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Closing Comedy By John Patrick Shanley At Actors Theatre

Jon Jory, Producing Director of Actors Theatre of Louisville for three decades, will return to the 42-year old stage company to direct John Patrick Shanley's comedy Italian American Reconciliation, the final production of the theatre's 2006-07 Brown-Forman Mainstage Series April 18 - May 13.

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Monks - A New Comedy Royal Lyceum Theatre

Bursting with west coast wit, Monksis a darkly uplifting story of redemption, where all are challenged to face their lives and find the peace they seek - a comedy of classic proportions where love and reconciliation triumph, at Royal Lyceum Theatre.

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Smothers Brothers Return To Minnesota Orchestra

The irrepressible Smothers Brothers, Tom and Dick, bring their special brand of humor and musical accomplishment to Orchestra Hall for one concert only set for Friday, April 6, at 8 p.m. Audiences will hear the Smothers Brothers sing, perform on guitar and bass and re-create their signature comedic routines, transporting everyone into a "State of Yo" with a visit from the Yo-Yo Man (Tom), offering his daring string-spinning feats accompanied by the Voice of Yo's (Dick) narration.

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Soho Theatre Presents Someone Else's Shoes

ETT presents Someone Else's Shoes, a comedy by Drew Pautz. Directed by Artistic Director Stephen Unwin, the production builds on ETT's reputation for producing successful new plays alongside outstanding productions of the classics.

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Get Ready For Girls Night Out At Blackpools Grand Theatre

Laugh, cry and dance in the aisles with TV soapstars Shobna Gulati and Shana Swash in an all-singing and dancing musical comedy from Monday 12 to Saturday 17 March 2007. From the wickedly witty pen of Louise Roche, writer of TV's Where the Heart Is, this touching and brilliantly funny musical follows five friends as they relive their past on an hilarious karaoke night out "¦ and you'll recognise every character!

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Big Is Beautiful At Grand Theatre

The Big Ballet was founded in 1994 and hails from the Urals. Each of the sixteen dancers in the corps de ballet weighs 220 pounds or more and has only one goal: not to lose a single pound!!! The Big Ballet deliberately and confidently challenge accepted social standards in a world where the pursuit of slenderness and beauty has taken on an almost maniacal devotion.

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Grand Theatre Youth Academy Present True British comedy

Billy Fisher, a working class nineteen year old, lives a dreary, ordinary life, but escapes from it by living in a dream world. His lack of attention causes inaccuracies in his work (the funeral directors of Shadrack and Duxbury), leading him to lie. As his errors and lies start to pile up he feels he has to get away...Billy has a difficult decision to make.

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Experience Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy

The Victoria Theatre will become the home of a colorful dream in an enchanted forest when Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy draws Dayton audiences into a trance of the imagination as part of Victoria Theatre Association's Fifth Third Bank Broadway Series, February 20 - March 4.

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What The Press Said About "As You Like It"

Featuring dazzling set and costume design and a spectacular ensemble performance led by Olivier Award-winner, Eve Best, Samuel West's magical new production of AS YOU LIKE IT is delighting audiences at the Crucible. Shakespeare's enchanting comedy sees Rosalind banished into the forest with her friend, Celia. Disguised as a boy she comes across her beloved Orlando and challenges him to woo the woman he loves"¦

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Untraditional Love - Modern Comedy About Marriage

The Constant Wife plays on the New Mainstage February 14 - March 11, with a special Pay-What-You-Can Preview on Tuesday, February 13 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $25 - $46 with discounts available to groups, seniors, and students.

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Are You Sitting Comfortably?

A Story for when we're Grandads is an award-winning darkly comic thriller which follows the lives of two unemployed young men who fake the symptoms of mental illness to claim benefits. Their drunken lifestyles lead Mike and Dave into ridiculously amusing situations, and eventually to a police cell and mental hospital. Then a mysterious stranger leaves them a briefcase of money and the police are knocking at their door, but there's just one thing they'd like to know"¦ does the off-licence deliver?

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Eccentric Comedy: A Response To Dostoevsky's "The Idiot"

The Alley Theatre rings in the New Year with Robert Montgomery's Subject to Fits that will feature the Alley Company of Actors as they bring to life wild characterizations a comedy of outrageous proportions. Subject to Fits is a funny, outrageous, unorthodox, highly theatrical and unexpectedly moving comedy about the misadventures of the innocent Prince Myshkin.

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