-about-me_161240/ 3/30/2010 - 4/3/2010. Plaza Theatrical Productions, Long Island's largest touring theatre company, in association with The Show Place, is proud to present The Wizard of Oz! Join Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tinman, and the Cowardly Lion as they come to life in an adaptation featuring the music of the MGM... 2009-10-21T16:12:38+00:00 2010-03-30 2010-04-03 Bellmore Theatre, 222 Pettit Avenue, Bellmore, NY, 11710 Musical.Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/wizard-of-oz_160798/ http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/wizard-of-oz_160798/ 3/28/2010 - 4/11/2010. Chay Yew directs the world premiere of Kia Corthron's A Cool Dip in the Barren Sahran Crick, a co-production with The Play Company and the Culture Project. When an African preacher-in-training is taken in by a family in the American South, he finds his calling in the broken lives... 2009-08-14T09:09:56+00:00 2010-03-28 2010-04-11 Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/a-cool-dip-in-the-barren-sahran-crick_158563/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/a-cool-dip-in-the-barren-sahran-crick_158563/ 3/28/2010 - 4/17/2010. The celebrated and world-renowned Lazara String Quartet is struggling for their highest-profile performance when their gifted but volatile violinist mysteriously disappears. The play is interwoven with rich and powerful music that propels this New England Premiere forward.... 2009-06-05T11:22:30+00:00 2010-03-28 2010-04-17 Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA, 02472 New Repertory Theatre Play. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/opus_156016/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/opus_156016/ 3/28/2010. The Tokens are an American male doo-wop vocal group from Brooklyn, New York. They are best-known for their chart-topping 1961 single, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." The Tokens were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004. In 1998, The Tokens made it into the Guinness Book of World... 2009-06-23T14:08:22+00:00 2010-03-28 2010-03-28 Queensborough Performing Arts Center (Q-PAC), 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY, 11364 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-tokens-in-concert-and-their-tribute-to-doo-wop_156716/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-tokens-in-concert-and-their-tribute-to-doo-wop_156716/ 3/27/2010 - 5/2/2010. Set during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and written in direct response to the McCarthy trials in the 1950s, this scathing indictment of censorship remains a timeless classic of American drama - a master study on the inherent frailty, delicate beauty and limitless possibility of the human spirit. 2009-07-05T12:22:04+00:00 2010-03-27 2010-05-02 Infamous Commonwealth Theatre, 4845 North Harding #1, Chicago, Illinois, 60625 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-crucible_157120/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-crucible_157120/ 3/27/2010. Guy Davis is a musician, composer, actor (Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil), director and writer. But most importantly, he's a bluesman. The blues permeates every corner of Davis' creativity and his music ranges from soulful, moaning out a people's cry, to playful and bouncy as a hayride.... 2009-07-13T17:07:41+00:00 2010-03-27 2010-03-27 Emelin Theatre, 153 Library Lane, Mamaroneck, NY, 10543 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/westchester-rockland/shows/guy-davis_157336/ http://www.theatermania.com/westchester-rockland/shows/guy-davis_157336/ 3/27/2010. Developed as a collaboration between DCA Theater and the Chicago Performance Network, IN>TIME is an annual Chicago performance series of local, national, and international artists. The event features practitioners working with ideas of time and body, crossing the performing body with... 2009-10-30T14:08:42+00:00 2010-03-27 2010-03-27 Chicago Cultural Center, 78 East Washington Street, Chicago, IL, 60602 Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Chicago Performance Network Festival. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/intime-2010-showcase_161099/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/intime-2010-showcase_161099/ 3/27/2010 - 4/25/2010. In the sequel to the late Hugh Leonard's most celebrated work, Da, John Mahoney stars in this evocative play about the evolution of friendships in a small Irish town. Desmond Drumm nears retirement and his memories come to life, reminding him of the triumphs and tragedies of his youth and... 2009-03-18T16:21:59+00:00 2010-03-27 2010-04-25 Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Boulevard, Skokie, IL, 60076 Northlight Theatre Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/a-life_153467/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/a-life_153467/ 3/27/2010 - 4/25/2010. Stephen Sondheim's (A Little Night Music) chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime is a mix of macabre, visceral drama with howlingly funny dark humor. Sweeney Todd, a barber seeking revenge and the proprietress of the pie shop downstairs,... 2009-05-13T16:30:51+00:00 2010-03-27 2010-04-25 Cygnet Theatre, 6663 El Cajon Blvd, Suite N, San Diego, CA, 92115 Cygnet Theatre Play. http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/sweeney-todd_155197/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/sweeney-todd_155197/ 3/27/2010 - 3/28/2010. Great Family Event--Move over KODO, here comes TAO! Wadaiko drumming becomes a whirlwind of energetic sound and movement as TAO takes the stage redefining the art of this Japanese tradition. Using influences from around the world, namely, djembe drumming from Africa, Taiko, gymnastics, and even... 2009-06-24T15:26:01+00:00 2010-03-27 2010-03-28 State Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 Performance Art. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/tao-the-martial-art-of-drumming_156820/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/tao-the-martial-art-of-drumming_156820/ 3/26/2010. The music of Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a remarkable part of musical theater for the past 30 years. The OnStage Cabaret Orchestra will bring you a vast retrospective of this prolific composer's unforgettable musicals including Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, Phantom of the Opera... 2009-07-27T13:59:13+00:00 2010-03-26 2010-03-26 Lewis Family Playhouse @ Victoria Gardens Cultural Center, 12505 Cultural Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91739 Musical.Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/andrew-lloyd-webber-at-the-pops_157899/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/andrew-lloyd-webber-at-the-pops_157899/ 3/26/2010 - 4/18/2010. One of August Wilson?s most beloved plays, Fences is the story of Troy Maxton, a garbage collector who has long abandoned his dream of becoming a professional baseball player. As the 1950s come to a close in Philadelphia and black athletes begin to achieve the type of fame Troy still... 2009-04-07T00:09:19+00:00 2010-03-26 2010-04-18 Seattle Repertory Theatre - Bagley Wright Theatre, 155 Mercer St., Seattle, WA, 98121 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/fences_154001/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/fences_154001/ 3/26/2010. For the past 10 years, Daniel José Older has been combining his passion for social justice work with his gift for music and storytelling to create moving, cutting-edge multimedia projects. This spring, Older will return to BMCC Tribeca PAC for a second show with his band Ghost Star. 2009-10-29T15:12:42+00:00 2010-03-26 2010-03-26 Tribeca Performing Arts Center @ Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York, NY, 10007 Tribeca Spotlight Series Live Music. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/ghost-star-in-concert_161065/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/ghost-star-in-concert_161065/ 3/26/2010 - 4/17/2010. By Mark Twain / Adapted by David Ives Rumors of this play were not exaggerated - it received its world premiere on Broadway in 2006 - and it's a live one! Jean-François Millet, a brilliant but unrecognized painter, can't sell a landscape to save his life (literally). His wacky... 2009-09-17T17:55:16+00:00 2010-03-26 2010-04-17 Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd. North, Petaluma, CA, 94952 Cinnabar Theater Play. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/is-he-dead_159652/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/is-he-dead_159652/ 3/26/2010 - 4/24/2010. "The most sensible attempt to capture the elusive mystique of the great Billie Holiday." -New York Times. This Off-Broadway hit features the soulful and emotional music of blues legend Billie Holiday, voiced through a dramatic cabaret act. During one of her final performances,... 2009-09-23T12:19:16+00:00 2010-03-26 2010-04-24 Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA, 02116 Lyric Stage Company Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/lady-day-at-emersons-bar-and-grill_159828/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/lady-day-at-emersons-bar-and-grill_159828/ 3/26/2010 - 3/28/2010. The entire family will be captivated as they travel down the Yellow Brick Road and beyond with Dorothy, Toto and their friends in this lavish production featuring breathtaking special effects, dazzling choreography and classic songs. A spectacular celebration of the iconic 1939 MGM film starring... 2009-07-13T13:58:34+00:00 2010-03-26 2010-03-28 Orpheum Theatre, 910 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN, 55403 Hennepin Theatre Trust Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/the-wizard-of-oz_157308/ http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/the-wizard-of-oz_157308/ 3/25/2010. Porgy and Bess is recognized as an American masterpiece. A story that intertwines pride, prejudice, pathos, and passion through a jazz and blues influenced score. Originally billed as a "Folk Opera," Porgy and Bess introduces classic Gershwin songs including "Summertime," "I Got Plenty... 2009-06-24T15:23:19+00:00 2010-03-25 2010-03-25 State Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/the-gershwins-porgy-and-bess_156819/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/the-gershwins-porgy-and-bess_156819/ 3/25/2010 - 4/11/2010. The Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to vibrant life in this delightful musical parable. Joseph, his father's favorite son, is a boy blessed with prophetic dreams. When he is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers and taken to Egypt, Joseph endures a series of adventures... 2009-05-14T15:25:29+00:00 2010-03-25 2010-04-11 Manatee Players, 102 Old Main Street, Bradenton, FL, 34205 Manatee Players Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/joseph-and-the-amazing-technicolor-dreamcoat_155248/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/joseph-and-the-amazing-technicolor-dreamcoat_155248/ 3/25/2010 - 5/9/2010. Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman, co-authors of the Denver Center hits Fire on the Mountain and It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, create a rambunctious musical portrait of America's long-distance truckers. Drawn from interviews with the men and women who criss-cross the country in their 18-wheelers, the... 2009-06-16T16:24:23+00:00 2010-03-25 2010-05-09 Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1245 Champa Street, Denver, CO, 80204 Denver Center Theatre Company Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/mama-hated-diesels_156475/ http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/mama-hated-diesels_156475/ 3/25/2010 - 4/18/2010. A Tony winner for Best Play, Master Class is Terrence McNally's portrait of opera diva Maria Callas through her recollections of the glories, triumphs, and tragedies of her own life and career. Her voice is gone, her lover is long departed, and her sanity could possibly be next. All... 2009-10-22T11:24:38+00:00 2010-03-25 2010-04-18 The Kennedy Center - Eisenhower Theater, 2700 F St. NW, Washington, DC, 20566 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/master-class_160822/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/master-class_160822/ 3/25/2010 - 3/28/2010. Sponsored by Rod Parker, NewFest selects an original student play directed by Joe Antoun, artistic director of Centa Stage. Staged readings of other student work will also be a part of NewFest 2010. 2009-07-23T14:59:46+00:00 2010-03-25 2010-03-28 Semel Theatre, 10 Boylston Place, Boston, MA, 02116 Emerson Stage Play. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/newfest-2010_157799/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/newfest-2010_157799/ 3/25/2010 - 4/11/2010. Sex. Secrets. Performance-art blogs and blackmail. A typical day when you're a teenager in Salem, Oregon. Three teenage misfits discover they are linked by a sex scandal that's rocked their town. When one of them sets out to expose the truth, secrets become currency, the stakes get higher, and... 2009-05-10T11:09:50+00:00 2010-03-25 2010-04-11 Diversionary Theatre, 4545 Park Boulevard, San Diego, CA, 92116 Comedy.Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/speech-and-debate_155054/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/speech-and-debate_155054/ 3/25/2010 - 4/18/2010. Two powerhouse performers return to the stage in a darkly comic tour de force from the creator of The Overcoat. Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis (Steel Magnolias, Moonstruck, A.C.T.'s Hecuba) and beloved Bay Area actor Marco Barricelli (A.C.T.'s Long Day's Journey into Night and A... 2009-07-28T13:23:52+00:00 2010-03-25 2010-04-18 American Conservatory Theater, 415 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102 American Conservatory Theater Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/vigil_157993/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/vigil_157993/ 3/25/2010 - 4/11/2010. Wild, risqué and ferociously playful, Joe Orton's uproarious farce is one of the seminal works of modern comedy. When psychiatrist Dr. Prentice tries to seduce an aspiring secretary, his botched efforts lead to comic bedlam involving his insatiable wife, a randy bellhop, a befuddled police... 2009-06-23T08:54:41+00:00 2010-03-25 2010-04-11 Downtown Arts Center, 141 E. Main St., Lexington, Kentucky, 40507 Actors Guild of Lexington Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/kentucky/shows/what-the-butler-saw_156664/ http://www.theatermania.com/kentucky/shows/what-the-butler-saw_156664/ 3/24/2010 - 4/25/2010. A successful London-based writer, Charlie returns to his childhood home in Dublin after the death of this adoptive father. His Da was a little maddening when alive, but he's even more impossible now that he's dead! Da's ghost refuses to leave Charlie alone, peppering him with unsolicited advice... 2009-08-06T12:54:29+00:00 2010-03-24 2010-04-25 Olney Theatre Center, Olney-Sandy Spring Rd., Olney, MD, 20832 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/da_158314/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/da_158314/ opens 3/24/2010. In this fresh interpretation of Williams' haunting memory play, Tom Wingfield (Patch Darragh) sits writing in a hotel room, trying to forge his past into art. Soon Tom's space is overtaken by the cramped apartment he once shared with his mother Amanda (Judith Ivey), his beloved sister Laura (Keira... 2009-08-14T13:55:56+00:00 2010-03-24 1900-01-01 Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, 111 West 46th Street, New York, NY, 10036 The Roundabout Theater Company in association with Long Wharf Theatre Play. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/the-glass-menagerie_158574/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/the-glass-menagerie_158574/ 3/24/2010 - 4/25/2010. Fred and Adele Astaire originally starred in this farce about a brother-and-sister vaudeville team, who, through a series of madcap adventures find themselves rocketing from the state of the dispossessed to wealth and popularity among the Long Island haut monde. 2009-04-15T15:26:56+00:00 2010-03-24 2010-04-25 Eureka Theatre, 215 Jackson, San Francisco, CA, 94111 42nd STREET MOON Season. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/lady-be-good_154243/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/lady-be-good_154243/ 3/24/2010 - 4/4/2010. Come take a rare and intimate glimpse at Muslim life when Victory Gardens Fresh Squeezed hosts last year's hit from Berwyn's 16th Street Theater, Unveiled. Written and performed by local playwright and soloist Rohina, in Unveiled, five Muslim women in a post-9/11 world serve tea... 2009-10-01T14:09:21+00:00 2010-03-24 2010-04-04 Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre, 2433 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60614 Solo Performance. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/rohinas-unveiled_160195/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/rohinas-unveiled_160195/ 3/24/2010. Take a trip to Metropolis and revisit some of your favorite songs from the 1920s, '30s and '40s with two of our favorite performers. Micky York has been Musical Director for many Metropolis productions including Speed Dating the Musical and last season's Baby while Lisa Rock has graced stages all... 2009-06-15T09:30:46+00:00 2010-03-24 2010-03-24 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell Street, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005 Cabaret. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/sentimental-journey_156358/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/sentimental-journey_156358/ 3/24/2010. Ran Jia made her solo debut in 1995, and has since performed in Shanghai, Nanjing, Chengdu, Fuzhou, and Xiamen in China. She has won numerous awards including, First Prize and the Osaka Mayer Prize in the Shanghai-Osaka Chinese and Japanese Friendship Youth Piano Competition, First Prize in the... 2009-10-02T16:03:26+00:00 2010-03-24 2010-03-24 Duncan Theatre, 4200 Congress Avenue, Lake Worth, FL, 33461 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/young-artists-series-ran-jia-piano_160249/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/young-artists-series-ran-jia-piano_160249/ 3/23/2010 - 4/25/2010. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is a fast-paced entertainment that takes a sharp, irreverent look at America's seventh president, Andrew Jackson. This satirical epic reveals questions about the country we live in and the leaders we choose. 2009-10-22T14:12:33+00:00 2010-03-23 2010-04-25 The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY, 10003 The Public Theater Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/bloody-bloody-andrew-jackson_160835/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/bloody-bloody-andrew-jackson_160835/ 3/23/2010. Back by Popular Demand! Remember when you used to listen to an entire album? Classic Albums Live does. For the first time in popular music, the greatest albums are recreated live on stage, note for note, cut for cut. The effect is captivating! 2009-10-02T16:00:56+00:00 2010-03-23 2010-03-23 Duncan Theatre, 4200 Congress Avenue, Lake Worth, FL, 33461 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/classic-albums-live-the-beatles-revolver_160248/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/classic-albums-live-the-beatles-revolver_160248/ 3/23/2010 - 4/24/2010. After four long years, it's time to introduce a new generation to the phenomenon of Disney's The Lion King. Marvel at the breathtaking spectacle of animals brought to life by award-winning director Julie Taymor, whose visual images for this show you'll remember forever. Thrill to the... 2009-04-04T18:53:06+00:00 2010-03-23 2010-04-24 Academy of Music, Broad St & Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19112 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/disneys-the-lion-king_153942/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/disneys-the-lion-king_153942/ 3/23/2010 - 4/11/2010. The war is over, the parents murdered, the palace surrounded, and Orestes and Electra await judgment by both Gods and men...just a typical day in the House of Atreus. Grave yet giddy, fierce yet fun, Anne Washburn's razor sharp modern adaptation blows more than 2000 years of dust off Euripides'... 2009-07-28T10:32:09+00:00 2010-03-23 2010-04-11 Two River Theater, 21 Bridge Avenue, Red Bank, NJ, 07701 Two River Theater Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/orestes-a-tragic-romp_157972/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/orestes-a-tragic-romp_157972/ 3/23/2010 - 4/18/2010. The Emmy Award-winning 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series teaches history, grammar, math, science and politics through clever, tuneful songs LIVE ON STAGE! You and your children won't want to miss it! 2009-05-19T16:02:06+00:00 2010-03-23 2010-04-18 Orlando Shakespeare Theater, 812 Rollins St., Orlando, FL, 32803 Musical.Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/schoolhouse-rock-live_155377/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/schoolhouse-rock-live_155377/ 3/22/2010. An all-star cast from opera and Broadway comes together to present the World Premiere Two Act Concert Version of Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie's beautiful rendering of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath, conducted by Ted... 2009-09-23T17:34:17+00:00 2010-03-22 2010-03-22 Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, 10019 Collegiate Chorale Opera. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-grapes-of-wrath_159856/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-grapes-of-wrath_159856/ 3/22/2010. The StepCrew is the new international dance production featuring the world's top talents in Irish Step, Ottawa Valley and Modern Tap Dancing as well as Fiddling. The StepCrew takes traditional dance forms and fiddling to new heights. Featuring a cast of seven outstanding dancers, they... 2009-08-04T09:37:37+00:00 2010-03-22 2010-03-22 Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center, 1977 College Drive, Belle Glade, FL, 33430 Dance. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/the-stepcrew_158237/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/the-stepcrew_158237/ 3/21/2010. Along with glowing reviews from critics and fans, Neil Diamond impersonator Jay White has received the two best endorsements of all - from Neil Diamond and his mother, Rose. They call White their "favorite tribute performer." In fact, when Diamond himself performed at the MGM Grand, he met... 2009-06-23T13:58:07+00:00 2010-03-21 2010-03-21 Queensborough Performing Arts Center (Q-PAC), 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY, 11364 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/americas-diamond-live-starring-jay-white_156714/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/americas-diamond-live-starring-jay-white_156714/ 3/21/2010 - 4/11/2010. As the final coup de theatre, HERBERT SIGUENZA will be performing and painting onstage during the tour de force workshop production of A WEEKEND WITH PABLO PICASSO. Though he is best known for his comedic work with Culture Clash, Siguenza was first a visual artist. As a young boy, he... 2009-09-06T10:36:32+00:00 2010-03-21 2010-04-11 San Diego Repertory Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA, 92101 Experimental. http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/a-weekend-with-pablo-picasso_159274/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/a-weekend-with-pablo-picasso_159274/ 3/21/2010 - 5/2/2010. Will Rogers: An American Original, written and performed by 3-time Jeff nominee Kevin McKillip. This one-man show explores the life and times of America's most popular humorist. At the time of his death in 1935, Will Rogers hosted the number one radio show in America, had a daily... 2009-06-24T18:23:36+00:00 2010-03-21 2010-05-02 Mayslake Peabody Estate, 1677 W. 31st St, Oak Brook, Illinois, 60523 First Folio Theatre Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/will-rogers-an-american-original_156833/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/will-rogers-an-american-original_156833/ 3/20/2010 - 4/25/2010. This world premiere romantic comedy, in the spirit of The African Queen and Romancing the Stone, tells the story of a mismatched pair, Carla a big city reporter from the North and Zach a Southern tracker and Civil War re-enactor with whom she reluctantly must work with to research her... 2009-05-10T11:14:43+00:00 2010-03-20 2010-04-25 Old Globe Theatre, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, 92101 Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/alive-and-well_155055/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/alive-and-well_155055/ 3/20/2010 - 5/23/2010. The economic ravages of 1930s New York threaten to destroy the tenuous ties that bind the Berger family. Matriarch Besse Berger is willing to crush her children's dreams in order to keep the struggling clan in tact. But the irrepressible spirit of youth refuses to be extinguished in gifted social... 2009-08-19T17:39:02+00:00 2010-03-20 2010-05-23 A Noise Within Theatre, 234 South Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA, 91204 A Noise WIthin Theatre Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/awake-and-sing_158740/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/awake-and-sing_158740/ 3/20/2010 - 4/11/2010. This show promises to deliver an avalanche of laughs that will highlight the most comedic and relevant elements of what it means to be behind the Orange Curtain. Whether you're a life-long OC resident or a recent transplant, you'll see yourself, your neighbor or your favorite plastic surgeon... 2009-07-17T13:55:02+00:00 2010-03-20 2010-04-11 Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Rd., Laguna Beach, CA, 92651 The Second City Comedy.Sketch Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/can-you-be-more-pacific_157617/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/can-you-be-more-pacific_157617/ 3/20/2010 - 4/4/2010. Arthur Miller's The Crucible has been called, "A powerful drama," By NY Times, "Strongly written," by NY Daily News, and comes to The Gallery Players' stage for the first time. This exciting drama is both a gripping historical play and a timely parable. Based on historical people and... 2009-07-21T12:32:01+00:00 2010-03-20 2010-04-04 Gallery Players, 199 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11215 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-crucible_157715/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-crucible_157715/ 3/20/2010 - 4/11/2010. The Lisbon Traviata places the two faces of classic theater, comedy and tragedy, in stark relief. Stephen especially adores Maria Callas and dishing the latest gossip with his best friend, the wildly flamboyant and catty opera queen Mendy. They talk late into the night in an attempt to... 2009-10-22T14:10:15+00:00 2010-03-20 2010-04-11 The Kennedy Center - Terrace Theater, 2700 F St. NW, Washington, DC, 20566 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/the-lisbon-traviata_160834/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/the-lisbon-traviata_160834/ 3/20/2010. A leading connoisseur of the Great American Songbook, singer Michael Feinstein has made a brilliant career of performing forgotten treasures by the likes of the Gershwins, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin. His latest album, The Sinatra Project, is a tribute not only to Ol' Blue Eyes, but to... 2009-06-24T15:21:46+00:00 2010-03-20 2010-03-20 State Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/michael-feinstein-sinatra-project_156818/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/michael-feinstein-sinatra-project_156818/ 3/20/2010 - 4/11/2010. Homeboys become heroes, a gallant garbage man rescues a shopkeeper in distress, Irfan transforms into Indira with the swipe of a lipstick, and unexpected love heats up the new year in this culture-colliding comic whirlwind. A hit at both Momentum 08 and Sundance, When January Feels Like... 2009-05-09T12:09:11+00:00 2010-03-20 2010-04-11 City Theatre, 1300 Bingham, Pittsburgh, PA, 15203 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/pittsburgh/shows/when-january-feels-like-summer_155039/ http://www.theatermania.com/pittsburgh/shows/when-january-feels-like-summer_155039/ 3/19/2010 - 4/4/2010. The name says it all. With their beeline approach to highflying fun, the cheeky Aussies of Circa push their own limits as they perform feats of acrobatic wonder at breakneck speed. The show features aerial antics, such as trapeze and straps, as well as tumbling, juggling, extreme unicycling, and... 2009-06-30T19:39:57+00:00 2010-03-19 2010-04-04 New Victory Theater, 209 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036 Scottish Theater Festival Season. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/46-circus-acts-in-45-minutes_157013/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/46-circus-acts-in-45-minutes_157013/ 3/19/2010 - 3/20/2010. Described by the New York Times as "A breath of fresh air," Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Company stands out as a model of what a small ballet company should be with its "musicality, athleticism, and technique-conscious delivery." The versatile and gifted troupe of 12 young dancers perform an... 2009-10-02T15:57:58+00:00 2010-03-19 2010-03-20 Duncan Theatre, 4200 Congress Avenue, Lake Worth, FL, 33461 Dance. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/aspen-santa-fe-ballet_160247/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/aspen-santa-fe-ballet_160247/ 3/19/2010 - 4/18/2010. By Tom Griffin, directed by Kim Bromley The charming comedy of friendship Originally produced Off-Broadway in 1987, this poignant and charming play became an instant hit. And it's easy to see why. It's a life-affirming comedy about four mentally handicapped men living in one apartment... 2009-09-17T17:31:21+00:00 2010-03-19 2010-04-18 Ross Valley Players Barn Theatre, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross, CA, 94957 Ross Valley Players Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/the-boys-next-door_159645/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/the-boys-next-door_159645/ 3/19/2010 - 4/17/2010. A Regional Premiere Can we ever go home... and do we want to? Eric Weiss has finally made it big with a best seller and a shot at a Hollywood film. An inconvenient phone call brings him back to the Brooklyn neighborhood he grew up in and happily left behind. Witty and deeply... 2009-08-12T18:50:03+00:00 2010-03-19 2010-04-17 Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th Street, Seattle, WA, 98103 Taproot Theatre Company Comedy.Drama. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/brooklyn-boy_158545/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/brooklyn-boy_158545/ 3/19/2010 - 4/11/2010. This gripping, psychological drama was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and is a tour-de-force for two actors. When a young man goes off to war, his death thousands of miles away has rippling effects on those he leaves behind. Kelly, his widow, is a therapist who watches Law and Order because... 2009-04-07T20:06:15+00:00 2010-03-19 2010-04-11 Seattle Public Theatre, 7312 W Greenlake Drive.N., Seattle, WA, 98103 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/dying-city_154049/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/dying-city_154049/ 3/19/2010. The youngest musician and only guitarist to win the prestigious Naumburg International Competition; known for his dazzling virtuosity and intense musicality, and widely regarded as one of the finest guitarists of his generation. "...his unusual combination of a deft, powerful technique and a... 2009-08-24T09:59:36+00:00 2010-03-19 2010-03-19 Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, 10010 NYC Classical guitar Society Live Music. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/jorge-caballero_158861/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/jorge-caballero_158861/ 3/19/2010. Joy Behar, currently a co-host of ABC's The View, is among today's leading comic talents. Whether performing stand-up comedy or interviewing politicians and artists, she is a comedic original and a leading woman both on stage and screen. The View, recipient of the 2003 Daytime Emmy®... 2009-06-24T13:37:49+00:00 2010-03-19 2010-03-19 State Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/joy-behar_156780/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/joy-behar_156780/ 3/19/2010 - 4/11/2010. The Alliance Theatre is thrilled to welcome master storyteller and nationally acclaimed solo performer Mike Daisey with his latest monologue, The Last Cargo Cult. In it, he tells the true-life unbelievable tale of a religion created by Pacific Islanders around abandoned American... 2009-08-11T16:06:03+00:00 2010-03-19 2010-04-11 Alliance Theatre Company--Hertz Stage, 1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 30309 Drama.Solo Performance. http://www.theatermania.com/georgia/shows/the-last-cargo-cult_158471/ http://www.theatermania.com/georgia/shows/the-last-cargo-cult_158471/ 3/19/2010 - 4/25/2010. Three boys of the Dinka tribe are taken to of all places - Fargo, North Dakota - where encounters with drought, crocodiles and guerrillas are replaced with malls, video games, and Skittles. If you can't imagine being a continent, a culture, a language away from home, join these three boys who... 2009-04-12T01:11:47+00:00 2010-03-19 2010-04-25 Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre, 2433 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60614 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-lost-boys-of-sudan_154166/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-lost-boys-of-sudan_154166/ 3/19/2010 - 5/9/2010. Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman, co-authors of the Denver Center hits Fire on the Mountain and It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, create a rambunctious musical portrait of America's long-distance truckers in Mama HAted Diesels. Drawn from interviews with the men and women who... 2009-07-28T08:18:45+00:00 2010-03-19 2010-05-09 Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1245 Champa Street, Denver, CO, 80204 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/mama-hated-diesels_157948/ http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/mama-hated-diesels_157948/ 3/19/2010 - 4/18/2010. Combining the best of Hitchcock, Chandlet, and Mamet, acclaimed theatre, TV, and film writer Theresa Rebeck has crafted a caper that's equally comic and captivating. Filled with scams, con-artists, and double-crosses, two half-sisters vie for the rights to a recently inherited stamp collection that... 2009-05-29T13:35:19+00:00 2010-03-19 2010-04-18 Philadelphia Theatre Company, 480 S. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA, 19146 Philadelphia Theatre Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/mauritius_155756/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/mauritius_155756/ 3/19/2010 - 3/21/2010. Passions a la Carmen by Georges Bizet This spring, the troupe will perform a ballet interpretation of Georges Bizet's Carmen. Choreographed by Artistic Director Yuri Petukhov, this dynamic piece captures the spirit of the turbulent love triangle and bull-fighting culture of Bizet's... 2009-10-29T15:54:24+00:00 2010-03-19 2010-03-21 Tribeca Performing Arts Center @ Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York, NY, 10007 Tribeca Dance Dance. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/st-petersburg-state-ballet-theatre_161073/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/st-petersburg-state-ballet-theatre_161073/ 3/18/2010 - 4/18/2010. How far can you go with ambition, gumption, a good heart--and no talent? The Cherry Sisters' dreams of Vaudeville took them from their Iowa barn to Broadway, where their inept acrobatics and tone-deaf caterwauling continually sold out, bringing them fame--and a barrage of rotten cabbages. With music... 2009-03-25T11:34:04+00:00 2010-03-18 2010-04-18 Actors Theatre Louisville, 316 West Main Street, Louisville, KY, 40202 Actors Theatre of Louisville Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/kentucky/shows/the-cherry-sisters-revisited_153575/ http://www.theatermania.com/kentucky/shows/the-cherry-sisters-revisited_153575/ 3/18/2010 - 5/23/2010. A nostalgic and powerful portrait of life in turn of the century America, Ragtime is based on E.L. Doctorow's distinguished novel. The musical intertwines the stories of a Harlem musician, a wealthy New York family and a Latvian Jewish immigrant. Ragtime poignantly explores... 2009-08-12T12:51:12+00:00 2010-03-18 2010-05-23 Drury Lane Oakbrook/Terrace, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL, 60181 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/ragtime_158494/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/ragtime_158494/ 3/18/2010 - 4/3/2010. Identities are mistaken, engagements are broken, and lovers are reunited in Carlo Goldoni's commedia dell'arte masterpiece when the wily--and chronically hungry--servant Truffaldino hatches a zany scheme to double his wages (and his meals) by serving two masters at once. 2009-04-28T10:35:12+00:00 2010-03-18 2010-04-03 University Theatre at Yale University, 222 York Street, New Haven, CT, 06510 Season. http://www.theatermania.com/connecticut/shows/the-servant-of-two-masters_154643/ http://www.theatermania.com/connecticut/shows/the-servant-of-two-masters_154643/ 3/17/2010 - 4/4/2010. As began with last season's No Child..., DTC continues its Community Series exploring the voices of Wilmington on its stage with 10 Months: The Wilmington Voices Project, conceived and directed by Anne Marie Cammarato. 10 Months asks, "How does our city define itself?... 2009-06-20T11:25:27+00:00 2010-03-17 2010-04-04 Delaware Theatre Company, 200 Water Street, Wilmington, DE, 19801 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/delaware/shows/10-months-the-wilmington-voices-project_156595/ http://www.theatermania.com/delaware/shows/10-months-the-wilmington-voices-project_156595/ 3/17/2010 - 3/21/2010. Funny, bittersweet, stories of coming of age and illicit love affairs gone wrong interlaced with traditional Irish music featuring vocals, flute, and Celtic harp. DC Theatre Scene wrote, "The stories are carved and scoured with language like a cascade of diamonds.The protagonist tells her story... 2009-10-26T20:21:06+00:00 2010-03-17 2010-03-21 The Red Room at Society Hill Playhouse, 507 S. 8th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19147 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/belles-of-dublin_160897/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/belles-of-dublin_160897/ 3/17/2010 - 4/10/2010. The brilliant, witty world of The Cocktail Party is T.S. Eliot's profound exploration of self-deception and redemption. Edward and Lavinia Chamberlayne are throwing a fashionable party at their London flat. The guests arrive only to discover that their hostess is nowhere to be found... 2009-07-31T12:09:19+00:00 2010-03-17 2010-04-10 Beckett Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036 The Actors Company Theatre Play. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/the-cocktail-party_158141/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/the-cocktail-party_158141/ 3/17/2010. Welcome everyone to Grapplin, Ireland. We're glad you could make the journey to join us in mourning the loss of dear ol' Flanagan. Father Fitzgerald would like to start us off with a word of prayer. Father Fitzgerald? Father! Put down your pint! We're starting! One of the longest running... 2009-06-15T09:29:13+00:00 2010-03-17 2010-03-17 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell Street, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005 Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/flanagans-wake_156357/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/flanagans-wake_156357/ 3/17/2010 - 3/21/2010. A behind-the-scenes story of a high-stakes political drama that dared the country and its citizens to look into the mirror -- and change. Robert Kennedy had an early mistrust of Dr. Martin Luther King and his tactics, but became one of the civil rights movement's greatest champions. Through... 2009-09-05T11:44:24+00:00 2010-03-17 2010-03-21 Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90049 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/rfk-the-journey-to-justice_159256/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/rfk-the-journey-to-justice_159256/ 3/17/2010 - 4/11/2010. Four months after Katrina, a white man and his teenage son rent half of a shotgun duplex apartment from an African-American woman and her father. Seething racial tensions bubble to the surface when love begins to bloom. 2009-05-19T15:47:06+00:00 2010-03-17 2010-04-11 Orlando Shakespeare Theater, 812 Rollins St., Orlando, FL, 32803 Orlando Shakespeare Theater Play. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/shotgun_155375/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/shotgun_155375/ 3/17/2010 - 4/11/2010. A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a dilapidated tenement where a life or death decision begs the existential question: is there light at the end of the tunnel? 2009-05-14T13:11:00+00:00 2010-03-17 2010-04-11 Theatrical Outfit, 84 Luckie Street, Atlanta, GA, 30303 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/georgia/shows/the-sunset-limited_155229/ http://www.theatermania.com/georgia/shows/the-sunset-limited_155229/ 3/16/2010 - 4/4/2010. Treasured for her groundbreaking poetic and inventive language, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog) has drawn a family portrait shattered by issues of rage, revenge, power and betrayal. When a young man returns home to South Texas to confront his father,... 2009-05-27T13:10:41+00:00 2010-03-16 2010-04-04 The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY, 10003 THE PUBLIC THEATER Play. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/the-book-of-grace_155641/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/the-book-of-grace_155641/ 3/16/2010 - 5/2/2010. Julia and Jane, two upper-class society ladies, have been friends for ages and have shared everything. When Jane receives news that her former lover, Maurice, is coming to town, the past catches up with both women! How do they escape the attentions of this dashing and daring French former lover?... 2009-01-06T16:06:10+00:00 2010-03-16 2010-05-02 Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107 Walnut Street Theatre Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/fallen-angels_150991/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/fallen-angels_150991/ 3/16/2010 - 3/28/2010. Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, with book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, earned several Tony awards, including best musical and best book in its original 1962... 2009-04-27T16:18:56+00:00 2010-03-16 2010-03-28 Freud Playhouse, Macgowen HallHilgard Avenue, Los Angles, CA, 90024 Reprise Theatre Company Season. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-forum_154607/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-forum_154607/ 3/16/2010. A brand new review of Hollywood's greatest musical memories, this show features an array of colorful sets and costumes and innovative musical arrangements and choreography. A versatile cast of 11 sing, dance and recreate movie memories from the golden age of movies such as Singin' in the Rain,... 2009-08-04T09:34:55+00:00 2010-03-16 2010-03-16 Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center, 1977 College Drive, Belle Glade, FL, 33430 Matt Davenport Productions Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/red-hot-hollywood_158236/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/red-hot-hollywood_158236/ 3/15/2010 - 3/16/2010. Another Part of the Forest, Hellman's prequel to The Little Foxes, portrays a mercantile family building an empire on the scrap heap of post-Civil War Alabama. Another Part of the Forest performs as part of Our American Theater Company's "Past is Prologue"... 2009-08-02T09:20:26+00:00 2010-03-15 2010-03-16 Theater Off Jackson, 409 Seventh Avenue South, Seattle, WA, 98104 Our American Theater Company Staged Reading. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/another-part-of-the-forest_158183/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/another-part-of-the-forest_158183/ 3/15/2010 - 4/11/2010. A white community in 1950's Chicago splinters over the Black family about to move in. Fast-forward to our present day, and the same house represents very different demographics as we climb through the looking-glass of Lorraine Hansberry's classic A Raisin in the Sun. These hilarious and... 2009-09-02T13:41:35+00:00 2010-03-15 2010-04-11 Woolly Mammoth Theatre - Main Stage, 641 D Street , NW, Washington, DC, 20004 Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/clybourne-park_159172/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/clybourne-park_159172/ 3/15/2010 - 3/21/2010. When the NEA revoked funding to four artists in 1990 for work deemed indecent, Tim Miller and Holly Hughes were plaintiffs on the front line. The unprecedented censorship led to a Supreme Court ruling that permanently discontinued all NEA funding to individual artists. As queer performers, Miller... 2009-10-01T13:57:17+00:00 2010-03-15 2010-03-21 Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre, 2433 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60614 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/lay-of-the-land-and-the-dog-and-pony-show-bring-your-own-pony_160194/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/lay-of-the-land-and-the-dog-and-pony-show-bring-your-own-pony_160194/ 3/14/2010 - 5/2/2010. A Native American girl named Shadow feels blue because she knows nothing of her heritage. When she brings together four of her neighbors to share their friendship and storytelling traditions, Shadow learns to embrace who she is, and to celebrate the beauty of all cultures. Explore a whole world of... 2009-04-04T17:38:05+00:00 2010-03-14 2010-05-02 Lifeline Theatre, 6912 North Glenwood, Chicago, IL, 60626 Lifeline Theatre Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-blue-shadow_153935/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-blue-shadow_153935/ 3/14/2010. Six-time Grammy Award-winners, The Chieftains are recognized for bringing traditional Irish music to the world's attention. This band has uncovered the wealth of traditional Irish music that's accumulated over the centuries, making music with a style both exhilarating and definitive. It is... 2009-06-24T15:19:13+00:00 2010-03-14 2010-03-14 State Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/the-chieftains_156817/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/the-chieftains_156817/ 3/14/2010. Master storyteller David Gonzalez (2006 Drama Desk nominee, Unique Theatrical Experience for The Frog Bride) puts a new spin on the classic fairy tale, using live and electronic music, dance, image projections, and exquisite lighting to create a magical multimedia world in which a beautiful princess... 2009-08-01T11:23:34+00:00 2010-03-14 2010-03-14 Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, 2900 Campus Road and Hillel Place, Brooklyn, NY, 11210 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/david-gonzalezs-sleeping-beauty_158170/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/david-gonzalezs-sleeping-beauty_158170/ 3/14/2010 - 3/28/2010. Drawing from various theatrical traditions, such as clowning, pantomime, charades, acrobatics and vaudeville, this show is a jubilant, high energy musical with the universal themes of love and joy! The exciting score includes "Day by Day" and "Prepare Ye." 2009-10-21T16:50:18+00:00 2010-03-14 2010-03-28 The Showplace at the Bellmore Movies, 222 Pettit Avenue, Bellmore, NY, 11710 Plaza Theatrical Productions Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/godspell_160805/ http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/godspell_160805/ 3/14/2010. Giuseppe Verdi's music animates the world of Violetta, a beautiful Paris courtesan who must abandon her beloved Alfredo to save his family's honor. La Traviata -the fallen one - is a captivating story of money, wild youth, true love, and true love's sacrifice. Ravishing melodies,... 2009-06-23T13:54:12+00:00 2010-03-14 2010-03-14 Queensborough Performing Arts Center (Q-PAC), 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY, 11364 Opera. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/la-traviata_156713/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/la-traviata_156713/ 3/14/2010 - 5/2/2010. In Cornwall, every young princess is given over to a fire-breathing dragon so she can be rescued by a handsome prince. But the feisty young daughter of the current king doesn't want to be rescued by a boy. In secret, she studies fencing and hatches a plan with a mathematically-minded prince to fight... 2009-04-04T17:26:37+00:00 2010-03-14 2010-05-02 Lifeline Theatre, 6912 North Glenwood, Chicago, IL, 60626 Lifeline Theatre Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-last-of-the-dragons_153934/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-last-of-the-dragons_153934/ 3/14/2010. Watty Piper's time-honored classic, The Little Engine That Could, comes to the stage with sassy, colorful life-sized toys of a bygone time. It features several large engines--one too proud, one too powerful and one too old. Each is asked to pull a heavy train over the mountain, but... 2009-10-29T13:39:38+00:00 2010-03-14 2010-03-14 Tribeca Performing Arts Center @ Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York, NY, 10007 An Omaha Theater for Young People Production Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-little-engine-that-could_161055/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-little-engine-that-could_161055/ 3/13/2010 - 4/18/2010. Boeing-Boeing, the hilarious jet propelled comedy that had audiences and critics cheering in London and on Broadway, is coming in for a landing on The Old Globe stage! Bernard, a successful architect living in Paris, thinks he can easily juggle his three flight attendant... 2009-05-10T10:58:42+00:00 2010-03-13 2010-04-18 Old Globe Theatre, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, 92101 Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/boeingboeing_155050/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/shows/boeingboeing_155050/ 3/13/2010. The Fab Faux are without a doubt the most musically satisfying Beatles tribute band on the scene today. Boasting the high visibility of TV star/musicians Will Lee from The Late Show with David Letterman and Jimmy Vivino from Late Night with Conan O'Brien; five strong lead vocalists (including... 2009-10-14T11:20:27+00:00 2010-03-13 2010-03-13 Klein Memorial Auditorium, 910 Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport, CT, 06605 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/connecticut/shows/fab-faux_160573/ http://www.theatermania.com/connecticut/shows/fab-faux_160573/ opens 3/13/2010. Million Dollar Quartet, the new musical inspired by the famed 1956 recording session that brought together four of the most legendary figures in the history of rock 'n' roll -- Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley -- comes to Broadway! Previews will begin March... 2009-11-03T16:08:53+00:00 2010-03-13 1900-01-01 Nederlander Theatre, 208 West 41st Street, New York, NY, 10036 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/million-dollar-quartet_161201/ http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/million-dollar-quartet_161201/ 3/13/2010 - 3/21/2010. Come see Horton the Elephant, the Cat in the Hat and all of your favorite Seuss characters on stage at BCT! 2009-11-01T12:32:26+00:00 2010-03-13 2010-03-21 Grand Lodge of Masons, 186 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, 02109 Comedy.Children/Family.Play.Season. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/seussical-jr_161118/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/seussical-jr_161118/ 3/12/2010 - 3/10/2010. A humorous and penetrating take on ten Jewish luminaries as painted by Andy Warhol in his controversial 1980 series, Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century. DC favorite Josh Kornbulth considers the radical aesthetic of the pop art enigma who was commissioned to paint Albert Einstein, George... 2009-06-18T13:34:17+00:00 2010-03-12 2010-03-10 Theater J, District of Columbia Jewish Community Center1529 16th St. NW, Washington, DC, 20036 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/andy-warhol-good-for-the-jews_156537/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/andy-warhol-good-for-the-jews_156537/ 3/12/2010 - 3/23/2010. This is the North American premiere of critically acclaimed Welsh National Opera production! Sung in German with projected English translation. An unseen producer makes changes to an opera just before the curtain rises. That's how the clowns get onstage. The composer? Backstage, tearing his... 2009-10-08T11:42:18+00:00 2010-03-12 2010-03-23 Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, 02116 Boston Lyric Opera Opera. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/ariadne-auf-naxos_160404/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/ariadne-auf-naxos_160404/ 3/12/2010 - 4/4/2010. The greatest playwright to come out of Kansas and undoubtedly one of the most important American writers of the 20th century, William Inge was known for his realistic, funny, and moving dramas revolving around the cities of the Central Plains. Bus Stop, one of his greatest comedies,... 2009-06-23T15:40:49+00:00 2010-03-12 2010-04-04 Spencer Theatre in the UMKC Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry Street, Kansas City, MO, 66101 Kansas City Repertory Theatre Comedy.Play. http://www.theatermania.com/kansas-city/shows/bus-stop_156730/ http://www.theatermania.com/kansas-city/shows/bus-stop_156730/ 3/12/2010 - 4/18/2010. A Chorus Line takes the audience on an emotional thrill-ride as a group of auditioning dancers is put to the test and their rank is reduced to the group from which the director must make his final choice. 2009-09-30T12:32:38+00:00 2010-03-12 2010-04-18 Village Players Theatre, 1010 W. Madison Street, Oak Park, IL, 60302 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/a-chorus-line_160125/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/a-chorus-line_160125/ 3/12/2010. A mainstay of the Emelin Bluegrass series since its inception over 25 years ago, Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass are known for playing powerful, unadorned and intense traditional bluegrass. Carrying on the tradition he helped establish with his late father, Bob, Danny continues to... 2009-07-13T16:47:22+00:00 2010-03-12 2010-03-12 Emelin Theatre, 153 Library Lane, Mamaroneck, NY, 10543 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/westchester-rockland/shows/danny-paisley-and-the-southern-grass_157328/ http://www.theatermania.com/westchester-rockland/shows/danny-paisley-and-the-southern-grass_157328/ 3/12/2010 - 3/25/2010. One of the great plays of the American Theatre, this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic is extraordinarily relevant and powerful during this current economic climate. 2009-09-29T14:20:36+00:00 2010-03-12 2010-03-25 Professional Theatre Training Program and the Resident Ensemble Players, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716 Resident Ensemble Players Play. http://www.theatermania.com/delaware/shows/death-of-a-salesman_160064/ http://www.theatermania.com/delaware/shows/death-of-a-salesman_160064/ 3/12/2010 - 3/28/2010. What could be more appropriate in these troubled economic times than a musical about six out-of-work guys who have to get "creative" to save their families and re-discover their self-esteem? The Full Monty is one of the best musicals of the past decade, featuring a book by acclaimed... 2009-08-22T10:28:25+00:00 2010-03-12 2010-03-28 Playhouse on the Green, 177 State Street, Bridgeport, CT, 06604 Musical Comedy.Musical Play. http://www.theatermania.com/connecticut/shows/the-full-monty_158840/ http://www.theatermania.com/connecticut/shows/the-full-monty_158840/ 3/12/2010 - 4/4/2010. Produced through a grant from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, Terrence McNally's Golden Age comes to the Center fresh from its world premiere at Philadelphia Theatre Company. A tale of operatic intrigue, Golden Age takes place backstage at the... 2009-10-22T13:41:47+00:00 2010-03-12 2010-04-04 The Kennedy Center- The Family Theater, 2700 F Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20566 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/golden-age_160831/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/golden-age_160831/ 3/12/2010 - 5/22/2010. One of the most popular musicals of all time, Little Shop of Horrors tells the story of the well-meaning flower shop employee Seymour Krelborn and his wisecracking carnivorous plant, Audrey II. Seymour delights in the attention his leafy friend attracts, but when Audrey II develops a... 2009-08-20T13:31:35+00:00 2010-03-12 2010-05-22 Ford's Theatre, 511 10th St. NW, Washington, DC, 20004 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/little-shop-of-horrors_158788/ http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc/shows/little-shop-of-horrors_158788/ 3/12/2010 - 3/14/2010. Program IV will feature Dances at a Gathering, Jerome Robbins' masterpiece. Ten dancers, live Chopin piano music, endlessly beautiful and original invention - a celebration of dance, dancers...and life. Also on this program is Balanchine's breezily romantic Who Cares? set to music by Gershwin. 2009-10-06T14:53:09+00:00 2010-03-12 2010-03-14 Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW 5th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33312 Miami City Ballet Dance. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/miami-city-ballet-presents-program-iv_160328/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/miami-city-ballet-presents-program-iv_160328/ 3/12/2010. Founded in 1989 by Artistic Director Sergei Radchenko, former principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, the internationally acclaimed 50-member Moscow Festival Ballet tours regularly in the United States and throughout the world. Tchaikovsky drew from multiple sources to create the story of Swan... 2009-06-24T15:16:45+00:00 2010-03-12 2010-03-12 State Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 Dance. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/moscow-festival-ballet-in-swan-lake_156816/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/moscow-festival-ballet-in-swan-lake_156816/ 3/12/2010 - 3/14/2010. This version of Sleeping Beauty is a side-splitting new comedy in the English "panto" tradition. When the King and Queen fail to invite the fairy Belladonna to their daughter's christening, her curse says the girl, at 16, will fall asleep for 100 years. This princess,... 2009-09-24T12:02:57+00:00 2010-03-12 2010-03-14 Garage Theatre Group, 960 River Road, Teaneck, NJ, 07666 Comedy.Children/Family.Play. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/sleeping-beauty_159885/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/sleeping-beauty_159885/ 3/11/2010 - 4/11/2010. It won't be the fashionable style of 1950's London that takes your breath away in this classic psychological thriller. After being named her heir, Tony Wendice, former tennis star, is planning to kill Margot, his wealthy wife. As this clever cat-and-mouse waiting game of half-truths and... 2009-02-02T09:40:41+00:00 2010-03-11 2010-04-11 John W. Engeman Theater at Northport, 250 Main Street, Northport, NY, 11768 John W. Engeman Theater Play. http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/dial-m-for-murder_152129/ http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/dial-m-for-murder_152129/ opens 3/11/2010. Geoffrey Nauffts' Next Fall takes a witty and provocative look at faith, commitment and unconditional love. While the play's central story focuses on the 5-year relationship between Adam and Luke, Next Fall goes beyond a typical love story. This timely and compelling new... 2009-09-23T14:19:10+00:00 2010-03-11 1900-01-01 Helen Hayes, 240 W. 44th Street, New York, NY, 10036 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/next-fall_159837/ http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/next-fall_159837/ 3/11/2010 - 4/11/2010. Music, lyrics and book by Jonathan Larson Based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boheme. A 12-year landmark Broadway blockbuster event, this rock opera takes a powerful, gritty look at bohemian life on Manhattan's lower east side in the 1990s, touching on timeless and topical issues... 2009-10-08T09:29:50+00:00 2010-03-11 2010-04-11 Venice Theatre, 140 West Tampa Avenue, Venice, Florida, 34285 Venice Theatre Musical Play. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/rent_160388/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/rent_160388/ 3/11/2010 - 4/18/2010. Enter Metropolis as it transforms into a gritty 1960s New York jazz club in this bold, courageous drama. Winner of the 1999 Tony Award for Best Play and a Pulitzer Prize nominee, Side Man tells the story of Clifford and his father Gene, a brilliant musician whose career fades with the... 2009-06-15T09:25:03+00:00 2010-03-11 2010-04-18 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell Street, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005 Drama. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/side-man_156355/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/side-man_156355/ 3/10/2010 - 3/28/2010. You've seen her in 1812's smash hit BatBoy and as Ella Cherry in 1812's world premiere musical Cherry Bomb. Now, join us as three time Barrymore Award Winner Mary Martello brings you her hilarious and moving new cabaret about the lives of aging princesses. Come spend an evening with... 2009-06-16T15:10:01+00:00 2010-03-10 2010-03-28 Plays and Players Theater, 1714 Delancey street, Philadelphia, PA, 19103 1812 Productions Play. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/happily-ever-after_156462/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/happily-ever-after_156462/ 3/10/2010 - 3/28/2010. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide all before they were 30! 2009-04-25T01:04:43+00:00 2010-03-10 2010-03-28 Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Boulevard, West Palm Beach, FL, 33401 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/jersey-boys_154536/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/jersey-boys_154536/ 3/10/2010 - 4/4/2010. The World Premiere of Language Rooms is a subversive dark comedy about two Arab-American interrogators at an undisclosed American facility somewhere in the world. They strive to prove themselves the best at their jobs in the midst of absurd office politics and management constantly... 2009-05-07T16:01:39+00:00 2010-03-10 2010-04-04 Wilma Theater, 265 South Broad, Philadelphia, PA, 19107 Wilma Theater Play. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/language-rooms_154996/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/language-rooms_154996/ 3/10/2010 - 3/27/2010. The New Ideas Festival, now in its 22nd year, showcases never-before-performed short plays and experimental works, providing the writers (from Canada and elsewhere) with the opportunity to hear directly from the audience in the development of their work. Weekly talkback sessions give... 2009-08-28T14:03:51+00:00 2010-03-10 2010-03-27 Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley St., Toronto, Ontario, M5A 2W6 Festival. http://www.theatermania.com/canada/shows/new-ideas-festival_158999/ http://www.theatermania.com/canada/shows/new-ideas-festival_158999/ 3/9/2010 - 3/21/2010. This exciting Broadway musical combines 25 smash hits of Elvis Presley with a new story of a rock 'n roll rebel. Featuring such classics as "Heartbreak Hotel," "Burning Love," "Jailhouse Rock," "Blue Suede Shoes," "Don't Be Cruel" and many more,... 2009-02-15T13:51:23+00:00 2010-03-09 2010-03-21 Victoria Theatre, 138 Main Street, Dayton, OH, 45402 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/all-shook-up_152670/ http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/all-shook-up_152670/ 3/9/2010 - 3/28/2010. All aboard for this tuneful, tap-dancing, splashy transatlantic romp awash with romance, intrigue and delightful Cole Porter score. Audiences are certain to get a kick out of this lighthearted gem of mistaken identities and misbegotten romance all set aboard the luxury ocean liner where Billy... 2009-02-02T11:26:32+00:00 2010-03-09 2010-03-28 Maltz Jupiter Theatre, 1001 East Indiantown Road, Jupiter, Florida, 33477 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/anything-goes_152140/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/anything-goes_152140/ 3/9/2010 - 3/21/2010. There's no better way to introduce your family to the wonders of live theater than with the magic, the mystery, the memory of Cats. What began as a musical about cats after Andrew Lloyd Webber picked up a book of poems in an airport bookshop has become one of the longest running shows... 2009-05-10T13:47:24+00:00 2010-03-09 2010-03-21 Pantages Theatre, 6233 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA, 90028 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/cats_155073/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/cats_155073/ 3/9/2010 - 3/14/2010. Based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem, Fiddler on the Roof has been lauded by critics again and again and won the hearts of people all around the world. Audiences will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Chaim Topol, star of the original motion picture, in his farewell... 2009-05-18T12:13:27+00:00 2010-03-09 2010-03-14 Bass Performance Hall, 525 Commerce Street at Fourth Street, Fort Worth, TX, 76102 Casa Manana Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/fiddler-on-the-roof_155305/ http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/fiddler-on-the-roof_155305/ opens 3/9/2010. Love Never Dies continues the story of 'The Phantom', who has moved from his lair in the Paris Opera House to haunt the fairgrounds of Coney Island, far across the Atlantic. Set 10 years after the mysterious disappearance of 'The Phantom' from Paris, this show is a rollercoaster ride... 2009-10-08T09:11:47+00:00 2010-03-09 1900-01-01 Adelphi Theatre, Strand, London, England, WC2E 7NA Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/london/shows/love-never-dies_160380/ http://www.theatermania.com/london/shows/love-never-dies_160380/ 3/9/2010 - 3/21/2010. This stunning reinvention produced by Lincoln Center Theater and the winner of seven 2008 Tony Awards® including Best Musical Revival, South Pacific has music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan. Set on a tropical... 2009-07-31T02:05:04+00:00 2010-03-09 2010-03-21 Theatre Under the Stars at Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby, Houston, TX, 77002 Season. http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/south-pacific_158136/ http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/south-pacific_158136/ 3/8/2010 - 4/4/2010. In a rundown apartment in a St. Louis ghetto, erstwhile Southern belle Amanda Wingfield, her painfully shy daughter, Laura, and her aspiring writer son, Tom, form a triangle of quiet desperation. Amanda, an overbearing single mother, lives on memories of her glorious flower-scented youth, while her... 2009-07-16T15:06:21+00:00 2010-03-08 2010-04-04 Gamm Theatre, 172 Exchange Street, Pawtucket, RI, 02860 Drama.Play. http://www.theatermania.com/rhode-island/shows/the-glass-menagerie_157552/ http://www.theatermania.com/rhode-island/shows/the-glass-menagerie_157552/ 3/8/2010. The New Colony strives to contribute original material to the American artistic canon and develop a new theater-going audience. Its new play, That Sordid Little Story, follows a man who believes that a 1963 concept album is really the story of his of his life. Part of The Studio... 2009-10-30T13:48:49+00:00 2010-03-08 2010-03-08 Chicago Cultural Center's Studio Theatre, 77 East Randolph, Chicago, IL, 60602 The New Colony Play.Workshop. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/incubator-showcase-for-that-sordid-little-story_161096/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/incubator-showcase-for-that-sordid-little-story_161096/ 3/8/2010 - 4/11/2010. Grappling with Alzheimers and the challenges of aging, a Holocaust survivor struggles to bear witness to his past in this beautiful exploration on the elusive nature of memory. Written and Directed by Emilie Beck, this moving one-man show will feature her father: Piven Ensemble member, Bernard... 2009-06-30T14:51:56+00:00 2010-03-08 2010-04-11 Piven Theatre, 927 Noyes St., Evanston, IL, 60201 Piven Theatre Workshop Season. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/number-of-people_156989/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/number-of-people_156989/ opens 3/8/2010. Andrew Bovell's When the Rain Stops Falling is an epic drama, set in England and Australia, that traces a family's history spanning 80 years. The play premiered at the Australia's 2008 Adelaide Festival, was subsequently presented by the Sydney Theater Company and recently produced... 2009-08-13T14:09:20+00:00 2010-03-08 1900-01-01 Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, 150 West 65th Street, New York, NY, 10023 Lincoln Center Theater Play. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/when-the-rain-stops-falling_158551/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/when-the-rain-stops-falling_158551/ 3/7/2010. FROM ED SULLIVAN TO ABBEY ROAD! Back by popular demand! They look like them! The music and vocals are performed totally live! RAIN' covers the Fab Four from the earliest beginnings through the psychedelic last 60s and their long-haired hippie, hard-rocking rooftop days. ... 2009-08-20T11:24:24+00:00 2010-03-07 2010-03-07 Fox Theatre Detroit, 2211 Woodward, Detroit, MI, 48201 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/michigan/shows/rain-a-tribute-to-the-beatles_158764/ http://www.theatermania.com/michigan/shows/rain-a-tribute-to-the-beatles_158764/ 3/6/2010 - 3/28/2010. John Patrick Shanley's Four Dogs and a Bone is a satire on the Hollywood film industry that delves into the plight of a hapless writer, a sleazy movie producer, a seemingly guileless newcomer and a brash character actress. The play follows these four dogs as they chomp to get the... 2009-08-02T10:55:48+00:00 2010-03-06 2010-03-28 Apple Tree Theatre, 1850 Green Bay Road, Suite 100, Highland Park, IL, 60035 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/four-dogs-and-a-bone_158187/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/four-dogs-and-a-bone_158187/ 3/6/2010. 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 theater forever. With a score of amazing songs- "I Don't Know How to Love Him", "Hosanna", "Everything's... 2009-07-30T12:26:31+00:00 2010-03-06 2010-03-06 State Theatre, Playhouse Square Center1519 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44115 JCS Tour Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/jesus-christ-superstar_158103/ http://www.theatermania.com/ohio/shows/jesus-christ-superstar_158103/ 3/6/2010 - 5/21/2010. The war is over and romance is in the air. But barely has the champagne cork been popped when two formidable combatants in love, Beatrice and Benedick, create fireworks of their own. Armed with razor-edged wit and struggling with the gravitational pull of mutual attraction, these battle-hardened... 2009-08-19T17:31:22+00:00 2010-03-06 2010-05-21 A Noise Within Theatre, 234 South Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA, 91204 A Noise WIthin Theatre Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/much-ado-about-nothing_158738/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/much-ado-about-nothing_158738/ 3/6/2010. Since their inception in 2004, Red Molly has garnered a devoted fan base by having a lot of fun on stage and consistently bringing concert-goers to their feet with stunning three-part harmonies, crisp musicianship and engaging stage presence. The Kennedys (made up of the... 2009-07-13T17:01:11+00:00 2010-03-06 2010-03-06 Emelin Theatre, 153 Library Lane, Mamaroneck, NY, 10543 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/westchester-rockland/shows/red-molly-and-the-kennedys_157331/ http://www.theatermania.com/westchester-rockland/shows/red-molly-and-the-kennedys_157331/ 3/6/2010 - 3/27/2010. Plaza Theatrical Productions, Long Island's largest touring theatre company, in association with The Show Place, is proud to present Frog and Toad! Welcome to the colorful world of cheerful Mr. Frog and grumpy Mr. Toad. Hop along to a score that bubbles with melody and wit, while... 2009-10-21T16:28:28+00:00 2010-03-06 2010-03-27 Bellmore Theatre, 222 Pettit Avenue, Bellmore, NY, 11710 Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/a-year-with-frog-and-toad_160801/ http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/shows/a-year-with-frog-and-toad_160801/ 3/5/2010 - 3/6/2010. A fictional exploration of true events, The Amish Project is the story of a schoolhouse shooting in an Amish community, and the path of forgiveness and compassion forged in its wake. Imbued with poetry and humor, The Amish Project investigates a community grappling with loss and... 2009-08-03T12:20:58+00:00 2010-03-05 2010-03-06 State Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 Drama. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/the-amish-project_158196/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/the-amish-project_158196/ 3/5/2010 - 3/28/2010. A world premiere co-production with Theatre Exile. Brace yourself for a twisted tale of football, friendship, and infidelity from "the dean of Philadelphia dramatists." (Philadelphia Inquirer) Featuring Pete Pryor and playwright Bruce Graham. 2009-06-02T13:39:07+00:00 2010-03-05 2010-03-28 Act II Playhouse, 56 East Butler Avenue, Ambler, PA, 19002 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/any-given-monday_155910/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/any-given-monday_155910/ 3/5/2010 - 4/4/2010. Becky Shaw is a wickedly funny comedy of bad manners by Law & Order writer/producer Gina Gionfriddo about a newly married couple that fix up two romantically challenged friends on a blind date that goes bad. 2009-05-02T16:52:40+00:00 2010-03-05 2010-04-04 Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington, Boston, MA, 02115 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/becky-shaw_154853/ http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/becky-shaw_154853/ 3/5/2010 - 3/21/2010. Come along for the adventure of a lifetime! Join Huck Finn and runaway slave Jim on a musical trip down the Mississippi River in Mark Twain's classic tale. Their adventures are hilarious, suspenseful and heartwarming, bringing to life all your favorite characters, including a rascally pair of... 2009-04-16T19:21:20+00:00 2010-03-05 2010-03-21 Illusion Theater, 528 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN, 55401 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/big-river-the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn_154295/ http://www.theatermania.com/minneapolis-st-paul/shows/big-river-the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn_154295/ 3/5/2010 - 3/14/2010. As one of London's longest running comedies, playing for 10 years at the Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly Circus, this irreverent romp through The Bard's canon has achieved international cult status. In The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), three actors take audiences... 2009-06-30T19:36:13+00:00 2010-03-05 2010-03-14 New Victory Theater, 209 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036 Scottish Theater Festival Season. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-complete-works-of-william-shakespeare-abridged_157012/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-complete-works-of-william-shakespeare-abridged_157012/ 3/5/2010 - 3/28/2010. By Bryony Lavery One evening, ten-year old Rhona goes missing. Her mother, Nancy, retreats into a state of frozen hope. Agnetha, an academic, comes to England to research a thesis titled "Serial Killings: A Forgiveable Act?" Then there's Ralph, a loner with a bit of a record who's looking for... 2009-09-17T18:13:05+00:00 2010-03-05 2010-03-28 6th Street Playhouse, 52 West 6th Street, Santa Rosa, CA, 95401 Mystery/Thriller.Play. http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/frozen_159662/ http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/shows/frozen_159662/ 3/5/2010 - 3/21/2010. After last season's successful New York premiere of Shakespeare in Hollywood, the Heights Players is pleased to present another New York premiere from the same author, Ken Ludwig, who also penned Lend Me a Tenor. 2009-08-18T13:22:44+00:00 2010-03-05 2010-03-21 Heights Players, 26 Willow Place,, Brooklyn, NY, 11201 The Heights Players Season. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/leading-ladies_158668/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/leading-ladies_158668/ 3/5/2010 - 3/6/2010. Not to be missed. A cast member in Les Miserables on Broadway, playing the role of Cosette, Minyard has toured her cabaret show all over the country. Her Metropolis debut came in the spring of 2009 when she made an appearance in the All-Star Cabaret and earned an instant standing ovation -... 2009-06-12T09:36:40+00:00 2010-03-05 2010-03-06 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell Street, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005 Cabaret. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/melissa-minyard-to-all-the-shows-ive-done-before-and-the-ones-that-got_156337/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/melissa-minyard-to-all-the-shows-ive-done-before-and-the-ones-that-got_156337/ 3/5/2010 - 3/21/2010. An enthralling murder mystery by the legendary Agatha Christie, this long-running play centers around a group of strangers stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm. One of them is a murderer! The suspects include a newly married couple who run the house, a spinster with a curious background,... 2009-07-02T11:25:15+00:00 2010-03-05 2010-03-21 Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Avenue, Lake Worth, Florida, 33460 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/the-mousetrap_157073/ http://www.theatermania.com/florida/shows/the-mousetrap_157073/ 3/5/2010 - 3/14/2010. Rent is more than a show, it's a phenomenon Jonathan Larson's ground-breaking Tony and Pulitzer Prize Award winner reinvented musicals when it debuted in 1996. An inspiring story about friends and artists struggling in New York City's East Village, Rent tackles addiction,... 2009-07-27T13:56:00+00:00 2010-03-05 2010-03-14 Lewis Family Playhouse @ Victoria Gardens Cultural Center, 12505 Cultural Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91739 Broadway at the Gardens Musical Play. http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/rent_157897/ http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/shows/rent_157897/ 3/5/2010 - 3/6/2010. With a score that pays loving homage to the pop songs of the 1980s, this romantic comedy based on the 1998 film, takes us back to a time when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up, and a wedding singer might just be the coolest guy in the room. 2009-06-24T15:14:44+00:00 2010-03-05 2010-03-06 State Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 Musical Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/the-wedding-singer_156815/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/shows/the-wedding-singer_156815/ 3/5/2010 - 3/28/2010. It's 1985 and rock-star wannabe Robbie Heart is New Jersey's favorite wedding singer. He's the life of the party, until his own fiancée leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart and spun into a severe "love withdrawal," Robbie works to make every wedding as disastrous as his... 2009-09-14T17:06:11+00:00 2010-03-05 2010-03-28 Tacoma Musical Playhouse, 7116 Sixth Avenue, Tacoma, WA, 98406 Musical. http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-wedding-singer_159508/ http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/shows/the-wedding-singer_159508/ 3/4/2010 - 4/3/2010. "This is the future" begins this darkly comic fable about urban developers, criminals, law enforcement, and even a witch, all fighting for the soul and vision of a city. Set in an urban landscape ripe for redevelopment, the parable of Beautiful City blends off-kilter characters,... 2009-10-29T15:31:46+00:00 2010-03-04 2010-04-03 Storefront Theater, 66 E. Randolph, Chicago, IL, 60601 Theater Mir Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/beautiful-city_161069/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/beautiful-city_161069/ opens 3/4/2010. The title is just the starting point; take a man searching for his missing hand, two con artists out to make a few hundred bucks, and an overly curious hotel clerk, and the rest is up for grabs. A Behanding in Spokane is Martin McDonagh's hilariously black comedy, a world premiere... 2009-08-11T15:38:35+00:00 2010-03-04 1900-01-01 Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 West 45th Street, New York, NY, 10036 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/a-behanding-in-spokane_158467/ http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/a-behanding-in-spokane_158467/ 3/4/2010 - 4/11/2010. Theatre meets science when a diverse group of playwrights each agree to take a genealogical DNA test and revisit their assumptions about identity politics and the perennial "who am I" question. Self, family, community, and ethnicity are all up for grabs in this perception-defying... 2009-08-19T14:38:46+00:00 2010-03-04 2010-04-11 Silk Road Theatre Project at The Historic Chicago Temple Building, 77 W. Washington St., Chicago, IL, 60602 One-Acts. http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-dna-trail-a-genealogy-of-short-plays-about-ancestry-identity-and_158718/ http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/the-dna-trail-a-genealogy-of-short-plays-about-ancestry-identity-and_158718/ 3/4/2010. George Winston, pianist is best known for his "melodic rural folk style." He has found much inspiration in the pianists of New Orleans and is now working to raise money to benefit those who suffered from the hurricanes. He is going to donate all of his royalties from his new album Gulf Coast... 2009-10-14T11:17:07+00:00 2010-03-04 2010-03-04 Fairfield Theatre Company, 70 Sanford St., Fairfield, CT, 06824 Concert. http://www.theatermania.com/connecticut/shows/george-winston_160572/ http://www.theatermania.com/connecticut/shows/george-winston_160572/ 3/4/2010 - 3/7/2010. Internationally acclaimed and legendary theater company Mabou Mines launches its 40th anniversary season of groundbreaking theater with the world premiere of Finn, a digital and live action adventure based on the timeless legend of Finn McCool (Fionn macCumhaill). Finn... 2009-10-06T15:58:19+00:00 2010-03-04 2010-03-07 Skirball Center for the Performing Arts @ NYU, 566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, 10012 Mabou Mines Musical.Multimedia. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/mabou-mines-finn_160339/ http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/mabou-mines-finn_160339/ 3/4/2010 - 4/4/2010. The world's most famous nanny will arrive at The Buell Theatre for a five week run. Combining the best of the original stories by P. L. Travers and The beloved Walt Disney film, the Tony Award-winning Mary Poppins is everything you'd hope for in a Broadway musical--and more. Produced... 2009-07-28T08:15:23+00:00 2010-03-04 2010-04-04 Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1245 Champa Street, Denver, CO, 80204 Musical.Children/Family. http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/mary-poppins_157947/ http://www.theatermania.com/denver/shows/mary-poppins_157947/ 3/4/2010 - 3/14/2010. The Out of the Loop Fringe Festival (OOTL) features some of the best acts in theatre, music, dance and art from around the region. OOTL is part of the WaterTower Theatre Season Extras and is available to season subscribers only. For further information regarding WTT season... 2009-04-23T15:43:05+00:00 2010-03-04 2010-03-14 WaterTower Theatre, 15650 Addison Road, Addison, TX, 75248 WaterTower Theatre Festival. http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/out-of-the-loop-fringe-festival_154443/ http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/shows/out-of-the-loop-fringe-festival_154443/ 3/4/2010 - 4/4/2010. Lanford Wilson received a Pulitzer Prize for this romantic comedy set in a Missouri boathouse ? a Victorian folly that has fallen into disrepair. The story centers on the reunion of one-time sweethearts Matt Friedman and Sally Talley, on the Fourth of July in 1944. Over the course of one evening, we... 2009-06-15T18:05:37+00:00 2010-03-04 2010-04-04 Pittsburgh Public Theater, O'Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/pittsburgh/shows/talleys-folly_156414/ http://www.theatermania.com/pittsburgh/shows/talleys-folly_156414/ 3/3/2010 - 4/3/2010. In celebration of MusicalFare's 20th anniversary season, the return of one of the most acclaimed and cherished productions in our history. Falsettos is the 1992 Tony award winning story of a family that somehow manages to stay together by reinventing itself. The Buffalo News awarded... 2009-07-13T18:00:00+00:00 2010-03-03 2010-04-03 MusicalFare Theatre, Daemen College, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, NY, 14226 MusicalFare Theatre Play. http://www.theatermania.com/western-new-york/shows/falsettos_157341/ http://www.theatermania.com/western-new-york/shows/falsettos_157341/ opens 3/3/2010. Set in the South in the 1880s, The Miracle Worker tells the story of real-life Medal of Freedom winner Helen Keller (Abigail Breslin), born blind and deaf, and the extraordinary teacher who taught her to communicate with the world, Annie Sullivan (Alison Pill). 2009-10-28T14:00:13+00:00 2010-03-03 1900-01-01 Circle in the Square Theatre, W. 50th St. Between Broadway and 8th Ave, New York, NY, 10019 Play. http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/the-miracle-worker_161002/ http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/the-miracle-worker_161002/ 3/3/2010 - 4/4/2010. Remember what it feels like to love with abandon and surrender to raw elation? We give you an unadulterated Romeo and Juliet. Come experience Shakespeare's masterpiece, without pretense or gimmick, and tap into the heart of this timeless love story. Romeo and Juliet... 2009-06-22T15:09:12+00:00 2010-03-03 2010-04-04 Arden Theatre Company, 40 North 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106 Arden Theatre Company Play. http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/romeo-and-juliet_156650/ http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/shows/romeo-and-juliet_156650/ opens 3/2/2010. Bill Cain's Equivocation is set in the early 1600's and focuses on what happens when a member of King James' court attempts to commission a play about the Gunpowder Plot, in which plans were laid to blow up Parliament, from Shakespeare. Equivocation received its world... 2009-07-17T14:29:34+00:00 2010-03-02 1900-01-01 New York City Center - Stage I, 131 West 55th Street, New York, NY, 10019 Manhattan Theatre Club Play. http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/equivocation_157618/ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/equivocation_157618/ 3/2/2010 - 3/10/2010. Matt Charman's black comedy finds five men waiting for the arrival of a dog that they hope will change their fortunes. But before they've even left for the track, a violent situation erupts and now the night of their dreams, along with the fate of an innocent man, hangs in the balance. A... 2009-07-02T08:45:01+00:00 2010-03-02 2010-03-10 Backstage Theatre, CSN, temp reserved, , , BNTA Comedy. http://www.theatermania.com/las-vegas/shows/a-night-at-the-dogs_157062/ http://www.theatermania.com/las-vegas/shows/a-night-at-the-dogs_157062/ 3/1/2010 - 4/30/2010. MST takes Shakespeare on the road again with a fast-paced, hour-long version of Romeo and Juliet, the passionate tale of star-crossed lovers from two households divided by an ancient grudge. R & J will speak to any adolescent struggling with the tension between peer pressure and the... 2009-06-23T18:58:15+00:00 2010-03-01 2010-04-30 The Main Street Theater Kids , temp reserved, , , Play. http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/romeo-and-juliet_156746/ http://www.theatermania.com/houston/shows/romeo-and-juliet_156746/ 3/1/2010 - 3/2/2010. ... 2009-07-06T14:36:38+00:00 2010-03-01 2010-03-02 Rep Stage at Howard