Standing Room Only Productions, Inc, a High Desert non-profit community theatre company is seeking applicants for ALL ROLES for their summer production of Hairspray. The show is directed and choreographed by Karla J. Franko and produced by Cindi Squillace and Kylie Wolf.

Hairspray will open at the Performing Arts Center of Victor Valley College on July 7, 2011 and will run for 10 performances, closing on July 17. Rehearsals begin Friday, April 29 at Victor Valley College, Victorville, CA. (Read on …)

LifeHouse Theater is pleased to announce the return of the popular musical biography George Washington for the 2011 LifeTales educational series for students.  The one-hour production is ideal for teachers desiring a local field trip experience for their students that showcase historic events through theater arts.

George Washington will be presented the weekday mornings of February 8-11, 2011 at 9:15 and 11:00am.  All seats are priced at $7.00 and can be purchased over the phone with a Visa or MasterCard by calling 335-3037, ext. 21.  Checks can also be mailed to LifeHouse, provided reservations are made far enough in advance.  Tickets may also be purchased in person at the box office, which is open Fridays from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM and one hour prior to performance times on the weekends.  Teachers are encouraged to reserve tickets early as performances sell out.  All performances will be presented at the LifeHouse Theater. (Read on …)

Worldwide Theatricals and executive director Jesse Dinkel is currently seeking production companies, directors, costumers, sound/lighting/production designers etc. to work on the following
projects for it’s 2011-2012 series at the California Theatre of the
Performing Arts: “The Best of Ballroom” Feb. 4, 2012,  “Tuesdays
with Morrie” Apr. 14, 2012 and “Celebrate America” June 30, 2012.
Interested parties need to send a production proposal or resume to
dramaguy@gmail.com . For more info,  Log on to
www.worldwidetheatricals.com or call 909-885-8263 and ask for Jesse.

California Baptist University is pleased to announce their spring musical: The Taffetas. It’s 1950-something, and Kaye, Peggy, Cheryl and Donna, four singing sisters from Muncie, Indiana are making their national television singing debut. “Spotlight on Music,” a fictitious weekly 1950′s television show on the real-life Dumont Television Network, sets the framework for an evening of some of the greatest hits of the 1950′s. A tribute to the girl groups of the 1950′s The Taffetas pay tribute to the sounds of The McGuire Sisters, The Fontane Sisters and The Chordettes. Spend an hour and a half with The Taffetas and their three piece band and remember what Sunday night television was like on your 12-inch black and white screen!

Friday, February 25, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Friday, March 4, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM

Tickets
$15.00 General Admission
$12.00 Matinee, Seniors (55+) and CBU Students, Faculty and Staff

Performance Riverside rings in 2011 with the musical most requested by its patrons in 2010, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, directed and choreographed by John Vaughan, musically directed by Douglas Austin, and featuring award winning Inland Empire performer and director John LaLonde in the role of Captain Georg von Trapp. Performances will be at Landis Performing Arts Center on the campus of Riverside City College, January 28-February 6.

The Landis Performing Arts Center is located on the Riverside City College campus at 4800 Magnolia Avenue. Performances for The Sound of Music are January 28, 29, February 4 and 5 at 8pm, and January 29, 30, February 5 and 6 at 2pm.  Tickets start at $27, with savings for groups of 10 or more.  Specially priced “Discovery Theatre” performance for school groups are available on January 28 and February 4 at 10 am.  For more information and to purchase tickets contact the Landis Box Office at 951-222-8100, or purchase online at www.performanceriverside.org.

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The Grove Theatre is proud to announce the opening of its 2011 season. In celebration of Black History Month, The Grove Theatre and Shining Glory Entertainment will co-produce For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, a choreopoem, or series of poems choreographed to music. For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf expresses the many struggles and obstacles that African-American women have faced throughout their lives. While the play focuses on women of color, the poems are about women, love, family, abuse, relationships, identity, sexuality, choice and friendship, and are embodied by each woman’s story, providing a sense of the interrelationships among the performers and of their gestures and dance movements. (Read on …)

LifeHouse Theater spotlights a little known funny fairy tale with the new musical The Princess and the Pigs. Based on the Grimm Brothers fairy tale “King Thrushbeard,” this original comedy brings to life the story of Princess Mirabel, the ridiculously rude and selfish daughter of King Atreo.  But the king’s surprising idea to pair her with a singing beggar and a herd of pampered pigs will ensure Mirabel will never be the same.  This hilarious world premiere musical is at once insightful, poignant and amusing.

The Princess and the Pigs opens Saturday evening, February 5, 2011 and continues through March 13, 2011. Performances are Fridays at 7:30 PM, Saturdays at 2:15 PM and 7:30 PM and Sundays at 2:15 PM.  In addition to the weekend performances, there will be a special Thursday performance on March 10 at 7:30 PM.  The 7:30 PM performance on Saturday, February 19 will also feature an interpreted presentation for the deaf.

Advance ticket prices are $14 or $18 for adults and $7 or $9 for children ages 3-11 (no children under 3 are admitted) and can be purchased over the phone with a Visa or MasterCard by calling (909) 335-3037, ext. 21.  Checks can also be mailed to LifeHouse, provided reservations are made far enough in advance.  Tickets may also be purchased in person at the box office, which is open Fridays from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM and one hour prior to performance times on the weekends.  Tickets are $1 more the day of the performance.  Group rates are available for groups of ten or more.  Guests are encouraged to reserve seats early as most performances usually sell out. (Read on …)

Auditions for the seventh annual season will be held 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19, and 1-5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20, at the Joslyn Senior Center, 21 Grant St., Redlands.  Call-backs will be held at 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20.
 
The 2011 Season of Controversy will feature productions of Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, and The Merchant of Venice. All roles are open to actors age 16 and older.  Festival directors will seek to cast a repertory company of 45-50 actors. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the scripts of the three plays to be produced this season. Rehearsals will begin Feb 28. Performances will be conducted Thursday through Sunday evenings, May 12-29, at the Redlands Bowl outdoor amphitheater.  For additional information about auditions or the festival schedule, visit www.redlandsshakespearefestival.com, or call (909)335-7377.

Chino Community Theatre will hold auditions for Check Please, CCT’s 2011 entry in the American Association of Community Theatre Festival from 10 a.m,. to 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, January 30 at Seventh Street Theatre, 13123 Seventh Street in Chino.

Seeking:
2 men, 2 women
Age is open but consistency of ages is needed among the 4 performers as the play is a series of blind dates.

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Riverside Community Players will hold auditions for Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians (AKA And Then There Were None),  directed by Phil Holmer. Show runs March 25 – April 10, 2011.

In this classic Agatha Christie mystery, ten people are invited to an unfamiliar country house on an island off the coast of Devon, England.  On the mantel over the fireplace are statuettes of ten little indians.  A nursery rhyme above tells how each little Indian met his death — one by one until there were none.  When life starts to imitate the nursery rhyme, the stranded strangers frantically search for a murderer, and their own pasts return to haunt them. (Read on …)