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Hardcover Theater presents the classic fantasy adventure novel (never before adapted for the stage!) by H. Rider Haggard. Three Englishmen travel to Africa, where they encounter a strange culture ruled by an irresistible woman with supernatural powers. Can she really be two thousand years old?

It's back, and it's better than ever. This season the Guthrie celebrates the 35th Anniversary of the beloved holiday favorite A Christmas Carol with a brand new 90-minute adaptation perfectly suited for families of all sizes, theatergoers young and old.

Theatre de la Jeune Lune founding Artistic Director Barbra Berlovitz, creates a new performance work inpired by the experiences of her grandfather, an immigrant from Lithuania. Exploring the journey to a new world the piece asks what happens when you leave everything you know and find yourself in the complete unknown?

In a celebration of growin' up, cruisin' and goin' steady, "Bad boy" Danny and "girl next door" Sandy fall in love all over again at Rydell High. Taylor Hicks, the platinum-selling recording artist and "American Idol" winner, will appear as "Teen Angel" at select performances.

In "Diverging Boundaries," the new art exhibit opening at the Chambers Burnet Art Gallery on Sat, Nov 14, artist S.

It's Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, aging brother who has recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, hoping to play some cards. But with the arrival of a stranger from the distant past, the stakes are raised ever higher.

Art of This is privileged to present a new mixed media installation by St. Paul-based artist Bruce Tapola. This installation, AU NATUREL, combines two distinctive bodies of work recently exhibited separately at Occasional Gallery in St. Paul.

Artist reception: Thursday, October 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Artist gallery talk: Thursday, October 29, 6 p.m.
Adeline Johnson Conference Room, Oren Gateway Center

Guthrie Director Joe Dowling, known throughout the United States and Ireland as a preeminent director and scholar of Brian Friel's work, will return to his acting roots - making his American acting debut - to play the title role in this powerful play about Frank Hardy, his wife Grace and talent manager Teddy.

Shadows of Life: X-Ray Images of Plant and Marine Life is Macalester College's 2009-2010 "science-related" art exhibit featuring X-ray prints that offer an exciting peek beneath nature's surface. The artist Dr. Andre Bruwer, a Mayo-trained radiologist, was one of the first to use the X-ray machine as an artist's tool.  The show opens Thursday, Sept. 24 in the James R.